New Releases by Barbara Miller

Create a home you enjoy and are proud to live in by identifying the heart of the homethe people and relationships you celebrate daily. Create unique spaces, YES! spaces, that honor and incorporate your family''s gifts and challenges. The physical design of a YES! space is a response to how your family functions in your home. A YES! space builds connections and helps foster communication rather than isolation. Barbara Miller shows you how to make your current living space function more effectively for every member of the family.

Farm girl tries to protect her flock of sheep from dog pack.

Successfully integrating attention to globalization, gender, class, race and ethnicity throughout, Miller''s up-to-date text engages students with compelling ethnographic examples and by demonstrating the relevance of anthropology to their lives. Faculty and students praise the book''s proven ability to generate class discussion, increase faculty-student engagement, and enhance student learning. Through clear writing, a balanced theoretical approach, and engaging examples, Miller stresses the importance of social inequality, cultural change, and applied aspects of anthropology throughout the book. Rich examples of gender, ethnicity, race, class, and age thread through the topical coverage of economic systems, the life-cycle, health, kinship, social organization, politics, language, religion, and expressive culture. Each chapter highlights an example of applied anthropology and connects with students by providing practical tips about how they can use anthropology in their everyday lives and careers. The last two chapters address how migration is changing world cultures and the importance of local cultural values and needs in shaping international development policies and programs.

Connecting and Correcting is a case study of Sami healers in Porsanger, Finnmark, Norway, and focuses on two Coastal Sami healers, their worldview and healing practices. Barbara Miller explores the cultural and historic context of Sami healing practices, most notably Sami folk beliefs, the Laestadian branch of Lutheranism, and the changes in the discourse on the noaidi , a Sami term that is often translated as shaman. As she point out, healers today may be connected historically to the noaidi of the past, but they cannot be identified with the noaidi . The healers are Christian and conceive of their healing gift as a special connection to God. This gift resembles important Laestadian concepts. In Laestadianism the ?congregation of the reborn'' holds the Keys to Heaven, which are the binding and unbinding keys received from the Savior.

So declares the old bookseller as he shuffles into Charles''s bookshop. He unloads what appear to be beat-up and worthless Bibles on the hapless Charles, proclaiming that certain people in the small town need the books desperately. He promises that when the passages printed in gold are read, the scriptures come to life. Among the six people to buy the Bibles are Theo Atwood, an agnostic mortician whose business is suddenly threatened by a new, believing undertaker; Lottie Mariah, a hairdresser with a dubious reputation who yearns for true friendship; Nancy Rutledge, a recent widow with a shameful secret; William Hicken, a greedy banker obsessed with counting and acquisition; Charles himself, whose generosity is deplored by his shrewish wife; and Dory, Charles''s young assistant, who learns that the Bibles are accompanied by a dark and threatening adversary. the Golden Verses, a tale of good versus evil, is as old as time and as familiar as your face in the mirror.

This adventure is about three young boys and their dog who live in a logging camp in Oregon. They sail their the Jolly 3 + 1 from the Mill Pond into the uncharted heart of the dangerous Klamath River and are immediately swept into the rapids. Their raft is smashed to pieces. Miles from home, alone in thon the Mountain, they will face wild animals and dangers from the unknown. It will take all their resorfulness and determination to get safely home. They will discover courage they did not know they had and the true meaning of companionship.

"A consideration of Jephthah''s daughter in Judges 11-12:7, using feminist and midrashic interpretations"--Provided by publisher.

Equipped for Every Good Work is a four-tool process that can help you discover and develop the spiritual gifts, spirituality types, interaction styles, and working preferences of each person in your congregation. This process focuses on the gifts, graces, and abilities of the leadership core of a local congregation. It shifts the attention away from what we do and onto who we are as called, gifted, and empowered people of God. Through self-exploration and discovery, each person can gain new insights about what it means to be a disciple of Jesus Christ, and the entire congregation can grow as a faith-forming spiritual community. Online: www.equippedforeverygoodwork.org.

Explores how women can heal deep emotional pain through a new therapeutic approach that combines mindfulness meditation with psychotherapy. • Includes 8 vivid stories of women overcoming great emotional pain and life obstacles through Mindfulness Psychotherapy. • Each story is followed by a discussion and a relevant mindfulness meditation. As a result of her years of working with women as a psychotherapist, Barbara Miller Fishman developed the discipline of Mindfulness Psychotherapy--a combination of mindfulness meditation and psychotherapy that, taken together, describe a path toward wholeness. Now she presents the integration of her life''s work through the poignant stories of eight women--all faced with critical decisions and tough life circumstances--and how they used Mindfulness Psychotherapy to attain greater levels of peace and well-being. The author offers a radical shift in a woman''s relationship to life. Readers will discover the importance of naming a life problem, accepting the "is-ness" of it, developing a matter-of-fact curiosity, and exploring the mind/body reactions that we call emotional pain. The path continues as the reader creates an observing self and discovers the deep compassion that ultimately heals. Once learned, these six awareness practices can be used to face difficult situations, discover self-acceptance, and release the love needed to reside fully in one''s whole self.

Juliet Sinclair vows to stop her ruthless, murdering cousin, Redmond, from stealing any inheritance that rightfully goes to her family. In Captain Draco Melling, she sees the perfect husband for her sister, Ariel--a man whose rough charms can keep Redmond at bay. Even as Juliet softens Draco''s coarse edges, she finds herself becoming drawn to him. Now she has two adversaries--Redmond and her own heart.

Analysing Stasi files and interviews with one time informers, the author examines the confrontation with this legacy in united Germany. She discusses the daily machinations of the state and the motivation and justification of being an informer.

This book tells readers all about different types of sounds.

Preoccupied with supplying arms for England, Trent Severn has ignored his ward, Amy Conde, for 15 years. Now a mature young woman, she''s transformed Trent''s country estate into the country''s top horse-breeding enterprise. When Trent returns from war, they soon discover the heated emotion that sparked between them from the first is rapidly turning to desire.

Discusses the problem of teen pregnancy and how it affects the economic future of the persons involved.

You can quit smoking! It is not impossible! I use to say, I don''t want to quit smoking I asked myself, What if this was the addiction? I then thought, I want to, want to quit. What could make you want to quit? My biggest motivation came from not wanting to be controlled by this nicotine. I wanted to be in charge. This book is about how to transform one''s thinking while simultaneously getting ready to quit. This book gives you a step-by-step plan that will show you how to get ready to quit. Quitting smoking is like going into battle. With this plan in place you will be ready to win! You will learn how to develop your willpower and tap into an incredible source of Self-Power. This plan shows you exactly what to do. How to Quit Smoking Even If You Don''t Want To is in textbook format with ten brainstorming exercises you must do. People who smoke are often on auto-pilot-thinking. This plan interrupts the auto-pilot and shows you how to re-write the script. It is true that you do not have to want to quit smoking but you do have to want to change something about how you make decisions. It is not complicated. As a matter of fact it is all very easy. By doing the exercises and following through with the plan you will see exactly what is holding you on to cigarettes. When you see what is keeping you addicted it becomes a whole lot easier to let go. This book will show you how to eliminate 75% of the nicotine fits, if not more. When you are all done the brainstorming exercises you will have made a one-of-a-kind, custom-made tool that will tell you what to think, when to think it, what to do and when, and how to act and how not to act. You will use this tool when you open your last pack. I often hear people say, I have tried everything. My response is, Have you looked in the mirror? The answers lie inside you, not in the drugstore. This book is about transforming yourself from the inside. Some of the exercises can help you change other areas of your life that you are not completely satisfied with. My plan and method is about transforming your mind into one that can do what it could not do before. This is a serious subject with a twist of humor. I am sure you will enjoy it! Do not be afraid of trying to quit smoking. Be afraid of what will happen if you do not! Be free! Go for it!

This book provides a comprehensive examination of one of the most important modernist traditions. Offering a new interpretation of its origins, Barbara Miller Lane focuses on the movement called ''National Romanticism'', which flourished in Germany and Scandinavia from about 1890 to 1920. During this period, painters, interior designers, city planners and architects created a new kind of domestic architecture and interior design, as well as monumental architecture. Drawing upon local and regional folk traditions, and encouraging a simple way of life, architects such as Eliel Saarinen, Hans Poelzig, and Martin Nyrop, looked back to medieval and even prehistoric times for their models, as they also tried to create a new architecture for the new millennium. Their buildings encouraged new kinds of social and political relationships and have had a profound influence in the architecture of Germany and Scandinavia.