Beyond Companionship
Beyond Companionship

Author: Diana R. Garland

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2003-01-14

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1592441319

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In 'Beyond Companionship - Christians In Marriage', Diana and David Garland examine some of the prevailing ideas about marriage that are held by many church leaders, social scientists, counselors, and therapists. Among the myths they dispel: There is a pattern for Christian married life applicable in all times and places. Couples can have a good marriage if they work at it hard enough. Marriage is the most important relationship in life. In an ideal marriage the partners talk continuously about their relationship. Beyond discussion of the marriage myths, the authors look at current biblical interpretations of marriage, being married in America, a good marriage and the need for a sense of task, the role of anger and conflict, sexuality, and, finally, the unresolved differences that can lead to divorce. Diana and David Garland bring to this book special insights from their respective fields - social work and biblical studies - and the experience gained from being married to each other.

Beyond Companionship
Beyond Companionship

Author: Amy Miller

Publisher: Balboa Press

Published: 2015-07-27

Total Pages: 86

ISBN-13: 1504335767

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Discover meaning & purpose in the presence of animal companions. Beyond Companionship: Connecting with Kindred Souls of Animal Companions explores the powerful connection conceived the moment you acknowledge the soul within your animal companions. This sharing of truths Amy has uncovered through her work as an Intuitive Animal Communicator is an exploration to: A deeper understanding of the connection you share with your animal companions Enriching the time you share with your animal friends Experiencing through meditation your unique soul connection with an animals kindred soul Connecting with an animal companion after he or she has crossed over since the bonds of love are eternal The narratives and connection points within these pages will open your mind, touch your soul, and forever change your relationship with the animals in your life.

Beyond Companionship
Beyond Companionship

Author: Mary-Ellen Siegel

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-05

Total Pages: 150

ISBN-13: 0595480306

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Describes and profiles service dogs that have been trained to help people with physical disabilities, therapy dogs, dogs that find lost children and dogs that assist transit police.

Beyond the Household
Beyond the Household

Author: Cynthia A. Kierner

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 9780801484629

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Much has been written about the "southern lady," that pervasive and enduring icon of antebellum regional identity. But how did the lady get on her pedestal--and were the lives of white southern women always so different from those of their northern contemporaries? In her ambitious new book, Cynthia A. Kierner charts the evolution of the lives of white southern women through the colonial, revolutionary, and early republican eras. Using the lady on her pedestal as the end--rather than the beginning--of her story, she shows how gentility, republican political ideals, and evangelical religion successively altered southern gender ideals and thereby forced women to reshape their public roles. Kierner concludes that southern women continually renegotiated their access to the public sphere--and that even the emergence of the frail and submissive lady as icon did not obliterate women's public role.Kierner draws on a strong overall command of early American and women's history and adds to it research in letters, diaries, newspapers, secular and religious periodicals, travelers' accounts, etiquette manuals, and cookery books. Focusing on the issues of work, education, and access to the public sphere, she explores the evolution of southern gender ideals in an important transitional era. Specifically, she asks what kinds of changes occurred in women's relation to the public sphere from 1700 to 1835. In answering this major question, she makes important links and comparisons, across both time and region, and creates a chronology of social and intellectual change that addresses many key questions in the history of women, the South, and early America.

Down These Streets Alone
Down These Streets Alone

Author: Ra-Ra M. J.

Publisher: Lone Blue Wolf Publishing Company, LLC

Published: 2017-11-17

Total Pages: 331

ISBN-13: 1958621005

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A man, who has lived in dysfunctional homes, endured child and sexual abuse, ostracism and racism, holds a dismal view of the world and himself. These life experiences shape Hakeem Lewis’ perceptions of reality, and thus, positively and negatively influence his behavior. For better or worse, he strives to escape a distressful past. Unfortunately, his methods fail to permanently cure him of sustained psychological damage. The most shameful and painful secrets possess the power to bind and oppress. Few dare to divulge their darkest feelings and desires, for they fear criticism. Trepidation and ignorance become catalysts for persisting self-destructive behavior and socio-environmental destruction. Hakeem discovers that his coping methods have led him down a path of addictive, reckless, and immoral behavior despite an educational and spiritual background. Hakeem must decide whether to continue on his present course, or seek the psychological and spiritual guidance that he needs to flee the darkness, which surrounds him. The question is, does Hakeem possess the desire and courage to make the lifestyle adjustments necessary for a brighter future? He must also determine which is most important to his spiritual growth: the norms of the world or a relationship with God.

Last Snow
Last Snow

Author: Eric Van Lustbader

Publisher: Forge Books

Published: 2010-02-16

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 1429957905

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The electrifying follow-up to the Jack McClure thriller First Daughter from the New York Times bestselling author of The Bourne Sanction and The Bourne Deception Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, interprets the world very differently from the rest of us. It's his greatest liability, and his greatest asset. An American senator, supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine, turns up dead on the island of Capri. When the President asks him to find out how and why, Jack sets out from Moscow across Eastern Europe, following a perilous trail of diplomats, criminals, and corrupt politicians. Thrust into the midst of a global jigsaw puzzle, Jack's unique dyslexic mind allows him to put together the pieces that others can't even see. Still unreconciled to the recent death of his daughter and the dissolution of his marriage, Jack takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two unlikely, unexpected, and incompatible companions—Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter. As he struggles to keep both young women safe and unearth the answers he seeks, hunted by everyone from the Russian mafia to the Ukrainian police to his own NSA, Jack learns just how far up the American and Russian political ladders corruption and treachery has reached. In the vein of Eric Van Lustbader's latest bestselling Jason Bourne novels, Lustbader takes us on an international adventure in this powerful page-turner that will keep you reading through the night. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.