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Editor Erin J. Walter and contributors offer essays, interviews, and resources to revolutionize our understanding of ministry by lifting up the rich diversity of community ministries.
Community ministry is the fastest growing type of ministry in Unitarian Universalism and many ministers serve in some combination of parish and community work. But what is community ministry? It's not often clearly understood, and nonprofit work, justice movement leadership,...
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In this remarkable collection, 22 writers describe suicidal despair or mania-or coming to terms with a generational legacy of mental illness. Into Sanity includes personal essays by contributors from all over the United States and a preface by Mark Vonnegut, who judged the contest at Talking Writing magazine that sparked these true stories.
The media has paid more attention to suicide risks and depression in recent years, especially after the death...
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This book is the result of what happened when Liz Byrski asked 20 women from widely different backgrounds, races, beliefs and identities to take up the challenge of writing about rage.
The honesty, passion, courage and humour of their very personal stories is engergising and inspiring. If you have ever felt the full force of anger and wondered at its power, then this book is for you.
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This unorthodox but delightful anthology of 42 essays focuses on the masters of world literature-writers best known for novels, plays, and poems-and how they put the essay to their personal use. Contributors include Auden, Balzac, Conrad, Dickens, Dostoevski, Eliot, Faulkner, Flaubert, Gide, Goethe, Hardy, Hawthorne, Heine, Hemingway, Kafka, Kipling, Lawrence, Melville, Pirandello, Poe, Proust, Sartre, Tolstoy, Twain, Whitman, Wilde, Woolf, and Yeats....
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After Shock marks the 50-year anniversary of Alvin Toffler's, Future Shock. The compendium of essays comprising this landmark volume offers insightful reflections on the classic text and presents compelling and surprising views of the future-through the very unique lenses of more than 100 of the world's foremost futurists, including David Brin, Po Bronson, Sanjiv Chopra, George Gilder, Newt Gingrich, Alan Kay, Ray Kurzweil, Jane McGonigal, Lord Martin...
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Creativity is power
Sunspot seeks out diverse fiction, poetry, nonfiction, photography and art from around the world.
This year, discover Malick Ceesay's play, "a mascu-poem," which rivals the opera, Fire Shut Up in My Bones by Charles M. Blow, for emotional impact. Peter Newall plays words like notes in "Konrad's Bukovina Khosidl," while Jana Harris probes themes of gender, class, and art in and around 19th Century Paris with three poems from The...
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Great Britain is changing, and so is Europe. The aim of this book, therefore, is to reflect upon the processes of (re)creation of art and literature within and against the backdrop of the shifting paradigms of the world as we know it. At a time, when the political relations between Great Britain, Europe and the rest of the world are being redefined, this book examines the (de)construction of modern identities through the (de)codification of classical...
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For history and nature fans
• Theodore Roosevelt is one of the most beloved U.S. presidents of all time.
• Handsomely designed with more than 40 illustrations and photographs.
• A nice gift for history buffs and naturalists.
In addition to being a politician, frontiersman, and rancher, Roosevelt was an enthusiastic hunter who fought passionately for conservation. He played a significant role in setting aside land for the national parks. He...
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Fully-illustrated, The Passenger collects the best new writing, photography, art and reportage from around the world.
IN THIS VOLUME: The Sea Between Lands by David Abulalfia; The Liquid Road by Leïla Slimani; The Cold One, the Hot One, the Mad One, and the Angry One by Nick Hunt • plus: the sounds and smells of the Mediterranean; the ceaseless hunt for tuna; the invention of the Mediterranean diet; and much more…
The word "Mediterranean"...
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"One Green Field" contains a collection of essays on nature and its appreciation by a variety of notable authors including John Burroughs, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and more. Contents include: "Nature, by Ralph Waldo Emerson", "Walking, by Henry David Thoreau", "Reading the Book of Nature, by John Burroughs", "A Geologist's Winter Walk, by John Muir", "On the Indifference of Nature, by Alfred George Gardiner", "How to Observe Nature,...
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Travel never goes quite like, we expect. Planes are late, maps are misread and unexpected detours are, made. When this happens, the twisting roads of travel can lead to adventures we never imagined - and lessons we never expected to learn. Sometimes, if we're lucky, we cross paths with people who show us life from a different angle or provide kindness when it's needed most. Those we meet while traveling can change our journey, our experiences or even...
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Axios's Essence of... Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one.
This newest volume in the series is dedicated to David Hume who is ranked as one of the greatest Western philosophers and economists. You will find three main sections on Hume (Religion, Morals, and Economics) as well as a section...
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What would the father of the Constitution think of contemporary developments in American politics and public policy?
Constitutional scholars have long debated whether the American political system, which was so influenced by the thinking of James Madison, has in fact grown outmoded. But if Madison himself could peer at the present, what would he think of the state of key political institutions that he helped originate and the government policies that...
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Like their human friends, dogs come in all shapes, sizes, and colors. Some are smart, like Ma-Buku, a five-pound Chihuahua who squeaks her toy in perfect time with her owners drums. Some refuse to adhere to dog clichés, like four-year-old Elmer, who loves to chase a tennis ball but refuses to pick it up and bring it back, or six-year-old Barnabas, who can't be bothered to chase cats but will bark vehemently at the wind. There are pretty dogs, heroic...
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This vintage book contains a collection of fascinating articles on the subject of hunting. They cover a variety of interesting subjects ranging from economics and agriculture to ethics and cruelty, and are highly recommended for modern huntsmen and those with an interest in the sport. Contents include: "The Cruelty of Sport", "Shooting", "Hare-Hunting and Otter-Hunting", "Spurious Sports", "The Ethics of Sport", "Sport and Agriculture", "Pheasant...
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For the past twenty years, Martin Marty and the editors of Sightings, a digital publication of the University of Chicago Divinity School's Martin Marty Center, have published informed, accessible, and witty commentary on religion in current events. Featuring more than seventy authors-including Marty himself, Eboo Patel, and Krista Tippett-this book collects one hundred of the best essays that originally appeared in Sightings.
Religion in public life...
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Un hommage à la longévité des Editions Slatkine!
Chers lecteurs,
Slatkine fête en cette année 2018 ses cent ans! Cent ans de livres à Genève, quatre générations au service du livre. À l'heure d'Amazon et de l'électronique, une telle longévité mérite d'être soulignée. De l'enseigne de la rue des Chaudronniers au Café Slatkine, de l'impression de reprints à l'édition, de la diffusion-distribution à la création de Slatkine & Cie,...
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"Hours From the Night" is a fantastic collection of classic essays by a variety of famous writers all connected through a common theme: night time. Including essays from such prolific writers as Charles Dickens and Andrew Lang, this collection will appeal to night owls and literature lovers with a penchant for the nocturnal.
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"Night Walks, by Charles Dickens", "Night and Moonlight, by Henry David Thoreau", "On Lying Awake at Night,...
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In recent years a noticeable trend toward harmonizing the distinct worldviews of science and religion has become increasingly popular. Despite marked public interest, many leading scientists remain skeptical that there is much common ground between scientific knowledge and religious belief. Indeed, they are often antagonistic. Can an accommodation be reached after centuries of conflict?
In this stimulating collection of articles on the subject, Paul...
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