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  Simple Self-Care for Therapists...

  Ashley Davis Bush

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  For mental health professionals who must regularly guard against compassion fatigue and secondary traumatization, intentional self-care isn't just essential; it's a survival tool. If therapists don't take proper care of themselves, they can't do their work effectively.Taking up an exercise program, going on a vacation, turning to supportive social networks, while helpful remedies to the stresses of the job, are not always feasible and the results are often only short term. Synthesizing the latest thinking in mindfulness, neuroscience, energy medicine, and spiritual disciplines, Simple Self-Care for Therapists offers immediate relief in doable, bite-sized nuggets—easy exercises that can be seamlessly integrated into your current workday routine with little fuss.Over sixty restorative practices are presented—tools for grounding, energizing, and relaxing—organized as antidotes to the most common pathologies that therapists suffer: vicarious trauma, compassion fatigue, and burnout. Bush, a therapist with over twenty-five years of experience, walks listeners through the descriptions and simple implementation of each practice, with illuminating stories from her own professional experiences.

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  Rethinking Our Past

  James Loewen

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  An esteemed academic for over 20 years, Dr. James W. Loewen also penned the New York Times best-seller Lies My Teacher Told Me. Through this enlightening lecture series, Dr. Loewen roots out many historical inaccuracies that are still taught to children today.

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  Reframing Academic Leadership

  Lee G. Bolman, Joan V. Gallos

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  The authors apply the powerful Four Frames model developed by  Bolman and Deal to the unique challenges of higher education  leadership, illustrating the different view of academic  leadership.       Part I: Leadership Epistemology: When You Understand, You Know  What to Do  Chapter 1: The Opportunities and Challenges in Academic  Leadership  Chapter 2: Sensemaking and the Power of Reframing  Chapter 3: Knowing What Youre Doing: Learning,  Authenticity, and Theories for Action  Part II: Reframing Leadership Challenges  Chapter 4: Building Clarity and Capacity: Leader as Analyst and  Architect  Chapter 5: Respecting and Managing Differences: Leader as  Compassionate Politician  Chapter 6: Fostering a Caring and Productive Campus: Leader as  Servant, Catalyst, and Coach  Chapter 7: Keeping the Faith and Celebrating the Mission: Leader  as Prophet and Artist  Chapter 8: Leading from the Middle: The Academic Leader as  Boundary Spanner  Part III: Courage and Hope  Chapter 9: Sustaining Higher Education Leaders: Advancing the  Work  Chapter 10: Sustaining Higher Education Leaders: Feeding the  Soul  Epilogue: Higher Education as Sacred Calling

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  Extracted - Unmasking Rampant...

  S. Perry Brickman

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  For half a century, S Perry Brickman harbored a deep and personally painful secret…    On a late summer day in 2006, Brickman and his wife attended an exhibit on the history of Jewish life at Emory University and were astonished to come face-to-face with documents that strongly suggested that Brickman and many others had been failed out of Emory’s dental school because they were Jewish. They decided to embark on an uncharted path to uncover the truth. With no initial allies and plenty of resistance, Brickman awoke each morning determined to continue extracting evidence hidden in deep and previously unmined archives. While the overt discrimination was displayed in charts and graphs, the names of the victims were scrupulously withheld.    The ability of the perpetrators to silence all opposition and the willingness of the Jewish community to submit to the establishment were deeply troubling as Brickman continued to dig deeper into the issue. Extracted brings to light the human element of the rampant antisemitism that affected the dental profession in twentieth-century America—the personal tragedies, the faces, and the individual stories of shame and humiliation. After five years of identifying, interviewing, and recording the victims, Brickman was finally permitted to present his documentary to Emory officials and ask for redemption for the stain she had made.

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  This Land Is Our Land - The...

  Jedediah Purdy

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  Today, we are at a turning point as we face ecological and political crises that are rooted in conflicts over the land itself. But these problems can be solved if we draw on elements of our tradition that move us toward a new commonwealth-a community founded on the well-being of all people and the natural world. 
  From the coalfields of Appalachia and the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the public lands of the West, Jedediah Purdy-one of our finest writers and leading environmental thinkers-shows how the land has always united and divided Americans, holding us in common projects and fates but also separating us into insiders and outsiders, owners and dependents, workers and bosses. Expropriated from Native Americans and transformed by slave labor, the same land that represents a history of racism and exploitation could, in the face of environmental catastrophe, bind us together in relationships of reciprocity and mutual responsibility. 
  This may seem idealistic in our polarized time, but we are at a historical fork in the road, and if we do not make efforts now to move toward a commonwealth, Purdy warns, environmental and political pressures will create harsher and crueler conflicts-between citizens, between countries, and between humans and the rest of the world.

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  Pups of the Spirit

  Zondervan Zondervan

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  “God gave each puppy a gift of its own, 
  and PUPS OF THE SPIRIT is how they are known!” 
  Peanut is patient, and Kay is so kind. Each of these nine loveable puppies has a special trait to help them grow closer to God. From love and joy to patience and kindness, children will have fun learning about the fruits of the spirit with these playful and cuddly companions.

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