In this uplifting and transformational book, spiritual teacher Mary Davis shares daily reflections, inspiring quotes, practices, prayers and meditations that fill your heart with encouragement, joy and inner peace. With a page for each day of the year, this gentle book will become a companion and a wise teacher that takes you on a spiritual journey of finding joy and gratitude in simple things, peace and comfort even in the midst of chaos, and a deeper love for others through kindness, compassion and service.

Written during a year of solitude in the isolation of a cabin, Mary's poetic gift with words, loving guidance, humor and heart will feed your soul and have you looking forward to each day's reading. Every Day Spirit is packed with spiritual wisdom, making it a road map to a more meaningful and fulfilling life - and a reminder to slow down and notice the blessings. It's the perfect gift for yourself...and anyone in need of inspiration, hope, comfort and wisdom.

Can a patient love win her heart?

As Isabelle Atwood's romance prospects are turning in her favor, a family scandal derails her dreams. While making a quilt for her own hope chest, Isabelle's half-sister becomes pregnant out of wedlock and Isabelle--always the unfavored daughter--becomes the family sacrifice to save face. Despite gaining the attention of a handsome rancher, her parents are pressuring her to marry a man of their choosing to rescue her sister's reputation.

A third suitor waits silently in the wings, hoping for his own chance at love. Isabelle ends up with three marriage proposals, but this only further confuses her decision.A handsome rancher, a stranger, and an unseen suitor are all waiting for an answer. Isabelle loves her sister, but will she really allow herself to be manipulated into a marriage without love? Will Isabelle capitulate and marry the man her parents wish her to, or will she rebel and marry the man they don't approve of? Or will the man leaving her secret love poems sweep her off her feet?

Can Nicole learn to be enough of a lady to snag the handsome rancher?

Washington State 1893

Nicole Waterby has lived her whole life in the hills away from town due to her grandfather's mistrust of people. But now he's passed away, and Nicole is left to care for her two younger cousins. Feeling inadequate to handle the responsibility, she heads down the mountain to fetch herself a husband. She doesn't realize women don't wear trousers, buckskins, or carry a gun. She has a lot to learn about being a lady if she's going to catch a husband. And the quilting circle is just the group of women to help her.

Rancher Shane Keegan has drifted from one location to another to find a place to belong. He longs to have a family of his own but feels doomed to live a life alone. When Nicole crosses his path, he wonders if he can have love, but he soon realizes she's destined for someone better than a saddle tramp. Even though he knows there's no future for him with the intriguing mountain girl, he still steps in to help her at every opportunity.

Will love stand a chance while both Nicole and Shane try to be people they are not?

What goes through a psychiatrist's mind as she sits with her patients and listens to them talk? How does she figure out how to help, and how does she deal with hearing about the pain of others all day every day?

In this book, you have a fly-on-the-wall chance to learn the answers to these questions, as psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Mary Davis, MD, takes you through a week in her professional life. You hear about her reflections on her patients, about how she uses her training and professional experience to decide how to help them, and about how the work changes her. You learn what goes into the practice of psychotherapy and psychiatry from the viewpoint of a practitioner with decades of experience in the field.

Critical and iconoclastic, Comrade or Brother? traces the history of the British Labour Movement from its beginnings at the onset of industrialisation through its development within a capitalist society, up to the end of the twentieth-century. Written by a leading activist in the labour movement, the book redresses the balance in much labour history writing. It examines the place of women and the influence of racism and sexism as well as providing a critical analysis of the rival ideologies which played a role in the uneven development of the labour movement.

Bleuette is a nine-year-old French girl in 1905. She is based on the French porcelain doll of the same name that debuted in a French magazine in 1905. Bleuette comes from a family of moderate means, but her class mates thinks she's from a well off family because she always has new dresses. When she's invited to a fancy birthday party by the richest girl in class, she can't wait to go and see the fancy house. But will the girl learn she is just the daughter a seamstress and withdraw the invitation?

Bleuette is based on the French porcelain doll of the same name that debuted in a French magazine in 1905. In this second book set in 1906, she turns ten. Bleuette thinks her family has forgotten her birthday. Will she even get a cake or a present? Or will the day pass right by without anyone noticing?

A WASP Goes Above the Call of Duty to Free Captive American Soldiers

Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes--the heroines of WWII.

Peggy Witherspoon, a widow, mother, and pilot flying for the Women's Airforce Service in 1944 clashes with her new reporting officer. Army Air Corp Major Howie Berg was injured in combat and is now stationed at Bolling Field in Washington D.C. Most of Peggy's jobs are safe, predictable, and she can be home each night with her three daughters--until a cargo run to Cuba alerts her to American soldiers being held captive there, despite Cuba being an ally. Will Peggy go against orders to help the men--even risk her own life?

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Will Geneviève open her heart to a love she never imagined?

Washington State 1894

Geneviève Marseille, a French socialite, has only one purpose in coming to Kamola-stopping her brother from digging up the past. She has reluctantly journeyed alone to the quaint college town in central Washington State. Kamola is so different from her beloved Paris that she is tempted to abort her mission, but the kindness of a handsome deputy tempers her desire to flee.

Deputy Montana has lived a simple life. But when a fancy French lady steps off the train and into his arms, his modest existence might not be enough anymore. Even though he's warned he can have no future with Miss Marseille because her grandparents would never accept him, he is drawn to her at every turn. Can he make himself worthy of her?

Mystery surrounds Aunt Henny. She is aunt to all but related to no one in Kamola. When a nemesis from her past arrives, she must decide whether to flee as she'd done all those years ago, or stand her ground in the town she's made her home and risk going to jail.

When secrets come out, will the lives of Geneviève, Montana, and Aunt Henny ever be the same?

Peggy Witherspoon, a widow, mother, and pilot flying for the Women's Airforce Service in 1944 clashes with her new reporting officer. Army Air Corp Major Howie Berg was injured in combat and is now stationed at Bolling Field in Washington D.C. Most of Peggy's jobs are safe, predictable, and she can be home each night with her three daughters -- until a cargo run to Cuba alerts her to American soldiers being held captive there, despite Cuba being an ally. Will Peggy go against orders to help the men, even risking her own life?

Will Cordelia abandon her calling, for love?

Cordelia Armstrong wants nothing more than to escape the social norms for her station in society that require her to look pretty and do as she is told. However, unless she can skillfully maneuver her father into giving up control of her trust fund, she might have to concede defeat-as well as her freedom-and marry. To ward off potential suitors, she puts on a giggly persona.

Every time Lamar Kesner finds a fascinating lady, her heart belongs to another. He doesn't merely want a beautiful wife. He wants an intriguing partner with intelligence and wit. Is he asking too much of any woman? When a vapid socialite is offered up as a prospective bride, he contemplates flying off in his hot air balloon instead.

Is Lamar the one to finally break the determination of Cordelia's parents to marry her off? Or will this charming bachelor fly away with her heart?

Bits and Pieces of God's Holy Word was written after meditating on the Holy Bible. It is a summary of the main issues presented in the Bible, explaining each chapter. It is designed for people who want to know the content of the Bible but may be overwhelmed with the idea of reading the Bible in its entirety.

Bits and Pieces of God's Holy Word was written after meditating on the Holy Bible. It is a summary of the main issues presented in the Bible, explaining each chapter. It is designed for people who want to know the content of the Bible but may be overwhelmed with the idea of reading the Bible in its entirety.

Sold as a multi-volume set - the individual volumes are also available for purchase.

This volume traces the history of the TGWU from its zenith in the period of the Labour Government to its nadir in 1992. It easily divides itself into two distinct periods. The first from 1974-79 saw a reforming Labour government which, recognising trade union strength, was determined to 'bring about a fundamental and irreversible shift in the balance of power and wealth in favour of working people'. It marked the zenith of the TGWU in which the union played an important role, overseeing the repeal of anti-union Industrial Relation Act, and the enactment of a raft of pro-worker legislation. But this was insufficient to sustain the 'Social Contract' between the Labour Government and the Trade Unions- leading to the 'Winter of Discontent' and the Tory election victory of 1979.

The second period, 1979-92, witnessed the nadir of the TGWU. A right wing Conservative government led by Margaret Thatcher, was determined to reverse all the gains of preceding Labour administrations. Anti-union legislation and the cruel tool of unemployment created the economic and political conditions to decimate trade unions. Defensive struggles could not stop the defeats suffered by car workers, miners, printers and dockers.

Trade union membership declined in the Thatcher years, leading to a bleak period of industrial defeat and union retrenchment, characterised by mergers and reorganisation - mitigated only by positive moves to tackle endemic racism and sexism in an attempt to involve previously disregarded women and black workers.

Marx200 examines the significance of Marxism for today's world. Leading scholars and activists from different countries - including Cuba, India and the UK - show that Marx's ideas continue to provide us with the analysis we need to understand our world today in order to change it.
The relevance of Marx's contribution to political economy is discussed, as is Marxism and the ongoing battle of ideas. John McDonnell MP, Shadow Chancellor, writes about Marxism as a force for change in the 21st century. The leader of the Indian Communist Party, Sitaram Yechury, focuses on Marx's legacy 200 years on.
Other wide-ranging topics demonstrating the relevance of Marxist ideas and approaches in the current climate include: 'neoliberalism, austerity and Marx', 'capitalism and new technology', 'Marxism and the environment', 'Marxism & Women', 'Marxism and culture' as well as 'the role of the state', 'Marxism and the present as history' and 'Populist nationalism'.
The book is based on a major international conference organised by the Marx Memorial Library to coincide with the 200th anniversary of the birth of Karl Marx on 5 May 2018.
Contents include:

INTRODUCTION

MARY DAVIS

Marx200 - The Significance of Marxism in the 21st Century

JOHN McDONNELL

Marx as a Force for Change Today

BEN FINE

Marx and Value: The Enigma Code for Contemporary Capitalism

DENISE CHRISTIE

Public before Profit

VIJAY PRASHAD

Every Form of Working-Class Activity

MARY DAVIS

Women, Class and Gender: A Marxist-Feminist Perspective

JOHN FOSTER

History and Marx's Method

ISABEL MONAL

The Battle of Ideas and the Formation of Consciousness

DAVID McLELLAN

Marx's Materialist Conception of History: New Perspectives

FRANCISCO DOMINGUEZ

Marxism and the Peculiarities of Indo-American Socialism

ALAN F BLACKWELL

Artificial Intelligence and the Abstraction of Cognitive Labour

URSULA HUWS

The Onward March of Commodification

CHRISTINE LINDEY

Being a Marxist Artist Under Capitalism

DAVID MARGOLIES

Literature and political judgment

TED BENTON

The Ecological Marx?

JOHN O'NEILL

From Socialist Calculation to Political Ecology

SITARAM YECHURY

Marxism as a force for change today

Washington State, 1893

When Lily Lexington Bremmer arrives in Kamola with her young son, she's reluctant to join the social center of her new community, the quilting circle, but the friendly ladies pull her in. She begins piecing a sunshine and shadows quilt because it mirrors her life. She has a secret that lurks in the shadows and hopes it doesn't come out into the light. Dark places in her past are best forgotten, but her new life is full of sunshine. Will her secrets cast shadows on her bright future?

Widower Edric Hammond and his father are doing their best to raise his two young daughters. He meets Lily and her son when they arrive in town and helps her find a job and a place to live. Lily resists Edric's charms at first, but finds herself falling in love with this kind, gentle man and his two darling daughters. Lily has stolen his heart with her first warm smile, but he's cautious about bringing another woman into his girls' lives due to the harshness of their own mother.

Can Edric forgive Lily her past to take hold of a promising chance at love?

Sylvia Pankhurst was a tireless activist for a variety of radical causes, including women's suffrage, labour movements and international solidarity campaigns. She made pioneering contributions to gender and class politics, revolutionary communist politics and the struggles against imperialism, racism and fascism. In addition, Pankhurst founded and edited four newspapers, and wrote and published twenty-two books, and numerous pamphlets and articles. In this biography, Mary Davis provides a much-needed reappraisal of a woman whose contribution to a wide variety of causes is too often marginalised or overlooked, whether as the employer of the first black journalist in Britain - the activist and writer Claude McKay - or as an early campaigner for pan-Africanism. Pankhurst's changing affiliations and commitments - from her early suffragette activities, though her involvement with disenfranchised and impoverished women in London's East End, to her passionate embrace of the Soviet revolution, the cause of communism worldwide and the fight against imperialism and fascism - mirror the history of radical politics in the twentieth century. Mary Davis's lucid and accessible account of Pankhurst's political life restores a remarkable woman to her rightful place in twentieth-century history.

An Honorable Life in a Challenging World. . . Born in the segregated deep South, Mary Davis grew up in a world where she was unwelcome, except in the black community. Even as a child, she was unwilling to accept the idea that she was inferior in any way-and her life journey has been a continual testament to her remarkable capacity for achievement, integrity, and honesty. From the cotton fields to boot camp barracks, from pursuing educational goals to seeking justice in her own home town as a private citizen, from rejecting racism aimed at her parents to standing up for her rights against continuing prejudice, Mary has always provided an example of diligence and honor. Travel with her from the Jim Crow laws to a new world in the US Army, and then back again to the outdated attitudes of the deep South...and stand with her as she faces life on her own uncompromising terms.

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This is the complete collection of six paperback volumes on the history of the Transport & General Workers' Union (now called UNITE), from 1880 to 2010. The history of the TGWU is the core of this collection, with a significant emphasis on the union's regions, as well as several key themes, such as equality, internationalism, the wider labour movement, and its attitude to the conflict between capital and labour.