In this eagerly anticipated new work, the author of the classic Psychoanalysis and Feminism argues that we must reclaim hysteria to have a full understanding of the human condition.
With the death of Penelope Fitzgerald this year, the literary world lost one of its finest, most original, and most beloved authors. Fitzgerald began her writing career at age sixty and wrote eight remarkable novels in rapid succession over the next twenty years. Completed just before her death, THE MEANS OF ESCAPE is Fitzgerald's first new book since the best-selling THE BLUE FLOWER. Never before have her short stories been collected in book ...
Tia Chucha Press continues its commitment to new writers with this first collection of poems by Ann-Marie Cusac -- an edgy, meticulously written exploration with intense focus on the experience and the voices of women.
Formerly published by Zephyr PressLearn how to use visual note-taking as a teaching strategy through stroke-by-stroke exercises that demonstrate the process of paring down thoughts into key words, pictures, and simple iconic figures. The authors show how this technique for capturing information can be used for curriculum planning and group processes or for personal self-expression.
Lisbon stands alone as the last city on the western edge of Europe, a capital and port rich with a history of exploration and discovery, and immersed in dreams of its maritime past. Paul Buck explores this seven-hilled city with an emphasis on literature and the arts. Maps and line drawings.
Basado en recientes investigaciones de gran relevancia, con mas de 500 nuevas referencias y la inclusion de nuevos aspectos importantes, Psicologia de la Salud: Introduccion al comportamiento y la salud, de Brannon y Feist le ofrece una vision equilibrada de esta interesan-te disciplina de constante evolucion. Los autores proponen un enfoque critico sobre asuntos controvertidos de esta materia, ayudandole a comprender como se realizan importan...
Offering a practical learning program for instructors to bring a little movie magic into the classroom, this guide begins with the very basics of video technology and equipment and introduces the basic skills and terminology needed to teach video production. Kids will learn valuable critical analysis skills from discussing a favorite TV show to eventually evaluating their own video productions. Topics include scripts, storyboards, preproductio...
Es un tratado dirigido a médicos, enfermeros, fisioterapeutas, licenciados en educación física. profesores de educación física, deportistas y personas interesadas en el tema. Los contenidos se han estructurado de tal forma que, aunque el contenido de los capítulos específicos aborda las distintas lesiones y enfermedades con profundidad, el desarrollo de los temas se apoya en los conceptos morfológicos y fisiológicos básicos.
The most revealing and touching passages written during the American Civil War are found in letters exchanged by loved ones. The letters of South Carolina Cavalryman James Michael Barr to his wife Rebecca offer an excellent example. Barr enlisted as a private in the 5th S.C. Cavalry Regiment in January 1863, just as the fortunes of war began to turn against the South. After serving more than a year in its native state--away from the great batt...
This is the book that restarted the James Dean cult by celebrating him as the cool, defiant visionary of pop culture who made adolescence seem heroic instead of awkward and who defined the style of rock 'n' roll's politics of delinquency. The only book to fully show how deliberately and carefully Dean crafted his own image and performances, and the product of still unequalled research, vivid writing, intimate photographs, and profound meditati...
A father's prayer for his family to understand the deeper meaning of our Christmas celebrations becomes a reality during the search for a perfect Christmas tree. The family discovers the meaning behind one of their favorite Christmas traditions in The Legend of the Christmas Tree.
This collection includes four soft cover editions of the bestselling "Left Behind" series. Collection I consists of books 5-8. "Left Behind" products have sold more than 40 million copies and continue to be a national phenomena.
These accounts of Crow, Lakota, and Cheyenne leaders and warriors who triumphed at Little Bighorn offer the only firsthand picture of what happened on the fateful day of "Custer's Last Stand" in which Custer and more than 250 troopers perished.
With Leap, Terry Tempest Williams, award-winning author of Refuge, " offers a sustained meditation on passion, faith, and creativity-based upon her transcendental encounter with Hieronymus Bosch's medieval masterpiece The Garden of Delights. Williams examines this vibrant landscape with unprecedented acuity, recognizing parallels between the artist's prophetic vision and her own personal experiences as a Mormon and a naturalist. Searing in its...
Whether you conclude that this book is the most alarming heresy of the millennium or the mother of all revelations, The Jesus Mysteries deserves to be read."-- Fort Worth Star -Telegram What if . . .* there were absolutely no evidence for the existence of a historical Jesus?* for thousands of years Pagans had also followed a Son of God?* this Pagan savior was also born of a virgin on the twenty-fifth of December before three shepherds, turned ...
Follow ten-year-old Joe Joe Rawlings as he faces contemporary challenges with guidance gleaned from a rich cast of historical characters in this book written around Christian themes for African-American children ages six to ten.
The humanist has four leading characteristics-curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and a belief in the human race-and all four are present in Gide. . . . The humanist of our age." -E. M. ForsterA Penguin ClassicIn The Immoralist, André Gide presents the confessional account of a man seeking the truth of his own nature. The story's protagonist, Michel, knows nothing about love when he marries the gentle Marceline out of duty to his fat...
