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Teach, Breathe, Learn: Mindfulness in and out of the Classroom
Meena Srinivasan · Parallax Press
Format: Book
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In Teach, Breathe, Learn, Meena Srinivasan highlights how mindfulness can be an effective tool in the classroom. What makes this book truly unique is her perspective as a classroom teacher, wrestling daily with the conditions about which she writes.“Teach, Breathe, Learn provides accessible,... |
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Kierkegaard's Muse: The Mystery of Regine Olsen
Joakim Garff · Princeton University Press
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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The first biography of Kierkegaard's literary muse and one-time fiancée, from the author of the definitive biography of the philosopherKierkegaard's Muse, the first biography of Regine Olsen (1822-1904) , the literary inspiration and one-time fiancée of Danish philosopher Søren... |
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The Boundaries of Desire: A Century of Good Sex, Bad Laws, and Changing Identities
Eric Berkowitz · Counterpoint LLC
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The act of reproduction, and its variants, never change much, but our ideas about the meaning of sex are in constant flux. Switch a decade, cross a border, or traverse class lines and the harmless pleasures of one group become the gravest crimes in another.Combining meticulous research... |
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Personal Stereo
Rebecca Tuhus-Dubrow · Bloomsbury Academic
Pages: 152
Format: Paperback
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Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. When the Sony Walkman debuted in 1979, people were enthralled by the novel experience it offered: immersion in the music of their choice, anytime, anywhere. But the Walkman was also... |
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Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine
Jonathan B Imber · Transaction Publishers
Pages: 171
Format: Paperback
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Originally published in 1986, Abortion and the Private Practice of Medicine was the first book to look at abortion from the perspective of physicians in private practice. Jonathan B. Imber spent two years observing and interviewing all twenty-six of the obstetrician-gynecologists in "Daleton,"... |
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Don't Give Up on Me: Shedding Light on Addiction with Darryl Strawberry
Shawn Powell · HenschelHAUS Publishing, Inc.
Pages: 312
Format: Paperback
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Major League Baseball All-Star Darryl Strawberry has triumphed... not only on the baseball diamond, but in life. My brain is broken--Darryl Strawberry Skillfully weaving Darryl Strawberry's personal story of childhood abuse, anxiety, drug abuse and alcohol addiction, between easy-to-understand... |
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How Not To Be a Boy
Robert Webb · Canongate Books
Pages: 328
Format: Hardcover
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THE NUMBER ONE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERRULES FOR BEING A MANDon't Cry; Love Sport; Play Rough; Drink Beer; Don't Talk About Feelings But Robert Webb has been wondering for some time now: are those rules actually any use? To anyone? Looking back over his life, from schoolboy crushes (on girls... |
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Solitary: The Inside Story of Supermax Isolation and How We Can Abolish It
Terry Allen Kupers · University of California Press
Pages: 312
Format: Hardcover
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"When I testify in court, I am often asked: 'What is the damage of long-term solitary confinement?' . . . Many prisoners emerge from prison after years in solitary with very serious psychiatric symptoms even though outwardly they may appear emotionally stable. The damage from... |
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The Code of the Warrior: Exploring Warrior Values Past and Present
Shannon E French · Rowman & Littlefield
Pages: 281
Format: Print book
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This revised and expanded second edition of The Code of the Warrior - a book George R. Lucas has described as "groundbreaking" and "now part of the Military Ethics canon" - takes the reader on a tour of warrior cultures and their values, from the ancient Greeks and Romans... |
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Human Nature & Jewish Thought: Judaism's Case for Why Persons Matter
Alan L. Mittleman · Princeton University Press
Format: Hardcover
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This book explores one of the great questions of our time How can we preserve our sense of what it means to be a person while at the same time accepting what science tells us to be true--namely, that human nature is continuous with the rest of nature? What, in other words, does it mean... |
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