Common Threads
Author: Sally Dwyer-McNulty
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Published: 2014
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 146961409X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCommon Threads: A Cultural History of Clothing in American Catholicism
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Common Threads
Author: L. A. Champagne
Publisher: iUniverse
Published: 2013-01-10
Total Pages: 447
ISBN-13: 1475968868
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt is the early 1850s when thirteen-year-old Ashani tribe member Berko Yaba is snatched from his home in Ghana, West Africa, and placed on a slave ship bound for Jamaica. A short time later, Berko takes a new name, Jed, and reluctantly begins a new, imprisoned life with his shrewd owner. Meanwhile, in Cupar, Scotland, Johnny McDonald is like most teenage boys in his farming community, focused on raising healthy crops and animals. But when Johnny marries Diana and begins farming his own land, things begin to go wrong. Halfway across the world from each other, Jed and John endure very different challenges. As Jed battles the torture of slavery and falls in love with Mary, another slave, John fights the daily obstacles that accompany a life of farming. But when John encounters a disaster that ruins his crops and Jed discovers the Underground Railroad, fate eventually leads both men and their families to journey to a small community in southern Ontario, where common threads tie them together as they become owners of one of the largest potato farms in Canada. In this historical tale, the years pass and the families grow to include multi-racial twins, as events eventually lead a new generation to Mississippi, where everyone must face the sorrows of prejudice.
The Common Thread
Author: Georgina Ferry
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2010-12-15
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 140905800X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJohn Sulston was director of the Sanger Centre in Cambridge from 1993 to 2000. There he led the British arm of the international team selected to map the entire human DNA sequence, a feat that was pulled off in record time by an extraordinary collaboration of scientists. Despite innumerable setbacks and challenges from outside competitors the ultimate success of the project can be attributed in large part to John Sulston's own determination, passion and scientific excellence. In this personal account he takes us behind the scenes of one of the largest international scientific operations ever undertaken. He is frank about the competition with Craig Venter and Celera Genomics, which threatened to undermine the international community's attempts to make the sequence freely available to everyone. He shares with us his excitement as the project unfolded. And as a pragmatist he reveals his hopes and concerns as to how the information unlocked by the Human Genome Project will affect people's lives in the future. The Common Thread is at once a compelling history of this most exciting of scientific breakthroughs and also an impassioned call for ethical responsibility in scientific research. As the boundaries between science and big business increasingly blur, and researchers race to patent medical discoveries, the international community needs to find a common protocol for the protection of the wider human interest. The Common Thread tells a story of our shared human heritage, offering hope for future research and a fresh outlook on our scientific understanding of ourselves.
A Tapestry of Faiths
Author: Winfried Corduan
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2009-06-01
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 172522626X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristians find themselves in an increasingly diverse world. The new place of worship in our neighborhood might just as likely be a Hindu temple or a Muslim mosque as a church or a synagogue. How should we view other world religions, and more important, how should we engage our religiously oriented neighbors in conversation? Do all religions teach the same thing? Or are there significant differences? Do we try to minimize differences and just get along? Or do we hold out the Christian faith as the one true hope for all the world? Drawing on his wide experience and knowledge of other religions and how they are actually lived, Winfried Corduan helps us sort through the complex tapestry of faiths around the globe. He contends that there are common threads of understanding that can serve to link us in meaningful discussion. From these common threads we can go on to explore genuine differences. Through the course of the book, Corduan leads readers to explore the important issues of revelation and truth, morality and guilt, grace and redemption, eschatology and hope. Ultimately, Jesus Christ, he argues, stands unique among religious figures and Christianity unique among the world's religions. This is a book that strengthens Christians in their convictions while encouraging them to engage their neighbors with humility, loved, and discernment.
Common Threads
Author: Huda Essa
Publisher: Sleeping Bear Press
Published: 2019-08-15
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 1534146296
DOWNLOAD EBOOK2020-2021 Keystone to Reading Elementary Book Award List Adam and his family spend an exciting day at the colorful and bustling Eastern Market. But when Adam gets briefly separated from Mom and Dad, he mistakes a friendly, diverse cast of characters for his parents in their traditional Muslim clothing--and shows that we all have more in common than you might think. This nearly-wordless picture book celebrates diversity and community in vibrant, dynamic art.
Mad About Ewe
Author: Smartypants Romance
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-09
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9781949202731
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDawn Botstein is doing just fine after her divorce, thank you very much. She's got her yarn store to run, her house to herself for the first time in her life, and no use for men anymore. That is until the hottie silver fox who walks into her store turns out to be her old high school crush-the guy who rejected her 30 years ago. No way is she going to lose her head over him this time, no matter how well he wears that salt-and-pepper lumberjack beard. Okay, so he's the opposite of her ex in every way, and his attention gives her a thrill she thought she'd never feel again. She's not risking her heart again. Mike Pilota is having a mid-life crisis. Only instead of buying a red sports car he can't afford and dressing like a 25-year-old who's time-traveled from the 1990s, he quit his job after his second divorce to move closer to his recently widowed mother. He didn't expect to run into Dawn again, but as soon as he lays eyes on her he's utterly smitten. So he sets out to make up for past mistakes and prove he can be the kind of man she deserves. But is it too late for second chances? Or will these two lonely hearts find a way back to each other? 'Mad About Ewe' is a full-length contemporary romance and can be read as a standalone. Book #1 in the Common Threads series, Seduction in the City World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
Common Threads
Author: Lee Hall
Publisher: Little Brown GBR
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780821219003
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn engaging, amusing, extensively illustrated look at what we wear--and have worn--from the arrival of the first Europeans in the New World, until the present day, Common Threads offerss, morals, and mores over the past five centuries. 420 illustrations.
Common Threads
Author: Chip Cooper
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780963671318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWell blended photography and commentary that create an image of the southern culture.
Give Love a Chai
Author: Smartypants Romance
Publisher:
Published: 2021-03-16
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9781949202755
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTia Wang's Wedding Planning To-Do List: 1. Find a dress her perfectionist, future mother-in-law approves of 2. Keep her cool over fortune cookies 3. Divorce her not-so-ex husband, Andrew Parker R When she fell in love and married her childhood best friend on a whim in Vegas, Tia innocently thought love conquered all. Turns out, that was a crushing lie. Her world shattered as she and Andrew were torn apart by secrets and mistakes. Ten years later, Tia has left the pain behind and carved out a new life with Mr. Perfect. The only thing standing between her and happily ever after? A divorce from Andrew. It should have been easy for Andrew to sign his name on the dotted line. Aloof, prickly, and always in control, Andrew has done everything to escape his past. But seeing Tia on his front steps after all these years? He can't help wondering what could have been. Andrew never stopped thinking about Tia, and if he has to hold those divorce papers hostage to get his second chance, he will. Feelings resurface, stronger and more complex than ever. But Tia and Andrew have more than Mr. Perfect between them. Can they overcome their past and a new threat to find the courage to forge a future together? 'Give Love a Chai' is a full-length contemporary romance, and can be read as a standalone. Book #2 in the Common Threads series, Seduction in the City World, Penny Reid Book Universe.
Common Threads of Practice
Author: Katharine Davies Samway
Publisher: Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages Incorporated
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780939791477
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis text offers teacher accounts of teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL) in grades K-8 worldwide. Articles included are: (1) "Common Threads, Common Bonds" (Denise McKeon and Katharine Davies Samway); (2) "For a Brighter Future: SPEAK Project in Soweto" (Pippa Stein); (3) "The 'Essence of Sliding': Encouraging Elementary ESL Students To Become Creative Writers" (J. Wesley Eby); (4) "Watson and Son's EFL Class: Teaching English to Chinese Children Using Only English and a U.S. Peer" (Tim Watson); (5) "Teaching English in Russia" (Alevtina Poliak); (6) "Teaching English in Primary Schools in Brunei Darussalam" (Ng Seok Moi and Wendy Preston); (7) "Learning English Naturally in Emelie Parker's Classroom" (Sue Sherman); (8) "How Do They Learn To Read and Write? Literacy Instruction in a Refugee Camp" (Lauren Hoyt); (9) "Team Teaching in Second Grade (Don't Pull Out the Kids, Pull In the Teacher)" (Carlyn Syvanen); (10) "English in Austrian Primary Schools" (Maria Felberbauer); (11) "Teaching English to Children in China" (Bi Qing); (12) "Primary Education and Language Teaching in Botswana" (Lydia Nyati Ramahobo and Janet Ramsay Orr); (13) "A Tale of Two Cultures: At Home in the German School Washington" (Donna Stassen); (14) "Teaching English in Estonia: Using Reading and Writing Process Methods To Teach EFL" (Emma Wood Rous). (Each essay contains references. A teacher resources list is included.) (NAV)
