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Gardening with Biblical Plants

Handbook for the Home Gardener

By: Wilma Roberts James

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Gardening with Biblical Plants

Handbook for the Home Gardener

By: Wilma Roberts James

Date palm and almond tree, cypress and pomegranate, wheat and cucumbers: these are just a few of the familiar plants mentioned in the Holy Bible. Shrubs, trees, vines, flowers, and food-bearing plants appear throughout the pages of the Scriptures, often used to emphasize a message in a Bible story. Now the gardener in the city or the countryside can become better acquainted with these very special plants by growing and tending them. Gardening with Biblical Plants, by Wilma James, is a complete guide to Scriptural plants and how and where to grow them. "Whether you garden indoors or out, you experience a sense of God's presence while working with plants that kept company with biblical people and become more aware of the important role plants played in the stories of the Scriptures," writes Ms. James. Gardening with Biblical Plants covers over 100 trees, shrubs, herbs, spices, water plants, flowers, and food plants. Ms. James prefaces her instructions for growing each plant with a discussion of habitats, the purpose it served in the Bible, and ways the plant was valued in biblical times. Bible verse that mention each plant are specified, and one verse is directly quoted. In addition to instructions for growing biblical plants indoors or out, Ms. James offers ideas for groupings in keeping with the Scriptures. Carefully prepared line drawings, by Arla Lippsmeyer, aid in identification. Experienced and beginning gardeners alike will not only find that Gardening with Biblical Plants enhances their appreciation of God's Word, but also provides concrete help in planting.

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Rowman & Littlefield

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0830410090

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9780830410095

The Town, The Woman, The Cemetery

By: Wilma Thomason

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The Town, The Woman, The Cemetery

By: Wilma Thomason

If your interest lies in the history of small town living (especially the small town of Palestine, Arkansas), a narrative historical version of the birth, growth, and development of the town with chronological data, and testimonials of a number of its residents, then this book is for you. With it comes a story about a homeless woman who spent her life working in the homes of others for nothing more than food to eat and a bed to sleep in. She never received any money for her services. This woman never once traveled outside the Arkansas Delta and one whose final resting place has been at the Bell Cemetery since November 3, 1973. In addition, the book also contains an alphabetical listing of the people buried at the Palestine Bell Cemetery from 1800 to May 31, 2017. Why write about a woman who died over forty years ago, one might ask. And the answer would be: “Every life has a story and every story has a life regardless of how simple it might be!” Some of the world’s greatest people were typically known only by a “few” within the town they lived—and not commonly known outside of it. That was Jesus’ story too.

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372

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Dog Ear Publishing

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1457557118

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9781457557118

Stolen Childhood

Slave Youth in Nineteenth-century America

By: Wilma King

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Stolen Childhood

Slave Youth in Nineteenth-century America

By: Wilma King

King provides a jarring snapshot of children living in bondage. This compellingly written work is a testament to the strength and resilience of the children and their parents".--"Booklist". "King's deeply researched, well-written, passionate study places children and young adults at center stage in the North American slave experience".--"Choice". 16 photos.

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Indiana University Press

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0253211867

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9780253211866

To Walk in Their Footsteps

Coming to Canada

By: Wilma H. Lewis

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To Walk in Their Footsteps

Coming to Canada

By: Wilma H. Lewis

Back in the 1960's tracing your Family Tree was just becoming an interesting hobby. Now, like a lazy little babbling stream merrily following the course of time, that stream has metamorphosed into a huge, directed waterfall and on to an almost out of control flood of family information. Between tracing records, having DNA tested, and the ever-increasing boundaries the Internet is providing, connecting with family one never even realized existed forty years ago, has become an absorbing, interesting avocation for everybody from school children to Seniors. Our family alone has over 14,000 leaves growing on one tree or another in such diverse places as England, Wales, Scandinavian Countries, Finland, USA and Canada. All of us looking to be connected to one another. One never knows where or when that connection may happen. It's just not the data that's important. Was that first traveller a thoughtful, directed man who only wanted a better life for himself and his family? Was he a rogue looking for a fast way out of town to places he would never be found? Did he leave because he was in trouble with the local constabulary, or was he looking for religious freedom? What about the women? Why did they come? What were their thoughts? What was in it for them? When you find the stories, they are fascinating! Our thirst for knowledge of these people is insatiable! Whether or not you are a leaf on one of our orchard of trees you may find a graft that will lead you to another branch where another leaf has been joined to one of our own. Come. Learn about us. Learn about yourself.

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FriesenPress

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1525545639

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9781525545634

The Essence of Liberty

Free Black Women During the Slave Era

By: Wilma King

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The Essence of Liberty

Free Black Women During the Slave Era

By: Wilma King

Before 1865, slavery and freedom coexisted tenuously in America in an environment that made it possible not only for enslaved women to become free but also for emancipated women to suddenly lose their independence. Wilma King now examines a wide-ranging body of literature to show that, even in the face of economic deprivation and draconian legislation, many free black women were able to maintain some form of autonomy and lead meaningful lives. The Essence of Liberty blends social, political, and economic history to analyze black women's experience in both the North and the South, from the colonial period through emancipation. Focusing on class and familial relationships, King examines the myriad sources of freedom for black women to show the many factors that, along with time spent in slavery before emancipation, shaped the meaning of freedom. Her book also raises questions about whether free women were bound to or liberated from gender conventions of their day. Drawing on a wealth of untapped primary sources--not only legal documents and newspapers but also the diaries, letters, and autobiographical writings of free women--King opens a new window on the world of black women. She examines how they became free, educated themselves, found jobs, maintained self-esteem, and developed social consciousness--even participating in the abolitionist movement. She considers the stance of southern free women toward their enslaved contemporaries and the interactions between previously free and newly freed women after slavery ended. She also looks closely at women's spirituality, disclosing the dilemma some women faced when they took a stand against men--even black men--in order to follow their spiritual callings. Throughout this engaging history, King underscores the pernicious constraints that racism placed on the lives of free blacks in spite of the fact that they were not enslaved. The Essence of Liberty shows the importance of studying these women on their own terms, revealing that the essence of freedom is more complex than the mere absence of shackles.

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311

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University of Missouri Press

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0826265278

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9780826265272

The Sumner Story

Capturing Our History Preserving Our Legacy

By: Wilma F. Bonner

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The Sumner Story

Capturing Our History Preserving Our Legacy

By: Wilma F. Bonner

For the first three quarters of the twentieth century, in the heart of our nation, there thrived a safe haven which nurtured great aspirations of thousands of African American youth and their families. “The Sumner Story” highlights the history of a segregated high school which became recognized for the stellar academic performance of its students. Highly qualified faculty who believed in the students’ ability to achieve prepared them for a world of competition, hard knocks, compromises and closed doors. The story also denotes and illuminates outstanding career successes of alumni. In a socially and economically segregated nation, black students who had a “Sumner-like” experience were very fortunate because their schools served as clear windows and powerful springboards to promising possibilities. In this regard, nine other segregated high schools are reviewed. Insights can be gained from this story on how to resolve the plight of low-performing schools in socially and economically disadvantaged communities.

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214

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Morgan James Publishing

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1600377823

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9781600377822

Back Yonder

By: Wilma Daniel Stockton

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Back Yonder

By: Wilma Daniel Stockton

A snapshot of a different era, Wilma tells the story of her life as the daughter of a sharecropper and preacher in the 30s and 40s. The story follows her through marriage, travels to Africa, and the loss of two children. Along the way she includes many stories from family history as told by her siblings and other relatives. Also included is a selection of poetry and prose written by several different family members. A wider selection of poetry by Juantia Willodean Daniel Stockton: ""I Remember: Poems About Life,"" is available on Lulu.com. Wilma also collected the family history with different genealogy charts and family trees tracing the family back as far as 1692. A few family photos are also included in this collection, but due to the quality of the original images they have not held up well in publishing.

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344

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Lulu.com

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1365489469

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9781365489464

Stolen Childhood, Second Edition

Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Wilma King

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Stolen Childhood, Second Edition

Slave Youth in Nineteenth-Century America

By: Wilma King

One of the most important books published on slave society, Stolen Childhood focuses on the millions of children and youth enslaved in 19th-century America. This enlarged and revised edition reflects the abundance of new scholarship on slavery that has emerged in the 15 years since the first edition. While the structure of the book remains the same, Wilma King has expanded its scope to include the international dimension with a new chapter on the transatlantic trade in African children, and the book's geographic boundaries now embrace slave-born children in the North. She includes data about children owned by Native Americans and African Americans, and presents new information about children's knowledge of and participation in the abolitionist movement and the interactions between enslaved and free children.

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542

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Indiana University Press

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0253222648

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9780253222640

The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History

By: Wilma Mankiller

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The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History

By: Wilma Mankiller

Covers issues and events in women's history that were previously unpublished, misplaced, or forgotten, and provides new perspectives on each event.

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724

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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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0618001824

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9780618001828

The First American Frontier

Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860

By: Wilma A. Dunaway

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The First American Frontier

Transition to Capitalism in Southern Appalachia, 1700-1860

By: Wilma A. Dunaway

In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy. Drawing on data from 215 counties in nine states from 1700 to 1860, she argues that capitalist exchange and production came to the region much earlier than has been previously thought. Her innovative book is the first regional history of antebellum Southern Appalachia and the first study to apply world-systems theory to the development of the American frontier. Dunaway demonstrates that Europeans established significant trade relations with Native Americans in the southern mountains and thereby incorporated the region into the world economy as early as the seventeenth century. In addition to the much-studied fur trade, she explores various other forces of change, including government policy, absentee speculation in the region's natural resources, the emergence of towns, and the influence of local elites. Contrary to the myth of a homogeneous society composed mainly of subsistence homesteaders, Dunaway finds that many Appalachian landowners generated market surpluses by exploiting a large landless labor force, including slaves. In delineating these complexities of economy and labor in the region, Dunaway provides a perceptive critique of Appalachian exceptionalism and development.

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Univ of North Carolina Press

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0807861170

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9780807861172

Slavery in the American Mountain South

By: Wilma A. Dunaway

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Slavery in the American Mountain South

By: Wilma A. Dunaway

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Cambridge University Press

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0521012155

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9780521012157

Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning

An Autoethnographic Inquiry

By: Wilma Fraser

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Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning

An Autoethnographic Inquiry

By: Wilma Fraser

This book concerns the pursuit of wisdom in education, and the argument that wisdom – personified here as Sophia – is tragically marginalised or absent in current Western epistemological discourses. It includes a review of key historical and classical framings which have lost much potency and relevance as certain cultural narratives hold sway; these include the reductionist, technicist and highly instrumentalist discourses which shape the articulation and delivery of much education policy and practice, whilst reflecting similar troubling framings from broader neoliberal perspectives. Fraser argues that wisdom’s marginalisation has had, and continues to have, profoundly deleterious consequences for our educative practices. Through a compelling combination of narrative and autoethnographic techniques, while also drawing on philosophical and cultural traditions, the book pushes at the boundaries of emerging knowledge, including how knowledge is generated. It will be of interest to those who facilitate the learning of adults in a variety of settings as well as to students and supervisors seeking exemplars and 'justification' for working in non-traditional ways.

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239

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Springer

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1137562951

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9781137562951

Mankiller

A Chief and Her People

By: Wilma Mankiller,Michael Wallis

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A Chief and Her People

By: Wilma Mankiller,Michael Wallis

An autobiography by the principal chief of the Cherokee Nation"--Cover.

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Macmillan

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0312206623

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9780312206628

Lamentations, Song of Songs

By: Wilma Bailey,Christina Bucher

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Lamentations, Song of Songs

By: Wilma Bailey,Christina Bucher

Lamentations, Song of Songs by Wilma Ann Bailey and Christina Bucher covers the full emotional register of biblical literature: from the anguished sorrow songs of ancient Israel to the passionate, lyric poems of lovers. Wilma Bailey plumbs the interpretive depths of Lamentations, including questions about authorship, images of God, and depiction of a community’s response to exile and its development of an identity in the wake of catastrophe. Christina Bucher then offers multiple perspectives on the Song of Songs and its imagery, characters, and allegorical and literal interpretations by readers and communities across the centuries. Both scholars build sturdy theological scaffolding to help lay readers, pastors, and scholars understand and apply the wisdom contained by these Hebrew writings of desire and exile, love and lament. Volume 27 in the BCBC series About Believers Church Bible Commentary Series Accessible to lay readers, useful in preaching and pastoral care, helpful for Bible study groups and Sunday school teachers, and academically sound, the Believers Church Bible Commentary Series foregrounds an Anabaptist reading of Scripture. Published for all who seek more fully to understand the original message of Scripture and its meaning for today, the series is based on the conviction that God is still speaking to all who will listen, and that the Holy Spirit makes the Word a living and authoritative guide for all who want to know and do God’s will.

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MennoMedia, Inc.

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0836199782

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9780836199789

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Gardening with Biblical Plants

Gardening with Biblical Plants

The Town, The Woman, The Cemetery

The Town, The Woman, The Cemetery

Stolen Childhood

Stolen Childhood

To Walk in Their Footsteps

To Walk in Their Footsteps

The Essence of Liberty

The Essence of Liberty

The Sumner Story

The Sumner Story

Back Yonder

Back Yonder

Stolen Childhood, Second Edition

Stolen Childhood, Second Edition

The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History

The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History

The First American Frontier

The First American Frontier

Slavery in the American Mountain South

Slavery in the American Mountain South

Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning

Seeking Wisdom in Adult Teaching and Learning

Mankiller

Mankiller

Lamentations, Song of Songs

Lamentations, Song of Songs

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