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Author: Fran Martens Friesen Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666788805 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 187
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In their memoir, two American Mennonite women share stories of how they connected with students at a medical college in Sichuan, China, in the mid-1980s. Their host city, Luzhou, had been designated a “closed city,” which meant that foreigners could not visit it without special permission. Fran and Mary Ann were initially escorted whenever they left the campus. Even though they eventually were able to roam the city, their interactions with Chinese people were always scrutinized. Still, by hosting English conversation parties, taking taiji lessons, interacting with students in the classroom, meeting people on walks, and going on outings, the teachers made meaningful connections. Educational, cross-cultural exchanges such as the one Fran and Mary Ann participated in suggest a path forward for easing tensions between the United States and China today.
Author: Fran Martens Friesen Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers ISBN: 1666788805 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 187
Book Description
In their memoir, two American Mennonite women share stories of how they connected with students at a medical college in Sichuan, China, in the mid-1980s. Their host city, Luzhou, had been designated a “closed city,” which meant that foreigners could not visit it without special permission. Fran and Mary Ann were initially escorted whenever they left the campus. Even though they eventually were able to roam the city, their interactions with Chinese people were always scrutinized. Still, by hosting English conversation parties, taking taiji lessons, interacting with students in the classroom, meeting people on walks, and going on outings, the teachers made meaningful connections. Educational, cross-cultural exchanges such as the one Fran and Mary Ann participated in suggest a path forward for easing tensions between the United States and China today.
Author: Carmina Edwards Publisher: ISBN: 9780997018004 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 292
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Raised in a mean-spirited, poverty-stricken home in England, where her quarrelsome father tries to squash her carefree spirit and her three siblings make fun of her, Amy struggles to seek God and improve her circumstances, discovering an amazing life just ahead of her.
Author: Yelena Moskovich Publisher: Two Dollar Radio ISBN: 1953387039 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 151
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"A Door Behind a Door is loose, dreamy, and symbol-packed... The resurfacing of characters from Olga’s past in her new city speaks to the theme of immigration in the novel, of new homes and the passage from old to new—a passage that is perhaps not ever fully complete in the sense that the past cannot be shaken." —Marta Balcewicz, Ploughshares In Yelena Moskovich's spellbinding new novel, A Door Behind A Door, we meet Olga, who immigrates as part of the Soviet diaspora of ’91 to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There she grows up and meets a girl and falls in love, beginning to believe that she can settle down. But a phone call from a bad man from her past brings to life a haunted childhood in an apartment building in the Soviet Union: an unexplained murder in her block, a supernatural stray dog, and the mystery of her beloved brother Moshe, who lost an eye and later vanished. We get pulled into Olga’s past as she puzzles her way through an underground Midwestern Russian mafia, in pursuit of a string of mathematical stabbings.
Author: Malik Ghallab Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1316720551 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 373
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Autonomous AI systems need complex computational techniques for planning and performing actions. Planning and acting require significant deliberation because an intelligent system must coordinate and integrate these activities in order to act effectively in the real world. This book presents a comprehensive paradigm of planning and acting using the most recent and advanced automated-planning techniques. It explains the computational deliberation capabilities that allow an actor, whether physical or virtual, to reason about its actions, choose them, organize them purposefully, and act deliberately to achieve an objective. Useful for students, practitioners, and researchers, this book covers state-of-the-art planning techniques, acting techniques, and their integration which will allow readers to design intelligent systems that are able to act effectively in the real world.
Author: J. Van Wynsberg Ronald J. Van Wynsberg Publisher: Trafford Publishing ISBN: 1426914202 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 295
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It took Joan Fortune, a former New York Detective, five years to come to terms with the murder of her husband, John, and their unborn child. Now, as the Sheriff of Milford, Virginia, a sleepy tourist town, she is confronted with an evil unlike anything she has ever seen. When four kids are all found murdered by hanging under an abandoned mining bridge, it is up to Joan, her daughter, Caitlin, and a stranger, to save the life of Kimberly Clark, the fifth child taken. Caitlin is a clairvoyant, her gift of "sight" is vital to helping Joan save Kimberly's life. The stranger believes that there is an eerie resemblance to murders that took place thirty-two years before. Joan must rely on her own instincts and a voice in her head to determine who she can trust, and whom she cannot.
Author: Miriam Zoll Publisher: Interlink Publishing ISBN: 1623710294 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 288
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A WOMAN’S BATTLE WITH THE BILLION-DOLLAR BABY BUSINESS Cracked Open is Miriam Zoll's eye-opening account of growing into womanhood with the simultaneous opportunities offered by the U.S. women's movement and new discoveries in reproductive technologies. Influenced by the pervasive media and cultural messages suggesting that science had finally eclipsed Mother Nature, Zoll postponed motherhood until the age of 40. When things don't progress as she had hoped, she enters a world of medical seduction and bioethical quagmires. Desperate to conceive, she surrenders to unproven treatments and procedures only to learn that the odds of becoming a mother through reproductive technologies are far less than she and her generation had been led to believe.
Author: Leslie K Malin Publisher: Alchemy of Aging, Leslie K. Malin, Lcsw P.C. ISBN: 9780997513103 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 138
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"Essentially, This Is a Book About Awakening.""In her powerful, extraordinary book, Cracked Open: Reflections on the Transformative Power of Failure, Fear & Doubt, Leslie Malin plunges to the depth of this question: Where have our love, courage, health and creativity gone when fear, failure, depression and doubt accost us? How do we navigate our way through this eternal struggle between forces of darkness and light? " (Brenda Shoshanna, author of Zen and the Art of Falling in Love and The Anger Diet)In this provocative, raw and deeply honest book, Leslie Malin opens the door to allow bravery and transformation to enter for all of us. Who has not suffered from self-doubt, fear of failure, and loss? The essential question is "Can I brave life's storms or will I curl up in a desire to be safe rather than venture forth to meet my future?" Cracked Open is a meditation. Powerful quotations from diverse sources and traditions are coupled with Malin's powerful and provocative reflections urging us to wake up. This book can:* Embolden you to take back your power* Use difficulties as inspiration* Embrace your discomfort, fear, and shame * Throw off your fear of failure and discover lessons for transformation * Turn loss and sorrow into hope, courage, and joy. Cracked Open can change you and that changes your future. You are the person you have been waiting for.
Author: Eric Partridge Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 131744552X Category : Language Arts & Disciplines Languages : en Pages : 886
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First published in 1949 (this edition in 1968), this book is a dictionary of the past, exploring the language of the criminal and near-criminal worlds. It includes entries from Australia, New Zealand, Canada and South Africa, as well as from Britain and America and offers a fascinating and unique study of language. The book provides an invaluable insight into social history, with the British vocabulary dating back to the 16th century and the American to the late 18th century. Each entry comes complete with the approximate date of origin, the etymology for each word, and a note of the milieu in which the expression arose.
Author: Fran Martens Friesen
Author: Fran Martens Friesen
Author: Carmina Edwards
Author: Yelena Moskovich
Author: Malik Ghallab
Author: J. Van Wynsberg Ronald J. Van Wynsberg
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Author: Miriam Zoll
Author: Leslie K Malin
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Author: Eric Partridge