How to steward your body well Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. (3 John 2) Are you caught in a tug-of-war between pursuing a healthier lifestyle and settling for average? Did you know that you can build a better you by making a series of simple daily choices? Join Dr. Bob DeMaria as he offers 35 years of professional medical expertise and solid Scriptural insight to help improve your health and transform your life in the comfort of your own home. In Dr. Bob’s book, you will learn: 365 easy ways to change your diet, improve your sleep, and enhance your exercise Secrets to preventing (and dealing with) diabetes, cancer, IBS, gallstones, menopause, headaches, and more. This journey will equip you with priceless information, empower you to make necessary improvements, and enable you to be a good steward of the body God has given you.
The purpose of this book is to provide readings for Creative Writing workshops. The stort stories, poems, and plays included have been chosen because they illustrate certain specific aspects of the writer's craft."--Preface, page [v].
Daily gems to revolutionize your health! Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in all things and be in health, just as your soul prospers. (3 John 2) Are you caught in a tug-of-war between pursuing a healthier lifestyle and settling for average? Did you know that you can build a better you by making a series of simple daily choices? In these 1-minute daily devotionals, Dr. Bob DeMaria offers bite-sized Scriptural insights on how to improve your health and transform your life in the comfort of your own home. This journey will equip you with priceless information, empower you to make necessary improvements, and enable you to be a good steward of the body God has given you.
A great Italian-American saga that covers 60 years and three generations of the Adamo family, this work of passion, violence, comedy, and tragedy is set during the period from the Great Blizzard of 1888 to the end of World War II.
This how-to guide can rid children and families of medications and detrimental foods -- junk foods loaded with sugar, preservatives, dairy products, and trans- fatty acids -- so that children and families can enjoy optimal health.
Marc McCann, a 35-year-old textbook editor, harbors more than a few powerful urges. Among them are his intention to marry a 20-year-old naif against the wishes of his domineering mother, Gertrude, and his overwhelming desire to murder Gertrude.
Dr. Bob's Men's Health is for men who want simple, honest answers to their basic health questions. In today's culture, women tend to make the majority of the health-care decisions for their families while men tend to avoid seeking care, oftentimes, until the pain and discomfort caused by the conditions they have suffered with are beyond their ability to cope. Dr. Bob's extensive experience as a health-care provider, without the use of prescription medication, has provided him with a unique ability to understand and relay logical solutions in an easy-to-follow format. In this book, Dr. Bob reveals important, little-known facts on the more common conditions men contend with-heart disease, cancer, cholesterol, sexual dysfunction, and pain. You will learn the basics, which will propel you to levels of optimal health without the use of prescription medication.
Carnival of Angels is a novel about the human condition, about love, about the old dichotomy between the body and the soul. It is an exciting narrative with metaphysical overtones and an intricate fabric of symbols. It is a story of Mario, more the old Hamlet than the new angry young man. In his last year at the University on Morningside Heights Mario rebels against the gray academic surroundings, the conformity and sterile intellectuality. He descends to the lower world, to Harlem, in a symbolic journey of discovery. In this hot, squalid, dangerous, yet exciting atmosphere he moves back to the beginnings of man, back to the fundamental terrors and desires. In this shadow world he meets Pearl, an exotic and tragic girl to whom he is mysteriously attracted. Inevitably he confronts her violent, half-insane lover. Here also he meets the archetype of all motherhood, a black woman called Mama. His sojourn in this dreamlike world leads not only to disaster and violence, but also to a revelation and triumph, and eventually he emerges into the light once more.
The settings are East Hampton, New York, and Paris. We follow four young characters through the decade from their college days to their days as American expatriates in Paris. Their lives are touched by history, the Cold War, McCarthyism, the Rosenberg executions, the Algerian War, but it is their complicated emotional bond that we focus on, and especially the love affair between Billy Roamer and Amelica Palmer."--Jacket.
Christopher Marlowe Shakespeare's rival, brilliant poet, heretic and spy, was murdered in a tavern in Deptford in 1593. In this biographical novel he talks about his art: "Poetry is the longest arm of the human mind. As we strive for knowledge absolute, which is impossible, of course, everything eventually fails us: logic, science, and even words. The aspiration is our blessing and our curse. Our victories are brief but wonderful; our failures tragic, but still, in a way, wonderful. When we can no longer phrase in syllogisms what we fell we want to say, we turn to metaphors. Imagination leaps into the darkness beyond the small circle of logic's light and brings back sparkling fragments of truth. So you see, it is not for entertainment alone that I labor at my art and craft -- though, God knows, I have entertained some several thousand people in my time. In the public theatres, I mean. No, it is for something far more ambitious, though far less nameable. And in any case, I have very little choice, being, like the nightingale, uncontrollably excited by the darkness to sing my song.
Spanning the period from the British Civil War to the French Revolution, the fourth edition of this successful anthology increases its coverage of canonical writings, plays, and of the development of British Literature in the American colonies. A thoroughly updated new edition of this popular anthology which focuses firmly on the eighteenth century without neglecting the seventeenth century Contains new texts including the play Rover by Aphra Behn, and Beggars' Opera by John Gay; increased canonical works, including works by Dryden, Pope, and Johnson; and historical contextual materials, with particualr attention to the Americas Features updated introductions throughout, taking into acccount recent critical works and editions Includes useful resources such as an alternative list of contents by theme, and a chronolgy of literary and political events, providing valuable historical and cultural context
In Samuel Johnson and the Life of Reading, Robert DeMaria considers the surprising influence of one of the greatest readers in English literature. Johnson's relationship to books not only reveals much about his life and times, DeMaria contends, but also provides a dramatic counterpoint to modern reading habits. As a superior practitioner of the craft, Johnson provides a compelling model for how to read—indeed, he provides different models for different kinds of reading. DeMaria shows how Johnson recognized early that not all reading was alike—some requiring intense concentration, some suited for cursory glances, some requiring silence, some best appreciated amid the chatter of a coffeehouse. Considering the remarkable range of Johnson's reading, DeMaria discovers in one extraordinary career a synoptic view of the subject. "Enacts Johnson's celebrated variation on a theme from Horace—it does not merely delight and instruct, but rather instructs by delighting us . . . DeMaria proves himself a reader altogether worthy of his subject."—Times Literary Supplement "Fascinatingly perceptive both of Johnson's own reading habits and of their significance in the cultural history of reading."—Modern Language Review "Both a scholarly and an imaginative achievement, combining detailed detective work, abstract categorization, and sympathetic understanding. The finished product re-creates the detailed fabric of Johnson's reading career while locating it in a cultural landscape of rapid publication and growing literacy . . . Eminently readable, learned, and thoughtful."—Modern Philology "An intellectual history of the writer and his age."—Magill's Literary Annual "DeMaria presents an imaginative re-creation of Johnson's library and suggests how his reading habits offered a model for preventing the disappearance of the reader."—Biblio
Although the Dictionary is primarily a philological work, DeMaria shows how it also serves literary, moral, and educational purposes. By analyzing the content of the 116,000 illustrative quotations used by Johnson, the author illuminates the major
An indispensable reference for scholars and students of eighteenth-century English literature This addition to the celebrated Wiley-Blackwell Keywords series explores the meanings of fifty-eight of the most important words in British literature of the period 1640-1789. Professor DeMaria focuses on words used with frequency and urgency throughout the works of most major and several minor writers of the British Neoclassical era, with the occasional reach back to the early seventeenth century for a definitive usage found in Francis Bacon, for instance, and look forward to the nineteenth century to the works of Wordsworth, Austen, and Keats. Through discussions of words such as atom, economy, humanity, labor, machine, slavery, society, and system he reveals underlying assumptions about the way writers of the period thought about the physical and social world. Likewise, considerations of words such as happiness, passion, truth, and virtue shed light on the ethical and moral commitments of the age. Unlike dictionaries and many big-data semantics projects, this book brings forth the ambiguities, nuances, and ironies that accrued to word usages during the period through a heightened awareness of the contexts in which they occurred. Highlights and exposes the salient cultural and literary debates and metamorphic moments of cultural thought Reveals an increase in irony and a decrease in allegorical usage as an important trend in the evolution of literary language during the Neoclassical period Stresses the contexts within which words or phrases appear in order to offer a fuller understanding of their meanings and significance than available from digital databases Draws upon a vast compilation of sources from one of the most transformative eras of English literature Rigorous in its scholarship and historical reach, British Literature 1640-1789: Keywords is an indispensable resource which scholars and students of British Neoclassical literature will want to keep close at hand. It is certain to become a fixture of most university reference libraries.
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