The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Walden, you discover the most important work of Henry David Thoreau—his exploration of the transcendentalist's striving to realize the possibility of one's own perfection and divinity. What results is an account of Thoreau's two-year stay at Walden Pond, as he celebrates nature as he moves toward spiritual rebirth and fulfillment. Chapter summaries and commentaries take you through Thoreau's journey, and essays help you understand the Transcendentalist movement and Thoreau's place in it. Other features that help you study include A section on the life and background of Henry David Thoreau A section of essay questions and theme topics A selected bibliography Classic literature or modern-day treasure—you'll understand it all with expert information and insight from CliffsNotes study guides.
A simple translation of the Daodejing, a Classical Chinese Daoist text. Without extensive introductions or commentaries, it is an attempt to allow the author(s) of this ancient work to have their own voice.
Heal your psychological pain and take back your life with this breakthrough process based on decades of successful treatment. In Keep Pain in the Past, two of America’s top psychologists in the field of emotional trauma and PTSD share their highly effective methodology for recovering from painful psychological wounds. Whether it’s extreme trauma such as sexual abuse, the horrors of war, or the very serious pain of loss, grief, shame and guilt, their method can help you recover without years of intensive therapy. Doctors Christ Cortman and Joseph Walden have been helping patients recover from trauma for decades. Through a combination of practical steps and illuminating stories, they share the tools and techniques that can help you identify and face your pain, find closure, and alleviate related issues such as depression, anxiety, panic attacks, sleep disruption, and more. Discover how Sheri, a thirty-seven-year-old attorney, recovered from panic attacks that seemed to come out of nowhere. Follow the journey of Mark, a twenty-nine-year-old Army veteran, as he healed from a destructive downward spiral in the grip of PTSD. Explore how Melinda, a forty-two-year-old professor who struggled to sustain a romantic relationship, confronted her torturous childhood and finally found love. These and other stories demonstrate the restorative power of Keep Pain in the Past.
Introduced by American poet and literary critic Robert Pinsky--himself a resident of Cape Cod--this volume contains some of Thoreau's most beautiful writings. In the plants, animals, topography, weather, and people of Cape Cod, he finds "another world.
Irreverent poetry and prose from a free thinking nonagenarian, who lives in Montana, drives a 1974 Dodge Dart Swinger, reads voraciously, and writes passionately about the dangers of religious zeal, Christian hypocrisy, Biblical contradictions, and the benefits of free thought. Sprinked amidst this serious work is lighter fare: humorous diddies, limericks, wordplays, and what some might call someindelicate albeit witty lines that should tickle the readers fancy.
Why did Concord, Massachusetts, the small inland farming village, twenty miles northwest of Boston, become the center of America’s intellectual life in the mid 1800’s? And why did celebrated authors Henry D. Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa May Alcott, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Margaret Fuller all live and write at that same time in Concord? Literary Concord Uncovered provides a wonderful introductory overview of Concord’s classic authors and their creations. It reveals some of the secrets that enabled these brilliant American authors to write their pioneering works, which include Thoreau’s Walden, Emerson’s “Self Reliance,” Alcott’s Little Women and Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter. This book will help readers gain a deeper understanding and experience greater enjoyment from reading extraordinary and exciting books by many of Concord’s—and America’s--greatest authors.
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