The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115 (Gender in History)

The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa, 1046-1115 (Gender in History)

This is the first account in English of the entire, forty year military career of one of the most powerful women of the Middle Ages. Challenging the boundaries between military and gender history, it explains how one famous noblewoman rose to the defense of the reforming papacy, defeated the Holy Roman Emperor and turned the tide of the first great war between Church and State.

 

The Military Leadership of Matilda of Canossa adopts an interdisciplinary perspective towards the abundant and diverse sources for her life, reading the narrative sources against the letters, polemics, diplomas and canonical collections. It combines these to reconstruct Matilda’s campaigns in painstaking detail, and reconsiders the limits of medieval women’s military agency in light of her demonstrable successes.

 

Both scholarly and accessible, all Latin quotations in the book are translated and the introduction provides a primer on the Investiture Contest. This work will be of greatest value to specialists in medieval gender, military and church history.

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Labor of Love: A Midwife’s Memoir

Labor of Love: A Midwife's Memoir

• ISBN13: 9781607146728
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“Labor of Love…makes me want to stand up and shout, ‘Yes! Right on, sister!’” â€" Christiane Northrup, MD, author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom

“A practicing certified nurse-midwife … [Muhlhahn] has the battle scars to prove it … as well as enough emotional dings to give her plain-speaking single mom’s memoir an edge.” â€" Booklist

Cara Muhlhahn is force of nature. Single mom, jazz singer, salsa dancer, traveler, and midwife to more than 700 babies, she holds nothing back in her astonishing memoir. As one of today’s most beloved and sought-after midwives, Muhlhahn delivers an engaging story of the choices and sacrifices she has made in order to live a life of passion and devotion. At an early age, Cara wanted to make a difference in people’s lives. She decided she would help women during their most significant experienceâ€"giving birth.

Balancing her medical knowledge with intuition, the challenges of single parenthood with work, and personal sacrifices with the joys of birth, Muhlhahn captures what it’s like to know your purpose, and live life to its fullest. Written with searing honesty, Labor of Love will inspire and amaze.









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Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth

Creation Spirituality: Liberating Gifts for the Peoples of the Earth

• ISBN13: 9780060629175
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From Matthew Fox, the popular and controversial author of The Coming of the Cosmic Christ, a prophetic manifesto for the preservation of the planet.

For those new to the works of Matthew Fox, and for those eager to learn his thoughts after his Vatican-ordered public silence, comes this introduction to creation spirituality--Fox's framework for a far-reaching spirituality of the Americas.

Passionate and provocative, Fox uncovers the ancient tradition of a creation-centered spirituality that melds Christian mysticism with the contemporary struggle for social justice, feminism, and environmentalism.

Basic to Fox's notion of creation spirituality is the gift of awe--a mystical response to creation and the first step toward transformation. Awe prompts indignation at the exploitation and destruction of the earth's people and resources. Awe leads to action.

Showing how we can learn from each other, Fox's spirituality weds the healing and liberation found in both North and South America. Creation Spirituality challenges readers of every religious and political persuasion to unite in a new vision through which we learn to honor the earth and the people who inhabit it as the gift of a good and just creator.

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Constructing Teddy and His Friends

Constructing Teddy and His Friends





At last, a new book from the author of Teddy Bear Art: How to Design and Make Great Teddy Bears. Jennifer Laing's newest book showcases 12 different animal patterns starting with Mortimer the Teddy Bear. In addition, it covers animals and fantasy characters from around the world including Philbert the Golly; Erik the Elf; Nils the Gnome; Ickabod the four-legged bear; Tom Collins the pack rat; Esme the elephant; Viola the monkey (or Claudia the chimp); Phoebe the panda; Bluegum the koala; Ethel the emu; and Reggie the rabbit. All animals can be made from a range of different fabrics and styles with ideas for variations. The author provides techniques to give the animals open mouths and realistic tongues, whiskers and tufted eyebrows, waxed noses, extra joints for increased pose-ability, wired ears, toes and tails. 12 Full-sized patterns. 19 Color photos.









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Quick Cash for Teens: Be Your Own Boss and Make Big Bucks

Quick Cash for Teens: Be Your Own Boss and Make Big Bucks

• ISBN13: 9781402760389
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As tales of YouTube and MySpace fortunes float virally throughout the blogosphere and media, kids wonder: "Could I do that?" Financial expert Peter Bielagus emphatically answers "Yes!" Quick Cash for Teens provides smart strategies for earning big bucks, with step-by-step instructions for identifying opportunities, creating a business plan, and implementing it successfully. Bielagus includes it all: sample budget worksheets, marketing plans, press releases, and more!

Sidebars throughout include:

- Dollars & Sense: basic business concepts and strategies

- Extra Credit: more advanced concepts, such as tax info

- Tales from the Front Lines: real-life stories from young entrepreneurs

 

 

 

 

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How I Got Lucky and Bumped into God: A Novel of Meeting the Divine

How I Got Lucky and Bumped into God: A Novel of Meeting the Divine





Indebted to his mentor, Leo, Tony agrees to seek out a lonely old man who thinks he's God and cure the man of his delusion. At first hesitant and reluctant to undertake the task, Tony's mission leads him on a quest that he never could have foreseen. Timeless mysteries begin to unravel even as skepticism and temptation conspire to keep the truth hidden. From the streets of Manhattan to a quiet harbor on the Long Island Sound, from a chessboard where the Light and Dark forces face off to the final revelation, Tony finds salvation in the unlikeliest of ways. Inspired by actual events, How I Got Lucky and Bumped into God is a thought provoking and touching account of how an act of kindness can change the destiny of a man and how the love a boy has for his Father can save them both.









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Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music Reviews

Western Music and Its Others: Difference, Representation, and Appropriation in Music





This innovative collection of articles offers a major comprehensive overview of new developments in cultural theory as applied to Western music. Addressing a broad range of primarily twentieth-century music, the authors examine two related phenomena: musical borrowings or appropriations, and how music has been used to construct, evoke, or represent difference of a musical or a sociocultural kind.
The essays scrutinize a diverse body of music and discuss a range of significant examples, among them musical modernism's idealizing or ambivalent relations with popular, ethnic, and non-Western music; exoticism and orientalism in the experimental music tradition; the representation of others in Hollywood film music; music's role in the formation and contestation of collective identities, with reference to Jewish and Turkish popular music; and issues of representation and difference in jazz, world music, hip hop, and electronic dance music.
Written by leading scholars from disciplines including historical musicology, sociology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, popular music studies, and film studies, the essays provide unprecedented insights into how cultural identities and differences are constructed in music.









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