Kirjahaku

From Pain to Purpose is a book designed to help us understand that all of the pain that we experience have purpose

In a linguistic climate that is hyperaware of so-called language death, dictionaries have been touted as stalwarts for language preservation. When wielded by communities undertaking language revitalization, dictionaries can be designed to facilitate reversing language shift and fostering linguistic innovation. Indeed, dictionaries' reputation as multifunctional reference materials make them adaptable to a wide variety of community needs.Revitalization Lexicography provides a detailed account of creating a dictionary meant to move a once-sleeping language into a language of active daily use. This unique look under the hood of lexicography in a small community highlights the ways in which the dictionary was intentionally leveraged to shape the Tunica language as it inevitably changes throughout revitalization. Tunica, one of the heritage languages of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Marksville, Louisiana, has been undergoing active revitalization since 2010. The current generation of speakers began learning Tunica, a once-sleeping language, through written documentation. Now enough Tunica speakers to confer amongst themselves when questionable language use arises. Marrying both the theoretical and the practical aspects that contributed to the Tunica dictionary, this book discusses complex lexicographic tasks in a manner accessible to both academic and community readers. This work is firmly backdropped in a fieldwork approach that centers the community as owners of all aspects of their revitalization project. This book provides concrete and practical considerations for anyone attempting to create a dictionary. Contrasting examples from Tunica and English dictionaries, this book challenges readers to rethink their relationship to dictionaries in general. A must-read for anyone who has ever touched a dictionary.

You have an oven and a stove top, and probably a microwave too, so why use a crock-pot? The answer is simple: A meal made in a crock pot is as equally delicious as it is easy. Of course, making an easy meal is just one of the many reasons why crock-pot dishes are so wonderful. Cooking this way means you have far less chance of burning or scorching your meal because it evenly cooks everything in the pot, plus, a crock-pot uses far less energy than any other electric appliance. Another perk is a crock-pot frees up your stove top if you choose to cook something else such as a side dish or even a pot of tea. In the book, Healthy Crockpot Recipes (31 Simple & Tasty Crockpot Recipes), you will get a collection of truly easy, hassle -free recipes that will give you delicious homemade crockpot delicacies every time. With 31 recipes that use easy-to-find ingredients and require minimal work, this crockpot recipes cookbook will set you up for success. In the book, you will get: - - Healthy breakfast, lunch, dinner plus even desserts recipes & dozens of other delicious meals you can make with a crock pot - perhaps some you may never have considered until now - A 31 day meal plan for crock pot that you can easily adapt and use in your busy life All of the simple-to-follow recipes in this book, Healthy Crockpot Recipes (31 Simple & Tasty Crock pot Recipes), are mouth-watering ways to feed your family a healthy, hearty meal without the fuss. Just put the ingredients in the crock pot and go about your day. When you come home you'll have a wonderful meal waiting for you. Or, set the crock-pot before you go to bed and wake up to the aroma of a healthy breakfast waiting for you. Enjoy

Not an Extraordinary Life....But Mine is an entertaining collection of nostalgic tales and memoirs stretching from the mid 1940's to the present year. Patricia Anderson takes us through the stories, the generations who come and go, how times and society change, and how characters try to adapt to those changes, and not altogether successfully. For Patricia Anderson, Not an Extraordinary Life....But Mine is a great achievement for her first book.

This book is an exciting assortment of letters, devotionals and text that is sure to stir the heart and will be of great help to you when "Life Happens."

Why do many Jamaican men acknowledge the importance of love, but also believe that men have the right to physically discipline their partners? How far does fathering become a journey of personal self-development? What happens to "outside children" when the father also has children at home? Why do fathers believe that they must toughen their sons? These are some of the questions which are carefully explored in this groundbreaking study of Jamaican fathers. The study departs from the tradition of Caribbean family research in which the focus has usually been placed on women and on households and instead gives men the opportunity to speak for themselves. Unlike the familiar emphasis on low-income households, this new study interviewed men across a range of social classes and within different community contexts. As a result, the impact of harsh economic conditions is unmistakable in limiting the ability of Jamaican men to translate their fathering commitment into active and continuing involvement.Across social classes and communities, Jamaican men share a common cultural conception of what is required to be a good father. However, they are also tied to definitions of hegemonic masculinity which emphasize male dominance and virility, so that domestic conflict may be inevitable, and men's aspirations to be good fathers may become imperilled. Given the existence of these countervailing values, there is a struggle to find a reasonable fit. The study concludes that it is possible for Jamaican men to be good fathers but bad husbands.