New Releases by Janet Lee

This text with readings provides an accessible and engaging introduction to issues faced by women around the world. Each chapter begins with a framework essay written by a feminist scholar in the field, which provides an overview and analytical structure for the issues related to the topic at hand. The framework essay includes learning activities and other sidebars that may help instructors in planning class sessions and will encourage students to explore issues further. A number of carefully selected readings in each chapter offer a wide variety of perspectives on the topics discussed. Few of these essays have been anthologized elsewhere, providing new material for instructors and students.

FIVE MINUTES IN THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN Just five minutes changed the life of David Lee forever! It was just enough time to have a supernatural glimpse into a realm that is beyond our understanding. A place prepared for those who love the Lord. Walk with David down the streets of gold. Learn what the colors of heaven mean. How do the inhabitants of heaven communicate? Do flowers really "sing"? What is the mode of transportation in heaven? These questions are asked and answered in this special experience. Take just a few moments of your time to get a sneak preview into what is in store for the ones who place their trust in the Lord. Heaven awaits the believers in Jesus! And it''s so near to us that it seems to be "just around the next corner." Janet Lee, author

When Margaret and Monet first meet, they dont quite know what to do, but soon find themselves on a mission of helping others all over the world. Join these two adventurers as they learn that giving can lead to a wonderful and blessed chain reaction of hope. Angels at Large is a contagious book of kindness!

Will Nate be coerced into marriage? Nate Brooks feels indebted to Abigail Connors for saving his daughter from the fire that killed his wife. Abigail wishes Nate would repay her with wedding vows. After all, she loved Nate long before he married her little sister. But Nate feels no love for Abigail, only gratitude. When Meagan Snow enters Nate''s office for a bank loan, he immediately feels drawn to her. Meagan hopes to support her widowed mother and sisters by opening a dressmaking shop. Nate knows if the dresses are half as beautiful as their maker, Meagan''s business is bound to be successful. As their acquaintance turns into something more, can Meagan and Nate withstand the jealous schemes of Abigail Connors? Will they let her tear them apart or find a love for keeps?

Adventure and romance await you in the land of enchantment as three women seek to make their home among the sagebrush.

Love laps against the shores of three women''s hearts in Magnolia Bay.

In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon''s claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother''s dark secrets.

"Snowbound Village, Connecticut, is full of holiday charm, especially at the mall''s Christmas Collectibles Shop where romance is in the air."--P. [4] of cover.

A collection of three previously published novels.

Join the Lee Family as they travel the world, seeing miracles and watching God do the supernatural in the lives of people they meet along the way. This book tells many stories of situations that look desperate until God saves the day. (Practical Life)

Offerings of various kinds – food, incense, paper money and figures – have been central to Chinese culture for millennia, and as a public, visual display of spiritual belief, they are still evident today in China and in Chinatowns around the world. Using Hong Kong as a case study, Janet Scott looks at paper offerings from every conceivable angle – how they are made, sold, and used. Her comprehensive investigation touches on virtually every aspect of Chinese popular religion as it explores the many forms of these intricate objects, their manufacture, their significance, and their importance in rituals to honor gods, care for ancestors, and contend with ghosts. Throughout For Gods, Ghosts and Ancestors, paper offerings are presented as a vibrant and living tradition expressing worshippers'' respect and gratitude for the gods, as well as love and concern for departed family members. Ranging from fake paper money to paper furniture, servant dolls, cigarettes, and toiletries – all multihued and artfully constructed – paper offerings are intended to provide for the needs of those in the spirit world. Readers are introduced to the variety of paper offerings and their uses in worship, in assisting worshippers with personal difficulties, and in rituals directed to gods, ghosts, and ancestors. We learn of the manufacture and sale of paper goods, life in paper shops, the training of those who make paper offerings, and the symbolic and artistic dimensions of the objects. Finally, the book considers the survival of this traditional craft, the importance of flexibility and innovation, and the role of compassion and filial piety in the use of paper offerings.

The harsh realities of life serve as the foundation for three heart-tugging stories of love, lost and love found. Emma, desperate to keep the child she vowed to raise for a dying friend, finds herself in the market for a mail-order husband. Beth''s heart is pierced with anxiety when the uncle of her deceased fiancé''s two young children, an inveterate wanderer, comes to claim the only family he has left. Darcie encounters the nephew of her father''s killer and faces unforgiveness and hatred in the hidden recesses of her own heart. Three women, three stories, three opportunities for glorious and surprising twists from the hand of God.

Making Memories by JANET LEE BARTON Amanda Forrester takes her good friend, Josh Randall, home with her for Christmas--hoping to keep her matchmaking family from setting her up with anyone. As the couple makes plans for Christmas, their friendship turns to love-but, it''s only after making their way through a near miss with death that they finally admit they''d like a chance to start making memories of their own. Dreaming of a White Christmas by KATHLEEN MILLER Y''BARBO When EMT Ben Callahan, estranged son of the owner of Callahan & Callahan department store, is called out on an emergency to revive a woman in the store''s window display, he quickly loses his patience-and his heart-to Casey Forrester, the exhausted window dresser. Can Casey return to her

For nearly two centuries, one families cabin has stood on the banks of Bayou Teche in the heart of Louisiana''s Cajun Country. Generations return, sometimes begrudgingly, to discover secrets of love and redemption hidden with its walls and written on the pages of a journal that got its start one thousand miles to the north.

John Harper arrives in Roswell to settle his Uncle Douglas''s estate and finds he is not welcome. His name brings fear and loathing to the townspeople. Yet, from his correspondence, his uncle lauded himself as a champion of the New Mexico Territory. Darcie Malone is certain her pain won''t go away. How can you forgive a man who killed your father through stress and worry? Douglas Harper drove her father into his grave, and for that, no restitution is possible - not even with the man''s nephew. Will Darcie allow the love of God to bring about forgiveness and reconciliation? Fall in love with this inspiring love story and our entire collection of Christian romance novels from Heartsong Presents!

Fiscal Disobedience represents a novel approach to the question of citizenship amid the changing global economy and the fiscal crisis of the nation-state. Focusing on economic practices in the Chad Basin of Africa, Janet Roitman combines thorough ethnographic fieldwork with sophisticated analysis of key ideas of political economy to examine the contentious nature of fiscal relationships between the state and its citizens. She argues that citizenship is being redefined through a renegotiation of the rights and obligations inherent in such economic relationships. The book centers on a civil disobedience movement that arose in Cameroon beginning in 1990 ostensibly to counter state fiscal authority--a movement dubbed Opération Villes Mortes by the opposition and incivisme fiscal by the government (which for its part was eager to suggest that participants were less than legitimate citizens, failing in their civic duties). Contrary to standard approaches, Roitman examines this conflict as a "productive moment" that, rather than involving the outright rejection of regulatory authority, questioned the intelligibility of its exercise. Although both militarized commercial networks (associated with such activities trading in contraband goods including drugs, ivory, and guns) and highly organized gang-based banditry do challenge state authority, they do not necessarily undermine state power. Contrary to depictions of the African state as "weak" or "failed," this book demonstrates how the state in Africa manages to reconstitute its authority through networks that have emerged in the interstices of the state system. It also shows how those networks partake of the same epistemological grounding as does the state. Indeed, both state and nonstate practices of governing refer to a common "ethic of illegality," which explains how illegal activities are understood as licit or reasonable conduct.

War Girls vertelt de geschiedenis van de Britse FANY, de First Aid Nursing Yeomanry. Vrouwen waren er tewerkgesteld als verpleegsters, ambulanciers en automecaniciens. FANY was actief in België en Frankrijk. Opgericht in 1907 waren het vooral vrouwen uit de midden- en hogere klasse die zich aanmelden voor actieve dienst. Eén van de latere commandantes van de FANY, Grace Ashley-Smith, komt aan het woord in het tweede hoofdstuk. Vrouwen konden nu ook heldendaden verrichten en creëerden een eigen imago als volwaardige “mede-strijdsters”. Naast het verplegingswerk waren er ook vrouwen die ambulances bestuurden en herstelden. De FANY’s organiseerden hulpkonvooien, trokken veldhospitalen op en dit alles deden zij met een ongeziene flair, zodat zelfs de meest autoritaire officieren op de duur niet anders konden dan hun aanwezigheid te aanvaarden. Deze vrouwen ontwikkelden nieuwe vaardigheden, waren autonoom en assertief. Tegelijk koesterden zij een warme vriendschap onder elkaar, maar ook ten aanzien van de soldaten, met wie zij zich meer en meer een gelijke voelden.

Activities for toddlers based on Bible verses.

After having a near-death experience in the accident that killed his younger sister, Wenny, eleven-year-old Will copes by writing her letters.

The wedding bouquet symbolizes a hope: that love will sail into the life of the person who catches it. For four guests at Abby''s wedding, though, love is the last thing they''re looking for. Isn''t it ironic, then, that when a whirling ceiling fan disintegrates the carefully crafted nosegay, its pieces fly beyond the crowd of husband-hungry women -and parts end up in the hands of these four hardened observers? See if the bouquet/romance tradition holds true for... Felicity, the love-worn florist who''s horrified to see newspaper photos of her bouquet going to pieces. Konnie, the brokenhearted widow who''s determined never to let love bloom in her life again. Rosie, the caterer whose dreams are crushed flatter than her wedding cake, destroyed by a clumsy groomsman. Geoff, who quickly hands his flowers to an admiring little girl - and to her big sister, whose love for him is anything but childish. Can God use fragmented flowers to plant seeds of love in fallow hearts? Can He create a bouquet of love from the chaos in these four lives?

Wanneer zijn zusje sterft bij een verkeersongeluk, gaat ook William bijna dood. In een dagboek schrijft William aan zijn zusje over zijn familie waar niets meer is zoals vroeger. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.

Nothing can be more joyous--or scary!--than learning that you are pregnant! What will be happening to my body? How can husbands and fathers--and even children--be involved? With expert medical advice from one of American''s top obstetricians and expert spiritual advice from a top Christian writer, this book soothes both body and soul.

With intense passion and commitment, labor reformers and Communist Party activists Grace Hutchins and Anna Rochester dedicated themselves both to the cause of economic justice and to each other. Janet Lee traces Hutchins and Rochester''s extraordinary ideological journey from Christianity to Communism in this engaging joint biography, regendering the history of the intellectual left at the same time that she shares the interwoven life stories of these remarkable women. This is a biography that explores the complex and multiple contexts that produced Hutchins and Rochester as political subjects and focuses on the tensions and contradictions of their public and private lives. Methodologically ground breaking, Comrades and Partners attempts to disrupt the realist frame of research and writing in relation to both subject and author: subject in terms of the myth of an unfolding, coherent self and author in terms of highlighting the boundaries between fact and fiction. Lee has produced an invaluable addition to the study of women''s history, a volume which will prove indespensible to scholars of history, gender studies, and the postmodern approach.

Harvesttime was once the climax of the average American''s year. Each of the characters has a harvest to gather, but than a field crop will be gleaned from their labor. God is faithful in tending the hearts of his children and only He can see the true harvest brought home.

A collection of poetry, prose and art from the 1999 issues of the literary magazine "Children, Churches and Daddies."--Scars Publications.