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Mirage (Paperback)
David Ralph Viviers
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A century-old trunk has been dug up near the railway village of Sterfontein. Inside is the lost journal of Victorian author Elizabeth Tenant – and what appears to be the remains of a child.
Michael, a university student recovering from a broken heart, is intrigued by what the journal describes: a scarlet curtain billowing above the desert, covering the entrance to another world. But things become even stranger when a line in the journal seems to be connected to Michael and his cosmologist mother, written a hundred years before their time. Without much to go on, Michael travels to the old Karoo hotel
where Elizabeth wrote her novel Mirage. Amid talk of omens in the sky, ancient prophecies and the end of the world, he tries to decipher the journal’s secrets.
As one mystery leads to the next, constellation-like patterns between his own life and Elizabeth’s appear, helped along by Renata, a self-proclaimed medium, and Oom Sarel, the local museum curator. But as time starts to dissolve in the mirages of the Karoo, it becomes more and more difficult to know what is real and what is not.
And why can’t he shake the feeling that he’s been to the village before?
The Dictionary of the Later New Testament and its development
follows the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels and the Dictionary
of Paul and His Letters as the third in a celebrated series of
reference works on the Bible. Picking up where the previous volumes
left off, this volume includes in its scope the book of Acts, the
general epistles of Peter, James, Jude and John, and the books of
Hebrews and Revelation. This Dictionary is without peer in its
in-depth coverage of the most neglected books of the New Testament.
In addition to its coverage of this New Testament literature, a
unique and valuable feature of this Dictionary is its extended
coverage of developments in early Christianity through AD 150. Some
articles, such as those on each of the apostolic fathers, focus
exclusively on this postapostolic period. But nearly all topical
articles take into consideration the writings of the apostolic
fathers. Readers will enjoy a deeper and expanded understanding of
how orthodox Christianity continued and developed in the years just
following the New Testament era. No other single-volume reference
work provides comparable coverage and assessment of the early
patristic era and its theology. The Dictionary of the Later New
Testament and its developments is a timely response to
post-Enlightenment Christians who are seeking to rediscover their
ancient roots in the soil of the first two centuries of the
Christian era. And it lays the foundation for budding students of
the New Testament who are now being challenged to expand their
field of vision to include the broader crucible in which the
Christian tradition developed.
Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit
focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on
original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to
introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate
how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With
chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood,
the book shows the resilience of families in different social and
historical contexts. Each chapter includes a discussion of the
challenges that face families and how social research can inform
policy makers' responses. Family rhythms is a comprehensive,
user-friendly textbook that offers a variety of strategies for
engaging readers, including direct encounters with qualitative data
through the use of classroom oriented discussion panels. Synopses
of landmark Irish studies are included throughout, bringing the
insights from these key studies together in a single textbook for
the first time. -- .
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interested in expanding their practice.
This book asks the crucial question of how it came to pass that on
the 25 May 2018, the Irish electorate voted by a landslide in
favour of changing its abortion legislation that, for the previous
thirty-five years, had been one of the most restrictive regimes in
Europe. The author shows how, alongside traditional campaigning
tactics such as street demonstrations, door-to-door canvassing, and
the distribution of pro-choice merchandise and information
leaflets, a key strategy of pro-choice advocacy groups was to
encourage first-person abortion story-sharing by women in their
efforts to repeal the Eighth Amendment, which had effectively
banned abortion provision in the country. The book argues that a
normalizing of abortion talk took place in the lead-up to the
referendum, with women speaking publicly in unprecedented numbers
about their abortion histories. These women storytellers were
mirroring certain pro-choice movements in other contexts, where a
new 'sound it loud, say it proud' narrative around abortion
experiences has emerged as a central contemporary strategy for
destigmatizing abortion discourse. Students and scholars across a
range of disciplines, including law, gender studies, sociology, and
human geography, will find this book of interest.
Between the years 1949 and 1976, Luther David Ralph (son, brother,
husband, father, farmer, carpenter, storyteller, journalist) wrote
over 800 columns entitled "Billy the Goat's Tales of Two Towns By
L.D.R." for the GOODLETTSVILLE GAZETTE. In his first column he
wrote, "This column will start in Shackle Island (TN) and
eventually wind up in Goodlettsville (TN)......we will endeavor to
mingle news of the past as handed down for posterity with amusing
events of today." During those 27 years he did write about current
events; memories of life on Long Hollow; stories of adventures in
The West; and, occasionally family events. Mr. Ralph's
reiminiscences and observations provide a glimpse into the life in
rural Sumner County, Tennessee between the towns Goodlettsville
(actually just over the line in Davidson County, TN) and Shackle
Island along the Long Hollow he called home for the nine decades of
his life (1890-1979). Granddaughter Annelle Ralph Hawkins Huggins
has located many of the original columns saved by family members
and readers over the years and additional ones in the holdings of
the Tennessee State Library and Archives. She has chosen 91
representative columns for this compilation. Ms. Huggins has been
an academic librarian for 41 years and currently serves as
Associate Professor / Associate Dean of University Libraries at the
University of Memphis. She continues to seek additional writings by
her grandfather and to transcribe all findings into electronic
format to be "handed down for posterity."
Family rhythms is the first textbook of its kind with an explicit
focus on Ireland and Irish families. Uniquely, the book draws on
original in-depth interviews with people of different ages to
introduce contemporary scholarship on the family and to illustrate
how Irish families have adapted and changed over time. With
chapters on childhood, adolescence, parenting and grandparenthood,
the book shows the resilience of families in different social and
historical contexts. Each chapter includes a discussion of the
challenges that face families and how social research can inform
policy makers' responses. Family rhythms is a comprehensive,
user-friendly textbook that offers a variety of strategies for
engaging readers, including direct encounters with qualitative data
through the use of classroom oriented discussion panels. Synopses
of landmark Irish studies are included throughout, bringing the
insights from these key studies together in a single textbook for
the first time. -- .
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