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The Marriage Gift will inspire and equip you to pray boldly and
specifically every day of the year to grow in confidence and
intimacy with both your spouse and the Lord. Prayer is one of the
greatest assets to your marriage. Whether you already feel
comfortable praying together or need help kickstarting your prayer
life, The Marriage Gift is your go-to guide for bold, powerful
prayers for your marriage. Filled with practical, real-world topics
such as health and healing, finances, trust, technology issues,
anxiety, temptation, self-control, life transitions, supporting
each other's goals, and more, this book will open your eyes and
your heart to new ways of loving your partner. As you pray
together, you will: Learn to trust God more as you see him move in
mighty ways in every area of your life and marriage Experience
growth and change in the areas of your marriage that need work
Create a lifelong habit of deep, meaningful, and specific prayer
for your marriage Learn how God intends marriage to be a ministry
that blesses your community and the world at large, in addition to
growing you individually  Aaron and Jennifer Smith have
shown how the power of prayer can transform a marriage as they've
shared personal challenges and victories for more than ten years.
The Marriage Gift is their invitation for you to experience
transformation in your own marriage as you commit to praying bold,
powerful prayers for one another this year.
What if God has purposed your marriage for something so much more
than "happily ever after?" Since the very beginning, God's design
for marriage has been for husbands and wives to be ambassadors of
holy love to a hurting world. Still, too many couples stop short at
happy and wonder why they feel unsatisfied. Rather than "you and me
against the world," God calls each couple to the rich and
meaningful mission of "you and me for the world." In Marriage After
God, Aaron and Jennifer Smith, popular marriage bloggers at
HusbandRevolution.com and UnveiledWife.com, transparently share
their own journey of turning a marriage in crisis into a marriage
built on Christ's redemptive love. With fresh biblical insight and
intimate stories of their own struggles and victories, this book
will guide you toward a God-centered, ministry-minded, and thriving
marriage. Throughout Marriage After God, you'll learn to: Discover
the signature marks of a marriage after God Find principles for
building an unshakable marriage foundation Let God's story take the
lead in your love story Recognize the tools God has already
equipped you with for a missional life together Filled with
timeless wisdom, this thorough and practical book will empower you
and your spouse to dream, decide, and do as you step hand in hand
into God's ultimate purpose for your marriage. God has created your
remarkable, romantic, and redemptive relationship to be a powerful
light to a dark and hurting world. Let Marriage After God be your
invitation to marriage as God intended--a life-saving,
hope-inspiring, and transforming force of God's love. Praise for
Marriage After God: "This book is an incredible resource for anyone
trying to grow or step into a healthier and more life-giving
marriage. Aaron and Jen pull no punches; are honest, raw, and
authentic; and show that a marriage in pursuit of Jesus can change
the world." --Jefferson Bethke, New York Times bestselling author
of Jesus > Religion "There is a short list of books I'm stashing
away for my three small kiddos to read when they are
older--Marriage After God is one of them. Dear couples of the
world, you have picked up a treasure! This book will give you clear
direction to live out God's will for your marriage. There is no
greater gift you can give yourselves than to run after Him
together. Marriage After God will show you how!" --Lara Casey,
author of Cultivate and Make It Happen
Policy-related, academic and populist accounts of the relationship
between food and class tend to reproduce a dichotomy that
privileges either middle-class discerning taste or working-class
necessity. Taking a markedly different approach, this collection
explores the classed cultures of food practices across the spectrum
of social stratification. Eschewing assumptions about the tastes
(or lack thereof) of low-income consumers, the authors call
attention to the diverse, complex forms of critical creativity and
cultural capital employed by individuals, families and communities
in their attempts to acquire and prepare food that is both healthy
and desirable. The collection includes research carried out in the
United States, Canada, Mexico and Denmark, and covers diverse
contexts, from the intense insecurity of food deserts to the
relative security of social democratic states. Through quantitative
and qualitative cross-class comparisons, and ethnographic accounts
of low-income experiences and practices, the authors examine the
ways in which food practices and preferences are inflected by
social class (alone, and in combination with gender, ethnicity and
urban/rural location). The collection underlines the simultaneous
need for the development of a more nuanced, dynamic account of the
tastes and cultural competences of socially disadvantaged groups,
and for structural critiques of the gross inequalities in the
degrees of freedom with which different individuals and groups
engage in food practices. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Food, Culture & Society.
Policy-related, academic and populist accounts of the relationship
between food and class tend to reproduce a dichotomy that
privileges either middle-class discerning taste or working-class
necessity. Taking a markedly different approach, this collection
explores the classed cultures of food practices across the spectrum
of social stratification. Eschewing assumptions about the tastes
(or lack thereof) of low-income consumers, the authors call
attention to the diverse, complex forms of critical creativity and
cultural capital employed by individuals, families and communities
in their attempts to acquire and prepare food that is both healthy
and desirable. The collection includes research carried out in the
United States, Canada, Mexico and Denmark, and covers diverse
contexts, from the intense insecurity of food deserts to the
relative security of social democratic states. Through quantitative
and qualitative cross-class comparisons, and ethnographic accounts
of low-income experiences and practices, the authors examine the
ways in which food practices and preferences are inflected by
social class (alone, and in combination with gender, ethnicity and
urban/rural location). The collection underlines the simultaneous
need for the development of a more nuanced, dynamic account of the
tastes and cultural competences of socially disadvantaged groups,
and for structural critiques of the gross inequalities in the
degrees of freedom with which different individuals and groups
engage in food practices. This book was originally published as a
special issue of Food, Culture & Society.
This volume focuses on intersections of race, class, gender, and
nation in the formation of the fin-de-siecle Spanish and Spanish
colonial subject. Despite the wealth of research produced on
gender, social class, race, and national identity few studies have
focused on how these categories interacted, frequently operating
simultaneously to reveal contexts in which dominated groups were
dominating and vice versa. Such revelations call into question
metanarratives about the exploitation of one group by another and
bring to light interlocking systems of identity formation, and
consequently oppression, that are difficult to disentangle. The
authors included here study this dynamic in a variety of genres and
venues, namely the essay, the novel, the short story, theater, and
zarzuelas. These essays cover canonical authors such as Benito
Perez Galdos and Emilia Pardo Bazan, and understudied female
authors such as Rosario de Acuna and Belen Sarraga. The authors
included here study this dynamic in a variety of genres and venues,
namely the essay, the novel, the short story, theater, and
zarzuelas. The volume builds on recent scholarship on race, class,
gender, and nation by focusing specifically on the intersections of
these categories, and by studying this dynamic in popular culture,
visual culture, and in the works of both canonical and lesser-known
authors.
* The interest in wine studies and culture has greatly expanded
over the past ten years across several disciplines and this is a
timely, state of the art and significant reference works that
brings the different perspectives together in one volume. It will
be useful and important for researchers and students, both in
education facing the wine industry and in a variety of humanities
and social sciences engaged in understanding patterns of human
ingenuity and interaction such as sociology, anthropology, health,
geography, business, tourism, cultural studies, food studies and
history. * It offers unrivalled coverage of core and current topics
related to understanding the intersection between wine studies and
culture. * An impressive editorial team and list of suggested
contributors that cross disciplinary disciplines and geographical
boarders. It will appeal globally to a wide range of disciplines. *
The structure of the book is cohesive and logical.
This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and
historical analysis of the current fitness culture.
Fitness today is not simply about health clubs and exercise
classes, or measures of body mass index and cardiovascular
endurance. Fit for Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field
within which individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not
altogether reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social
demands made on the individual body that characterize our current
era.
Intended for researchers and senior undergraduate and
postgraduate students of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the
body, this book utilizes the US fitness field as a case study
through which to explore the place of the body in contemporary
consumer culture. Combining observations in health clubs,
interviews with fitness producers and consumers, and a discourse
analysis of a wide variety of fitness texts, this book provides an
empirically grounded examination of one of the pressing theoretical
questions of our time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer
culture and the service economy; how our bodies and selves become
'fit for consumption.'
This volume focuses on intersections of race, class, gender, and
nation in the formation of the fin-de-siecle Spanish and Spanish
colonial subject. Despite the wealth of research produced on
gender, social class, race, and national identity few studies have
focused on how these categories interacted, frequently operating
simultaneously to reveal contexts in which dominated groups were
dominating and vice versa. Such revelations call into question
metanarratives about the exploitation of one group by another and
bring to light interlocking systems of identity formation, and
consequently oppression, that are difficult to disentangle. The
authors included here study this dynamic in a variety of genres and
venues, namely the essay, the novel, the short story, theater, and
zarzuelas. These essays cover canonical authors such as Benito
Perez Galdos and Emilia Pardo Bazan, and understudied female
authors such as Rosario de Acuna and Belen Sarraga. The authors
included here study this dynamic in a variety of genres and venues,
namely the essay, the novel, the short story, theater, and
zarzuelas. The volume builds on recent scholarship on race, class,
gender, and nation by focusing specifically on the intersections of
these categories, and by studying this dynamic in popular culture,
visual culture, and in the works of both canonical and lesser-known
authors.
Increasingly used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones,
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful set of
tools for integrating and processing spatial information. These
technologies are increasingly used in the management and analysis
of the coastal zone. Supplying the guidance necessary to use these
tools, GIS for Coastal Zone Management explores key technical,
theoretical, and applications issues. Drawing on the practical
experience of experts in the field, the book discusses recent
developments and specific applications. A comprehensive,
authoritative, and up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art in
coastal zone GIS applications, this down-to-earth and practical
book puts the science in a management context. The chapters present
groundbreaking coastal applications of GIS based decision support
tools, spatial data infrastructures, remote sensing technology
including LiDAR and CASI, and more. Covering a broad range of
topics by international experts, the logical organization supplies
a flow and structure to the entire book that makes the information
not only easily accessible but immediately applicable.
Legal records illuminate womens' use of legal processes, with
regard to the making of wills, the age of consent, rights
concerning marriage and children, women as traders, etc. Determined
and largely successful effort to read behind and alongside legal
discourses to discover women's voices and women's feelings. It adds
usefully to the wider debate on women's role in medieval society.
ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW What is really new here is the ways in
which the authors approach the history of the law: they use some
decidedly non-legal texts to examine legal history; they bring
together historical and literary sources; and they debunk the view
that medieval laws had little to say about women or that medieval
women had little legal agency. ALBION The legal position of the
late medieval woman has been much neglected, and it is this gap
which the essays collected here seek to fill. They explore the ways
in which women of all ages and stations during the late middle ages
(c.1300-c.1500) could legally shift for themselves, and how and
where they did so. Particular topics discussed include the making
of wills, the age of consent, rights concerning marriage, care,
custody and guardianship (with particular emphasis on the rights of
a mother attempting to gain custody of her own children within the
court system), women as traders, women as criminals, prostitution,
the rights of battered women within the courts, the procedures
women had to go through to gain legal redress and access, rape, and
women within guilds. NOELJAMES MENUGE gained her Ph.D. from the
Centre of Medieval Studies at the University of York. Contributors:
P.J.P. GOLDBERG, VICTORIA THOMPSON, JENNIFER SMITH, CORDELIA
BEATTIE, KATHERINE J. LEWIS, NOEL JAMES MENUGE, CORINNE SAUNDERS,
KIM M. PHILLIPS, EMMA HAWKES
This volume looks at the concept of the declarative city from an
interdisciplinary perspective, comprising literary and linguistic
studies, arts and art history, discourse analysis, as well as urban
planning. The various contributions demonstrate the semiotic
complexity and inconsistency of declarative and discursive
practices in different social, cultural, aesthetic, and historical
contexts.
Increasingly used to analyze and manage marine and coastal zones,
Geographical Information Systems (GIS) provide a powerful set of
tools for integrating and processing spatial information. These
technologies are increasingly used in the management and analysis
of the coastal zone. Supplying the guidance necessary to use these
tools, GIS for Coastal Zone Management explores key technical,
theoretical, and applications issues. Drawing on the practical
experience of experts in the field, the book discusses recent
developments and specific applications. A comprehensive,
authoritative, and up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art in
coastal zone GIS applications, this down-to-earth and practical
book puts the science in a management context. The chapters present
groundbreaking coastal applications of GIS based decision support
tools, spatial data infrastructures, remote sensing technology
including LiDAR and CASI, and more. Covering a broad range of
topics by international experts, the logical organization supplies
a flow and structure to the entire book that makes the information
not only easily accessible but immediately applicable.
This is the first text to offer a comprehensive socio-cultural and
historical analysis of the current fitness culture. Fitness today
is not simply about health clubs and exercise classes, or measures
of body mass index and cardiovascular endurance. Fit for
Consumption conceptualizes fitness as a field within which
individuals and institutions may negotiate - if not altogether
reconcile - the competing and often conflicting social demands made
on the individual body that characterize our current era. Intended
for researchers and senior undergraduate and postgraduate students
of sport, leisure, cultural studies and the body, this book
utilizes the US fitness field as a case study through which to
explore the place of the body in contemporary consumer culture.
Combining observations in health clubs, interviews with fitness
producers and consumers, and a discourse analysis of a wide variety
of fitness texts, this book provides an empirically grounded
examination of one of the pressing theoretical questions of our
time: how individuals learn to fit into consumer culture and the
service economy; and, how our bodies and selves become 'fit for
consumption.'
A Child Knows More Than You Think
Written by a 12 Year Old Child With Dyslexia
Jennifer is struggling through school. Kids tease her, teachers
question her ability. Her own family doesn't even understand
her.
Listen to her story as she tells it in her own words.
Learn how she struggles from being different from her peers, how
she reacted when she finally found out why, and how she overcame
the trials dyslexia brought into her life. Parents, teachers,
tutors, and family members will benefit from the lessons in this
remarkable story.
“I Have Dyslexia: This Does Not Define Who I Am!” Jennifer
Smith
For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the
millions of other’s who struggle to read at their own grade levels
and for their parents, teachers, tutors, families and friends.
If you're responsible for producing quality printed materials or
creating great-looking Web pages for your business or organization,
Adobe's new Creative Suite has just what you need. This complete
set of integrated graphics, design, and Web page creation tools
will help you produce professional quality brochures, flyers, and
newsletters as well as dynamic Web pages--as soon as you get
familiar with all the parts
Well, relax. "Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For
Dummies(R)" has you--and all those programs--covered. Five
minibooks walk you through setting up and using the tools, while
the sixth shows you how they all work together. And this single
volume will remain a handy reference long after you gain
proficiency with the entire suite: InDesign for page
layoutIllustrator for creating art and graphicsPhotoshop, the
world's favorite image editing programAcrobat, to share files
across different operating systems and develop interactive
formsGoLive for building innovative Web pages
Even if you plan to use only one or two of these elements now,
"Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies(R)" is
an outstanding resource. Find out what you need to know today, and
when you're ready to tackle the next tool, just turn to that
minibook and away you go. These are only a few of the skills you'll
discover: Create a professional-looking page with InDesign, import
Photoshop and Illustrator graphics to enliven it, and preserve it
in a PDF fileDesign a logo for your business with Illustrator and
give it 3D effectsSave Illustrator files in a variety of
Web-compatible formats, including GIF, HTML, and even Macromedia(R)
Flash SWFCorrect photo color and edit your images in PhotoshopPlan
an entire Web site for maximum impact, then save hours of work by
using GoLive's templates, components, and librariesUse Acrobat to
create PDFs that include MP3 audio, video or SWF files
Whether your goal is to design newsletters, a full-size book, an
e-commerce Web site, or just about anything else, Adobe's Creative
Suite plus "Adobe Creative Suite All-In-One Desk Reference For
Dummies(R)" will help you get the job done.
In the segregated South of the mid-1900s, fourteen-year-old Nell
bears witness to a world that embraces the oppression of women.
Married off when she turns sixteen, she journeys from the South to
the city of Boston, where she must quickly learn first how to be a
wife to a controlling and emotionally abusive husband, and then a
mother. After giving birth to three children, Nell's body begins to
fail her. Her husband, concerned for her health, pulls away from
her physically. But this void of intimacy drives Nell into the arms
of another man, Charles- an encounter that leads to another
pregnancy, and another unanticipated adventure for Nell.
"Learning Photoshop CS3" is like having access to a top-notch team
of your very own instructors. Written by product experts and
trainers who have produced many of Adobe's training titles, the
book takes you step-by-step through the process of learning to use
Photoshop CS3 like a pro. This full-color book is organized into
lessons, with easy-to-follow instructions, tips, examples, and
review questions at the end of every lesson. Each lesson is
self-contained, so you can go through the entire book sequentially
or just focus on individual lessons. The topics covered include:
what's new in Photoshop CS3; bridge; camera Raw; making selections;
painting and retouching; layers, smart objects, and filters; and
creating graphics for the web and video. In addition, every book in
this series also comes with a DVD with video demos and exercise
files for the lessons, including projects in various stages of
completion, rather than the usual "start" and "finished" versions.
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