"I'll take my share of the blame. I only ask that he take his."
In Bringing Down the Colonel, the journalist Patricia Miller tells the story of Madeline Pollard, an unlikely nineteenth-century women's rights crusader. After an affair with a prominent politician left her "ruined," Pollard brought the man--and the hypocrisy of America's control of women's sexuality--to trial. And, surprisingly, she won.
Pollard and the married Colonel Breckinridge began their decade-long affair when she was just a teenager. After the death of his wife, Breckinridge asked for Pollard's hand--and then broke off the engagement to marry another woman. But Pollard struck back, suing Breckinridge for breach of promise in a shockingly public trial. With premarital sex considered irredeemably ruinous for a woman, Pollard was asserting the unthinkable: that the sexual morality of men and women should be judged equally.
Nearly 125 years after the Breckinridge-Pollard scandal, America is still obsessed with women's sexual morality. And in the age of Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein, we've witnessed fraught public reckonings with a type of sexual exploitation unnervingly similar to that experienced by Pollard. Using newspaper articles, personal journals, previously unpublished autobiographies, and letters, Bringing Down the Colonel tells the story of one of the earliest women to publicly fight back.
Автор: Miller Patricia Название: Joshua: Breaking Free ISBN: 1644385279 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781644385272 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 29050.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Joshua: Breaking Free (Joshua Trilogy book 2), continues the story of two alien young adults, Joshua and Mani from the planet Theos, who manage to escape to Earth and create new lives for themselves by overcoming adversities, only to find a circle of friends more supportive than they ever imagined. But, their idyllic existence on Earth is shattered when they find that the Theosian government has sent a spy after them, to find, capture and return them home for prosecution. Joshua cannot allow this to happen Not only must he protect Mani and his friends, but he has also fallen in love with Emma, the Earthling love of his life, from whom he cannot bear to be apart.
This story about dreams, hard work, courage and taking risks, quickly becomes more than that. It becomes a story about finding the true meaning of both friendship and love. And Joshua learns that sometimes it takes bravely going back home, in order to truly BREAK FREE
This YA Science Fiction Romance, is book 2 in a Trilogy series. Book 1 is entitled: Joshua: Life After Theos.
Автор: Roberts-Miller Patricia Название: Speaking of Race: Constructive Conversations about an Explosive Topic ISBN: 161519732X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781615197323 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7310.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Constructive Conversations About an Explosive Topic
With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.
Автор: Miller-Schroeder Patricia Название: Sisters of the Wolf ISBN: 1459747526 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781459747524 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 11950.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Sisters of the Wolf is a thrilling adventure of friendship, culture clash, bravery, and survival set in Ice Age Europe. After being separated from their tribes, Keena and Shinoni must learn to survive as they are pursued by a ruthless hunter in a land rumbling with advancing glaciers and teeming with mighty predators.
Автор: Miller Linda Lael, Davids Patricia Название: A Creed Country Christmas & the Doctor`s Blessing ISBN: 1335928464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781335928467 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 7350.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: BESTSELLING AUTHOR COLLECTIONReader-favorite romances in collectible volumes from our bestselling authors.HOLIDAY ON THE HOMESTEAD Montana, Christmas 1910: For widowed rancher Lincoln Creed, the holiday serves as a harsh reminder of what a tough year it's been--and who he's lost. His ranch has fallen on hard times, and he must find his little daughter Gracie a governess, a lady who can teach and cook--yet won't set her sights on him. For schoolteacher Juliana Mitchell, the holiday means finding a way to stretch her meager salary to provide food and firewood for the orphaned children in her care. Twenty-five-year-old Juliana has no desire to get married. Yet when she meets the handsome rancher, she can't help but be drawn into his loving home. It's the season for miracles, and fate might bring this family together for Christmas... FREE BONUS STORY INCLUDED IN THIS VOLUME The Doctor's Blessing by USA TODAY bestselling author Patricia Davids As a nurse and midwife in Amish country, Amber Bradley keeps butting heads with the new doctor in town. After meeting Amber, Dr. Phillip White almost forgets his stay in town is temporary. Perhaps he's finally found the home--and heart--he's always been looking for. Previously published.
Автор: Roberts-Miller Patricia Название: Demagoguery and Democracy ISBN: 1615196765 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781615196760 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 7310.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: Now in paperback: In the vein of On Bullshit, a to-the-point, urgently needed primer to demagoguery from an expert on the subject: what it is, why it`s dangerous, and how we can defeat it
Early Christian theology posited a strict division between animals and humans. Nevertheless, animal figures abound in early Christian literature and art—from Augustine's renowned "wonder at the agility of the mosquito on the wing," to vivid exegeses of the six days of creation detailed in Genesis—and when they appear, the distinctions between human and animal are often dissolved. How, asks Patricia Cox Miller, does one account for the stunning zoological imagination found in a wide variety of genres of ancient Christian texts? In the Eye of the Animal complicates the role of animals in early Christian thought by showing how textual and artistic images and interpretive procedures actually celebrated a continuum of human and animal life. Synthesizing early Christian studies, contemporary philosophy, animal studies, ethology, and modern poetry, Miller identifies two contradictory strands in early Christian thinking about animals. The dominant thread viewed the body and soul of the human being as dominical, or the crowning achievement of creation; animals, with their defective souls, related to humans only as reminders of the brutish physical form. However, the second strand relied upon the idea of a continuum of animal life, which enabled comparisons between animals and humans. This second tendency, explains Miller, arises particularly in early Christian literature in which ascetic identity, the body, and ethics intersect. She explores the tension between these modes by tracing the image of the animal in early Christian literature, from the ethical animal behavior on display in Basil of Caesarea's Hexaemeron and the anonymous Physiologus, to the role of animals in articulating erotic desire, and from the idyllic intimacy of monks and animals in literature of desert ascetism to early Christian art that envisions paradise through human-animal symbiosis.
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