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This book presents evidence that Ship English of the early Atlantic colonial period was a distinct variety with characteristic features. It is motivated by the recognition that late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth century sailors' speech was potentially an influential variety in nascent creoles and English varieties...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

With the field of personal relationships continuing to see significant growth over the past quarter century, The Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships stands as a crucial benchmark of the current state of scholarship. This third edition presents new chapters addressing significant changes in techniques...

Baragouin is an artists' book by Los Angeles and Berlin-based artist Kim Schoen. The book is a companion piece to a video work of the same name, filmed in a now-closed residential sculpture showroom in Los Angeles. The video Baragouinpresents these sculptures--which are copies...

Princess Emilia Aurelius was only a child when she watched her mother die at the hands of her father-martyred for believing in the God of the Atlas Empire's Insurgo rebels. At seventeen, exiled to a military outpost where no one knows her true identity,...

In 'Sweet Success: A Journey of Change and Challenge', Doug Lapins chronicles the changes, challenges, and guiding principles of a thirty year corporate career. High-fructose corn syrup, a changing sugar industry, and practical leadership methods weave an absorbing tale of business, family, and social...

Surviving a career in law enforcement involves a considerable amount of natural instinct, skill, luck, and intellect. Fortunately for Pat McCarthy, he possessed all of these, some more than others, at different times.Author: Pat McCarthyISBN-10: 0996666605ISBN-13: 9780996666602Publisher: Pat McCarthy Productions, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2016Pages: 266Format:...

A study of the Revelation of Jesus Christ. (Why you will not burn in eternal torment and why it is more important than ever not to be spiritually lukewarm.)The final book of the New Testament, the "Revelation of Jesus Christ" is reinterpreted in this...

Stop! Don't touch the pie!Playful. Mischievous. Impatient. What will five-year-old Emily do when she is told to stay away from a cooling pie? Will she do what's right, or will she give in to temptation? Come along Emily's imaginary battle with an irresistible pie....

Before Leaving This Earth, Know Your PMA (Purpose, Mission, and Assignment) is a call to Action! It is a voice of "one crying in the wilderness," calling us to return to our spiritual Christ-centered roots. It reminds us of our national identity. Dr. Dorothy...

This book contains a collection of 87 individual mixed-media works combining original photography and overlaid poetic text by Oneida Morningstar Cramer. The hardcover volume, gorgeously immersed in rich colors throughout, is a coffee table book size, but compact enough to fit conveniently on the...

Every girl needs a mentor, someone she can trust to show her the way home to Heavenly Father. The stakes are high as women of influence, how we live and how we teach Heavenly Father's daughters will change the course of their lives forever....

Nearly twenty-five years ago, in an act of terrorism that stunned the world, Pan Am 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, killing 270 people. The Longest Night: A Personal History of Pan Am 103 begins with the author receiving the nightmarish news that her husband,...

As the 21st century unfolds, the pace of change in the world is accelerating while education in the United States remains stagnant or, at best, progresses in isolated pockets. Concern over the effects of an inadequate education system on the nation's economy and innovative...

Through engaging stories of romance, insightful analysis, and historic intriguing photographs, I Do: A Cultural History of Montana Weddings provides an intimate and surprising look at an important tradition. I Do journeys through the last 150 years of Montana history, from the 1860s gold...

Here is the secret behind the power of the United States. In this book, readers discover the Absolutes that must be honored in order to realize Messianic consciousness. A consciousness that is required if we, the people of the United States, want to hold...

(Im)permanence: Cultures in/out of Time explores the interplay between permanence and impermanence in cultural and artistic practices in the West and elsewhere. This volume engenders questions of the transition from traditional and contemporary takes on permanence in art, the preservation of ephemeral artwork, permanence...

Incredible Stunts is like Fear Factor on steroids. Famed action photographer and photojournalist Jeffery R. Werner has assembled an amazing collection of images from his exclusive archive of photos taken over the past two decades of daredevils and stuntmen pushing themselves to the limit....

Too often, I and fellow women would hear misperceptions about women's importance in Christianity. From the comparisons and jests, women like me would feel disenfranchised. This book serves as a reminder that women had a role in the origin of the Christian faith, as...

Jesus and Me (Volume Two) is the starting point for correctly understanding your Christian faith. When reading this book, you will be immersed in Christian literature. The rhymes and simplified context will guide you to keep the word of God alive and make a...

Painting- The Zenith of Colors is a collection of 130 supernatural abstract color oil paintings by world-class artist Master Wan Ko Yee. This album includes Western oil painting, representational painting, abstract painting, impressionistic painting, application of colors to portray realistic rock texture and rock...

The heart of America has grown cold. Early in its history, America was a nation of families and neighbors building community-homes that were safe havens, churches that provided a moral compass, schools that followed the Golden Rule, and communities that embraced their children. Today,...

A lyrical account of the interplay among hands, memory, and the unconscious. When Lillian Moats was learning to meditate, a startling development focused her attention on the relationship between mind and hands. She found that her hands would 'speak' to her in gesture. Through...

The history of Cork City is built around the River Lee and the access to the open sea. The Cork Docklands will soon undergo extensive redevelopment and the cityscape will change forever. This is a photographic celebration of Cork Docklands which captures the people...

British conceptualist John Latham (1921-2006) began using books as a medium in 1958, extending his earliest spray-painted canvases into the third dimension with reliefs in which books emerged from plaster on canvas. This catalog marks the first focused representation of this seminal series.Author: John...

BRING IT!, first written as a high school commencement speech, shares a message of congratulations and encouragement to graduates as they transition from high school to the next pivotal stage of their life. Hegg, a master story teller and beloved teacher reminds alum that...

Investigation of unjustly neglected opera. Hans Pfitzner's musical legend' Palestrina is considered in the German-speaking countries to be one of the supreme masterpieces of music, and yet it is all but unknown elsewhere. The opera, first performed in 1917, tells the story of the...

A delightful and often witty description of the Oxford colleges in the eighteenth century. Shepilinda's Memoirs of the City and University of Oxford is a light-hearted but valuable manuscript account of the Oxford colleges in 1738, written by a lively and engaging young woman...

The American Marketing Association defines marketing as an exchange process. Exchange, however, has yet to be integrated into marketing thought. The authors map marketing, showing the role exchange plays in the discipline. This mapping results in not only a taxonomy of exchange, but a...

How do we define the nature of our business, gather everything that we know about it, and then centralize our information in one, easily accessed place within the organization? Breslin and McGann call such knowledge our ways of working and the place where it...

Waite details the history of the community of Oberlin, Ohio, which demonstrated a commitment to the education of blacks during the antebellum period that was rare at the time. By the end of Reconstruction, however, black students at Oberlin were becoming segregated, and events...

The author provides a comprehensive discussion of the political, economic, curricular, and instructional issues relevant to workforce education for Latinos with low levels of literacy and formal education. Of particular significance is an examination of recent federal legislation that has impacted Latino adults who...

The material remains and the more than 23,500 cuneiform tablets unearthed at the site of Kultepe (ancient Kanesh) shed light on social, political, and economic aspects of the Middle Bronze age (ca. 2000-1700 years BC) in central Anatolia, but also in Upper Mesopotamia. The...

You Can Make It! Like it or not, trouble comes to all of us--whether we cause it ourselves or find it thrust upon us. But trouble need not defeat us! In You Can Make It! Author and Pastor Kenneth W. Hagin reminds us that...

Is your December cluttered? Does Christmas leave you fretting instead of singing quot;Joy to the Worldquot;? In A Scrapbook of Christmas Firsts, discover how to bring harmony to this busy month. Tips for family traditions, connecting generations, children, gift giving, how to grow myrrh...

Although Florence Nightingale is famous as a nurse, her lifetime's writing on nursing is scarcely known in the profession. Nursing professors tend to "look to the future, not to the past," and often ignore her or rely on faulty secondary sources. Nightingale's work on...

Author: Michael AwadISBN-10: 0888544995ISBN-13: 9780888544995Publisher: Royal Ontario MuseumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2014Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.19lbsSize: 12.37h x 9.30w x 0.90d

Author: Ken ListerISBN-10: 0888544537ISBN-13: 9780888544537Publisher: Royal Ontario MuseumLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2007Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.55lbsSize: 11.30h x 10.10w x 0.80d

The thirteenth century saw a blossoming of religious literature aimed at the laity composed in the vernacular as well as in Latin for the preachers who ministered to them. It has been traditional in literary history to attribute this vernacular creativity to the Fourth...

The essays in this volume show how the teaching of law and theology in the medieval schools was part of a pastoral project to foster a just Christian society and to lead souls to contemplation of God. With subjects ranging from scholastic debates about...

In "Faith Order Understanding," all of the late Louis Mackey's virtues are on display. His sensitivity to language and to the limits of language to bear stable meaning seems especially appropriate to the study of what is arguably the most elastic of the medieval...

The manuscript that is the subject of this study and edition constitutes a rich source for the study of the society and culture of the southern Dalmatian coast. The major parts of the manuscript were written in Beneventan script in the mid-twelfth century, perhaps...

The history of the book in the late Middle Ages is associated especially with Gutenberg's momentous invention of printing with movable type. Printing, however, hardly replaced the manuscript book overnight; in respect to content, materials, format, decoration, dissemination, and technique, the fifteenth century in...

London, BL, Cotton Tiberius A. iii is a compilation manuscript made at Christ Church, Canterbury, (arguably) in 1020-1023. Its ninety-four texts and two illustrations seem to present an incompatible miscellany: a monastic customary and texts concerning pastoral care; private prayers and public liturgical forms;...

Liber revelationum edited from the single extant manuscript, London, Lambeth Palace Library, MS 51.Author: Peter of CornwallISBN-10: 0888441843ISBN-13: 9780888441843Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval StudiesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2013Pages: 615Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.55lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.70d

In 1334, an Italian priest named Opicinus de Canistris fell ill and had a divine vision of continents and oceans transformed into human figures which inspired numerous drawings. While they relate closely to contemporary maps and seacharts, religious iconography, medical illustration, and cosmological diagrams,...

Author: Kriston R. RennieISBN-10: 0888441851ISBN-13: 9780888441850Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval StudiesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2013Pages: 262Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 1.00d

Author: Thomas M. McCoogISBN-10: 0888441835ISBN-13: 9780888441836Publisher: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval StudiesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/30/2013Pages: 476Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.07lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.40w x 1.50d