Author: Max W. Hammonds Publisher: Review and Herald Pub Assoc ISBN: 0828024995 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 633
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That was Gertrude-headstrong, confident, and opinionated! Her mother, Lena, sure that her oldest daughter would be somebody famous, encouraged Gertrude to follow her dreams and taught her to be self-disciplined and industrious. And no, Gertrude wasn't afraid of much. Nursing school with its long hours and hard work didn't faze her. Carrying the workload of two or three people didn't bother her. Accepting a call to China as a missionary nurse in 1936 ... well, she was understandably bewildered at first, but certainly not frightened. Challenging an arrogant Japanese soldier, single-handedly running a hospital, and confronting the spoiled wife of a high-ranking general were peanuts compared to the one fear that brought the unstoppable Gertrude Green to her knees. She ran from that fear all the way home to Rochester, New York, but God needed her back in China. Back in the same hospital, in much the same circumstances she was in when she left-but this time her faith in Him was ready to mature. Oh, and this time she and 51 others would need to flee the Communist army in the dead of winter-on foot. Book jacket.
Author: Trudy J. Morgan-Cole Publisher: Autumn House Publishing ISBN: 0812704932 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 210
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When Stephanie Kent moves to a new town to work with disadvantaged teens, she vows not to let her fears and doubts take over. Young and optimistic, she cant help seeing worlds of potential in the teensand feeling drawn to her boss Paul, a cynical ex-pastor who has given up on God. But the more she works with Paul (who treats her like a naive do-gooder) and the teens (who are addicts, criminals, and world-class manipulators), the more uncertain she becomes about everything. Just when she feels like giving up, Stephanie realizes God is still working on all of themand she senses hope rising once again.
Author: Margaret Mih Tillman Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 023154622X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 375
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A widespread conviction in the need to rescue China’s children took hold in the early twentieth century. Amid political upheaval and natural disasters, neglected or abandoned children became a humanitarian focal point for Sino-Western cooperation and intervention in family life. Chinese academics and officials sought new scientific measures, educational institutions, and social reforms to improve children’s welfare. Successive regimes encouraged teachers to shape children into Qing subjects, Nationalist citizens, or Communist comrades. In Raising China’s Revolutionaries, Margaret Mih Tillman offers a novel perspective on the political and scientific dimensions of experiments with early childhood education from the early Republican period through the first decade of the People’s Republic. She traces transnational advocacy for child welfare and education, examining Christian missionaries, philanthropists, and the role of international relief during World War II. Tillman provides in-depth analysis of similarities and differences between Nationalist and Communist policy and cultural notions of childhood. While both Nationalist and Communist regimes drew on preschool institutions to mobilize the workforce and shape children’s political subjectivity, the Communist regime rejected the Nationalists’ commitment to the modern, bourgeois family. With new insights into the roles of experts, the cultural politics of fundraising, and child welfare as a form of international exchange, Raising China’s Revolutionaries is an important work of institutional and transnational history that illuminates the evolution of modern concepts of childhood in China.
Author: Lorraine McMullen Publisher: University of Ottawa Press ISBN: 0776601970 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 212
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The modern literary searchlight has flushed out Canada's long neglected nineteenth century female writers. New critical approaches are advocated and others are encouraged to take on the difficulties - and rewards - of research into the lives of our foremothers. Published in English.
Author: Dianne Sachko Macleod Publisher: Univ of California Press ISBN: 0520237293 Category : Antiques & Collectibles Languages : en Pages : 325
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This insightful and beautifully illustrated book offers the first feminist analysis of the phenomenon of women art collectors in America. Dianne Sachko Macleod brings a surprising paradox to light, showing that collecting, which provided wealthy women with a private sense of solace, also liberated them to venture into the public sphere and make a lasting contribution to the emerging American culture. Beginning in the antebellum period, continuing through the Gilded Age, and reaching well into the twentieth century, Macleod shows how elite women enlisted the objets d'art and avant-garde paintings in their collections in causes ranging from the founding of modern museums to the campaign for women's suffrage.
Author: Gertrude Atherton Publisher: Wildside Press LLC ISBN: 1479408581 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 320
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The Third Macabre MEGAPACK® continues the great series with another volume of rare tales of horror and the macabre. Included this time are: THE WALTZ, by Morris W. Gowen THREE AT TABLE, by W.W. Jacobs VERA, by Villiers de L’Isle-Adam A LOST DAY, by Edgar Fawcett METZENGERSTEIN, by Edgar Allan Poe A TRAGEDY OF HIGH EXPLOSIVES, by Brainard Gardner Smith THE LEGEND OF TCHI-NIU, by Lafcadio Hearn THE OUTGOING OF THE TIDE, by John Buchan A STRANGE REUNION, by T. G. Atkinson A WORK OF ACCUSATION, by Harry How THE NIGHT WIRE, by H. F. Arnold THE ELIXIR OF LIFE, by Honoré de Balzac THE MIRROR, by Catulle Mendès THE WOMAN AND THE CAT, by Marcel Prevost A LEMON-TREE, by Ouida TWILIGHT ZONE, by Mary Keegan UNHALLOWED HOLIDAY, by O. M. Cabral THE ETERNITY OF FORMS, by Jack London WOLVERDEN TOWER, by Grant Allen THE MAGIC PHIAL, by J. Y. Akerman THE HAUNTED MILL, by Jerome K. Jerome THE GROVE OF ASHTAROTH, by John Buchan THE WELL, by W. W. Jacobs THE OBLONG BOX, by Edgar Allan Poe DEATH AND THE WOMAN, by Gertrude Atherton If you enjoy this ebook, check out the 300+ other volumes in the Wildside Press MEGAPACK® series, covering not only fantasy and horror, but mystery, science fiction, western, and classic authors. Search your favorite ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see the complete list.
Author: Elizabeth Cowling Publisher: ISBN: Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 88
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This illustrated work provides an account of the evolving personal relationship between Matisse and Picasso, and in doing so it challenges the popular notion of intense rivalry between the two artists.
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