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In an era in which "resistance" has become tokenized, popular
Indigenous author Kaitlin Curtice reclaims it as a basic human
calling. Resistance is for every human who longs to see their
neighbors' holistic flourishing. We each have a role to play in the
world right where we are, and our everyday acts of resistance hold
us all together. Curtice shows that we can learn to practice
embodied ways of belonging and connection to ourselves and one
another through everyday practices, such as getting more in touch
with our bodies, resting, and remembering our ancestors. She
explores four "realms of resistance"--the personal, the communal,
the ancestral, and the integral--and shows how these realms overlap
and why all are needed for our liberation. Readers will be
empowered to seek wholeness in whatever spheres of influence they
inhabit.
"A stunner...every sentence is a feast for the senses." -Rachel
Held Evans When you have an experience and tell the story of that
experience to someone, something sacred happens inside of you. That
experience doesn't have to be an extravagant moment, but it can be
beautiful, nonetheless. And as you store up all those stories and
share them, you grow your world's boundaries. You build community
and remind yourself that every moment of your life counts for
something holy, good, and glorious. The search for glory will bring
freedom and a fresh perspective to whatever season you happen to
find yourself in. Glory Happening is a book of stories and prayers
that remind you to take a closer look at your everyday
circumstances, to find the magical beauty in everyday experiences.
It is an invitation to live deeply into every moment with the
expectation that something good will find you at the end of the
day. And once you experience glory, you have words to speak, a
prayer to pray, and a story to tell. And so glory grows from person
to person, and community is created around the reality that God is
truly in our midst.
Foreword INDIES 2020 Book of the Year Award (SILVER Winner for
Religion) 2021 Georgia Author of the Year Award (Inspirational)
2021 Midwest Book Award (Silver Winner for Religion/Philosophy)
Native is about identity, soul-searching, and the never-ending
journey of finding ourselves and finding God. As both a citizen of
the Potawatomi Nation and a Christian, Kaitlin Curtice offers a
unique perspective on these topics. In this book, she shows how
reconnecting with her Potawatomi identity both informs and
challenges her faith. Curtice draws on her personal journey,
poetry, imagery, and stories of the Potawatomi people to address
themes at the forefront of today's discussions of faith and culture
in a positive and constructive way. She encourages us to embrace
our own origins and to share and listen to each other's stories so
we can build a more inclusive and diverse future. Each of our
stories matters for the church to be truly whole. As Curtice shares
what it means to experience her faith through the lens of her
Indigenous heritage, she reveals that a vibrant spirituality has
its origins in identity, belonging, and a sense of place.
Highlighting the challenges RF and microwave circuit designers face
in their day-to-day tasks, RF and Microwave Circuits, Measurements,
and Modeling explores RF and microwave circuit designs in terms of
performance and critical design specifications. The book discusses
transmitters and receivers first in terms of functional circuit
block and then examines each block individually. Separate articles
consider fundamental amplifier issues, low noise amplifiers, power
amplifiers for handset applications and high power, power
amplifiers. Additional chapters cover other circuit functions
including oscillators, mixers, modulators, phase locked loops,
filters and multiplexers.
New chapters discuss high-power PAs, bit error rate testing, and
nonlinear modeling of heterojunction bipolar transistors, while
other chapters feature new and updated material that reflects
recent progress in such areas as high-volume testing, transmitters
and receivers, and CAD tools.
The unique behavior and requirements associated with RF and
microwave systems establishes a need for unique and complex models
and simulation tools. The required toolset for a microwave circuit
designer includes unique device models, both 2D and 3D
electromagnetic simulators, as well as frequency domain based small
signal and large signal circuit and system simulators. This unique
suite of tools requires a design procedure that is also
distinctive. This book examines not only the distinct design tools
of the microwave circuit designer, but also the design procedures
that must be followed to use them effectively.
A privileged tour of a lavish estate in Greenwich featuring an
abundance of garden experiences - formal boxwood and undulating
hornbeam hedges, dense woodland, reflecting pools, arbors and
follies - and a ferme ornee offering organic produce to the
community. Sleepy Cat Farm is the vision of one man, Fred Landman,
who acquired the handsome Georgian Revival house and grounds in
1994. Deeply committed to the concept of harmony between house and
garden, he has dedicated himself to the landscape to create a
garden of which the house could be proud. Collaborating with
Greenwich architect Charles Hilton and noted landscape architect
Charles J. Stick and drawing inspiration from travels in Europe and
Asia, Landman has done just that. The landscape unfolds in a series
of garden rooms and pavilions, pathways and pools, statuary and
staircases, trees, shrubs and flowerbeds, hillsides and vistas that
change daily, monthly, almost minute by minute, as the visitor
explores this undulating landscape of surprises, intrigue and
unexpected beauty. Names were given to the various aspects: The
Golden Path, the Grotto, The Iris Garden, the Spirit Walk, the
Perennial Long Border Garden, the Pebble Terrace, the Woodland
Walk. Buildings and follies were added, also with storybook
names--the Celestial Pavilion, the Barn, the Limonaia, the Chinese
Pavilion, the Cat Maze and Arbor. Down the hill from the main house
is an working organic farm that supplies produce to the community,
a project of Landman's wife, Seen Lippert, a professional chef who
worked with Alice Waters in California before moving East. Landman
and Lippert are committed to sharing the beauty that they have
created. They are generous in opening the property for charitable
events and tours of gardeners and horticultural enthusiasts,
particularly through the Open Days program of the Garden
Conservancy. As Landman says, One of my greatest joys is when other
people come here and get to experience what I experience every day.
The most important thing is that they leave happy.
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Winter's Gifts
Kaitlin B Curtice; Illustrated by Gloria Félix
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'The Rolls Royce of opinion surveys.' - The Times '...an important
barometer of opinion...' - The Telegraph '...invaluable surveys of
the national mood...' - Guardian '...examines who we think we are,
what we think, and how self-perceptions have changed over the past
25 years.' - Financial Times The annual British Social Attitudes
survey is carried out by Britain's largest independent social
research organisation, the National Centre for Social Research. It
provides an indispensable guide to political and social issues in
contemporary Britain, summarising and interpreting data from the
most recent nationwide survey, as well as drawing invaluable
comparisons with the findings of previous years to provide a richer
picture and deeper understanding of changing British social values.
The 27th Report focuses on the national mood after three terms of a
Labour government. It includes analysis of the reaction to Labour's
policies in health and education and explores people's perceptions
of social mobility and inequality. It also examines the extent to
which the banking crisis and MP's expenses scandal have shaped
public attitudes and values The British Social Attitudes survey
report is essential reading for anyone seeking a guide to the
topical issues and debates of today or engaged in contemporary
social and political research.
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Has Devolution Delivered? (Paperback)
Catherine Bromley, John Curtice, David McCrone, Alison Park, Anthony John Parker
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One of the key aims of devolution in Scotland was to change the way
people felt about their country and the way they were governed.
This book draws on a unique range of Scottish Election Studies and
Scottish Social Attitudes surveys to explore the early success --
or otherwise -- of devolution in meeting this objective. It asks
how the Scottish public has reacted to the initial experience of
devolution, and the lessons this experience might have for the
future of devolution. The following questions are considered: * How
have public attitudes towards the governance of Scotland within the
Union evolved from pre-devolution to the end of the first term of
the Scottish Parliament? * What has happened to support for the
principal advocates for leaving the Union, the SNP? * Why are fewer
people voting in devolved elections than in UK elections? * To what
degree does the behaviour of those who vote reveal a sense of
involvement in the work of the Parliament? * What are voters'
attitudes to the additional member electoral system? * Who are
regarded as fellow Scots by those who all themselves 'Scottish'? *
What are Scots' attitudes towards the Pakistani and English
minorities in Scotland? Drawing on rich sources, this book presents
a comprehensive and complete analysis of the Scottish public's
evolving view of devolution. Key Features: * Provides a short
history of devolution including how the 1999 and 2003 elections
were fought and their outcomes * Looks at public attitudes to 4 key
objectives many hoped devolution would achieve: (i) a
better-governed country; (ii) a public more involved in how the
country is governed; (iii) an electorate with more influence; (iv)
the development of open civic nationalism, not one based on narrow
notions of ethnicity * Asks what we should expect of devolution
over the next decade based on what we have learnt about public
opinion in Scotland * Written by an established team of writers
known for their work in Scottish survey analysis
The Scottish parliamentary and local elections of 2007 were
significant for two key reasons: the SNP was brought to power for
the first time in its history, posing a fundamental challenge to
the 300-year Scottish-English Union; and the local elections used
the Single Transferable Vote - the first time such an electoral
system has been used in Great Britain since 1945. This book will
explore the significance of these two developments, asking whether
they herald a revolutionary break with the past or simply mark a
continuing evolution of existing patterns of Scottish politics. It
does so using a unique source of evidence - representative high
quality annual sample surveys of the Scottish public that since
1999 have regularly measured how people in Scotland have reacted to
devolution and how they have behaved in elections. Readers will
gain an unparalleled insight into the identities, attitudes and
electoral behaviour of people in Scotland during the first decade
of devolution.
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