Silver medal winner of the 28th (2016) Benjamin Franklin Awards for Best New Voice in Fiction. Gold medal winner of the 4th (2015) Beverly Hills International Book Awards for Literary Fiction. Gold medal winner of the 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards for First Novel. Anna, who has always lived under the microscopic judgment of her narcissistic mother, is a Russian immigrant on the verge of turning forty and a single mother of a headstrong teenage daughter. After a life-long succession of regrettable choices and a slew of bad relationships, Anna gives up hope of finding her better half—until she meets David. Their all-consuming love seems timeless and everlasting, but both of their pasts just might destroy their future. A moving tale of three generations of Russian women living in New York City, of fate and love, of bonds that shape and shadow our lives. Crossing generations and continents, Sophia’s narrative details, with uncompromising candor, the joys and hardships of an immigrant renting an apartment in a shabby-chic neighborhood, where the long-buried tensions that fester among families begin to surface in unexpected ways and change the family forever. Engrossing, unpredictable, and moving, the novel will make you laugh out loud one moment and swallow back tears the next. In the vein of Vladimir Nabokov, Mikhail Bulgakov, and Leo Tolstoy, About Anna… presents a rich narrative about a life in which the road to forgiveness is hard—and the path to self-acceptance is even harder. Delanner’s complex characters will resonate with you long after the final page is turned.
Today choice is often taken to be a synonym for freedom. In much of the world, but especially in the United States, having both more occasions to make choices and more options to choose from are familiar political, personal, and economic goals. We are urged to consider our preferences and then to select from menus of options covering almost every element of our lives, including what to buy, where to live, whom to love, what profession to practice, and even what to believe. We like to think that when we determine our preferences among them, we are engaged in the business of self-realization. And yet, everybody from marketing gurus to psychologists to philosophers has also been warning us about the many negative consequences stemming from our obsession with individualized choice-making. Not only are we not very good at realizing our personal desires, but we are also overwhelmed with too many possibilities, anxious about what best to pick and seemingly unable to muster the same enthusiasm for collective decision making as we do for choices about ourselves. Further, our relentless focus on the responsibility for making good ones has stigmatized those without many options, mainly the poor. How did this happen? Drawing on sources as varied as novels, questionnaires, and restaurant menus, The Choice is Yours tells the long history of the invention of choice as the modern form of freedom. Sophia Rosenfeld pays particular attention to women and the halting emergence of feminism in order to demonstrate how choice was, from the start, stigmatized and turned into a horizon for liberty. Thus, this is also a story about constraints, from formal laws to social customs, that have always worked to limit choice-who gets to do it, when and how they do so, what the choices are-in ways that are often invisible and yet central to the role that choice plays in the modern world. Rosenfeld begins in the early modern Western world, with the contemporaneous invention of shopping as an activity focused on the selection of goods and of religious freedom, in addition to freedom of expression as a matter of being able to pick one's convictions. Moving into the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, she explores choice in romantic life, choice in politics, and sciences of choice. She takes up the work of contemporary psychologists, economists, and other theorists and offers a new perspective on how to think about choice now-based on a new reading of the past. An epilogue centers on the rise of reproductive choice and its consequences since the 1970s. Ultimately, The Choice is Yours is an argument for the necessity of rethinking the meaning of choice today, including its promise and its limitations, within the contours of modern liberalism"--
In this provocative work, Sophia Heller challenges the assumption that we cannot be without myth, that myth is necessary to vital, soulful living. Indeed, Heller argues, we have been living in a world without myth for a long time. The Absence of Myth examines the loss of a religious mode of being-in-the-world and demonstrates how theorists who insist on the presence of myth deny its historical end. Absence of myth may seem obvious: evidenced by our lack of cult and ritual, and by our de-animated natural world, as well as in the emergence of conceptual thought and psychological awareness, which could only arise with the dissolution of a prereflective (mythic) mode of being-in-the-world. But what appears to be straightforward becomes complicated when myth is intentionally conflated with thought and reflection, usually in the attempt to cultivate a "mythic consciousness" that aims to restore meaning to life and assuage the spiritual malaise of contemporary culture. Myth cannot rest in peace. It must be continually unearthed, redefined, and recontextualized such that modern and postmodern notions of myth are made to substitute for something that has never been experienced, only imagined.
Does "The One" truly exist? This is the question that Scarlett O'Shea attempts to answer in this passionate, inspiring, and life-changing story of finding her Beloved. As she travels around the world calling in "The One," an orchestra of events is set in motion that brings about their destined meeting. Along the way, she discovers that her Beloved (who is an well-known International "spiritual" teacher) is far more demanding than her international celebrity yoga lifestyle could have ever imagined. With flames licking at her heels, he invites Scarlett to leave her old life behind so she can fulfill her desire to know what happens when you say "Yes!" to love, no matter what the cost! Ride the twists and turns of this rollercoaster in this hilarious, irresistibly romantic, and soulful journey. Pilgrimage of Love is a tale that will have you believing in love all over again.
The Seven Sacraments is a compilation of 10 supplemental lesson plans, enabling you to go beyond the limitations of current textbooks by offering a more comprehensive, in-depth,and engaging approach. Every self-contained lesson in this guide is teacher-written, classroom-tested, and scholar-reviewed, and gives you everything you need to help your students encounter Christ in the Sacraments. Each lesson is designed in a flexible, modular format, and includes: Essential questionsConnections to the Catechism of the Catholic ChurchAccessible and engaging background readingComprehension and critical thinking questionsWarm-up / bell workMain activity such as primary source analysis, role-playing, class discussion, creative assignments, and many othersHomework and extension options"Becoming Like Christ" extension that helps students live the Faith Lessons What Is a Sacrament? What is the secret and joyful realm of the Sacraments?Why are Sacraments effective whether we feel them or not? The Institution of the Eucharist Why is the Eucharist the Source and Summit of our Faith?How did Jesus institute this sacrament?What were Christ's claims and commandments at the Last Supper? Old and New: Eucharistic Typology How does the New Testament lie hidden in the Old, and how's the Old unveiled in the New? Baptism How can it be possible that we die to live?How can classical, medieval, and popular culture help us understand the reality of Baptism? Confirmation How do we know when something belongs to us?If Baptism brings us into Christian life, and Reconciliation forgives sins, then why should we bother with Confirmation? Eucharist What is the Eucharist?What are Its Fruits?How do we receive the Eucharist, and why do we need to receive it often?Why can't everyone receive the Eucharist? Isn't it wrong to exclude people?What is the structure and purpose of Holy Mass? Penance and Reconciliation Why should I go to Confession when I can just tell God I'm sorry in my prayers?Can my sins be so bad that God won't forgive me? Anointing of the Sick Couldn't Jesus have saved humankind without becoming man? Without suffering? Without dying?How can our suffering be redemptive? Holy Orders Who are the successors of the Apostles?Why can only men be priests? Matrimony How is what Christ did for humanity like what spouses do for each other?What virtues are important to cultivate in the single life to help ensure a happy, enduring marriage?This resource facilitates experiential learning with sacred art including works by:Fra AngelicoJacopo BassanoRaphaelRembrandtVan DykeLeandro Miguel Velasco Your students will read and analyze primary sources from writers including: SenecaSt. AugustineSir Francis BaconHenry Wadsworth LongfellowSt. Melito of SardisMadeleine L'EngleHenry Ward BeecherG.K. ChestertonC.S. LewisPope FrancisSt. John Paul IIHomerShakespeareSt. Thomas AquinasSt. Gregory of Nazianzus In addition to Biblical touchstones in every lesson, your students will study in-depth and apply their knowledge of scripture passages including: Genesis 2:18, 21-25Exodus 12:1-20Luke 3:21-22Luke 5:1-11Luke 5:4-11John 8:4-11John 13:4-8John 21:15-17Luke 15:11-32Luke 22:14-20Mark 10:6-9Matthew 12:21-22Matthew 4:19John 9:1-7Mark 8:22-26Mark 10:46-52Matthew 20:29-34Romans 6:3-42 Timothy 1:6-14 Appendixes include alignments to the USCCB high school curriculum framework and the Catechism of the Catholic Church.
Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! THEIR MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE By Sophia James (Regency) Heiress Adelia wants to save her home. Self-made Simeon wants a place in society. Neither wants marriage, but could their sparks of fury ignite a simmering desire? THE TEMPTATIONS OF LORD TINTAGEL The Cornish Dukes By Bronwyn Scott (Regency) Inigo seeks justice against Audevere Brenley and her father for his best friend’s death. As Audevere shockingly becomes his greatest ally, business is suddenly branded with passion. HIS RUNAWAY LADY By Joanna Johnson (Regency) Fleeing a forced marriage, Sophia runs straight into blacksmith Fell Barden. He can save her by marrying her himself, but it means returning to the ton that rejected him… Look for Harlequin® Historical’s May 2020 Box Set 2 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!
Coating opera's roles in opulence, Maria Callas (1923-1977) is a lyrical enigma. Seductress, villainess, and victor, queen and crouching slave, she is a gallery of guises instrumentalists would kill to engineer… made by a single voice. But while her craftsmanship has stood the test of time, Callas’ image has contested defamation at the hands of saboteurs of beauty. Twelve years in the making, this voluminous labour of love explores the singer with the reverence she dealt her heroines. The Callas Imprint: A Centennial Biography reaps never-before-seen correspondence and archival documents worldwide to illustrate the complex of their multi-faceted creator - closing in on her self-contradictions, self-descriptions, attitudes and habits with empathic scrutiny. It swivels readers through the singer's on- and offstage scenes and flux of fears and dreams... the double life of all performers. In its unveiling of the everyday it rolls a vivid film reel starring friends and foes and nobodies: vignettes that make up life. It's verity. It's meritable storytelling. Not unlike the Callas art.
Border crossing is a significant experience in the global era when many people cross borders, whether in cultural, geopolitical, relational, or existential terms. Border crossing can provide a great opportunity for spiritual growth, yet it is often a violent and dangerous process. Thus there is a need to explore border-crossing spirituality: to examine how various aspects of border crossing impact human life, analyze why border crossing happens, and explain how the act of border crossing provides transformation. Border crossing is an action undertaken to expand one's own boundaries, and from it emerges the borderland--a third space where one's transformation can occur. This book primarily focuses on various teachings of border crossing and the notion of "being in between." Almost every religious tradition has within it a spiritual teaching of border crossing and the importance of the borderland. This book is, by nature, cross cultural, interreligious, and interspiritual. Through the action of border crossing, transformation occurs in the borderland, and border-crossing spirituality can be crystallized as living a radical hospitality, valuing friendship, remaining in the present, and reclaiming subjectivity.
She was his means of revenge... Lady Madeleine Randwick was his hostage, and a way to get under her brother's skin. As a player in the murky game of borderland politics, Alexander Ullyot, Laird of Ashblane, should have had no compunction about using her for his own ends. He should ruin her as surely as he wanted to ruin her brother. And instead...instead he found he was complimenting her. Was it the firelight in her hair, the soft, low tone of her voice or her stubborn streak of independence? Alex saw danger ahead. Was he falling for the woman who was his means of revenge...?
A provocative interdisciplinary study of the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art, this book offers a new understanding of Victorian novels through Pre-Raphaelite paintings. Concentrating on Elizabeth Gaskell, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Thomas Hardy and aligning each novelist with specific painters, this work interprets narrative redrawings of Pre-Raphaelite paintings within a range of cultural contexts as well as alongside recent theoretical work on gender. Letters, reviews, and journals convincingly reinforce the contentions about the novels and their connection with paintings. Featuring color reproductions of Pre-Raphaelite paintings, this book reveals the great achievement of Pre-Raphaelite art and its impact on the Victorian novel. Arguing for the direct relationship between Pre-Raphaelite painting and the Victorian novel, this book fills a gap in the currently available literature devoted to the Victorian novel, the Pre-Raphaelites, and the connection of Pre-Raphaelite art to Victorian poetry. Visual readings of the Victorian novel channel the twenty-first-century readers' desire for the visual into the exploration of Pre-Raphaelite art in the Victorian novel, in the process offering fresh insights into the representation of gender in Victorian culture. Through a textual and a visual journey, this work reveals a new approach to the Victorian novel and Pre-Raphaelite art with profound implications for the study of both.
In this book, the author reconstructs the literary, cultural, religious, social, and historical contexts of Evan's work. She explores the author's relation to her times and focuses on the way her novels reflect and address the cultural experiences of Southern women.
Dame Anna Wintour might be one of the best-known and most successful journalists on the planet. But it wasn't always like that. When she started out on Vogue she was often so miserable she had to phone her husband for help. This is just one of countless fascinating titbits in this zippy story of dizzying fortune, out-of this-world fashion, ingenuity, passion, sex and power. And, this being fashion, some intense bitchiness too. Started as a gossip magazine for snobbish New Yorkers in 1892, Vogue is now one of the most recognisable brands in the world. Spanning London, New York and Paris, this is a high-speed, fun read full of fascinating though not always likeable people.' Daily Mail Glossy is a story of more than a magazine. It is a story of passion and power, dizzying fortune and out-of-this-world fashion, of ingenuity and opportunism, frivolity and malice. This is the definitive story of Vogue. Vogue magazine started, like so many great things do, in the spare room of someone's house. But unlike other such makeshift projects that flare up then fizzle away, Vogue burnt itself onto our cultural consciousness. Today, 128 years later, Vogue spans 22 countries, has an international print readership upwards of 12 million and nets over 67 million monthly online users. Uncontested market leader for a century, it is one of the most recognisable brands in the world and a multi-million dollar money-making machine. It is not just a fashion magazine, it is the establishment. But what - and more importantly who - made Vogue such an enduring success? Glossy will answer this question and more by tracing the previously untold history of the magazine, from its inception as a New York gossip rag, to the sleek, corporate behemoth we know now. This will be a biography of Vogue in every sense of the word, taking the reader through three centuries, two world wars, plunging failures and blinding successes, as it charts the story of the magazine and those who ran it.
Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders, muscled Viking warriors and rugged Wild West cowboys? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! A Proposition for the Comte Gentlemen of Honor by Sophia James (Regency) Threatened by her late husband’s enemies, cautious Lady Violet Addington needs the protection of the dangerous Comte de Beaumont. But what can she offer him in return…? His Rags-to-Riches Contessa Matches Made in Scandal by Marguerite Kaye (Regency) Conte Luca del Pietro needs Becky Wickes, London’s finest cardsharp, to help catch his father’s murderer. But as their chemistry burns hotter, the stakes of their dangerous game get higher! The Makings of a Lady The Chadcombe Marriages by Catherine Tinley Just as Lady Olivia thinks she’s found a suitable match in suave Mr. Manning, charismatic Captain Jem Ford, the subject of her childhood infatuation, returns. Dare she hope he’ll notice her as the lady she’s now become? Look for Harlequin® Historical’s October 2018 Box set 2 of 2, filled with even more timeless love stories!
The Mermaids Tail tells the story of the Universal Feminines emergence in history of humanity as a viable force in evolution. The soul qualities of compassion and regard for all human beings are what is demanding the redefinition of societys biggest questions. Without an equal voice in the debate about war, education, care for the land or the elderly, only part of the problem can be understood. Sophia takes the reader from the mythological to an awakened imagination that can define what the Feminine voice really is. Her love of different cultures and ability to synthesize experience creates a series of impressions that illuminate what at first glance may appear as mundane. She shares hard-won insights into the sacredness of the many expressions of a One god. Initially, what can be read as irreverence exposes a greater truth reserved only for the courageous. The Mermaids Tail unmasks hidden meanings of the tales we were told as childrenthe mythology buried deep in the recesses of our minds. The book offers unexpected and delightful insights into creating deeper personal meaning, all tied together with well-crafted, often poetic, prose. A delightful and very rewarding read. - Dr. Jill Ammon-Wexler Best-selling author Pioneer in brain/mind research www.BuildMindPower.com This book will awaken feelings, joys, fears and emotions in readers from all walks of life, both masculine & feminine, young & old well done ! - Gary Duncan wood worker, musician, landscape artist, Ozark Renaissance man The Mermaids Tail links visions of our universal subconscious past to what our collective conscious is asking for today. Drawing from her lifes journey and discoveries, Sophia has created an artful and enlightening read. - Lanie Frick Professional artist Women Artists of the West/assoc. Missouri Artist Alliance/juried www.laniefrick.com
Rooted in examples from their own and others’ classrooms, the authors offer discipline-specific practices for implementing antiracist literature instruction in White-dominant schools. Each chapter explores a key dimension of antiracist literature teaching and learning, including designing literature-based units that emphasize racial literacy, selecting literature that highlights voices of color, analyzing Whiteness in canonical literature, examining texts through a critical race lens, managing challenges of race talk, and designing formative assessments for racial literacy and identity growth. “Sophia and Carlin’s book is startling in how openly and honestly it takes up the problem of how to teach about racism, using literature, in White schools. As I read, I kept marveling at how courageous and direct and clear their writing is.” —From the Foreword by Timothy J. Lensmire, University of Minnesota “Letting Go of Literary Whiteness unpacks the necessary responsibility of exploring race for all teachers. Borsheim-Black and Sarigianides center this work in English classrooms, exploring the kinds of literature, discussions, and difficult instructional decisions that teachers make every day. This book emphasizes that racial justice is a shared responsibility for teachers today and, through myriad practical examples, offers guidance for centering equity in schools.” —Antero Garcia, Stanford Graduate School of Education
This book examines why a close collaboration between the EU and China may result in the necessary push to solidify a concrete vision and a roadmap for our common future in the Anthropocene. Introducing a novel perspective and narrative on climate change policy leadership through analysis of international relations diplomacy, Kalantzakos examines the role of the US, EU and China in the global fight against climate change, as well as the way in which the EU and China have both utilized their substantial development aid as soft power tools to gain influence in developing nations.This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of environmental politics, international relations, climate change and energy law and policy.
This ethnographic study examines parent and child experiences with learning resources in a range of sites, from schools and libraries to doctor's waiting rooms and supermarkets. It also investigates the ways in which governments and corporations are transforming early childhood education and creating an early learning industry.
This is a story about great inspiration and seemingly impossible achievement captured first in dreams and finally transported into real life. What made Vivians lofty dreams and wishful thinking of the impossible finally become real after10 years or more just dreaming ideas and wishing things? Find out!! Dear reader, please kindly review my book and visit AuthorHouse to order more stories!! Thank you and God bless you.
When life seems to take a turn on the road of happiness, about-to-be-teenager Mia starts noticing weird mood swings, anger, and compulsive actions that lead to suicidal behaviors. In the meantime, she finds the love of her life, Miles Carter Ellenberger, who shows her a new world, which starts to crumble soon when Mia comes to know that she will lose the love of her life. Mia thinks she is not enough and considers death as the only way out. Will life give Mia a chance, or will she rest in peace forever?
The Confession is a satire. It is the story of four young married couples from different Christian denominations. They face temptations of the flesh and reap the consequences. Their individual attempts to place their hearts right with God and how they went about it is the central theme of the story.
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