A Woman S Touch

A Woman's Touch is a psychological thriller about Richard Krevitz's struggle to establish normalcy, despite a childhood rife with unhealthy relationships. Richard Krevitz is a man attempting to escape his past, but whose own wife draws him back into a pattern of psychological and physical abuse. Sheryl, the very woman that Richard trusted with his heart, turns out to be a raging psychopath, and the past returns to haunt him--more scurrilous and violent than ever. To make matters worse, Richard is faced with society's inability to recognize that a woman could be so abusive, or that some women are simply evil.

Jefferson Lawrence had been accused of theft and betrayed by the woman he loved. But when his ex-wife, Paige Randall, offers him a consulting job, she also offers him a chance to prove his innocence. But if he returns to Randall Electronics and Paige, he will have to risk the new life he’s begun in order to reclaim the love he can’t live without. Contemporary Romance by Karen Toller Whittenburg; originally published by Dell Ecstasy

For centuries, women have organized, supervised, and labored in the households they ran, but only during the last hundred years or so did they begin to have a say in how homes and furnishings were designed. Now, in this richly illustrated survey of design and design movements from the 1860s to the 1980s, women gain their rightful place in the history of design. Isabelle Anscombe illuminates the contributions of women to the Arts and Crafts Movement in Britain, the Glasgow School of Art, and the Bauhaus school, and discusses the great interior decorators of the 1920s and 1930s. Drawing on original interviews and on social and art history, Anscombe shows how the textiles, tableware, and furniture created by designers such as Vanessa Bell, Sonia Delaunay, and Elsie de Wolfe revolutionized ideas about the form and function of the home. Thoroughly researched and written with both wit and authority, "A Woman's Touch" is an important addition to the literature of design. -- From publisher's description

Women learn how their unique touch can comfort those that are hurting, searching, and shattered, and shape the futures of those they love by building such attributes as integrity, self-discipline, kindness, and respect.

This book puts a finger on the nerve of culture by delving into the social life of touch, our most elusive yet most vital sense. From the tortures of the Inquisition to the corporeal comforts of modernity, and from the tactile therapies of Asian medicine to the virtual tactility of cyberspace, The Book of Touch offers excursions into a sensory territory both foreign and familiar. How are masculine and feminine identities shaped by touch? What are the tactile experiences of the blind, or the autistic? How is touch developed differently across cultures? What are the boundaries of pain and pleasure? Is there a politics of touch? Bringing together classic writings and new work, this is an essential guide for anyone interested in the body, the senses and the experiential world.

Narrative Discipleship examines the thematic and theological impact of women in the Gospel of Mark. Using narrative analysis, Aernie explores how Mark intentionally crafts the narratives of women in the Gospel to extend his portrait of discipleship. Mark portrays these women as exemplars of four key aspects of discipleship--restored life, kingdom speech, sacrificial action, and cruciformity. These portraits of discipleship provide a transformative paradigm for Mark's audience. Mark creates a portrait of narrative discipleship as a means to encourage his audience toward embodied discipleship and faithful participation in God's in-breaking kingdom.