Purse-sized, pocket-sized, handy and portable, Think On provides 80 refreshing new ideas and words of wisdom, packed into an appealing 3 1/2 by 4 format. A gem of sensibility on each perforated page! From the bestselling author of Think and Think Again.
In The Monster We Defied: A Son's Alzheimer's Recital Dr. Page paints his portrait of his mother Mary, of Danvers, Massachusetts, and her decline into Alzheimer's disease with the inclusion of journal entries she herself wrote, of medical notes by her various doctors and of extensive audio recordings he made with her. It describes his shock and disbelief upon learning that Mary, his 86 year-old mother, still full of life and as vivacious as ever, has dementia. And he must watch, and care for her, and chronicle her slow descent from a life-loving, independent spirit to a woman who can no longer drive, who can no longer be trusted to cook, who can no longer balance her checkbook or who can no longer change the stations of the television. Page draws from his own professional experience and training in helping others who have suffered from depression and trauma, and he turns that practice and awareness to his own ends as he begins his new education in living with and loving someone with Alzheimer's disease. He uses the audio recordings that his mother made with him over the course of eight years to reveal the changing voice of Mary Page as she punctuates the narrative with her own innately eloquent words and indomitable spirit. Singly and together, the mother and son recite their passages through voices raised in anger, in doubts, in poetry, in humor, in song, in questioning, in memory and in hope. Nursing home notes, the results of mental status examinations, and caretakers's observations appear in striking counterpoint to the author's compelling personal reflections on and responses to them.
Have you ever thought of how you would react or what you would do if you and your loved one were faced with a catastrophic, incurable illness? This journal of a descent into Alzheimer's disease is a road map for those who are facing such shattering news. Dr. Robert Page, author of “Citizen at Large: Speaking Freely and Other Rights of Passage in the Age of Clinton,” (National Archives) has crafted a ground-breaking memoir portraying in real time the impact of his mother's dementia diagnosis and the caregiving journey that followed. The account reveals how he helped her to navigate the turbulent course of this bewildering disease. It includes actual transcripts of recorded conversations Dr. Page carries on with his mother throughout her decline. These varied dialogues make their experiences immediate and absorbing. Witness how this practicing psychologist and loving son introduces a vast array of issues and situations encountered by every dementia patient and caregiver and how he connects with his mother to meet the challenges at each stage in the progression of the disease.Learn how he uses his skills and experience communicating with his patients to preserve his relationship with a feisty, witty mother who fights hard to maintain her indomitable spirit. In the process, mother and son become victors over the disease, not just helpless victims of it. Renew your faith in the healing power of humor, persistence, affirmation, acceptance and physical touch. Alzheimer's disease does not have to be a calamity one simply survives but instead is an opportunity for transformation and renewal. Learn helpful and practical ideas on how to talk to and to aid the Alzheimer's patient on their difficult path. You will see how this skilled psychologist sticks with and engages his mother for the duration of the disease and, in the process, how he becomes more fortified in waging this physically and emotionally strenuous battle. You will come away from this tragic but life-affirming journey with renewed hope and a deeper inspiration to defy and conquer the monster you might one day have to confront yourself.
This lively introduction to theatre offers equal measures of appreciation of theatrical arts, history of performance, and descriptions of the collaborative theatrical crafts. The author's enthusiasm for and knowledge of the current theatre, highlighted by contemporary production shots from around the world, put the students in the front row. The text includes extensive excerpts from seven plays: Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Tyrannos, The York Cycle, Romeo and Juliet, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Three Sisters, and Happy Days.
A fascinating compilation of 26 profiles of today's most acclaimed Hollywood directors, based on extensive interviews with the subjects and the stars who have worked with them. Photos.
Reflecting on how a student’s parents met because of a fly ball to center field in a summer softball game, author Robert Root wondered how the lives of that student’s parents and of the student himself would have changed had the batter bunted or struck out. Haunted by this pure example of happenstance, he began to ponder his own existence, dependent in part on geology (the Niagara Escarpment) and history (the Erie Canal). He wondered how happenstance had influenced the course of his parents’ lives, in particular their marriages (they married and divorced each other twice), and consequently the shaping of his identity. Happenstance investigates the effects of that phenomenon and choice on one man’s life. Root explores this theme in interwoven strands of narrative, interpretation, and reflection. One strand, “The Hundred Days,” follows his attempt to write one hundred journal entries, each about a different day in his life, to recover memories of specific moments or collections of moments. In the strand headed “Album,” he examines and interprets old family photographs in light of the way he reads them in the present, as someone now privy to a family secret that directed his and his siblings’ lives without their knowledge. Interspersed among these brief interpretations and narratives are reflections on happenstance and choice, a sequence contemplating their effect on his life and perhaps on all our lives. Through juxtaposition and accumulation, the book’s incremental unraveling of meaning imitates the process of unexpected epiphanies and gradual self-discovery in anyone’s life. By revisiting individual days, giving voice to photographs that mutely preserve family moments, and reflecting on the way happenstance and choice determine the directions lives take, Robert Root generates a meditation on identity anchored in an album in words and images of a mid-twentieth-century life.
First published in 1856, The Discovery of a Northwest Passage is comprised of McClure's logs and journals from his time in the Arctic from 1850 to 1854. What began as a joint venture between commanding captain Richard Collinson of the Enterprise and Captain McClure, as his subordinate on the Investigator, became a solitary expedition. Separated along the way, McClure took a dangerous shortcut through the Aleutian Islands and ended up in the Bering Strait, ahead of his commanding ship. His route carried him to Banks Island and to the discovery of the Prince of Wales Strait. The first-hand account tells of the two harsh winters that McClure and his crew spent iced in the Bay of Mercy. And their rescue in 1853, when many from the ship were found suffering malnutrition and on the brink of death.
This Element Paratext printed with new English plays has a lot to tell us about what playwrights were attempting to do and how audiences responded, thereby contributing substantially to our understanding of larger patterns of generic evolution across two centuries. The presence (or absence) of twelve elements needs to be systematically surveyed. (1) Attribution of authorship; (2) generic designation; (3) performance auspices; (4) government license authorizing publication; (5) dedication; (6) prefaces of various sorts; (7a-b-c) list of characters (three types); (8) actors' names (sometimes with descriptive characterizations-very helpful for deducing intended authorial interpretation); (9) location of action; (10) prologue and epilogue for first production. Surveying these results, we can see that much of the generic evolution traceable in the later seventeenth century gets undone during the eighteenth-a reversal largely attributable to the Licensing Act of 1737. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Bringing together strands of public discourse about valuing personal achievement at the expense of social values and the impacts of global capitalism, mass media, and digital culture on the lives of children, this book challenges the potential of science and business to solve the world’s problems without a complementary emphasis on social values. The selection of literary works discussed illustrates the power of literature and human arts to instill such values and foster change. The book offers a valuable foundation for the field of literacy education by providing knowledge about the importance of language and literature that educators can use in their own teaching and advocacy work.
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