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Unlike health books that cover only nutrition and lifestyle factors, or books that deal with consciousness, spirituality, personal growth, and metaphysical considerations outside the realm of the physical, How We Heal addresses healing in the broadest conceivable context. It presents this whole range of topics in a coherent, comprehensive manner that introduces the novice reader to Body Electronics, iridology, sclerology, and other alternative...

Unformed Landscape begins in a small village on a fjord in the Finnmark, on the northeastern coast of Norway, where the borders between Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Russia lie covered in snow and darkness, where the real borders are between day and night, summer and winter, and between people. Here, a sensitive young woman like Kathrine finds few outlets for her desires. Half Norwegian, half Sami (an indigenous people), Kathrine works for the ...

Bad feelings are ubiquitous to human experience. Everyone deals with grief, envy, disappointment, dejection, humiliation, mortification, and anxiety. However, when we consciously push troubling feelings aside and then avoid them, we should be under no illusions that such repression empowers us to lead untroubled lives. The price that we pay, simply, is feeling less alive. Our attempts to avoid feeling pain manifest themselves in feelings of di...

Elegant, multi-layered narratives....Krall's deceptively artless prose speaks of real events with the power of fiction."--"The New York Times Book Review" In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals the surprising ways the lives of World War II survivors are shaped by the twists and turns of history. A young American architect learns Polish to communicate with his "dybbuk, " the ghost of his half brother who died in the Warsaw ghetto. A h...

With the precision of a surgeon, Peter Stamm cuts to the heart of the fragile and revealing moments of everyday life.They are bankers, students, mothers, or retirees. They live in New York City or somewhere in Switzerland, they work in London or Riga, they cross paths in a Fado bar in Lisbon. They breathe the banal routine of daily life. It is to these ordinary people that Peter Stamm grants center stage in his latest collection of short stori...

Two families, drawn together by historical events and war, must overcome deep personal loss, cultural gaps and hostility in their quest for reconciliation and peace.

Da Queen A'Sleep. Its rhythmic phrases and Biblical imagery bring rivulets of rich meaning with one overriding message: Beauty has a power to instill deep awakenings in the human heart.

The incredible true saga of the quintessence of survival: in vivid detail, the ongoing near-death encounters during the author's 14-day escape following capture, from North Korean forces.

In Canada's Changing Families, editors Kevin McQuillan and Zenaida R. Ravenera explore how these developments have altered family life.

Boost productivity and productivity with a real-world improvement model In today's economic climate, organizations are grasping for ways to improve efficiency and reach higher levels of performance without cutting into budgets. Performance Improvement Interventions: Enhancing People, Processes, and Organizations through Performance Technology is a comprehensive guide to doing more with less. From job analysis, personal development, and communi...

From its formative years to the present, advocates of various persuasions have written and spoken about the country's need for moral and civic education. Responding in part to challenges posed by B. Edward McClellan, this book offers research findings on the ideas, people, and contexts that have influenced the acquisition of moral and civic learning in the America.

A scathing comedy of social striving in the suburbs, Absurd Person Singular follows the fortunes of three couples who turn up in each other's kitchens on three successive Christmases, to hilarious and devastating effect.

One of a small group of feminist pioneers in the historical profession, Freedman in the past thirty years has produced a body of work in which scholarship and politics have never been mutually exclusive. This collection brings together eleven essays--eight previously published and three new--that document the evolving relationship between academic feminism and political feminism as Freedman has studied and lived it. Underlying the collection i...

Examining racial politics during American colonial rule in the Philippines, Kramer shows that Americans did not merely export their own racial politics on a blank slate, rather, they dispensed power on the basis of race, but often faced contentious dialogue about it with Filipino elites. He argues that in order to understand Philippine-American colonialism, it is important to consider the Spanish period of colonization that preceded it.

On 16 March 1968, two US infantry companies entered a Vietnamese village and in the course of a single morning killed over 400 of its unarmed, unresisting inhabitants . . . This is the first book to examine the response of American society to the My Lai massacre and its ambiguous place in American national memory. Kendrick Oliver argues that the massacre revelations left many Americans untroubled. It was only when the soldiers most immediately...

Chronicles the thoughts and feelings of some seventy people from widely varying backgrounds in terms of class, race and personal history all inhabitants of a single city in Chicago as a microcosm of the nation at large.

This is a revised and updated edition of a classic work on the methodology of economics.

Jacques Lacan developed his ideas in dialogue with major European thought and art. Yet what if there is another frame of reference which influenced his thinking and is crucial to its proper understanding? This book focuses on Lacan's "silent partners, " those who provide a key to Lacanian theory and discusses his work.

George and Martha's affair goes way back, before George stole the election, before Martha built an empire on fascist domesticity. As usual, George numbs his pain with cocaine and the promise of kinky sex. Later, things get worse for Martha in this story that takes a radical stand on political power and psychosexual relations between men and women.

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