The Challenge is in the Naming

The Challenge is in the Naming

Author: Lydia Neufeld Harder

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2018-06-04

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1532659318

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This volume is built around a collection of previously published essays by the author over the course of thirty years, supplemented by current reflections and personal narratives that place these essays into a broader and engaging theological journey.


Name Games

Name Games

Author: Michael Craft

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 2001-05

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 9780312270797

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Mark Manning, once a prominent journalist at a major daily newspaper in Chicago, is now the owner and publisher of the Dumont Daily Register, the daily paper in a small Wisconsin city. Here the biggest news is the impending city council report on a proposed new adult bookstore zoning law, the upcoming election for Sheriff and the upcoming annual exhibition of the Midwest Miniatures Society. In a unique coup for the first-ever miniatures exhibition in Dumont, the "king of miniatures", Mr. Carroll Cantrell has agreed to come and judge the show's main event. But the exhibition itself is quickly shoved off the front page of the paper when Cantrell is found murdered in his room. To make matters worse, Doug Pierce, the local sheriff, is widely believed to be responsible. Pierce - a closeted gay man and friend of Mark Manning - had been carrying on an affair with Cantrell and was the last person seen leaving his room before the body was discovered. As conservative elements in Dumont attempt to exploit the murder - and the sheriff's association with the deceased - to their own ends, Manning, with the help of his lover, architect Neil Waite, his staff and friends, starts his own investigation of the murder. With Cantrell having led something of a double life with no end of potential enemies and the miniatures world itself being a hot bed of rivalries and closely held resentments, the truth begins to feel very elusive indeed. As public sentiment begins to swing and time running out for Sheriff Pierce, Mark must uncover some of this close-knit town's most deeply held secrets if he's to learn the truth in time.


HOLY NAME

HOLY NAME

Author: Thomas Malone

Publisher: Covenant Books, Inc.

Published: 2019-07-26

Total Pages: 477

ISBN-13: 1644713284

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Thomas J. Joyce is a journalist, a reporter, and columnist for the Long Island Sentinel. In November 2011, at his home, he is visited by the Blessed Mother who asks for his help in convincing the world to stop taking in vain the name of her divine son. For a while, Thomas doesn't know what to do. Finally, convinced that he was selected for this mission due to his writing abilities, he begins to address the issue in his columns. Realizing that this will only reach people in Eastern Long Island, he teams with an array of collaborators to establish Holy Name, an organization dedicated to telling the entire world that misuse of the holy name is wrong and that it must be stopped. The Holy Name organization implements a series of retributions against authors, TV shows, Broadway plays, and social media sites that routinely disparage the name of God. Several of these lead to lawsuits against the enterprise for restraint of trade and censorship. The enterprise contends with these difficulties and tragedy as it moves to achieve its goal, eradicating the abuse of the holy name.


Names Fashioned by Gender

Names Fashioned by Gender

Author: Thenjiwe Meyiwa

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-12-01

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 100381283X

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Names are very powerful and significant, especially in the African context. Across societies, there is a universal, albeit taken-for-granted fact that all human beings have names. Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics—a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, form, history and use of proper names. The study of naming potentially provides significant evidence about the role of gender in the assimilation and/or enculturation processes as personal names evoke insight into the construction of gender and personhood in African societies. The book takes intellectual course from the idea that how names are viewed and used is heavily context-dependent and gendered. It demonstrates that personal names are narratives derived from different contexts within various cultures and circumstances subsequently imposing different identities on name bearers. Through persuasive essays, this book elucidates that naming is an activity that needs to be conducted cautiously because names tend to determine the destiny and character of an individual. Print editions not for sale in Sub-Saharan Africa.


Code Name Badass

Code Name Badass

Author: Heather Demetrios

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2022-09-06

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1534431888

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“Bringing together rigorous research and a vibrant writing style” (School Library Journal), Code Name Verity meets Inglourious Basterds in this riotous, spirited biography of the most dangerous of all Allied spies, courageous and kickass Virginia Hall. When James Bond was still in diapers, Virginia Hall was behind enemy lines, playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Hitler’s henchmen. Did she have second thoughts after a terrible accident left her needing a wooden leg? Please. Virginia Hall was the baddest broad in any room she walked into. When the State Department proved to be a sexist boys’ club that wouldn’t let her in, she gave the finger to society’s expectations of women and became a spy for the British. This boss lady helped arm and train the French Resistance and organized sabotage missions. There was just one problem: The Butcher of Lyon, a notorious Gestapo commander, was after her. But, hey—Virginia’s classmates didn’t call her the Fighting Blade for nothing. So how does a girl who was a pirate in the school play, spent her childhood summers milking goats, and rocked it on the hockey field end up becoming the Gestapo’s most wanted spy? Audacious, irreverent, and fiercely feminist, Code Name Badass is for anyone who doesn’t take no for an answer.


The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions

The Names of the Gods in Ancient Mediterranean Religions

Author: Corinne Bonnet

Publisher:

Published: 2024-02-28

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 1009394789

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From Greece to Palmyra, Tyre or Babylon, the names of the gods, like 'Thundering Zeus', 'Three-faced Moon', 'Baal of the Force' or the enigmatic YHWH, reveal their history, family ties, fields of competence and capacity for action. Shared or specific, these names bring to light networks of gods: the Saviour gods, the Ancestral gods, the gods of a city or a family. Names tell stories about the relationship between men and gods, gods and places, places and cultures and so on. They show how gods travel and spread, how they appear and disappear, how they participate in the political, social, intellectual history of each community. Through the study of divine names, the twelve chapters of this book unfold a gallery of portraits that reveal the changing aspects of the divine throughout the ancient Mediterranean.


Financial Cryptography and Data Security

Financial Cryptography and Data Security

Author: Angelos D. Keromytis

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2012-08-14

Total Pages: 426

ISBN-13: 3642329462

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This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Financial Cryptography and Data Security (FC 2012), held in Kralendijk, Bonaire, February 27–March 1, 2012. The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully selected and reviewed from 88 submissions. The papers cover all aspects of securing transactions and systems, including information assurance in the context of finance and commerce.


Hollywood be Thy Name

Hollywood be Thy Name

Author: Cass Warner Sperling

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 1998-01-01

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780813109589

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This text charts the real story of the Warner brothers and contains all the drama of a big screen production. The book tells of tension and strife among four brothers, love and marriage, death and divorce, and plotting and betrayal.


Code Name: C.I.N.D.E.R.

Code Name: C.I.N.D.E.R.

Author: Jack Edward Barrett

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2018-04-07

Total Pages: 595

ISBN-13: 1532042493

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Jonathan St. Honore is a federal narcotics agent living a nightmare within the dark walls of a Saigon prison. He has been convicted of murdering a crewman after he intercepted a fishing boat he suspected was smuggling opium into the country that instead turned out to be pure gold. Even as he is ruthlessly tortured, Jonathan refuses to reveal where he has hidden what everyone believes to be narcotics worth millions of dollars. As a result, he is left behind to rot in prison at wars end. As time passes, the CIA and an influential senator on track to become the next president of the United States finally step in to help. As a spectacular rescue mission unfolds that leaves five grisly murders in its wake and instigates an attack that threatens to ignite World War III, now only time will tell if both Jonathan and the vast fortune will finally be liberated or if he will die in prison. Code Name: C.I.N.D.E.R. shares a thrilling tale of the intrigue, murder, and greed that unfolds after an American holding an enormous secret is left in Vietnam at the close of the war.