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Book Our Daily Moments

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Kuykendall
  • Publisher : WestBow Press
  • Release : 2018-02-28
  • ISBN : 1973617617
  • Pages : 540 pages

Download or read book Our Daily Moments written by Nancy Kuykendall and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Daily Moments is about daily moments and experiences that occur and how they affect us. A short but poignant experience can happen very quickly. These experiences can change us in an instant. We humans are emotional beings. Even the most stable and disciplined among us can be knocked off-balance. Our emotions and attitudes can be altered in just seconds. We are all susceptible to the many life experiences that enter our day. We are affected, consciously or subconsciously. Every moment of time is part of our life. All that we call good or bad can be used by God to teach us and to know him more. God wastes nothing.

Book Understanding Politeness

Download or read book Understanding Politeness written by Dániel Z. Kádár and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politeness is key to all of our relationships and plays a fundamental part in the way we communicate with each other and the way we define ourselves. It is not limited only to conventional aspects of linguistic etiquette, but encompasses all types of interpersonal behaviour through which we explore and maintain our relationships. This groundbreaking exploration navigates the reader through this fascinating area and introduces them to a variety of new insights. The book is divided into three parts and is based on an innovative framework which relies on the concepts of social practice, time and space. In this multidisciplinary approach, the authors capture a range of user and observer understandings and provide a variety of examples from different languages and cultures. With its reader-friendly style, carefully constructed exercises and useful glossary, Understanding Politeness will be welcomed by both researchers and postgraduate students working on politeness, pragmatics and sociolinguistics more broadly.

Book Lone Star

    Book Details:
  • Author : Josh Lanyon
  • Publisher : Carina Press
  • Release : 2011-12-05
  • ISBN : 1426892802
  • Pages : 113 pages

Download or read book Lone Star written by Josh Lanyon and published by Carina Press. This book was released on 2011-12-05 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christmas brings the gift of a second chance at love for a Texas Ranger and his handsome ex in this smalltown romance novella. Growing up in rural Texas, Mitchell Evans’s ambition to be a dancer made him a target. Though he found success in New York City, Mitch is at a crossroads and heads home for the first time in twelve years to figure things out. When what appears to be a reindeer jumps out in front of his car, he drives off the road and into the path of the one man he hoped to avoid. The last person Texas Ranger Web Eisley expects to see four days before Christmas is his first love. He hasn’t seen Mitch since they quarreled over coming out to their friends and family years ago. Though he’s not in the closet now, Web has worked hard for the respect of his fellow officers, but he still regrets the loss of Mitch in his life. And his bed. The attraction between them is as strong as ever, and it doesn’t take long for the men to pick up where they left off. But is love enough to keep Mitch in town in the New Year?

Book New Rules

    Book Details:
  • Author : Bill Maher
  • Publisher : Rodale
  • Release : 2005-07-26
  • ISBN : 9781594862953
  • Pages : 248 pages

Download or read book New Rules written by Bill Maher and published by Rodale. This book was released on 2005-07-26 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The comedian host of Politically Incorrect draws on previously written material and the "New Rules" segments of his popular cable show, Real Time, to consider such topics as cell phones, fast food, and the agendas of conservative government figures. 250,000 first printing.

Book Bremmand Lives

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cate Caruth
  • Publisher : Lulu.com
  • Release : 2009-08-14
  • ISBN : 1409282058
  • Pages : 318 pages

Download or read book Bremmand Lives written by Cate Caruth and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-08-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lives touch one another and the past influences the future Bremmand Lives is a collection of shorts stories spanning five years and describing events and people who feature (sometimes greatly, sometimes fleetingly) in the Bremmand Chronicles

Book The Amish Turns of Time Trilogy

Download or read book The Amish Turns of Time Trilogy written by Olivia Newport and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 1103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Olivia Newport’s acclaimed Amish historicals now under one cover! Three riveting novels set in the 1910s take readers through pivotal historical events in the lives of Amish from three key communities Wonderful Lonesome In a struggling Amish settlement on the harsh Colorado plain, Abbie Weaver refuses to concede defeat to hail, drought, and coyotes. When she discovers the root of her Amish church’s spiritual divide, she must choose between a quiet love in her cherished church, passion with a man determined to leave the church, or imagining her life with neither. Meek and Mild Clara and Andrew belong to a strict Old Order Amish community in Pennsylvania, but their consciences are leading them to make progressive choices—Clara by teaching Bible stories to children and Andrew by owning a car. What choice will their friends and family have but to shun them? Brightest and Best The collapse of a one-room schoolhouse leads to state-mandated changes in the education of Ohio’s Amish children. But when the government finally approves a separate Amish school, Ella Hilty is asked to teach, and she must choose between her heart’s dream of marriage and answering the call to do what is best for her community.

Book Matching and Dispatching

    Book Details:
  • Author : James O. Chatham
  • Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • Release : 2011-12-23
  • ISBN : 1610978714
  • Pages : 167 pages

Download or read book Matching and Dispatching written by James O. Chatham and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes you "behind the scenes" of the weddings and funerals you attend to show the not-so-visible side of what occurs. The picture can be marvelously heroic, deeply inspiring, fun, hilarious, tragic, angering, or disgustingly pathetic. The one thing certain is that you will see a comprehensive portrait of the human condition, the assorted things we people do when we marry and bury one another. We are at our best and our worst, and we reveal it clearly. The purpose of Matching and Dispatching is to entertain and provide enjoyment, but also to show a rich, usually hidden side of the pastor's world, the pastor being the chief architect behind weddings and funerals. To this end, Jim Chatham has drawn from his four decades of experience as a Presbyterian pastor.

Book Bread   Butter

    Book Details:
  • Author : Erin McKenna
  • Publisher : Clarkson Potter
  • Release : 2015-03-17
  • ISBN : 0804137226
  • Pages : 162 pages

Download or read book Bread Butter written by Erin McKenna and published by Clarkson Potter. This book was released on 2015-03-17 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At long last, the holy grail of gluten-free vegan baking: airy, light, and tender breads, from Erin McKenna, founder of BabyCakes NYC and Erin McKenna's Bakery NYC and the visionary who also cracked the code of vegan frosting For two decades, a gluten sensitivity forced Erin McKenna to ignore the bread basket that accompanies dinner at her favorite restaurants. Brunch was even worse: flaky croissants, biscuits, bagels . . . As an act of self-preservation, she tried to pretend they didn’t exist. After pioneering vegan and gluten-free dessert baking at her beloved bicoastal bakery, Erin set about righting this wrong, tackling the beautiful treats in those forbidden bread baskets. The result is all the savory bread a gluten-free vegan guy or gal could want and more, including English Muffins, Cinnamon Raisin Bread, Sweet Potato Sage Rolls, Pizza Dough, Corn Tortillas, Puff Pastry Dough, Pretzels, Scallion Pancakes, even a simple and perfect Sandwich Bread. And since you can’t say “bread” without saying “butter,” she created a rich and creamy vegan butter unlike anything else, too. The world’s bread basket just got a whole lot fuller.

Book Tales of Faith

    Book Details:
  • Author : V. Y. Mudimbe
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
  • Release : 2016-10-06
  • ISBN : 1474281370
  • Pages : 258 pages

Download or read book Tales of Faith written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-10-06 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores African religious practice and its relation to African identity. It takes the problem of faith as its central theme, emphasizing the particular existential tensions dividing yet uniting the Christian and the African. Drawing on Heidegger and Sartre, it analyses these tensions underlying and creating the dialogues of hybridity or metissage.

Book Dark Ages Clan Novel Cappadocian   Book 3 of the Dark Ages Clan Novel Saga

Download or read book Dark Ages Clan Novel Cappadocian Book 3 of the Dark Ages Clan Novel Saga written by Andrew Bates and published by Crossroad Press. This book was released on 2019-05-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dark Ages Clan Novel Saga is a 13-volume series of novels set in the world of Dark Ages: Vampire, released by White Wolf from 2002 to the end of 2004. The series begins with Dark Ages Clan Novel 1: Nosferatu and ends with Dark Ages Clan Novel 13: Tzimisce. Inspired by the original modern-day Clan Novel Saga for Vampire: The Masquerade, this series begins with the end of the original Vampire: The Dark Ages era and continued into the time-frame of Dark Ages: Vampire. The 13 novels are written from the POV of one clan each during the turbulence that swept through the mortal and Cainite societies of Europe following the fall of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade. These novels, unlike the original Clan Novel Series, are chronological, happening one after the other rather than overlapping. The Dead Rise

The chaotic winds of fate have swept away the mighty Byzantine Empire. Now they threaten to eradicate the Cappadocians, one of the ancient clans of vampires. Constancia, high priestess of the clan, leaves her mountain monastery to seek out Markus Giovanni, the one vampire who holds the key to the dark future she has foreseen. Markus, however, has plans of his own. Fleeing the destruction of Constantinople, he sets out for the deserts of Egypt in a quest for glory. When the two come together, the dead rise to fight their battles for them. But will it be enough to save either of them from the force that has lured them there? Dark Ages: Cappadocian continues the epic thirteen-part series of Dark Ages Clan Novels, chronicling a vast conflict among the vampires of the Middle Ages. The War of Princes explodes beyond Constantinople.

Book Brightest and Best

    Book Details:
  • Author : Olivia Newport
  • Publisher : Barbour Publishing
  • Release : 2015-08-01
  • ISBN : 1634095596
  • Pages : 332 pages

Download or read book Brightest and Best written by Olivia Newport and published by Barbour Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The collapse of a schoolhouse puts pressure on Amish families and their long-held educational values. Ella Hilty anticipates marrying Gideon Wittner and becoming a mother to his children. In a whirling clash of values, Ella seeks the solid ground that seems to have slipped away. Margaret Simpson, an English schoolteacher, wonders if she is losing her last chance at love. As the local authorities draw lines in the sand, Margaret puts romance at risk one final time. All eyes turn to Ella to make a sacrifice and accept a challenge that can bring unity to the Amish and understanding to the English.

Book The Mudimbe Reader

Download or read book The Mudimbe Reader written by V. Y. Mudimbe and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A prominent francophone thinker and writer from sub-Saharan Africa, V. Y. Mudimbe is known for his efforts to bridge Western and African modes of knowledge and for his critiques of a range of disciplines, from classics and philosophy to anthropology and comparative literature. The Mudimbe Reader offers for the first time a ground-breaking work of modern intellectual African history from this essential postcolonial thinker, including new translations of essays previously unavailable in English. Constituting an intellectual history of the humanities in the late twentieth century from an African intellectual’s point of view, The Mudimbe Reader provides an introduction and a comprehensive bibliography that frame four thematic gatherings of Mudimbe’s writings. Part 1 bears witness to Mudimbe’s attempts, as a university professor in the new nation-state of Zaire, to balance the postindependence discourse of authenticity with his training in Western philosophy and philology. Part 2 focuses on Mudimbe’s exploration of racial, ethnic, and religious discourses to reflect upon postcolonialism in Zaire and in the United States. In the third part, Mudimbe interrogates ancient Greek and Latin texts as a strategy to engage the legacy of antiquity for European and African modernity. Finally, the book concludes by focusing on visual culture and Mudimbe’s recurring attempt to elucidate how African "primitiveness" has been constructed, challenged, dismissed, and reinvented from the Renaissance to the present day.

Book The Falcon Always Wings Twice

Download or read book The Falcon Always Wings Twice written by Donna Andrews and published by Minotaur Books. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new side-splitting Meg Langslow mystery from award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of Terns of Endearment. When Meg's grandmother Cordelia hosts a Renaissance Faire at her craft center, the whole family is put to work: Meg handles the blacksmithing, Michael and the boys will be performing, and no one misses the opportunity to dress up in full regalia. More exciting to Grandfather is the pair of rare falcons he discovers breeding at the fairgrounds. Concerned for their well-being amid all the activity, he appoints himself their protector. When one of the actors performing at the fair is found dead—an actor suspected of mistreating one of the falcons, among other sins—Grandfather is a prime suspect. Donna Andrews’s long-running Meg Langslow series continues to be beloved by its fans, who loyally read every new installment. The Falcon Always Wings Twice is a perfect new addition, full of laughter, adventure, and Andrews's wonderful cast of wacky characters.

Book The Ladies  Home Journal

Download or read book The Ladies Home Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 2436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Im politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions

Download or read book Im politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions written by Chaoqun Xie and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2020-06-04 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Im)politeness and Moral Order in Online Interactions presents a timely response to the ‘moral turn’ in (im)politeness studies. This volume, presented by a roster of prominent figures in the field, documents and showcases the complexity of (im)politeness as social practice by focusing on the morality of (im)politeness in internet-mediated interactions. It includes, among others, studies on how the moral order is made explicit and salient in the production and perception of online impoliteness as social practice and how situated impoliteness can perform positive social and communicative functions. This volume confirms once again that (im)politeness can serve as a lens through which a variety of topics, genres, and contexts are intertwined together pointing to the very presence and existence of human beings, and is bound to be of interest to not only students and scholars engaged in the area of (im)politeness and internet pragmatics, but also to all those with a more general interest in the study of human (inter)actions in various situations and contexts. Originally published as special issue of Internet Pragmatics 1:2 (2018).

Book Intercultural Politeness

Download or read book Intercultural Politeness written by Helen Spencer-Oatey and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is increasingly important in our globalised world for people to successfully manage interpersonal relationships. This is the first book to tackle this vital topic, by taking an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the process of relating across cultures. Drawing together key concepts from politeness theory, intercultural communication, and cross-cultural/intercultural psychology, it provides a robust framework for analysing and understanding intercultural encounters. It explores the ways in which individuals make judgements about others, deal with offence and conflict, maintain smooth relations, and build new relationships. These processes are explained conceptually and illustrated extensively with authentic intercultural examples and empirical data. With accessible explanations and follow-up activities, it will appeal not only to academics working in the areas of intercultural communication, pragmatic theory, conflict research and other related academic disciplines, but also to students of these topics, as well as professionals such as intercultural trainers and those working in the third sector.

Book Discourse and Politeness

Download or read book Discourse and Politeness written by Naomi Geyer and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discourse and Politeness examines Japanese institutional discourse and attempts to clarify the relationship between politeness, facework and speaker identity. The book seeks to establish an empirically grounded analysis of facework as the basis for evaluating politeness, and describes facework in delicate situations such as disagreement, teasing and talking about troubles, which have rarely been discussed in politeness studies. Insightful and cutting-edge, this research monograph will be of interest to researchers in discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and Japanese language.