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Roanoke Island The Beginnings of English America


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English | 1983 | ISBN: 0807841102, 0807815543 | EPUB | pages: 266 | 3.2 mb
Well before the Jamestown settlers first sighted the Chesapeake Bay or the Mayflower reached the coast of Massachusetts, the first English colony in America was established on Roanoke Island. David Stick tells the story of that fascinating period in North Carolina’s past, from the first expedition sent out by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1584 to the mysterious disappearance of what has become known as the lost colony.

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Beginnings Reflections on the Bible’s Intriguing Firsts


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English | 2011 | pages: 304 | ISBN: 0307717186 | EPUB | 2,1 mb
The bestselling and prize-winning Israeli author Meir Shalev describes the many "firsts" of the Bible – the first love and the first death, to the first laugh and the first dream – providing a fresh, secular and surprising look at the stories we think we know.

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Voices from the Dust A Song of Beginnings


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English | 1996 | ISBN: 157008226X | EPUB | pages: 260 | 0.9 mb
The saga of Neferure, a woman whose courageous spirit and indomitable will must sustain her as her people struggle to establish a new land. Torn between Shemnon, whom she has loved since childhood, and Himni, who is of her faith, she comes to learn the power challenges have to strengthen or to destroy. Faith, love, loss, and joy is the gospel are all elements of this epic tale that captures the emotions and dramas of the Book of Mormon peoples and events.

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Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major Research, Cases, and Recommendations


Free Download Best Practices for Teaching Beginnings and Endings in the Psychology Major: Research, Cases, and Recommendations by Dana S. Dunn, Bernard B. Beins, Maureen A. McCarthy
English | 2010 | ISBN: 0195378210 | 416 Pages | PDF | 1.1 MB
Introductory and capstone experiences in the undergraduate psychology program are crucial ways to engage students in their major and psychology department, impart realistic expectations, and prepare them for life beyond college.

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Unhappy Beginnings


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English | ISBN: 1032526599 | 2023 | 206 pages | EPUB, PDF | 948 KB + 3 MB
This book offers the analysis of a selection of North American texts that dismantle and resist normative frames through the resignification of concepts such as unhappiness, precarity, failure, and vulnerability. The chapters bring to the fore how those potentially negative elements can be refigured as ambivalent sites of resistance and social bonding. Following Sara Ahmed’s rereading of happiness, other authors such as Judith Butler, Wendy Brown, Jack Halberstam, Lauren Berlant, or Henry Giroux are mobilized to interrogate films, memoirs, and novels that deal with precarity, alienation, and inequality. The monograph contributes to enlarging the archives of unhappiness by changing the focus from prescribed norms and happy endings to unruly practices and unhappy beginnings. As the different contributors show, unhappiness, precarity, vulnerability, or failure can be harnessed to illuminate ways of navigating the world and framing society that do not necessarily conform to the script of happiness―whatever that means.

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Henry Stubbe and the Beginnings of Islam The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism


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English | 2013 | pages: 288 | ISBN: 0231156642 | EPUB | 16,5 mb
Henry Stubbe (1632-1676) was an extraordinary English scholar who challenged his contemporaries by writing about Islam as a monotheistic revelation in continuity with Judaism and Christianity. His major work, The Originall & Progress of Mahometanism, was the first English text to document the Prophet Muhammad’s life positively, celebrate the Qur’an as a divine revelation, and praise the Muslim toleration of Christians, undermining a long legacy of European prejudice and hostility.

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Beginnings The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy


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English | 2016 | pages: 345 | ISBN: 0881633135, 1138005533 | PDF | 9,7 mb
How does the therapist begin psychotherapy? How, that is, does she conceptualize the needs of the patient while simultaneously enlisting him or her as an active partner in formulating an individualized working plan? And how should supervisors teach the skills needed to make the intake procedure truly the beginning of treatment? In Beginnings: The Art and Science of Planning Psychotherapy Mary Jo Peebles-Kleiger tackles these and other questions in an authoritative manner that draws on the cumulative experience of the outpatient department of the Menninger Psychiatric Clinic.

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