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What do our clothes say about who we are or who we think we are? How does the way we dress communicate messages about our identity? Is the desire to be "in fashion" universal, or is it unique to Western culture? How do fashions change? These are just a few of the intriguing questions Fred Davis sets out to answer in this provocative look at what we do with our clothes—and what they can do to us. Much of what we assume to be individual preference, Davis shows, really reflects deeper social and cultural forces. Ours is an ambivalent social world, characterized by tensions over gender roles, social status, and the expression of sexuality. Predicting what people will wear becomes a risky gamble when the link between private self and public persona can be so unstable.
Introduces Nonduality to people in recovery, and recovery to people who are already involved in nondual spirituality.
In this captivating novel, New York Times bestselling author Fiona Davis takes readers into the glamorous lost art school within Grand Central Terminal, where two very different women, fifty years apart, strive to make their mark on a world set against them. For most New Yorkers, Grand Central Terminal is a crown jewel, a masterpiece of design. But for Clara Darden and Virginia Clay, it represents something quite different. For Clara, the terminal is the stepping stone to her future. It is 1928, and Clara is teaching at the lauded Grand Central School of Art. Though not even the prestige of the school can override the public's disdain for a "woman artist," fiery Clara is single-minded in her...
Based on a study of fourteen families in which a child had contracted paralytic poliomyelitis, Passage Through Crisis, first published in 1963, was widely praised for its penetrating—and, for its time, innovative—analyses of doctor-patient communications, and for its interpretation of the meaning of physical disability in American society.This book retains for today's readers that essential quality that most engaged readers upon its original publication: its vivid and probing ethnographic account of the impact of serious illness on the family, the difficult processes of adjustment that ensue and, in these connections, the role played (and toll exacted) by American values.
Deviance is by definition a social problem. Since deviant behavior violates the normative expectations of a given group, deviance must be regarded as a problem for that group, since all groups of people want their norms to be enforced. Many modern societies place considerable value on personal liberty, so much so that interference with personal choices to deviate from group norms can be justified only in terms of the potential damage that particular kinds of behavior might do to the legitimate interests of others. Sociological research suggests that the social problem associated with deviance is often the behavior of individuals who violate norms cannot be justified in terms of basic values ...
Over the last three years, The Living Method of Spiritual Awakening has helped many hundreds of people around the world come to recognize and accept their True Nature. It can do the same for you. You can awaken from the dream of separation into the truth of unity and you can do it NOW.In the tradition of the author's bestselling, The Book of Undoing, this book shares all the secrets of The Living Method's amazing Awakening Sessions, as they are conducted today. The author's clarity, skills and toolbox have all grown enormously as a result of the countless sessions he's held since Undoing's publication, and he shares the fruit of that experience here.The entire text is a single, extended dialogue between student and teacher-presented here in the form of a mock Awakening Session. The reader takes the student's seat and plays the student's role. And you will be presented with the very same option: the opportunity to awaken-NOW.Find out more about Fred and The Living Method of Spiritual Awakening at AwakeningClarityNow.com.
"1000" is the 820 page complete guide to LOCs (Levels of Consciousness) and the Stages of Awakening. "1000" is a uniquely accessible breakthrough book that explains the complete spiritual path from beginning to end. Students of meditation, prayer, self-inquiry, enlightenment, non-duality, Advaita, yoga and Eastern religion will find it to be an unusually spirited, fiercely candid, passionate work.
The Book of Nothing is a large gathering of quotes and questions that were painstakingly pulled from live satsangs by my dear friend, the late Gordon Goodman, M.D. He spent an entire year pulling out helpful quotes and questions from my responses to students during our live, online Sunday Satsangs. It is a book you can read forward, backward, or start anywhere you like. You can read one quote or question at a time, or all 624 of them one after the other. Do as you will: it's Your book! And it's my hope that You'll come to recognize this as You go through it. The Book of Nothing can be used as a morning meditation or you can use it to take a dose of clarity as many times during the day or nig...