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Keeping Christmas 25 Advent Reflections on A Christmas Carol


Free Download Allison Pittman, "Keeping Christmas: 25 Advent Reflections on A Christmas Carol"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 1540900061 | EPUB | pages: 128 | 6.0 mb
Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol is second only to the nativity story itself when it comes to public consciousness. Just as Jesus Christ changed the world on the night of his birth, so Ebenezer Scrooge changes during a single night of supernatural visitations.

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Sexy Mamas Keeping Your Sex Life Alive While Raising Kids


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English | March 11, 2004 | ISBN: 1930722273 | 224 pages | PDF | 1.76 Mb
Sexy Mamas reaches out to women who want to integrate the joys of a satisfying sex life with the joys of motherhood. Winks and Semans offer tips, anecdotes, and practical information about sex while parenting, supported by advice from medical experts, sex experts, and the most valuable experts of all—other mothers. This just-right-for-browsing compendium includes candid anecdotes and suggestions from hundreds of survey respondents that will support, encourage, and inspire readers to embrace a more powerful maternal sexuality.

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Journal Keeping


Free Download Dannelle D. Stevens, "Journal Keeping"
English | ISBN: 1579222161 | 2009 | 286 pages | EPUB, PDF | 8 MB + 3 MB
** By the authors of the acclaimed Introduction to Rubrics** Major growth of interest in keeping journals or diaries for personal reflection and growth; and as a teaching tool** Will appeal to college faculty, administrators and teachers One of the most powerful ways to learn, reflect and make sense of our lives is through journal keeping. This book presents the potential uses and benefits of journals for personal and professional development―particularly for those in academic life; and demonstrates journals’ potential to foster college students’ learning, fluency and voice, and creative thinking.In professional life, a journal helps to organize, prioritize and address the many expectations of a faculty member’s or administrator’s roles. Journals are effective for developing time management skills, building problem-solving skills, fostering insight, and decreasing stress.Both writing and rereading journal entries allow the journal keeper to document thinking; to track changes and review observations; and to examine assumptions and so gain fresh perspectives and insights over past events. The authors present the background to help readers make an informed decision about the value of journals and to determine whether journals will fit appropriately with their teaching objectives or help manage their personal and professional lives. They offer insights and advice on selecting the format or formats and techniques most appropriate for the reader’s purposes.

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Keeping the Peace in the Village Conflict and Peacemaking in Germany, 1650-1750 (Studies in German History)


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English | May 26, 2024 | ISBN: 0198898479 | 240 pages | MOBI | 1.40 Mb
Keeping the Peace in the Village is a study of how rural society evolved in the century after 1650. Based on extensive research in German archives, particularly in local court records, the book examines how rural people sought peace in the aftermath of the Thirty Years’ War. An understandable desire for peace and order co-existed with the reality of day-to-day conflicts common to any face-to-face community. An important consequence of the tension between conflict and the desire for peace was that people increasingly used local courts to help in resolving conflicts.

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Keeping the Faith God, Democracy, and the Trial That Riveted a Nation [Audiobook]


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English | ASIN: B0CPTCGB67 | 2024 | 12 hours and 50 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 384 MB
Author: Brenda Wineapple
Narrator: Gabra Zackman

In this magnificent book, award-winning author of The Impeachers brings to life the dramatic story of the 1925 Scopes trial, which captivated the nation and exposed profound divisions in America that still resonate today-divisions over the meaning of freedom, religion, education, censorship, and civil liberties in a democracy. "No subject possesses the minds of men like religious bigotry and hate, and these fires are being lighted today in America." So said legendary attorney Clarence Darrow as hundreds of people descended on the sleepy town of Dayton, Tennessee, for the trial of a schoolteacher named John T. Scopes, who was charged with breaking the law by teaching evolution to his biology class in a public school.

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Age of Danger Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats [Audiobook] (2024)


Free Download Age of Danger: Keeping America Safe in an Era of New Superpowers, New Weapons, and New Threats (Audiobook)
English | May 09, 2023 | ASIN: B0BJ1673NM | M4B@64 kbps | 9h 48m | 285 MB
Authors: Andrew Hoehn, Thom Shanker | Narrator: Eric Jason Martin
An urgent look at how America’s national security machine went astray and how it fails to keep us safe-and what we can do to fix it.
Again and again, American taxpayers are asked to open their wallets and pay for a national security machine that costs $1 trillion operate. Yet time and time again, the US government gets it wrong on critical issues. So what can be done? Enter bestselling author Thom Shanker and defense expert Andrew Hoehn. With decades of national security expertise between them and access to virtually every expert, they look at what’s going wrong in national security and how to make it go right.

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Sexy Mamas Keeping Your Sex Life Alive While Raising Kids


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English | March 22nd, 2010 | ISBN: 1930722273 | 224 pages | True EPUB | 0.42 MB
While parenting books rarely broach the subject, most mothers can testify that sexual desire doesn’t disappear when they have children; it simply gets buried under an avalanche of conflicting demands on their time and attention. Sexy Mamas, by the authors of The Good Vibrations Guide to Sex, reaches out to women who want to integrate the pleasures of a satisfying sex life with the joys of motherhood.

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Keep On Keeping On The NAACP and the Implementation of Brown v. Board of Education in Virginia


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English | 2016 | ISBN: 0813938899 | EPUB | pages: 248 | 1.8 mb
Virginia was a battleground state in the struggle to implement Brown v. Board of Education, with one of the South’s largest and strongest NAACP units fighting against a program of noncompliance crafted by the state’s political leaders. Keep On Keeping On offers a detailed examination of how African Americans and the NAACP in Virginia successfully pursued a legal agenda that provided new educational opportunities for the state’s black population in the face of fierce opposition from segregationists and the Democratic Party of Harry F. Byrd Sr.

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