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So what do you do when Prince charming walks into your life and you are picking up the pieces of a previous abusive relationship? You are about to be whisked into a new world, erotic, sensual, playful but once you are there, can you ever get out? For every woman who loves to please and has lost in the end this book is for you. From Rags to Riches to Rags to Success, every woman will find herself in these pages, if she has loved so deep.

When their friendship and business partnership began in the 1940s, Leona Rostenberg and Madeleine Stern were pioneers in a man's world. Now approaching their nineties, the duo, who -- among their many discoveries -- unearthed Louisa May Alcott's pseudonymous blood-and-thunder stories, remain a vibrant institution in the rare book trade, even as the Internet changes their field -- and their community -- forever.After publishing Old Books, Rare ...

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What Is What Was, " Richard Stern's fifth "orderly miscellany, " is the first to meaningfully combine his fiction and nonfiction. Stories, such as the already well-known "My Ex, the Moral Philosopher, " appear among portraits (of the sort Hugh Kenner praised as "almost the invention of a new genre"): Auden, Pound, Ellison, Terkel, W. C. Fields, Bertrand Russell, Walter Benjamin (in both essay and story), Jung and Freud, Hannah Arendt and Marti...

A guide to changing one's surroundings in side the house and in the garden to attract the elusive sprites seen frolicking and dancing in folklore of cultures as widely separated and diverse as Japan, Ireland, Spain, Denmarck, and the Americas. "To be surrounded by cheerful Folk, " writes Stern, "is to be cheerful, buoyed up by the laughter of Nature Herself.

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed w...

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The "New York Times" has called Steve Stern "a prodigiously talented writer who arrives unheralded like one of the apparitions in his own stories." The "Philadelphia Inquirer" has said, "Steve Stern is an astonishing writer." Whatever the source, the critics agree that Stern offers immense delight, and outright laughs, throughout his award-winning books. "The Wedding Jester" offers a new chance to journey to Stern's magical Jewish otherworld--...

Five years ago Jane Stern was a walking encyclopedia of panic attacks, depression, and hypochondria. Her marriage of more than thirty years was suffering, and she was virtually immobilized by fear and anxiety. As the daughter of parents who both died before she was thirty, Stern was terrified of illness and death, and despite the fact that her acclaimed career as a food and travel writer required her to spend a great deal of time on airplanes,...

This healthy collection of new poems and selections from seven previous volumes is remarkable for its generosity of spirit, manifested in a warm surrealism that is often turned with humor toward his own past as a way of understanding the recurrent questions of growing old: 'Why did it take so long / for me to get lenient? What does it mean one life / only?' " - Publishers Weekly (starred review)  "Gerald Stern's achievement is immense. In this...

Wenn im allgemeinen von Schule gesprochen wird, so zumeist, um ihre Mißerfolge zu beklagen und um Verbesserungen zu fordern. Damit bleibt verheimlicht, daß die Institution Schule an sich das Problem ist, dem selbst mit mehr Mitteln nicht beizukommen ist: Noch so gut gemeinte Maßnahmen würden lediglich in eine jener vielen Reformen münden, die das System vielmehr erhalten und erneuern. Ein ganz anderer Ansatz ergibt sich aus der Betrachtung de...

Written for anyone affected by this disease, "Facing Cancer" distills all the pertinent information about cancer including its incidence, treatment, and potential complications. This valuable resource takes a question-and-answer approach to explaining all the facets of cancer, and emphasizes the emotional aspects and the treatment experience.

Award-winning novelist Steve Stern's exhilarating epic recounts the story of how a nineteenth-century rabbi from a small Polish town ends up in a basement freezer in a suburban Memphis home at the end of the twentieth century. What happens when an impressionable teenage boy inadvertently thaws out the ancient man and brings him back to life is nothing short of miraculous.

The testimony of expert witnesses to inform courtroom decisions is critical if intelligent and just verdicts are to be reached. Few judges, jurors or lay witnesses possess the necessary knowledge to adequately understand the complexities of human behaviour as they relate to acts of interpersonal violence. While lay witnesses can testify to actual incidents or observations, it is the expert witness who can provide forensic significance to such ...

Examines career-related programmes in American secondary schools and two- year further education colleges. As well as reviewing evidence on the effectiveness of vocational coursework, this text analyses programmes involving students who study and work simultaneously, as in youth apprenticeships.

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Described as Martha Stewart meets Lady Cottswold, The Fairy Party Book offers ways to celebrate over 30 holidays and occasions with our seen and unseen guests and includes more than 35 recipes to help us welcome "the folk" to any celebration.

Much of "Unformulated Experience "concerns the pragmatic clinical consequences of taking to heart this hermeneutic perspective on experience. Stern shows how the unconscious itself can be reconceptualized hermeneutically, and he goes on to explore t

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A 1999 Village Voice Literary Supplement "Writer on the Verge" Sit back, breathe in deeply, and let Lesley Stern's sinuous words draw you into this innovative book that weaves the intimate act of smoking into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, and fulfillment.