If you like the gripping storytelling style of Tom Wolfe, the mystery and intrigue woven into Dan Brown's novels, and the profoundly personal philosophical inquiries that are integral to Thornton Wilder's stories, you will love "Fall to Grace," Susan Bien's highly-anticipated debut novel. Bryce Elliott is a morally bankrupt, world-renowned attorney who has one primary goal in life: he wants to make one hundred million dollars by his fortieth birthday. Bryce believes that money alone has the power to emancipate a man from the shackles of a powerless and meaningless life. His life is evolving as planned: he is rich and powerful, living on Fifth Avenue in New York City, and master of the universe that he has carefully and meticulously cultivated. Just when Bryce is about to reach his goal, his life takes a dramatic and very unexpected turn. The story is relevant in today's world where the insatiable greed of a few has taken an immense toll on many - politically, economically and spiritually. The novel addresses the eternal philosophical question -- is there a direction and meaning in one's life beyond the individual's own will?
Weiner highlights the new importance of youth as a social category of identity in the context of the postwar explosion of the mass media and explores the ways in which girls both defined and disrupted this category.
This is the story of a child that was wrongly born male, and through revelation realized nature had made a serious mistake. It chronicles the struggles of dealing with a great and terrible secret, thinking there was no way out of the dilemma of being born the wrong sex. Trying to find a cure, that child tried many ways to conform to her biology, only to find out all her attempts were in vain. Then, after many long years of frustration, quite by accident, a door was opened. Call it fate, or divine intervention, that child, now an adult, was able to crossover the strange and mysterious void between the sexes and emerge a new and beautiful female creature; a Changeling. Finally mind, spirit, soul, and body were in agreement, and a wonderful new life journey began. Like the ugly, repulsive caterpillar that abandons its life to become a beautiful, wondrous butterfly, I have lived, died, and come back as the whole woman I was meant to be.
Juan Valera y Alcalá-Galiano (1824-1905), one of nineteenth-century Spain's most respected authors, lived an international life-a career in the diplomatic service, with postings to more than a half dozen countries in Europe and the Americas.
Passion andalouse, Susan Stephens Après le terrible fiasco de son mariage, Zoé a bien l'intention de se consacrer à son travail, et de se tenir éloignée des hommes. Mais lorsqu'elle croise le chemin de Rico Cortès, elle sent ses bonnes résolutions fléchir... Pourtant, l'arrogant et ténébreux danseur de flamenco qu'elle est venue interviewer est loin de se montrer courtois avec elle. Au contraire, il témoigne une franche hostilité au projet de reportage qu'elle souhaite réaliser sur la danse andalouse. Zoé le sent, Rico se méfie d'elle. A-t-il un secret qu'il redoute de voir éclater au grand jour? En dépit de ses doutes et de sa peur à s'engager de nouveau, Zoé n'a bientôt plus qu'une idée en tête : savoir qui est vraiment le beau Rico Cortès.
Being women provided them with a particular perspective, expressed first-hand through their letters. Dalton shows how Lespinasse, Roland, Renier Michiel, and Mosconi grappled with differences of ideology, social status, and community, often through networks that mixed personal and professional relations, thus calling into question the actual separation between public and private spheres. Building on the work of Dena Goodman and Daniel Gordon, Dalton shows how a variety of conflicts were expressed in everyday life and sheds new light on Venice as an important eighteenth-century cultural centre.
First published in 1998. The GARF Assessment Sourcebook is a comprehensive guide to the Global Assessment of Relational Functioning (GARF) scale for family assessment. This comprehensive guide to the GARF is an essential tool for practicing professionals as well as students in training programs. It provides a thorough description of each element of the GARF, a comprehensive review of the GARF in relation to other marriage and family assessment tools, summaries of GARF research, and a comprehensive appendix of reproducible GARF-related forms. The GARF Assessment Sourcebook challenges marriage and family therapists to use, evaluate, and refine the GARF so that it may be included in the main portion of the next revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). As managed care becomes more pervasive and providers start giving more direction over treatment options, the GARF will become an important new tool in family mental health treatment to assist clinicians who are struggling to improve services and justify their work to the broader health-care community.
Love Grows is the true and amazing story of how Paty Villanueva showed love to the poor children of her town by teaching them to read and write in her home and of how that love has transformed their lives and the lives of those around them. In 2000, Paty realized her vision and with the help of her American friends built the Hearts For Honduras School in La Entrada, Honduras. In Honduras, public education is not free. Therefore, children from the poorest families never have the opportunity to attend school. The Hearts For Honduras School provides a high quality, holistic education to children who would not otherwise be able to attend school. These children are amazing and their interest in their education is overwhelming! Many will go on to college. 100% of the net proceeds of the sale of this book go to the Hearts For Honduras School through the Friends of Hearts For Honduras Foundation, a tax exempt non-profit organization that provides support to the school and scholarships to the students. For more information about the Hearts For Honduras School or to Sponsor A Student visit www.friendsofheartsforhonduras.org in the US or in Honduras contact Paty Villanueva at corazonesparahonduras@yahoo.com. El amor crece es la verídica e increíble historia de cómo Paty Villanueva demostró amor a los niños pobres de su pueblo, enseñándoles a leer y escribir en su hogar y de como ese amor transformó sus vidas y las vidas de aquellos a su alrededor. En el año 2000 Paty realizó su visión y con la ayuda de sus amigos americanos construyó la Escuela Corazones para Honduras en La Entrada, Honduras. En Honduras la educación pública no es gratis. Por lo tanto, los niños de las familias más pobres nunca tienen la oportunidad de asistir a la escuela. La Escuela Corazones para Honduras provee educación holística de alta calidad a los niños que de otra forma no podrían asistir a la escuela. ¡Estos niños son increíbles y el interés que tienen en su educación es arrollador! Muchos llegarán a ir a la universidad. 100% de los fondos netos recaudados mediante la venta de este libro van a la Escuela Corazones para Honduras a través de una organización sin fines de lucro exenta de impuestos llamada Friends of Hearts For Honduras Foundation, la cual provee apoyo a la escuela y becas a los estudiantes. Para más información sobre la Escuela Corazones para Honduras o para apadrinar a un estudiante visite www.friendsofheartsforhonduras.org en los EE.UU. o en Honduras comuníquese con Paty Villanueva en corazonesparahonduras@yahoo.com .
Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes' seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era those of law and history into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel. Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote through a close philological study of Cervantes' sly questioning of and commentary on these fields. As she skilfully demonstrates, while sixteenth-century historiographers and jurists across southern Europe sought the philosophical nexus of their fields, Cervantes created one through the adventures of a protagonist whose history is all about justice. As such, Law and History in Cervantes' Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes' art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes.
Volume Four of this definitive edition of Thomas Jefferson's papers from the end of his presidency until his death includes 581 documents from 18 June 1811 to 30 April 1812. Between these two dates, Jefferson famously declares that, "tho' an old man, I am but a young gardener"; expresses hostility to dogs and joins in a petition for a tax to reduce their numbers; calculates lines for a horizontal sundial; surveys part of his Bedford County estate; and draws up work schedules for his Poplar Forest plantation and detailed slave lists for Poplar Forest and Monticello. Jefferson also takes readings of a solar eclipse; attempts to determine Monticello's longitude; measures Willis Mountain; and calls for a fixed international standard for measures, weights, and coins. Joseph Milligan publishes a revised edition of Jefferson's Manual of Parliamentary Practice in March 1812, and Jefferson sends William Wirt a detailed and colorful but largely negative portrait of Patrick Henry for use in his biography of the Virginia orator. Finally, and perhaps of greatest importance to posterity, in January 1812 correspondence resumes between Jefferson and his old friend John Adams, after a long hiatus resulting from their rivalry for the presidency in 1800.
Discover the traditional stories of the Mayan people of Mexico and Central and South America, and learn about Mayan culture. In this collection you'll find such tales as Uncle Rabbit, Uncle Coyote, How the Serpent was Born, The Moon, The Screamer of the Night, and more than 25 other tales ranging from trickster tales and tales of ghosts and witches to moral tales and tales of the underworld, presented in Spanish and English. A brief history, color photographs of the land, people, and traditional arts, and recipes accompany the tales, placing them within a cultural context. Grades K-12.
Charles V was a scholarly king who commissioned French versions of ancient & medieval treatises for the express purpose of guiding his government. To translate Aristotle's "Politics" he chose Nicole Oresme, an ingenious philosopher whose aptitude & attitudes made him an effective supporter of the Valois monarchy. Oresme's task was to take his text out of the language of a small but international community of scholars & adapt it to serve the French people, making it accessible to a new & broad audience. Contents: Oresme & his Version of the "Politics"; Oresme & the Commentary Tradition of the "Politics"; Nat. Sovereignty & the Hierarchy of Communities; The Public State & the Common Good; The "Politics," the "Livre de Politiques," & the Church; Aristotle, Oresme, & Gallicanism; Conclusion; & Bibliography.
In The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self, Susan Harrow explores the fascinating interrelation of subjectivity, materiality, and representation in the poetry and related texts of four modern French writers: Arthur Rimbaud, Guillaume Apollinaire, Francis Ponge, and Jacques Réda. She demonstrates the richness and the relevance of modern French poetry for today's readers, putting contemporary thought to work on the fractured self emerging in the post-Baudelairian lyric. Harrow addresses the widely perceived marginalization of poetry in the writing/theory debate, demonstrating that the emergence of a self at once shaped by and straining against material, historical, subjective, and cultural impediments reveals fertile relations between theory and poetry. Where purer forms of postmodernist thinking have stressed the dissolution and dispersal of the human subject, new approaches informed by cultural studies, autobiography theory, and gender studies work to recover fictions of experience and retrieve submerged narratives of the self. Probing the activity of textual self-recovery among the debris of history and fantasy, visuality and desire, and culture and corporeality, The Material, the Real, and the Fractured Self imparts something of the startling beauty and the raw urgency of poetry writing across the broad modern period.
Through countless retellings, from the Talmud to Archibald MacLeish and since, the story of Job has been a fixture in the cultural imagination of the West, captivating the human imagination and forcing its readers to wrestle with the most painful realities of human existence. In this study, Susan E. Schreiner analyzes interpretations of the Book of Job by Gregory the Great, Maimonides, Thomas Aquinas, and particularly John Calvin. Reading Calvin's interpretation against the background of his medieval predecessors, she shows how central Job is to Calvin's struggles with some basic theological issues. Calvin and his predecessors put forth a variety of explanations for Job's wisdom, focusing on discussions of suffering, inferiority, enlightenment, union with the Active Intellect, immortality, providence, and faith. The one unifying feature of these precritical Joban commentaries is a concern with intellectual perception - in particular, with what Job saw or understood. What did the friends, who defended God, misperceive? Why did they not see the situation correctly? How does one explain Job's perceptual superiority over his friends? These texts raise basic questions about the human capacity for knowledge: Can suffering, particularly inexplicable suffering, elevate human understandings about God and self? Can humans truly perceive the workings of providence in their personal lives? Are evil and injustice a reality that we must confront before finding wisdom? In her final chapter, Schreiner shows that such concerns are not abandoned in modern critical commentaries and literary transformations of the Joban legend. Her study concludes by tracing the trajectory of these concerns through thewide array of twentieth-century interpretations of Job, including modern biblical commentaries, the work of Carl Jung, and literary transfigurations by Wells, MacLeish, Wiesel, and Kafka. The result is a compelling demonstration of the vital insights the history of exegesis can yield for contemporary culture.
This volume explores the nature and scope of the problem of poverty, examines the political responses to poverty (examples of different countries); and investigates the existence and use of various definitions and thresholds applied to poverty in policy making . It also examines the variations within income transfers, i.e. social benefits designed to prevent or alleviate poverty and material hardship and explores the effectiveness of benefit schemes in reducing poverty.--Publisher's description.
With 50 great recipes and beautiful photos throughout, C is for Cooking is now available in Spanish! Highly illustrated four-color recipe book. Features 50 recipes for parents to make for, or with, their children. Recipes will be kid favorites like chicken nuggets and cupcakes plus new ideas—discussed in context of a balanced diet and smart food choices. Nutrition advice in headnotes and/or tips for each recipe. Color photograph of each recipe. Illustrations and photos of Elmo, Oscar, Cookie Monster, Bert & Ernie, Zoe, Rosita, the newest character Abby Cadabby, and other popular characters are featured throughout the book. "Kids!" icon: Every recipe will feature this icon to indicate specific steps that young children can do. "Together Time" pages in the back of the book offer simple activities for kids and parents to do together to make cooking and mealtime activities fun and educational.
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