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All of Us is about people in a small town in upstate New York - different, even alien, from one another, often politically at odds, yet managing to live in peace, side by side. Seen through the lens of a warm-hearted narrator with an eye for a good story and a good laugh, All of Us is a unique tribute to rural upstate New York - a funny Spoon River Anthology, a northern relative of Eudora Welty's Why I Live at the PO.

In her second book, the author digs deeper into her emotional sensitivities. She brings her readers on a more honed-in tour of her inner feelings about heartbreak, betrayal, loss and loneliness through her poetic identity of how she is growing through life changing circumstances. She has a more in-depth realization of not only who she was, but who she is becoming through her reflections in her poetic manner of thinking. The reader has a sense ...

Cohen invites readers to accompany her on a personal trip through Mexico, where she falls in love with three rich and magical places: Oaxaca, Mexico City, and San Miguel. Taxi drivers, rug weavers, jewelry makers, and new friends populate her poems with stories of their lives in Mexico.

The Author speaks very simply about her life experiences. She sees life through empathetic eyes, in almost a childlike manner. She understands that a few words may go a long way . Her readers may gain a sense of her almost philosophical mannerisms through a very brief sketch like expressionist way with wordings . Through sadness, love, brokenness and pain, the author paints for us a picture of her own personal struggle through doubt and insta...

Poetry. Esther Cohen writes with humor and joy and lots of energy. You can't help but smile when you encounter her delightful images. In her title poem, for example, you learn that she once wrote a poem and "'God Is a Tree' was the title. / Louis Savitsky didn't like it./ He asked why / I had the chutzpah / to believe I knew. / A few years later, Louis's daughter / became a Scientologist." It is those seemingly unrelated comments, presented wi...

Poetry. Women's Studies. BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG is a collection of fifty poems, some very funny and others very personal and poignant, written by the author of GOD IS A TREE AND OTHER MIDDLE-AGE PRAYERS (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2008) and The Book Doctor (fiction). Cohen has several poems about writing, but most of them are about her friends and family, about daily observations of life both in New York City and in a small village in the Ca...

Dit boek leert therapeuten hoe zij traumagerichte cognitieve gedragstherapie (TG-CGT) kunnen toepassen bij de behandeling van kinderen met traumatische stressreacties, waaronder traumatische rouw. Het is gebaseerd op onderzoek van de auteurs en ander klinisch onderzoek. Behandeling van trauma bij kinderen en adolescenten is een herziene en geactualiseerde versie van de eerdere uitgave uit 2006. Nieuw in deze editie is onder andere een hoofdst...

Emerging out of the chaos of misleading dietary information, Alchemy of Nourishment is a transformative new approach to activating the innate wisdom of your body's capacity to thrive as nature intended. Our fast-paced lifestyle, lack of time in nature, and polluted environment increase our stress levels, placing extraordinary demands on our body's ability to detoxify. Toxic overload is at the root of all disease, which can manifest as headache...

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Pain studies, both in exact sciences and in the humanities, are a fast-shifting field. This volume condenses a spectrum of recent views of pain through the lens of humanistic studies. Methodologically, the volume is an interdisciplinary study of the questions pertaining to the accessibility of pain (physical or emotional) to understanding and of the possible influence of suffering on the enhancement of knowledge in private experience or public...

Vilna, the "Jerusalem of Lithuania, " was the vibrant core of Eastern European Jewish life. Distinguished British historian, Israel Cohen, opens with the legend of the origin of Vilna in 1322 and traces the history of its Jewish community through vivid portraits of scholars, heroes, and leaders. The result is a book based on scholarship, yet full, too, of wonderful unforgettable stories.

Until recently, the cross-linguistic phenomenon of discourse markers such as the English 'oh', 'like' and 'y(ou) know' have been considered part of poor linguistic performance. This book shows that they are a mono-functional class of verbal items, whose overall function is to serve as conversation monitoring devices. Every discourse is an interaction between the various participants' models of the world, which contain a model of the ongoing co...

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Since the publication of the authoritative Treating Trauma and Traumatic Grief in Children and Adolescents, Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) has become the leading empirically supported treatment for children exposed to traumatic life events. This book - featuring a wealth of clinical examples - describes ways that TF-CBT is being applied in a range of contexts and with diverse populations. Experienced clinicians provide sp...

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Featuring a wealth of clinical examples, this book facilitates implementation of Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) in a range of contexts. It demonstrates how assessment strategies and treatment components can be tailored to optimally serve clients&

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The book is an analysis of the cultural and social functions of law, legal processes and legal rituals in late medieval Northern France.It is centered around a time and a place in which European law underwent some major transformations, from a plethora of local oral customs to a fairly coherent system of national, written customary law. In this process, law and legal procedures came to reflect a great variety of cultural traditions, ranging fr...