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Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa, We Heal From Memory paints a vivid picture of how our culture carries a history of traumatic violence - child sexual abuse, the ownership and enforcement of women's sexuality under slavery, the transmission of violence through generations, and the destruction of non-white cultures and their histories through colonization. According to Cassie Premo Steele, th...

In this tour de force of scholarship and vision, Ken Wilber traces the course of evolution from matter to life to mind and describes the common patterns that evolution takes in all three of these domains. From the emergence of mind, he traces the evolution of human consciousness through its major stages of growth and development. He particularly focuses on modernity and postmodernity: what they mean, how they impact gender issues, psychotherap...

When beautiful Janet Harrison asks English professor Kate Fansler to recommend a Manhattan psychoanalyst, Kate immediately sends the girl to her dear friend and former lover, Dr. Emanuel Bauer. Seven weeks later, the girl is stabbed to death on Emanuel's couch--with incriminating fingerprints on the murder weapon. To Kate, the idea of her brilliant friend killing anyone is preposterous, but proving it seems an impossible task. For Janet had no...

In this lively and probing book, award-winning author Pete Earley traces the extraordinary evolution of Las Vegas -- from the gaudy Mecca of the Rat Pack era to one of the country's top family vacation spots. He revisits the city's checkered history of moguls, mobsters, and entertainers, reveals the real stories of well-known power brokers like Steve Wynn and legends like Howard Hughes and Bugsy Siegel, and offers a fascinating portrait of the...

In this groundbreaking book, nutritionist Joan Mathews Larson, Ph.D., founder of Minnesota's esteemed Health Recovery Center, offers her revolutionary formulas for healing your emotions--biochemically. Through proven all-natural formulas, Seven Weeks to Emotional Healing will help you find the emotional well-being you've been missing your entire life. Inside you'll discover how to - Screen yourself for emotional and behavioral symptoms- Recogn...

The return of a beloved classic, from the bestselling author of The Princess Bride!"This inventive, offbeat fable has a touch of magic about it."-Los Angeles TimesOnce upon a time, the gondoliers of Venice possessed the finest voices in all the world. But, alas, few remember those days-and fewer still were ever blessed to hear such glorious singing. No one since has discovered the secret behind the sudden silence of the golden-voiced gondolier...

Essayists survey the recent thought and research concerning outstanding authors, trends, and movements in American literature.

Chronicles the crimes of a band of desperados, with a particular focus on one, "the kid, " a boy of fourteen.

Scotland Yard's Duncan Kincaid and Gemma James face their most haunting case yet when the past devastatingly intersects with the present....The call from Scotland Yard couldn't have come at a worse time for Detective Superintendent Duncan Kincaid. He has promised the weekend to Kit, the eleven-year-old son of his ex-wife. The son he never knew he fathered -- who doesn't yet know Kincaid's true identity. But Duncan's best intentions are shatter...

Through an examination of the poetry of Anne Sexton, Audre Lorde, and Gloria Anzaldúa, We Heal From Memory paints a vivid picture of how our culture carries a history of traumatic violence - child sexual abuse, the ownership and enforcement of women's sexuality under slavery, the transmission of violence through generations, and the destruction of non-white cultures and their histories through colonization. According to Cassie Premo Steele, th...

From award-winning author Millie Criswell comes a palate-pleasing contemporary rom-com about two people with nothing in common-except their undeniable attraction."Hilarious . . . Romantic comedy has a new star and her name is Millie Criswell."-Janet EvanovichTHE TROUBLE WITH MARY IS . . .She's unemployed. Her huge Italian family is driving her crazy. Her love life is nonexistent. In fact, she needs a life! So Mary Russo decides to open a resta...

Uncompromisingly frank and unsparing, "The Cap" is an unconventional Holocaust memoir that defies all moral judgment and ventures into the darkest terrain imaginable: that of a soul blackened by the unforgiving cruelty of its surroundings.

This provocative anthology of black erotica features 18 original stories by some of the most acclaimed voices in today's black literary world--including Sapphire, Reginald Harris, and Pamela Sneed--that represent the past, present, and future of black literature at its best.

The psychological basis of the Roman Empire was a ruthless, frequently sadistic "will to power." This impulse is highly manifest in Ancient Roman attitudes towards sex. After describing women's position in Roman society, Otto Kiefer skilfully surveys the crypto-sexual satisfaction derived by Romans from a range of activities: the sadistic treatment of slaves, savage public executions involving crucifixion and the mauling of naked, unarmed pris...

The beauty, the mystery and the power of Anglo-Saxon civilization have long fascinated lovers of history and literature. Now, with this volume in the much-lauded Classics of Western Spirituality, readers are invited to discover the heart and soul of this culture-its spirituality. Extending from the mid-400's to 1066, the Norman Conquest of England, the Anglo-Saxon age demonstrated a fusion of the Christian and the pagan/heroic, rending their l...

Here is an anthology of sermons, homilies and poems written by Anglo-Saxons during the later part of their age (c. 660-1066).

The book describes the forces, history, and events that drive Klara to find the strength to leave family, comfortable traditions, homeland, and even her own language to emigrate to a new land.

This books gives guidance for doctors and other health professionals who are involved in providing health care for children and young people. The books sets out best practice guidance, and explains that children and young people should be allowed to participate in decisions about their health care to the extent they wish. It explains who can give consent to treatment on behalf of a person under 18 and when children and young people can seek he...

Practitioners of all professions recognise the need and importance of collaboration, yet many find it far from easy to achieve. One way to find help in understanding the nature and complexity of collaborative practice is to study the dynamic nature of relationships that transcend boundaries between users and professional providers, and between different professional groups. The heightened interest in new ways of working together in health and ...

Eight of the world's foremost brain scientists present the newest scientific findings about the mind-body connection and how our brains control our behavior. Includes discussions of such hot topics as the sources of depression and its treatments, the effects of stress on our brains and general health, how memory develops and false memories, the role of emotions in thinking, and how genes and environment combine to shape our personalities and t...