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Brutality, defeat, loneliness, and mournful longing haunt and ignite Finn's collection with an assembly of unforgettable characters confronted by life-changing crises that force them to make impossible choices. Two brothers try to survive their father's unexpected death by protecting their widowed mother from a drunken sexual vulture at a cousin's wedding reception, the last orphan in an aging foster mother's house tries to escape the abusive ...

THE 3-MINUTE SKETCHBOOK Comic fan Michael Finn has been going to conventions for years getting "3-minute sketches." He'll toss an artist a backing board, and ask him to do a sketch in three minutes, no more. The results are often stunning and surprising. Now, The Hero Initiative has collected Michael's sketches into this great art book, featuring contributions from Neal Adams, Howard Chaykin, Steve McNiven, George Pérez, John Romita Sr. and Jr...

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This book represents a major contribution to scholarship about the links between literature, medicine and psychology through a wide-ranging examination of the pre-Freudian unconscious in the works of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century French writers including Flaubert, Maupassant and Proust.

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Why is stress management needed for women? We believe that more and more women are struggling with stress and are finding it difficult to cope with everyday life. That's why we've created this book. We believe it will provide you with insights and tools to make the changes you want in your life, not just in relation to stress but in many other areas as well. We hope this book will provide you with the tools to develop on a deeper level. Statis...

Die quirlige Show-Kuh Maggie, die vornehme Kuh-Dame Mrs Caloway und die bezaubernde Jungkuh Grace machen sich auf die Hufen, um ihre Farm zu retten. Denn der Viehdieb Alameda Slim will sich ihr Zuhause unter den raffgierigen Nagel reißen. Mit unerschrockener "Kuhpower" gewinnt das Trio dabei genauso schräge wie gute Freunde und trabt mitten in ein großes Abenteuer hinein ... Ein Kung-Fu-begeisterter Hengst, der tollpatschigste Hase aller Zeite...

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This book examines nineteenth-century debates over existence of the unconscious, demonstrating how they influence the writing of Flaubert, Proust and others.

This paper discusses inability of the human mind to comprehend and predict the environment of accelerating change in the year 2035. It explores the current state of research in the areas of Artificial Intelligence and Enhanced Human Intelligence as means of overcoming the limits of natural human cognition. The paper concludes that assisted cognition will be required and cognitive technologies will be available in 2035, but this requires cultiv...

Proust's involvement with fin-de-siecle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great novel.

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This book explores the life and fiction of the French decadent writer Rachilde (pen name of Marguerite Eymery), using her as a case study to examine the impact late nineteenth-century theories about female hysteria, medical hypnotism, mediums, and spiritualism had on the female creative psyche. Rachilde was especially vulnerable as she suffered hysterical attacks, witnessed a hypnotism craze in France, and was the only child in a family of tab...

Proust's involvement with fin-de-siecle 'hysteria', and its impact on the writing of his great novel.

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Classical Mechanics presents an updated treatment of the dynamics of particles and particle systems suitable for students preparing for advanced study of physics and closely related fields, such as astronomy and the applied engineering sciences. Compared to older books on this subject, the mathematical treatment has been updated for the study of more advanced topics in quantum mechanics, statistical mechanics, and nonlinear and orbital mechani...

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