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Lemily by the Sea
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 17

Lemily by the Sea

Lemily by the Sea is the story of a young child of unspecified gender and their encounters with intriguing sea creatures. When Lemily grows restless for a human friend, Sebastian bursts on the scene, but it doesn't go well. Enter Imelda, a sea-animal nanny who teaches the children a variety of life skills, the most important of which is how to get along. Any child who has felt lonely or isolated will be heartened by this rollicking tale of friendship and shared adventure.

Forgetting the Holocaust
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 97

Forgetting the Holocaust

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Petrushkin!
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 116

Petrushkin!

In Petrushkin! Ron Charach walks a circus tightrope between the absurd and the absurdly real, the extraordinary and the quotidian. Petrushkin! features a parade of figures from the Human Comedy, both benevolent and malign, that grace and haunt our daily lives.

Christopher Sproyngeez and Deedlekin Doll
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 13

Christopher Sproyngeez and Deedlekin Doll

Christopher Sproyngeez and Deedlekin Doll are dying to visit the World's Biggest Mall. When their parents go off on a shopping spree, Chris and Deedle grow tired of waiting, and use an array of secret powers to fly through the mall's atrium, with Deedlekin changing identities as the mood suits her. The family learns life lessons about the values of being patient, staying calm in emergencies, and ultimately, about the lure of materialism.

Lemily by the Sea
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 17

Lemily by the Sea

Lemily by the Sea is the story of a young child of unspecified gender and their encounters with intriguing sea creatures. When Lemily grows restless for a human friend, Sebastian bursts on the scene, but it doesn't go well. Enter Imelda, a sea-animal nanny who teaches the children a variety of life skills, the most important of which is how to get along. Any child who has felt lonely or isolated will be heartened by this rollicking tale of friendship and shared adventure.

The Wounded Storyteller
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 280

The Wounded Storyteller

Updated second edition: “A bold and imaginative book which moves our thinking about narratives of illness in new directions.” —Sociology of Heath and Illness Since it was first published in 1995, The Wounded Storyteller has occupied a unique place in the body of work on illness. A collective portrait of a so-called “remission society” of those who suffer from illness or disability, as well as a cogent analysis of their stories within a larger framework of narrative theory, Arthur W. Frank’s book has reached a large and diverse readership including the ill, medical professionals, and scholars of literary theory. Drawing on the work of such authors as Oliver Sacks, Anatole Broyard,...

Line by Line
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 148

Line by Line

Line by Line offers a glimpse of poetry in action through the expressive drawings of Heather Spears. Fifty of Canada's most revered poets contemplate the subject 'line' - lines of poetry, landscape or art - each poem accompanied by a portrait capturing the poet in performance.

Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 170

Mental Health, Psychiatry and the Arts

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-10-08
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  • Publisher: CRC Press

'Medicine and psychiatry, both based on science, require the art of caring, using the principles of art in learning and teaching. Sitting with a patient, making sense of their distress, being empathetic in understanding both the symptoms and the person and alleviating suffering needs a human touch. For that, doctors need the soul of an artist and must be aware of the value that arts have for society and the individual.' - from the Foreword by Dinesh Bhugra This comprehensive book explores how visual art, cinema, music, poetry, literature and drama can inform the teaching and practice of psychiatrists and mental health professionals. Edited and written by a team of expert practitioners, teach...

Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 537

Catalog of the Gerald K. Stone Collection of Judaica

Gerald K. Stone has collected books about Canadian Jewry since the early 1980s. This volume is a descriptive catalog of his Judaica collection, comprising nearly 6,000 paper or electronic documentary resources in English, French, Yiddish, and Hebrew. Logically organized, indexed, and selectively annotated, the catalog is broad in scope, covering Jewish Canadian history, biography, religion, literature, the Holocaust, antisemitism, Israel and the Middle East, and more. An introduction by Richard Menkis discusses the significance of the Catalog and collecting for the study of the Jewish experience in Canada. An informative bibliographical resource, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of Canadian and North American Jewish studies.

The Aesthetics of Emotion
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 415

The Aesthetics of Emotion

Argues that relations between mind and body are analogous to those between subject matter and style in art.