Download or read book Licking Your Wounds Assisting the Healing Process written by Charles Sommer and published by Devorss Publications. This book was released on 1992-06-01 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Our Dogs Our Selves written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ubiquity of references to dogs in medieval and early modern texts and images must at some level reflect their actual presence in those worlds, yet scholarly consideration of this material is rare and scattered across diverse sources. This volume addresses that gap, bringing together fifteen essays that examine the appearance, meaning, and significance of dogs in painting, sculpture, manuscripts, literature, and legal records of the period, reaching beyond Europe to include cultural material from medieval Japan and Islam. While primarily art historical in focus, the authors approach the subject from a range of disciplines and with varying methodology that ultimately reveals as much about dogs as about the societies in which they lived. Contributors are Kathleen Ashley, Jane Carroll, Emily Cockayne, John Block Friedman, Karen M. Gerhart, Laura D. Gelfand, Craig A. Gibson, Walter S. Gibson, Nathan Hofer, Jane C. Long, Judith W. Mann, Sophie Oosterwijk, Elizabeth Carson Pastan, Donna L. Sadler, Alexa Sand, and Janet Snyder.
Download or read book And All Our Wounds Forgiven written by Julius Lester and published by Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When John Calvin Marshall graduated from Harvard in 1956, he was prepared for a life of teaching and relative tranquility. But history had another plan for him: here, a veteran author re-envisions the Martin Luther King Jr. story in fearful, exciting, and violent terms. Political and provocative, And All Our Wounds Forgiven is both a compelling political fable and a striking and tender love story about one of this century's most charismatic black leaders and the two women he loved.
Download or read book Wild Health written by Cindy Engel and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Dr. Engel emphasizes in this "enticing, well-referenced, [and] entertaining book" (Science), we can learn a lot about human health by studying animal behavior in the wild. Indeed, some of the natural, holistic, and alternative human medicine being practiced today arose through the observation of wild animals. In this groundbreaking work, Dr. Engel points out fascinating parallels between animal and human medicine. She offers intriguing examples of how animals prevent and cure sickness and poisonings, heal open wounds, balance their diets, and regulate fertility. For instance, *chimpanzees carefully eat bitter-tasting plant "medicines" that counter intestinal parasites *elephants roam miles to find the clay they ingest to counter dietary toxins *broken-legged chicks have been known to eat analgesic foods that alleviate pain. By observing wild health we may discover (or rediscover) ways to benefit our own health. As Craig Stotlz of the Washington Post noted, this "highly readable assessment . . . triggers more outside-the-double-helix thoughts about human health than anything I've read recently."
Download or read book How Democracy Ends written by David Runciman and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How will democracy end? And what will replace it? A preeminent political scientist examines the past, present, and future of an endangered political philosophy Since the end of World War II, democracy's sweep across the globe seemed inexorable. Yet today, it seems radically imperiled, even in some of the world's most stable democracies. How bad could things get? In How Democracy Ends, David Runciman argues that we are trapped in outdated twentieth-century ideas of democratic failure. By fixating on coups and violence, we are focusing on the wrong threats. Our societies are too affluent, too elderly, and too networked to fall apart as they did in the past. We need new ways of thinking the unthinkable -- a twenty-first-century vision of the end of democracy, and whether its collapse might allow us to move forward to something better. A provocative book by a major political philosopher, How Democracy Ends asks the most trenchant questions that underlie the disturbing patterns of our contemporary political life.
Download or read book Our Daily Breach written by Dennis Patrick Slattery and published by Fisher King Press. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Our Daily Breach: Exploring Your Personal Myth Through Herman Melville’s Moby-Dickoffers both a way of understanding what has generally been called the greatest novel of the American myth while simultaneously exploring one’s own personal myth. Its added feature is that it is an interactive book in allowing reader’s to meditate on one question per page for each day of the year and to undercover many facets of one’s personal myth through cursive writing. It has been long understood that classics of literature are their own form of therapy in that they frequently tap into some of the most shared concerns of being human. This book makes such a connection between our interior life and the plot of the story through the power of mythopoiesis, namely the imaginative act of giving a formative shape to the myth we are each living in and out through the power of analogy, correspondence or accord with the classic poem. Using Melville’s epic of America, the reader may enter the deepest seas of his/her own mythic waters to realize and give language to the myth that resides in our daily plot line.
Download or read book The Fall of Two Moons written by Kipp McKenzie and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-04-24 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: His image is everything, his hormones are raging, and common sense is nowhere to be found. Combine that with his eccentric and ultraconservative family, and the stage is set for a comedic fall from grace that promises to not disappoint. The Fall of Two Moons is a fictional memoir of Steve McConnell's coming of age that will have readers begging for more uproarious and heartwarming stories. It's 1984 in the small coastal town of Portside, and Steve must juggle his ever-restless and troubled peers with his role in the conservative McConnell house, while concealing the ultimate caper from his gregarious father, the school principal. It is not an easy task living in the shadow of his seemingly perfect sister, appeasing his religiously fanatic mother, or sharing a room with his newly adopted Down syndrome brother and classmate, Andy. Steve keeps his growingly agitated father at bay from his behavioral shortcomings, his mother in the dark regarding his sexual awakening, and his peers entertained with his antics in this wildly funny tale of family, friends, and folly. Nicknamed Two Moons following an unfortunate accident of indecent exposure, Steve must stave off ridicule and bodily harm from the upper classmen and school bullies. When these same bullies are wrongfully accused of the crime Steve and his friends are responsible for, he must navigate through a web of deception that becomes increasingly tangled. Steve tries to accept his new brother, embrace his family's idiosyncrasies, and make peace with himself. He winds up in a race with time to prove his maturity to his first girlfriend, keep his friends, evade the authorities, and make amends with those left in his wake as his worlds collide in epic proportion.
Download or read book Redeeming Relationships written by Marty Trammell and published by FaithWalk Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How-to guide for resolving the most common conflicts people experience written by psychologist/pastor team
Download or read book The Pocket Book Of Wisdom written by Rajendra Pillai and published by St Pauls BYB. This book was released on with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Wounds Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth Century England written by S. Covington and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-08-31 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wounds, Flesh and Metaphor in Seventeenth-Century England explores the theme of physical and symbolic woundedness in mid-seventeenth century English literature. This book demonstrates the ways in which writers attempted to represent the politically and religiously fractured state of the time and re-imagined the nation through language and metaphor in the process. By examining the creative permutations of the wound metaphor, Covington argues for the centrality of the charged imagery, and language itself, in shaping the self-representations of an age.
Download or read book A Critical History of Dementia Studies written by James Rupert Fletcher and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-09-26 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers the first ever critical history of dementia studies. Focusing on the emergence of dementia studies as a discrete area of academic interest in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, it draws on critical theory to interrogate the very notion of dementia studies as an entity, shedding light on the affinities and contradictions that characterise the field. Drawing together a collection of internationally renowned experts in a variety of fields, including people with dementia, this volume includes perspectives from education, the arts, human rights and much more. This critical history sets out the shared intellectual space of ‘dementia studies’, from which non-medical dementia research can progress. The book is intended for researchers, academics and students of dementia studies, social gerontology, disability, chronic illness, health and social care. It will also appeal to activists and practitioners engaged in social work and caregiving involved in dementia research.
Download or read book There Is Hope Beyond the Fog written by J.H. Leander and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In most cases, fog is used in movies to entice the hairs on the back of out neck to stand on end. It warns us that evil is lurking around, ready to impart some monster from behind the darkness. We begin to cower in our seats and grasp the arms of our chair or the person sitting next to us tighter. But looking at fog, in its purpose, fog is like the wrapping paper around a gift. We don't know what's beyond the paper but with hands tearing the pieces back, we see the treasure just beyond. M.oThere is Hope Beyond the Fog is a look at a life destined for greatness, but lost in a sea of abuse, misfortune and despair. How pond scum became a self-inflicted term for one mistreated who yearned for love and normalcy and found it by holding onto the anchor of her soul and breaking through the fog.
Download or read book The Twilight of Briareus written by Richard Cowper and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2013-05-20 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the murky outskirts of our solar system, a lonely star has exploded, emitting monstrous doses of radiation . . . The year is 1983. The exploding star Briareus Delta, 132 light years away, provokes only mild interest from planet Earth. Suddenly, appalling tornadoes and storms ravage the cities and countryside, leaving death and desolation in their wake. Then mankind realises another terrifying side-effect - every adult in the world has been rendered infertile. Schoolteacher Calvin Johnson discovers he is one of the select few to have acquired strange psychic powers. Termed 'Zetas', these people experience mental flashes of the future - a future of freezing isolation, snow-swept landscapes and bleak, ice-bound cities. A second ice-age is imminent as man faces the ultimate horror . . . extinction.
Download or read book Essays from the Edge written by Roland Millington and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Out on the periphery ... you feel as though you're on your own. But in truth, you aren't. You never were, nor will you ever be. God is mindful of us, even out there. And He wants more for us than to be on the edge. He wants us front and center, fully covered in His love. Essays from the Edge is part self-help book, part workbook, and 100%% labor of love. Speaking from personal experience, author Roland Millington offers biblically based-insights and refutes common misconceptions about God, Christ and why the Lord of all creation would ever care about human beings, let alone you. If you feel as though you're alone, if you feel there is anything that could prevent you from going deeper into communion with God, then Essays from the Edge just might be the start of your walk with Christ out from the Periphery and into the deeper knowledge of God that waits for all of us.
Download or read book Bouncing Back written by Jerry L. Patterson and published by Eye On Education. This book was released on 2002 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written for principals, administrators, and educators, this book identifies seven habits of highly effective education leaders, and offers strategies and guidelines for establishing them. Major points are illustrated with case studies reflecting the experiences of elementary, middle, and high school educators. Checklists, feedback inventories, and other forms are supplied. The authors teach elementary education and educational leadership at the University of Alabama. There is no index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
Download or read book Bloody Jungle Rain written by M. J. Earle and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 505 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most compelling and thought-provoking Vietnam stories ever told begins with an explosion that seriously injures Corporal James Morrison. At first he wonders why he's lying on his back and it's raining on a sunny day. Then he realizes it isn't rain coming down, but human blood. Bloody Jungle Rain explores what happens to the reluctant Marine who was wounded in 1968. His brush with death brings Morrison to an operating room and a near-death experience that changes his life forever. The wounded Marine faces Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, depression, alcoholism and a broken marriage. Yet through his maze of problems there runs a thread of determination and the hope of finding a peaceful harbor. Sadly though, peace was difficult to find for many Vietnam veterans returning home to an unsympathetic public. This story about courage by Colorado native M.J. Earle was written to remember a childhood friend killed in Vietnam. The author says it proves that it is possible to overcome horrendous problems as long as there is faith and hope in the human heart.
Download or read book Parables of the Gospel written by Pope Gregory I and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
