Reverend Addie Wyatt

Reverend Addie Wyatt
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Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Total Pages : 431
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ISBN-10 : 9780252098963
ISBN-13 : 025209896X
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Reverend Addie Wyatt by : Marcia Walker-McWilliams

Labor leader, civil rights activist, outspoken feminist, African American clergywoman--Reverend Addie Wyatt stood at the confluence of many rivers of change in twentieth century America. The first female president of a local chapter of the United Packinghouse Workers of America, Wyatt worked alongside Martin Luther King Jr. and Eleanor Roosevelt and appeared as one of Time magazine's Women of the Year in 1975. Marcia Walker-McWilliams tells the incredible story of Addie Wyatt and her times. What began for Wyatt as a journey to overcome poverty became a lifetime commitment to social justice and the collective struggle against economic, racial, and gender inequalities. Walker-McWilliams illuminates how Wyatt's own experiences with hardship and many forms of discrimination drove her work as an activist and leader. A parallel journey led her to develop an abiding spiritual faith, one that denied defeatism by refusing to accept such circumstances as immutable social forces.

A Mississippi Palate

A Mississippi Palate
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 14
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ISBN-10 : 0999222902
ISBN-13 : 9780999222904
Rating : 4/5 (02 Downloads)

Synopsis A Mississippi Palate by : Robert St. John

Robert St. John and Wyatt Waters collaborate again to pull back the fabric of the Magnolia state through their God-given talents as a chef and artist, and collectively, commentators on culture. A Mississippi Palate: Heritage Cuisine and Watercolors of Home takes a large brush stroke at the beauty of Mississippi through some 64 of Waters¿ works. St. John captures the flavors of his home state through XX classic recipes. Together, they continue the perfect blend of flavor and color, a combination that leaves the reader longing for another bite.

Wyatt

Wyatt
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Publisher : Text Publishing
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9781921656026
ISBN-13 : 1921656026
Rating : 4/5 (26 Downloads)

Synopsis Wyatt by : Garry Disher

Wyatt's been away. Now he's back. That's as much as anyone really knows about him. The rest is rumour, the kind that makes people wary. And that's fine with Wyatt. Eddie Oberin thinks he knows enough about Wyatt to make him an offer. A jewel heist - inside information courtesy of Lydia Stark, Eddie's much smarter ex-wife. The target is an intentional courier of stolen items- Alain Le Page. Wyatt doesn't know the name Le Page and he doesn't know Lydia. He will.

Shadow Ridge

Shadow Ridge
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Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Total Pages : 304
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ISBN-10 : 9781643855363
ISBN-13 : 1643855360
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Synopsis Shadow Ridge by : M. E. Browning

Death is one click away when a string of murders rocks a small Colorado town in the first mesmerizing novel in M. E. Browning's A Jo Wyatt Mystery series. Echo Valley, Colorado, is a place where the natural beauty of a stunning river valley meets a budding hipster urbanity. But when an internet stalker is revealed to be a cold-blooded killer in real life the peaceful community is rocked to its core. It should have been an open-and-shut case: the suicide of Tye Horton, the designer of a cutting-edge video game. But Detective Jo Wyatt is immediately suspicious of Quinn Kirkwood, who reported the death. When Quinn reveals an internet stalker is terrorizing her, Jo is skeptical. Doubts aside, she delves into the claim and uncovers a link that ties Quinn to a small group of beta-testers who had worked with Horton. When a second member of the group dies in a car accident, Jo's investigation leads her to the father of a young man who had killed himself a year earlier. But there's more to this case than a suicide, and as Jo unearths the layers, a more sinister pattern begins to emerge--one driven by desperation, shame, and a single-minded drive for revenge. As Jo closes in, she edges ever closer to the shattering truth--and a deadly showdown that will put her to the ultimate test.

Springer Mountain

Springer Mountain
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Publisher : UNC Press Books
Total Pages : 97
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ISBN-10 : 9781469665498
ISBN-13 : 1469665492
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Springer Mountain by : Wyatt Williams

Drawing on years of investigative reporting, Wyatt Williams offers a powerful look at why we kill and eat animals. In order to understand why we eat meat, the restaurant critic and journalist investigated factory farms, learned to hunt game, worked on a slaughterhouse kill floor, and partook in Indigenous traditions of whale eating in Alaska. In Springer Mountain, he tells about his experiences while charting the history of meat eating and vegetarianism. Williams shows how mysteries springing up from everyday experiences can lead us into the big questions of life while examining the irreconcilable differences between humans and animals. Springer Mountain is a thought-provoking work, one that reveals how what we eat tells us who we are.

Treasure Hunt

Treasure Hunt
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Publisher : Penguin
Total Pages : 307
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ISBN-10 : 9781101171554
ISBN-13 : 1101171553
Rating : 4/5 (54 Downloads)

Synopsis Treasure Hunt by : John Lescroart

The widow of a major player in the world of San Francisco nonprofits believes that his alleged mistress killed him-and she's putting up fifty grand to whoever helps prove it. Wyatt Hunt and his investigation firm want in on that action-no matter where it takes them...

Christian Platonism

Christian Platonism
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 875
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ISBN-10 : 9781108676472
ISBN-13 : 1108676472
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis Christian Platonism by : Alexander J. B. Hampton

Platonism has played a central role in Christianity and is essential to a deep understanding of the Christian theological tradition. At times, Platonism has constituted an essential philosophical and theological resource, furnishing Christianity with an intellectual framework that has played a key role in its early development, and in subsequent periods of renewal. Alternatively, it has been considered a compromising influence, conflicting with the faith's revelatory foundations and distorting its inherent message. In both cases the fundamental importance of Platonism, as a force which Christianity defined itself by and against, is clear. Written by an international team of scholars, this landmark volume examines the history of Christian Platonism from antiquity to the present day, covers key concepts, and engages issues such as the environment, natural science and materialism.

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America

Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9780199370245
ISBN-13 : 0199370249
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Synopsis Survival and Resistance in Evangelical America by : Crawford Gribben

Over the last thirty years, conservative evangelicals have been moving to the Northwest of the United States, where they hope to resist the impact of secular modernity and to survive the breakdown of society that they anticipate. These believers have often given up on the politics of the Christian Right, adopting strategies of hibernation while developing the communities and institutions from which a new America might one day emerge. Their activity coincides with the promotion by prominent survivalist authors of a program of migration to the "American Redoubt," a region encompassing Idaho, Montana, parts of eastern Washington and Oregon, and Wyoming, as a haven in which to endure hostile social change or natural disaster and in which to build a new social order. These migration movements have independent origins, but they overlap in their influences and aspirations, working in tandem to offer a vision of the present in which Christian values must be defended as American society is rebuilt according to biblical law. This book examines the origins, evolution, and cultural reach of this little-noted migration and considers what it might tell us about the future of American evangelicalism. Drawing on Calvinist theology, the social theory of Christian Reconstruction, and libertarian politics, these believers are projecting significant soft power. Their books are promoted by leading mainstream publishers and listed as New York Times bestsellers. Their strategy is gaining momentum, making an impact in local political and economic life, while being repackaged for a wider audience in publications by a broader coalition of conservative commentators and in American mass culture. This survivalist evangelical subculture recognizes that they have lost the culture war - but another kind of conflict is beginning.

Quiet, Wyatt!

Quiet, Wyatt!
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Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons Books for Young Readers
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0399232176
ISBN-13 : 9780399232176
Rating : 4/5 (76 Downloads)

Synopsis Quiet, Wyatt! by : Bill Maynard

Everyone is always telling Wyatt to be quiet because he's too young and loud, but when he gets mad and stops talking, it seems that maybe he wasn't so annoying after all.

River Rats

River Rats
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ISBN-10 : 0898243785
ISBN-13 : 9780898243789
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis River Rats by : Leslie J Wyatt

The novel is set in 1940s rural Missouri, just as the shadow of World War 2 looms in the background. The story is from the point of view of 12 year old Kenny, who with his older brother and friends roam the countryside and hang out together in the bottoms of the Chariton River. Trouble comes with the arrival of a new boy, Henry Nichols, who is "a thin stick of a person, looking like a half-starved hound...and not like us." Can he join the River Rats? Kenny's big brother, Jim, is a bully and tries everything he can to humiliate and hurt the new boy who doesn't even go to school he so poor. Kenny has to risk losing the friendship of his own brother by doing what, deep down, he knows is right. The book tackles head-on the choices he faces.