Approximately 35 to 40 million Americans will deal with severe depression at some point in their lives. Whether you’re a newly diagnosed patient, or a friend or relative, this book offers help. The only volume available to provide the doctor’s and patient’s view, 100 Questions and Answers About Depression gives you authoritative, practical answers to your questions about treatment options, coping strategies -- for both patient and caregiver and much more. This book is an invaluable resource for anyone coping with the physical and emotional turmoil of this debilitating condition.
In Cross Examinations of Law and Literature Brook Thomas uses legal thought and legal practice as a lens through which to read some of the important fictions of antebellum America. The lens reflects both ways, and we learn as much about the literature in the context of contemporary legal concerns as we do about the legal ideologies that the fiction subverts or reveals. Successive chapters deal with Cooper's Pioneers and Hawthorne's The House of Seven Gables (property law and the image of the judiciary), Melville's 'Benito Cereno' and Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin (slavery), Melville's White Jacket, Pierre and 'Bartleby' (worker exploitation or wage slavery), ....
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The Book of Tea A Japanese Harmony Of Art Culture And The Simple Life The Book of Tea discusses the impact of "Teaism" on all aspects of Japanese culture and life. Kakuzo elaborates on the relationship between tea ceremony and Zen and Taoism. He also talks about the tea masters and their contribution to the tea ceremony. Kakuzo spoke English from an early age, and so was able to make his writings accessible to the Western mind.
Lessons About Life Momma Never Taught Us: Happy About Learning the Easy Way
The book describes the lessons and insights the three authors derived from their experiences and problems with boys. It contains the proven discoveries about who boys really are and the reasons for the behaviors they have that drive girls crazy. These voyages of self-discovery are the lessons that the authors decided should have been taught to them years ago. The book shows that regardless of age (authors 15 to 50) women still have the same perplexing questions about how to approach and relate to men.
Most of us love reading about crime in the newspapers, and reading stories about Sherlock Holmes and the other great detectives. This book looks at some of the great crimes of history - crimes like the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Mona Lisa robbery. It also looks at some great criminals, like the poisoner Dr Crippen. Most of these crimes were solved, but some, like the assassination of President Kennedy, still hold their mysteries.
