Serving Herself
Serving Herself

Author: Ashley Brown

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 0197551750

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"Coming Up the Hard Way "Sometimes, in a tough neighborhood, where there is no way for a kid to prove himself except by playing games and fighting, you've got to establish a record for being able to look out for yourself before they will leave you alone. If they think you're an easy mark, they will all look to build up their own reputations by beating up on you. I learned always to get in the first punch." Althea Gibson, 1958 Four days after her historic victory at Wimbledon in July 1957, Althea Gibson sat at the head table between her parents during a luncheon held in her honor at New York City's famed Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Wearing a dress of red and blue silk with a corsage pinned to her lapel, she listened as local officials sang her praises. Gibson was "an American girl," "a real lady," and "a wonderful ambassador ... [and] saleswoman" for the country, they said. Speaker after speaker reached for superlatives and generalities to pay tribute to Gibson for rising improbably from "the sidewalks of New York," in the words of Mayor Robert F. Wagner, to winning the most prestigious tennis tournament in the world. The commissioner of the department of commerce and public events cut closest to the truth with six words: "She came up the hard way""--

Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith
Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith

Author: Wayne Dawkins

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-07-31

Total Pages: 226

ISBN-13: 1040041418

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This dual biography highlights the transformative influence of Sam Lacy and Wendell Smith, two journalists who changed American sport and society through their calls to desegregate Major League Baseball and recognize Black baseball players. In a decade-long battle, Lacy and Smith tirelessly advocated for the inclusion of Black players in the major leagues, reporting in the Baltimore Afro-American and Pittsburgh Courier, respectively. Both sports writers covered players in the Negro Leagues, following off-season games in places like Mexico, Cuba, and the Dominican Republic. In 1947, Lacy’s and Smith’s work helped break through MLB’s racial barriers when Jackie Robinson joined the Brooklyn Dodgers. Over the coming years, Lacy and Smith, on individual career trajectories but sharing a common goal, would report on the dissolution of the Negro Leagues and future MVPs such as Willie Mays, Hank Aaron, and Elston Howard. The book considers the lasting legacies of these sports journalists, both recognized in the writers’ wing of the Baseball Hall of Fame. Through its thoughtful analysis of Lacy and Smith’s groundbreaking impact on America’s pastime, this book will appeal to students and general readers interested in sports history and journalism and Afro-American history.

Wives and Work
Wives and Work

Author: Marion Holmes Katz

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2022-10-25

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 0231556705

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It is widely held today that classical Islamic law frees wives from any obligation to do housework. Wives’ purported exemption from domestic labor became a talking point among Muslims responding to Orientalist stereotypes of the “oppressed Muslim woman” by the late nineteenth century, and it has been a prominent motif in writings by Muslim feminists in the United States since the 1980s. In Wives and Work, Marion Holmes Katz offers a new account of debates on wives’ domestic labor that recasts the historical relationship between Islamic law and ethics. She reconstructs a complex discussion among Sunni legal scholars of the ninth to fourteenth centuries CE and examines its wide-ranging implications. As early as the ninth century, the prevalent doctrine that wives had no legal duty to do housework stood in conflict with what most scholars understood to be morally and religiously right. Scholars’ efforts to resolve this tension ranged widely, from drawing a clear distinction between legal claims and ethical ideals to seeking a synthesis of the two. Katz positions legal discussion within a larger landscape of Islamic normative discourse, emphasizing how legal models diverge from, but can sometimes be informed by, philosophical ethics. Through the lens of wives’ domestic labor, this book sheds new light on notions of family, labor, and gendered personhood as well as the interplay between legal and ethical doctrines in Islamic thought.

Self-Service in the Internet Age
Self-Service in the Internet Age

Author: David Oliver

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-03-02

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1848002076

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Dave Oliver, Celia Romm and Fay Sudweeks This book follows previous texts: Celia Romm and Fay Sudweeks (eds) (1998), Doing Business Electronically: A Global Perspective of Electronic Commerce, and Fay Sudweeks and Celia Romm (eds) (1999) Doing Business on the Internet: Opportunities and Pitfalls. Not only is this current book about doing something, but it also aims to present insights into how electronic commerce impacts upon the lives of everyday people; in other words, how electronic commerce is received, as well as how it is ‘done’. Accessing the Internet on a regular basis has become an established activity for many people. This activity gives academics and researchers the opportunity to observe and study the nature and effects of this engagement in society. The influence of the Internet in our social fabric also provides the incentive for organizations to implement a web presence. As expressed in the title Self-Service on the Internet: Expectations and Experiences, we aim to present the expectations or reasons for the availability of various services on the Internet, and social responses to these developments, i. e. the experiences. These are the two main dimensions to the chapters presented in this book. The major component in the title is self-service on the Internet. The term electronic commerce is too restrictive for our purpose as it tends towards commercial overtones, which do not especially concern us.

Serve the Worthy
Serve the Worthy

Author: Megan Formanek

Publisher: Life Itinerant Publishing

Published: 2024-08-02

Total Pages: 353

ISBN-13: 0648808858

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Fate’s relentless call, and a treacherous path to embrace it Kyiv, Gardarike 883 CE Astrid navigates an uncertain future when she arrives at the court of Grand Prince Oleg in Kyiv. Her reunion with her husband, Kjarr, is long-awaited but bittersweet. She has yet to tell him of their daughter’s death, her own near-fatal encounters, and the reappearance of a former lover. She is not the only one with secrets to tell. A skald weaves a haunting melody of impending sorrow as a forbidden union threatens the burgeoning Rus’ dynasty. Prince Mal, the war-hungry Drevlian leader, bears the brunt of Grand Prince Oleg’s desire for territorial domination. Behind the facade of noble boyars, fierce druzhina warriors, and their cunning wives, the Kyiv court becomes a battlefield of treachery and deadly rivalries. With destiny and loyalty hanging in the balance, Astrid must trust the voice that guides her, even if that means defying her husband. As her fate intertwines with the Kyiv nobles and their pursuit of power, Astrid must grapple with duty and her ambition, a struggle that will shape the future of the Rus’. From the author Books in the Viking Trading Lands Series 1. Oath Undo Me 2. No One's Viking 3. Serve the Worthy 'A smartly plotted Viking drama' The Wishing Shelf Awards. Formanek's Viking Trading Land Series follows Astrid as she travels from her native Svealand in the 9th-century, for the trading lands of the Rus' Gardarike lands. Though Astrid is met with opportunity in this new land she soon realises everything has a price and war almost always makes men monsters. And, as she navigates the competing powers of the land, the court of Grand Prince Oleg, and the realities of Viking Age trade, she must trust the forces that guide her. Astrid must grapple with duty and her ambition, a struggle that will shape the future of the Rus'. The Viking Trading Lands Series is a powerful saga, rich in historical detail, with complex characters, and a fun-to-root-for heroine.

Unending Intimacy
Unending Intimacy

Author: Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Publisher: ZTF Books Online

Published: 2017-01-22

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 137078287X

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Some time ago, the Lord laid on our hearts the burden to write some books about Bible women who distinguished themselves in knowing, loving, and labouring for the Lord mainly, in secret and in private. This led us to conceive the books in the series, “Women of Glory”. The books in this series are: Volume One: The Secluded Worshipper: The Life, Ministry and Glorification Of the Prophetess Anna Volume Two: Unending Intimacy: The Transformation, Choices and Overflow Of Mary of Bethany Volume Three: Winning Love: The Rescue, Development, and Fulfilment Of Mary Magdalene Volume Four: Not Meant for Defeat: The Rise, Battles and Triumph of Queen Esther. The book in your hands – Unending Intimacy: The Transformation, Choices, And Overflow of Mary of Bethany – is the second in the series. The first and the third books in the series have been written and the last book will be written as the Lord perfects the revelation and gives the anointing and the time for it to be written. If you have read the book and have been blessed, I would like to hear from you. Please write and share with me what the Holy Spirit is doing in your heart to bring you to undivided love and undivided devotion to our Blessed Lord.

Women of the Glory (Volumes 1—3)
Women of the Glory (Volumes 1—3)

Author: Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Publisher: ZTF Books Online

Published:

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13:

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In this captivating trilogy, Women of the Glory, lies the remarkable stories of three Bible women who devoted their lives to the knowing, the loving, and the serving of the Lord, often in secret and in private. Volume One takes you on a journey through the life and ministry of the prophetess Anna in The Secluded Worshipper. In Volume Two, explore the profound transformation and unwavering devotion of Mary of Bethany in Unending Intimacy. Finally, in Volume Three, witness the incredible journey of rescue, development, and fulfillment in the life of Mary Magdalene in Winning Love. These powerful narratives will inspire, uplift, and challenge your faith as you witness the deep spiritual journeys of these extraordinary women. Get your copy and let us celebrate their dedication and commitment to the glory of the Lord.

The Complete Works of Zacharias Tanee Fomum on Prayer (Volume 5)
The Complete Works of Zacharias Tanee Fomum on Prayer (Volume 5)

Author: Zacharias Tanee Fomum

Publisher: ZTF Books Online

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 1005

ISBN-13: 1005297959

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The Complete Works of Zacharias Tanee Fomum on Prayer (Volume 5) contains the following books: 1. Revolutionary Thoughts on Prayer (Volume 4) 2. Women of the Glory (Volume 2) 3. The Art of Worship 4. Learning to Importune in Prayer 5. Prayer and the Walk with God We send this fifth prayer volume out with a cry to the Lord that He should use it to lead the saints into practical praying, worship, importunity, and walking with Him daily.

Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast
Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast

Author: Susanne Kerner

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 0857857290

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Throughout time and in every culture, human beings have eaten together. Commensality - eating and drinking at the same table - is a fundamental social activity, which creates and cements relationships. It also sets boundaries, including or excluding people according to a set of criteria defined by the society. Particular scholarly attention has been paid to banquets and feasts, often hosted for religious, ritualistic or political purposes, but few studies have considered everyday commensality. Commensality: From Everyday Food to Feast offers an insight into this social practice in all its forms, from the most basic and mundane meals to the grandest occasions. Bringing together insights from anthropologists, archaeologists and historians, this volume offers a vast historical scope, ranging from the Late Neolithic period (6th millennium BC), through the Middle Ages, to the present day. The sixteen chapters include case studies from across the world, including the USA, Bolivia, China, Southeast Asia, Iran, Turkey, Portugal, Denmark and the UK. Connecting these diverse analyses is an understanding of commensality's role as a social and political tool, integral to the formation of personal and national identities. From first experiences of commensality in the sharing of food between a mother and child, to the inaugural dinner of the American president, this collection of essays celebrates the variety of human life and society.