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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Mary Breckinridge Thompson
Mary Breckinridge
The University of North Carolina Press
2015
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In 1925 Mary Breckinridge (1881-1965) founded the Frontier Nursing Service (FNS), a public health organization in eastern Kentucky providing nurses on horseback to reach families who otherwise would not receive health care. Through this public health organization, she introduced nurse-midwifery to the United States and created a highly successful, cost-effective model for rural health care delivery that has been replicated throughout the world.In this first comprehensive biography of the FNS founder, Melanie Beals Goan provides a revealing look at the challenges Breckinridge faced as she sought reform and the contradictions she embodied. Goan explores Breckinridge's perspective on gender roles, her charisma, her sense of obligation to live a life of service, her eccentricity, her religiosity, and her application of professionalized, science-based health care ideas. Highly intelligent and creative, Breckinridge also suffered from depression, was by modern standards racist, and fought progress as she aged - sometimes to the detriment of those she served.Breckinridge optimistically believed that she could change the world by providing health care to women and children. She ultimately changed just one corner of the world, but her experience continues to provide powerful lessons about the possibilities and the limitations of reform.
Lucy Breckinridge of Grove Hill
Lucy Gilmer Breckinridge; Mary D. Robertson
University of South Carolina Press
1994
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The memoirs of a high-spirited young woman who wanted to escape wartime boredom.
Mary the Wife (of Abraham Lincoln): a Drama Adapted for Television
Frank P. Breckinridge; Chicago Literary Club
Hassell Street Press
2021
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The Indiana Poor Law: Its Development and Administration, with Special Reference to the Provisions of State Care for the Sick Poor
Alice Shaffer; Mary Wysor Keefer; Sophonisba Preston Breckinridge
Literary Licensing, LLC
2013
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Forty-seven-year-old Maria Hicks wants to get fit. So she signs up for an aerobics class, puts on her new yellow workout suit, and heads for the gym. The last thing that Maria is interested in finding at the gym is a man. A devout Catholic and abuse-weary divorcee, Maria finds comfort-not to mention employment-at her parish church. So when Harvey Lebenstern, a Jewish playboy, literally comes crashing into her world at an aerobics class, Maria intends to keep it platonic. Harvey, who is only at the gym because his doctor told him to exercise, finds himself entangled with Maria. She is totally different than the trophy-women he romances. Besides, he learned years ago that love was not to be trusted. So he threw himself into running his business and avoiding marriage. But their friendship evolves, and the two singletons start to reconsider what they believe is really important in life-and with the help of family and friends, rediscover themselves. With compassion, grace, and humor, True Selves tells the story of two people from different faiths who step forward together and learn that love can heal even the most wounded heart.
Historic Landscapes Summit County, Colorado, Ghost Towns and Townsites Volume 1: Breckenridge and Fort Mary B
Bill Fountain; Sandra Mather
Summit Historical Society Press
2024
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Historic Landscapes, Summit County, Colorado is about the historic towns, townsites, and ghost towns of Summit County, including those found from Hoosier Pass north to the confluence of the Blue and Swan rivers, west to the Ten Mile Range, and east to the headwaters of the north and south forks of the Swan River. Using information taken from first-hand accounts, mining district logbooks, and newspapers, the authors tell the story of the more than 25 historic towns that supported the mining economy in the greater Breckenridge area. Only the town of Breckenridge, the focus of this volume, survived.You will follow the first prospectors filing their claims, establishing mining districts to govern their operations, the building of Fort Mary B to protect them from perceived threats from the native Utes as well as provide a place for the first merchants to sell their wares, and the platting of the new town of Breckenridge by capitalists from Denver. As you follow the growth of the town from 1859 until 1899, you will meet men and women who were critical to its development. This volume contains over 190 graphics, including photographs, maps, and illustrations.
'Nabokov can move you to laughter in the way that masters can - to laughter that is near to tears' GuardianLev Ganin is a young officer sharing a boarding house in Berlin with a host of Russian émigrés. Alone in his room, he dreams of his first love, Mary. Awash with memories of youth and idyllic scenes of pre-Revolution Russia, Ganin becomes convinced that Mary is in fact the wife of a fellow-boarder, due to arrive at this very house soon. He longs for her arrival, when he can whisk her away and leave everything behind ...
A fascinating and intimate novel of the life of Mary Todd Lincoln, narrated by the First Lady herself Mary Todd Lincoln is one of history s most misunderstood and enigmatic women. She was a political strategist, a supporter of emancipation, and a mother who survived the loss of three children and the assassination of her beloved husband. She also ran her family into debt, held seances in the White House, and was committed to an insane asylum which is where Janis Cooke Newman s debut novel begins. From her room in Bellevue Place, Mary chronicles her tempestuous childhood in a slaveholding Southern family and takes readers through the years after her husband s death, revealing the ebbs and flows of her passion and depression, her poverty and ridicule, and her ultimate redemption."
Mary
KESSINGER PUBLISHING, LLC
2007
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A gripping tale of youth, first love, and nostalgia. - Written in 1925, Mary is Nabokov's first novel. Like his other early masterpieces, it bears witness to Nabokov's sensual mastery of language. "In MARY we see him evoking the first of what became an increasingly brilliant series of worlds." - Newsweek In a Berlin rooming house filled with an assortment of seriocomic Russian migr s, Lev Ganin, a vigorous young officer poised between his past and his future, relives his first love affair. His memories of Mary are suffused with the freshness of youth and the idyllic ambience of pre-revolutionary Russia. In stark contrast is the decidedly unappealing boarder living in the room next to Ganin's, who, he discovers, is Mary's husband, temporarily separated from her by the Revolution but expecting her imminent arrival from Russia.
Beverly Roberts Gaventa A fresh, distinctive, Protestant treatment of Mary's life and legacy.
In recent years Mary has stepped out of the closet of piety and devotion and become the subject of serious theological study and work. For too long Mary was an icon for the repression of women by a male dominated Church, but now Mary is seen as a vital theological symbol, a symbol of true femininity and true humanity for the Church and the modern world. Jung has argued that the Definition of the Doctrine of the Assumption was the most important religious event since the Reformation: the feminine principle has been absorbed into the Godhead. Yet amongst some modern Catholics, as well as most Protestant Christians, the Virgin Mary is still seen as someone who has a very small part to play in the drama of salvation and creation. In Mary, Sarah Jane Boss seeks to correct this view. She argues that Christian theology should conceive of the created order, both physical and spiritual, as sacred in the highest degree, and that this understanding is already implicit in traditions of Marian doctrine and devotion. Far from being peripheral this understanding of Mary is central to Christian doctrine. It must underlie any attempt to answer the fundamental ethical questions of our age, namely that of the extent to which human beings are entitled to intervene in the natural order.
This updated edition of Hilda Graef's masterwork remains an essential reference text for anyone interested in Marian studies.
Mary
Ignatius Press
2000
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Sometimes, overcoming the past can be as challenging as surviving the present.Mary Crawford, vivacious, beautiful, and adored by many gentlemen, has a secret. Her confidence is a fa ade, and while she may welcome one and all, she trusts few.Gabriel Durward, an enterprising and wealthy tradesman, prizes integrity. Known for his shrewd business dealings, he is one gentleman that few would dare to cross.Mary has never met a gentleman quite like Gabe. He seems impervious to her usual ploys, never prevaricates or flaunts himself as so many others have, and even though he knows her faults, he still chooses her without any need to be persuaded to do so. It is enough for Mary to begin to open her heart.However, not everyone appreciates Gabe's character as much as Mary does, and some of those individuals will go to great lengths to see him destroyed. When nefarious plans are put into action, Mary's fledgling trust will be tested, and fear will raise its ugly head, tempting her to retreat. Will Gabe be able to survive the onslaught and finally prove to Mary that she can trust him to protect her heart with his very life?Mary: To Protect Her Heart is the third episode in Leenie Brown's Other Pens, Mansfield Park series of books. If you like well-written stories of sweet transformation with swoon-worthy, gallant heroes and strong yet vulnerable heroines, then you will enjoy this story about overcoming the past and learning to trust.So, put the kettle on, grab your copy of Mary: To Protect Her Heart, and let Gabe and Mary's story guide you through rough seas into the welcoming safe haven of deep, enduring love.