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Race Music

Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

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Race Music

Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

This powerful book covers the vast and various terrain of African American music, from bebop to hip-hop. Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., begins with an absorbing account of his own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago, evoking Sunday-morning worship services, family gatherings with food and dancing, and jam sessions at local nightclubs. This lays the foundation for a brilliant discussion of how musical meaning emerges in the private and communal realms of lived experience and how African American music has shaped and reflected identities in the black community. Deeply informed by Ramsey's experience as an accomplished musician, a sophisticated cultural theorist, and an enthusiast brought up in the community he discusses, Race Music explores the global influence and popularity of African American music, its social relevance, and key questions regarding its interpretation and criticism. Beginning with jazz, rhythm and blues, and gospel, this book demonstrates that while each genre of music is distinct—possessing its own conventions, performance practices, and formal qualities—each is also grounded in similar techniques and conceptual frameworks identified with African American musical traditions. Ramsey provides vivid glimpses of the careers of Dinah Washington, Louis Jordan, Dizzy Gillespie, Cootie Williams, and Mahalia Jackson, among others, to show how the social changes of the 1940s elicited an Afro-modernism that inspired much of the music and culture that followed. Race Music illustrates how, by transcending the boundaries between genres, black communities bridged generational divides and passed down knowledge of musical forms and styles. It also considers how the discourse of soul music contributed to the vibrant social climate of the Black Power Era. Multilayered and masterfully written, Race Music provides a dynamic framework for rethinking the many facets of African American music and the ethnocentric energy that infused its creation.

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Univ of California Press

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0520938437

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9780520938434

The Amazing Bud Powell

Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

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The Amazing Bud Powell

Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

Bud Powell was not only one of the greatest bebop pianists of all time, he stands as one of the twentieth century’s most dynamic and fiercely adventurous musical minds. His expansive musicianship, riveting performances, and inventive compositions expanded the bebop idiom and pushed jazz musicians of all stripes to higher standards of performance. Yet Powell remains one of American music’s most misunderstood figures, and the story of his exceptional talent is often overshadowed by his history of alcohol abuse, mental instability, and brutalization at the hands of white authorities. In this first extended study of the social significance of Powell’s place in the American musical landscape, Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. shows how the pianist expanded his own artistic horizons and moved his chosen idiom into new realms. Illuminating and multi-layered, The Amazing Bud Powell centralizes Powell’s contributions as it details the collision of two vibrant political economies: the discourses of art and the practice of blackness.

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0520243919

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9780520243910

The Transformation of Black Music

The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

By: Sam Floyd,Melanie Zeck,Guthrie Ramsey

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The Transformation of Black Music

The rhythms, the songs, and the ships of the African Diaspora

By: Sam Floyd,Melanie Zeck,Guthrie Ramsey

Powerful and embracive, The Transformation of Black Music explores the full spectrum of black musics over the past thousand years as Africans and their descendants have traveled around the globe making celebrated music both in their homelands and throughout the Diaspora. Authors Samuel A. Floyd, Melanie Zeck, and Guthrie Ramsey brilliantly discuss how the music has blossomed, permeated present traditions, and created new practices. As a companion to the ground-breaking The Power of Black Music, this text brilliantly situates emerging, morphing, and influential black musics in a broader framework of cultural, political, and social histories. Grappling with subjects frequently omitted from traditional musical texts, The Transformation of Black Music is guided by more than just the ideals of inclusivity and representation. This work covers overlooked topics that include classical musicians of African descent, and builds upon the contributions of esteemed predecessors in the field of black music study. Providing a sweeping list of figures rarely included in conventional music history and theory textbooks, the text elucidates the findings of ethnomusicologists, cultural historians, Americanists, Africanists, and anthropologists, and weaves these accounts into a powerful and informative narrative. Taking its readers on a journey - one that has never been attempted in a single volume alone - this book reflects the musical phenomena generated by forced African migration and collective memory, and considers the kinds of powerful stories that these musics were meant to tell. Filling in critical musical and historical gaps previously ignored, authors Floyd, Zeck, and Ramsey infuse an engaging musical dialogue with a deeper understanding of the interrelationships between black musical genres and mainstream music. The Transformation of Black Music will solidify not only the inestimable value of black musics, but also the importance and relevance of black music research to all musical endeavors.

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Oxford University Press

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0190651296

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9780190651299

Who Hears Here?

On Black Music, Pasts and Present

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

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Who Hears Here?

On Black Music, Pasts and Present

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

Introduction : who hears here now? -- Cosmopolitan or provincial? : ideology in early black music historiography, 1867-1940 -- Who hears here? : black music, critical bias, and the musicological skin trade -- The pot liquor principle : developing a black music criticism in American music studies -- Secrets, lies and transcriptions : new revisions on race, black music and culture -- Muzing new hoods, making new identities : film, hip-hop culture, and jazz music -- Afro-Modernism and music : on science, community, and magic in the Black Avant-Garde -- Bebop, jazz manhood and "piano shame" -- Blues and the ethnographic truth -- Time is illmatic : a song for my father, a letter to my son -- A new kind of blue : the power of suggestion and the pleasure of groove in Robert Glasper's black radio -- Free jazz and the price of black musical abstraction -- Jack Whitten's musical eye -- Out of place and out of line : Jason Moran's eclecticism as critical inquiry -- African American music -- Onward : an afterword by Shana L. Redmond.

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Univ of California Press

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0520281845

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9780520281844

Keepers of the Spirits

The Judicial Response to Prohibition Enforcement in Florida, 1885-1935

By: John Guthrie Jr.

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Keepers of the Spirits

The Judicial Response to Prohibition Enforcement in Florida, 1885-1935

By: John Guthrie Jr.

Drawn from research in the manuscript records of the federal judiciary and the court reports of the Florida Supreme Court, this book examines how state and federal judges responded to the enforcement of local, state, and national prohibition in Florida. Upholding these measures often resulted in governmental encroachment on civil liberties; consequently, judges found themselves positioned to determine the scope of the liquor laws. As they balanced the rights of individuals with the power of the state, Florida judges acted independently of public opinion and based their rulings on precedent and citation of authority. To present the fullest picture possible, this text, while focusing on the efforts of the judges to uphold the spirit and the letter of the various liquor laws, it also considers the views of individuals who violated prohibition.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313029857

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9780313029851

African American Music: Grove Music Essentials

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

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African American Music: Grove Music Essentials

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

An historical survey of African American music. This ebook is a static version of an article from Grove Music Online, a continuously updated online resource, offering comprehensive coverage of the world’s music written by leading scholars. For more information, visit www.o

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Oxford University Press

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0190268727

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The Amazing Bud Powell

Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

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The Amazing Bud Powell

Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop

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Race Music

Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

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Race Music

Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

Covering the vast and various terrain of African American music, this text begins with an account of the author's own musical experiences with family and friends on the South Side of Chicago. It goes on to explore the global influence and social relevance of African American music.

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Who Hears Here?

On Black Music, Pasts and Present

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

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Who Hears Here?

On Black Music, Pasts and Present

By: Guthrie P. Ramsey

Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr., is an award-winning musicologist, music historian, composer, and pianist whose prescient theoretical and critical interventions have bridged Black cultural studies and musicology. Representing twenty-five years of commentary and scholarship, these essays document Ramsey’s search to understand America's Black musical past and present and to find his own voice as an African American writer in the field of musicology. This far-reaching collection embraces historiography, ethnography, cultural criticism, musical analysis, and autobiography, traversing the landscape of Black musical expression from sacred music to art music, and jazz to hip-hop. Taken together, these essays and the provocative introduction that precedes them are testament to the legacy work that has come to define a field, as well as a rousing call to readers to continue to ask the hard questions and write the hard truths.

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0520392183

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9780520392182

John McMillan

The Apostle of Presbyterianism in the West, 1752-1833

By: Dwight Ray Guthrie

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John McMillan

The Apostle of Presbyterianism in the West, 1752-1833

By: Dwight Ray Guthrie

The first comprehensive biography of John McMillan, who "blew the Gospel trumpet", and spread Presbyterianism west of the Alleghenies. McMillan was a missionary, minister, politician, patriarch, and a founder of Washington and Jefferson College. The book also offers a colorful history of the Scotch-Irish pioneers who tamed a rugged and hostile region of early America.

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University of Pittsburgh Pre

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0822975335

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9780822975335

Dry Creek

Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp

By: W. Roger Powers,R. Dale Guthrie,John F. Hoffecker

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Dry Creek

Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp

By: W. Roger Powers,R. Dale Guthrie,John F. Hoffecker

With cultural remains dated unequivocally to 13,000 calendar years ago, Dry Creek assumed major importance upon its excavation and study by W. Roger Powers. The site was the first to conclusively demonstrate a human presence that could be dated to the same time as the Bering Land Bridge. As Powers and his team studied the site, their work verified initial expectations. Unfortunately, the research was never fully published. Dry Creek: The Archaeology and Paleoecology of a Late Pleistocene Alaskan Hunting Camp is ready to take its rightful place in the ongoing research into the peopling of the Americas. Containing the original research, this book also updates and reconsiders Dry Creek in light of more recent discoveries and analysis.

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Texas A&M University Press

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1623495393

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9781623495398

No More Push Parenting

How to Find Success and Balance in a Hypercompetitive World

By: Elisabeth Guthrie,Kathy Matthews

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No More Push Parenting

How to Find Success and Balance in a Hypercompetitive World

By: Elisabeth Guthrie,Kathy Matthews

CAN PARENTS AVOID THE OVERACHIEVEMENT TRAP AND STILL RAISE SUCCESSFUL CHILDREN? In America's hypercompetitive culture, children are being suffocated by our quest to make them the best. As competitive parenting has been on the rise since the 1980s, so have rates of teen suicide, eating disorders, depression, and drug use. Yet the cycle of "push parenting" doesn’t show signs of slowing down. Our children today are competing with classmates who began listening to Mozart in utero and were enrolled in educational classes at the ages of two and three. Under these circumstances, parents feel that they cannot afford to opt out. No More Push Parenting offers solutions for parents caught up by the need to push their children to the top, those parents who don't want to push but worry that their children may not measure up. With her fifteen-plus years of clinical experience, Dr. Elisabeth Guthrie provides targeted, prescriptive alternatives to the problem of push parenting, supported by the illustrative case studies of real children who are and aren't succeeding--and why. She explores the ways in which children are hindered emotionally and intellectually by the pressure to succeed that they often feel from parents on a daily basis. Helping parents discover the fine line between good parenting and pressure parenting, Dr. Guthrie provides them with the permission to do less pushing without sacrificing their ideals for their children, and offers techniques that they can use to deflect the pressure to push while still providing healthy encouragement. With tips for enhancing the development of every child's unique set of talents, the book is a vital reality check for anyone concerned about what's really best for kids.

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Harmony

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0307488861

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9780307488862

Faithful Performances

Enacting Christian Tradition

By: Steven R. Guthrie

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Faithful Performances

Enacting Christian Tradition

By: Steven R. Guthrie

The metaphor of performance has been applied fruitfully by anthropologists and other social theorists to different aspects of human social existence, and furnishes a potentially helpful model in terms of which to think theologically about Christian life. After an introductory editorial chapter reflecting on the nature of artistic performance and its relationship to the notions of tradition and identity, Part One of this book attends specifically to the phenomenon of dramatic performance and possible theological applications of it. Part Two considers various aspects of the performance of Christian identity, looking at worship, the interpretation of the Bible, Christian response to elements in the contemporary media, the shape of Christian moral life, and ending with a theological reflection on the shape of personal identity, correlating it with the theatrical metaphors of 'character' and 'performing a part' in a scripted drama. Part Three demonstrates how art forms (including some technically non-performative ones - literature, poetry, painting) may constitute faithful Christian practices in which the tradition is authentically 'performed', producing works which break open its meaning in profound new ways for a constantly shifting context.

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Routledge

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1317136721

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9781317136729

Gods of this World

A Philosophical Discussion and Defense of Christian Demonology

By: Shandon L. Guthrie

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Gods of this World

A Philosophical Discussion and Defense of Christian Demonology

By: Shandon L. Guthrie

Philosophers of religion have focused almost exclusively on the existence and nature of God and the nature and destiny of human beings. But these philosophers have been remiss in engaging discussions about the possibility of there being adverse gods of this world (demonic beings) despite being a doctrine that comprises a significant part of the Christian confession. This drought in the literature has left a number of questions unaddressed, including: Hasn't science buried the demonic? Are there any successful philosophical arguments for the existence of Satan? What kind of being is Satan? Is he the fallen angel of lore? Is it reasonable for Christians to say that demons are purely immaterial spirits? Can demons causally interact with the physical world and its inhabitants? Can demons perform diabolical miracles? Shandon Guthrie broaches new territory beginning with a rigorous defense for the existence of Satan and his cohorts. He then advances and defends a model for how to understand their nature in terms of their ontology and causal powers. No other book has attempted a full-fledged natural diabology on behalf of Christian orthodoxy. This is a must-read for anyone interested in the dark side of Christian theology and metaphysics.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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153263305X

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9781532633058

NIVAC Bundle 8: General Epistles, Revelation

By: George H. Guthrie,David P. Nystrom,Scot McKnight,Gary M. Burge,Craig S. Keener

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NIVAC Bundle 8: General Epistles, Revelation

By: George H. Guthrie,David P. Nystrom,Scot McKnight,Gary M. Burge,Craig S. Keener

The NIV Application Commentary helps you communicate and apply biblical text effectively in today's context. To bring the ancient messages of the Bible into today's world, each passage is treated in three sections: Original Meaning. Concise exegesis to help readers understand the original meaning of the biblical text in its historical, literary, and cultural context. Bridging Contexts. A bridge between the world of the Bible and the world of today, built by discerning what is timeless in the timely pages of the Bible. Contemporary Significance. This section identifies comparable situations to those faced in the Bible and explores relevant application of the biblical messages. The author alerts the readers of problems they may encounter when seeking to apply the passage and helps them think through the issues involved. This unique, award-winning commentary is the ideal resource for today's preachers, teachers, and serious students of the Bible, giving them the tools, ideas, and insights they need to communicate God's Word with the same powerful impact it had when it was first written.

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Zondervan Academic

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0310530105

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9780310530107

Blessed

Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation

By: Nancy Guthrie

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Blessed

Experiencing the Promise of the Book of Revelation

By: Nancy Guthrie

An Understandable and Reliable Guide to Revelation Over 12 chapters, Blessed covers the full text of the book of Revelation, exploring its call to patient endurance as God's sovereign plans for judgment and salvation are worked out in the world. In this book, Guthrie shows how Revelation is less about when Jesus will return and more about who we are to be, what we are to do, and what we can expect to endure as we wait for Jesus to return to establish his kingdom in the new creation. With a friendly and engaging tone, Blessed takes the fear, intimidation, and confusion away from studying Revelation, providing a solid and accessible resource that individuals and small groups can use to study this important yet often avoided book. Understand the Book of Revelation: Helps readers make sense of Revelation's unique apocalyptic symbolism, visual imagery, and Old Testament allusions Transformative Personal Application: Every chapter asks and answers the question, What does it mean to hear and keep this part of Revelation and thereby experience its promised blessing? A Focus on What Is Clear and Uncontroversial: Highlights Revelation's call for a costly allegiance to Christ and a refusal to compromise with the world rather than focusing on interpretive approaches and disputes

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Crossway

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1433580233

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9781433580239

Biblical Greek Exegesis

A Graded Approach to Learning Intermediate and Advanced Greek

By: George H. Guthrie,J. Scott Duvall

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Biblical Greek Exegesis

A Graded Approach to Learning Intermediate and Advanced Greek

By: George H. Guthrie,J. Scott Duvall

This intermediate / advanced text and workbook teaches syntax as well as exegesis by means of a modified inductive approach.

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Harper Collins

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0310212464

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9780310212461

Essentials of Public Health

By: Guthrie S. Birkhead,Cynthia B. Morrow,Sylvia Pirani

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Essentials of Public Health

By: Guthrie S. Birkhead,Cynthia B. Morrow,Sylvia Pirani

As one of the foundational texts in the Essential Public Health series, Essentials of Public Health, Fourth Edition -- formerly authored by Turnock -- is an excellent introduction to the field of public health, covering public health practice, government public health, and careers in public health. After defining Public Health and looking at the current U.S. public health system and practice, the book looks at population health measurement, policy development, and collaboration between the public health and the health system. Final chapters explore career opportunities in public health administration, epidemiology, public health nursing, and health education as well as emerging ones such as health information technologists, emergency managers, and more. Helpful learning tools such as chapter exercises and discussion questions, making it an ideal text to prepare your students for the profession of public health.

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333

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Jones & Bartlett Learning

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1284220443

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9781284220445

1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment (and Can't Get Out of It!)

By: Gary P. Guthrie

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1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment (and Can't Get Out of It!)

By: Gary P. Guthrie

John Lennon said, "Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." Sometime today while you're busy following your plan, something may happen that puts you in a funk or motivates you to make a change. Something that could leave you "stuck in a moment". But, Marie Curie contended, "Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." When those moments sneak up on you, you can run to counseling, look yourself in the mirror, crawl over to your favorite self-pity corner or you can open Stuck in a Moment and find wisdom to help you understand and, possibly, turn your mood around. Precise in nature, Stuck... takes you straight to the heart of life's customary stumbling blocks: your relationships, your job life, your frame of mind and your desire to have the life you dream of. To some, it's an express self-help book; to others, a travel guide for their life. Whether you're following the 12 Steps, looking for an honest, encouraging companion or a fan of inspirational quotes, you'll find 1,600 opportunities to gain new insights in this book - a book of rationale and challenge that you will want to keep handy or gift to someone for those everyday moments.

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0595274048

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