Welcome to our book review site go-pdf.online!
You may have to Search all our reviewed books and magazines, click the sign up button below to create a free account.
Born Missionary: The Islay Walden Story
In 1879, Islay Walden, born enslaved and visually impaired, returned to North Carolina after a twelve-year odyssey in search of an education. It was a journey that would take him from emancipation in Randolph County, North Carolina to Washington, D. C., where he earned a teaching degree from Howard University, then to the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, in New Brunswick, New Jersey. Along the way, he would publish two volumes of poetry and found two schools for African American children. Now ordained, he would return to his home community, where he founded two Congregational churches and common schools. Despite an early death at age forty, he would leave an educational and spiritual legacy that endures to this day. Born Missionary uses Walden's own words as well as newspaper reports and church publications to follow his journey from enslavement to teacher, ordained minister, missionary, and community leader.
Miles Lassiter (Circa 1777-1850)
Although antebellum African Americans were sometimes allowed to attend Quaker meetings, they were almost never admitted to full meeting membership, as was Miles Lassiter. His story illuminates the unfolding of the 19th-century color line into the 20th. Margo Williams had only a handful of stories and a few names her mother remembered from her childhood about her family's home in Asheboro, North Carolina. Her research would soon help her to make contact with long lost relatives and a pilgrimage "home" with her mother in 1982. Little did she know she would discover a large loving family and a Quaker ancestor -- a Black Quaker ancestor. -- Publisher's description.
From Hill Town to Strieby
When former slave, Islay Walden returned to Southwestern Randolph County, North Carolina in 1879, after graduating from the New Brunswick Theological Seminary, as an ordained minister and missionary of the American Missionary Association, he moved in with his sister and her family in a secluded area in the Uwharrie Mountains, not far from the Lassiter Mill community along the Uwharrie River. Walden was sent to start a church and school for the African American community. When the church and school were begun this was, not surprisingly, a largely illiterate community of primarily Hill family members. The Hill family in this mountain community was so large, it was known as "Hill Town." The nea...
True Wealth Starts in the Mind: Whatever Man Puts His Mind On, it Will Not be Denied Him
How you do anything is how you do everything. The principles shared in this book can be used in many areas of your life, Spiritual, Mental, Physical, Social/Relational and Financial. Allow each chapter to impact and move your life from bad to good or good to great. Use the principles to move you from Vision to Reality, bringing you closer to the person you wish to become. The writers in this book share the key elements that impacted their lives in multiple areas creating a shift. A made-up mind is a powerful weapon, it can tear down walls or build them up. You decide. True Wealth Starts in the Mind.Contributing authors: Rene' Turner, Lee Williams, Margo Williams, Tony Stephens, Collis Temple III, Joseph Ward, Joyclen Prevost, Kristopher Aaron, Dr. Tasheka L. Greem, Robert Davis, Chauvon Landry, Sedrick Thomas, Terrill Knighton, Michael Evans, Regina Evans, William Orender, Larry Weidel, Angie Reed-Hogans.
The Two Thousand Yard Stare
"El Paso artist Tom Lea was commissioned by Life Magazine to paint the war as it was being experienced by U.S. and Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen. Along with his sketchbook, Lea carried on these assignments his "record of work", a notebook in which he recorded observations and details on the images he hoped to create from the events he had seen." "Brendan M. Greeley, Jr. has collected virtually all of Tom Lea's firsthand accounts of his assignments for Life, along with his powerful sketches and unforgettable paintings, and placed them in context, along with photographs and research focusing on the people, places, and wartime events encountered by Tom Lea. Drawing on previously unpublis...
Margo
American theatre pioneer Margo Jones established the first modern professional resident theatre in the U.S. in Dallas in 1947--the model for more than 450 such theatres in the country today. Margo was mentor to playwrights William Inge, Horton Foote, Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee, as well as Tennessee Williams, whose The Glass Menagerie she co-directed in its first Broadway production.
Mud Sweeter than Honey
"[An] incredibly moving collection of oral histories . . . important enough to be added to the history curriculum" Telegraph "A moving evocation of the 'everyday terror' systematically perpetrated over 41 years of Albanian communism . . . An illuminating if harrowing insight into life in a totalitarian state." Clarissa de Waal, author of ALBANIA: PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY IN TRANSITION "Albania, enigmatic, mysterious Albania, was always the untold story of the Cold War, the 1989 revolutions and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Mud Sweeter Than Honey goes a very long way indeed towards putting that right" New European After breaking ties with Yugoslavia, the USSR and then China, Enver Hoxha believed ...
Das Ist Deutsch - A Photocopiable German Scheme for Primary Schools
Das ist Deutsch! contains everything you need to start teaching German to primary pupils, even if your own knowledge of the language is rather rusty. The book contains lesson plans, giving learning objectives, resources needed, activities, extensions and key words. The accompanying photocopiable pupil sheets provide practice and reinforcement. The scheme is flexible, so you can progress at whatever speed you like. It can be used during school hours, or for German clubs. There are 18 units in total, each teaching a grammar point and introducing related vocabulary. Clear links are made to other curriculum areas, in particular literacy, numeracy and information technology.
Race and Racism in Theory and Practice
This collection of original essays by scholars from a diverse range of fields, examines issues of race in a variety of historical and geographical settings, ranging from classical Greece to the contemporary Americas, Europe and Asia. The authors provide an important perspective on race both in its theoretical origins and in its actual appearances while paying close attention to the ways in which the study of race itself has been carried on or ignored by various disciplines.
Miracles of Our Own Making
A bewitching and authoritative historical overview of magic in the British Isles, from the ancient peoples of Britain to the rich and cosmopolitan landscape of contemporary paganism. “An absolute must for anyone interested in the development of paganism in the modern world. I cannot recommend this book enough.”—Janet Farrar, coauthor of A Witches’ Bible “At last, we have a history of British Paganism written from the inside, by somebody who not only has a good knowledge of the sources, but explicitly understands how Pagans and magicians think.”—Ronald Hutton, author of The Triumph of the Moon and The Witch What do we mean by “paganism”—druids, witches, and occult rituals?...
