Author: Katharina Gerlach Anke Waldmann
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1847537545
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Based on facts, the novel tells the story of Ann Angel Waldmann whose father decides to accept their Counts offer to buy their freedom. It is set in the rural area around Osnabrueck at the turn of the 18th century, a time when old values are questioned. In spite of new ideas, individual freedom is a frightening dream for most people. It is a time of change, where Ann Angel Waldmann, daughter of a rich farmer, has to cope with the obstacles life puts in her way. Bestselling author Holly Lisle describes the novel as follows: "Ann Angel's Freedom is an amazing, beautifully researched, well-written tale of a world and a time far different from our own, but one that still resonates with the struggles we all face today. I found myself suffering with Ann and those she loved, hoping for her, and in the end cheering with her. It's a wonderful story, made more wonderful because it's true."
Author: Ann H. Gabhart
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 0800733819
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Bestselling author of historical fiction tells a story of hope and love in the face of desperate circumstances during the Great Depression.
Author: Ann Williams-Heller
Publisher: Quest Books
ISBN: 9780835606561
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 300
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The symbolism of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life is explained, and its connections to astrology, numerology, angel lore, tarot, and the meaning of colors are shown. The Tree of Life is a potent tool for self-discovery and profound inner knowing, as the author shared in her popular workshops.
Author: Barbara Anne Rose
Publisher: BalboaPress
ISBN: 1452554447
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 210
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Have you ever yearned to soar above a world of trouble? If so, prepare to fly! Barbara Anne Rose tells a true story of childhood joy dragged to earth by the weight of confusion, pain, and betrayal. But she gives wing to a spiritual journey and, a little at a time, recognizes the heavenly nature within herself and all of us. And she begins to soar, finding success, renewed happiness, the peace that comes from loving forgiveness, and her own inner divinity (with the help of a very special spirit-friend). How this worked for herand how it can work for youis now revealed in Angel Works. Richard D. Smith This book is a highly inspiring page turning story of a young girl who has survived not only a sexually abusive relationship from her father but also later in life into the arms of a husband who was controlling and abusive. Truth, Love and forgiveness were what young Barbara was searching. Even though Barbara Anne Rose lived through such atrocities she was always a woman who has never given up on her dreams and in finding true love. The source of TrUth she always intuitively knew was about to be known to her at the age of forty four when an Angel Bearer of Light visits her, guides her, helps her and teaches her Universal Truths. She writes in a way that is easily understood giving readers freedom to not just believe in their dreams but the power to do them. She offers her readers tools they can use to better their own lives; young or old, male or female, abused or not abused. Reincarnation, Angels, Higher Beings, Dreams, Being Born, Meditations, Visions, Premonitions, Universal Truths, Spiritual Fearlessness, along with tools any reader can use in their everyday life to better their lives is presented here in Angel Works! As a self help book it is a must read in today's society. It is a book intended for all. Angel Works can change your life if you want it to. Where are you right now in your spiritual evolution? Do you hold hate and judgment or love and forgiveness? Find out now how you can soar in your life.
Author: Anna Su
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674286023
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Religious freedom is widely recognized today as a basic human right, guaranteed by nearly all national constitutions. Exporting Freedom charts the rise of religious freedom as an ideal firmly enshrined in international law and shows how America’s promotion of the cause of individuals worldwide to freely practice their faith advanced its ascent as a global power. Anna Su traces America’s exportation of religious freedom in various laws and policies enacted over the course of the twentieth century, in diverse locations and under a variety of historical circumstances. Influenced by growing religious tolerance at home and inspired by a belief in the United States’ obligation to protect the persecuted beyond its borders, American officials drafted constitutions as part of military occupations—in the Philippines after the Spanish-American War, in Japan following World War II, and in Iraq after 2003. They also spearheaded efforts to reform the international legal order by pursuing Wilsonian principles in the League of Nations, drafting the United Nations Charter, and signing the Helsinki Accords during the Cold War. The fruits of these labors are evident in the religious freedom provisions in international legal instruments, regional human rights conventions, and national constitutions. In examining the evolution of religious freedom from an expression of the civilizing impulse to the democratization of states and, finally, through the promotion of human rights, Su offers a new understanding of the significance of religion in international relations.
Author: Gary B. Nash
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674309333
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 372
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This book is the first to trace the fortunes of the earliest large free black community in the U.S. Nash shows how black Philadelphians struggled to shape a family life, gain occupational competence, organize churches, establish social networks, advance cultural institutions, educate their children, and train leaders who would help abolish slavery.
Author: Annelien De Dijn
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674988337
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 433
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Winner of the PROSE Award An NRC Handelsblad Best Book of the Year “Ambitious and impressive...At a time when the very survival of both freedom and democracy seems uncertain, books like this are more important than ever.” —The Nation “Helps explain how partisans on both the right and the left can claim to be protectors of liberty, yet hold radically different understandings of its meaning...This deeply informed history of an idea has the potential to combat political polarization.” —Publishers Weekly “Ambitious and bold, this book will have an enormous impact on how we think about the place of freedom in the Western tradition.” —Samuel Moyn, author of Not Enough “Brings remarkable clarity to a big and messy subject...New insights and hard-hitting conclusions about the resistance to democracy make this essential reading for anyone interested in the roots of our current dilemmas.” —Lynn Hunt, author of History: Why It Matters For centuries people in the West identified freedom with the ability to exercise control over the way in which they were governed. The equation of liberty with restraints on state power—what most people today associate with freedom—was a deliberate and dramatic rupture with long-established ways of thinking. So what triggered this fateful reversal? In a masterful and surprising reappraisal of more than two thousand years of Western thinking about freedom, Annelien de Dijn argues that this was not the natural outcome of such secular trends as the growth of religious tolerance or the creation of market societies. Rather, it was propelled by an antidemocratic backlash following the French and American Revolutions. The notion that freedom is best preserved by shrinking the sphere of government was not invented by the revolutionaries who created our modern democracies—it was first conceived by their critics and opponents. De Dijn shows that far from following in the path of early American patriots, today’s critics of “big government” owe more to the counterrevolutionaries who tried to undo their work.
Author: John Shattuck
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674018556
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
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As the chief human rights official of the Clinton Administration, John Shattuck faced far-flung challenges. This is the story of what was learned as he and other human rights hawks worked to change the Clinton Administration’s human rights policy from disengagement to saving lives and bringing war criminals to justice.
Author: Bodie & Brock Thoene
Publisher: Thomas Nelson Publishers
ISBN: 9780785269137
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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In this sequel to Only the River Runs Free, Joseph Connor Burke has reclaimed his ancestral acres, but his dreams of a peaceable kingdom are shattered by violence and betrayal. Will he stand for what he truly believes?
Author: Cara Caddoo
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674966864
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Viewing turn-of-the-century African American history through the lens of cinema, Envisioning Freedom examines the forgotten history of early black film exhibition during the era of mass migration and Jim Crow. By embracing the new medium of moving pictures at the turn of the twentieth century, black Americans forged a collective—if fraught—culture of freedom. In Cara Caddoo’s perspective-changing study, African Americans emerge as pioneers of cinema from the 1890s to the 1920s. Across the South and Midwest, moving pictures presented in churches, lodges, and schools raised money and created shared social experiences for black urban communities. As migrants moved northward, bound for Chicago and New York, cinema moved with them. Along these routes, ministers and reformers, preaching messages of racial uplift, used moving pictures as an enticement to attract followers. But as it gained popularity, black cinema also became controversial. Facing a losing competition with movie houses, once-supportive ministers denounced the evils of the “colored theater.” Onscreen images sparked arguments over black identity and the meaning of freedom. In 1910, when boxing champion Jack Johnson became the world’s first black movie star, representation in film vaulted to the center of black concerns about racial progress. Black leaders demanded self-representation and an end to cinematic mischaracterizations which, they charged, violated the civil rights of African Americans. In 1915, these ideas both led to the creation of an industry that produced “race films” by and for black audiences and sparked the first mass black protest movement of the twentieth century.
