Download or read book Good Luck Martha written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Martha worries that her recent bouts of bad luck might be contagious! Uh-oh. Martha walked under a ladder--and then she broke a mirror--so now she thinks she's jinxed! Helen tries to explain that all the accidents are just coincidence. But when a nearby toddler stumbles and a waiter takes a clumsy spill, Martha worries that her bad luck might be rubbing off on everybody else. Will Martha be spreading bad luck for seven whole years?"--Publisher.
Download or read book The Fragility of Goodness written by Martha C. Nussbaum and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-15 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a study of ancient views about 'moral luck'. It examines the fundamental ethical problem that many of the valued constituents of a well-lived life are vulnerable to factors outside a person's control, and asks how this affects our appraisal of persons and their lives. The Greeks made a profound contribution to these questions, yet neither the problems nor the Greek views of them have received the attention they deserve. This book thus recovers a central dimension of Greek thought and addresses major issues in contemporary ethical theory. One of its most original aspects is its interrelated treatment of both literary and philosophical texts. The Fragility of Goodness has proven to be important reading for philosophers and classicists, and its non-technical style makes it accessible to any educated person interested in the difficult problems it tackles. This edition, first published in 2001, features a preface by Martha Nussbaum.
Download or read book Made Like Martha written by Katie M. Reid and published by WaterBrook. This book was released on 2018-07-10 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invitation for overachievers to discover what it means to rest as God's daughters without compromising their God-given design as doers. Are you a Martha who feels guilty for not being a Mary? Do you want to sit at Jesus’s feet as Mary did—but you feel the need to get things done? In Made Like Martha, Katie M. Reid invites you to exchange try-hard striving for hope-filled freedom without abandoning your doer’s heart in the process. Through her own story and rich biblical illustrations, Katie reminds you that it’s not important whether you sit and listen or stand and work. What matters is that your spiritual posture is one of a beloved daughter who knows she doesn’t need to earn God’s love. Your desire to get things done is not something to temper but something to embrace as you serve from a place of strength and peace—knowing Christ already did His most important work for you on the cross. With “It Is Finished” activities at the end of each chapter and a fiveweek Bible study included, Made Like Martha helps you find rest from striving even as you celebrate your God-given design to “do.” “Made Like Martha will infuse your life with a fresh perspective as you learn both to embrace your God-given personality and also discover how—and when—to rest and retreat.” —Karen Ehman, Proverbs 31 Ministries speaker and New York Times bestselling author of Keep It Shut
Download or read book Great American Wreaths written by Martha Stewart and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents instructions for making wreaths from natural materials representing all fifty states.
Download or read book Finding Martha s Place written by Martha Hawkins and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-01-12 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Martha's Place . . . Martha Hawkins was the tenth of twelve children born in Montgomery, Alabama. There was no money, but her childhood was full of love. Martha's mother could transform a few vegetables from the backyard into a feast and never turned away a hungry mouth. Memories of the warmth of her family's supper table would remain with Martha. Even as a poor single mother without a high school diploma, Martha dreamed of one day opening a restaurant that would make people feel at home. She'd serve food that would nourish body and soul. But time went by and that dream slipped further and further away as Martha battled the onset of what would later become a severe mental illness. But the thing about hitting bottom is that there's nowhere to go but up. Martha decided to step into God's promise for her life. Her boundless faith and joy led her to people who would change her world and lend a helping hand when she most needed and least expected one. Martha's Place is now a nationally known destination for anyone visiting the Deep South and a culinary fixture of life in Montgomery. Martha only hires folks who are down on their luck, just as she once was. High-profile politicians, professional athletes, artists, musicians, and actors visit regularly. Martha has proven many times that keeping the faith makes the difference between failure and success. This is the story of how Martha finally found her place. . . .
Download or read book Martha s Journals Book One written by Thomas Isaac Franklin and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-03-02 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martha Baker was a very average Midwestern girl. She wrote in her journal nearly every day of her life beginning at the age of nine. Her life changed directions many times but she always stayed true to her journal. Some people find it hard to deny their nature. Martha found it impossible. Her inner conflicts and tortured decisions affected her life far more than events happening in the world around her. Author Thomas Isaac Franklin served as both editor of Martha's journals and writer of this chronicle of her early life. All of the most fantastic events and deeply felt emotions in the book came directly from her journals. Her entries were often graphic, uncensored, and raw. They are intended for mature readers. Franklin had to supplement the sometimes-sparse journal entries with research. He interviewed Martha's relatives, friends, and noteworthy characters that appear in her journals. He found it necessary to expand the least descriptive portions of the journals to add imagery, form, and continuity to his writing. As you open Martha's Journals: Book One, you will be privy to her deepest held thoughts and desires. She will tell you secrets she would never verbalize to even her closest friends. This narrative follows Martha's life from birth to womanhood. You will accompany her as she explores her mind, body, and desires like few woman could or would. Read the first three chapters of Martha's story online at Xlibris.com
Download or read book Martha s Miracles written by Elizabeth Slenker and published by Outskirts Press. This book was released on 2023-02-22 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has hopes and dreams as a child. Some children are better able to realize their dreams because of their family and economic conditions. Some children dream big, but due to circumstances in life have to scale down their ambitions and settle for less than they had hoped. Some children have a bleak future because of social, environmental and economic situations, but in spite of these adversities are able to overcome these obstacles and live meaningful, productive lives. This is a story of a young girl in the direst of conditions - an orphan, stuck in an inner city social service system, often moved from one place to another, unwanted and with no one to advocate for her welfare. She has good fortune fall upon her and makes the best use of her new found luck, until she gets caught in a trafficking ring, and has to use all her wit to confront what happens next.
Download or read book Natural Born Leader written by Robert L. Schmidt and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-10-17 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics is a dirty business and it gets even dirtier when billionaire Ronald Tripp covets the Republican Presidential nomination. The Ronalds first dirty deed is to take advantage of the wandering eye of the frontrunner, Senator Bill Flowers. Bills mistress is actually a porn star named Lola Fontaine and she was hired by The Ronald to blackmail Bill. When Bill drops out, Bills father, former Senator George Flowers Sr., has a revelation. Hell just insert his other son George Flowers, Jr. into the race. Don Chambers, a Reagan era Republican political genius, and Martha Wilson, one of George Sr.s executives, join George Sr. as part of the candidates team. The team has one significant challenge. Their candidate is one of Gods special creations. Natural Born Leader follows the adventures of George Jr. as he conducts himself in the same way any first grader might. Kids say the darnedest things, and George Jr. rarely reacts the way that a Presidential candidate should. With Marthas damage control and the natural inclination of voters to believe in their candidate, George Jr. reacts just right. The Ronald is busy winning over conservatives with a show of guns, old time religion, a proposed moat to keep illegal immigrants out of the US and any other idea that can bring America back to the social norms of the 1950s. He also tries to bag George Jr. the same way he bagged his older brother. George Jr. has several close encounters with Lola. Natural Born Leader takes Americas rich, scandalous and embarrassing Presidential political history to the next level. Most Americans have long since realized that the best and the brightest rarely enter politics. This book proves that they should, because in America any citizen can one day be our President.
Download or read book The Agitators written by Dorothy Wickenden and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the intimate perspective of three friends and neighbors in mid-nineteenth century Auburn, New York-the "agitators" of the title-acclaimed author Dorothy Wickenden tells the fascinating and crucially American stories of abolition, the Underground Railroad, the early women's rights movement, and the Civil War. Harriet Tubman-no-nonsense, funny, uncannily prescient, and strategically brilliant-was one of the most important conductors on the underground railroad and hid the enslaved men, women and children she rescued in the basement kitchens of Martha Wright, Quaker mother of seven, and Frances Seward, wife of Governor, then Senator, then Secretary of State William H. Seward. Harriet worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a river raid in which 750 enslaved people were freed from rice plantations. Martha, a "dangerous woman" in the eyes of her neighbors and a harsh critic of Lincoln's policy on slavery, organized women's rights and abolitionist conventions with Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Frances gave freedom seekers money and referrals and aided in their education. The most conventional of the three friends, she hid her radicalism in public; behind the scenes, she argued strenuously with her husband about the urgency of immediate abolition. Many of the most prominent figures in the history books-Lincoln, Seward, Daniel Webster, Frederick Douglass, Charles Sumner, John Brown, Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Lloyd Garrison-are seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about women's roles and rights during the abolition crusade, emancipation, and the arming of Black troops; and about the true meaning of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. Beginning two decades before the Civil War, when Harriet Tubman was still enslaved and Martha and Frances were young women bound by law and tradition, The Agitators ends two decades after the war, in a radically changed United States. Wickenden brings this extraordinary period of our history to life through the richly detailed letters her characters wrote several times a week. Like Doris Kearns Goodwin's Team of Rivals and David McCullough's John Adams, Wickenden's The Agitators is revelatory, riveting, and profoundly relevant to our own time"--
Download or read book The Price of Money written by Alfred Sutro and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Story Traveller written by Judy Stubley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucy enjoys school until one day her father takes a new job in a new town – which means a new school. That’s when her troubles begin. For reasons she can’t understand, she is targeted by three bullies, led by Anna Ibsen. As she struggles with this, she finds she has been offered the job of story traveller by the Fairy Godmothers’ Union. During the day, Lucy does her best to deal with the increasing amount of bullying and at night sets off on a series of exciting and dangerous adventures into the world of Cinderella. Her journeys take her to France, to China to meet Yeh-Shen and a perilous journey to Ireland, where she introduces herself to Ash, a young Irish lad. Her final travels take her to Russia to meet Vasilisa and the scary Baba Yaga. But these journeys are not all full of wonder and joy. Lucy has scares and terrors as she comes up against many of the evil characters from Storyland, while dealing with the nastiness of Anna and her cronies. However, she learns a lot from her job as story traveller, and with the backing of friends and family, finds the courage to deal with the bullies. The Story Traveller, which carries a positive moral message to readers, will apply to children ages 7-10. Judy is inspired by many modern authors including Eoin Colfer, Michael Morpugo and Terry Pratchett, and by one of her favourite childhood books, Little Lord Fauntleroy by Mrs. F. H. Burnett.
Download or read book Democracy Equality and Justice written by Matt Matravers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept. The chapters fall into four categories: on justice and democracy; justice and equality; justice and community; and justice and the future. Concerns of justice unite all the chapters in this volume. However, these concerns now manifest themselves in interesting and new directions. Politically, the book confronts urgent problems of democracy, equality, community, and of how to respond to potentially catastrophic climate change. The response to these problems cannot only be pragmatic and piecemeal. What emerges are a number of interlinking questions and themes that together constitute the central core of contemporary political philosophy. This book was previously published as a special issue of the Critical Review of Social and Political Philosophy.
Download or read book At Face Value Second Edition written by Don Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2023-02-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At Face Value spins the tale of John White, a trusty Tory backbencher in Canada’s post-Confederation Parliament who was unusually sympathetic to women and Indigenous communities. Hewing closely to the archival record, it nevertheless diverges on one crucial point, reimagining White as a woman named Eliza McCormack. In this Canadian take on Moll Flanders, Don Akenson constructs a past in which people felt free to live in the gender of their own choosing, revealing the assumptions with which gender labels are freighted and the self-empowerment available to those who reject them. Following Eliza from her birth in 1832, amid the Irish cholera panic, At Face Value recounts her blacksmithing apprenticeship, a difficult passage to Canada, an unconventional marriage, and the peaks and valleys of her political career. In Eliza, Akenson offers readers a correction to the male-dominated historical record and an unforgettable literary heroine. Shortlisted for the Trillium Prize when it was released in 1990, this classic Canadian novel has only gained relevance in the thirty years since. At Face Value offers a window into the past and a mirror for the present.
Download or read book Matricide at St Martha s written by Ruth Dudley Edwards and published by Poisoned Pen Press Inc. This book was released on 2011-05-27 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In St. Martha's College, Cambridge, rival factions battle over a bequest. One lot wants it spent on fellowships, another on redecoration, a third on a politically-correct ethnics study center. When people start dying, the college calls in Scotland Yard's Jim Milton.
Download or read book At Face Value written by Donald Harman Akenson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1992-06-03 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rural Ireland in the days of the great famine, Canada and confederation, Controversial life of a cross dresser who was elected to Parliament in 1871, Feminist, Impersonaors, History - Canada.
Download or read book Lunacy written by Patricia Weaver Francisco and published by Dramatic Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: playbook
