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Book An Honorable Legacy

Download or read book An Honorable Legacy written by Joyce Elizabeth Bromley and published by UW-Madison Libraries Parallel Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Execution of Willie Francis

Download or read book The Execution of Willie Francis written by Gilbert King and published by Civitas Books. This book was released on 2008 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration behind "A Lesson Before Dying" meets the best of John Grisham as a young Cajun lawyer fights to save a black teenager from the electric chair. 16-page b&w photo insert.

Book Hole in the Roof

Download or read book Hole in the Roof written by Burk Murchison and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1966, when the still-young Dallas Cowboys franchise ended six years of agony with their first winning season, the team’s owner and founder, Clint Murchison Jr., son of a billionaire oilman, was feeling ambitious. He believed his team would be good, even special, for years to come. With such dreams dancing in his head, Murchison found that the aging Cotton Bowl in Dallas’s Fair Park was no longer a suitable home for what would soon be dubbed “America’s Team.” Hole in the Roof: The Dallas Cowboys, Clint Murchison Jr., and the Stadium That Changed American Sports Forever tells the story of Texas Stadium, with its trademark hole in the roof, which served the Cowboys for 38 seasons without ever requiring a penny of public dollars. In 1966, though the Cotton Bowl was one of the newer stadiums in the National Football League, Murchison saw it as an outdated venue. What he envisioned was a shiny new stadium near downtown Dallas, but to realize his vision for what a professional sports venue could be—and the many benefits that the resulting revenue could generate—he needed buy-in from Dallas city leaders. Hole in the Roof chronicles Murchison’s founding of an extraordinary sports franchise and the battles he fought to build the stadium he wanted. Along the way, this book provides not only a sweeping biography of Clint Jr., a history of the Cowboys from before their inception in 1960 until now (including Jerry Jones), and a history of Texas Stadium, but also a critical look at how Clint's original concept of the stadium has been corrupted—by greed and avarice. Opening with a foreword by Drew Pearson, all-time Cowboy great and NFL Hall-of-Famer, and based on extensive research in both public and media archives and Murchison family records, Hole in the Roof contains the inside story of the iconic venue where the Cowboys went on to play each of their five Super Bowl-winning seasons: where Murchison proved that stadiums could be a source of revenue surpassing even television.

Book The Legacy of the Purple Heart

Download or read book The Legacy of the Purple Heart written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hungarian Legacy in America

Download or read book The Hungarian Legacy in America written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1941, Elmhurst College established the only Hungarian Department in the United States and gave the responsibility of developing its program to Dr. Barnabas Dienes. His work was the basis of what by the 1950s had developed into a significant repository of cultural, linguistic and social research. August J. Molnar guided growing entity to become a foundation, which began its activity in 1955. As part of the expansion program, the Foundation began working with Rutgers (SUNJ) and relocated to that campus in 1959, where it remains today.

Book The Wild Edge of Sorrow

    Book Details:
  • Author : Francis Weller
  • Publisher : North Atlantic Books
  • Release : 2015-09-15
  • ISBN : 1583949763
  • Pages : 225 pages

Download or read book The Wild Edge of Sorrow written by Francis Weller and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.

Book Chasing Francis

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ian Morgan Cron
  • Publisher : Thomas Nelson
  • Release : 2013-05-07
  • ISBN : 0310336708
  • Pages : 245 pages

Download or read book Chasing Francis written by Ian Morgan Cron and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What happens when the pastor of a mega church loses his faith? Discover one man’s life-changing journey to resolve his crisis of faith in Italy by retracing the footsteps of Francis of Assisi, a saint whose simple way of loving Jesus changed the history of the world. Pastor Chase Falson lost his faith in God, the Bible, evangelical Christianity, and his super-sized megachurch. When he fell apart, the church elders told him to go away—as far away as possible. Broken, Chase crossed the Atlantic to Italy to visit his uncle, a Franciscan priest. There, he was introduced to the revolutionary teachings of Saint Francis of Assisi and found an old, but new way of following Jesus that heals and inspires. Chase Falson's spiritual discontent mirrors the feelings of a growing number of Christians who walk out of church asking, Is this all there is? This book is perfect for believers who are: Weary of celebrity pastors and empty calorie teaching Disappointed by worship services where the emphasis is more on Lights, Camera, Action than on Father, Son, and Holy Spirit Tired of the deepest questions of life remaining unaddressed and unanswered Remain hopeful and seek to strengthen their faith Hidden in the past lies the future of the church. Explore the life of a saint who 800 years ago breathed new life into disillusioned Christians and a Church on the brink of collapse. Chasing Francis is a hopeful and moving story with profound implications for those who yearn for a more vital relationship with God and the world.

Book Legacy

Download or read book Legacy written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book English Catholics and the Supernatural  1553   1829

Download or read book English Catholics and the Supernatural 1553 1829 written by Dr Francis Young and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2013-03-28 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of an upsurge in interest in the social history of the Catholic community and an ever-growing body of literature on early modern 'superstition' and popular religion, the English Catholic community's response to the invisible world of the preternatural and supernatural has remained largely neglected. Addressing this oversight, this book explores Catholic responses to the supernatural world, setting the English Catholic community in the contexts of the wider Counter-Reformation and the confessional culture of early modern England. In so doing, it fulfils the need for a study of how English Catholics related to manifestations of the devil (witchcraft and possession) and the dead (ghosts) in the context of Catholic attitudes to the supernatural world as a whole (including debates on miracles). The study further provides a comprehensive examination of the ways in which English Catholics deployed exorcism, the church's ultimate response to the devil. Whilst some aspects of the Catholic response have been touched on in the course of broader studies, few scholars have gone beyond the evidence contained within anti-Catholic polemical literature to examine in detail what Catholics themselves said and thought. Given that Catholics were consistently portrayed as 'superstitious' in Protestant literature, the historian must attend to Catholic voices on the supernatural in order to avoid a disastrously unbalanced view of Catholic attitudes. This book provides the first analysis of the Catholic response to the supernatural and witchcraft and how it related to a characteristic Counter-Reformation preoccupation, the phenomenon of exorcism.

Book The Literary History of England

Download or read book The Literary History of England written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 496 pages

Download or read book Publications written by Oxford Historical Society (Oxford, England) and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne

Download or read book Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne written by Thomas Hearne and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self

Download or read book Engaging Primitive Anxieties of the Emerging Self written by Howard B. Levine and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, based on the 7th International Conference on the Work of Frances Tustin in 2014, offers readers a contribution to the understanding and treatment of primitive mental states and primitive character disorders.

Book A Nazi Legacy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Vamik D. Volkan
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-05-08
  • ISBN : 0429910371
  • Pages : 150 pages

Download or read book A Nazi Legacy written by Vamik D. Volkan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book relates the psychoanalytic journey of a man in his thirties, a grandson of a high-level SS officer, whose case illustrates how individuals can sometimes suffer greatly or cause the suffering of other innocent persons, simply because they are descendants of perpetrators. In it, technical considerations in treating such an individual, including countertransference issues and concepts related to transgenerational transmissions-for example, identification, depositing, dissociation, encapsulation, and remembering through actions-are explored. The man had a repeating daydream of carrying a big egg under his arm. The imagined egg, representing his encapsulated dissociated state, contained the mental representation of his Nazi grandfather and his grandfather's victims, along with images of most tragic historical events. He attempted to turn his grandfather's image from a life-taker to a life-giver and wished to own the older man's grandiose specialness, while fearing the loss of his own life. These opposite aims created unnamed "catastrophes".

Book The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Download or read book The Literary History of England in the End of the Eighteenth and Beginning of the Nineteenth Century written by Mrs. Oliphant (Margaret) and published by . This book was released on 1882 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bookseller

Download or read book The Bookseller written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 1352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: