The Spirit of Botany


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A visually entrancing and esoteric guide to connecting with plants through the senses. In The Spirit of Botany, artist and perfumer Jill McKeever reveals her personal rituals and creative methods of using aromatic botanical materials in incense, perfume, tisanes, ritual baths, and much more. In addition to dozens of recipes, McKeever offers her reflections on sustainability, synesthesia, creativity, and her own experience of turning her passion for this work into the indie perfume brand, For Strange Women. Appropriate for hobbyists and career alchemists alike, The Spirit of Botany features inspiring photography and a mysterious aesthetic, immersing readers in the countless biological, emotional, energetic, and spiritual benefits of aromatherapy and herbalism.




A Strange Woman


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The pioneering debut novel by one of Turkey's most radical female authors tells the story of an aspiring intellectual in a complex, modernizing country. In English at last: the first novel by a Turkish woman to ever be nominated for the Nobel. A Strange Woman is the story of Nermin, a young woman and aspiring poet growing up in Istanbul. Nermin frequents coffeehouses and underground readings, determined to immerse herself in the creative, anarchist youth culture of Turkey’s capital; however, she is regularly thwarted by her complicated relationship to her parents, members of the old guard who are wary of Nermin’s turn toward secularism. In four parts, A Strange Woman narrates the past and present of a Turkish family through the viewpoints of the main characters involved. This rebellious, avant-garde novel tackles sexuality, the unconscious, and psychoanalysis, all through the lens of modernizing 20th-century Turkey. Deep Vellum brings this long-awaited translation of the debut novel by a trailblazing feminist voice to US readers.




Dangerous Prayer Against Strange Women


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Dangerous prayer against strange women Marriage has the greatest potential for deep emotional injury. The person who knew you best can hurt you most. Marriage can be difficult to navigate because of one major variable-the other woman, called strange woman. Strange women contribute most to discover rate in our society this day. When it happens no one comes out of it unscratched. The aftermath of infidelity is much. This is more reason you should handle it with dangerous and violent prayers in the like of the book you are holding. The time is now, not tomorrow. The burden of marital calamity is on your shoulder. You must rise on your feet and fight back in prayer. Your aim is to release and win back your husband. The kisses and love from him must not end that way. Strange women must not take over your home or share your house with you. The book addresses it all. It shall do a miraculous work of transformation, restoration, healing and fruitfulness in your marriage.




Strange Women! Leave my Husband Alone


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We live in a fallen world and bad things happen. Many homes are experiencing storms in their marriages. Women lost grip of their husbands to desperate and faceless strange women who inflict wounds in their heart. They go extra miles to achieve their aims. The battle line is drawn between holding your marriage or loses it outright to strange women who want to transform your home to a busy immoral market. For this act, she murdered sleep and must pay for it. Rise up to the situation now and fight back. Beware! I am not calling for physical approach of an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth; else two of you will go blind and toothless! Rather, go spiritual in prayer and petition before God. Fight and win the battle against strange women troubling your marriage. The book you are holding is loaded with answer and prayer that address marital challenges.




Wise, Strange and Holy


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The relationship of the Strange Woman and Woman Wisdom, separate but inseparable in Proverbs 1-9, is the book's analytic starting point, becoming a hermeneutical lens for viewing other texts of strangeness-of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, and cultic activity. Wisdom and strangeness mark the narratives of Samson and Solomon, while priestly literature sets strangeness against holiness. Miriam and Dinah, sisters of cultic eponyms Aaron and Levi, are Israelite women defiled or unclean, made strange. Priestly and wisdom constructions of gendered strangeness intersect, illuminating the ideologies of identity that develop in the postexilic period and that shape the beginnings of the biblical canon.




United Artists, Volume 1, 1919–1950


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United Artists was a unique motion picture company in the history of Hollywood. Founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and director D.W. Griffith—four of the greatest names of the silent era—United Artists functioned as a distribution company for independent producers. In this lively and detailed history of United Artists from 1919 through 1951, film scholar Tino Balio chronicles the company’s struggle for survival, its rise to prominence as the Tiffany of the industry, and its near extinction in the 1940s. This edition is updated with a new introduction by Balio that places in relief UA’s operations for those readers who may be unfamiliar with film industry practices and adds new perspective to the company’s place within Hollywood.







Womanist Midrash


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Womanist Midrash is an in-depth and creative exploration of the well- and lesser-known women of the Hebrew Scriptures. Using her own translations, Gafney offers a midrashic interpretation of the biblical text that is rooted in the African American preaching tradition to tell the stories of a variety of female characters, many of whom are often overlooked and nameless. Gafney employs a solid understanding of womanist and feminist approaches to biblical interpretation and the sociohistorical culture of the ancient Near East. This unique and imaginative work is grounded in serious scholarship and will expand conversations about feminist and womanist biblical interpretation.







Women's Bible Commentary


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In the critically acclaimed best-seller,Women's Bible Commentary, an outstanding group of women scholars introduced and summarized each book of the Bible and commented on those sections of each book that have particular relevence to women, focusing on female charecters, symbols, life situations such as marriage and family, the legal status of women, and religious principles that affect relationships of women and men. Now, this expanded edition provides similar insights on the Apocrypha, presenting a significant view of the lives and religious experiences of women as well as attitudes toward women in the Second Temple period. This expanded edition sets a new standard for women's and biblical studies.