Knowing Our Place

Knowing Our Place
Author: Judith Gill
Publisher: Aust Council for Ed Research
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2009
Genre: Children
ISBN: 0864318723

In Knowing Our Place over 400 young Australians respond to ideas about belonging, identity and social and political power. The book explores the complex mindsets of young people in their search for identity within the broader society. While the fundamental aim of the book is to identify and describe aspects of children's thinking as they grapple with their developing sense of being in the world, there are evident implications for the project of citizenship education. [Publisher].

Knowing Your Place

Knowing Your Place
Author: Barbara Ching
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1997
Genre: Rural conditions
ISBN: 0415915449

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Small Wonder

Small Wonder
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 350
Release: 2009-10-13
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0061868647

In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned from recent news: villagers search for a missing infant boy and find him, unharmed, in the cave of a dangerous bear that has mothered him like one of her own. Clearly, our understanding of evil needs to be revised. What we fear most can save us. From this tale, Barbara Kingsolver goes on to consider the chasm between the privileged and the poor, which she sees as the root cause of violence and war in our time. She writes about her attachment to the land, to nature and wilderness, trees and mountains-the place from which she tells her stories. Whether worrying about the dangers of genetically engineered food crops, or creating opportunities for children to feel useful and competent - like growing food for the family’s table - Kingsolver looks for small wonders, where they grow, and celebrates them.

Knowing Your Place

Knowing Your Place
Author: Barbara Ching
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1997
Genre: Rural Conditions
ISBN: 9780415915458

First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Knowing Your Place

Knowing Your Place
Author: Andrew Mitchell
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 125
Release: 2013-05-14
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1481713884

Knowing Your Place is an inspirational set of laws to motivate you and allow you to understand that success has no barriers for those who are willing to confront the responsibility that comes along with it. These 10 Laws Of Success are to serve as a foundation to help you get moving towards living the self fulfilling life that is meant for you.

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood

Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Author: Janisse Ray
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Total Pages: 223
Release: 2023-07
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1571317953

From the memories of a childhood marked by extreme poverty, mental illness, and restrictive fundamentalist Christian rules, Janisse Ray crafted a “heartfelt and refreshing” (New York Times) memoir that has inspired thousands to embrace their beginnings, no matter how humble, and to fight for the places they love. This new edition updates and contextualizes the story for a new generation and a wider audience desperately searching for stories of empowerment and hope. Ray grew up in a junkyard along U.S. Highway 1, hidden from Florida-bound travelers by hulks of old cars. In language at once colloquial, elegiac, and informative, Ray redeems her home and her people, while also cataloging the source of her childhood hope: the Edenic longleaf pine forests, where orchids grow amid wiregrass at the feet of widely spaced, lofty trees. Today, the forests exist in fragments, cherished and threatened, and the South of her youth is gradually being overtaken by golf courses and suburban development. A contemporary classic, Ecology of a Cracker Childhood is a clarion call to protect the cultures and ecologies of every childhood.

Maps

Maps
Author: James R. Akerman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN:

Introducing readers to a wide range of maps from different time periods and a variety of cultures, this book confirms the vital roles of maps throughout history in commerce, art, literature, and national identity.

Rediscovering Jesus in Our Places

Rediscovering Jesus in Our Places
Author: Elia Shabani Mligo
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 302
Release: 2020-05-28
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1725263521

The question of contextual theology and its relevance to Africa in this time of globalization, whereby there are rampant uncontrolled changes in cultures, technologies, economic policies, and even people’s religious lives, is very urgent. How is contextual theology relevant in the ever-changing contexts of the church in Africa? Indeed, there are a number of challenges which contextual theology faces within the church in Africa, which need to be addressed contextually. Some such challenges include poverty, rampant violence, homosexuality, alcoholism, the resurgence of prosperity gospel materialistic prophets and incurable illnesses like Ebola, HIV and AIDS, and the current coronavirus (COVID-19). However, which context in Africa? Context in Africa, as in other parts of the world, is always in flux; it is complex and fluid. There is no permanent context. The experience of Jesus in such a changing context needs to be rediscovered depending on what transpires in each particular place at a particular time. This book addresses some of the overarching challenges that face contextual theology and how such challenges should be addressed by the church in Africa in contemporary ever-changing context for it to be relevant in Africa. It also highlights the need to move from liberation and inculturation theologies to reconstruction theology in dealing with the challenges of the current church. Hence, the book is important to students and scholars engaging in practical, systematic, biblical, and contextual theologies in all their branches.

High Tide in Tucson

High Tide in Tucson
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780060927561

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.