Dorothy Parker was an American poet and satirist, best known for her wit, wisecracks, and eye for 20th century urban foibles. From a conflicted and unhappy childhood, Parker rose to acclaim, both for her literary output in such venues as The New Yorker and as a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. Following the breakup of the circle, Parker traveled to Hollywood to pursue screenwriting. Her successes there, including two Academy Award nominations, were curtailed as her involvement in left-wing politics led to a place on the infamous Hollywood blacklist. Parker went through three marriages (two to the same man) and survived several suicide attempts, but grew increasingly dependent on alcohol. Dismissive of her own talents, she deplored her reputation as a "wisecracker". Nevertheless, her literary output and reputation for her sharp wit have endured.
Marketing, office planning, networking, managed care, legal liability. These are probably not the words that encouraged your decision to pursue a career in the field of mental health. Before practicing the clinical aspects of therapy, most mental health professionals must first deal with the business of therapy. Independent Practice for the Mental Health Professional, co-written by a veteran therapist and a therapist just beginning in her practice, offers the information needed to balance the demands of running a business along with being a therapist. Based on Joan Beigel and Ralph Earle's previous work, Successful Private Practice in the 1990s, this book offers specific tools for building a successful private practice for the next century. Independent Practice for the Mental Health Professional provides the reader with the experience and time-tested lessons of one author who has been in practice since 1971. At the same time, the co-author, who began her practice in May 1998, addresses the thoughts and concerns of those therapists soon to enter, or thinking about entering, private practice. In this book, readers will learn · the pros and cons of going solo or joining a group practice · the legal issues connected to running a private practice · how to market themselves as well as their practice · how to arrange physically their office, manage personnel, and collect fees · how to maintain a thriving practice in the age of managed care The authors provide worksheets and examples of successful planning for the growth of a practice. When combined with hard work and a business-minded attitude, these techniques can be a recipe for success. As a result, this book is a valuable resource for therapists thinking about entering private practice, and beginning and experienced therapists hoping to improve their own practice.
Healing Conversations is the story of Dorothy Barnes' journey through therapy. Anger, painful memories, and her inability to trust in others were part of her voyage. But with God as her companion, it was a journey into hope for Dorothy.
Here are two acclaimed memoirs in one remarkable volume. In an extraordinarily compelling voice, Dorothy Gallagher tells stories taking us from her parents’ beginnings in the Ukraine to her own childhood in 1940s New York, through the many adventures of her extended family and into her own adult life. Her themes are universal: the fragility of friendship, the power of love, the marital crisis brought on by chronic illness, the role of dumb luck at the heart of life–Gallagher dramatizes her stories with acute insight, strong feeling, and edgy wit.
Thirteen-year-old Anna's passionate dream is to go to high school, the first girl from her tiny farm community back in 1910 to do so. She is determined not to stay at home like her older sister, Mary Ellen, helping their mother and waiting to marry a local farmer. But there is no money to send her to River Heights, seven miles away, and anyway, her mother needs her. When sixteen-year-old Mary Ellen is sexually assaulted by a local boy, the situation gets worse. No one suspects Mary Ellen is pregnant until she gives birth to the illegitimate baby. The surprise birth threatens to ruin the family's standing in the community and Mary Ellen's reputation. Anna wrestles with helping her parents and sister while still striving to make her burning desire to go to high school a reality. Meanwhile she becomes involved in solving the mystery of a missing ring, and in stopping another attack by the boy who assaulted her sister. But how will that help her realize her dream?
Discover a new world, where you can bridge the gap from virtual to reality. The world of Internet Bridge. You will meet people from all over the world. Get to know them and their cultural differences. You will find they are nice, intelligent, interesting, and very humorous men and women who have enriched my life. Bridge brought us together, and many have become my friends. My partners have ranged in age from 14 to 94. I have played with doctors, lawyers, and an Indian Chief. There have also been teachers, writers, engineers, miners, ranchers, and scientists in every field. I have played with Bill Gates. People I would never have met within the boundaries of my real life. This is not an all-inclusive list. This is a book for bridge players and everyone else. Internet Bridge has some different rules, which are quickly explained, as are basic facts about the game. However, my focus is on the people. You will find yourself smiling, laughing, and touched by their stories. Variety is the spice of life and you will find it here. "Bill Gates Finds Duplicate Bridge a 'Window' to Fun." --ACBL Bulletin, August 20, 2000
Wherein lays the strength of a man? Is it in the width of his shoulders, his biceps, his height or IQ? This book reveals a strength that comes only from withinone characterized by an indefinable trust in God. This strength is proven through trust and a loving relationship developed with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This kind of strength outweighs the physical and is sustainable through the spirit, and is demonstrated in the life of Kirby Edwards. Read and experience the strength of Kirby and his love for God through his struggles. Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work. William Arthur Ward
Are you wanting a more fulfilling relationship with God? This book will inspire you to bring God into your everyday life, even in the smallest details. You can relate to my struggles in life and see how God brought me through to victory. You are shown how to get real with God and understand that life is a journey. Enjoy the ride.
Seven-year-old J.C. is excited about the class field trip to the Famous Black Americans Museum, especially since his dad is coming along--and when his group gets separated from their teacher in the crowded museum it is J.C. who remembers the map their teacher showed them, and reunites the groups.
This is an in-depth book about the different trials and tribulations that each parent can encounter as they raise their children. You've probably encountered this situation before: You sit down to eat dinner and suddenly one of your lovely little darlings decides to throw a meatball at one of their siblings. You've also probably taken one of your kids to the supermarket and gotten as far as the cereal aisle when your precious little bundle of joy starts to have a meltdown. Well, what this book does is show you many different techniques in which you can curb this kind of behavior before it even begins. We will also go through various parenting techniques to help your children eat well and teach them valuable lifelong lessons that will help your child succeed in the future. We'll show you everything that we have discovered to help you in raising kids that will be well rounded adults.
Memoir of Dorothy L. Hansen, Quaker, writer and activist of Sebastopol, California, who has lived her life in support of consumer cooperatives and as a vocal advocate for peace and justice. In a series of short pieces, she writes about her childhood in Norman, Oklahoma, her activism, her family, and her later life in Sonoma County, California.
Stuck in a city far from home, street kid Doniver fakes telling fortunes so he can earn a few coins to feed himself and his friends. Then the divine Powers smile on him when he accidentally delivers a true prediction for the prince. Concerned about rumors of treason, the prince demands that Doniver use his "magic" to prevent harm from coming to the king, and so Doniver is taken--dragged?--into the castle to be the royal fortune teller. Now Doniver must decide where the boundaries of honor lie, as he struggles to work convincing magic, fend off whoever is trying to shut him up, and stop an assassin, assuming he can even figure out who the would-be assassin is. All he wants is to survive long enough to go home to the Uplands, but it's starting to look as if that might be too much to ask.
This book is not about aspects of old age, for what are they but descriptions of the outer human shell? Shell, yes-not the real you at all. Who are you? In her quiet, gentle way, the author tells you-you are Ageless Spirit. Part of the great Life/Love energy that encompasses and flows through every single life form-a huge, wonderful unifying energy. Ageless Spirit is tireless, is never ill or sad or defeated. It is magic and mystery and wonder, yet it can be expressed in as tiny a way as in the rescue of a wee fledgling that has fallen out of its nest and needs reuniting with its mother. In this book the author shares some of the ways that we, older folk, can be in touch with our inner Ageless Spirit; can use magic, meet angels, share healing; and, best of all, can usefully, powerfully, spread in the world the so badly needed Ageless Spirit energy.
DIVDIVAn engrossing crime novel set in New York’s Little Italy from Grand Master of crime fiction Dorothy Salisbury Davis/div They are a secret society in New York’s Little Italy. The Little Brothers swear to a strict code. While they carry out good works, they believe in using “the Killing Eye” on evildoers. When sixteen-year-old Angelo is put up for membership, he is not sure he wants to join. But the assignment the society demands of him sounds easy—to put “the Eye” on an old shopkeeper named Grossman who is suspected of dealing heroin. Then Grossman is stabbed to death and the police have only one suspect: the Italian boy who spent the week outside his shop, watching and waiting for a stranger to die.DIV Alongside Angelo’s story, a police investigation unfolds, led by Lieutenant Marks, a cop with a heart and a brain, who is willing to take risks in tracing a series of complicated Mafia connections to catch the true killer./div/div
Toward a Just World is an insightful and thoughtful history. The first half of the twentieth century and the heroic efforts of those who sought international justice during that time will be much better understood and appreciated thanks to this fascinating book."—Robert F. Drinan, Georgetown University A century ago, there was no such thing as international justice, and until recently, the idea of permanent international courts and formal war crimes tribunals would have been almost unthinkable. Yet now we depend on institutions such as these to air and punish crimes against humanity, as we have seen in the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the appearance of Serbian leader Slobodan Milosevic before the Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. Toward a Just World tells the remarkable story of the long struggle to craft the concept of international justice that we have today. Dorothy V. Jones focuses on the first half of the twentieth century, the pivotal years in which justice took on expanded meaning in conjunction with ideas like world peace, human rights, and international law. Fashioning both political and legal history into a compelling narrative, Jones recovers little-known events from undeserved obscurity and helps us see with new eyes the pivotal ones that we think we know. Jones also covers many of the milestones in the history of diplomacy, from the Treaty of Versailles and the creation of the League of Nations to the Nuremberg war crimes tribunal and the making of the United Nations. As newspapers continue to fill their front pages with stories about how to administer justice to al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein, Toward a Just World will serve as a timely reminder of how the twentieth century achieved one of its most enduring triumphs: giving justice an international meaning.
Dorothy's beautiful paintings and thoughts about her inspiration sources will carry you far away, not only on her journey, but very likely on a personal travel of your own imagination as well.
Eleanor and Franz Fabian arrive from New York to spend Christmas with Franz’s mother in her sedate retirement home in the Vienna Woods. Their expectations are low: at best, boredom, at worst, run-of-the-mill family friction. But when the wealthy, charming Herr Graf is found dead in his apartment with an ugly head wound, the Fabians are thrust into a homicide investigation. Some residents and staff have surprising connections to the dead man, but who would have wanted to kill him? Inspector Büchner tracks down the murderer against a backdrop of Viennese history from the Nazi years to the present day. Witty, suspenseful, lyrical, this is a literary whodunit that will keep you guessing till the last page.
MY SISTER...MY BROTHER!!! Don't wait to Understand It All. We only KNOW what Our God REVEALS AND AS HE REVEALS IT TO US. Psalm 95:7 and 8 teaches us... Today if ye will hear His Voice harden NOT your heart... Tomorrow is NOT Promised to no man. Don't stand a far off. Enter into THE ARK OF SAFETY. Jesus died for All...He bids YOU, COME. THE BODY OF JESUS CHRIST IS BILLIONS STRONG WORLDWIDE ....All with a level of SUPERNATURAL EXPERIENCE in The Depths of Our Hearts whereby we testify... OUR GOD LIVES! JESUS CHRIST IS INDEED ALIVE! THE SECOND PERSON OF THE ONE AND ONLY TRIUNE GOD...THE CREATOR OF ALL THINGS...THE MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH. He came to Earth, "Emmanuel" meaning, GOD WITH US...BORN OF THE VIRGIN MARY... SENT BY HIS HEAVENLY FATHER. HE FULFILLED HIS HEAVENLY FATHER'S PLAN WHEN HE GAVE UP HIS LIFE TO REDEEM MANKIND FROM SIN. Our Saviour, Jesus Christ descended into hell and took the keys of death hell and the grave. Before He Ascended up to Heaven, He left us a Comforter...His Blessed Holy Spirit... until He Returns to Earth Again. We meet THE HOLY SPIRIT.THIRD PERSON OF THE TRINITY...OUR MASTER TEACHER OF THE HOLY BIBLE...WHO LEADS AND GUIDES US INTO ALL TRUTH. People of God... Jesus' Return to Earth is Very Near. We are living in THE LAST OF THE LAST DAYS. Don't be deceived, Satan the devil is defeated. Do NOT choose Eternal Damnation... FOREVERMORE in a lake of fire and brimstone. Read Revelation 21:8 for yourself. This is NOT to scare anyone...but that all mankind is aware of what is to come. CHOOSE ETERNAL LIFE.... FOREVERMORE WITH THE LORD AND OUR LOVED ONE'S ÀGAIN! SO COME QUICKLY, LORD JESUS!!! (This book includes a little about my earlier years in Nassau Bahamas...and how that America would become a Spiritual Battleground for me, drawing me closer to God.)
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