Unity, Justice, and Peace in the World Church After 1968
Jonas Jonson, who was directly involved with the ecumenical movement for forty years, offers in this book an inside perspective on an ever-changing global Christianity. Reviewing developments in ecumenism from the 1960s to the present, Jonson discusses the decolonization of mission, interreligious relations, "God's preferential option for the ......
Using first-person accounts, this book describes a historical legacy of violence against black women in the United States. The author places spiritual matters within a discussion of the psycho-social impact of intimate assault.
Bill Manhire's new collection, his first UK publication since Selected Poems, begins with the song of an extinct bird and journeys on into troubling futures.
Collins Big Cat Phonics for Letters and Sounds features exciting fiction and non-fiction decodable readers to enthuse and inspire children. They are fully aligned to Letters and Sounds Phases 1-6 and contain notes in the back. The Handbooks provide support in demonstration and modelling, monitoring comprehension and expanding vocabulary.
The powerful debut from author and poet M.W. Jaeggle. Like the coastal zone where high tides deposit organic materials and other debris, M.W. Jaeggle's Wrack Line traces loss, guilt, and subsequent loneliness, while exploring regenerative possibilities of language, memory, and land, taking readers on a journey that will leave them like "A black ......
A richly detailed history of daily life for colonial Spanish soldiers surviving on the eighteenth-century Texas Gulf Coast. In 1775, Spanish King Carlos III ordered the capture of American pelicans for his wildlife park in Madrid. The command went to the only Spanish fort on the Texas coast-Presidio Nuestra SeNora de Loreto de la BahIa in ......
The most influential book of stories that shaped the new Australian women's writing is back. Wrappings was first published in 1974, and as Helen Garner wrote at the time: "I liked Wrappings… The writing is highly charged, painstakingly wroiught, often difficult, opaque, like a person talking close in the dark, in an urgent intense whisper, saying ......
Luca’s life is perfect; he has a loving mother, a father he idolizes and a strong bond with his twin sister. But by 15, life as he knows it, is over. He sits in juvenile detention, responsible for the deaths of two people, his family destroyed...
State Policies, Party Politics and Regional Change in North East England
The impetus for this book came from the author's perception of and subsequent research into the dramatic changes taking place in his home region (N E England) for which he saw parallels in many industrialized countries. He saw new factories opening as collieries closed; railways being shut down as new roads were being built; town centres being ......
