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Mending the Soul
This book provides a well-researched biblical and scientific overview of abuse. A broad overview, it deals with the various types of abuse, the various effects of abuse, and the means of healing. Abuse can be sexual, physical, neglect, spiritual, and verbal. The chief arguments pursued throughout the book are: (1) abuse is far more rampant than most Christians realize, but due to human depravity and satanic influence, widespread abuse is predicable. (2) All types of abuse create profound, long-term soul damage due to the way abuse perverts various aspects of the image of God. (3) God is the healing redeemer. Human salvation came through horrible physical abuse. (4) Healing must take place in...
Langston Hughes and the Blues
The shades and structures of the blues had an immense impact on the poetry of Langston Hughes. Steven C. Tracy provides a cultural context for Hughes’s work while revealing how Hughes mined Black oral and literary traditions to create his poetry. Comparing Hughes’s poems to blues texts, Tracy reveals how Hughes’s experimental forms reflect the poetics, structures, rhythms, and musical techniques of the music. Tracy also offers a discography of recordings by the artists--Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Blind Lemon Jefferson, and others--who most influenced the poet.
Ping-Pong
Many people remember their college days as the most exciting time in their life. Perhaps they had an inspiring professor who helped them think about something in creative ways. It's possible that they made friends who became their best friends for life. Some might have found the love of their life, a soulmate. Of course, life is not only filled with happiness and joy. There could be heartaches and troubling experiences as well. Some people come out of college and absolutely hate it. No one can deny, however, that college is filled with experiences that will be remembered for a long time. This play examines college life through the eyes of college students. The protagonists, Steven and Alvin, search for love and meaning in life. In their quest, they experience joy and sadness. In twists and turns that characterize the whole play, the reader certainly will be entertained. But the play will provide opportunities for empathy and reflection as well. Identify with the characters and serve the ping-pong balls of life with them as you read this exciting play. And many happy returns!
Explore Premier Edition
Explore is a self-guided journal for men and women who have survived difficult childhoods. Through the medium of water-color, it prompts and supports creative expression, deepening the reader's self-awareness and connection with God and others. Explore offers a gentle path from pain to understanding and transformation, nudging the reader towards self-compassion and hope.
Caring for the Vulnerable Child
The Vulnerable Child Model is a four-piece curricula that integrates biblical principles with social science data on the effects of abandonment, abuse and loss on developing children. Caring for the Vulnerable Child: Welcoming Children Who Have Experienced Neglect, Abandonment and Abuse is the foundational resource fora ten-module connecting sequence that includes educational lesson plans (grades 1-3 and grades 4-6) and workbooks for both childrenand parents. These resources address difficult issues and behaviors vulnerable children struggle with: nightmares, anger, defiance, distrust, dishonesty and anxiety.This book is designed to be utilized within multiple contexts to facilitate deeper connections between vulnerable children andthe adults who love them: in churches as class curriculum, in organizations for staff trainings,in counselor offices as a supplemental resource, and in the home as a parenting guide.
Coxsackieviruses
It is now just 40 years since coxsackieviruses were first isolated by Dalldorf and Sickles in the "eponymous" town of Coxsackie, New York. Yet the overall contribution of coxsackieviruses to clinically evident dis ease of humans is still largely an open problem. Following their discov ery, coxsackieviruses were under intense clinical and laboratory scrutiny for a long time. Because of their relationship to polioviruses, the under standing of their structure, biochemistry, biology, and epidemiology ad vanced rapidly as a result of the formidable efforts that eventually led to the defeat of poliomyelitis. The ability of these viruses to infect mice permitted dissection of their pathogenicity i...
Langston Hughes
Poet, playwright, novelist, and public figure, Langston Hughes is regarded as a cultural hero who made his mark during the Harlem Renaissance. A prolific author, Hughes focused his writing on discrimination in and disillusionment with American society. His most noted works include the novel ""Not Without Laughter"", the poem ""The Negro Speaks of Rivers,"" and the essay ""The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"", to name just a few. ""Langston Hughes, New Edition"" features compelling critical essays that create a well-rounded portrait of this great American writer. An introductory essay by Harold Bloom and a chronology tracing the major events in Hughes' life add further depth to this newly updated study tool.
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance
Writers of the Black Chicago Renaissance comprehensively explores the contours and content of the Black Chicago Renaissance, a creative movement that emerged from the crucible of rigid segregation in Chicago's "Black Belt" from the 1930s through the 1960s. Heavily influenced by the Harlem Renaissance and the Chicago Renaissance of white writers, its participants were invested in political activism and social change as much as literature, art, and aesthetics. The revolutionary writing of this era produced some of the first great accolades for African American literature and set up much of the important writing that came to fruition in the Black Arts Movement. The volume covers a vast collecti...
Dishonoured and Unheard: Christian Women and Domestic Violence
It is not easy for Christian women experiencing domestic abuse to find well informed and safe spiritual care. However, in this book these women, along with pastors, counsellors, theology students, and friends will find guidance grounded in scripture. Forgiveness, marriage as a covenant, headship, and submission are explored. Drawing from women's stories, researchers, and biblical scholars this book offers a compassionate response to Christian women living with and recovering from domestic violence.
Going to Cincinnati
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