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Traces the life and death of a nineteen-year-old bulimic and her mother's ensuing journey for answers and healing, in a tale told through the victim's poetry and journal entries as well as her mother's reflections about the disorder. Original.
This book is not a biography about a man, but rather it is about a Journey. This is a Journey through life, with this illness, Bipolar Disorder, and all the dynamics that go along with it. This book shows how a man faced the consequences of this disease, and all its pain, bigotry and anguish, but this journey also shows how he defeated the disease. This is a book of his Journey through trauma, tragedy, and recovery. This book is a riveting account of that journey. It includes others who have suffered the indignities of this illness. It brings to life an account of a story that could be written by many different people over time. Destroying a life to save the same life could be construed by many as an oxymoron. However, in this case, it fits the scenario perfectly. As in the story of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, there had to be destruction of one's inner-self to save everyone from the inner-demons plaguing Dr. Jekyll.
Trust is central to our social lives. We know by trusting what others tell us. We act on that basis, and on the basis of trust in their promises and implicit commitments. So trust underpins both epistemic and practical cooperation and is key to philosophical debates on the conditions of its possibility. It is difficult to overstate the significance of these issues. On the practical side, discussions of cooperation address what makes society possible-of how it is that life is not a Hobbesian war of all against all. On the epistemic side, discussions of cooperation address what makes the pooling of knowledge possible-and so the edifice that is science. But trust is not merely central to our lives instrumentally; trusting relations are themselves of great value, and in trusting others, we realise distinctive forms of value. What are these forms of value, and how is trust central to our lives? These questions are explored and developed in this volume, which collects fifteen new essays on the philosophy of trust. They develop and extend existing philosophical discussion of trust and will provide a reference point for future work on trust.
Mary Jo Bona reconstructs the literary history and examines the narrative techniques of eight Italian American women's novels from 1940 to the present. Largely neglected until recently, these women's family narratives compel a reconsideration of what it means to be a woman and an ethnic in America. Bona discusses the novels in pairs according to their focus on Italian American life. She first examines the traditions of italianitá (a flavor of things Italian) that inform and enhance works of fiction. The novelists in that tradition were Mari Tomasi (Like Lesser Gods, 1949) and Marion Benasutti (No Steady Job for Papa, 1966). Bona then turns to later novels that highlight the Italian American...
This Novel will take you into the lives of several different black women who have different ways of surviving. Andrea is the C.E.O of her own multi-million dollar cleaning company. Mrs. Scott, who holds several degree ́s, is a retired college professor and battling stage four breast cancer. Then there ́s the beautiful "green eyed monster" Tranasha, who hasn ́t finished high school, can ́t keep a job and doesn ́t want one... But hey, she has her own lottery ticket to help her get out of the ghetto and her fiancee, Mr. Jordan Kyle Scott III, who owns a multi-million dollar commercial real estate company. If Tranasha ́s mother, Mildred has anything to say about it, Traci better use any means necessary to Trap Jordan, even lie about the paternity of their son Jamaal. Traci ́s mother, Mildred, who comes from five generations of welfare recipients, has no problem marrying elderly men just for their money, and if you get in her way, she will cut you. She ́s even given up her own children for a man... Come and explore these characters with me and other interesting women that will keep you wondering, what ́s next?
In this accessible ethnography of a small town in northern Mozambique, everyday cultural knowledge and behaviors about food, cooking, and eating reveal the deeply human pursuit of a nourishing life. This emerges less through the consumption of specific nutrients than it does in the affective experience of alimentation in contexts that support vitality, compassion, and generative relations. Embedded within central themes in the study of Africa south of the Sahara, the volume combines insights from philosophy and food studies to find textured layers of meaning in a seemingly simple cuisine.
Anne was born in the beautiful and peaceful kingdom of Catalina. When her parents died, she was adopted by Queen Annabelle, the kingdom's kind and wise ruler. Take a journey with her as she grows from an adorable toddler into a sweet young girl, and then into a beautiful young woman who must make tough decisions about her future. Join Anne as she discovers that God's plan for our lives is greater than anything we could ever imagine.
A Seattle succubus with a shot at love gets a suspicious transfer to Las Vegas in this urban fantasy by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author. Georgina Kincaid has had an eternity to figure out the opposite sex, but sometimes they still surprise her. Take Seth Mortensen. The man has risked his soul to become Georgina’s boyfriend. Still, with Lucifer for a boss, Georgina can’t just hang up her killer heels and settle down to domestic bliss. In fact, she’s being forced to transfer operations…to Las Vegas. The City of Sin is a dream gig for a succubus, but Georgina’s allies are suspicious. Why are the powers-that-be so eager to get her away from Seattle—and from Seth? Georgina is...
The first time Jamie meets Jim, she is a graduate student, and he is a dashing young man embarking on a successful career in pharmaceutical research. They cultivate a mutual affection for each other while pursuing different goals in life. When Jamie meets Jim again years later, she has broken up with her long-time boyfriend, and he is having marital problems. A one-night stand in a remote hotel turns their friendship into a two-decade long love affair. When their liaison becomes too difficult to sustain, it brings a crisis to its head. The accidental death of Jim’s wife clears the way for the lovers, but instead of uniting with Jamie, Jim commits suicide. Suspenseful and gripping, An Intangible Affair is a tale of passion and deception, friendship and love.
As algorithmic data processing increasingly pervades everyday life, it is also making its way into the worlds of art, literature and music. In doing so, it shifts notions of creativity and evokes non-anthropocentric perspectives on artistic practice. This volume brings together contributions from the fields of cultural studies, literary studies, musicology and sound studies as well as media studies, sociology of technology, and beyond, presenting a truly interdisciplinary, state-of-the-art picture of the transformation of creative practice brought about by various forms of AI.