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Musicians, artists and other creative types are pulled in many directions by society's conflicted vision for the arts. Doug Mann, from his vantage point as a Christian visual artist and music industry veteran, offers guidance for staying true to an artistic vision while remaining connected to the world's needs.
Emily Mann: Rebel Artist of the American Theater is the story of a remarkable American playwright, director, and artistic director. It is the story of a woman who defied the American theater's sexism, a traumatic assault, and illness to create unique documentary plays and to lead the McCarter Theatre Center, for thirty seasons, to a place of national recognition. The book traces and describes Emily Mann's family life; her coming-of-age in Chicago during the exuberant, rebellious, and often violent 1960s; how sexual violence touched her personally; and how she fell in love with theater and began learning her craft at the Loeb Drama Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, while a student at Radcli...
There are approximately 1.4 million trans-identified individuals in the US alone, many of whom will undergo gender-affirming medical or surgical interventions to better align their appearance with their gender identity. Multiple major medical societies recommend fertility preservation counseling prior to starting any gender-affirming therapies, but data are limited on the reproductive effects of common gender-affirming hormone regimens. The burden of fertility counseling falls to the hormone providers and surgeons that are encountering these patients, many of whom will not have had adequate training or resources to provide evidence-based recommendations and options. Additionally, many reprod...
Our destiny is not determined by chance. It is determined by choice. Burning Ships is a simple yet profound guided journal to help you uniquely reframe your approach to life. Through a series of practical and interactive prompts, this life-affirming self-help book is the guided journal to help you lead the life you were made to live. Our lives are defined by decisive moments, which have a ripple effect through time. When we fail to act, we alter if not relinquish our future. Maybe like the early explorers who launched the age of discovery, we need to burn our christened ships of fear, pride, lost love, approval seeking or people pleasing. Only then can we navigate into uncharted territories,...
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Lyndon Johnson was often blamed for abandoning Kennedy's vision of development and progress in Latin America in favor of his own domestic concerns: anti-communism and economic stability. Johnson, along with his fellow Texan and chief adviser on inter-American affairs Thomas C. Mann, nonetheless offered a vision for American engagement with the developing world even as congressional funding and public enthusiasm for such programs waned and Johnson's presidency collapsed under the weight of the Vietnam War. This book explores Lyndon Johnson's Latin American policy, from his key advisers to development programs and military interventions, to establish a new perspective on the impact of a comple...