The Academy of Parish Clergy 2020 Reference Book of the Year 2020 Association of Catholic Publishers first place award in Scripture 2020 Catholic Press Association third place award for best new religious book series This reading of Mark's Gospel engages this ancient text from the perspective of contemporary feminist concerns to expose and resist all forms of domination that prevent the full flourishing of all humans and all creation. Accordingly, it foregrounds the Gospel's constructions of gender in intersectionality with the visions, structures, practices, and personnel of Roman imperial power. This reading embraces a rich tradition of feminist scholarship on the Gospel, as well as masculinity studies, particularly pervasive hegemonic masculinity. Its politically engaged discussion of Mark's Gospel provides a resource for clergy, students, and laity concerned with contemporary constructions of gender, power, and a world in which all might experience fullness of life.

My mother was a prostitute. My grandmother and great-grandmother were prostitutes. Maybe I should have given the family business a chance... BBC RADIO 4 PICK OF THE WEEK, Katie Puckrik 'Eliska's story is an extraordinary and powerful read. It's the ultimate book about survival and an against-all-odds fight to make it in life. Highly recommend.' Clover Stroud 'A scintillating, devastating memoir, and a fiercely witty and unabashed tribute to the toughness of the human spirit.' Damian Le Bas __________________________________________________ To westerners, being Gypsy means being wild, romantic and free. To Eliska Tanzer, it means being rented out to dance for older men. It means living without running water. It means not being allowed a job or an education. It means being stuffed into a bare room with all your aunts and cousins, fighting over the thin, stained blanket the way you fight over the last piece of half-mouldy bread. It means joining the family prostitution ring when you're still a child. But Eliska was given a way out. Slung out of Hoe School and shipped to England in a washing machine box, she thought she had made it. But her dream soon turned into a nightmare. A moving and timely memoir from a powerful new voice in literature.

2019 Association of Catholic Publishers Book of the Year In this volume, Alice Ogden Bellis considers the book of Proverbs as a structural whole, the sages having designed it in such a way as to make positive statements about women and to undercut the negative ones. By grouping Proverbs together around common issues, the reader is called to consider the perennial moral questions of wealth and poverty, diligence and laziness, and integrity and corruption, as well as the relationship among these values. The result is much more complex and has greater depth than the random list of bromides that most of Proverbs is often thought to be. This volume opens up a multi-dimensional spiritual puzzle.

"A compelling, fun, and thought-provoking story of magical adventure, coming of age, sacrifice, and family, with secrets that add a lingering darkness to the entire tale."-- Booklist Two young witches, once inseparable, are set at odds by secrets and wildly dangerous magic In the waning days of World War II, with Allied victory all but certain, desperate Nazi diabolists search for a demonic superweapon to turn the tide. A secluded castle somewhere in the south of Germany serves as a laboratory for experiments conducted upon human prisoners, experiments as vile as they are deadly. Across the English Channel, tucked into the sleepy Cumbrian countryside, lies the Library, the repository of occult knowledge for the Societe des Eclairees, an international organization of diabolists. There, best friends Jane Blackwood and Miriam Cantor, tutored by the Societe's Librarian--and Jane's mother--Nancy, prepare to undergo the Test that will determine their future as diabolists. When Miriam learns her missing parents are suspected of betraying the Societe to the Nazis, she embarks on a quest to clear their names, a quest involving dangerous diabolic practices that will demand more of her than she can imagine. Meanwhile Jane, struggling with dark obsessions of her own, embraces a forbidden use of the Art that could put everyone she loves in danger. As their friendship buckles under the stress of too many secrets, Jane and Miriam will come face to face with unexpected truths that change everything they know about the war, the world, and most of all themselves. After all, some choices cannot be unmade--and a sacrifice made with the most noble intention might end up creating a monster.

The author of 1 Timothy, 2 Timothy, and Titus argues in favor of a "traditional" Greco-Roman gender ideology: that because men and women are biologically different, they ought to behave differently in the family and society. His gender-specific beliefs carry over into his teachings for the house churches, where only free married men are eligible to serve as leaders, teachers, and preachers, while women are expected to take up the subordinate female domestic roles of wife, mother, and household manager. This volume encourages a deeper engagement with the difficult issues-gender, race, and power-raised by these letters. By studying the Pastoral Letters with our minds sharpened and our hearts turned toward a generous freedom, we can struggle most productively with the influences of their teachings, past and present, and we can create a future church and a future world that are more just, truly inclusive, and indelibly marked by God's grace. From the Wisdom Commentary series Feminist biblical interpretation has reached a level of maturity that now makes possible a commentary series on every book of the Bible. It is our hope that Wisdom Commentary, by making the best of current feminist biblical scholarship available in an accessible format to ministers, preachers, teachers, scholars, and students, will aid all readers in their advancement toward God's vision of dignity, equality, and justice for all. The aim of this commentary is to provide feminist interpretation of Scripture in serious, scholarly engagement with the whole text, not only those texts that explicitly mention women. A central concern is the world in front of the text, that is, how the text is heard and appropriated by women. At the same time, this commentary aims to be faithful to the ancient text, to explicate the world behind the text, where appropriate, and not impose contemporary questions onto the ancient texts. The commentary addresses not only issues of gender (which are primary in this project) but also those of power, authority, ethnicity, racism, and classism, which all intersect. Each volume incorporates diverse voices and differing interpretations from different parts of the world, showing the importance of social location in the process of interpretation and that there is no single definitive feminist interpretation of a text.

So desperate that when wealthy strangers ask her to procure libations for an extravagant party Ellie sells them everything she has, including some booze she acquired under unusual circumstances. What Ellie doesn't know is that this booze is special. Distilled from foul mushrooms by a cult of diabolists, those who drink it see terrible things - like the destruction of Long Island in fire and flood. The cult is masquerading as a church promising salvation through temperance and a return to "the good old days," so it's hard for Ellie to take a stand against them, especially when her father joins, but Ellie loves Long Island, and she loves her family, and she'll do whatever it takes to ensure neither is torn apart.

Contents: Intracranial Pressure and Mass Displacements of the Intracranial Contents. - Special Neuropathology - Morphology and Biology of the Space-Occupying and Atrophic Processes with Their Related Neuroradiological Changes of Diagnostic Significance. - Cerebral Angiography. - Pneumoencephalography. - Myelography. - Spinal Angiography. - Discography. - Ossovenography and Epidural Venography. - References. - Subject Index.

This volume presents the discipline 's best thinking on sustainability in written, drawn, and built form, drawing on over fifteen years of peer-reviewed essays and national design awards published by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture (ACSA).

Providing a primer on sustainability, useful to teachers and students alike, the selected essays address a broad range of issues. Combined with design projects that highlight issues holistically, they promote an understanding of the principles of sustainability and further the integration of sustainable methods into architectural projects.

Using essays that alternately revise and clarify twentieth century architectural thinking, The Green Braid places sustainability at the centre of excellent architectural design. No other volume addresses sustainability within the context of architectural history, theory, pedagogy and design, making this book an ideal source for architects in framing their practices, and therefore their architectural production, in a sustainable manner.

Winner of Best Book of the Year at the Singapore Book Publishers Association awards 2018. Robert Kuok is one of the most highly respected businessmen in Asia. But this legendary Overseas Chinese entrepreneur, commodities trader, hotelier and property mogul has maintained a low profile and seldom shed light in public on his business empire or personal life. That is, until now. In these memoirs, the 94-year-old Kuok tells the remarkable story of how, starting in British Colonial Malaya, he built a multi-industry, multinational business group. In reflecting back on 75 years of conducting business, he offers management insights, discusses strategies and lessons learned, and relates his principles, philosophy, and moral code. Kuok has lived through fascinating and often tumultuous times in Asia - from British colonialism to Japanese military occupation to post-colonial Southeast Asia and the dramatic rise of Asian economies, including, more recently, China. From his front-row seat and as an active participant, this keen, multi-cultural observer tells nearly a century of Asian history through his life and times. Readers interested in business, management, history, politics, culture and sociology will all enjoy Robert Kuok's unique and remarkable story.

Die erste Auflage dieses Buches hat sich einen Platz bei den AErzten erworben, die das neuroradiologisch gewonnene Bild bei Hirnkrankheiten nicht nur mit seinen Abweichungen erfassen und beschreiben, sondern auch seine Genese verstehen wollten. Diese Form der Darstellung hatte im In-und Ausland viele Freunde gefunden und zahlreiche Schemata sind inzwischen in Lehr-und Hand bucher ubernommen worden. Jedoch ist die erste Auflage im Laufe der Zeit durch die rasche Weiterentwicklung der Neuroradiologie uberholt. Die Verfas ser, die noch selbst als Kliniker neuroradiologisch gearbeitet hatten, mussten dieser Entwicklung Rechnung tragen. Es wurden zwei hauptberuflich arbeitende Neuroradiologen zur Erweiterung und UEberarbeitung der Themen hinzuge beten. Einige Kapitel, wie die Hirnpunktion und der Farbversuch, haben in zwischen ihre Bedeutung verloren und wurden fortgelassen. Die Szintigraphie, die Hirndurchblutungsmessung und die in der Entwicklung begriffene Computer Tomographie wurden nicht abgehandelt, da sie ausserhalb des hier gesteckten Rahmens der neuroradiologischen Diagnostik liegen. Trotz mancher Anregun gen wurde auch weiter bewusst auf die Besprechung des Nativbildes von Schadel und Wirbelsaule verzichtet, sie hatten den Rahmen dieser Bearbeitung gesprengt. Andererseits musste die Myelographie und die neu entstandene radiologische Pathologie der cerebrovaskularen Stoerungen mitberucksichtigt werden. Die ubrigen Kapitel wurden dem heutigen Stand angepasst. Die Bilder wurden grossenteils erneuert. Doch hat sich an der Grundlinie der Darstellung nichts geandert. Das Buch soll auch in seiner vorliegenden Form eine Einfuhrung in die Besonderheiten der neuroradiologischen Diagnostik intrakranialer und spinaler Erkrankungen sein, die die Ergebnisse auch dem Kliniker verstandlich machen koennen.

Der Umfang unseres heutigen Wissens auf dem Gebiet der Nativdiagnostik des Schiidels erforderte bei seiner handbuchmiiBigen Bearbeitung eine Gliederung des Stoffes, die dem erst en Teil des Bandes die methodischen Grundlagen, die normale Anatomie und die MeBverfahren, die Entwicklungsgeschichte des Schiidels, die normal en und pathologischen Vorgiinge an den Schiidelniihten, die GefiiBstrukturen der Schiidelknochen und ihre Bedeutung fur die Diagnostik, die lokalen und allgemeinen Druckveriinderungen, die intrakraniellen Verkalkungen und die Osteopathien sowie die Rontgendiagnostik des Schiideldaches und der Schiidelbasis zuwiesen. Der jetzt vorliegende zweite Teil ergiinzt die allgemeinen diagnostischen Beitriige durch die traumatischen Schiidelveriinderungen und die posttraumatischen Folge- zustiinde, ist aber im ubrigen der Rontgendiagnostik jener Schiidelregionen vorbehalten, die durch ihren komplizierten Bau und ihre besonderen Funktionen die Entwicklung einer speziellen Rontgendiagnostik rechtfertigen. Dies gilt in besonderem MaBe fur das Schliifenbein, des sen seinerzeitige erste handbuchmiiBige Darstellung "Otologische Ront- gendiagnostik" von E. G. MAYER schon zu den Standardwerken des radiologischen Welt- schrifttums gehOrt und dessen heutige Bearbeitung dank der liebenswurdigen Unter- stutzung unseres verehrten osterreichischen Freundes von seinem Schuler und engsten Mitarbeiter in starker Anlehnung an das damalige erste Werk, aber in neuer Fassung vorgelegt werden kann.