New Releases by Elizabeth Stewart

'''' Almost Unloved'''' is a completed 72,000-word novel based on the true story of Elizabeth, an illegitimate child born and abandoned in San Diego in 1956. It encompasses the hardships and passions in her tumultuous life, the relatives who kidnapped her, and her estranged mother. Shortly after her birth, Elizabeth''s mother returned to Chicago with only two of her children. The people she called Mom and Dad fled to a small New England town where Elizabeth was deceived, then cautioned her to remain silent. This story follows a child''s journey through alcoholism, molestation, rape, an abusive marriage, and abortion. At age 21, after many attempts to leave, she finally escaped the oppression that plagued her for years. It was her instincts and her belief in a better future that saved Elizabeth''s life. This story will inspire others to find the courage to rise above their circumstances and find power in their strength and faith in God.

'''' Almost Unloved '''' is a completed 72,000-word novel based on the true story of Elizabeth, an illegitimate child born and abandoned in San Diego in 1956. It encompasses the hardships and passions in her tumultuous life, the relatives who kidnapped her, and her estranged mother. Shortly after her birth, Elizabeth''s mother returned to Chicago with only two of her children. The people she called Mom and Dad fled to a small New England town where Elizabeth was deceived, then cautioned her to remain silent. This story follows a child''s journey through alcoholism, molestation, rape, an abusive marriage, and abortion. At age 21, after many attempts to leave, she finally escaped the oppression that plagued her for years. It was her instincts and her belief in a better future that saved Elizabeth''s life. This story will inspire others to find the courage to rise above their circumstances and find power in their strength and faith in God.

Dr Elizabeth Stewart is a counsellor who suffered a severe traffic accident that left her partly paralysed, in constant pain and needing to use a wheelchair. She shares her story of how the Catholic teaching on offering up one''s pain and suffering, so that Christ may transform it, can bring great good from a difficult situation. Christ accepts our offering and joins it to His own suffering on the Cross, and so helps us to share in His redemptive work, whatever our circumstances may be and regardless of whether our pain is physical, emotional, or both. In taking part in His own sacrifice, we can find joy and contentment in the midst of our pain. As well as describing her own journey, Dr Stewart uses the examples of St Therese of Lisieux and of Jesus Himself to illustrate how this transformation takes place.

"Do you feel anxious? A lot? Learn more about what anxiety is-and about the hope, purpose, and comfort that the Bible gives you-in this 31-day devotional for teenagers"--

Lasting barely two centuries throughout the 1700s and 1800s, the Industrial Revolution in Britain propelled the country into the role of the world''s premier industrial nation. Known as the ''midwife of the Industrial Revolution'' coal was, literally, the driving force behind this power. Although referred to as ''the black diamond'', coal is not a thing of beauty, yet like the true diamond, it is representative of power and wealth. Coal mining usually evokes images of tough men, glistening with the sweat of underground toil. We talk about man-power and manual labour; the industry has become synonymous with men. Rarely, if ever, do women come to mind, yet, until an Act of 1942 banned them from working down the mines, women worked alongside men, their toil equally as gruelling in conditions jut as appalling. Forbidden by Victorian prudery from working underground, they were replaced, at much greater expense to the mine owners, by ponies. The efforts of these women, every bit as responsible as men for creating Britain''s once greatest industry, have rarely been acknowledged. During the 1926 general strike and lockout, Herbert Smith, President of the Miners'' Federation of Great Britain, reported that half the attendees at union meetings were women, "And these", he insisted, "are always the toughest half." This book tells of the history of coal and coal mining from mediaeval times to the demise of the industry in Britain in the 1990s, and describes women''s role in this history and how it affected their lives. Through a combination of historical narrative, fiction and biography, the book gives a voice to these diminished ''others'' - wives, mothers and daughters - whose persistence, courage, pride and sacrifice also contributed to the profits of wealthy mine owners. Their stories are told through the prism of historical events - the frightened little girl forced to work alone in subterranean darkness, the poverty-stricken young woman confronting an unwanted pregnancy, those enduring the loss of sons and partners to a deadly occupation and women who, through adversity, took the opportunity to publicly reveal their collective strength. Gentle and gruff, warm-hearted and implacable, these battlers against grime, beaters of carpets, painters, decorators and cooks, activists and staunch supporters of strikes and lockouts, underpinned the foundations of Britain''s coal industry. Woven through this book is the true story of the author''s mother, a miner''s daughter. Her life too was hard and closely entwined with coal mining to which she made, over many years, a considerable contribution not only to the industry but to the mining communities in which she worked.

My Darlin'' Quarantine: Intimate Connections Created in Chaos is a collection of short comedies that describe the humorous ways in which five small groups of average people deal with an absurd situation: quarantine with strangers. Shocked at first, characters react with creativity to forced quarantines in a dental office, a beauty salon, a car dealership, a dive bar, and a law firm. The constriction of place, the anonymity that strangers offer, and the challenge of invention, provide an invitation for imaginations to soar amidst unlikely bonds. Great loves, friendships, and triumphs come out of facing the near impossible --the challenge of living creatively for 42 days, in a strange place. My Darlin'' Quarantine takes the reader on a journey into the surreal world of our present crisis set in the future in the unlikeliest of places, where creativity is channeled into personal growth through the companionship of earnest, annoying, funny, all-too-human strangers. Caricature illustrations by Christine Brallier

This thesis examines how Bonnie E. Snow infused her Transcendentalist-influenced teaching philosophies into the pages of the Text Books of Art Education. These books, referred to as the Prang Art Textbooks, were published by the Prang Educational Company at the turn of the 19th century. The Prang Art Textbooks reflected a modern art education system that was very different from the industrially focused drawing manuals that preceded them.

Dr. Elizabeth Stewart, a seasoned appraiser, shares her secrets of the art and antique marketplace. Learn what appraisers don''t want you to know--all the tools to assess value, beauty, provenance, and quality. These real-life cases and rich images instruct on all the Do''s and Don''ts; how, what, and where to collect, the next big thing; clues to identification and worth; online tools for value; how to sell and what to donate; and what your kids do not want.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

There are many applications in which sensing and monitoring volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and other gas analytes are important. This thesis focusses on finding suitable sensing materials for ethanol to reduce the instances of people driving while intoxicated. To find suitable sensing materials, many constraints must be taken into consideration. For example, a sensing material and sensor must have the appropriate sensitivity and selectivity required. The goal is to create a sensing material or multiple materials capable of detecting ethanol that is emitted from the skin (transdermally). This requires highly sensitive sensing materials and sensors capable of detecting ethanol close to 5 ppm. This limit of 5 ppm was confirmed by measuring transdermal ethanol. In addition, to avoid false positives, the sensor must be able to selectively identify ethanol (i.e. respond preferentially to ethanol). To achieve this goal, polymeric sensing materials were used because of their ability to be tailored towards a target analyte. Multiple polymeric sensing materials were designed, synthesized, and evaluated as a sensing material for ethanol. Both the sensitivity and selectivity of the sensing materials were evaluated using a specially designed experimental test set-up that included a highly sensitive gas chromatograph (GC) capable of detecting down to the ppb range. In total, over thirty potential sensing materials were evaluated for ethanol. These sensing materials, which include polyaniline (PANI) and two of its derivatives, poly (o-anisidine) (PoANI) and poly (2,5-dimethyl aniline) (P25DMA), doped with various concentrations of five different metal oxide nanoparticles (Al2O3, CuO, NiO, TiO2, and ZnO), were synthesized and evaluated for sensitivity and selectivity to ethanol. In addition, specialized siloxane-based polymers and other polymers such as poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) and polypyrrole (PPy) were evaluated. From these thirty plus sensing materials, P25DMA doped with TiO2, NiO, and Al2O3, along with PPy, had the best sensitivity towards ethanol. Most of the materials tested, with the exception of the CuO doped P25DMA, P25DMA doped with 20% ZnO, poly (ethylene imine) (PEI), and the siloxane-based sensing materials, were able to sorb, and therefore detect, 5 ppm of ethanol. Therefore, the sensitivity requirement of 5 ppm was satisfied. In terms of selectivity, P25DMA doped with 5% Al2O3 and P25DMA doped with 10% TiO2 had the best selectivity towards ethanol with respect to five typical interferent gases (acetaldehyde, acetone, benzene, formaldehyde, and methanol). Some of the most promising polymeric sensing materials were then deposited onto two different kinds of sensors: a capacitive radio frequency identification (RFID) sensor and a mass-based microcantilever microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensor. These sensors were evaluated for sensitivity, selectivity, and response and recovery times. It was found that P25DMA doped with 20% NiO had a detection limit of 3 ppm on the RFID sensor, whereas P25DMA had a detection limit of 5 ppm on the MEMS sensor. It should be noted that not all sensing materials work well on all sensors. To improve the selectivity of a sensor, a sensor array or electronic nose can be used. These use a pattern-recognition algorithm to separate the responses for different gas analytes. A proof-of-principle study was done using principal component analysis that was capable of distinguishing between six different VOCs using five different polymeric sensing materials. In addition, a three sensor array was evaluated on the RFID platform. Using PCA as the filtering algorithm, four gas analytes (ethanol, methanol, acetone, and benzene) were able to be identified. These four analytes could also be identified even when in gas mixtures of twos and threes and when all four gas analytes were present. After this wide experimentation, and based on the knowledge gained from the sorption responses between various VOCs and polymers, along with what has been reported in the literature, various sensing mechanisms were proposed. These sensing mechanisms explain why certain VOCs sorb more preferentially onto certain polymers. Therefore, identifying the dominant sensing mechanisms for a target analyte can improve sensing material selection. Based on these sensing mechanisms, potential sensing materials can be chosen for a target analyte. By including other constraints from the specific application target and sensor, this list of potential sensing materials can be further narrowed. From here, these sensing materials can be evaluated for sensitivity and selectivity, before the most promising ones are deposited onto sensors for further testing. This has led to prescriptions that can be followed when designing a new sensing material for a target application. These prescriptions take into consideration the chemical nature of the target analyte (and thus, the dominant mechanisms by which it is likely to interact), any constraints of the target application (including operational temperature and type of sensor), and the chemical nature of the common interferents present with the target analyte. These prescriptions allow one to narrow down a list of hundreds or thousands of potential sensing materials to a manageable few, which can then be evaluated.

The book is a practice guide for Texas litigators handling the occasional insurance coverage lawsuit or confronting insurance questions in the context of a litigation practice, complete with legal analysis, practical tips, forms, and annotations specific to Texas and Fifth Circuit practice. The book will focus on third party liability policies and related litigation and would tend to focus more on representation of policyholders, since the insurance industry tends to use coverage counsel for litigation of coverage disputes.

"A profound personal experience of white privilege and inherited racism sparked this heuristic study that examines stories of Southern descendants of slaveholding ancestors to understand the tension, if any, between historic and contemporary racism. Personal and family stories gathered during nine interviews were analyzed using a praxis model to track individuals'' positions in the cycle from original story to witness, awareness, catharsis, desire for change, and creation of a new story. Stories may reveal shame and guilt or transformation(s). The shared stories detail varying tensions associated with moving into a world where all have dignity and worth"--Abstract.

In the country of Lythle, a queen was murdered and a newborn princess was kidnapped. They never found the murderer. Ten years later, swashbuckling Princess Cecette was convicted by Captain Pitch that she was the murderer! In order to avoid her fate of a trial she would likely lose, she disguised herself and ran away. After joining the crew of a ship in search of Cecette herself, at large, she met Gills, a light-headed sailor who became her best friend. All of a sudden, Cecette uncovered the true murderer of her mother, and desperately escapes to a seaside town. There, she discovers a secret even the fates could not have seen coming.

Unique Wedding Ideas for Planning a Wedding from Wedding Venues & Themes to Wedding Favors – A Wedding Checklist for the Exceptional Wedding Organizer For couples, the wedding is one of the most fantastic and exciting events in their lives. It is the time when they finally give the vow to love each other for better or poorer, in sickness and in health, well, you get the idea. But on the other hand, planning the wedding can be a stressful experience because there are a lot of things that the couple needs to consider. For one, there''s the date of the wedding. Unless they have already decided on it, it is something that needs careful consideration. Aside from that, other things like the venue, number of guests and even the handing out the invitations should also be taken into the equation. This ebook is written with the bride who wants to plan her own perfect wedding, or the the beginning wedding planner who is just starting her own wedding planning business. This book covers every possible topic of wedding planning from A-Z

Coltan, or “blue gold,” is a rare mineral used in making cell phones and computers. Across continents, the lives of three teen girls are affected by the “blue gold” trade. Sylvie’s family had to lee the Democratic Republic of the Congo after her father was killed by a rogue militia gang in the conlict for control of coltan. The refugee camp where she now lives is deplorable, and Sylvie yearns for a way out—to save not only herself, but her remaining family. Laiping labors in a Chinese factory, soldering components for cell phones. She had left her small village to make her fortune, but the factory conditions are crushing, and the constant pressure to send money home adds to her misery. Yet when Laiping tries to improve her situation, she sees what happens to those who dare question the electronics company’s policies. Fiona is a North American girl who, in one thoughtless moment, takes a picture on her cell phone she comes to regret. In the aftermath, she learns not only about trust and being true to oneself, but the importance of ighting for what is right. All three teens are unexpectedly linked by these events. Elizabeth Stewart conducted extensive research to authentically capture the experiences of all three girls. The result is an intense and powerful story about their struggles to create better lives for themselves in the face of the world’s increasing appetite for coltan.

Fully revised to re flect the latest AOTA standards, Occupational Therapy Evaluation for Adults: A Pocket Guide, 2nd Edition is a quick, comprehensive reference to guide students and practitioners as they perform efficient evaluations of adults, identify problems, and plan and implement interventions to produce optimal therapeutic outcomes. Clinical examples illustrate the application of content, illustrations demonstrate assessment techniques, and extensive tables capture information in an easy-to-read manner. This completely revised and updated Second Edition covers a wide range of new assessments and tools for community-based practitioners, includes up-to-coverage of assessing clients in natural settings, and offers a strong focus on helping readers develop practical skills for the workplace.

This thesis examines the relationship between certain characteristics of osseous human remains and the likelihood of successful mtDNA sequencing. The research was conducted using 392 samples from 98 cases at the JPAC Central Identification Laboratory. Density, sample mass, and post-excavation room temperature storage time were recorded and compared to sequencing success using generalized estimating equations. The results showed that increased density and sample mass increased the likelihood of sequencing success, while increased density and sample mass increased the likelihood of sequencing success, while increased room temperature storage time decreased the likelihood of success. It is clear that density is a predictor of sequencing success and future samples should be taken from the densest bone available. The results of this study indicate the need for future studies investigating the reason that increased mass increases success, e.g., whether it allows for additional sequencing attempts, more favorable extraction conditions, or reflects the presence of more intact remains. In addition, further work looking at whether the trend in storage time holds up across all laboratory samples would help strengthen the conclusion and allow for a change in procedure, i.e., cold storage or more expedient sampling.

Between 1882 and 1968 there were 4,742 lynchings in the United States. In Canada during the same period there was one—the hanging of American Indian Louie Sam. The year is 1884, and 15-year-old George Gillies lives in the Washington Territory, near the border with British Columbia. In this newly settled land, white immigrants have an uneasy relationship with the Native Indians. When George and his siblings discover the murdered body of a local white man, suspicion immediately falls on a young Indian named Louie Sam. George and his best friend, Pete, follow a lynch mob north into Canada, where the terrified boy is seized and hung. But even before the deed is done, George begins to have doubts. Louie Sam was a boy, only 14—could he really be a vicious murderer? Were the mob leaders motivated by justice, or were they hiding their own guilt? As George uncovers the truth—implicating Pete’s father and other prominent locals—tensions in the town rise, and he must face his own part in the tragedy. But standing up for justice has devastating consequences for George and his family. Inspired by the true story of the lynching, recently acknowledged as a historical injustice by Washington State, this powerful novel offers a stark depiction of historical racism and the harshness of settler life. The story will provoke readers to reflect on the dangers of mob mentality and the importance of speaking up for what’s right.

Elizabeth Stewart is a highly acclaimed singer, pianist and accordionist whose reputation has spread widely not only as an outstanding musician but as the principal inheritor and advocate of her family and their music. First discovered by folklorists in the 1950s, the Stewarts of Fetterangus, including Elizabeth''s mother Jean, her uncle Ned, and her aunt Lucy, have had immense musical influence. Lucy in particular became a celebrated ballad singer and in 1961 Smithsonian Folkways released a collection of her classic ballad recordings that brought the family''s music and name to an international.

This heavily illustrated, self-teaching guide to ASL--American Sign Language--is useful both for the deaf and for those men and women who teach or work among deaf people. E-Z American Sign Language presents ASL''s 10 key grammatical rules and emphasizes the use of "facial grammar" as an important supplement to manual signing. Most of the book''s content takes the form of a presentation of more than 800 captioned line drawings that illustrate signs for their equivalent words and then show how to combine signs in order to communicate detailed statements. Barron''s E-Z Series books are updated, and re-formatted editions of Barron''s older and perennially popular Easy Way books. Titles in the new E-Z Series feature extensive two-color treatment, a fresh, modern typeface, and more graphic material than ever. All are self-teaching manuals that cover a wide variety of practical and academic subjects, written on levels that range from senior high school to college-101 standards.

Using a distinctly and deliberately interdisciplinary approach to the subject of religion and spirituality as it presents itself within modern Western Societies today, this thesis argues that Straight Edge hardcore punk is a surrogate for religion. The term surrogate is used to denote the notion of a successor and a protector and provider of nourishment. It has been re-interpreted from Theodore Ziolkowski''s work on the same term in ''Modes of Faith'', in which he examines surrogates for religion which emerged during the early part of the 20th century. An in-depth study, both theoretical and ethnographic in nature and presentation, of Straight Edge hardcore punk is provided to demonstrate that traditionally held categories of religion, secular, sacred and profane are being dismantled and re-built around ideas of authenticity, community, integrity, d.i.y and spirituality. Through the syncretic practices of the Straight Edge adherents they are de-essentialising religion and thus enabling us to re-consider the question of what religion is or could be. This thesis relies on theoretical ideas, interview quotes, informant quotes, researcher taken photographs, and interviewee created or utilised images, tattoos, graffiti and flyers. All of these are interspersed with song lyrics from various bands relevant to the time period under discussion and the themes being drawn out. Much like the adherents themselves, this thesis exists very much within the space of the ''in-between'', which creates and reacts to necessary tensions throughout.

An area of Shetland is examined in order to identify how Iron Age settlements might have related to each other. The study area contains two brochs. An inter-disciplinary approach is used to identify evidence for other Iron Age settlements and the information is presented as a model illustrating the pattern of settlement at different points during the Iron Age. A distinction is drawn between locations containing field archaeology and locations where occupation is predicted on the basis of evidence such as soil quality or place name. The whole model is then examined in order to identify patterns which may suggest changing relationships between settlements and groups of settlements, and the trends and influences behind these. Next an appraisal is made of the settlements'' relative status and authority during Shetland''s Early, Middle and Late Iron Age. By looking at the whole landscape through time - before, during and after the Iron Age - the brochs are set in a wider chronological context which takes into account the changing role that these highly visible monuments may have played as socio-economic focal points in a developing landscape. The outcome reveals complexity. Initially the brochs appear to be a focus of settlement patterns but by the end of the Late Iron Age they are rivalled by a non-broch area which shows signs of heightened Pictish influence. Elsewhere in Shetland at this period there is retrenchment to broch-settlements, raising the question of how far developments in the study area are unique to that location.

Over 450 Australian civilian professionals volunteered and went to Viet Nam during the war to help the civilian population. This is their story.