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Joanna Hogg (Contemporary Film Directors)
by Shonni EnelowFilms like The Eternal Daughter and the diptych The Souvenir and The Souvenir Part II have cemented Joanna Hogg’s reputation as an original voice in contemporary cinema. Her rigorous and quiet style draws on the histories of film and art to tell stories that weave autobiography with studies in human opacity. Shonni Enelow analyzes Hogg’s six feature films around the concepts of turning away, the reality effect, and the impossible encounter. Throughout, Enelow explores the tension between absorption, in which characters are immersed in a diegetic fiction, and self-reflexivity, as the filmmaker comments on her techniques of representation. An in-depth interview with Hogg delves into the director’s process, approach to creating character, and use of artistic and literary references. Sophisticated and innovative, Joanna Hogg illuminates the work of one of today’s most original filmmakers.
Joanna's Highlander: A Highland Protector Novel (Highland Protectors #2)
by Maeve GreysonPresent-day North Carolina sings with the passions of the Scottish Highlands as a fiery, time-traveling Celtic warrior takes a stubborn tour guide for a wild ride. Haunted by lost love, Grant MacDara still dreams of tenth-century Scotland. Nothing can soothe his aching heart—until a sharp-tongued, redheaded beauty leads a tour of senior citizens through his family’s North Carolina theme park, Highland Life and Legends. Though she’s the polar opposite of the lass he left behind, Joanna Martin is the most irresistible woman Grant has ever met. But when he decides that she’s worth the risk of loving again, he tries so hard to hold her close that she nearly slips through his fingers. Forced out of her job as a pharmaceutical sales rep by a conniving ex, Joanna is trying to make the best of her quiet new life. But one glimpse of Grant—who wields an ancient hammer like it’s just another appendage of his chiseled body—convinces Joanna not to give up on love. The one thing she can’t do is outrun her past as a loser magnet. And although Grant seems to be the last honorable man left on earth, this mouthwatering stud needs a crash course in twenty-first-century women before Joanna can trust him with her heart.
Joanna: The Notorious Queen of Naples, Jerusalem and Sicily
by Nancy GoldstoneThe exceptionally dramatic and previously unchronicled life of the medieval queen Joanna I.On 15 March 1348, Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for her life before the pope and his court in Avignon. She was 22 years old. Her cousin and husband, Prince Andrew of Hungary, had recently been murdered, and Joanna was the chief suspect. Determined to defend herself, Joanna won her acquittal against enormous odds. Returning to Naples, she ruled over one of Europe's most prestigious and enlightened courts for more than thirty years - until she was herself murdered. As courageous as Eleanor of Aquitaine, as astute and determined as Elizabeth I, Joanna was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own right. The taint of her husband's death never quite left her, but she was also widely admired. Dedicated to the welfare of her subjects and her realm, she reduced crime, built hospitals and churches, and encouraged the licensing of women physicians. But the turmoil of her times swirled around her: war, plague, intrigue and the treachery that would ultimately bring her down. Nancy Goldstone brings one of history's most remarkable women to life in this impeccably researched and captivating portrait of medieval royalty.
Job (Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture #6)
by Marco Conti Manlio SimonettiThe book of Job presents its readers with a profound drama concerning innocent suffering. Such honest, forthright wrestling with evil and the silence of God has intrigued a wide range of readers, both religious and nonreligious. Surprisingly, the earliest fathers showed little interest in the book of Job. Not until Origen in the early third century is there much evidence of any systematic treatment of the book, and most of Origen's treatment is known to us only from the catenae. More intense interest came at the end of the fourth century and the beginning of the fifth. The excerpts in this collection focus on systematic treatment. Among Greek texts are those from Origen, Didymus the Blind, Julian the Arian, John Chrysostom, Hesychius of Jerusalem and Olympiodorus. Among Latin sources we find Julian of Eclanum, Philip the Priest and Gregory the Great. Among Syriac sources we find Ephrem the Syrian and Isho'dad of Merv, some of whose work is made available here for the first time in English. In store for readers of this volume is once again a great feast of wisdom from the ancient resources of the church.
Job Satisfaction in Social Services
by David A. WilliamsonFirst published in 1996, this research study explores the job satisfaction in the social and human care workers . Previous job satisfaction research has not been ignored in this area, but that those in the mainstream of job satisfaction research in sociology have been engaged for years in the construction of models of satisfaction built almost entirely on data from business and industry.
Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising: Job’s Body and the Dramatized Comedy of “Advice” (Routledge Studies in the Biblical World)
by Katherine E. SouthwoodThis book focuses on the expressions used to describe Job’s body in pain and on the reactions of his friends to explore the moral and social world reflected in the language and the values that their speeches betray. A key contribution of this monograph is to highlight how the perspective of illness as retribution is powerfully refuted in Job’s speeches and, in particular, to show how this is achieved through comedy. Comedy in Job is a powerful weapon used to expose and ridicule the idea of retribution. Rejecting the approach of retrospective diagnosis, this monograph carefully analyses the expression of pain in Job focusing specifically on somatic language used in the deity attack metaphors, in the deity surveillance metaphors and in the language connected to the body and social status. These metaphors are analysed in a comparative way using research from medical anthropology and sociology which focuses on illness narratives and expressions of pain. Job's Body and the Dramatised Comedy of Moralising will be of interest to anyone working on the Book of Job, as well as those with an interest in suffering and pain in the Hebrew Bible more broadly.
Job, Boethius, and Epic Truth
by Ann W. AstellCalling into question the common assumption that the Middle Ages produced no secondary epics, Ann W. Astell here revises a key chapter in literary history. She examines the connections between the Book of Job and Boethius' s Consolation of Philosophy—texts closely associated with each other in the minds of medieval readers and writers—and demonstrates that these two works served as a conduit for the tradition of heroic poetry from antiquity through the Middle Ages and into the Renaissance. As she traces the complex influences of classical and biblical texts on vernacular literature, Astell offers provocative readings of works by Dante, Chaucer, Spenser, Malory, Milton, and many others.Astell looks at the relationship between the historical reception of the epic and successive imitative forms, showing how Boethius's Consolation and Johan biblical commentaries echo the allegorical treatment of" epic truth" in the poems of Homer and Virgil, and how in turn many works classified as "romance" take Job and Boethius as their models. She considers the influences of Job and Boethius on hagiographic romance, as exemplified by the stories of Eustace, Custance, and Griselda; on the amatory romances of Abelard and Heloise, Dante and Beatrice, and Troilus and Criseyde; and on the chivalric romances of Martin of Tours, Galahad, Lancelot, and Redcrosse. Finally, she explores an encyclopedic array of interpretations of Job and Boethius in Milton's Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, and Samson Agonistes.
Job: Interpretation (A Bible Commentary for Teaching and Preaching)
by J. Gerald JanzenIn this volume, J. Gerald Janzen examines the text of the book of Job as a literary text within the context of the history of the religion of Israel and within the broader context of the universal human condition. He approaches the basic character of the book from a literary perspective which enables him to identify human existence as exemplified in Job and to expound on the mystery of good and evil, which gives human existence its experiential texture and which together drive humans to ask the same kind of questions asked by Job. This is the first full-length commentary to present Job systematically and literarily.
Jobs and Justice
by Carmela PatriasDespite acute labour shortages during the Second World War, Canadian employers--with the complicity of state officials--discriminated against workers of African, Asian, and Eastern and Southern European origin, excluding them from both white collar and skilled jobs. Jobs and Justice argues that, while the war intensified hostility and suspicion toward minority workers, the urgent need for their contributions and the egalitarian rhetoric used to mobilize the war effort also created an opportunity for minority activists and their English Canadian allies to challenge discrimination.Juxtaposing a discussion of state policy with ideas of race and citizenship in Canadian civil society, Carmela K. Patrias shows how minority activists were able to bring national attention to racist employment discrimination and obtain official condemnation of such discrimination. Extensively researched and engagingly written, Jobs and Justice offers a new perspective on the Second World War, the racist dimensions of state policy, and the origins of human rights campaigns in Canada.
Jobs for the Girls: How We Set Out to Work in the Typewriter Age
by Ysenda Maxtone GrahamA unique take on women's history from the bestselling author of British Summer Time BeginsDrawn from real life, from interviews with women from all sections of society who have ever had a job, this book is a portrait of British women's working lives from 1950, through cardigans and pearls, via mini-skirts and bottom-pinching, to shoulder pads and the ping of the first emails (early 1990s), never forgetting overalls, aprons and uniforms.Graham conveys the full range of experience: to convey the flavour and atmosphere of workplaces in all their character: the jollities as well as the drudgeries, the good men as well as the vile ones, the nasty women as well as the heroines, the office crushes and romances, the daily drudgery, the lunch hours, the parties, the great piles of paper all over the place, the family-feel of workplaces, the daily burden of trying to run a household and family as well: in short, to look at all facets of this rich slice of British life.
Jobs with Justice: 25 Years, 25 Voices
by Larry CohenThrough a series of interviews and essays, this compendium gives voice to the community, labor, immigrant, student, and faith activists that have built Jobs with Justice (JwJ). The book speaks on both the core principles of the organization for workers' rights and the experiences since its founding in 1987. Though the discussion reflects on the last 25 years of the JwJ coalition, it also looks openly and optimistically at the next 25. It includes the perspectives of longtime national leaders, like founder Larry Cohen, newcomers like Ai-Jen Poo of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and the locally based, working-class men and women who have built JwJ from the ground up.
Joc de Trons (Cançó de gel i foc #Volumen 1)
by George R.R. MartinEl primer llibre de la sèrie «Cançó de gel i foc» inicia l'epopeia més gran de l'edat moderna. Reis i reines, cavallers i renegats, mentiders, senyors i homes honestos. Tots jugaran al Joc de Trons. Els estius s'allarguen durant dècades. L'hivern pot durar tota la vida. I la lluita pel Tron de Ferro ha començat. S'estén des del sud, on la calor engendra conspiracions, luxúria i intrigues, al vast i gèlid nord, on un mur de gel de set-cents peus d'alçada protegeix el regne de les forces de la foscor que es troben més enllà. El Joc de Trons.Guanyaràs o moriràs.
Jockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians
by John McCusker Shane LiefJockomo: The Native Roots of Mardi Gras Indians celebrates the transcendent experience of Mardi Gras, encompassing both ancient and current traditions of New Orleans. The Mardi Gras Indians are a renowned and beloved fixture of New Orleans public culture. Yet very little is known about the indigenous roots of their cultural practices. For the first time, this book explores the Native American ceremonial traditions that influenced the development of the Mardi Gras Indian cultural system. Jockomo reveals the complex story of exchanges that have taken place over the past three centuries, generating new ways of singing and speaking, with many languages mixing as people’s lives overlapped. Contemporary photographs by John McCusker and archival images combine to offer a complementary narrative to the text. From the depictions of eighteenth-century Native American musical processions to the first known photo of Mardi Gras Indians, Jockomo is a visual feast, displaying the evolution of cultural traditions throughout the history of New Orleans. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Mardi Gras Indians had become a recognized local tradition. Over the course of the next one hundred years, their unique practices would move from the periphery to the very center of public consciousness as a quintessentially New Orleanian form of music and performance, even while retaining some of the most ancient features of Native American culture and language. Jockomo offers a new way of seeing and hearing the blended legacies of New Orleans.
Jocks in the Jungle: The History of the Black Watch in India
by Gordon Thorburn"In 1943, there was no thought of good times for two battalions of Scottish soldiers. For them, India meant a new and unimaginably arduous kind of training. Some of the Black Watch boys had seen action in Somaliland, Crete and Tobruk. Some of the Cameronians had fought the Japs in the Burma retreat. Even for these, such training was trial by ordeal. Many more of the Jocks were new, just shipped out from Scotland, but all of them were ordinary men, men from the towns and villages whod taken the Kings shilling in their countrys peril. These were first-class British infantry, but not the super-selected special forces types that we know today. Nevertheless, it was a special-forces job they were supposed to do and that is what they were called, Special Force. The challenge in Madhya Pradesh was to turn themselves into jungle fighters as good as the Japanese. They had a few short months to become Chindits. The two brigades they joined numbered 7,677 officers and men going into the jungle, of whom 531 were killed, captured or missing, and around 1,600 were wounded. By the end, some 3,800 were too sick to fight. Only 1,754 could be classified as 'effective' when they came out and, in truth, half of those were fit for no more than a hospital bed. It was a miracle anybody survived at all. And that was just two of the five brigades that went in. Was this the greatest medical disaster of World War Two? Who caused it? This new book has the answers."
Jodie e la tessera della biblioteca (Le avventure di Jodie Broom #1)
by Julie HodgsonUn’appassionante avventura in giro per il tempo e per la storia. Vincitore del Readers’ Favorite Award. Jodie Broom è una ragazza di 12 anni (quasi 13!). Come la maggior parte delle ragazze della sua età, ama la musica, i suoi amici, ed è sempre pronta per una nuova avventura. Ma ciò che adora più di ogni altra cosa sono i libri. Legge e colleziona qualunque testo possa soddisfare la sua fame di storie, personaggi e informazioni. Purtroppo, Jodie vive nel 2075. Sono passati ormai cinquant’anni da quando i libri sono stati dichiarati illegali, insieme a ogni altro oggetto cartaceo. In questo mondo digitale, le esperienze sono in larga parte simulate, dal cibo sintetico allo zoo che mostra solo filmati di specie estinte. Grazie alla sua tessera della biblioteca, che le permette di viaggiare nel tempo, Jodie scopre di poter assistere a eventi storici memorabili e incontrare personaggi leggendari, riportando di volta in volta a casa libri preziosi da aggiungere alla sua collezione segreta. Ma i viaggi nel tempo hanno anche i loro rischi… Accompagnata dai suoi amici, Jodie si imbarcherà nell’avventura più incredibile della sua vita, fra momenti emozionanti e continui colpi di scena.
Jodie e o cartão da biblioteca
by Julie Hodgson Thamires Silva AraujoJodie Broom, uma garota de 12 anos (quase 13!), é como quase todas as garotas da idade dela. Ela ama seus amigos, música e está sempre pronta para uma boa aventura. O que ela valoriza acima de tudo são os livros e ela só pensa neles, lendo e colecionando tudo o que ela pode para satisfazer sua apetite voraz por histórias, fatos e História. Mas Jodie vive no ano de 2075, e mais de cinquenta anos passaram desde que livros e papel foram proibidos; é uma época em que ninguém pode ter um livro e nem mesmo fotografias impressas. Nesse e-Mundo, as experiências são amplamente simuladas, desde os alimentos reconstituídos até o zoológico que só mostra filmes de todas as espécies extintas. Com seu cartão da biblioteca de estudante, que dá a ela a habilidade de viajar no tempo, Jodie descobre que ela e seus amigos podem presenciar eventos históricos e encontrar personagens legendários. Ela também descobre que pode encontrar e levar para casa seus preciosos livros e mantê-los em segurança em seu esconderijo secreto.
Jodie et la carte de la bibliothèque (Jodie Broom #1)
by Julie HodgsonJodie Broom, une fille de 12 ans (presque 13 ans!), Ressemble à la plupart des filles de son âge. Elle aime ses amis, la musique et est toujours prête pour une bonne aventure. Ce qu’elle aime par-dessus tout, ce sont les livres et elle est consumée par eux, lisant et rassemblant tout ce qu’elle peut pour satisfaire son appétit vorace pour des récits, des faits et l'histoire. Mais Jodie vit en 2075 et plus de cinquante ans se sont écoulés depuis l’interdiction des livres et du papier; c'est un temps où personne ne peut posséder un livre imprimé, ni même imprimer des photographies. Dans ce monde virtuel, les expériences sont largement simulées, de la nourriture reconstituée au zoo qui ne montre que des films de toutes les espèces éteintes. Grâce à sa carte d'étudiant, qui lui permet de voyager dans le temps, Jodie découvre qu'elle et ses amis peuvent vivre des événements historiques et rencontrer des personnages légendaires. Elle peut également retrouver et ramener chez elle ses précieux livres afin de les protéger dans sa cachette secrète.
Jodie y la Tarjeta de Biblioteca
by Betty Serrano Julie HodgsonJodie Broom, una jovencita de 12-años (¡casi 13!), es como la mayoría de las jovencitas de su edad. Ama a sus amigos, su música, y siempre lista para una aventura. Lo que más atesora sobre todas las cosas son sus libros y los necesita, leer y coleccionar todo lo necesario para satisfacer su apetito voraz de leer cuentos, hechos, e historia. Pero Jodie vive en el año 2075, y más de cincuenta años han pasado desde la prohibición de los libros y el papel impreso; es una época donde nadie puede tener un libro impreso, o imprimir fotografías. En este E-mundo, las experiencias son ampliamente simuladas, desde la comida reconstituida hasta el zoológico que solamente muestra filmaciones de las especies de animales en peligro de desaparecer. Con su tarjeta de biblioteca, tiene la habilidad de viajar en el tiempo, y Jodie descubre que ella y sus amigos pueden experimentar eventos en la historia y conocer personajes legendarios, y pueden también encontrar y traer consigo libros valiosos y guardarlos en un lugar secreto y asegurarse de tenerlos a salvo.
Jodie's Little Secrets
by Joanna WayneSECRET DADDYJodie Gahagen was content being a single mom to her twin baby boys. But her ordered life was shattered by a stalker whose threat sent her packing home-with her bags and more than a couple of secrets.She'd told the town her "husband" couldn't make it, that things were fine whenever she overreacted. Except there was no avoiding Ray Kostner-the one man she couldn't deny. He read her instinctively, knew she was hiding the truth...and that she still loved him. But Ray never guessed he was a father.Now the stalker didn't have a chance.
Joe Biden's Delaware (History & Guide)
by Dan Shortridge"Delaware will be written on my heart." In 1972, a young Delaware attorney made an audacious bet, challenging the state's most formidable politician in a race for the US Senate. Joe Biden won that election at age twenty-nine, but weeks later, his wife and daughter died in a car crash that also injured his two sons. This is the story of Delaware's preeminent political leader, his family and their journey over the decades since. From the Charcoal Pit to the Hotel DuPont, St. Joseph's on the Brandywine to the Wilmington train station, these tales reveal Joe Biden's deep roots in Delaware and how they helped carry him to the White House. Author Dan Shortridge examines Biden family lore and traces the history of the institutions that shaped their lives and the First State.
Joe Biden: Our 46th President
by Beatrice GormleyA biography of Joe Biden, the 46th President of the United States: from childhood through the Senate to his election as vice president and, in 2020, as president.The road to the presidency of the United States was a long—and determined—one for Joseph Robinette Biden, Jr. From Joe&’s childhood in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware, his close-knit, devoted family gave him the foundation that would guide him through life. His family&’s unwavering support bolstered Joe when he was bullied for stuttering, attended law school, and became a public defender. They encouraged Joe when he pursued a career in politics and became the sixth youngest senator in US history. They consoled him when he suffered the devastating loss of his first wife and baby daughter and years later the death of his eldest son, Beau. And they cheered Joe when he served two vice presidential terms with President Barrack Obama. After a lifetime marked by perseverance, integrity, and accomplishment, Joe Biden and running mate, Kamala Harris, won the 2020 presidential election. And standing by his side each and every step of the way was his wife Jill, his children, and his grandchildren—his family.
Joe Black: More than a Dodger
by Martha Jo Black Chuck SchoffnerHe was told that the color of his skin would keep him out of the big leagues, but Joe Black worked his way up through the Negro Leagues and the Cuban Winter League. He burst into the Majors in 1952 when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the face of segregation, verbal harassment, and even death threats, Joe Black rose to the top of his game; he earned National League Rookie of the Year and became the first African American pitcher to win a World Series game. With the same tenacity he showed in his baseball career, Black became the first African American vice president of a transportation corporation when he went to work for Greyhound. In this first-ever biography of Joe Black, his daughter Martha Jo Black tells the story not only of a baseball great who broke through the color line, but also of the father she knew and loved.
Joe DiMaggio: The Long Vigil
by Jerome CharynAs the New York Yankees' star centerfielder from 1936 to 1951, Joe DiMaggio is enshrined in America's memory as the epitome in sports of grace, dignity, and that ineffable quality called "class." But his career after retirement, starting with his nine-month marriage to Marilyn Monroe, was far less auspicious. Writers like Gay Talese and Richard Ben Cramer have painted the private DiMaggio as cruel or self-centered. Now, Jerome Charyn restores the image of this American icon, looking at DiMaggio's life in a more sympathetic light. DiMaggio was a man of extremes, superbly talented on the field but privately insecure, passive, and dysfunctional. He never understood that for Monroe, on her own complex and tragic journey, marriage was a career move; he remained passionately committed to her throughout his life. He allowed himself to be turned into a sports memorabilia money machine. In the end, unable to define any role for himself other than "Greatest Living Ballplayer," he became trapped in "a horrible kind of minutia. "But where others have seen little that was human behind that minutia, Charyn in Joe DiMaggio presents the tragedy of one of American sports' greatest figures.
Joe Gould's Teeth
by Jill LeporeFrom New Yorker staff writer and Harvard historian Jill Lepore, the dark, spellbinding tale of her restless search for the long-lost, longest book ever written, a century-old manuscript called "The Oral History of Our Time." Joe Gould, a madman, believed he was the most brilliant historian of the twentieth century. So did some of his friends, a group of modernist writers and artists that included E. E. Cummings, Marianne Moore, William Carlos Williams, John Dos Passos, and Ezra Pound. Gould began his life's work before the First World War, announcing that he intended to write down nearly everything anyone ever said to him. "I am trying to preserve as much detail as I can about the normal life of every day people," he explained, because "as a rule, history does not deal with such small fry." By 1942, when The New Yorker published a profile of Gould written by the reporter Joseph Mitchell, Gould's manuscript had grown to more than nine million words. But when Gould died in 1957, in a mental hospital, the manuscript was nowhere to be found. Then, in 1964, in "Joe Gould's Secret," a second profile, Mitchell claimed that "The Oral History of Our Time" had been, all along, merely a figment of Gould's imagination. Lepore, unpersuaded, decided to find out. Joe Gould's Teeth is a Poe-like tale of detection, madness, and invention. Digging through archives all over the country, Lepore unearthed evidence that "The Oral History of Our Time" did in fact once exist. Relying on letters, scraps, and Gould's own diaries and notebooks--including volumes of his lost manuscript--Lepore argues that Joe Gould's real secret had to do with sex and the color line, with modernists' relationship to the Harlem Renaissance, and, above all, with Gould's terrifying obsession with the African American sculptor Augusta Savage. In ways that even Gould himself could not have imagined, what Gould wrote down really is a history of our time: unsettling and ferocious.From the Hardcover edition.
Joe Hill: A Biographical Novel
by Wallace StegnerBlending fact with fiction in this masterful historical novel, National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize winner Wallace Stegner retells the story of Joe Hill--the Wobbly bard who became the stuff of legend when, in 1915, he was executed for the alleged murder of a Salt Lake City businessman. Organizer, agitator, "Labor's Songster"--a rebel from the skin inwards, with an absolute faith in the One Big Union--Joe Hill fought tirelessly in the frequently violent battles between organized labor and industry. But though songs and stories still vaunt him, and his legend continues to inspire those who feel the injustices he fought against, Joe Hill may not have been a saintly crusader and may have been motivated by impulses darker than the search for justice. Joe Hill is a full-bodied portrait of both the man and the myth: from his entrance into the short-lived Industrial Workers of the World union, the most militant organization in the history of American labor, to his trial, imprisonment, and final martyrdom. His famous last words: "Don't waste time mourning. Organize."