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Since its introduction as a brief, empirically validated treatment for depression, “Interpersonal Psychotherapy” has broadened its scope and repertoire to include disorders of behavior and personality as well as disorders of mood. Practitioners in today's managed care climate will welcome this encyclopedic reference consolidating the 1984 manual (revised) with new applications and research results plus studies in process and in promise and an...
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Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer
Artist Danielle Smith is shocked to learn that wealthy, arrogant oil tycoon Nicholas Andracas hasplans for her: he wants a portrait painted…and to seduce her with his lethal charm!Nicholas obviously doesn't recognize her as the innocent young woman who gave him hervirginity seven years ago. And Danielle soon sees her chance to pay him back for the painhe'd caused…
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8) Quipu
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Caroline is about to go psychotic-and given her family, it's no surprise. Joseph cannot talk to women even if he is a certified high-IQ clever dick trying to take snapshots of the end of the universe. Ray and Marj have their own hassles with in-laws, but student terrorists get in the way. Meanwhile, Brian, misogynist and wit, appalls everyone in the quipu world. Quipus? They are the scandalous fanzines that hikes traded before blogs were invented....
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Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book!
More than his mistress…?
After his brother's suicide-at the hand of his sister-in-law's devastating lies-Joel Sutherland no longer believes in love and has vowed to avoid commitment altogether. But that doesn't mean he can't keep Lindsey Pope as his mistress!
The last six months with Joel have been the happiest of Lindsey's life,...
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It's the summer of 1984 and there is a sense of unease on the troubled Sweetmeadows estate. The residents are in shock after the suspicious death of a baby and tension is growing due to the ongoing miners' strike. Journalist Clare Jackson follows the story as police botch the inquiry and struggle to contain the escalating violence. Haunted by a personal trauma she can't face up to, Clare is shadowed by nine-year-old Amy, a bright but neglected little...
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Sin duda Gu Cheng consiste en uno de los poetas más importantes de la China contemporánea. Él comenzó a escribir los poemas con las palabras etéreas desde su infancia, pero terminó su vida de una manera trágica en sus cuatrenta años. A pesar de las críticas generalizadas, no se puede negar sus talentos que se muestran en sus poemas. Los poemas en Poemas Oscuros fueron creados en su época temporana (antes de 1984), también han reconocidos...
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If Chairman Mao came back to life today, what would he think of Nanjings bookstore, the Librairie Avant-Garde, where it is easier to find primers on Michel Foucaults philosophy than copies of the Little Red Book? What does it really mean to order a latte at Starbucks in Beijing? Is it possible that Aldous Huxley wrote a novel even more useful than Orwells 1984 for making sense of post-Tiananmen Chinaor post-9/11 America?
In these often playful, always...
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A collection of the greatest games, moments, and personalities from the Dallas football team's history, featuring stunning photography.
The Dallas Cowboys-"America's Team"-shares the record for most Super Bowl appearances (eight) with the Pittsburgh Steelers and recorded twenty consecutive winning seasons (1966—85), in which they only missed the playoffs twice (1974 and 1984), an NFL record. From owner Jerry Jones to such coaches and players as...
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The autobiography of a Scottish professor, army chaplain, World War II veteran, and prisoner of war.
From a croft in the Hebridean island of Harris to the grim confines of the Nazis' notorious prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III and the hallowed of Glasgow University; the life of Murdo Ewen Macdonald was one of extraordinary variety and richness. Macdonald was ordained as a Church of Scotland minister in 1939 and joined the military in 1940. After...
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Is There Something More Than This Life?
This world is full of crises and conflicts, difficulties and troubles -- but this world will not last. No matter what your age is, your earthly life is slowly slipping away. This is why Jesus encourages us not to store treasures on this earth. In other words, invest in heaven.
In Heaven Awaits, you will explore what the Bible says about heaven and begin to envision the wonders and glories that await...
16) Orwell: The Life
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Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: the authoritative biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century It was not easy to bury George Orwell. After a lifetime of iconoclasm, during which he professed no interest in religion and no affiliation with any church, he asked to be buried in an Anglican churchyard-but none would have him. Orwell's friends fought for him to have a proper grave, however, and the author of 1984, Animal...
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Two novellas and a full-length novel of Nevèrÿon, the land at the limit of history In The Tale of Plagues and Carnivals, a disease has come to Nevèrÿon. Men, rich and poor, have been stricken with it-but far fewer women. More and more die, and no one recovers. The illness seems to have first come from the Bridge of Lost Desire, a hangout for prostitutes male and female, but its spread through the city has been terrifying. And it will change Nevèrÿon...
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Beam Weapons describes the technological roots of Ronald Reagan's "Star Wars" quest for a strategic defense system to intercept and destroy nuclear ballistic missiles before they could reach their targets. The goal was to develop radically new beam weapons able to destroy nuclear missiles with beams of laser light or charged particles.The daring program was born at a time of wild technological optimism, when NASA talked of weekly space shuttle flights....
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In 1992, Dr. Ross A. Slotten signed more death certificates in Chicago-and, by inference, the state of Illinois-than anyone else. As a family physician, he was trained to care for patients from birth to death, but when he completed his residency in 1984, he had no idea that many of his future patients would be cut down in the prime of their lives. Among those patients were friends, colleagues, and lovers, shunned by most of the medical community because...
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A reflection on Orwell-as-idea that "outlines some of the misconceptions and misuses of the Orwell name" (Modern Fiction Studies).
The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagination, while others of his literary...