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Rebecca Davis has been described as one of the funniest writers in South Africa today. Her razor-sharp wit combines with her acute powers of observation to produce social and political commentary that will have you in stitches even as it informs and provokes you to think seriously about the topics she discusses.
In Best White And Other Anxious Delusions, Davis offers advice on life's tricky issues; discusses the perils of being a 'Best white'; laments the fact that society does not have a universally adopted form of greeting, such as the high-five; explores the intricacies of social media and internet dating; considers the future of reading and tackles a range of controversial topics in between.
Examining writing for and about education in the period from 1740
to 1820, Rebecca Davies's book plots the formation of a written
paradigm of maternal education that associates maternity with
educational authority. Examining novels, fiction for children,
conduct literature and educative and political tracts by Samuel
Richardson, Sarah Fielding, Mary Wollstonecraft, Maria Edgeworth,
Ann Martin Taylor and Jane Austen, Davies identifies an
authoritative feminine educational voice. She shows how the
function of the discourse of maternal authority is modified in
different genres, arguing that both the female writers and the
fictional mothers adopt maternal authority and produce their own
formulations of ideal educational methods. The location of
idealised maternity for women, Davies proposes, is in the act of
writing educational discourse rather than in the physical
performance of the maternal role. Her book contextualizes the
development of a written discourse of maternal education that
emerged in the enlightenment period and explores the empowerment
achieved by women writing within this discourse, albeit through a
notion of authority that is circumscribed by the 'rules' of a
discipline.
Annual volume on medieval textual cultures, engaging with
intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages, showcasing
the best new work in this field. New Medieval Literatures is an
annual of work on medieval textual cultures, aiming to engage with
intellectual and cultural pluralism in the Middle Ages and now. Its
scope is inclusive of work across the theoretical, archival,
philological, and historicist methodologies associated with
medieval literary studies, and embraces the range of European
cultures, capaciously defined. Essays in this volume engage with
widely varied themes: law and literature; manuscript production,
patronage, and aesthetics; real and imagined geographies; gender
and its connections to narrative theory and to psychoanalysis.
Investigations range from the eleventh to the fifteenth centuries,
from England to the eastern Mediterranean. New arguments are put
forward about the dating, context, and occasion of Geoffrey
Chaucer's Boece, while the narrative dynamics of Chaucer's
"Franklin's Tale" and "Tale of Melibee" are examined from new
perspectives. The topography of the Holy Lands appears both as a
set of emotional sites, depicted in the Prick of Conscience in its
account of the end of the world, and as co-ordinates in the
cultural imaginary of medieval the wine-trade. Grendel's mother
emerges as the invisible and unavowable centre of male heroic
culture in Beowulf, and the fourteenth-century St Erkenwald is
brought into contact with the community-building project of the
medieval death investigation. Finally, the late medieval Speculum
Christiani is revealed to be a work with deep aesthetic investments
when read through the framework of how its medieval scribes
encountered and shaped that work.
The hill tribes of Southeast Asia told legends that one day the
White Book that their ancestors had lost would be brought back to
them. When the Karen tribe saw the Bible in 1813 through the
mission of Adoniram Judson, they recognised the White Book of their
stories. This is the amazing true story of how the faith spread
through the land of Myanmar, formerly Burma.
At a moment when the nuclear nonproliferation regime is under
duress, Rebecca Davis Gibbons provides a trenchant analysis of the
international system that has, for more than fifty years,
controlled the spread of these catastrophic weapons. The Hegemon's
Tool Kit details how that regime works and how, disastrously, it
might falter.   In the early nuclear age,
experts anticipated that all technologically-capable states would
build these powerful devices. That did not happen. Widespread
development of nuclear arms did not occur, in large part, because a
global nuclear nonproliferation regime was created. By the
late-1960s, the United States and the Soviet Union had drafted the
Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT), and
across decades the regime has expanded, with more agreements and
more nations participating. As a result, in 2022, only nine states
possess nuclear weapons.   Why do most states
in the international system adhere to the nuclear nonproliferation
regime? The answer lies, Gibbons asserts, in decades of painstaking
efforts undertaken by the US government. As the most powerful state
during the nuclear age, the United States had many tools with which
to persuade other states to join or otherwise support
nonproliferation agreements.  The waning of US global
influence, Gibbons shows in The Hegemon's Tool Kit, is a key threat
to the nonproliferation regime. So, too, is the deepening global
divide over progress on nuclear disarmament. To date, the Chinese
government is not taking significant steps to support the nuclear
nonproliferation regime, and as a result, the regime may face a
harmful leadership gap.Â
More Muslims in Iran have come to faith in Christ in the last
thirty years than in the thirteen hundred years that Islam has been
in the country. In a land that is notorious for persecution,through
the lives of missionaries and Iranian believers God's word is being
spread far and wide. Seventeen chapters tell true stories of the
Living Water of Jesus Christ pouring out for thirsty people to
drink in the country of Iran.
Why would a crippled old man wait by the side of the road every day
for twenty years? Why would a slave and a witch doctor walk for
three days to find a man called Jesus? Why would a lame man
purposely walk to a tribe where he knew he could be killed? Sixteen
captivating episodes from one Christian mission in Ethiopia show
the power of God in the midst of darkness. Find out about the
invisible evangelist, the two girls who prayed and other
astonishing stories. This is a book that will make you gasp at
God's goodness The evangelists in this book include one man named
Dick McLellan. Born in Australia Dick had the privilege of working
with SIM during the 1950s. This book contains some of his
experiences as well as the stories of Africans who eagerly took
hold of God's message with two hands. With joy in their souls they
declared, "With this hand I renounce the devil and all his works
With this hand I surrender to Jesus Christ All I am and all I have
" For more background information, as well as links for magazine
articles, blogs, photos, and videos, see the Educator Resources
Page at Rebecca Davis's website. Additionally, colouring pages are
available to download further down this page in associated Media
section.
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Colombia has been known as a land of violence - Colombian people
have reacted to the Gospel of Jesus Christ by cursing the
messengers, beating them, kidnapping them, killing them and burning
down their houses. But from those burnings have shot out sparks and
flames and laser beams of light, as the Gospel has continued to
shine forth in the midst of darkness. God has delivered people from
burning houses. God has healed the ones who cursed. God has even
rescued kidnappers. Read fourteen true stories of the Light of the
World shining in the land of Colombia, South America.
Hi girls! Take a few minutes from your day to get inspired about
God. Think about the amazing things He has done in this world
through the lives of great Christians. If you have five minutes,
you have enough time to connect with your heavenly Father through
Scripture, prayer and some wonderful real-life adventures.
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In 1938, in the remote highlands of a mountainous island, explorers
discovered thousands upon thousands of tribal people. Missionaries
began to come, to bring the Good News of the Gospel of Jesus
Christ. Little did they know that many of the people of the tribes
were waiting . . . waiting . . . for someone to come and help them
out of the darkness of their old way of life. Witness Men consists
of true missionary stories that took place throughout the highlands
of Papua, Indonesia, from 1955 to 2010, when one of the tribes
received their first New Testaments.
From one old woman's prayer a young girl was brought to faith, a
missionary was sent to Africa and then a church was born from among
the people of Central Africa. Missionaries from the West came with
the message of Jesus Christ - but it was the men and women saved
from cannibalism, the young boys who herded goats and who carted
water who really brought the Good News even farther to more and
more villages and homesteads in Africa ... and the Good News must
go out.For more background information, as well as links for
magazine articles, blogs, photos, and videos, see the Educator
Resources Page at Rebecca Davis's website. Additionally, colouring
pages are available to download further down this page in
associated Media section.
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