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Optimizing the Self
This book provides an analysis of the social representations of leading self-help genres, including neurolinguistic programming, cognitive self-help therapy, mindfulness, self-management, self-esteem, self-leadership and self-control. Exploring the globalised therapeutic culture of today, the book argues that psychology as ‘science’ is often abandoned to aid the individual pursuit for self-realization and self-optimization. Opposing the view that self-help culture is external to psychology, Madsen argues that it is firmly embedded within psychology, playing an important role in people’s lives. Each chapter traces and critically interprets a range of self-help philosophies and technique...
Deformations of Surface Singularities
The present publication contains a special collection of research and review articles on deformations of surface singularities, that put together serve as an introductory survey of results and methods of the theory, as well as open problems and examples. The aim is to collect material that will help mathematicians already working or wishing to work in this area to deepen their insight and eliminate the technical barriers in this learning process. Additionally, we introduce some material which emphasizes the newly found relationship with the theory of Stein fillings and symplectic geometry. This links two main theories of mathematics: low dimensional topology and algebraic geometry. The theory of normal surface singularities is a distinguished part of analytic or algebraic geometry with several important results, its own technical machinery, and several open problems. Recently several connections were established with low dimensional topology, symplectic geometry and theory of Stein fillings. This created an intense mathematical activity with spectacular bridges between the two areas. The theory of deformation of singularities is the key object in these connections.
Singularities
This book contains papers given at the International Singularity Conference held in 1991 at Lille.
Singularity Theory and its Applications
A workshop on Singularities, Bifurcation and Dynamics was held at Warwick in July 1989 as part of a year-long symposium on Singularity Theory and its applications. The proceedings fall into two halves: Volume I mainly on connections with algebraic geometry and volume II on connections with dynamical systems theory, bifurcation theory, and applications in the sciences. The papers are orginal research, stimulated by the symposium and workshops: All have been refereed, and none will appear elsewhere. The main topic, deformation theory, is represented by several papers on descriptions of the bases of versal deformations, and several more on descriptions of the generic fibres. Other topics include stratifications, and applications to differential geometry.
The Psalms Distilled in Verse
Jan Christophersen is a devout Episcopalian poet who has spent much time on and off retreat condensing the Psalms into rhymed verses that capture the pith of meaning for the modern reader. Long enlightening fellow parishioners of Church of the Servant in Wilmington, North Carolina, her Psalms, Distilled in Verse are here collected for the first time, to be read alone or along with the original versions from the Bible. They are helpful to prayer as well as study; as Jan says, "When you don't know what to pray, let the psalms say it for you."
Ulrike Draesner
Ulrike Draesner is a prize-winning writer of novels, short stories, critical essays and poetry, and one of the foremost authors in Germany today. While a number of volumes have been published in German on her work, the current Companion offers the first volume on Draesner in English, capitalising on the interest in her work in Germany and further afield. Introducing Draesner’s major novels and short stories, poetry collections and essays, as well as giving an overview of existing research focusing on migration, memory, science, gender and bodily experience, chapters by international scholars in this volume also break new ground by focussing on visual culture, poetology, nature, the posthuman and Draesner’s reception of English literature and medieval culture. A comprehensive bibliography, commissioned interview and original writing by Draesner make the volume a valuable research tool for scholars and students. This will become essential reading for all those interested in Draesner, women’s writing, literature and history, and contemporary German prose and poetry.
Arztroman
Anita Cornelius ist Notärztin an einem großen Berliner Krankenhaus und liebt ihren Beruf. Sich auf unerwartete Situationen einzustellen, entspricht ihrem Temperament. Auch wenn es bei ihren Einsätzen nicht immer so aufregend zugeht, wie man sich das vorstellt. Anita ist das recht. Sie kann helfen. Und ab und zu sogar jemandem etwas Gutes tun. Adrian, ihr Exmann, ist Arzt am selben Krankenhaus. Sie haben sich erst vor kurzem in bestem Einvernehmen getrennt, und Lukas, ihr vierzehnjähriger Sohn, lebt bei seinem Vater und dessen neuer Freundin Heidi. Hätte Anita Adrian nicht zufällig bewusstlos auf der Krankenhaustoilette gefunden, zugedröhnt mit einem Narkosemittel, und hätte Heidi nic...
