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Holy Companions

Spiritual Practices from the Celtic Saints

By: Sylvia Maddox,Mary C. Earle

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Holy Companions

Spiritual Practices from the Celtic Saints

By: Sylvia Maddox,Mary C. Earle

The Celtic tradition continues to captivate readers. Centuries old, it seems to speak to the modern world with a fresh voice. In Holy Companions, readers are invited to get to know and journey with eighteen Celtic saints. The authors have provided a theme inspired by each saint, along with a brief biography, a reflection on what the saint's life and words may mean to us today, and some spiritual exercises and practices that grow out of that life and work. Written accessibly, this is an excellent book for individual exploration or group study.

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Church Publishing, Inc.

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081922586X

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9780819225863

Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Cultural Identities and Hybridities

By: Sylvia Huot

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Postcolonial Fictions in the Roman de Perceforest

Cultural Identities and Hybridities

By: Sylvia Huot

This vast romance chronicles an imaginary era of pre-Arthurian British history when Britain was ruled by a dynasty established by Alexander the Great. Its story of cultural rise, decline, and regeneration offers an exploration of medieval ideas about ethnic and cultural conflict and fusion, identity and hybridity.

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244

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Boydell & Brewer

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1843841045

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9781843841043

Carondelet

By: John A. Wright Sr.,Sylvia A. Wright

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Carondelet

By: John A. Wright Sr.,Sylvia A. Wright

Clement Delor de Treget, a Frenchman, founded Carondelet in 1767 and named the village in honor of Baron Francis Louis de Carondelet, the Spanish governor of the Louisiana Territory. Due to its prime location at the confluence of the River Des Peres and the Mississippi River, Carondelet attracted a wide array of industries and a diverse population where racial lines were often blurred and ethnic groups peacefully coexisted. The community has contributed greatly to American history from the site of construction of the Civil War ironclad boats to the location of the American kindergarten movement. Today the community is striving to preserve its proud heritage and build on the strength of its diverse population. The historic images in this book illustrate the citys founding and development from the first French settlers to the coming of Germans, Irish, Italians, African Americans, and Spanish, its annexation to the city of St. Louis in 1870, its economic hardships, and its present revitalization.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439619182

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9781439619186

The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

'worldly Cares' at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

By: Sylvia Federico

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The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham

'worldly Cares' at St Albans Abbey in the Fourteenth Century

By: Sylvia Federico

A comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events.

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218

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Boydell & Brewer

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1903153638

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9781903153635

Angel Creek Christmas Brides Box Set

By: Sylvia McDaniel

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Angel Creek Christmas Brides Box Set

By: Sylvia McDaniel

Christmas Mail Order Brides from USA Today Bestselling Author Sylvia McDaniel Escape to Angel Creek, Where Pasts Collide and Love Offers a Second Chance this Christmas Charity Kingston escapes a dangerous brothel owner, only to face her debts and a husband, Lewis Brown, hiding his own secrets. Will their love survive as Christmas nears? Anna Tuttle, a pampered southern belle, must learn the harsh realities of frontier life with her rugged husband, Levi Jackson. Can they find common ground and love before the holidays? Ginger Legare, scarred by the Civil War, meets Preacher Flint Carroll, a man untouched by loss. Together, they seek healing and happiness. Minnie Ravenel, carrying a secret and an unborn child, marries Tripp Maddox, a lonely rancher. But can they build a life together, or will their pasts tear them apart? Cora Weaver, on the run from the law, becomes Mack Lawson’s bride, but the threat of justice looms over their love. Can they find peace and joy before Christmas, or will Cora’s crime catch up with her? Fans of Kirsten Osbourne, Jodi Thomas and Linda Lael Miller will enjoy these historical holiday stories.

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720

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Virtual Bookseller, LLC

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1959689649

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9781959689645

Minnie: Western Historical Holiday Romance

By: Sylvia McDaniel

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Minnie: Western Historical Holiday Romance

By: Sylvia McDaniel

From USA Today Bestselling author Sylvia McDaniel a mail order bride holiday story. A marriage of desperation… but will it become a love worth fighting for? Minnie Ravenel is desperate to escape the shame of Charleston—and the secret she carries. Her mother seizes the only chance left, answering an ad for a mail-order bride in the far-off frontier town of Angel Creek, Montana. But when Minnie arrives, there’s no guarantee her new husband will accept her... or her unborn child. Tripp Maddox has long since given up on love. A solitary rancher burdened by past heartache, he isn't looking for a wife. But when he finds Minnie standing alone in the cold, tears in her eyes and her spirit broken, something stirs deep within him—a reminder of his own losses. With Christmas fast approaching, he makes a life-altering decision: he asks her to marry him. In a town that offers second chances, can two strangers forge a future together, or will the secrets of their pasts destroy the fragile hope between them? For fans of Kirsten Osbourne, Linda Lael Miller and Jovie Grace.

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1950858375

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9781950858378

Stereotypes and Violence

Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies 04/2016

By: Oliver Betts,Andrew Fuyarchuk,Biba Hadziavdic,Hilde Hoffmann,Barbara Manthe,Benjamin Nickl,Bojan Perovic,Sylvia Sadzinski,Victoria Shmidt

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Stereotypes and Violence

Global Humanities. Studies in Histories, Cultures, and Societies 04/2016

By: Oliver Betts,Andrew Fuyarchuk,Biba Hadziavdic,Hilde Hoffmann,Barbara Manthe,Benjamin Nickl,Bojan Perovic,Sylvia Sadzinski,Victoria Shmidt

Stereotypes are dangerous, especially when they are used by demagogues. Slogans, which remind the historian of darker times in human history, however, reappear again in a growing number. As companions of the rise of right wing forces in Europe they make up ground in more and more regions and gain momentum in the political debate. It consequently seems to be more than important to focus on and closer analyze the interrelationship between stereo types and violence in modern societies. The fourth volume of Global Humanities tries to achieve such a broader analysis and provides reading in the fields of history, political science, gender and media studies. The authors show and emphasize in which ways the two above named factors are interacting with each other and influencing the popular opinion in modern nation states. Topics that are covered include Anti-Italian riots in Zurich at the end of the 19th century, a discussion of the interrelationship of racism and violence in Germany since the 1980s, and an analysis of gender based violence in Serbia. In addition, the persistence of stereo types in entertainment is closely studied by taking a look on Sinti and Roma depictions in current European films.

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171

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Neofelis Verlag

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3958081630

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9783958081635

The Letters of Sylvia Beach

By: Sylvia Beach

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The Letters of Sylvia Beach

By: Sylvia Beach

Annotation Sylvia Beach has been called the patron saint of independent bookstores. In this first collection of her letters, we witness her day-to-day dealings as bookseller and publisher to expatriate Paris.

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402

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Columbia University Press

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0231145373

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9780231145374

Fashionable Food

Seven Decades of Food Fads

By: Sylvia Lovegren

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Fashionable Food

Seven Decades of Food Fads

By: Sylvia Lovegren

Like fashions and fads, food-even bad food-has a history, and Lovegren's Fashionable Food is quite literally a cookbook of the American past. Well researched and delightfully illustrated, this collection of faddish recipes from the 1920s to the 1990s is a decade-by-decade tour of a hungry American century.

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470

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University of Chicago Press

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0226494071

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9780226494074

Women, Language and Politics

By: Sylvia Shaw

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Women, Language and Politics

By: Sylvia Shaw

Investigates the underrepresentation of women in politics, by examining how language use constructs and maintains gender inequalities in political institutions.

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Cambridge University Press

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1107080886

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9781107080881

Baton Rouge

By: Sylvia Frank Rodrigue,Faye Phillips

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Baton Rouge

By: Sylvia Frank Rodrigue,Faye Phillips

In 1699, on a high bluff along the Mississippi River, explorer Pierre Le Moyne, Sieur dIberville, found the fabled Red Stick, a post that marked the line between two Native American nations and gave Baton Rouge, Louisiana, its name. This book chronicles 150 years of the daily activities of Baton Rouges residents through images of the citys growth and development; life during the Civil War, floods, hurricanes, and economic depressions; and people working, playing, and celebrating.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1439619719

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9781439619711

Jack Lord

An Acting Life

By: Sylvia D. Lynch

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Jack Lord

An Acting Life

By: Sylvia D. Lynch

Before his rise to superstardom portraying Detective Steve McGarrett on the long-running police drama Hawaii Five-O, Jack Lord was already a dedicated and versatile actor on Broadway, in film and on television. His range of roles included a Virginia gentleman planter in Colonial Williamsburg (The Story of a Patriot), CIA agent Felix Leiter in the first James Bond movie (Dr. No) and the title character in the cult classic rodeo TV series Stoney Burke. Lord's career culminated in twelve seasons on Hawaii Five-O, where his creative control of the series left an indelible mark on every aspect of its production. This book, the first to draw on Lord's massive personal archive, gives a behind-the-scenes look into the life and work of a TV legend.

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McFarland

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147666627X

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9781476666273

Cinderella Timkins

By: Sylvia Hawk’sbee

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Cinderella Timkins

By: Sylvia Hawk’sbee

The staircase in Dormec House, a Ministry building, is certainly elegant, but to Arthur Timkins, messenger, one of the quota of variously disabled employees, it is the scene of an encounter that changes his life miraculously. Selected as one of Professor Knowle's guinea-pigs in a pilot trial to enhance intelligence, he is whisked away to a world beyond his wildest dreams. Workers at Matcham Grange, from kitchen staff to the Professor himself, treat Arthur kindly. Everything that puzzled him slowly clears, he is like a man emerging out of thick fog into sunlight. This new life comes to an abrupt end. By the merest chance, Arthur left the Grange before the explosion that kills all his companions: his brief experience of luxury is over. Hunted down by the spies responsible for destroying Matcham Grange, he changes identity with the tramp killed by a bullet intended for him. Grief-stricken and suffering physical hardship, he owes it to the Professor to reach the Ministry, proving there is one guinea-pig left. An outcast from society, after a hard journey, Arthur has to convince headquarters that he is the real Timkins, not a spy impersonating him. The transformed Arthur is taken to Dormec House. The psychiatrist (who had selected him) swears that no one will recognise the down-trodden slow-witted messenger in this handsome, well-heeled executive, but someone does, on that very staircase...

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189

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Austin Macauley Publishers

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1398434248

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9781398434240

A Tacit Alliance

France and Israel from Suez to the Six Day War

By: Sylvia Kowitt Crosbie

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A Tacit Alliance

France and Israel from Suez to the Six Day War

By: Sylvia Kowitt Crosbie

Almost immediately after Israel declared its independence in 1948, it began to benefit from a unique series of scientific and military exchanges with France. These exchanges, arranged for the most part outside normal diplomatic channels, were in conflict with the official pro-Arab position of the French government, and also ran counter to Israel's leanings toward the United States, Britain, and the Commonwealth countries. They thus indicated the beginnings of a "tacit alliance"—a relationship of mutual cooperation and support based on no official government contract. Sylvia Kowitt Crosbie traces the rise of the France-Israel friendship from its informal beginnings through its peak at the time of the Sinai Campaign, the Suez crisis, and the joint Anglo-French invasion of Egypt to its abrupt end in 1967 during the aftermath of the Arab- Israeli June War. The author studies the problem from the standpoint of the interplay of international politics as it affected the Middle East, at the regional level of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and in terms of the domestic politics of the two partners of the alliance. Originally published in 1974. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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Princeton University Press

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1400867959

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9781400867950

An Ecofeminist Perspective on Ash Wednesday and Lent

By: Sylvia A. Sweeney

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An Ecofeminist Perspective on Ash Wednesday and Lent

By: Sylvia A. Sweeney

An Ecofeminist Perspective on Ash Wednesday and Lent develops a conversation between classical historical Lenten practices and contemporary Christian ecofeminism. Building on David Tracy's definition of a religious classic, it includes a historical examination of the development of Lent and the Ash Wednesday rites beginning from wellsprings in the early church traditions of penance, catechumenal preparation, and asceticism through medieval and reformation expressions of the rite to their twentieth-century Episcopal iteration in the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. In the discussion of ecofeminism, women's death experiences and current ecofeminist writings are used to develop an ecofeminist hermeneutic of mortality.

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314

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Peter Lang

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1433107392

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9781433107399

A Concise History of the French Revolution

By: Sylvia Neely

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A Concise History of the French Revolution

By: Sylvia Neely

This concise introduction to the French Revolution explains the origins, development, and eventual decline of a movement that defines France to this day. Through an accessible chronological narrative, Sylvia Neely explains the complex events, conflicting groups, and rapid changes that characterized this critical period in French History. She traces the fundamental transformations in government and society that forced the French to come up with new ways of thinking about their place in the world and led to liberalism, conservatism, terrorism, and modern nationalism. All readers interested in France and revolutionary history will find this a rewarding read."--BOOK JACKET.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0742534103

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9780742534100

Cora

By: Sylvia McDaniel

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Cora

By: Sylvia McDaniel

From USA Today Best Selling author Sylvia McDaniel, a sweet historical Christmas romance. Twin sisters. One secret. A Christmas they’ll never forget. After Cora Weaver kills the man who attacked her twin sister, the two women escape the clutches of Charleston’s law by answering a mail-order bride ad. Fleeing to the rugged frontier town of Angel Creek, Montana, they hope to leave danger behind. But can they outrun their past, or will the noose find them even here? Mack Lawson never expected to lose a bet—and certainly didn’t think it would saddle him with a mail-order bride. After a painful betrayal left his heart scarred, he’s convinced he’ll never love again. When Cora steps off the stagecoach, stunning and secretive, he knows she’s too good for a quiet life in Angel Creek. But there's more to her than beauty, and Mack can't shake the feeling she's hiding something. With Christmas approaching and hearts on the line, will the sisters’ dangerous secret destroy their chance at happiness—or lead to a double wedding in Angel Creek? Return to Angel Creek, where the magic of Christmas brings hope, redemption, and a happily ever after.

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Virtual Bookseller, LLC

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1950858537

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9781950858538

Outsiders

The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

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Outsiders

The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance

By: Sylvia Huot

Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a limit against which the chivalric hero can measure himself. In Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance, Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants allows for fantasies of ethnic and cultural conflict and conquest, and for the presentation—and suppression—of alternative narrative and historical trajectories that might have made Arthurian Britain a very different place. Focusing on medieval French prose romance and drawing on aspects of postcolonial theory, Huot examines the role of giants in constructions of race, class, gender, and human subjectivity. She selects for study the well-known prose Lancelot and the prose Tristan, as well as the lesser known Perceforest, Le Conte du papegau, Guiron le Courtois, and Des Grantz Geants. By asking to what extent views of giants in Arthurian romance respond to questions that concern twenty-first-century readers, Huot demonstrates the usefulness of current theoretical concepts and the issues they raise for rethinking medieval literature from a modern perspective.

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