Sacred Pampering Principles

Author : Debrena J. Gandy
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-16
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9780688163471

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Sacred Pampering Principles by Debrena J. Gandy Pdf

Originally self-published to enormous acclaim and demand, Sacred Pampering Principles is a beautifully written guide with hundreds of easy and innovative ways for on-the-go women to pamper their bodies and nurture their spirits. With her holistic approach to filling your life with comfort, balance, and peace, Debrena Jackson Gandy debunks society's myth that doing something for yourself is decadent and selfish. In fact, she says, the joy we gain from treating ourselves--whether to a luxuriant bath or to a meditative hour alone--is transferred to the people in our lives. When we emerge rejuvenated, others benefit from a patient mother, a fulfilled wife, an effective coworker, a solidly grounded friend. Written for African-American women, but accessible to women of all races, Sacred Pampering Principles demonstrates not only pampering ideas, but also explains why pampering, for less time and money than one might imagine, is vital to a balanced life.

Author : Debrena Jackson Gandy
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1998-12-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 068814571X

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Sacred Pampering Principles by Debrena Jackson Gandy Pdf

Author : Debrena Jackson Gandy
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-18
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780307419743

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All the Joy You Can Stand by Debrena Jackson Gandy Pdf

As a successful writer, keynote speaker, consultant, and seminar leader, Debrena Jackson Gandy has helped thousands of African-American women access their inner power and live life more joyfully and boldly. All the Joy You Can Stand: 101 Sacred Power Principles for Making Joy Real in Your Life is the eagerly anticipated follow-up to her best-seller, Sacred Pampering Principles. This engaging, thought-provoking book features 101 Power Principles that will help you tap into what brings you joy in your life and give you the spiritual tools to manifest the desires of your heart, including how to:Discover Your Sacred SelfStrengthen Your Gratitude MusclesIntegrate Renewal Into Your LifeBe a Sensuous WomanFree Your Creative GeniusCultivate Your IntuitionBecome a Spiritual GardenerBe the Architect of Your LifeExpand Your Joy Threshold Using insightful stories from her own life, as well as the lives of her readers, friends, and seminar and lecture participants, Debrena Jackson Gandy has written an uplifting and transformational get-real guide for women who want to develop their spiritual strength and actualize their divine potential. Whether it's freeing your spirit by learning to release and forgive, or discovering how to more gracefully move through life's cycles and seasons, here are proven answers for some of life's most difficult questions. Prepare to be challenged and to ask yourself, "How much joy can I stand?" For as Debrena says, the more joy you can stand, the more joy God gives you.

Author : Andreas Gestrich,Elizabeth Hurren,Steven King
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2012-06-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781441110817

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Poverty and Sickness in Modern Europe by Andreas Gestrich,Elizabeth Hurren,Steven King Pdf

Explores the experiences of the sick poor in modern Europe via an analysis of pauper narratives.

Author : Mary M. Doyle Roche
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780739141922

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Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good by Mary M. Doyle Roche Pdf

Children, Consumerism, and the Common Good explores the impact of consumer culture on the lives of children in the United States and globally, focusing on two phenomena: advertising to children and child labor. Christian communities have a critical role to play in securing the well-being of children and challenging the cultural trends that undermine that well-being. Themes in the tradition of Catholic social teaching can move us beyond the tensions between children's rights activists and those who propose a return to 'family values' and can inform practices of resistance, participation, and transformation. Roche argues that children are full, interdependent members of the communities of which they are a part. They have a claim on the fruits of our common life and are called to participate in that life according to their age and ability. The principle of the common good forms the benchmark for analyzing children's participation in the market and the ways in which market logic shapes other institutions of civil society, particularly educational institutions. The Cristo Rey Network of schools is highlighted as an example of institutional transformation which shapes children's participation in education and the economic life of their families and communities in a spirit of solidarity.

Author : Howard Waitzkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317256144

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Medicine and Public Health at the End of Empire by Howard Waitzkin Pdf

The recent financial meltdown has brought notable changes to the global practice of health care changes that have often escaped the American news media. Although Western managed-care corporations previously had strengthened their influence abroad, now many countries are considering new approaches to health care for their citizens.The untold story of how corporations have influenced global health care and the impacts now in America as the system rapidly shifts is Dr. Waitzkin s subject in his provocative new book. We now live in a new era in which the prospects for more humane approaches to health care are taking root. Strengthening access and improving public health are at the heart of the many previously little-noted struggles and actions by individuals, groups, and whole nations to put control back in the hands of patients and practitioners, as Americans of many political stripes seem to universally seek. The impacts of these changes in the United States are considerable, and they are amply illustrated by Dr. Waitzkin as the United States attempts to reorient its own system of care.Selected as the 2012 winner of the Freidson Outstanding Publication Award by the American Sociological Association for its "bold and timely analysis of the global political economy of contemporary crises in health and medical care. By presenting the lessons learned from social medicine (past and present), [it] outlines a macro-sociologically informed response to these crises.""

Author : Renny Golden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Poetry
ISBN : UOM:39015049643979

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The Hour of the Furnaces by Renny Golden Pdf

"Too often in revolutionary wars, it is the selfless -- those who defend the powerless, who risk their lives for others, who give up their food, water, and shelter so that others might be fed and sheltered -- who are the first to die. Unfortunately, those who are the first to die are often the first to be forgotten. This book remembers, and, in doing so, takes us to a plac eof such profound risk that everything, everything, must be called into question. 'What did you do,' asks the slain Guatemalan poet, Otto Rene Castillo, 'when the poor burned out like a dying flame?' This collection of poems aspires to be both poetry and social history. The voices in these poems -- clergy, human rights workers, peasants, and guerrillas caught up in the wars that plagued Central America over the last couple of decades -- speak from Salvadoran graves, from Guatemalan highlands, from dank jails, from primitive hide-outs, from ghost towns, from country churches. The poems are divided into two main sections: martyr poems and peasant poems. Each martyr and each peasant is presented first in a brief prose account, then in a poem." -- From the introduction.

Author : Sharon Minichiello
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1998-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824820800

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Japan's Competing Modernities by Sharon Minichiello Pdf

Scholars, Japanese and non-Japanese alike, have studied the greater Taisho era (1900-1930) within the framework of Taisho demokurashii (democracy). While this concept has proved useful, students of the period in more recent years have sought alternative ways of understanding the late Meiji-Taisho period. This collection of essays, each based on new research, offers original insights into various aspects of modern Japanese cultural history from "modernist" architecture to women as cultural symbols, popular songs to the rhetoric of empire-building, and more. The volume is organized around three general topics: geographical and cultural space; cosmopolitanism and national identity; and diversity, autonomy, and integration. Within these the authors have identified a number of thematic tensions that link the essays: high and low culture in cultural production and dissemination; national and ethnic identities; empire and ethnicity; the center and the periphery; naichi (homeland) and gaichi (overseas); urban and rural; public and private; migration and barriers. The volume opens up new avenues of exploration for the study of modern Japanese history and culture. If, as one of the authors contends, the imperative is " to understand more fully the historical forces that made Japan what it is today," these studies of Japan's "competing modernities" point the way to answers to some of the country's most challenging historical questions in this century. Contributors: Gail L. Bernstein, Barbara Brooks, Lonny E. Carlile, Kevin M. Doak, Joshua A. Fogel, Sheldon Garon, Elaine Gerbert, Jeffrey E. Hanes, Helen Hardacre, Sharon A. Minichiello, Tessa Morris-Suzuki, Jonathan M. Reynolds, Michael Robinson, Roy Starrs, Mariko Asano Tamanoi, Julia Adeney Thomas, E. Patricia Tsurumi, Christine R. Yano.

Author : Carol A. Chetkovich
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813524105

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Real Heat by Carol A. Chetkovich Pdf

In the struggle over affirmative action, no employment setting has seen more friction than urban fire departments. Thirty years of legal and political efforts have opened the doors of this historically white male preserve, but men of color have yet to consolidate their gains, and women's progress has been even more tenuous. In this unique and compelling account of affirmative action at the "street level," Carol Chetkovich explores the ways in which this program has succeeded and failed. Chetkovich follows the men and women of the Oakland Fire Department Class 1-91 through their academy training and eighteen-month probation. In vivid and sometimes surprising narratives, newcomers tell of their first battle with a full-fledged fire, their reactions to hazing rituals, and their relationships with veterans and fellow trainees. Real Heat explores how the process of becoming a firefighter interacts with the dimensions of race and gender to support some and discourage others. The book examines the implications of these interactions for public policy and social justice.

Author : Robert Barnard
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476737256

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The Habit of Widowhood by Robert Barnard Pdf

Prize-winning author Robert Barnard presents seventeen witty mystery stories featuring everyday characters who discover their potential for murder, including a young woman who weds a string of old men and develops a penchant for widowhood.

Author : Ayana Byrd,Akiba Solomon
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2005-08-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781440624629

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Naked by Ayana Byrd,Akiba Solomon Pdf

Provocative essays on body image by black women. Candid, witty, and insightful, Naked is a compelling collection of essays that captures what today's black women think about their bodies-from head to toe. Tackling such issues as hair texture, skin color, weight, and sexuality, it follows women on their paths to acceptance-and enjoyment -of their unique features...to a place where it doesn't matter how big the breasts or how long the legs, only what is in the heart. Includes contributions from women of all ages and walks of life, including such notables as: - Iyanla Vanzant - Jill Scott - Kelis - Tracee Ellis Ross - Jill Nelson - Hilda Hutcherson - asha bandele - Melyssa Ford Edited by Ayana Byrd and Akiba Solomon Foreword by Sonia Sanchez

Author : Alex Lubin
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781604730593

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Romance and Rights by Alex Lubin Pdf

Romance and Rights: The Politics of Interracial Intimacy, 1945–1954 studies the meaning of interracial romance, love, and sex in the ten years after World War II. How was interracial romance treated in popular culture by civil rights leaders, African American soldiers, and white segregationists? Previous studies focus on the period beginning in 1967 when the Supreme Court overturned the last state anti-miscegenation law (Loving v. Virginia). Lubin's study, however, suggests that we cannot fully understand contemporary debates about “hybridity,” or mixed-race identity, without first comprehending how WWII changed the terrain. The book focuses on the years immediately after the war, when ideologies of race, gender, and sexuality were being reformulated and solidified in both the academy and the public. Lubin shows that interracial romance, particularly between blacks and whites, was a testing ground for both the general American public and the American government. The government wanted interracial relationships to be treated primarily as private affairs to keep attention off contradictions between its outward aura of cultural freedom and the realities of Jim Crow politics and anti-miscegenation laws. Activists, however, wanted interracial intimacy treated as a public act, one that could be used symbolically to promote equal rights and expanded opportunities. These contradictory impulses helped shape our current perceptions about interracial romances and their broader significance in American culture. Romance and Rights ends in 1954, the year of the Brown v. Board of Education decision, before the civil rights movement became well organized. By closely examining postwar popular culture, African American literature, NAACP manuscripts, miscegenation laws, and segregationist protest letters, among other resources, the author analyzes postwar attitudes towards interracial romance, showing how complex and often contradictory those attitudes could be.

Author : David Evans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : WISC:89084904226

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Random Acts of Kindness by David Evans Pdf

Author : Kristin Harper
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-07-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781604941203

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Love's Resurrection by Kristin Harper Pdf

"From a young age, Kristin Harper dreamed of having a fairy tale wedding and living happily ever after. Although she married a handsome man in a beautiful ceremony, nothing could have prepared her for what happened less than two years later. Like nearly half of all Americans, her marriage ended in divorce. However, she also witnessed God's miraculous powers after getting remarried ... to the same man ..."--Page 4 of cover

Author : Keith N. Knapp
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2005-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0824828666

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Selfless Offspring by Keith N. Knapp Pdf

Both Western and Chinese intellectuals have long derided filial piety tales as an absurd and grotesque variety of children’s literature. Selfless Offspring offers a fresh perspective on the genre, revealing the rich historical worth of these stories by examining them in their original context: the tumultuous and politically fragmented early medieval era (A.D. 100–600). At a time when no Confucian virtue was more prized than filial piety, adults were moved and inspired by tales of filial children. The emotional impact of even the most outlandish actions portrayed in the stories was profound, a measure of the directness with which they spoke to major concerns of the early medieval Chinese elite. In a period of weak central government and powerful local clans, the key to preserving a household’s privileged status was maintaining a cohesive extended family. Keith Knapp begins this far-ranging and persuasive study by describing two related historical trends that account for the narrative’s popularity: the growth of extended families and the rapid incursion of Confucianism among China’s learned elite. Extended families were better at maintaining their status and power, so patriarchs found it expedient to embrace Confucianism to keep their large, fragile households intact. Knapp then focuses on the filial piety stories themselves—their structure, historicity, origin, function, and transmission—and argues that most stem from the oral culture of these elite extended families. After examining collections of filial piety tales, known as Accounts of Filial Children, he shifts from text to motif, exploring the most common theme: the "reverent care" and mourning of parents. In the final chapter, Knapp looks at the relative burden that filiality placed on men and women and concludes that, although women largely performed the same filial acts as men, they had to go to greater extremes to prove their sincerity.