Veronica Avery. If you ask her she is the baddest bitch Chicago, IL has ever seen next to her sister Pricey of course. After her mother commits suicide, love, murder, rape soon follows and Veronica's teenage life is changed forever. After surviving what she thinks is the worst part of her life she is more than willing to trade in her hardships and poverty to make money by any means. She believes she can capitalize on every situation by manipulating the men in her life. Veronica finds out that every guy can't be had and playing around with dangerous men like Dorian, Tyrese and Richard she might lose more than she can stand. Veronica knows with her good looks, ruthless mentality and trigger happy finger there is nothing she can't have. Through her journey she will realize that there are far worst things in life than death and that there are more precious things in life than money.

Claim your prophetic promise in the midst of the storm!

What do you do when you receive a promise from the Lord but it doesn’t come to pass? How do you get from promise to fulfillment?

When Ryan Johnson’s mother was diagnosed with cancer, God took him on a revelatory journey, showing him how prophetic promises are realized. In the midst of her grim diagnosis, Ryan’s mother was having recurring dreams of playing with her adult grandchildren. These dreams were prophetic signposts that the diagnosis would not be a death sentence. This gave Ryan faith to press into God for answers and contend for a miracle. Now his mother is healed and cancer free! During this process, the Holy Spirit revealed keys to activating faith and seeing promises come to pass, even when it seems like the situation is hopeless.

How to Contend for Your Miracle will show you how to…

• Use the dreams, visions, and prophetic words that God gives as anchors for your faith and weapons against the enemy.
• Activate the gift of faith to accelerate the fulfillment of your prophetic promises.
• Thrive in the midst of your struggle by standing on the Word of God.
  

Rise up! Contend for your miracle, so all of God’s promises can come to pass!

What if the protagonist of Hegel's Phenomenology were Black? Ryan Johnson and Biko Mandela Gray study the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis The first philosophy book written, in a single voice, by a Black philosopher and a white philosopher Dramatizes a dialectical parallelism between Hegel's Phenomenology and Black Thought Diversifies and transforms the history of philosophy by forcing canonical thinkers into direct dialogue with 19th-20th-century African American, African, and Africana thinkers Expands Hegel Studies by including habitually excluded perspectives and voices Champions the history of African American Philosophy Articulates the expansiveness and interdisciplinarity of Black Thought This staging of an elongated dialectical parallelism between Hegel's classic text and major 19th-20th-century Black thinkers explodes the western canon of philosophy. Johnson and Mandela Gray show that Hegel's abstract dialectic is transformed and critiqued when put into conversation with the lived dialectics of Black Thought: from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs through to Malcolm X and Angela Davis. While Hegel articulates the dynamic logics that we see in these Black thinkers, when they are placed in parallel and considered together, the whiteness, both explicit and implicit, of Hegelianism itself is revealed. Forcing Hegelianism into the embodied history of Black Thought reveals a phenomenology of America whose spirit is Black.

Over the last several decades, historians of public health in Britain 's colonies have been primarily concerned with the process of policy making in the upper echelons of the medical and sanitary administrations. Yet it was the lower level staff that formed the backbone of public health systems in the colonies. Although they constituted the bases of many colonies public health machinery, there is no consolidated study of these individuals to date. Public Health in the British Empire addresses this gap by bringing together historians studying intermediary and subordinate staff across the British Empire.

Along with investigating the duties and responsibilities of medical and non-medical intermediary and subordinate personnel, the contributors to this volume show how the subjectivity of these agents influenced the manner in which they discharged their duties and how this in turn shaped policy. Even those working as low level assistants and aids were able to affect policy design. In this way, Public Health in the British Empire brings into sharp relief the disaggregated nature of the empire, thereby challenging the understanding of the imperial project as an enterprise conceived of and driven from the center.

Master your virtual environment with the ultimate vSphere guide Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 is the fully updated edition of the bestselling guide to VMware's virtualization solution. With comprehensive coverage of this industry-leading toolset, this book acts as an informative guide and valuable reference. Step-by-step instruction walks you through installation, configuration, operation, security processes, and much more as you conquer the management and automation of your virtual environment. Written by certified VMware vExperts, this indispensable guide provides hands-on instruction and detailed conceptual explanations, anchored by practical applications and real-world examples. This book is the ultimate guide to vSphere, helping administrators master their virtual environment. Learn to: Install, configure, and manage the vCenter Server components Leverage the Support Tools to provide maintenance and updates Create and configure virtual networks, storage devices, and virtual machines Implement the latest features to ensure compatibility and flexibility Manage resource allocation and utilization to meet application needs Monitor infrastructure performance and availability Automate and orchestrate routine administrative tasks Mastering VMware vSphere 6.7 is what you need to stay up-to-date on VMware's industry-leading software for the virtualized datacenter.

Biko Mandela Gray and Ryan J. Johnson study the relationship between Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit and Black Thought from Frederick Douglass to Angela Davis.This staging of an elongated dialectical parallelism between Hegel's classic text and major 19th- and 20th-century Black thinkers explodes the western canon of philosophy. Gray and Johnson show that Hegel's abstract dialectic is transformed and critiqued when put into conversation with the lived dialectics of Black Thought: from Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs through to Malcolm X and Angela Davis.While Hegel articulates the dynamic logics that we see in these Black thinkers, when they are placed in parallel and considered together, the whiteness, both explicit and implicit, of Hegelianism itself is revealed. Forcing Hegelianism into the embodied history of Black Thought reveals a phenomenology of America whose spirit is Black.

From floating barges of urban refuse to dung-encrusted works of art, from toxic landfills to dirty movies, filth has become a major presence and a point of volatile contention in modern life. This book explores the question of what filth has to do with culture: what critical role the lost, the rejected, the abject, and the dirty play in social management and identity formation. It suggests the ongoing power of culturally mandated categories of exclusion and repression.Focusing on filth in literary and cultural materials from London, Paris, and their colonial outposts in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the essays in Filth, all but one previously unpublished, range over topics as diverse as the building of sewers in nineteenth-century European metropolises, the link between interior design and bourgeois sanitary phobias, fictional representations of laboring women and foreigners as polluting, and relations among disease, disorder, and sexual-racial disharmony. Filth provides the first sustained consideration, both theoretical and historical, of a subject whose power to horrify, fascinate, and repel is as old as civilization itself.Contributors: David S. Barnes, U of Pennsylvania; Neil Blackadder, Knox College; Joseph Bristow, U of California, Los Angeles; Joseph W. Childers, U of California, Riverside; Eileen Cleere, Southwestern U; Natalka Freeland, U of California, Irvine; Pamela K. Gilbert, U of Florida; Christopher Hamlin, U of Notre Dame; William Kupinse, U of Puget Sound; Benjamin Lazier, U of Chicago; David L. Pike, American U; David Trotter, U of Cambridge.William A. Cohen is associate professor of English at the University of Maryland and the author of Sex Scandal: The Private Parts of Victorian Fiction.Ryan Johnson is completing his Ph.D. in the Department of English at Stanford University, where he has served as general editor of the Stanford Humanities Review.

WHY AM I A CHRISTIAN is a book of more than 200 questions designed to make you reevaluate your beliefs in an effort to grow and improve. None of us can claim to know all the answers or to live mistake free lives and for this reason we always have room to better ourselves and our understanding of humanity, life and God. The questions contained in this book will encourage you to break free from complacency and the false security of unquestioned beliefs. It's not easy to examine your convictions, however it will leave you with a stronger, more secure, faith. This is certainly not a complete list of useful questions and our hope is that you continue to think of your own questions long after you've finished this book. We have seen a tremendous growth in our own lives as a result of asking ourselves these questions and we pray that they have a positive impact on your lives

Veronica Avery. If you ask her she is the baddest bitch Chicago, IL has ever seen next to her sister Pricey of course. After her mother commits suicide, love, murder, rape soon follows and Veronica's teenage life is changed forever. After surviving what she thinks is the worst part of her life she is more than willing to trade in her hardships and poverty to make money by any means. She believes she can capitalize on every situation by manipulating the men in her life. Veronica finds out that every guy can't be had and playing around with dangerous men like Dorian, Tyrese and Richard she might lose more than she can stand. Veronica knows with her good looks, ruthless mentality and trigger happy finger there is nothing she can't have. Through her journey she will realize that there are far worst things in life than death and that there are more precious things in life than money.