Four Revival Waves Explored: The ReformationThe Great Awakening, The Azusa Street Revival, The Toronto Blessing. Through extensive research, Biblical scholarship and personal experiences, authors Fred and Sharon Wright share the fascinating history of revivals and revivalists over the past 600 years and explore their long-lasting impact on society. This book shows the personal impact of these revivals and how our desperation prepares us to receive an invasion from God.
The groundbreaking biography of Maria Branwell reveals a remarkable woman who has been lost in the shadows of her gifted children, Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë. The witty, clever and intrepid Cornish lady of letters, lover of Patrick and mother of genius has been missing for too long. The extraordinary Brontës were a family like no other and it all began when Maria met Patrick.
The Transformation of Plantation Politics explores the effects of black political exclusion, the sharecropping system, and white resistance on the Mississippi Delta's current economic and political situation. Sharon D. Wright Austin's extensive interviews with residents of the region shed light on the transformations and legacies of the Delta's political and economic institutions. While African Americans now hold most of the major political offices in the region and are no longer formally excluded from political participation, educational opportunities, or lucrative jobs, Wright Austin shows that white wealth and black poverty continue to be the norm partly because of the deeply entrenched legacies of the Delta's history. Contributing to a greater theoretical understanding of black political efforts, this book demonstrates a need for a strong level of black social capital, intergroup capital, financial capital, political capital, and a human capital of educated and skilled workers.
Bonds are a key component in every portfolio, making it essential that investors understand what exactly they are and how they function. This accessible guide explains the fundamentals in clear, easy-to-understand language. It includes in-depth coverage of a variety of products, from 30-year Treasury notes to high-yield junk bonds.
“A simply brilliant history that rescues from undeserved obscurity a roster of pioneering women in the very beginning of the age of aviation.” —Midwest Book Review From have-a-go Georgians to emancipated Edwardians, the lady aeronauts were actresses, writers, heiresses, scientists, engineers, explorers, showgirls and suffragettes. These unsung trailblazers for female freedom enjoyed lives shot through with sheer courage and joie de vivre. Yet they were all but forgotten. Hold on tight for a white-knuckle balloon ride through their remarkable real-life stories . . . “You couldn’t want for a better antidote to pinkness than these tales of girls and women unleashing their pluck and inventiveness in the unregulated age of balloonomania . . . This is history at its most satisfying.” —Damesnet “Sharon Wright tells a fabulous tale, and has uncovered some terrific stories of long forgotten heroines of the air. Some stories are comic, many are tragic, many are a bit of both, and she tells it brilliantly.” —Bristol Post “History has never been so much fun!” —What’sHerName Podcast
Dead End is a book based on a young woman named Velvet Rose who was tried by fire in the streets of New York. Dancing in clubs would no longer be a fantasy to her. She lived it and had to take all of the bullets thrown at her. Born and raised by fine parents who was spiritually grounded an loving. Her family was glued together by love.Will this young woman cling to the streets after it offers her gloomy nights and days or will she go back to her loving family. I invite you into the life of a beautiful young woman who challenge her demons in the worst way but will she find GOD at the end of her DEAD END road.
Award-winning journalist Sharon Wright presents a fascinating account of the fabulous eighteenth and nineteenth-century female pioneers of balloon flight. More than a century before the first airplane took flight, women were heading for the heavens in crazy, inspired contraptions that brought both danger and glory. Women were in the vanguard of the “Balloonomania” craze that took hold in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, sweeping across Europe and then the world. Their exploits were a vital element of our first voyages into the sky. In a time when women’s lives were often severely limited by law and convention, these intrepid pioneers took on an exhilarating quest for spectacle, adventure, and danger. From the perilous ascent in 1784 by feisty French teenager Elisabeth Thible, female aeronauts have never looked back . . . or down. But who were these brave women who fearlessly—and scandalously—took to the air? In Balloonomania Belles, journalist Sharon Wright reveals the hair-raising adventures of the first flying women in a book that celebrates the brightest stars of an extraordinary era in human achievement.
Liz Burgess wakes up one morning to realize she is about to lose everything--and it's all her fault. Her husband's love and trust; her daughter's innocence; her family's cherished home; and her own sense of safety and control are spinning with alarming speed beyond her reach. Her struggle to heal long-buried fears and rebuild her family's shattered dreams takes her on a journey of hope and discovery that will touch anyone who has experienced loss and climbed back to a new understanding of what is important in life.
Anne has always believed in fairies, but when she is asked to help a magical princess, she finds out that believing in fairies and believing in herself are two very different things ... Anne and her friends Samantha, Vera and David are about to go on an adventure of a lifetime ... and Fairy Land isn't just for the fairies.
Alicia is in trouble. All she wanted was to save the universe but it doesn't look like she can do it. Not alone anyway, but with the help of a Seeker, a Starian and the Chosen One, the universe might just stand a chance!
Recent welfare reforms, based on austerity narratives and a gender-neutral rationale, have failed to recognise the ways in which women and men experience the different demands and rewards of paid employment and unpaid care. This book draws on a wealth of qualitative longitudinal evidence to cast light on women’s lived experiences of welfare and work. Giving voice to social security recipients, this book uncovers the hidden gendered bias of conditional welfare reforms to challenge dominant political discourses, policy design and practice norms. It combines and develops three interdisciplinary perspectives – feminist analysis, lived experience and street-level bureaucracy – to offer a new understanding of British welfare reform policies and practice.
How desperate are you? Revivals always begin with personal desperation. When we are desperate enough to cry out to God for our need, He releases a deluge of His Spirit to not only meet your need, but to also change your family, community, state, nation and the world. The greatest revivals have all been initiated by the deep-seated needs of man. God has responded to passionately meet each of those needs. Waves of God's mercy in response to our heart's cry will benefit those around us and even the world. The World's Greatest Revivals explores: The Reformation. The Great Awakening. The Azusa Street Revival. The Toronto Blessing. Through extensive research and personal experiences, authors Fred and Sharon Wright share the fascinating history of revivals and revivalists over the past 600 years-and explore their long-lasting impact on society. This book shows the personal impact of these revivals and how our desperation opens the floodgates of heaven.
It is never easy for people to talk about their true feelings. Expressing emotions was not one of those things that was encouraged as a child. I believe that all too often, children grow up to be adults who have not dealt with traumas from their childhood. I am one of those people. GOD Is My Biggest Fan: How Grace and Mercy Blessed My Life came about at a time in my life when I was more than ready to just let go. Writing this book was cathartic. It is helping me face the demons of my past that have interfered in every aspect of my life. If you are ready to release your emotional baggage, then this is the book for you! Let this be your guide to freedom and a path to helping others!
Learn the mysteries of the Carrie Stevens method of making Rangeley-style streamers—one of the most enduring, effective, and beautiful baitfish imitations for catching trout. Step-by-step photo tutorials walk the reader through the entire process of tying a featherwing streamer, from material selection and preparation to finishing the fly. • Proven techniques presented in easy-to-understand text and full color photos • Practical tips for solving common tying problems • Exclusive recipes from the author, appearing for the first time in print
Jonah's family is broken. He lives with Mum and visits Dad. He loves his parents, but its not easy pleasing them both. Jonah feels he's being pushed in different directions - and nobody is happy. Then something amazing happens and things will never be the same.
In 2009, Fred Wright had a vivid dream in which God invited him to return to the simple yet radical ways of thanksgiving that he and Sharon had embraced as a young couple on the mission field. Little did Fred know how soon he would have to rely on that attitude of thanks, as he contended for healing from a major stroke just months later. In The Power of Thanksgiving, Fred and Sharon share their journey of many years in ministry, and how the pattern of thanksgiving has woven God's gifts of joy, healing, miraculous provision, spiritual might, and emotional wholeness into their lives. You will be touched, your faith will rise, and you will find resources to reach out to God in response to His wonderful blessings on your life.
Pearls are some of the world's most precious gems. Their fascinating irresistible attraction is adored and adorned by many. The quality of the gems appears to be divine, and their beauty is uniquely that of nature's own making; one that is uncrafted by man. Gentleness, nobility, and elegance are attributes they have that represent the different moods each gem possesses. Strands of Black Pearls is a figurative paralleling of the processes and formation of pearls, especially Black Pearls with life. This book reveals some of the challenges the author encountered in her life. This testimony is similar to that of many in Christendom and the world at large. She prays that her story and writing will touch your life and the lives of many.
This book sets out to examine the impact of terrorism on the policing organisation and culturally diverse communities. It is the first book of its kind to contextualise counter-terrorism policing in a conceptual framework and takes account of the unique challenge of the increasing cosmopolitan character of major cities. Based on detailed documentary and ethnographic research, this relevant book holds significant lessons for cosmopolitan cities around the world.
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