Author : Richard Twiss
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,71 MB
Release : 2015-06-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0830898530
The gospel of Jesus has not always been good news for Native Americans. But despite the far-reaching effects of colonialism, some Natives have forged culturally authentic ways to follow Jesus. In his final work, Richard Twiss surveys the complicated history of Christian missions among Indigenous peoples and voices a hopeful vision of contextual Native Christian faith.
Author : Karin Kallmaker
Publisher : Bella Books
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,23 MB
Release : 2003-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1594939322
Sarah MacNeil is about to put her heart in the hands of a beautiful woman who could be her salvation...or her ruin! Surfing high on the wave of lesbian chic, author/screenwriter Melissa Hartley is deliciously dangerous. She knows the right people, goes to all the right parties, says all the right things. When she meets the quiet, elegant Sarah MacNeil at a hotel bar, Melissa makes all the right moves to get Sarah to her bed, then makes all the right promises to convince the usually cautious young attorney to come live with her in San Francisco. Totally captivated for the first time in her life, Sarah surrenders herself completely. Blinded by the glow of Melissa's white-hot sensuality, is Sarah setting herself up for a total meltdown?
Author : C.D. Gorri
Publisher : C.D. Gorri
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 41,97 MB
Release : 2024-09-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Welcome to the Motley Crewd Ranch! Once upon a time…Nah, scratch that. These aren’t those kinds of stories. Yeah, there are supernatural creatures, magic, and love inside these tales. But there’s also crude behavior, foul language, and steamy sex scenes, involving boorish alpha males with bad attitudes and over the top possessive behavior. Still wanna stick around? Excellent! Now, we have all heard there are more things in this universe than you or I or anyone truly knows. Well, this group of supernatural misfits is testing the limits of what they know in order to chase the one thing they never thought they’d have a shot at controlling…their destinies. But only the Fates can determine true love, and in Barren County, New Jersey, these Urban Cowboy Shifters are going to find out the hard way. Sometimes it’s not about the family you were born into. Sometimes it’s about the family you choose. Or in this case, the crew. Cowboy Devil's Embrace He’s been looking for someone to hold on to. She’s been waiting for the right guy. This Jersey Devil has a jaded past. Too many loveless affairs, sleazy backroom deals, and an overall loss of his love for life has led Maximillian Leeds to one conclusion. He needs a change. What could be more different for a city slicker than buying a ranch in Northern New Jersey? There’s just one problem. He has no idea how to run a farm/ranch/thing. What’s he even supposed to do on a horse? An announcement in a supernatural newsletter gets him a misfit group of lone Shifters that all have one thing in common. They each need an anchor to settle their beasts. Good thing the Motley Crewd Ranch is fully insured. Thinking he's made a big mistake, Max changes his tune when he meets his fated mate at the Devil’s Food Bakery. The pouty-lipped maker of decadent delights makes his mouth water. Can this Jersey Devil convince the curvy baker to be his? KEYWORDS: curvy FMC, morally gray MMC, Shifters, Wolf Shifters, Devil romance, Demon romance, plus size heroine, fated mates, happy ever after, claiming bite, found family, slow burn This is a series of interconnected paranormal romance standalones with steamy scenes, foul language, crude behavior, plus size heroines, mating rituals, claiming bites, possessive book boyfriends, HEA endings, and more.
Author : Beverly Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 45,83 MB
Release : 2013-01-29
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062031260
Award-winning romance author Beverly Jenkins offers up another high-stakes historical romance that is sure to make you swoon. With Destiny’s Embrace, Jenkins brings readers back to the American West, where Logan Yates, a self-important ranch owner, must confront his feelings for his beautiful, free spirited housekeeper, Mariah Cooper. While they bicker incessantly, their sexual tension is palpable, and only rises when Mariah's former lover arrives on the scene. Will she accept Logan's heart? Set in 19th-century California, Destiny's Embrace features unforgettable characters and a satisfying mix of adventure and passion from nation's premier writer of African-American historical romance.
Author : Sandra Brown
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 13,49 MB
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1455546380
In this steamy post-Civil War saga, the most stubborn woman headed for Texas meets her match in a mystery man with a dark past . . . and together, they must take down a common enemy. No woman on the wagon train trek to Texas was more alluring than Lydia Langston. No man was more rugged than Ross Coleman . . . and both were running from the past. Lydia once vowed that no man would ever take away her pride, while Ross Coleman has stayed true to his wife, who died giving birth to their son. But despite their challenges, Lydia and Ross now find themselves together, fighting the same enemy and the same dangerous emotions building inside them . . . and unable to stop the events that will eventually pit a man's deadly vengeance against the strength of a woman's love.
Author : Laura R. Barraclough
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 32,86 MB
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520289110
In the American imagination, no figure is more central to national identity and the nation’s origin story than the cowboy. Yet the Americans and Europeans who settled the U.S. West learned virtually everything they knew about ranching from the indigenous and Mexican horsemen who already inhabited the region. The charro—a skilled, elite, and landowning horseman—was an especially powerful symbol of Mexican masculinity and nationalism. After the 1930s, Mexican Americans in cities across the U.S. West embraced the figure as a way to challenge their segregation, exploitation, and marginalization from core narratives of American identity. In this definitive history, Laura R. Barraclough shows how Mexican Americans have used the charro in the service of civil rights, cultural citizenship, and place-making. Focusing on a range of U.S. cities, Charros traces the evolution of the “original cowboy” through mixed triumphs and hostile backlashes, revealing him to be a crucial agent in the production of U.S., Mexican, and border cultures, as well as a guiding force for Mexican American identity and social movements.
Author : Albert Barrère
Publisher :
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 44,66 MB
Release : 1897
Category : English language
ISBN :
Author : Barry L. Cross
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,26 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1482216302
Look around your organization: can you identify who owns project management? Would that person appreciate that they own responsibility for your projects? Project Leadership: Creating Value with an Adaptive Project Organization highlights the importance of these questions—underlining the importance not only of the project team but on the culture of executive leadership to the success of projects. It offers straight-forward takeaways and solutions to provide executives with the tools to implement an effective project environment. The book begins with a discussion of the project environment and what it means for a project to succeed or fail in today’s world. It introduces the Adaptive Project Management Model followed by a review of the systems and tools that give firms increasing ability to maintain priority on strategic projects and manage their associated uncertainty. Working through the book, you can progressively apply tactics from each chapter to increase your project leadership capability and improve your process so that your projects adapt as required depending on the nature of the portfolio itself. Ask yourself this—what is my customer buying? What do they really want? The one element that all organizations have in common is that customers are buying execution, and not much else. Therefore, ultimately, this book is about execution—getting things done and making things happen. It details methods and tactics that help you execute projects more effectively and give your organization the edge in the current, fast-paced marketplace.
Author : Grace Ji-Sun Kim
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 18,93 MB
Release : 2015-10-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1467443956
An innovative Asian feminist perspective on God's Spirit We live in a time of great racial strife and global conflict. How do we work toward healing, reconciliation, and justice among all people, regardless of race or gender? In Embracing the Other Grace Ji-Sun Kim demonstrates that it is possible only through God's Spirit. Working from a feminist Asian perspective, Kim develops a new constructive global pneumatology that works toward gender and racial-ethnic justice. She draws on concepts from Asian and indigenous cultures to reimagine the divine as "Spirit God" who is restoring shalom in the world. Through the power of Spirit God, Kim says, our brokenness is healed and we can truly love and embrace the Other.
Author : Michael S. Kimmel
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 920 pages
File Size : 16,75 MB
Release : 2003-12-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1576077756
The first encyclopedia to analyze, summarize, and explain the complexities of men's lives and the idea of modern manhood. The process of "making masculinity visible" has been going on for over two decades and has produced a prodigious and interesting body of work. But until now the subject has had no authoritative reference source. Men & Masculinities, a pioneering two-volume work, corrects the oversight by summarizing the latest historical, biological, cross-cultural, psychological, and sociological research on the subject. It also looks at literature, art, and music from a gender perspective. The contributors are experts in their specialties and their work is directed, organized, and coedited by one of the premier scholars in the field, Michael Kimmel. The coverage brings together for the first time considerable knowledge of men and manhood, focusing on such areas as sexual violence, intimacy, pornography, homophobia, sports, profeminist men, rituals, sexism, and many other important subjects. Clearly, this unique reference is a valuable guide to students, teachers, writers, policymakers, journalists, and others who seek a fuller understanding of gender in the United States.
