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Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense

By: Susan Vinocour

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Nobody's Child: A Tragedy, a Trial, and a History of the Insanity Defense

By: Susan Vinocour

A powerful and humane exploration of the history of the "insanity defense," through the story of one poignant case. When a three-year-old child was found with a head wound and other injuries, it looked like an open-and-shut case of second-degree murder. Psychologist and attorney Susan Vinocour agreed to evaluate the defendant, the child's mentally ill and impoverished grandmother, to determine whether she was competent to stand trial. Even if she had caused the child's death, had she realized at the time that her actions were wrong or was she legally "insane"? What followed was anything but an open-and-shut case. Nobody's Child traces the legal definition of "insanity" back to its inception in Victorian Britain nearly two hundred years ago, from when our understanding of the human mind was in its infancy, to today, when questions of race, class, and ability so often determine who is legally "insane" and who is criminally guilty. Vinocour explains how "competency" and "insanity" are creatures of a legal system, not of psychiatric reality, and how, in criminal law, the insanity defense has to often been a luxury of the rich and white. Nobody's Child is a profoundly dignified portrait of injustice in America and a complex examination of the troubling intersection of mental health and the law. When prisons are now the largest institutions for the mentally ill, Vinocour demands that we reckon with our conceptions of "insanity" with clarity, empathy, and responsibility.

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393651932

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Allusion and Meaning in John 6

By: Susan Hylen

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Allusion and Meaning in John 6

By: Susan Hylen

Many interpreters read John 6 as a contrast between Jesus and Judaism: Jesus repudiates Moses and manna and offers himself as an alternative. In contrast, this monograph argues that John 6 places elements of the Exodus story in a positive and constructive relationship to Jesus. This reading leads to an understanding of John as an interpreter of Exodus who, like other contemporary Jewish interpreters, sees current experiences in light of the Exodus story. This approach to John offers new possibilities for assessing the gospel's relationship to Jewish scripture, its dualism, and its metaphorical language.

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Walter de Gruyter

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3110185776

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Women with Vision

The Presentation Sisters of South Dakota, 1880-1985

By: Susan Carol Peterson,Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson

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Women with Vision

The Presentation Sisters of South Dakota, 1880-1985

By: Susan Carol Peterson,Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson

The Roman Catholic order of Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, founded in Ireland in 1776 by Nano Nagle as the Society of Charitable Instruction of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and migrating to North America in the mid 1850s, remains commited to tutoring, healing, and nuturing.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252014936

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The Official Club Directory and Price Guide to Limited Edition Collectibles

By: Susan K. Elliott

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The Official Club Directory and Price Guide to Limited Edition Collectibles

By: Susan K. Elliott

This comprehensive guide covers a vast range of collectibles and collector clubs, including Enesco "Precious Moments", David Winter cottages, Lilliput Lane, M.I. Hummel, and Royal Doulton. The easy-to-use A-Z format makes it a great sourcebook for all who actively buy, sell, collect, and trade these pieces. Photos.

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House of Collectibles

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0876379277

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Gilding the Market

Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

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Gilding the Market

Luxury and Fashion in Fourteenth-Century Italy

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

In the fourteenth century, garish ornaments, bright colors, gilt, and military effects helped usher in the age of fashion in Italy. Over a short span of years important matters began to turn on the cut of a sleeve. Fashion influenced consumption and provided a stimulus that drove demand for goods and turned wealthy townspeople into enthusiastic consumers. Making wise decisions about the alarmingly expensive goods that composed a fashionable wardrobe became a matter of pressing concern, especially when the market caught on and became awash in cheaper editions of luxury wares. Focusing on the luxury trade in fashionable wear and accessories in Venice, Florence, and other towns in Italy, Gilding the Market investigates a major shift in patterns of consumption at the height of medieval prosperity, which, more remarkably, continued through the subsequent era of plague, return of plague, and increased warfare. A fine sensitivity to the demands of "le pompe," that is, the public display of private wealth, infected town life. The quest for luxuries affected markets by enlarging exchange activity and encouraging retail trades. As both consumers and tradesmen, local goldsmiths, long-distance traders, bankers, and money changers played important roles in creating this new age of fashion. In response to a greater public display of luxury goods, civic sumptuary laws were written to curb spending and extreme fashion, but these were aimed at women, youth, and children, leaving townsmen largely unrestricted in their consumption. With erudition, grace, and an evocative selection of illustrations, some reproduced in full color, Susan Mosher Stuard explores the arrival of fashion in European history.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812205375

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Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings

"Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image "

By: Susan Merriam

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Seventeenth-Century Flemish Garland Paintings

"Still Life, Vision, and the Devotional Image "

By: Susan Merriam

Focusing on three celebrated northern European still life painters?Jan Brueghel, Daniel Seghers, and Jan Davidsz. de Heem?this book examines the emergence of the first garland painting in 1607-1608, and its subsequent transformation into a widely collected type of devotional image, curiosity, and decorative form. The first sustained study of the garland paintings, the book uses contextual and formal analysis to achieve two goals. One, it demonstrates how and why the paintings flourished in a number of contexts, ranging from an ecclesiastical center in Milan, to a Jesuit chapter house and private collections in Antwerp, to the Habsburg court in Vienna. Two, the book shows that when viewed over the course of the century, the images produced by Brueghel, Seghers and de Heem share important similarities, including an interest in self-referentiality and the exploration of pictorial form and materials. Using a range of evidence (inventories, period response, the paintings themselves), Susan Merriam shows how the pictures reconfigured the terms in which the devotional image was understood, and asked the viewer to consider in new ways how pictures are made and experienced.

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Routledge

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1351549065

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The Persian Mirror

Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France

By: Susan Mokhberi

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The Persian Mirror

Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France

By: Susan Mokhberi

The Persian Mirror explores France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu's Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador's visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.

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Oxford University Press

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0190884819

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Say and Seal (Complete)

By: Susan Warner

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Say and Seal (Complete)

By: Susan Warner

The street was broad, with sidewalks, and wide grass-grown borders, and a spacious track of wheels and horses' feet in the centre. Great elms, which the early settlers planted, waved their pendant branches over the peaceful highway, and gave shelter and nest-room to numerous orioles, killdeer, and robins; putting off their yellow leaves in the autumn, and bearing their winter weight of snow, in seeming quiet assurance that spring would make amends for all. So slept the early settlers in the churchyard! Along the street, at pleasant neighbourly intervals—not near enough to be crowded, nor far enough to be lonely—stood the houses,—comfortable, spacious, compact,—"with no nonsense about them." The Mong lay like a mere blue thread in the distance, its course often pointed out by the gaff of some little sloop that followed the bends of the river up toward Suckiaug. The low rolling shore was spotted with towns and spires: over all was spread the fairest blue sky and floating specks of white. Not many sounds were astir,—the robins whistled, thief-like, over the cherry-trees; the killdeer, from some high twig, sent forth his sweet clear note; and now and then a pair of wheels rolled softly along the smooth road: the rush of the wind filled up the pauses. Anybody who was down by the Mong might have heard the soft roll of his blue waters,—any one by the light-house might have heard the harsher dash of the salt waves. I might go on, and say that if anybody had been looking out of Mrs. Derrick's window he or she might have seen—what Mrs. Derrick really saw! For she was looking out of the window (or rather through the blind) at the critical moment that afternoon. It would be too much to say that she placed herself there on purpose,—let the reader suppose what he likes. At the time, then, that the village clock was striking four, when meditative cows were examining the length of their shadows, and all the geese were setting forth for their afternoon swim, a stranger opened Mrs. Derrick's little gate and walked in. Stretching out one hand to the dog in token of good fellowship, (a classical mind might have fancied him breaking the cake by whose help Quickear got past the lions,) he went up the walk, neither fast nor slow, ascended the steps, and gave what Mrs. Derrick called "considerable of a rap" at the door. That done, he faced about and looked at the far off blue Mong. Not more intently did he eye and read that fair river; not more swiftly did his thoughts pass from the Mong to things beyond human ken; than Mrs. Derrick eyed and read—his back, and suffered her ideas to roam into the far off regions of speculation. The light summer coat, the straw hat, were nothing uncommon; but the silk umbrella was too good for the coat—the gloves and boots altogether extravagant!

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Library of Alexandria

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146554920X

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Having Visions

The Book of Mormon Translated and Exposed in Plain English

By: Susan Wolverton

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Having Visions

The Book of Mormon Translated and Exposed in Plain English

By: Susan Wolverton

In Having Visions, the author presents an objective, respectful, and faithful translation of its content, accompanied with an historical and scientific context for understanding its insertion into the body of human affairs. In The Book of Mormon, the ancient American prophet Mormon presents the history of his people, the Nephites. The intent of the present book is to present "his story as told," and its relationship to "history as known," without altering its essence. It should be noted that exhaustive archeological, genetic, and linguistic research has been undertaken by both proponents for, and detractors of, the existence of the Nephites. So far, no evidence supporting the claim has ever been found for any place, person, or event mentioned in The Book of Mormon, while abundant contradictory evidence has been discovered and independently verified.

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Algora Publishing

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0875863086

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Study Jesus' Teachings

52 Bible Lessons from the Gospels for Ages 8-12

By: Susan L. Lingo

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Study Jesus' Teachings

52 Bible Lessons from the Gospels for Ages 8-12

By: Susan L. Lingo

These lessons help kids learn to trust God's Word, trust that God will provide for their needs, and trust God in all circumstances. A 52-Week Bible Journey–Just for Kids!Route 52™ is a Bible-based journey that will take kids through the Bible every year from age 8 to 12. Every lesson features: Scripturally sound themes Culturally relevant, hands-on activities Age-appropriate Bible-learning challenges Reproducible life-application activity pages Route 52™ Bible lessons will help kids learn the Bible and how to apply it to their lives at their own level of spiritual development. These reproducible Bible lessons are appropriate for Bible school, children's church, youth group, kids club, and midweek Bible study programs.

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David C Cook

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0830776729

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St. Faustina Prayer Book for Adoration

By: Susan Tassone

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St. Faustina Prayer Book for Adoration

By: Susan Tassone

For centuries adoration has been a devotion saints, popes, and countless men, women, and children not only loved but came to rely on. In St. Faustina Prayer Book for Adoration, best-selling and award-winning author Susan Tassone shows you how to deeply encounter God during your own times of adoration. Here you’ll find prayers for adoring the Lord before the Blessed Sacrament and for spiritual adoration at home. With St. Faustina as your guide, you’ll learn more about the graces God offers you, ways to pray with and without words, and the unique and amazing relationship God shares with you alone. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Susan Tassone has long been a passionate champion for the holy souls in purgatory and is recognized as leading a worldwide “purgatory movement.” The award-winning author of ten best-sellers, including St. Faustina Prayer Book for the Holy Souls in Purgatory, Susan makes speaking appearances throughout the country. She’s a frequent and popular guest on national radio and television programs as well as social media. In 2013, she was featured in the groundbreaking documentary Purgatory: The Forgotten Church and was on the cover of Catholic Digest magazine in 2017. She also continues to work tirelessly to raise donations for Masses for the holy souls. Susan holds a master’s degree in religious education from Loyola University Chicago and had the honor and privilege of being granted two private audiences with St. John Paul II, who bestowed a special blessing on her and her ministry for the holy souls. Learn more at: susantassone.com.

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Our Sunday Visitor

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1681921375

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Considering Medieval Women and Gender

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

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Considering Medieval Women and Gender

By: Susan Mosher Stuard

Professor Stuard collects here a set of her articles on women and gender in the Middle Ages, beginning with her first, published in 1975. The first section, on marriage, opens with an exploration of the Ragusa/Dubrovnik archives, reaches out to consider patterns of gift-giving at marriage and of consumption. The second section focuses on slavery, specifically women destined for domestic service. The final parts contain historiographical surveys of the field of women and gender studies, and three biographical studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040249477

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Introduction to Money Management

By: Susan M. Carlson

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Introduction to Money Management

By: Susan M. Carlson

We all live in a world in which money is an important part of our everyday lives. This clearly written, practical guide to money management is appropriate for people of all ages. It includes practical examples and exercises about basic budgeting, loans, credit, and managing your financial resources well.

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Quantum Scientific Publishing

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1479213179

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Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence

By: Susan B. Puett,J. David Puett

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Renaissance Art & Science @ Florence

By: Susan B. Puett,J. David Puett

The creativity of the human mind was brilliantly displayed during the Florentine Renaissance when artists, mathematicians, astronomers, apothecaries, architects, and others embraced the interconnectedness of their disciplines. Artists used mathematical perspective in painting and scientific techniques to create new materials; hospitals used art to invigorate the soul; apothecaries prepared and dispensed, often from the same plants, both medicinals for patients and pigments for painters; utilitarian glassware and maps became objects to be admired for their beauty; art enhanced depictions of scientific observations; and innovations in construction made buildings canvases for artistic grandeur. An exploration of these and other intersections of art and science deepens our appreciation of the magnificent contributions of the extraordinary Florentines.

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Penn State Press

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0271091320

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Laugh Your Way to Grace

Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor

By: Susan Sparks

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Laugh Your Way to Grace

Reclaiming the Spiritual Power of Humor

By: Susan Sparks

Laughter the GPS System for the Soul Laughter was honored by the ancients as a spiritual healing tool and celebrated by the world's great religions. So why aren t we laughing along the spiritual path today? What would happen if we did? In this personal and funny look at humor as a spiritual practice, Rev. Susan Sparks an ex-lawyer turned comedian and Baptist minister presents a convincing case that the power of humor radiates far beyond punch lines. Laughter can help you: Remove the fearful mask of a God who doesn t laughDebunk the myths that you don t deserve joyFind perspective when faced with adversityExercise forgiveness for yourself and othersReclaim play as a spiritual practiceHeal emotionally, physically, and spirituallyKeep your faith when God is silentLive with elegance, beauty, and generosity of spirit Whatever your faith tradition or if you have none at all join this veteran of the punch line and the pulpit in reclaiming the forgotten humor legacy found in thousands of years of human spiritual history.

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SkyLight Paths Publishing

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1594732809

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

By: Susan P. Sherkow,Alexandra M. Harrison , M.D.

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Autism Spectrum Disorder

Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience

By: Susan P. Sherkow,Alexandra M. Harrison , M.D.

Autism Spectrum Disorder: Perspectives from Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience, offers a guide to understanding and treating the ASD toddler from the dual perspectives of psychoanalysis and neurofunction through describing in great detail intensive treatments of four children who began therapy as toddlers. The authors hypothesize that dyadic therapy and Reflective Network Therapy can impact a child by modifying the biochemistry of the brain, resulting in alteration of emotion and cognition. Their chapter on neurobiological mechanisms of change describes these hypotheses in depth.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0765708639

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Loved By Choice

True Stories That Celebrate Adoption

By: Susan Horner,Kelly Fordyce Martindale

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Loved By Choice

True Stories That Celebrate Adoption

By: Susan Horner,Kelly Fordyce Martindale

Loved by Choice offers a clear and uplifting look at adoption from virtually every perspective. It is comprised of true stories that reflect the joys and the difficulties of those touched by adoption. Families working out an overseas adoption, those creating interracial families, grandparents, birth mothers, and even birth fathers are among the many who tell their stories. Two appendices define adoption terms and outline resources that will be helpful to those exploring adoption. The emphasis of Loved by Choice, though, is to demonstrate how adoption can complete a family. It's a poignant celebration of adoption, led by those who understand it best. This book's pro-life, positive, and upbeat message will be a welcomed source for women facing pregnancy choices, anyone working with unwed mothers, adoptees, adoption advocates, pro-life advocates, couples considering adoption, and anyone else interested in stories that celebrate adoption. It is an ideal book for bookstores and libraries to display in November, which is Adoption Awareness Month. Loved by Choice will also be popular at the many adoption-related conferences, book readings, and fairs that take place around the world.

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Baker Books

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1441236937

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Being Bodies

Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment

By: Lenore Friedman,Susan Moon

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Being Bodies

Buddhist Women on the Paradox of Embodiment

By: Lenore Friedman,Susan Moon

The relationship between body and mind has always been a topic of speculation and spirited discussion. The authors of the pieces contained in this anthology address the problem from the unique dual perspective of being women and being students of Buddhism.

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Shambhala Publications

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1570623244

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Heinemann Economics for OCR

By: Susan Grant,Chris Vidler

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Heinemann Economics for OCR

By: Susan Grant,Chris Vidler

This text offers clear examples, key ideas and activities to ensure full access to the economics specification. It also includes exam hints contributed by an examiner from the relevant board.

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0435330845

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The Daniel Fast for Weight Loss

A Biblical Approach to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

By: Susan Gregory

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The Daniel Fast for Weight Loss

A Biblical Approach to Losing Weight and Keeping It Off

By: Susan Gregory

Includes 90 satisfying recipes!"--Cover.

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Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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1496407482

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Woman of Virtue

By: Susan Brackley

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Woman of Virtue

By: Susan Brackley

What is a virtuous woman? Times have changed. Have God's answers expired over time? Is God's design for women the same as it was years ago? Has God changed His definition of virtue? How does the detailed description of godly virtue in Proverbs 31 apply to the twenty-first century? Woman of Virtue is a detailed exposition of Proverbs 31; it is designed to unfold the scriptures that clearly answer these questions as well as help us apply them to our everyday lives. In a world where the destructive influences of the feminist movement are creeping into the church, Christian women need to be aware of what God teaches concerning His good design for them. Contrary to popular belief and, sadly, even some opinions within Christendom, feminism has not helped or improved God's original design for women. In fact, feminism and God's truth are diametrically opposed--they are polar opposites! Feminism is Satan's cheap counterfeit of God's good intention for women. God is not silent throughout scripture concerning His plan for women, marriage, and the family. He holds each of us accountable to learn, trust, and apply what He has ordained. God's design for women still applies to us today just as much as it did when He created us uniquely for our role in the world. God wants believers to know what a virtuous, God-fearing, honest, modest, righteous, and hard-working woman is--right now in the twenty-first century!

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WestBow Press

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1490852778

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The Tara Tantra

Tara's Fundamental Ritual Text (Tara-mula-kalpa)

By: Susan A. Landesman

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The Tara Tantra

Tara's Fundamental Ritual Text (Tara-mula-kalpa)

By: Susan A. Landesman

A groundbreaking English translation of a key tantric text in the history of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. This volume contains an English translation of the “root text” of the Tara-mula-kalpa, a scripture-ritual compendium that captures an important Buddhist tantric tradition in mid-formation. In this regard it is utterly unique and unlike any other text in the Buddhist canon. Its contents document the emergence of the quintessential female Buddha Tara in seventh-century India. As her popularity grew, her cult spread throughout Southeast Asia, as well as Tibet, where she became revered as the “Mother” of the Tibetan people. Tara is worshiped for a variety of reasons, from health and long life, to wealth, protection from enemies, and ultimately, the mind of enlightenment. Her presence pervades the evolution of Buddhism in Tibet, including within royal circles, as well as mentor and guide to many important Buddhist scholars, practitioners, and lineage holders.

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Simon and Schuster

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194916313X

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Student Practice Supervision and Assessment

A Guide for NMC Nurses and Midwives

By: Jo Lidster,Susan Wakefield

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Student Practice Supervision and Assessment

A Guide for NMC Nurses and Midwives

By: Jo Lidster,Susan Wakefield

Supervising and assessing students in practice is central to the nursing and midwifery role. Based around the NMC Standards for Student Supervision and Assessment (2018) and with a brand new chapter on coaching, this book will develop and enhance your knowledge and skills in order to support a wide range of students. Updated throughout to reflect what has been learned from the early roll-out of supervisory and assessor roles, this is the book you will keep returning to as you encounter different students and scenarios in your practice. Key features o New chapter on coaching o Each chapter is mapped to the 2018 NMC standards o Case studies, activities and other learning features help you to translate theory into practice o Explores challenging issues such as students in difficulty o Considers the personal development of practice supervisors and assessors, whether new to this role or an experienced supervisor and assessor Dr Jo Lidster is Deputy Head of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at Sheffield Hallam University Susan Wakefield is Head of the Department of Nursing and Midwifery at Sheffield Hallam University

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Learning Matters

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1529764785

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9781529764789

Adventures in Faith & Family

By: Susan Lukey

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Adventures in Faith & Family

By: Susan Lukey

Adventures in Faith & Family offers practical, intelligent, loving, spirit-filled wisdom for those looking for a friend who will guide them with faith as they pursue their own adventure of being a family. Delving into the multiple scenarios of a child’s life, Susan Lukey has drawn on years of research and her own experiences as teacher, minister, youth leader, and parent to reveal how families can sensitively and faithfully support and nurture a child’s growth “to become all that God has created them to be.”

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The United Church of Canada

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155134260X

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Picturing the True Form

Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China

By: Shih-shan Susan Huang

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Picturing the True Form

Daoist Visual Culture in Traditional China

By: Shih-shan Susan Huang

Picturing the True Form investigates the long-neglected visual culture of Daoism, China’s primary indigenous religion, from the tenth through thirteenth centuries with references to both earlier and later times. In this richly illustrated book, Shih-shan Susan Huang provides a comprehensive mapping of Daoist images in various media, including Dunhuang manuscripts, funerary artifacts, and paintings, as well as other charts, illustrations, and talismans preserved in the fifteenth-century Daoist Canon. True form (zhenxing), the key concept behind Daoist visuality, is not static, but entails an active journey of seeing underlying and secret phenomena.This book’s structure mirrors the two-part Daoist journey from inner to outer. Part I focuses on inner images associated with meditation and visualization practices for self-cultivation and longevity. Part II investigates the visual and material dimensions of Daoist ritual. Interwoven through these discussions is the idea that the inner and outer mirror each other and the boundary demarcating the two is fluid. Huang also reveals three central modes of Daoist symbolism—aniconic, immaterial, and ephemeral—and shows how Daoist image-making goes beyond the traditional dichotomy of text and image to incorporate writings in image design. It is these particular features that distinguish Daoist visual culture from its Buddhist counterpart.

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BRILL

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168417516X

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Andrea Carter and Other Tales from the Circle C Ranch

By: Susan K. Marlow

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Andrea Carter and Other Tales from the Circle C Ranch

By: Susan K. Marlow

Join Andrea Carter for more adventures in the Old West! Spunky ranch girl Andrea Carter is back in six short stories inspired by ideas from fans of the Circle C Adventures series. In this revised edition, readers will find three new stories about Andi's life with friends, family, and her horse, Taffy, on Circle C ranch in 1880s California. From saving an orphaned calf to having a close call in the big city, Andi is bound to wind up in an adventure. Full of wholesome fun and clear Christian messages throughout, Andrea Carter and Other Tales from the Circle C Ranch is a must-read.

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Kregel Publications

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ISBN 10

0825449030

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9780825449031

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