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EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
220 CE. The once-mighty Han Dynasty lies shattered, replaced by three warring kingdoms locked in a deadly dance of ambition and betrayal. On the sacred slopes of Mount Tai, Lin Wei, the last of the Whispering Wind geomancers, senses the approaching storm. Her power over the earth’s very lifeblood – the dragon veins – is no mere parlor trick; she shapes landscapes, commands rivers, and whispers to fate itself. But her secluded life is about to be uprooted. Cao Pi, the ruthless heir to the Wei kingdom, sees in Lin Wei not a person, but a weapon to forge his empire. He offers protection, resources, a gilded cage. But his gaze, like his advisor Sima Yi's, holds a predatory glint. Sima Yi, ...
A heartwarming story of a widow who rediscovers her distant past, this historical novel centers on Trixie Goforth as she revisits her former life. Trixie and her family are decorating the Christmas tree when she stumbles upon an old ornament and is reminded of a forgotten history. Through her memories, she reveals the sacrifices and compromises she made as a young woman to please her family, and her children discover she had a wild and reckless romantic nature that she had kept hidden for years. In the midst of the Great Depression and World War II, Trixie found warmth, family, and a first love; these cherished memories rewarm her present life, as she learns she may be celebrating her last Christmas.
Takes readers on a journey into the brooding, soulful American South where kudzu-covered hills hide dark family secrets, where souls rest uneasily under the soil of mountainside graveyards, old plantations are still haunted by a lost cause, and a phantom hitchhiker still walks on a moonlit coastal back road.
The first biography of the philosopher who became a mastermind of Allied intelligence in World War Two. Austere, witty, and formidable, J. L. Austin (1911-1960) was the leader of Oxford Ordinary Language Philosophy and the founder of speech-act theory. This book--the first full-length biography of Austin--enhances our understanding of his dominance in 1950s Oxford, examining the significance of his famous Saturday morning seminars, and his sometimes tense relationships with Gilbert Ryle, Isaiah Berlin, A. J. Ayer, and Elizabeth Anscombe. Throwing new light on Austin's own intellectual development, it probes the strengths and weaknesses of his mature philosophy, and reconstructs his late unpu...
It provides the first comprehensive treatment of the Jesuits' poorly understood but remarkable revitalization of German religious art and culture - an accomplishment that would guide the direction of both religious life and subsequent German Baroque art."--BOOK JACKET.
EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.
There is a strong voice in this memoir and one that shows the reader a sense of fun and development, an intellect that spills onto the page with an artistic diction drowned with people and places, pubs and writers, reflections and recordings.--An S
Appalachia in the Classroom contributes to the twenty-first century dialogue about Appalachia by offering topics and teaching strategies that represent the diversity found within the region. Appalachia is a distinctive region with various cultural characteristics that can’t be essentialized or summed up by a single text. Appalachia in the Classroom offers chapters on teaching Appalachian poetry and fiction as well as discussions of nonfiction, films, and folklore. Educators will find teaching strategies that they can readily implement in their own classrooms; they’ll also be inspired to employ creative ways of teaching marginalized voices and to bring those voices to the fore. In the growing national movement toward place-based education, Appalachia in the Classroom offers a critical resource and model for engaging place in various disciplines and at several different levels in a thoughtful and inspiring way. Contributors: Emily Satterwhite, Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt, John C. Inscoe, Erica Abrams Locklear, Jeff Mann, Linda Tate, Tina L. Hanlon, Patricia M. Gantt, Ricky L. Cox, Felicia Mitchell, R. Parks Lanier, Jr., Theresa L. Burriss, Grace Toney Edwards, and Robert M. West.
Sequel to Road to Damascus. DEATH TO USA and DEATH TO ALL AMERICANS were painted in blood on multiple walls in downtown Tehran. The desecrated American fl ag with blood or red paint shocked her and death to the USA meant her among others. It meant all Americans! The poison and evil of the clergy, Mullahs and Immans, were palpable like a paraclete from darkness, like a paraclete from hell. The Mullahs never stopped. They pounded their chest and yelled, Allahu Akbar and death to the USA. Sandra was too young to remember what Germany was like under Hitlers spell. A whole nation could be mesmerized by evil and become evil. Islam was evil! The Mullahs were evil, and Iran was evil. They wore veils and borqas and hovered close. WARNING: Contains violence, profanity, and erotic sex. NOT FOR DUMMIES.