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My Life of Checking, Hiding, and Faking

How I Conquered the Hidden Torment of OCD

By: Helena Tarrant

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My Life of Checking, Hiding, and Faking

How I Conquered the Hidden Torment of OCD

By: Helena Tarrant

In her powerful memoir, “My Life of Checking, Hiding, and Faking,” author Helena Tarrant bares her soul as she unveils the torment of living with OCD from childhood to redemption. With raw honesty, she illuminates the intricate workings of an OCD-stricken mind, unravelling the baffling nature of the condition for those who stand on the outside, and unveiling the reasons why sufferers remain silent. Helena courageously exposes the invisible battles she fought, resorting to extraordinary measures to conceal her OCD, further intensifying her struggles. Through her personal journey, she shares invaluable strategies and profound insights that paved the way for her recovery. Alongside her poignant words, she adorns her narrative with poignant cartoons, capturing the essence of life with OCD and the blissful liberation that follows healing.

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142

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Balboa Press

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1982286970

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9781982286972

The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture

By: Helena Taylor

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The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture

By: Helena Taylor

Seventeenth-century France saw one of the most significant 'culture wars' Europe has ever known. Culminating in the Quarrel of the Ancients and Moderns, this was a confrontational, transitional time for the reception of the classics. Helena Taylor explores responses to the life of the ancient Roman poet, Ovid, within this charged atmosphere. To date, criticism has focused on the reception of Ovid's enormously influential work in this period, but little attention has been paid to Ovid's lives and their uses. Through close analysis of a diverse corpus, which includes prefatory Lives, novels, plays, biographical dictionaries, poetry, and memoirs, this study investigates how the figure of Ovid was used to debate literary taste and modernity and to reflect on translation practice. It shows how the narrative of Ovid's life was deployed to explore the politics and poetics of exile writing; and to question the relationship between fiction and history. In so doing, this book identifies two paradoxes: although an ancient poet, Ovid became key to the formulation of aspects of self-consciously 'modern' cultural movements; and while Ovid's work might have adorned the royal palaces of Versailles, the poetry he wrote after being exiled by the Emperor Augustus made him a figure through which to question the relationship between authority and narrative. The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture not only nuances understanding of both Ovid and life-writing in this period, but also offers a fresh perspective on classical reception: its paradoxes, uses, and quarrels.

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208

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Oxford University Press

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0192516876

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9780192516879

Girls on the Stand

How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors

By: Helena Silverstein

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How Courts Fail Pregnant Minors

By: Helena Silverstein

Choice Outstanding Academic Title for 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has decided that states may require parental involvement in the abortion decisions of pregnant minors as long as minors have the opportunity to petition for a &#“bypass” of parental involvement. To date, virtually all of the 34 states that mandate parental involvement have put judges in charge of the bypass process. Individual judges are thereby responsible for deciding whether or not the minor has a legitimate basis to seek an abortion absent parental participation. In this revealing and disturbing book, Helena Silverstein presents a detailed picture of how the bypass process actually functions. Silverstein led a team of researchers who surveyed more than 200 courts designated to handle bypass cases in three states. Her research shows indisputably that laws are being routinely ignored and, when enforced, interpreted by judges in widely divergent ways. In fact, she finds audacious acts of judicial discretion, in which judges structure bypass proceedings in a shameless and calculated effort to communicate their religious and political views and to persuade minors to carry their pregnancies to term. Her investigations uncover judicial mandates that minors receive pro-life counseling from evangelical Christian ministries, as well as the practice of appointing attorneys to represent the interests of unborn children at bypass hearings. Girls on the Stand convincingly demonstrates that safeguards promised by parental involvement laws do not exist in practice and that a legal process designed to help young women make informed decisions instead victimizes them. In making this case, the book casts doubt not only on the structure of parental involvement mandates but also on the naïve faith in law that sustains them. It consciously contributes to a growing body of books aimed at debunking the popular myth that, in the land of the free, there is equal justice for all.

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335

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NYU Press

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0814769977

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9780814769973

Book's by Helena Tarrant

My Life of Checking, Hiding, and Faking

My Life of Checking, Hiding, and Faking

The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture

The Lives of Ovid in Seventeenth-Century French Culture

Girls on the Stand

Girls on the Stand

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