The Purple Womb

The Purple Womb

Author: Ethel E. Sims

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2012-03

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1619966425

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Ethel E. Sims lives in San Diego, CA with her husband of over 30 years. "Living life and working together in the Lord" is their life long pleasure. They are The Elect, called to church family leadership and social ministry development. They enjoy Christian music, travelling, and reading. They have one son, two daughters, two sons-in-love and three beautiful MeMe- BeBe girls, all living in Southern California. She is involved in launching a new literary project called The Purpose Womb (TPW)(TM). TPW is the branding of her life purpose message and the public platform for promoting, publishing, and marketing her BOU'QUE literary designs, collections, and special editions. Her Southern roots in Grambling, Louisiana stems into Jonesboro-Hodge and Shady Grove where she began her early childhood education. She is the youngest of three siblings and was raised by single, divorced Biology and Chemistry teacher. Being part of a nurturing, extended family has made her the woman she is today. She enjoys power-shopping, social-walking, and designing interior spaces. Ole fashioned home cooking, unfermented fruit-tea parties, Cajon style soul food family gatherings, and restaurant dining are favorites, too. As an Alumni of National University, she holds her Masters and Undergraduate degrees in Business Administration. She uses her formal education, certified training, and life skills coaching to advocate for children, youth, and families. Ethel Sims is an Executive Director of a grass-roots non-profit organization where she provides leadership and community service to help combat poverty, child abuse, and family dysfunctional behaviors. She teaches child-parent leadership and parenting classes for foster-kinship and community families. Her professional expertise consists of Real Estate, Business Entrepreneurship, Child Development, Youth-Urban Education, and Social Economic Development. She is a lifetime member of The Who's Who - Women in Business and is a licensed Real Estate Broke, by profession. She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees in Business Administration and is a certified Child and Family Care Ministry Executive.


Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series

Author: Library of Congress. Copyright Office

Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress

Published: 1962

Total Pages: 1076

ISBN-13:

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Includes Part 1, Number 1: Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)


Ink, Iron, and Glass

Ink, Iron, and Glass

Author: Gwendolyn Clare

Publisher: Imprint

Published: 2018-02-20

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 1250112753

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In debut author Gwendolyn Clare's thrilling Ink, Iron, and Glass, worlds collide as Elsa unveils a deep political conspiracy seeking to unlock the most dangerous weapon ever created—and only she can stop it. Can she write a world gone wrong? A certain pen, a certain book, and a certain person can craft entirely new worlds through a branch of science called scriptology. Elsa comes from one such world that was written into creation, where her mother—a noted scriptologist—constantly alters and expands their reality. But when her home is attacked and her mother kidnapped, Elsa is forced to cross into the real world and use her own scriptology gifts to find her. In an alternative Victorian Italy, Elsa finds a secret society of young scientists with a gift for mechanics, alchemy, or scriptology—and meets Leo, a gorgeous mechanist with a smart mouth and tragic past. She recruits the help of these fellow geniuses just as an assassin arrives on their doorstep. An Imprint Book “The novel samples historical figures the way a hip-hop album might sample a classic riff: it opens a window to European history, lets in fresh air, and sends facts flying... This novel is a source of serious fun.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “This debut novel is fully realized steampunk-fantasy, offering an alternate history that deftly and creatively adopts the politics of 19th-century Italy to create a compellingly unique world.... Exciting and original.” —Kirkus (starred review) “Clare's debut is built upon an intriguing premise... A solid series starter featuring a competent, flawed heroine that’s built for sf fans.” —Booklist “There’s much more to uncover in the political machinations of each world, and a gasp-worthy ending ensures a sequel.” —BCCB


The Rude Story of English

The Rude Story of English

Author: Tom Howell

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart

Published: 2013-11-05

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0771039875

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There are only two problems with the story of the English language: one, no hero. Two, not rude enough. In The Rude Story of English, recovering lexicographer Tom Howell swiftly remedies these and gives us a rousing account of our language – without all the boring bits and with all the interesting parts kept in – and reveals English’s boisterous, at times obnoxious, character. From a haphazard beginning in 449 AD, when a legendary, fearsome Germanic warrior named Hengest tripped and fell onto British shores, the real story of English has been rife with accident, physical comedy, phallic monuments, rude behaviour, dubious facts, and an alarming quantity of poetry written by lawyers. Across vast distances of space and time, from the language’s origins to its fast-approaching retirement, a moody and miraculously long-lived Hengest voyages to the pubs of Chaucer’s London, aboard pirate ships in the north Atlantic, to plantations in Barbados, bookstores in Jamaica, the chilly inlet of Quidi Vidi, Newfoundland, a private men’s club in Australia, and beyond. Part Monty Python sketch, part Oxford English Dictionary, The Rude Story of English displays an exuberant love of language and a sharp, anti-authoritarian sense of humour. Entertaining and informative, it looks at English through its most uncomfortable, colourful, and off-putting parts, chronicling the story of the language as it has never been told before.


Mist, Metal, and Ash

Mist, Metal, and Ash

Author: Gwendolyn Clare

Publisher: Imprint

Published: 2019-02-19

Total Pages: 384

ISBN-13: 125011277X

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Worlds collide in this thrilling sequel to the epic, imaginative, acclaimed fantasy Ink, Iron, and Glass. In an alternate 19th-century Italy, Elsa has an incredible gift: she can craft new worlds with precise lines of script written in books. But political extremists have stolen the most dangerous book ever scribed—one that can rewrite the Earth itself. Now Elsa must track down the friend who betrayed her and recover the book before its destructive power is unleashed. Can she handle the secrets she’ll uncover along the way—including the ones hiding in her own heart? An Imprint Book "The alternate-history thrill ride continues ... The author is a master of character development ... Action and adventure with a fearless heroine at the helm." —Kirkus Reviews “A satisfying sequel.” —Booklist PRAISE FOR INK, IRON, AND GLASS: “This novel is a source of serious fun.” —School Library Journal (starred review) “Exciting and original.” —Kirkus (starred review) “Clare’s debut is built upon an intriguing premise... A solid series starter featuring a competent, flawed heroine that’s built for sf fans.” —Booklist “A gasp-worthy ending ensures a sequel.” — Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books


How to Conduct a Practice-based Study

How to Conduct a Practice-based Study

Author: Silvia Gherardi

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1788973569

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Practice-based approaches to knowing, learning, innovating, and managing have thrived in recent years. Calling upon numerous narratives from a range of research fields, the author offers insight into the many possibilities of practice research, highlighting the inextricable links between humans and technology as the key emergent trend in management studies. Developing an innovative posthumanist approach, this novel book offers a useful and insightful compass for the navigation of practice-based studies through the lens of exemplar vignettes from internationally acclaimed researchers.