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While You Were Out

An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

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While You Were Out

An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

From award-winning journalist Meg Kissinger, a searing memoir of a family besieged by mental illness, as well as an incisive exploration of the systems that failed them and a testament to the love that sustained them. Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger’s family seemed to live a charmed life. With eight kids and two loving parents, the Kissingers radiated a warm, boisterous energy. Whether they were spending summer days on the shores of Lake Michigan, barreling down the ski slopes, or navigating the trials of their Catholic school, the Kissingers always knew how to live large and play hard. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding—a heavily medicated mother hospitalized for anxiety and depression, a manic father prone to violence, and children in the throes of bipolar disorder and depression, two of whom would take their own lives. Through it all, the Kissingers faced the world with their signature dark humor and the unspoken family rule: never talk about it. While You Were Out begins as the personal story of one family’s struggles then opens outward, as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country’s flawed mental health care. Combining the intimacy of memoir with the rigor of investigative reporting, the book explores the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy, and the hope offered by new treatment strategies. Powerful, candid and filled with surprising humor, this is the story of one family’s love and resilience in face of great loss.

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Celadon Books

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1250877024

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9781250877024

Caesar Ate My Jesus

A Baby Boomer's Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire

By: Meg Gorzycki

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Caesar Ate My Jesus

A Baby Boomer's Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire

By: Meg Gorzycki

What the hell happened on the way to making the world a better place? We boomers were told our success would be unlimited. We had democracy and capitalism, and God was on our side. We took our religious teachings seriously, and set out to end bigotry, violence, and destitution. Inevitably, we collided with American Caesars, whose power and wealth was sufficient to dominate national and international affairs. Political and religious Caesars appropriated Jesus and used him to justify war, sexism, racism, dictatorships, and poverty. What were the faithful to do? Lots of boomers I know tossed the spiritual baby out with the religious institution's bathwater, and became cynical about civic engagement. It is not time to abandon hope in our goodness, however, and it is not time to surrender our conscience to Caesar. Our experiences as boomers teach us that it is possible to bring the love of God to bear in our lives, despite Caesar's constant pressure to cherish power, wealth, celebrity, and things more than we cherish people. This book is for folks who are ready to get off Caesar's treadmill and dig deeply into their hearts and minds to see what remains of the Kingdom of God within.

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305

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532618492

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9781532618499

Panic at the Pump

The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s

By: Meg Jacobs

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Panic at the Pump

The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s

By: Meg Jacobs

A detailed historical narrative of the U.S. energy crisis in the 1970s and how policymakers responded to the turmoil"--

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Macmillan

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0809058472

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9780809058471

God Bless Our Cubicles

Sustaining Spirituality in the Workplace

By: Meg Gorzycki

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God Bless Our Cubicles

Sustaining Spirituality in the Workplace

By: Meg Gorzycki

Weasels in the workplace, colleagues in crisis, and bombastic bosses—we all know what it is like to have a “job from hell.” We also know that, despite our industriousness and integrity, many of us will someday have to choose between groceries, health care, and heating the apartment. The nuns who taught me in grade school said that all work, regardless of skills or status, was a ministry. By our helpfulness and kindness on the job, we contributed to the common good. Oh, to have those nuns in charge today! Our sense of social responsibility is eroding as the gap between the super-rich and everyone else grows, and as the rhetoric of leaders that is supposed to heal, deepen our humanity, and unite us is mean, shallow, and divisive. What are the spiritual to do in this material world, where social Darwinism and faith in God are joined at the hip? This book is about putting spirituality to work at work. It is about using spirituality to help us be in toxic places and not become toxic. It explores strategies for maintaining our humanity and moral compass, and it illuminates choices, prompts deep personal reflection, and chases demons from cubicles with humor.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1532675631

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9781532675638

While You Were Out

An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

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An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence

By: Meg Kissinger

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Washington

By: Meg Greenfield

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Washington

By: Meg Greenfield

With Washington, the illustrious longtime editorial page editor of The Washington Post wrote an instant classic, a sociology of Washington, D.C., that is as wise as it is wry. Greenfield, a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for commentary, wrote the book secretly in the final two years of her life. She told her literary executor, presidential historian Michael Beschloss, of her work and he has written an afterword telling the story of how the book came into being. Greenfield's close friend and employer, the late Katharine Graham, contributed a moving and personal foreword. Greenfield came to Washington in 1961, at the beginning of the Kennedy administration and joined The Washington Post in 1968. Her editorials at the Post and her columns in Newsweek, were universally admired in Washington for their insight and style. In this, her first book, Greenfield provides a portrait of the U.S. capital at the end of the American century. It is an eccentric, tribal, provincial place where the primary currency is power. For all the scandal and politics of Washington, its real culture is surprisingly little known. Meg Greenfield explains the place with an insider's knowledge and an observer's cool perspective.

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PublicAffairs

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0786745282

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9780786745289

The Character of Consent

The History of Cookies and the Future of Technology Policy

By: Meg Leta Jones

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The Character of Consent

The History of Cookies and the Future of Technology Policy

By: Meg Leta Jones

The rich, untold origin story of the ubiquitous web cookie—what’s wrong with it, why it’s being retired, and how we can do better. Consent pop-ups continually ask us to download cookies to our computers, but is this all-too-familiar form of privacy protection effective? No, Meg Leta Jones explains in The Character of Consent, rather than promote functionality, privacy, and decentralization, cookie technology has instead made the internet invasive, limited, and clunky. Good thing, then, that the cookie is set for retirement in 2024. In this eye-opening book, Jones tells the little-known story of this broken consent arrangement, tracing it back to the major transnational conflicts around digital consent over the last twenty-five years. What she finds is that the policy controversy is not, in fact, an information crisis—it’s an identity crisis. Instead of asking how people consent, Jones asks who exactly is consenting and to what. Packed into those cookie pop-ups, she explains, are three distinct areas of law with three different characters who can consent. Within (mainly European) data protection law, the data subject consents. Within communication privacy law, the user consents. And within consumer protection law, the privacy consumer consents. These areas of law have very different histories, motivations, institutional structures, expertise, and strategies, so consent—and the characters who can consent—plays a unique role in those areas of law. The Character of Consent gives each computer character its due, taking us back to their origin stories within the legal history of computing. By doing so, Jones provides alternative ways of understanding the core issues within the consent dilemma. More importantly, she offers bold new approaches to creating and adopting better tech policies in the future.

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MIT Press

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0262378450

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9780262378451

The Peace We Can't Reach

Confronting Narratives That Deny Our Conditions, Jam Our Spiritual Frequencies, and Defile Shalom

By: Meg Gorzycki

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The Peace We Can't Reach

Confronting Narratives That Deny Our Conditions, Jam Our Spiritual Frequencies, and Defile Shalom

By: Meg Gorzycki

Propelled by George Floyd’s murder in her hometown of Minneapolis, Meg Gorzycki addresses the question of why peace is difficult to cultivate and sustain, and finds that America has always had a love-hate relationship with peace. The Peace We Can’t Reach posits that peace is more than the absence of war and aggression, and in its most profound sense is shalom, the commitment to live for the well-being of all so that compassion and justice might prevail. Exploring shalom from the perspective of war, police brutality, mass shootings, and economic injustice, this book offers evidence that neither democracy nor Christianity as Americans have known them are capable of achieving peace. It asserts that the keys to peace are personal and social narratives that give people a sense of identity and their highest purpose, and concludes that gaining control over these narratives is vital to shalom.

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Wipf and Stock Publishers

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1666783455

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9781666783452

Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar

A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer's Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire

By: Meg Gorzycki

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Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar

A Guide to Caesar Ate My Jesus: A Baby Boomer's Reflection on Spirituality in the American Empire

By: Meg Gorzycki

This manual provides educators and retreat facilitators with questions for guided reflection and discussion, and with ideas about how to orchestrate conversations based on these reflections. The material illuminates some considerations instructors and facilitators may address as they plan for courses and retreats. This guide will help instructors and facilitators plan lessons and activities that aim to enrich scholarship, critical thinking, and personal spiritual development.

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1532638280

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

A Biography

By: Meg Greene

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Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

A Biography

By: Meg Greene

This full-length biography explores the multifaceted—and altogether fascinating—life, opinions, and accomplishments of African American scholar and writer Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars. Tracing Gates's life from his West Virginia birth, the book follows him through his undergraduate education at Yale and then to Cambridge, where he became the first African American to receive a doctorate. His current activities as a Harvard University professor, director of the W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, and editor-in-chief of TheRoot.com, a daily, online magazine focusing on issues of interest to the African American community, are explored as well. The biography also provides insights into Gates's groundbreaking work as a critic, scholar, and author, probing his wide-ranging interests, his many accomplishments, and his invaluable revelations about the contributions of African Americans to the nation's literature and history. Most important, the book provides readers with a fuller understanding of African American history and literature—and of the nature of today's racial politics.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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0313380473

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9780313380471

SACRED TRUST

By: Meg O'Brien

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SACRED TRUST

By: Meg O'Brien

Abby Northrope has everything a woman could want. A wonderful home in Carmel-by-the-Sea, a wealthy lawyer husband, a wide circle of friends and a secure place in the community. She has everything…until Marti Bright, Abby's best friend from school days, is brutally murdered—crucified on a hill overlooking Carmel. But Abby lives with a secret of her own: her ailing marriage, so fairy-tale-like to outsiders, is crumbling. As Abby turns all her energies into a quest to avenge Marti's death, she is led down a labyrinth of lies, half-truths, jealousies and revenge. Terrible secrets come to light: about herself, her husband and Marti. But how are the three tied together? With a killer still on the loose, time is running out.

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Harlequin

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1460363760

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9781460363768

The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia

By: Meg Cabot

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The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia

By: Meg Cabot

The ninth book in the #1 New York Times bestselling Princess Diaries series by Meg Cabot. Mia has been invited to speak at a gala for Domina Rei, an elite society of powerful businesswomen. But what could she possibly have to say? Michael has broken up with her, her bff Lilly won't speak to her, and her parents are forcing her to see a therapist. Even J.P.'s efforts to cheer Mia up (he's being really sweet!) aren't helping. Just when things couldn't get worse, Mia discovers a long—forgotten diary of a teenage princess of Genovia. It could be just the inspiration Mia needs to write her speech—but what it reveals might change everything. Princess Mia is the ninth book in the beloved, bestselling series that inspired the feature film starring Anne Hathaway and Julie Andrews.

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308

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Harper Collins

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0061971987

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9780061971983

The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia (international Edition)

By: Meg Cabot

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The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia (international Edition)

By: Meg Cabot

While Mia tries to get over breaking up with her boyfriend, she discovers a diary kept by a former princess of Genovia from the 1600s, the contents of which could change the fate of her country forever

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0061568198

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Book's by Meg Kissinger

While You Were Out

While You Were Out

Caesar Ate My Jesus

Caesar Ate My Jesus

Panic at the Pump

Panic at the Pump

God Bless Our Cubicles

God Bless Our Cubicles

While You Were Out

While You Were Out

Washington

Washington

The Character of Consent

The Character of Consent

The Peace We Can't Reach

The Peace We Can't Reach

Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar

Teaching and Facilitating Retreats with Caesar

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

SACRED TRUST

SACRED TRUST

The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia

The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia

The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia (international Edition)

The Princess Diaries, Volume IX: Princess Mia (international Edition)

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