Kenisha


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Kenisha explores the religious history of Ethiopia and Eritrea. It builds on Gustav Arn's original account of the origins and development of evangelical Protestantism in the countries, recovering some of the same ground and carrying the story forward to include an account of the fate of the mission and the church, which was in large part the outcome of the heyday of Italian colonialism in Eritrea from the mid-1920s to 1935.




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Shades of Me


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Long Time Coming


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Deidre Clark-Morris has a loving husband and beautiful home, but no children. Kenisha Smalls lives in poverty and has three children by three different men. After Kenisha is told she has inoperable cervical cancer, the relationship between these two women becomes a catalyst of hope.




No Easy Answers


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This anthology features stories about individuals who find themselves in situations that test their strength of character. They are called upon to make moral choices, face the consequences of their actions, and consider what it means to "do the right thing. " From computer blackmail, peer pressure, and gang violence to drug use, unwanted pregnancy, guilt and atonement, these characters face decisions that may affect the rest of their lives. There are many tough choices; there are no easy answers.







Because Teaching Matters


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Because Teaching Matters provides teachers with a realistic depiction of today s classrooms while highlighting the enormous impact they have on everyday lives. The second edition presents material around a framework of five professional commitments that allows them to make sense of what it means to be a teacher. A new critical-thinking framework helps them manage the content better and retain more of what they learn. Increased coverage of diversity and technology is integrated throughout the chapters. A new chapter has also been added on the history and philosophy of education. This book will help teachers make decisions and take responsibility for the consequences of those choices.




Between Femininities


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Arguing for a recognition of the contradictory and ambivalent identifications that both attract and repel those who live the social category "girl," Marnina Gonick analyzes the discourses and practices defining female sexuality, embodiment, relationship to self and other, material culture, use of social space, and cultural-political agency and power. Based on a school-community project involving collaborative production of a video which tells the stories of several fictional girl characters, Gonick examines the contradictory and textured structure of the discourses available to girls through which their identities are negotiated. Woven throughout the book is the integral concern with the way in which ethnographic writing as a discursive practice is also implicated in the production and signification of social identities for girls.




Angels All Around


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God has a plan for two special angels who are sent to live as humans in the world. Kenisha Brown, endowed with the gifts of healing and great compassion, must meet and marry fellow angel Michael Lindebloom, a righteous man who is strong and determined. They are to become the parents of special child who will play an important role in Gods plan. The two angels know they will have difficulty remembering what they are to do after they enter the world as humans. And they know that the demonic opposing forces will do all they can to stop them. Kenisha is born to an African-American single mother on the South Side of Chicago, and Michael is born four years later into a Jewish family in New York City. By the time they meet, shes trapped in an unhappy marriage, and hes a lawyer, a war hero, and a ladies man. The heavenly angels do all they can to help Kenisha and Michael remember Gods plan for them, while the opposing forces battle to keep them apart. To be successful, Kenisha and Michael must work through social and cultural differences and religious roadblocks, while powerful spiritual warfare wages around them. Will these two unlikely mates overcome their challenges to further Gods plan?




Women and Capital Punishment in the United States


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The history of the execution of women in the United States has largely been ignored and scholars have given scant attention to gender issues in capital punishment. This historical analysis examines the social, political and economic contexts in which the justice system has put women to death, revealing a pattern of patriarchal domination and female subordination. The book includes a discussion of condemned women granted executive clemency and judicial commutations, an inquiry into women falsely convicted in potentially capital cases and a profile of the current female death row population.