Authors:Randy P Lundschien Conner, David Sparks,
Publisher: Routledge
Keywords: traditions, african, participation, inspired, americas, transgender, gay, creole, spiritual, lesbian, queering, bisexual
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 2004-03-22
List price: $50.50
ISBN-10: 1560233516
ISBN-13: 9781560233510

What roles do queer and transgender people play in the African diasporic religions? Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas is a groundbreaking scholarly exploration of this long-neglected subject. It offers clear insight into the complex dynamics of gender and sexual orientation, humans and deities, and race and ethnicity, within these richly nuanced spiritual practices. Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions explores the ways in which gender complexity and same-sex intimacy are integral to the p

Authors:Sonja L. Conner, William E. Conner,
Publisher: Fireside
Keywords: system, diet, american, new
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1992-01-15
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 067175503X
ISBN-13: 9780671755034

In their breakthrough book, The New American Diet, the Connors developed a low-fat, low-cholesterol diet that dramatically reduces the risk of heart disease, cancer, stroke, and high blood pressure. Now, the overwhelming amount of products and information about cholesterol can be confusing.The New American Diet System takes us to the next step, providing a unique system that simplifies food choices for people with high cholesterol. Since both saturated fat and cholesterol in foods increase cholesterol in the blood, the Connors developed the CSI -- the Cholesterol-Saturated Fat Index -- the onl

Author: Tom Conner
Publisher: University Press of America
Keywords: game, name, new, redux, globalization
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0761829229
ISBN-13: 9780761829225

This volume is a peer-reviewed collection of essays submitted by participants of two joint conferences on the theme of globalization. The essays collected in this volume deal with a wide variety of subjects related to globalization, ranging from the social sciences to the humanities. Globalization Redux contributes to a better understanding of globalization and its ramifications in a host of domains.

Author: Tom Conner
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: ambivalence, rebellion, politics, gide, andre
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2001-02-24
List price: $79.95
ISBN-10: 0312227086
ISBN-13: 9780312227081

At the peak of his career, after having established himself as an accomplished writer, astute moraliste, and the foremost spokesperson of his generation for personal freedom and self-realization, Gide became aware, first, that his particular brand of bourgeois individualism was becoming increasingly irrelevant in the contemporary world and, second, that social commitment and even revolution could serve as a powerful source of inspiration and self-renewal. Over a ten-year period that began in the 1920s and ended with his public break with the Soviet Union in 1936, Gide the committed intellectua

Author: Marcia L. Conner
Publisher: Wiley
Keywords: smarter, faster, learning, steps, simple, learn
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2004-02-11
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0471273902
ISBN-13: 9780471273905

How everyone can maximize his or her learning potentialWho doesn’t want to have the ability to learn more? In this revolutionary book, Marcia Conner distills her renowned learning solutions into an easy-to-use ten-step program that can help readers overcome information overload, absorb facts on the fly, and get things done faster. Filled with interactive sections, sidebars, and self-assessment quizzes, Learn More Now reveals how to listen to and trust one’s body, engage emotions, and make connections that will help readers learn more not just through study, but through experience,

Author: Nancy Conner
Publisher: O’Reilly Media
Keywords: manual, missing, ebay
Number of Pages: 439
Published: 2005-08-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 0596006446
ISBN-13: 9780596006440

It’s the undisputed king of Internet auction sites. It’s a global bazaar offering a range of goods from Antiques to Zulu Daisies. Cars, clothing, collectibles: you name it, and it’s likely that you can find on eBay. But along with the vast selection of goods available, buyers and sellers also encounter all the other elements that markets are known for: tricks and swindlers, overpriced goods, deceptive labeling, small print, recycled items marked as new, and the occasional rare priceless find or undiscovered treasure. Seasoned eBay traders know that to successfully buy and se

Author: Nancy Conner
Publisher: Pogue Pre
Keywords: manual, missing, apps, google
Number of Pages: 711
Published: 2008-05-01
List price: $39.99
ISBN-10: 0596515790
ISBN-13: 9780596515799

A free alternative to Microsoft Office? Google Apps gives you that plus plenty of bonus reasons to switch: collaborate on documents with others at the same time; whip up a Web page stocked with downloadable files; and work on it all from any Web-connected computer. About the only thing Google doesn’t offer is a guide like Google Apps: The Missing Manual--the authoritative and reader-friendly way to break free of Office. Top 14 Google Docs Tricks 1. If you install Google Gears (http://gears.google.com/), you can edit Docs word-processing documents offline, and Docs automatically syncs the