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"Remember the Sweet Things isn't merely a love story. It is a
manual for healthy living, told with searing honesty and profound
tenderness, and poignancy that touches you on virtually every
page."--Wayne Coffey, New York Times bestselling author of The Boys
of Winter Ellen Greene's Remember the Sweet Things is a heartfelt,
deeply affecting memoir of love, devotion, and a very special
marriage, reminding us about what truly matters in life. Fans of
Simple Abundance by Sarah Ban Breathnach will appreciate this warm
and loving remembrance that author Susan Wiggs calls, "a beautiful
meditation on love and life, and an affirmation of the power of
gratitude....A true gift to the reader."
This book provides a comprehensive overview of mental health in
rural America, with the goal of fostering urgently needed research
and honest conversations about providing accessible, culturally
competent mental health care to rural populations. Grounding the
work is an explanation of the history and structure of rural mental
health care, the culture of rural living among diverse groups, and
the crucial "A's" and "S": accountability, accessibility,
acceptability, affordability, and stigma. The book then examines
poverty, disaster mental health, ethics in rural mental health, and
school counseling. It ends with practical information and
treatments for two of the most common problems, suicide and
substance abuse, and a brief exploration of collaborative
possibilities in rural mental health care.
Seymour, a shy young man working for a tyrannical florist, finds a
vehicle for private and public success in the form of a maneating
plant from outer space. The carniverous shrub helps him to become a
celebrity, gets rid of his boss and clears the way for him to woo
the girl of his dreams. However, its cannibalistic eating habits
become insatiable and it's up to Seymour to cut it down to size.
This comedy musical is based on the stage version of the cult
movie, and features a memorable cameo performance from Steve Martin
as a sadistic dentist.
This book provides a comprehensive overview of mental health in
rural America, with the goal of fostering urgently needed research
and honest conversations about providing accessible, culturally
competent mental health care to rural populations. Grounding the
work is an explanation of the history and structure of rural mental
health care, the culture of rural living among diverse groups, and
the crucial "A's" and "S": accountability, accessibility,
acceptability, affordability, and stigma. The book then examines
poverty, disaster mental health, ethics in rural mental health, and
school counseling. It ends with practical information and
treatments for two of the most common problems, suicide and
substance abuse, and a brief exploration of collaborative
possibilities in rural mental health care.
"Reading Sappho" considers Sappho's poetry as a powerful,
influential voice in the Western cultural tradition. Essays are
divided into four sections: "Language and Literary Context," "Homer
and Oral Tradition," "Ritual and Social Context," and "Women's
Erotics." Contributors focus on literary history, mythic
traditions, cultural studies, performance studies, recent work in
feminist theory, and more.
A legendary literary figure, Sappho has attracted readers, critics,
and biographers ever since she composed poems on the island of
Lesbos at the close of the seventh century B.C. Bringing together
some of the best recent criticism on the subject, this volume,
together with "Re-Reading Sappho," represents the first anthology
of Sappho scholarship, drawing attention to Sappho's importance as
a poet and reflecting the diversity of critical approaches in
classical and literary scholarship during the last several decades.
One girl and one boy, become one woman and one man. When they
become parents, it should create a bond that lasts forever. It
does.
"Re-Reading Sappho" reflects the recent fascination with Sappho's
"afterlife." The essays examine the changing interpretations of
scholars and writers who have read the fragmentary remains of
Sappho's poetry. As the contributors explore the ways that each
generation creates its own Sappho, the Sapphic tradition itself
becomes an index to changing sensibilities and cultural norms about
sexuality, gender roles, and notions of fema le authorship.
A legendary literary figure, Sappho has attracted readers, critics,
and biographers ever since she composed poems on the island of
Lesbos at the close of the seventh century B.C. Bringing together
some of the best recent criticism on the subject, this volume,
together with "Reading Sappho," represents the first anthology of
Sappho scholarship, drawing attention to Sappho's importance as a
poet and reflecting the diversity of critical approaches in
classical and literary scholarship during the last several decades.
Can the teachings of Judaism provide a sacred framework for
repairing the world?
In this groundbreaking volume, leading rabbis, intellectuals,
and activists explore the relationship between Judaism and social
justice, drawing on ancient and modern sources of wisdom. The
contributors argue that American Jewry must move beyond mitzvah
days and other occasional service programs, and dedicate itself to
systemic change in the United States, Israel, and throughout the
world. These provocative essays concentrate on specific justice
issues such as eradicating war, global warming, health care, gay
rights and domestic violence, offering practical ways to transform
theory into practice, and ideas into advocacy.
Rich and passionate, these expressions will inspire you to
consider your obligations as a Jew, as an American and as a global
citizen, while challenging you to take thoughtful and effective
action in the world.
Contributors:
Martha Ackelsberg, PhD Rabbi Rebecca Alpert, PhD Diane Balser,
PhD Jeremy Benstein, PhD Rabbi Phyllis Berman Ellen Bernstein Marla
Brettschneider, PhD Rabbi Sharon Brous Aryeh Cohen, PhD Stephen P.
Cohen, PhD Rabbi Elliot N. Dorff, PhD Aaron Dorfman Jacob Feinspan
Rabbi Marla Feldman Sandra M. Fox, LCSW Julia Greenberg Mark Hanis
Rabbi Jill Jacobs Rabbi Jane Kanarek, PhD Rabbi Elliot Rose Kukla
Joshua Seth Ladon Arieh Lebowitz Rabbi Michael Lerner, PhD Shaul
Magid, PhD Rabbi Natan Margalit, PhD Ruth Messinger Jay Michaelson
Rabbi Micha Odenheimer Rabbi Jonah Dov Pesner Judith Plaskow, PhD
Judith Rosenbaum, PhD April Rosenblum Adam Rubin, PhD Danya
Ruttenberg Rabbi David Saperstein Joel Schalit Rabbi Sidney
Schwarz, PhD Martin I. Seltman, MD Dara Silverman Daniel Sokatch
Shana Starobin Naomi Tucker Abigail Uhrman Rabbi Arthur Waskow, PhD
Rabbi Melissa Weintraub
Although Greek society was largely male-dominated, it gave rise to
a strong tradition of female authorship. Women poets of ancient
Greece and Rome have long fascinated readers, even though much of
their poetry survives only in fragmentary form.This pathbreaking
volume is the first collection of essays to examine virtually all
surviving poetry by Greek and Roman women. It elevates the status
of the poems by demonstrating their depth and artistry. Edited and
with an introduction by Ellen Greene, the volume covers a broad
time span, beginning with Sappho (ca. 630 b.c.e.) in archaic Greece
and extending to Sulpicia (first century B.C.E.) in Augustan Rome.
In their analyses, the contributors situate the female poets in an
established male tradition, but they also reveal their distinctly
""feminine"" perspectives. Despite relying on literary convention,
the female poets often defy cultural norms, speaking in their own
voices and transcending their positions as objects of derision in
male-authored texts. In their innovative reworkings of established
forms, women poets of ancient Greece and Rome are not mere
imitators but creators of a distinct and original body of work.
The world has long wished for more of Sappho's poetry, which
exists mostly in tantalizing fragments. So the apparent recovery in
2004 of a virtually intact poem by Sappho, only the fourth to have
survived almost complete, has generated unprecedented excitement
and discussion among scholarly and lay audiences alike. This volume
is the first collection of essays in English devoted to discussion
of the newly recovered Sappho poem and two other incomplete texts
on the same papyri. Containing eleven new essays by leading
scholars, it addresses a wide range of textual and philological
issues connected with the find. Using different approaches, the
contributions demonstrate how the "New Sappho" can be appreciated
as a complete, gracefully spare poetic statement regarding the
painful inevitability of death and aging.
Elephants are a keystone species and have been a part of the magic
of the thickly forested land of South Africa for millennia. This
book focuses on the history and work of Knysna Elephant Park, a
leading South African elephant research facility that has been home
to more than 40 elephants in 25 years. Unfortunately, all the
mystique of the Knysna elephant has been reduced to a single
elephant left alive. Exploring a wide range of topics, this book
covers the impact of elephants' interactions with tourists, how
they recover from trauma and even their relevance in human
healthcare. Renowned elephant researchers explain the majesty of
the elephant brain, which has the largest temporal lobe devoted to
communication, language, spatial memory and cognition. To this
effect, the book emphasizes the threat of poaching to these gentle
giants, which has almost forced them to extinction. Perhaps if
humans pay attention to how elephants symbolize our relationship
with nature, we can learn important lessons about humanity itself.
This volume focuses on the great Roman love poet Propertius.
Propertius' poetry reveals an ardent love affair between the poet
and his girlfriend, whom he calls 'Cynthia', yet it also offers a
snapshot of life in ancient Rome during the Augustan age (20s BC).
While this was a period of growth and revival after the crippling
civil wars of the previous century, it was also a time when Rome
was adjusting to a new form of government under its first emperor.
Oxford Readings in Propertius is the first volume on Propertius'
poetry to bring together some of the best and most influential
scholarship written during the last three decades and put them into
dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent
developments in Propertius scholarship, as well as major critical
approaches that have emerged in classical studies in general, and
look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and
political context of Propertius' work.
This volume focuses on the great Roman love poet Propertius.
Propertius' poetry reveals an ardent love affair between the poet
and his girlfriend, whom he calls 'Cynthia', yet it also offers a
snapshot of life in ancient Rome during the Augustan age (20s BC).
While this was a period of growth and revival after the crippling
civil wars of the previous century, it was also a time when Rome
was adjusting to a new form of government under its first emperor.
Oxford Readings in Propertius is the first volume on Propertius'
poetry to bring together some of the best and most influential
scholarship written during the last three decades and put them into
dialogue with each other. The articles discuss the recent
developments in Propertius scholarship, as well as major critical
approaches that have emerged in classical studies in general, and
look at issues of text, intertextuality, gender, and the social and
political context of Propertius' work.
"A groundbreaking examination of power relations in Roman
elegy"
In recent decades, scholars in the field of classics have paid
increasing attention to gender and sexual politics in Latin elegiac
poetry. In "The Erotics of Domination, " Ellen Greene re-examines
long-held scholarly attitudes concerning the representation of male
sexual desire and female subjection in the Latin love poetry of
Catullus, Propertius, and Ovid. Analyzing first-person poetic
personae that critics have often romanticized, Greene finds that
whereas the Catullan lover appears to struggle against his own
"feminization," the Roman elegiac poets--particularly Propertius
and Ovid--proclaim a radically unconventional philosophy in their
seemingly deliberate inversion of conventional sex roles. Through
the servitude of the male lover to his mistress, the woman
achieves, at least nominally, complete domination and control over
him.
In recent decades, Latin love poetry has become a significant site
for feminist and other literary critics studying conceptions of
gender and sexuality in ancient Roman culture.
This new volume, the first to focus specifically on gender
dynamics in Latin love poetry, moves beyond the polarized critical
positions that argue that this poetry either confirms traditional
gender roles or subverts them. Rather, the essays in the collection
explore the ways in which Latin erotic texts can have both effects,
shifting power back and forth between male and female. If there is
one conclusion that emerges, it is that the dynamics of gender in
Latin amatory poetry do not map in any single way onto the cultural
and historical norms of Roman society. In fact, as several essays
show, there is a dialectical relationship between this poetry and
Roman cultural practices.
By complicating the views of gender dynamics in Latin love
poetry, this exciting new scholarship will stimulate further
debates in classical studies and literary criticism with its fresh
perspectives.
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