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Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in
2006,Family of Earth allows us to see into the mind of the young
author andAppalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would
become oneof the American South's most prolific and storied
writers. Focusing on herchildhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman
reveals a perceptive and sophisticatedunderstanding of human
nature, the environment, and social justice.And yet, for her words'
remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as rawand vital.
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in
Asheville,she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of
her family's fortunes,plotting their rise and fall in uncertain
economic times and endingwith her father's sudden death in 1934
when she was fourteen years old. Featuring a foreword by fellow
North Carolinian Robert Morgan, Familyof Earth stands as a new
major literary work by a groundbreaking author.
This timely book offers a raw critique of the current educational
issues and debates, alongside ‘teacher hacks’ to provide
teachers, trainee teachers and educators with a plethora of
stimulating material to ignite curiosity, maintain passion, and
culture creativity in the classroom. Made in partnership with
academics and primary school teachers working on the frontline from
around the globe, this book is threaded with honest practitioner
voices as the big educational issues are boiled down and explored.
Chapters cover day-to-day organisation such as planning, subject
knowledge, setting homework, and behaviour management strategies,
right through to considering how we can best support children’s
mental health and staff wellbeing. As well as including critical
questions to encourage reflection throughout, the book offers
insights into meaningful experiences such: teaching overseas,
taking on responsibility roles in schools, considering how teachers
can become educational researchers for transformative change,
engaging with parents and carers, deploying Teaching Assistants.
Whether trainee teachers, Early Career Teachers, or established
practitioners, this book provides insight into trialed tips and
techniques for shaping pedagogy in the classroom. A modern,
well-resourced guide as we emerge from the global COVID19 pandemic.
Volberda, Morgan and Reinmoeller have joined with Hitt, Ireland and
Hoskisson to develop a truly landmark strategic management textbook
that is ideally suited for courses in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa as well as other global markets. With a new process
perspective to supplement the text's trademark integrated approach,
Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization provides
the most comprehensive and thorough coverage of strategic
management now available in the market. Whilst maintaining the
strengths and hallmark features of the original work, this new
strategy text has been specially prepared to match the modern EMEA
curriculum with boosted coverage of implementation issues, analysis
of how firms use strategic management tools, techniques and
concepts, a balanced emphasis on economics and resource-based
perspectives and expanded coverage of comparative governance and
organizational renewal. Strategic Management has been shortlisted
for the 2011/12 CMI Management Book of the Year awards in the ebook
and Management and Leadership Textbook categories. More information
about the CMI and the competition can be found here
http://yearbook.managers.org.uk/index5.htm.
This book is a collection of essays to celebrate 50 years of John
Macquarrie's publishing with SCM Press. A considerable influence on
many current thinkers and theologians, John Macquarrie's work in
areas as diverse as Christology, mysticism and ecclesiology are
celebrated here. With contributions from around the world,
including tributes from 25 theologians, this collection is a
reflective and enlightening survey of one man's achievements that
will be as enjoyable to the theology student as to the church goer.
Volberda, Morgan and Reinmoeller have joined with Hitt, Ireland and
Hoskisson to develop a truly landmark strategic management textbook
that is ideally suited for courses in Europe, the Middle East and
Africa as well as other global markets. With a new process
perspective to supplement the text's trademark integrated approach,
Strategic Management: Competitiveness and Globalization provides
the most comprehensive and thorough coverage of strategic
management now available in the market. Whilst maintaining the
strengths and hallmark features of the original work, this new
strategy text has been specially prepared to match the modern EMEA
curriculum with boosted coverage of implementation issues, analysis
of how firms use strategic management tools, techniques and
concepts, a balanced emphasis on economics and resource-based
perspectives and expanded coverage of comparative governance and
organizational renewal. Strategic Management has been shortlisted
for the 2011/12 CMI Management Book of the Year awards in the ebook
and Management and Leadership Textbook categories. More information
about the CMI and the competition can be found here
http://yearbook.managers.org.uk/index5.htm.
This timely book offers a raw critique of the current educational
issues and debates, alongside ‘teacher hacks’ to provide
teachers, trainee teachers and educators with a plethora of
stimulating material to ignite curiosity, maintain passion, and
culture creativity in the classroom. Made in partnership with
academics and primary school teachers working on the frontline from
around the globe, this book is threaded with honest practitioner
voices as the big educational issues are boiled down and explored.
Chapters cover day-to-day organisation such as planning, subject
knowledge, setting homework, and behaviour management strategies,
right through to considering how we can best support children’s
mental health and staff wellbeing. As well as including critical
questions to encourage reflection throughout, the book offers
insights into meaningful experiences such: teaching overseas,
taking on responsibility roles in schools, considering how teachers
can become educational researchers for transformative change,
engaging with parents and carers, deploying Teaching Assistants.
Whether trainee teachers, Early Career Teachers, or established
practitioners, this book provides insight into trialed tips and
techniques for shaping pedagogy in the classroom. A modern,
well-resourced guide as we emerge from the global COVID19 pandemic.
Sinceits founding by Jacques Waardenburg in 1971, Religion and
Reason has been a leading forum for contributions on theories,
theoretical issues and agendas related to the phenomenon and the
study of religion. Topics include (among others) category
formation, comparison, ethnophilosophy, hermeneutics, methodology,
myth, phenomenology, philosophy of science, scientific atheism,
structuralism, and theories of religion. From time to time the
series publishes volumes that map the state of the art and the
history of the discipline.
Gives a systematic comprehensive examination of all aspects of the
shotcrete process (only book to do so) Provides an authoritative
authorship from both industry and research Combines concrete
technology with practical aspects of the shotcrete placement method
Illustrates subject matter with case studies
Morgan provides a comprehensive, consistent, and unified analysis
of Madison's political philosophy using Madison's views on the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights as the focus. Morgan looks at
all that Madison wrote on these topics before, during, and after
the adoption of the Constitution. He argues that Madison's
constitutional philosophy was shaped by his view that there was an
inherent conflict between limited government and accountability on
the one hand, and the tendency of all to exercise autonomous,
unrestricted power. . . . His second thesis is that Madison was
propelled to become a constitutional reformer not by any desire to
curb democracy but by the need to preserve both the union and
republican government. Morgan emphasizes the impact of the American
experience in shaping Madison's thought as well as its eclectic
character. Choice James Madison stands out among the founding
fathers of the U.S. government because of his analytical and
creative political insight into the framing and explaining of the
Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Madison became a
constitutional reformer in order to preserve a republican
government strong enough to fulfill what he felt was the destiny of
the United States. This volume casts further light on Madison's
beliefs through a comprehensive examination of his writing. This is
not a simple task: there are substantial difficulties involved in
developing a comprehensive consistent, and unified analysis of
Madison's political thought. Madison's writings were extensive, and
must be carefully perused in order to separate the rhetoric of his
public exposition from the essence of his private thought.
Furthermore, Madison never denied his aim of justifying and
explaining the Constitution by sacrificing pure theory to the
requirements of the prevailing political situation. Nonetheless,
author Morgan has used the simplest possible interpretations of
Madison's writings to reveal a clear and overriding thesis that
gives unity and focus to his thought. This focus relates to the
continuing tensions between the democratic idea of accountability
and the tendency of all governments to seek autonomy, especially in
the conduct of foreign relations.
A "New York Times" Bestseller & Oprah's Book Club PickYoung
Julie Harmon works hard as a man, they say, so hard that at times
she s not sure she can stop. People depend on her to slaughter the
hogs and nurse the dying. People are weak, and there is so much to
do. At just seventeen she marries and moves down into the valley of
Gap Creek, where perhaps life will be better.But Julie and Hank s
new life in the valley, in the last years of the nineteenth
century, is more complicated than the couple ever imagined.
Sometimes it s hard to tell what to fear most the fires and floods
or the flesh-and-blood grifters, drunks, and busybodies who
insinuate themselves into their new life. To survive, they must
find out whether love can keep chaos and madness at bay. Their
struggles with nature, with work, with the changing century, and
with the disappointments and triumphs of their union make "Gap
Creek "a timeless story of a marriage."
Hiding during the day and running through the night, Jonah must
elude the men sent to capture him and the bounty hunters out to
claim the reward on his head. There is one person, however, who,
once on his trail, never lets him fully out of sight: Angel,
herself a slave, yet with a remarkably free spirit. In Jonah, she
sees her own way to freedom, and so sets out to follow him.
Bristling with breathtaking adventure, Chasing the North Star is
deftly grounded in historical fact yet always gripping and poignant
as the story follows Jonah and Angel through the close calls and
narrow escapes of a fearsome world. It is a celebration of the
power of the human spirit to persevere in the face of great
adversity. And it is Robert Morgan at his considerable best.
Jim Wayne Miller (1936--1996) was a prolific writer, a revered
teacher and scholar, and a pioneer in the field of Appalachian
studies. During his thirty-three-year tenure at Western Kentucky
University, he helped build programs in the discipline in Kentucky,
Tennessee, and Ohio, and worked tirelessly to promote regional
voices by presenting the work of others as often as he did his own.
An innovative poet, essayist, and short story writer, Miller was
one of the founding fathers and animating spirits of the
Appalachian renaissance.
In Every Leaf a Mirror, Morris Allen Grubbs and Mary Ellen
Miller have gathered essential selections from the beloved author's
oeuvre. Highlights from the volume include touchstone poems;
seminal articles; a rare autobiographical essay; a commencement
address; and an excerpt from the previously unpublished short story
"Truth and Fiction." Revealing the scope and significance of
Miller's contributions as an artist and cultural scholar, this
reader captures the excitement that surrounded the birth of modern
Appalachian literature.
With commentary by Mary Ellen Miller, an introduction from
well-known author Robert Morgan, and an afterword by the notable
Silas House, Every Leaf a Mirror provides an unprecedentedly
intimate look at Miller's writing. This long overdue collection not
only celebrates the life of this revered ambassador of Appalachian
literature and culture but also introduces a new generation of
readers to his work.
Over 170 years after his death, Edgar Allan Poe remains a figure of
enduring fascination and speculation for readers, scholars, and
devotees of the weird and macabre. In Fallen Angel, acclaimed
novelist and poet Robert Morgan offers a new biography of this
gifted, complicated author. Focusing on Poe's personal
relationships, Morgan chronicles how several women influenced his
life and art. Eliza Poe, his mother, died before he turned three,
but she haunted him ever after. The loss of Elmira Royster Shelton,
his first and last love, devastated him and inspired much of his
poetry. Morgan shows that Poe, known for his gothic and
supernatural writing, was also a poet of the natural world who
helped invent the detective story, science fiction, analytical
criticism, and symbolist aesthetics. Though he died at age forty,
Poe left behind works of great originality and vision that Fallen
Angel explores with depth and feeling.
One of America s most acclaimed writers returns to the land on
which he has staked a literary claim to paint an indelible portrait
of a family in a time of unprecedented change. In a compelling
weaving of fact and fiction, Robert Morgan introduces a family s
captivating story, set during World War II and the Great
Depression. Driven by the uncertainties of the future, the family
struggles to define itself against the vivid Appalachian landscape.
The Road from Gap Creek explores modern American history through
the lives of an ordinary family persevering through extraordinary
times."
From Thomas Jefferson's birth in 1743 to the California Gold Rush
in 1849, America's westward expansion comes to life in the hands of
a writer fascinated by the way individual lives link up, illuminate
one another, and collectively impact history. Jefferson, a
naturalist and visionary, dreamed that the United States would
stretch across the North American continent, from ocean to ocean.
The account of how that dream became reality unfolds in the stories
of Jefferson and nine other Americans whose adventurous spirits and
lust for land pushed the westward boundaries: Andrew Jackson, John
"Johnny Appleseed" Chapman, David Crockett, Sam Houston, James K.
Polk, Winfield Scott, Kit Carson, Nicholas Trist, and John Quincy
Adams. Their stories--and those of the nameless thousands who
risked their lives to settle on the frontier, displacing thou-
sands of Native Americans--form an extraordinary chapter in
American history that led directly to the cataclysm of the Civil
War. Filled with illustrations, portraits, maps, battle plans,
notes, and time lines, "Lions of the West" is a richly
authoritative biography of America--its ideals, its promise, its
romance, and its destiny.
This is a thoroughly researched, crisply written, and convincingly
argued chronicle of the iconoclastic figure. This fascinating,
misunderstood, and enigmatic subject leaps to life and off the
pages of this seminal work. A bestselling novelist turns his
talents to history. Like Shelby Foote, who wrote fiction prior to
launching a successful career in historical research, Morgan's
background makes this biography engaging, energetic, and
masterfully told. This book brings colonial America to life -
Morgan fleshes out his narrative with a backdrop of life in
colonial times, examining the domestic, political, cultural, and
natural world of early America. It contains extensive maps and
illustrations throughout. Also includes 30 pages of notes and an
extensive bibliography.
"Biblical Interpretation" explains what interpretation is and what
special issues arise in biblical interpretation. It analyzes the
development of literary and historical criticism and more recent
social, scientific and literary approaches by focusing on figures
from Reimarus to Gerd Theissen, and exposes underlying theological
issues.;What emerges is a pattern in the relationship between
religious interests in these texts and the rational methods used to
interpret them. This aims to provide guidance for a theologically
sensitive use of the Bible today. An annotated index provides
detailed information on some 250 biblical scholars and other
interpreters.
Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in
2006,Family of Earth allows us to see into the mind of the young
author andAppalachian native Wilma Dykeman (1920-2006), who would
become oneof the American South's most prolific and storied
writers. Focusing on herchildhood in Buncombe County, Dykeman
reveals a perceptive and sophisticatedunderstanding of human
nature, the environment, and social justice.And yet, for her words'
remarkable polish, her voice still resonates as rawand vital.
Against the backdrop of early twentieth-century life in
Asheville,she chronicles the touching, at times harrowing, story of
her family's fortunes,plotting their rise and fall in uncertain
economic times and endingwith her father's sudden death in 1934
when she was fourteen years old. Featuring a foreword by fellow
North Carolinian Robert Morgan, Familyof Earth stands as a new
major literary work by a groundbreaking author.
Modern critical study of the Bible in the West has made a deep
impact on the fabric on Christian belief. This book explains what
interpretation is and what special issues arise in biblical
interpretation. It analyses the development of literary and
historical criticism and more recent social-scientific and literary
approaches, by focusing on the key figures from Reimarus to Gerd
Theissen, and exposes the underlying theological issues. There
emerges a pattern in the relationship between religious interests
in these texts and the rational methods used to interpret them,
providing guidance for a theologically sensitive use of the Bible
today. An annotated index provides detailed information on some 250
biblical scholars and other interpreters.
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