Margaret: 4917 books
Savage Kin
Indigenous Informants and American Anthropologists
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2018
In this provocative new book, Margaret M. Bruchac, an Indigenous anthropologist, turns the word savage on its head. Savage Kin explores the nature of the relationships between Indigenous informants, such as Gladys Tantaquidgeon (Mohegan), Jesse Cornplanter (Seneca), and George Hunt (Tlingit), and...
From Sharecropping to Non-Stopping
Reflections on Life from a Veteran Educator
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Author Dr. Margaret Bynum Hill has always been a woman of courage. Unfortunately, she didnt discover this gift until she became an adult and a senior citizen. In From Sharecropping to Non-Stopping, she takes a look back at her life and how she has been uniquely shaped by the journey of her years.
In...
by Margaret Redfern
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2011
A much-needed study on plant galls – growths on plants formed of plant tissue that are caused by other organisms. Most naturalists have come across oak apples, robin’s pincushions, marble galls and witches’ brooms, a few of the more familiar examples of the strange growths that are plant galls....
Good in a Crisis
A Memoir of Divorce, Dating, and Other Near-Death Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2012
During the four years of physician Margaret Overton's acrimonious divorce, she dated widely and indiscriminately, determined to find her soul mate and live happily ever after. But then she discovered she had a brain aneurysm. She discovered it at a particularly awkward moment on a date with one of...
A World without Cancer
The Making of a New Cure and the Real Promise of Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
A World without Cancer: The Making of a New Cure and the Real Promise of Prevention is a provocative and surprising investigation into the ways that profit, personalities, and politics obstruct real progress in the war on cancer—and one doctor's passionate call to action for change
As a diagnostic...
Letters on Ethics
To Lucilius
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
The Roman statesman and philosopher Seneca (4 BCE–65 CE) recorded his moral philosophy and reflections on life as a highly original kind of correspondence. Letters on Ethics includes vivid descriptions of town and country life in Nero’s Italy, discussions of poetry and oratory, and philosophical...
My Soul in Silence Waits
Meditations on Psalm 62
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2000
“For God alone my soul in silence waits....”
In these reflections on Psalm 62 Margaret Guenther provides the foundation for a time of reflection and retreat without ever leaving home. The book's first chapter introduces us to ways of making a retreat wherever we are, at a place apart or...
Pressing into Thin Places
Encouraging the Heart toward God
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Life is neither easy nor simple. A quick survey of today’s headlines reveals that ours is a world full of hardship, grief, and pain, and it does not look to be getting any easier anytime soon. Yet we do not have to despair. Instead we should be empowered by the truth that there is a God who loves us...
by Margaret Guenther
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1997
In this down-to-earth book on the essentials of prayer, Margaret Guenther answers many of the common questions of the spiritual life.
No Turning Back
The Future of Ecumenism
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Jesus' prayer on behalf of his of followers is "that all may be one. As you, Father are in me and I am in you, may they also be one in us" (John 17:21). No Turning Back illustrates significant developments in ecumenism during the thirty-plus years of ecumenical theologian Margaret O'Gara's...
Parenting the Next Generation
A Journey of Life, Love and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2018
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes”. - Martin Proust
This book is a fresh look at our current child rearing. The viewpoint is through the eyes of a baby boomer child, parent and teacher of 16- to 18-year-old Behavioural Studies students...
Holy Listening
The Art of Spiritual Direction
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1992
Margaret Guenther uses the images of the spiritual director as host, teacher, and midwife to describe the ministry of spiritual direction today.
by Margaret Guenther
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1995
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 1995
The second half of life—which we can enter at any age—is that time when we begin the process essential to a mature faith: discovering who we are, exploring our relationship with God, and beginning to let go. This part of life has a depth and spirituality all its own—a need for structure and...
by Margaret Sisu
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
A beauty queen with everything, including a score to settle. . . . Rolanda’s glamorous home and handsome man mask a life being slowly suffocated by reality. When she’s at last pushed to the breaking point, her final revenge can only be called “twisted.”