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From the poems of Anne Bradstreet, Phillis Wheatley, and Emily Dickinson emerges what the author calls FemPoetiks, a discourse of female empowerment. Situating the work of these poets in their historical eras, Linda Nicole Blair considers a sampling of their poems side-by-side with a number of song lyrics by singer-songwriters Brandi Carlile, Rhiannon Giddens, and Lucinda Williams, having found commonalities of theme, motif, and language betwe...

A positive and practical approach to sibling relationships, penned by a clinical psychologist with more than 25 years experience. Based on clinical research, it provides parents with methods and strategies to help resolve issues and form lasting bonds between siblings.

Following in the footsteps of Careers in Music Librarianship (MLA, 1990), this resource examines the profession as it responds to these changes, without losing sight of the human element within it.

One of the most innovative writers in modern history, Virginia Woolf changed the landscape of fiction and challenged our notions of what it means to be human. This book explores the phenomenon of story as practiced by Woolf, interpreting her work in the context of literary Darwinism - a critical approach focusing on patterns of innate human behaviour.

I figli unici sono lupi solitari", "È abituato a comandare perché è nato per primo!", "È la cocca dei genitori, la più piccolina"... quante volte abbiamo usato o sentito stereotipi del genere? Benché si tratti di generalizzazioni che implicano sempre varie eccezioni, dietro queste "istantanee" del carattere di una persona c'è un fondo di verità che deriva dall'influenza esercitata dall'ordine in cui è nata. La psicologa clinica Linda Blair pre...

Katherine Mary Larsson, only three years old, weeps uncontrollably when neighbors find her outside her family home, a house that has just burned to the ground. The only family she knows is her mother, who is found dead inside the structure. The neighbors care for Katherine until a woman, claiming to be a social services worker, takes her away to be placed in an orphanage. Katherine becomes Mary Ross and is taken to Oak Park, Illinois, where sh...

Katherine Mary Larsson, only three years old, weeps uncontrollably when neighbors find her outside her family home, a house that has just burned to the ground. The only family she knows is her mother, who is found dead inside the structure. The neighbors care for Katherine until a woman, claiming to be a social services worker, takes her away to be placed in an orphanage. Katherine becomes Mary Ross and is taken to Oak Park, Illinois, where sh...

Parenting is probably the biggest challenge any of us will face, and yet nobody has delivered the perfect formula to us help us out. Recognising this, clinical psychologist and parenting expert Linda Blair provides an easy to follow guide to parenting that is easily adaptable to individual circumstances. In THE HAPPY CHILD, Blair divides childhood into three stages of development: infancy, preschool and starting school. She concentrates on you...

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The "boxes" and collages constructed by Joseph Cornell (1903-72) are among the most intriguing and beguiling works of art made this century. Drawing on the widest range possible of primary material and interviews, author Lindsay Blair gives us the most detailed picture yet of an artist whose boxes were built from a mass of intensely felt personal yearning, attachments, fears, and disappointments. 34 color and 90 b&w, illustrations.