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Tsotsi is an angry young gang leader in the South African township
of Sophiatown. A man without a past, he exists only to kill and
steal. But when he captures a woman one night in a moonlit grove of
bluegum trees, she shoves a shoebox into his arms: the box contains
a baby and his life is inexorably changed. He begins to remember
his childhood and rediscover the self he left behind. Tsotsi's raw
power and rare humanity show how decency and compassion can survive
against the odds.
In an increasingly hectic world, Plantfulness is a guide to help
you reconnect with nature while reaching for a peaceful and mindful
life. Finding the perfect houseplant for you can be daunting,
particularly for those who feel like they have a black touch rather
than a green thumb, but Plantfulness guides you through 50
houseplants which can give back to you in a symbiotic relationship
which allows you both to thrive. Featuring the practical benefits,
from cleaner air and beautiful scents, to the emotional ones, like
creative inspiration and a daily sense of accomplishment for caring
for them, Plantfulness is the perfect choice for anyone wishing to
improve their wellbeing and enjoy nature from the comfort of their
home. An internationally respected expert on mindfulness and
houseplant enthusiast, Dr Jonathan Kaplan works as a clinical
psychologist in New York City. He lives with his wife, 2 kids, 2
cats, and asparagus fern Rhonda.
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Isaac Hayes, Yaphet Kotto, Alan Weeks, Annazette Chase, Sam Laws, …
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When football star-turned bounty hunter Truck Turner (Isaac Hayes)
is employed to track down a man named Gator, he and his partner
carry out the job as usual. Unfortunately, after a chase Gator is
killed, and his girlfriend, Dorinda (Nichelle 'Star Trek' Nichols)
wants revenge. She sets top hitman Blue (Yaphet Kotto) on Truck's
trail, and he soon finds himself fighting for his life.
Multidisciplinary authors provide a holistic overview Details the
key principles and models of cancer-related distress Guides through
assessment and treatment Illustrated with case studies Printable
tools for clinical use Psychosocial oncology is a health psychology
specialty that focuses on the psychological, behavioral, emotional,
and social challenges faced by patients with cancer and their loved
ones. Cancer can cause significant distress, and psychosocial
interventions are known to be effective for helping patients and
families navigate the many issues that can arise at any stage of
the cancer continuum. This volume provides psychologists,
physicians, social workers, and other health care providers with
practical and evidence-based guidance on the delivery of
psychological interventions to patients with cancer. The
multidisciplinary team of authors succinctly present the key
principles, history, and theoretical models of cancer-related
distress. They then move on to explore clinical assessment and
interventions in cancer care, in particular psychological and
psychiatric treatments, multidisciplinary care management, and
complementary supportive interventions. Case vignettes give the
reader insight into diagnostic processes and effective treatment
planning. Practitioners will find the printable handout and
screening tool for clients invaluable in their daily work.
This exciting book brings the often-overlooked southern Maya region
of Guatemala into the spotlight by closely examining the ""lost
city"" of Chocola. Jonathan Kaplan and Federico Paredes Umana prove
that Chocola was a major Maya polity and reveal exactly why it was
so influential. In their fieldwork at the site, Kaplan and Paredes
Umana discovered an extraordinarily sophisticated underground
water-control system. They also discovered cacao residues in
ceramic vessels. Based on these and other findings, the authors
believe that cacao was consumed and grown intensively at Chocola
and that the city was the center of a large cacao trade. They
contend that the city's wealth and power were built on its abundant
supply of water and its command of cacao, which was significant not
just to cuisine and trade but also to Maya ideology and cosmology.
Moreover, Kaplan and Paredes Umana detail the ancient city's
ceramics and add over thirty stone sculptures to the site's
inventory. Because the southern Maya region was likely the origin
of Maya hieroglyphic writing and the Long Count calendar, scholars
have long suspected the area to be important. This pioneering field
research at Chocola helps explain how and why the region played a
leading role in the rise of the Maya civilization.
Surgery is the crude art of cutting people open, yet it is also a
symphony of delicate manipulation and subtle chords. So says
Jonathan Kaplan in his stunning book Contact Wounds, an
electrifying account of a doctor's education in the classroom, in
life, and on the battlefield. Inspired by his father, a military
surgeon in World War II and Israel's nascent fight for statehood,
Kaplan became a doctor and was appointed to a post at a woefully
understaffed South African general hospital in a black township.
Fleeing apartheid, he traveled the globe in search of sanctuary,
experiencing riots, tropical fevers, political upheaval, and a
jungle search for a lost friend. Kaplan eventually landed in
Angola, taking charge of a combat-zone hospital, the only surgeon
for 160,000 civilians, where he was exposed daily to the horrors of
war. Journeying further into dangerous territory, Kaplan portrays
serving as a volunteer surgeon in Baghdad where he treated civilian
casualties amid gunfights for control of hospitals and dealt with
gangs of AK-47-wielding looters stripping pharmacies. Contact
Wounds is a stirring testament of adventure, discovery, survival,
and the making of a career devoted to saving people caught in the
crossfire of war.
Most studies of the history of interpretation of Song of Songs
focus on its interpretation from late antiquity to modernity. In My
Perfect One, Jonathan Kaplan examines earlier rabbinic
interpretation of this work by investigating an underappreciated
collection of works of rabbinic literature from the first few
centuries of the Common Era, known as the tannaitic midrashim. In a
departure from earlier scholarship that too quickly classified
rabbinic interpretation of Song of Songs as allegorical, Kaplan
advocates a more nuanced understanding of the approach of the early
sages, who read Song of Songs employing typological interpretation
in order to correlate Scripture with exemplary events in Israel's
history. Throughout the book Kaplan explores ways in which this
portrayal helped shape a model vision of rabbinic piety as well as
an idealized portrayal of their beloved, God, in the wake of the
destruction, dislocation, and loss the Jewish community experienced
in the first two centuries of the Common Era. The archetypal
language of Song of Songs provided, as Kaplan argues, a textual
landscape in which to imagine an idyllic construction of Israel's
relationship to her beloved, marked by mutual devotion and
fidelity. Through this approach to Song of Songs, the Tannaim
helped lay the foundations for later Jewish thought of a robust
theology of intimacy in God's relationship with the Jewish people.
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