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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.

Meet Lily Lemon Blossom, a delightful little girl who loves adventures and playing with her friends. Lily invites you to see her lovely room and meet her many friends, including Bunny Rabbit and Josephine her kitten who is always by her side. A quick peek into Lily''s room will tell you quite a lot about her. The room comes alive with its vibrant colors and huggable plush toys. It''s a happy place for a happy little girl and her friends.

A look at relationships whereby both people retain their individuality, their independence, their personal ambitions, their individual friendships and pursuits, but resonate with each other by consciously renewing the connections that brought them together.

A collection of traditional eighteenth and nineteenth century weaving drafts, written sequences of the threading order on the loom used to create specific patterns. They are presented here in their original form as gathered by Frances L. Goodrich and illustrated in over 160 color photos. This volume also contains over 200 valuable modern translations of the same drafts for use by today''s weavers. In 1890, Frances L. Goodrich came to the southern mountains in North Carolina from a life of culture to live and work among people who had little opportunity for education or social enrichment. Through her work for the Presbyterian Home Mission Board, she grew to love and respect these neighbors who worked so hard and had so little. She established schools, a small hospital, and the Allanstand Cottage Industries. As she traveled the mountain roads and trails on horseback, Miss Goodrich collected these precious weaving drafts from the women who wove for Allanstand Cottage Industries. In your hands is the heart of that collection.

A study of the future for children, youth, and adults. The topic is multidisciplinary in nature and congenial to many subjects in the curriculum.

This handbook assists educators in improving the links among civic education curriculum, instruction, and assessment. First-person accounts detailing teachers'' thoughts present a basis for tracing the evolution of assessment tasks and rubrics for evaluation. Samples of student work are provided to stimulate thinking and discussion. Activities for staff development programs and for individual teachers are included. There are 11 chapters divided into three sections. Section 1, "Getting Started," contains the chapters: (1) "Defining Authenticity in Civic Education"; (2) "Defining Essential Learnings in Civic Education"; (3) "Designing an Assessment Task and Scoring Rubric"; and (4) "Using Student Work to Revise an Assessment and Instruction." Section 2, "Exploring Assessment Tasks," includes the chapters: (1) "Public Issues Discussion as an Authentic Assessment"; (2) "Assessing Socratic Seminars and Structured Academic Controversy"; (3) "Performance Assessment: Mock Trials, Moot Courts, Simulated Legislative Hearings, and Town Meetings"; (4) "Assessing Student Writing"; (5) "Assessing Student-Created Products or Projects"; and (6) "Portfolios." Section 3, "Looking Ahead," contains the chapter "Issues and Challenges." Teacher profiles are appended. (EH)

While this book is an up-to-date account of the situation in Australia generally and particularly in Yarrabah, an Aboriginal community near Cairns, Queensland, most of the research was done in 1984. This was an incredibly significant time when nearly 100 years of legal oppression and segregation of Indigenous people in Queensland came to an end. What began in 1897 as legislation to ostensibly protect Indigenous people from white society, including outright slaughter, ended up as the Queensland Aborigines Act which put them on reserves with a permit system like apartheid South Africa? Read real life stories about segregation, self-management, land rights and human rights.

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.

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.

1 Ein großer Teil der privaten Aufzeichnungen sau, Berlin and Chicago, Cambridge, Mass. 1969; und dokumentarischen Sammlungen, die ich für ders., Bauhaus·Archiv Berlin, Museum für Gestal· meine Forschungen verwendet habe, hat seit tung, Braunschweig 1979, sowie Bauhaus-Archiv, 1968 entweder bereits den Besitzer gewechselt Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin 1981. Wichtige oder wird gerade zurückgegeben. Sowohl die wissenschaftliche Arbeiten sind Marcel Francis May- als auch die Eckstein-Papiere sind ver cono, Walter Gropius and the Creation of the Bau· streut, ich besitze aber Mikrofilm-Kopien der haus in Weimar, Urbana, Illinois 1971; Karl Materialien, die ich aus diesen Sammlungen be Heinz Hüter, Das Bauhaus in Weimar, Berlin nutzt habe. Die meisten der Mies van der Rohe 1976, sowie Frank Whitford, Bauhaus, New Papiere, die ich im Busch-Reisinger Museum ein York 1984. gesehen habe, befinden sich jetzt im Bauhaus Zu einigen Hauptrepräsentanten der zwanziger Archiv in Berlin. 1968 wurde ein bedeutendes und dreißiger Jahre sind inzwischen neue Infor Mies van der Rohe-Archiv im Museum of Mo mationen verfügbar. dern Art eingerichtet. Es umfaßt hauptsächlich Zu Behrens: Tillman Buddensieg, Industriekultur. Zeichnungen, Modelle und Photographien von Peter Behrens und die AEG 1907-1914, Berlin Gebäuden und Projekten Mies van der Rohes, 1979; Hans-J oachim Kadatz, Peter Behrens. A rchi enthält aber auch Geschäftskorrespondenz, die tekt, Maler, Grafiker und Formgestalter für die hier behandelten Aspekte von beträchtli 1868-1940, Leipzig 1977, sowie Alan Windsor, cher Bedeutung ist.

As a young child, Barbara Miller found herself intrigued by the stories she heard each week in Sunday school. As an adult, Miller ventured beyond the Protestant denominations of her youth to find the sense of spirituality she craved within Roman Catholicism. It wasn''t until she began to explore Reform Judaism, however, that she found a life sustaining blend of study, ritual, and prayer that embodied her understanding of the purpose of life. Taking Root in an Honored People chronicles Miller''s conversion to Reform Judaism and her efforts to create her own identity as a Jew without the benefit of family tradition or heritage to draw upon. Each chapter focuses on a particular aspect of Miller''s search, and on the ways that her conversion called her to a new orientation-a process of building upon her past instead of denying it. Using biblical texts to illustrate her journey and provide parallel narratives, Miller explores many facets of the convert''s experience, including what it means to be a woman within Judaism, the individual and communal significance of the holidays, the importance of social justice, and coming to terms with the Holocaust.

"A daughter''s rejection of her father''s faith taught him how to love her on God''s terms. Their honest story of grief and reconciliation will bless all those who love prodigals"--

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 version is single sided pictures with very little narrative. Great economical version! Charity Driven Coloring Challenge is dedicated to designs that challenge your artistry and to giving a helping hand at the same time. All our books are dedicated to a specific charity. Florida Escapes is dedicated to the Homeless of Central Florida in my sisters honor. Our next volume is dedicated to pet rescues! Look for it, like us on facebook! All pictures are hand drawn for that homemade feel, and face it, I love doodling! Therefore our books take a little longer in production, but they are worth it!! Thank you for your patronage and support! God bless you and yours! Barbara and crew ( Mir Mir the parrot, well Editor in chief, says thank you too! )

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.

Romances set during the English Regency, especially the ending of the Napoleonic Wars.

This book tells readers all about different types of sounds.

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