Home of the first settlement in the United States and known as Old Dominion and The Mother of Presidents, the state of Virginia’s artistic output proves among the most fecund in the nation, evidenced in this ninth volume of The Southern Poetry Anthology. This collection includes well-known, established, and celebrated poets such as Charles Wright, Claudia Emerson, Gregory Orr, Ellen Bryant Voigt, R. T. Smith, Forrest Gander, and Rita Dove, and the editors have dedicated equal focu...

Weight loss does not have to be difficult. It does not have to be an endless series of diets. You can attain your ideal body weight and maintain it. These affirmations will help you resolve the underlying subconscious programming that has created the difficulties that you have had in the past at staying at your ideal body weight. Gone are the days of beating yourself up for not being at your desired weight. In reading this book, you will get the tools you need to be at your ideal weight an...

A Coffee Break Mystery - Short, sweet and clean.Bertie and her twin Wanda, own a combination thrift and used bookstore. As a service and convenience to their customers, Bertie set up a 'read-n-return' section in the book area. Customers can check out books for free, and return the books when they've finished reading them. Books begin to disappear, but no one is checking them out at the register as they are supposed to.What's happening to the books? As Wanda noted, 'they aren'...

The Cambridge Companion to Historical Archaeology provides an overview of the international field of historical archaeology (c.AD 1500 to the present) through seventeen specially-commissioned essays from leading researchers in the field. The volume explores key themes in historical archaeology including documentary archaeology, the writing of historical archaeology, colonialism, capitalism, industrial archaeology, maritime archaeology, cultural resource management and urban archaeology. Th...

Oh God, Help Me! My Grandson Killed My Son is the heart-wrenching story of how my grandson killed my son. It tells the affects it had on me and my children. It was not easy to share my feelings and how hurt we were. I realized that it was God that kept us. My faith was on trial. Not only was my faith on trial but the love that I have for my grandson was also being tested. I didnt think I would make it through this horrible tragedy. But my faith stood the test of time. I forgave my...

In the United States today there is lively discussion, both among educators and employers, about the best way to prepare students with high-level language and cross-cultural communication proficiency that will serve them both professionally and personally in the global environment of the twenty-first century. At the same time, courses in business language and medical language have become more popular among students. Language for Specific Purposes (LSP), which encompasses these kin...

From the bustling ports of Lisbon to the coastal inlets of the Bight of Benin to the vibrant waterways of Bahia, Black mariners were integral to every space of the commercial South Atlantic. Navigating this kaleidoscopic world required a remarkable cosmopolitanism—the chameleonlike ability to adapt to new surroundings by developing sophisticated medicinal, linguistic, and navigational knowledge. Mary E. Hicks shows how Portuguese slaving ship captains harnessed and exploited this hybridity...

Kindle The Fire: An Acts 29 Message is the first book in Jodis Boot Camp Bible Study Series. The focus of this particular Bible Study/Devotional is 28 Days of Identification. It is a divine invitation to pick up where the book of Acts leaves off in Chapter 28. It will challenge and encourage you to pursue God wholeheartedly. It will help you understand who you are and why you are here. It will teach you to live with passion and purpose with the help of the Holy Spirit. Kindle the Fire will...

CONTENTS:Foreword, Vanessa Northington Gamble“Introduction: Healing and the History of Medicine in the Atlantic World,” Sean Morey Smith and Christopher D. E. Willoughby“Zemis and Zombies: Amerindian Healing Legacies on Hispaniola,” Lauren Derby“Poisoned Relations: Medical Choices and Poison Accusations within Enslaved Communities,” Chelsea Berry“Blood and Hair: Barbers, Sangradores, and the West African Corporeal Imagination in Salvador da ...

Born in Sweetwater, West Virginia, with a mop of flaming red hair and a map of the world rendered in port-wine stains on every surface of her body, Garnet Ferrari is used to being an outcast. With her sharp tongue, she has always known how to defend herself against bullies and aggressors but finds she is less adept at fending off the pilgrims who have set up a veritable tent city outside her hilltop home, convinced she is Saint Garnet, healer of skin ailments and maker of miracles....

Keep him begging for more . . .It’s nothing to be ashamed of. When it comes to performing oral sex, most people fall somewhere between fumbling and clueless. But now, in Blow Him Away you’ll find practical, easy-to-master techniques that will give you the confidence and skills you need to become an expert in the delicate art of fellatio.Inside you’ll find:• Exercises to whip your tongue, lips, and jaw into shape so you can perform with exquisite control.

Moving beyond progress reports, clinical assessments and practical goals, this book brings to life the reflective aspects of music therapy. The result of a collaboration between New Zealand music therapists, it invites the reader to share their encounters in the therapy room through a wide variety of writings, including short stories, poetry and personal reflections. The addition of poems by a music therapy client adds a rare and innovative dimension to this book.Grounded in clinic...