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Living Victims, Stolen Lives: Parents of Murdered Children Speak to America
Brad Stetson
"Wake up America! Doesn't half-a-million murders in America in the last 20 years shake you to reality? The millions of survivors of homicide want you to know the excruciating pain caused to us by losing a loved one to murder. Not for pity, but to help you understand our grief and why we fight to put a stop to this insanity. Living Victims, Stolen Lives should be carefully read and pondered by anyone who comes in contact with parents of murdered children, including police officers, district attorneys, criminal defense lawyers, journalists—and murderers in prison!"
Elsie Purnell,Chapter Leader of the San Gabriel Valley, CA, chapter of Parents of Murdered Children
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Healing Images: The Role of Imagination in Health
Edited by Anees A. Sheikh
"Healing Images draws together the most rigorous and scholarly available research to document the healing power of imagination. With consummate skill, Dr. Sheikh separates the wishful from the evidence-based and offers us a scientifically impeccable and deeply poetic invitation to re-own our innate power. A must read for anyone who hopes to heal themselves and others."
Rachel Naomi Remen, M.D., Author, Kitchen Table Wisdom & My Grandfather's Blessings
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Death and Bereavement Around the World, Volume 1: Major Religious Traditions
Edited by John D. Morgan and Pittu Laungani
The first of a five-volume presentation and analysis of the ways different peoples experience dying and grief. Volume 1 discusses the major religious traditions of the world and how they help followers deal with the fundamentals of life. People live and die according to their value systems. It is important, then, that caregivers understand not only the values and traditions of the major religions of the world, but also the national values and traditions by which persons find meaning.
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Homicide Survivors: Misunderstood Grievers
Judie A. Bucholz
The author herself a homicide survivor, offers a unique perspective and experiential base for examining the phenomenon of homicide bereavement. Her intent is to help the reader understand the homicide griever’s situation both as one who grieves and one who grieves within a social context, as one who confronts horrific death at the personal level as well as at the social level.
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Grendel and His Mother: Healing the Trauma of Childhood Through Dreams Imagery and Hypnosis
Nicholas E. Brink
Whereas a dream is specific to an individual dreamer, a myth is an ancestral dream generated by a culture. Both dream and myth describe the processes of the unconscious mind, myth as the unconscious process on a universal level applicable to all. In Grendel and His Mother, the legend of Beowulf offers a metaphoric map for the journey through the unconscious mind to overcome client suffering.
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Death 101: A Workbook for Educating and Healing
Sandra Helene Straub
The purpose of Death 101: A Workbook for Educating and Healing is to provide an understanding of dying, death, and bereavement that will assist individuals to cope better with and understand their own death and the death of others. It enables one to examine cultural attitudes and assumptions about dying and death. Death 101 introduces the dying process, grief work, and ethical and legal issues while providing personal insight and sensitivity.
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The Cotton Dust Papers: Science, Politics and Power in the "Discovery" of Byssinosis in the U.S.
Charles Levenstein and Gregory F. DeLaurier with Mary Lee Dunn
The Cotton Dust Papers is the story of the 50-year struggle for recognition in the U.S. of the pernicious occupational disease—byssinosis. A fascinating and accessible piece of historical detective work, The Cotton Dust Papers offers lessons about the pursuit of occupational health that remain relevant and important today.
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Common Threads: Nine Widows' Journeys Through Love Loss and Healing
Diane S. Kaimann
"This magnificent book is more than a story about death. It is about the art of living and loving, written with exquisite understanding of pain and fear-and also of the reach of the human spirit when responding to life's greatest challenge. It is authentic, exciting, and hard to put down."
Rabbi Earl A. Grollman, DHL, DD, Author, Living When a Loved One Has Died
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Invitation to the Life Course: Toward New Understandings of Later Life
Edited by Richard A. Settersten
Invitation to the Life Course discusses in depth the challenges of age, time, and social contexts for the study of aging and later life. Understanding aging (as a process) and later life (as a period) must be accompanied by serious attention to the life course. This brings significant challenges related to time, as gerontologists must describe and explain life patterns over many decades. It also brings significant challenges related to place, as gerontologists must examine how social contexts structure pathways into and through later life, and how those contexts affect the nature and meaning of experiences along the way.
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What Will We Do? Preparing A School Community to Cope With Crises, 2nd Edition
Edited by Robert G. Stevenson
A vital new book presenting specific steps to help prepare a school community to cope with possible future crises. Today's news has shown us with dramatic effect that a crisis can occur at any time, often without warning. Educators and parents must work together if they wish to help young people, and each other, when such a crisis occurs. What Will We Do? is a major step in that direction.
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Exploding Steamboats, Senate Debates and Technical Reports: The Convergence of Technology, Politics and Rhetoric in the Steamboat Bill of 1838
John Brockmann
Exploding Steamboats investigates the rhetoric, politics, and technology of antebellum America, offering timeless insights into the nature of writing, reading, and public control of technology.
Intended Audience: Technical communication writers; teachers and students of technical communications; historians of technology.
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