"Thinking in Place" is a meditation on place as a physical as well as a conceptual construct that encompasses both history and memory. The book begins with Defining Place, a piece about the memory of childhood as located in two unique locations Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, New York, and Hastings, a coal-mining town in Western Pennsylvania. These were the two locations of Becker s childhood and of her multiple dual-identities as Russian Jewish/Polish Catholic, urban/rural and working class/peasant. This essay sets up the underlying premise of the book, which is that writing is the ultimate place of safety and sanity in the midst of the complexity of identity. The second essay is about growing up near the Brooklyn Museum in New York, a place that established for Becker the value of public institutions and thus made possible a long career of working in an art school connected to a great historical museum. This is one of three pieces that takes its location from the pedagogical site of educating artists.The last four essays in the book are specific to site and history. One is located at the site of the My Lai massacre. Another is focused on the production of an archive by indigenous women who survived apartheid South Africa. Another essay begins at Birla House, the place where Gandhi was shot, and focuses on the public image of Gandhi s Body, exploring the idea that the more naked he becomes in appearance, the more powerful he becomes in the world. The final essay is a meditation on the high waters of Venice, a city that is losing ground, literally, each year, but that houses some of the greatest paintings ever painted a site of dreams, memories, obsessions about the past, filled with premonitions of the future.There are ten essays, and each is unique in style and approach. Each is also passionate in its attempt to translate the experiential into the analytic, and to use each experience to contemplate the evolution of the thought as a potential agent for social change.Read about Carol's thoughts on life, art, and her new book in this interview in The Brooklyn Rail here: Brooklyn Rail Interview"

"Thinking in Place" is a meditation on place as a physical as well as a conceptual construct that encompasses both history and memory. The book begins with Defining Place, a piece about the memory of childhood as located in two unique locations Crown Heights, in Brooklyn, New York, and Hastings, a coal-mining town in Western Pennsylvania. These were the two locations of Becker s childhood and of her multiple dual-identities as Russian Jewish/Polish Catholic, urban/rural and working class/peasant. This essay sets up the underlying premise of the book, which is that writing is the ultimate place of safety and sanity in the midst of the complexity of identity. The second essay is about growing up near the Brooklyn Museum in New York, a place that established for Becker the value of public institutions and thus made possible a long career of working in an art school connected to a great historical museum. This is one of three pieces that takes its location from the pedagogical site of educating artists.The last four essays in the book are specific to site and history. One is located at the site of the My Lai massacre. Another is focused on the production of an archive by indigenous women who survived apartheid South Africa. Another essay begins at Birla House, the place where Gandhi was shot, and focuses on the public image of Gandhi s Body, exploring the idea that the more naked he becomes in appearance, the more powerful he becomes in the world. The final essay is a meditation on the high waters of Venice, a city that is losing ground, literally, each year, but that houses some of the greatest paintings ever painted a site of dreams, memories, obsessions about the past, filled with premonitions of the future.There are ten essays, and each is unique in style and approach. Each is also passionate in its attempt to translate the experiential into the analytic, and to use each experience to contemplate the evolution of the thought as a potential agent for social change.Read about Carol's thoughts on life, art, and her new book in this interview in The Brooklyn Rail here: Brooklyn Rail Interview"

Cultural critics from around the world offer their views on the issue of the artist's responsibility to society. The contributors to this collection look beyond censorship and free speech issues to emphasize the subject of freedom. More specifically, they question the ethical, mutual responsibilities between artists and the societies in which they live. Their essays address an eclectic range of subjects: censorship, multiculturalism, the transition from communism to capitalism in Eastern Europe, postmodernism, Salman Rushdie, and the responsibility of young black film-makers to the black community.

First Published in 1994. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

The first monograph on the indefatigable explorer of relationships between people, technology, and environmental issues.

Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers, artists, Western religion, and Eastern philosophies, the narrator undergoes a profound transformation while striving to design an end-of-life experience that is meaningful and sacred not only for her mother but also for herself.

Psychologists report that anxiety has replaced depression as the number one challenge to a woman's sense of well-being and good mental health. Through extensive personal interviews with individuals, groups, and therapists, author Carol Becker examines the most prevalent forms of anxiety among women-and the often subtle and surprising physical and emotional ways in which it negatively manifests itself. Through astute analysis and with compassionate insight, Becker helps readers understand how change provokes anxiety and also discover its great potential as a tool in restoring psychic health. This book offers women of all ages the support and guidance they need to transform anxiety into positive change and lead happier, more confident, and fully empowered lives.

God revealed His purpose for creating man in Genesis 1:28 and commanded man to do four things: " And God blessed them, and God said unto them, 1)Be fruitful, and 2) multiply, and 3) replenish the earth, and 4) subdue it: and have dominion....: " In the past, people read that and thought it only meant, " Have all the children you possibly can." The four laws of productivity are not confined to man's reproduction. They are the foundation of all productivity. They are the keys to fulfilling God's purpose and plan for each of us, .