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  Cold Moon - On Life Love and...

  Roger Rosenblatt

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  A New York Times Book Review New and Noteworthy Selection. 
  "A booster shot of wisdom when we need it most."—Alan Alda "Cold Moon knocked me on my ass then held out its hand and hauled me back up, tossing me into the brawling fray, joyous and more hopeful than ever." —Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of TinkersThe Cold Moon occurs in late December, auguring the arrival of the winter solstice. Approaching the winter solstice of his own life, Roger Rosenblatt offers a book dedicated to the three most important lessons he has learned over his many years: an appreciation of being alive, a recognition of the gift and power of love, and the necessity of exercising responsibility toward one another. In a rough-and-tumble journey that moves like the sea, Rosenblatt rolls from elegy to comedy, distilling a lifetime of great tales and moments into a tonic for these perilous and fearful times. Cold Moon: a book to offer purpose, to focus the attention on life’s essentials, and to lift the spirit.​

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  Summary - The Getaway - Based On...

  Fastbooks Publishing

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  SUMMARY 
    
  THE GETAWAY 
  BASED ON THE BOOK BY JEFF KINNEY 
    
  SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: FASTBOOKS PUBLISHING 
    
  CONTENT 
  A Surprise Vacation Announcement 
  Airport Chaos 
  Flight Frustrations 
  Arrival in Paradise 
  Mishaps at the Resort 
  Poolside Problems 
  Wildlife Woes 
  Family Feuds and Misunderstandings 
  Escaping the Resort 
  Analysis and Themes 
    
  ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK 
  “The Getaway” by Jeff Kinney follows Greg Heffley and his family as they embark on a holiday to the tropical resort of Isla de Corales. What starts as an exciting Christmas vacation quickly turns into a chaotic series of misadventures. From crowded airports to awkward family moments, Greg’s experience highlights the gap between expectations and reality. The book explores themes of family dynamics, the frustration of travel, and the humorous side of everyday struggles. Through Greg’s eyes, the story offers a funny yet relatable take on the challenges and surprises of family vacations.

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  The Heart and Mind of...

  Douglas Flemons, PhD Michael D....

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  Explains and demonstrates how to create and utilize mind-body connections for unknotting vexing problems. 
   
   
   
  In the popular imagination, hypnosis is misconstrued as something done to people, as if the hypnotist hypnotizes them. And hypnotherapy is similarly misconceived as something done to clients' problems, as if the therapist could unilaterally counter or cure them. In a refreshing departure from conception-as-usual, Douglas Flemons offers another view, articulating relational ideas about how minds and bodies communicate and learn. 
   
   
   
  In his characteristically casual and concise way, Flemons explains and illustrates how hypnosis, like meditation, is invited, not induced, and how hypnotherapy entails the altering and unraveling of knotted strands of problematic experience, not the controlling and abolishing of labeled afflictions. The therapist gets in sync with clients so they can, together, extemporaneously facilitate changes to undesired thoughts, urges, emotions, sensations, or behaviors. This book takes you to the heart of hypnotherapy, to the respectful, playful practice of utilizing clients' flow experience to collaboratively discover and create opportunities for embodied learning and therapeutic change.

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  The Cholera Years - The United...

  Charles E. Rosenberg

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  A history of the nineteenth-century epidemic and a “skillful, absorbing presentation of the background and the effects of this dread disease” (The New York Times).   Cholera was the classic epidemic disease of the nineteenth century, as the plague had been for the fourteenth. Its defeat was a reflection not only of progress in medical knowledge but of enduring changes in American social thought. In this book Charles Rosenberg has focused his study on New York City, the most highly developed center of this new society. Carefully documented, full of descriptive detail, yet written with an urgent sense of the drama of the epidemic years, this narrative is as absorbing for general audiences as it is for the medical historian. In a new afterword, Rosenberg also discusses changes in historical method and concerns since the original publication of The Cholera Years. “A major work of interpretation of medical and social thought.”—I.B. Cohen, The New York Times “A masterful analysis.”—Steven Shapin, Times Literary Supplement “In a way that is all too rarely done, Rosenberg has skillfully interwoven medical, social, and intellectual history to show how medicine and society interacted and changed during the 19th century. The history of medicine here takes its rightful place in the tapestry of human history.”—John B. Blake, Science

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  Summary - Mythology - Based On...

  Fastbooks Publishing

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  SUMMARY 
    
  MYTHOLOGY 
  BASED ON THE BOOK BY EDITH HAMILTON 
    
  SUMMARY WRITTEN BY: FASTBOOKS PUBLISHING 
    
  CONTENT 
  The Gods, The Creation, and The Earliest Heroes 
  Stories of Love and Adventure 
  The Great Heroes Before the Trojan War 
  The Heroes of the Trojan War 
  The Great Families of Mythology 
  The Less Important Myths 
  The Mythology of the Norsemen 
  The Trojan War and the Heroes of Troy 
  The Adventures of Aeneas and The Founding of Rome 
  General Analysis of the Book 
    
  ABOUT THE ORIGINAL BOOK 
  “Mythology” by Edith Hamilton is a comprehensive retelling of the most significant myths from Greek, Roman, and Norse traditions. It explores the adventures and struggles of gods, heroes, and mortals, weaving together tales of love, betrayal, triumph, and tragedy. The book delves into the relationships between gods and humans, highlighting themes such as fate, free will, and moral lessons. It presents stories of legendary heroes like Hercules, Odysseus, and Aeneas, examining their journeys, challenges, and the profound impact of their actions on both their worlds and the future of civilizations. The narrative reveals timeless insights into human nature and divine intervention.

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  James Meredith and the Little...

  Editors Charles River

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  For millions of kids, high school is a tumultuous time, with social highs and lows, academic pressure, and extracurricular wins and losses, but for the Little Rock Nine, the first African American students to attend a previously segregated high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, those years were nightmarish.  
  Getting into Central High School was an obstacle witnessed by the entire nation, but that was only the beginning of their ordeal, because once they were permitted to step through the doors, their true battle began, pitting them against bullies, tormentors, and narrow-minded ignorance. While many teenagers’ main concern is finding a date for prom, theirs was surviving until lunch, and when some students were worrying about making the volleyball team, they were worried about making it home alive each day. The Little Rock Nine and their families and neighbors could not trust the local government to serve them, the school system to treat them fairly, or the police to protect them. As Melba Patillo Beals, one of the Little Rock Times, noted, “All my life I had felt unprotected by city officials…Whites had control of the police, the firemen, and the ambulances. They could decide who got help and who didn’t. Even if the Ku Klux Klan ravaged one of our homes, we wouldn’t call the police for help.” 
  Meredith is still remembered for the almost surreal scenes that came with his admission to the school, but those historic moments required a prolonged fight. After a drawn out lawsuit that involved the State of Mississippi appealing the lower court’s decision, he was finally set to attend the university in September 1962, only to be repeatedly prevented by a mob, which included Mississippi Governor Ross Barnett. Governor Barnett had earlier attempted to stop Meredith’s admission by changing state laws to ban anyone who had been convicted of a state crime; Meredith’s “crime” had been false voter registration.

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