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Acedia & Me: A Marriage, Monks, and a Writer's Life
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Kathleen Norris
As in her bestselling "Amazing Grace," Norris demystifies a spiritual concept, exploring acedia--or soul-weariness--through the geography of her life as a writer; her marriage and the challenges of commitment in the midst of grave illness; and her keen interest in the monastic tradition.
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography
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Kathleen Norris
Norris writes about the dynamics of small-town life in this tribute to the Great Plains and their power to inform the human spirit. Filled with descriptions of a harsh and desolate, yet sublime landscape, "Dakota" weaves together the lives of farmers, townsfolk, Native Americans, and a community of Benedictine monks.
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Black Belt Patriotism: How to Reawaken America
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Chuck Norris
Norris--hero, icon, and legend--is back, packing a political and cultural punch with his new book. In it, Norris gives a no-holds-barred assessment of American culture and shows how Americans can get involved and change the nation's course for the better.
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Gemstones of the World
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Walter Schumann
This is the standard reference for over twenty years, now completely revised and updated with many new illustrations. "Gemstones of the World" is the most comprehensive and informative colour manual of the world's gemstones and includes more than 1,400 examples. Opposite each illustration the text provides an exact description of the particular ...
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Western Landscaping
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Kathleen Norris Brenzel (Editor)
This companion book to the much-beloved "Western Garden Book" is packed with expert advice from landscape designers, gardeners, and others, and addresses climatic, soil, and topographical challenges and solutions for the West.
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Against All Odds: My Story
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Chuck Norris, Ken Abraham
Now in paperback comes the bestselling story of how "Walker, Texas Ranger" star Chuck Norris overcame abject poverty, how he survived his father's alcoholism and desertion of the family, and how he faced such obstacles as his own shyness and lack of strength and ability early in life. 16-page, full-color insert.
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Sunset Western Garden Book
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Kathleen Norris Brenzel (Editor)
Gardeners throughout the region will be welcoming a thoroughly updated and fresh-looking 8th edition of the bible of Western gardening. With a new, easy-to-read design, more plant photography, larger illustrations, and more than 8,000 plant listings500 of them newits THE essential book for gardeners in the Western states. What plants to grow, how ...
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The Holy Twins: Benedict and Scholastica
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Kathleen Norris, Tomie dePaola (Illustrator)
The acclaimed author of "The Cloister Walk" offers a moving text to accompanydePaola's beautiful fresco-like paintings in the dramatic and inspiring storyof two miraculous, yet very human siblings. Illustrations.
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Copywriting for the Electronic Media: A Practical Guide
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Milan D Meeske
"Copywriting for the Electronic Media: A Practical Guide, Sixth Edition", prepares you to write effective copy for all types of electronic media, with an emphasis on commercial writing and a valuable real-world orientation to this exciting field. A brief grammar review illustrates grammar principles as they apply to broadcast writing, helping you ...
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Laboratory Manual for Physical Geology
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Norris W Jones
If it's important for you to incorporate the scientific method into your teaching this manual aims to help. In every exercise there are scientific method boxes that provide students with insight into the relevance of the scientific method to the topic at hand. The book also includes "in greater depth" problems, a more challenging probe into ...
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McTeague: A Story of San Francisco
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Frank Norris
Frank Norris's MCTEAGUE, about a San Francisco dentist who sinks into degradation, poverty, and crime after he is exposed as a charlatan, shocked readers when it was first published in 1899. But as Norris said, "I told them the truth. They liked it or they didn't like it. What had that to do with me?" He died a few years later, at the age of 32.
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The cloister walk
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Kathleen Norris
Kathleen Norris spent the better part of a year living among Benedictine monks at St. John's Abbey in Collegeville, Minnesota, closely observing their customs, dress, ceremonies, and even their sexuality. The men and women who have chosen the cloistered life provide a counterpoint to the secular world that is often misunderstood. Norris uses the ...
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The Mosaic Idea Book: More Than 100 Designs to Copy and Create
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Rosalind Wates, Jenni Dooge (Illustrator), Martin Norris (Photographer)
Features dozens of colorful and inspiring mosaic designs suitable for walls, floors, tables and more. Motifs range from animals, flowers and classic motifs to geometric patterns.
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Amazing Grace: A Vocabulary of Faith
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Kathleen Norris
More a story than a religious commentary, Kathleen Norris's book examines the presence of faith and spirituality in everyday life. The author came to embrace religion as an adult, after a lifetime of fearing and misunderstanding many aspects of Christianity. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.
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The Weekend Novelist
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Robert J Ray, Bret Norris
This is a step-by-step program to assist the reader in organizing their writing around the weekends to produce a finished novel in 52 weeks.
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The octopus, a story of California
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Frank Norris
Based on an actual bloody dispute between wheat farmers and the Southern Pacific Railroad in 1880, this novel depicts the dying days of the western frontier of America.
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Daily Math Practice, Grade 5
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Jill Norris, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers, Marilyn Evans (Editor)
Daily Math Practice is divided into 36 weekly sections. The five items practiced each day, Monday through Thursday, include two computation problems, two items that practice a variety of math skills, and one word problem. Friday lessons contain a single problem that is more extensive and may require multiple steps and problems that emphasize ...
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Try and Make Me!
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Ray Levy, Bill O'Hanlon, M.S., Tyler Norris Goode
Offering a commonsense approach to child rearing that helps children ages 2-12 become cooperative, this guide explains a revolutionary new program that emphasizes the importance of avoiding power struggles between parent and child. This book presents tactics for putting an end to screaming battles and teaching children that good behavior is in ...
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The Secret Power Within
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Chuck Norris
Now in paperback, the bestselling book from America's favorite action hero reveals how Zen teachings guided his life and career and how anyone can benefit from the lessons of this ancient philosophy.
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Daily Language Review, Grade 1
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Jill Norris, Evan-Moor Educational Publishers
This book provides four to five items for every day of a 36-week school year. Skill areas include grammar, punctuation, mechanics, usage and sentence editing. Also included are scope and sequence charts, suggestions for use, and answer keys.
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Christological Controversy
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Richard A Norris, Jr. (Editor), William G Rusch (Editor)
Series Foreword I. Introduction Early Christology Initial Problems Justin Martyr, Melito of Sardis, Irenaeus of Lyon, Tertullian of Carthage, Origen of Alexandria Further Problems The Arians and Athanasius; Apollinaris of Laodicea; Theodore of Mopsuestia; Cyril, Nestorius, and Eutyches; Leo and Chalcedon II. Melito of Sardis A Homily on the ...
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Romeo and Juliet & West Side Story
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William Shakespeare, Paul Werstine, Norris Houghton (Editor)
The tragedy of love thwarted by fate has always intrigued writers. In the sixteenth century, William Shakespeare took this theme and fashioned one of the world's great plays: "Romeo And Juliet." In our own time, Shakespeare's drama has been used as a basis for the overwhelmingly successful musical play "West Side Story." Though one of these works ...
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The Quotidian Mysteries: Laundry, Liturgy and Woman's "Work"
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Kathleen Norris
Though the Madeleva lectures, from which this essay is taken, is devoted to the education and spiritual well-being of women, Kathleen Norris' luminous reflection on the spirituality of ordinary life is not "for women only." The "women's work" in the title can refer to any daily chore that leads to boredom, frustration, or despair -- whether ...
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The Principal: Creative Leadership for Excellence in Schools
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Gerald C Ubben, Larry W Hughes, Cynthia J Norris
This text is organized around the ISLLC Standards and provides a bridge from the theory of school administration to the practical problem solving in which school principals and other leaders engage. The Principal is organized into four parts centered on the six Interstate School Leaders Licensure Consortium (ISLLC) Standards developed specifically ...
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Gardening in the Southwest: A Wealth of Great Ideas for Your Garden
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Sunset Publishing, Kathleen Norris Brenzel, Of Sunset Books Editors
Dedicated to gardeners from West Texas to Southern California, this comprehensive regional landscaping guide features stunning photo galleries that showcase signature Southwest garden environs. Climate, soil attributes, design elements, and more are covered. 420 photos.
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