Nancy Sullivan: 20 books
by Nancy Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
This is a memoir by anthropologist Nancy Sullivan about working and living in Papua New Guinea for 24 years, where she is also married and raising children. Prompted by personal memories, the essays are episodic but also invoke some basic anthropological theory in a way that makes it accessible and...
by Nancy Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
This innovative grammar text is an ideal resource for writers, language students, and current and future classroom teachers who need an accessible "refresher" in a step-by-step guide to essential grammar. Rather than becoming mired in overly detailed linguistic definitions, Nancy Sullivan...
China Since Tiananmen: Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Political, Economic and Social Conflicts - Documents and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
This text presents a selection of articles from the Chinese and Hong Kong press. The 109 documents record the deepening social and political changes that have emerged in China since Tiananmen Square. The articles offer contrasting views in politics, economics, society and culture, and science and...
China's Search for Democracy: The Students and Mass Movement of 1989
The Students and Mass Movement of 1989
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Within a framework of analysis and background by the four editors, this book presents a view from the grassroots of the 1989 student and mass movement in China and its tragic consequences. Here are the core eyewitness and participant accounts expressed through wall posters, students speeches, movement...
Couriers of Grace
My Daughter, the Sacraments, and a Surprising Walk of Faith
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2017
Testifying to the life-changing and joy-giving power of the sacraments, Catholic author Nancy Jo Sullivan shares how moments in her life and that of her late daughter Sarah—who had Down syndrome—unexpectedly triggered a renewed faith and deeper relationship with God and others. With startling and...
Small Mercies
Glimpses of God in Everyday Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2012
People who are only nominally spiritual have relatively little trouble sensing some sort of Divine presence when looking up at a beautiful snow-capped mountain or looking around in a grand cathedral. But even deeply spiritual individuals would likely admit that finding God in the places and faces...
The Last Cadillac
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
Middle-age is challenging enough, but when Nancy Nau Sullivan suddenly finds herself caring for two children, grappling with her mother’s death, and caring for her ailing father while at the same time navigating a contentious divorce and dealing with long-simmering sibling rivalries, she wonders...
What I've Learned From My Daughter
Blessings from a Special Child
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Sometimes God's greatest gifts are unrecognized. Such was the case with Nancy Jo Sullivan, an expecting mother who received the unexpected: a Down syndrome child. Open to God's plan, and filled with love for her child, Nancy Jo came to realize that her daughter Sarah was "a sacred surprise disguised as a handicapped baby."
Paperback
Alabama Women
Their Lives and Times
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Another addition to the Southern Women series, Alabama Women celebrates women’s histories in the Yellowhammer State by highlighting the lives and contributions of women and enriching our understanding of the past and present. Exploring such subjects as politics, arts, and civic organizations, this...
Did You Get What You Prayed For?
Keys to an Abundant Prayer Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Millions of people struggle with questions about how to pray, what to pray for, and even whether to pray at all. Nancy Jo Sullivan and Jane Kise help people get away from the magic formula mentality of prayer and recognize how God is at work in their lives. With explorative retellings of relevant...
by Peter F. Hamilton, Nancy Kress, Ian McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Sixteen original stories of science fiction and wonder from sixteen talented authors, written to commemorate the first ten years of NewCon PressContents:1. Introduction by Ian Whates2. The Final Path – Genevieve Cogman3. Women’s Christmas – Ian McDonald4. Pyramid – Nancy Kress5. Liberty...
Box Set: Dark Stories
Contains: Hides the Dark Tower, In a Cat's Eye, and Dark Luminous Wings
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018
This 3-book box set is a collection of three anthologies of Dark Stories:
Hides the Dark Tower
In a Cat's Eye
Dark Luminous Wings
Hides the Dark Tower
Mysterious and looming, towers and tower-like structures pierce the skies and shadow the lands. Hides the Dark Tower includes over...
by Brian Trent, Nancy Springer, Gergory L. Norris
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
From Icarus to Da Vinci to tomorrow's astronauts, humans have dreamt of flight. Feathered wings. Mechanical wings. Leathery wings. Steel wings. Stories of winged creatures set in graveyards and churches, bustling cities, fantastical worlds, alternate histories, and outer space reveal the shifting...
Classifying Psychopathology
Mental Kinds and Natural Kinds
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2014
Scholars question the extent to which current psychiatric classification systems are inadequate for diagnosis, treatment, and research of mental disorders and offer suggestions for improvement.
In this volume, leading philosophers of psychiatry examine psychiatric classification systems, including...
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