Pope John Paul II expected theologians to expand their insights of the 129 lectures given during his Wednesday audiences in St. Peter's Square and Paul VI Audience Hall between September 1979 and November 1984. However, his integrated vision of the human person - body, soul, and spirit - has rarely gone beyond the popular topics of moral theology associated with sexuality and marriage. Now, Susan Windley-Daoust, a passionate disciple of John Paul's complete work, devoted spiritual director, and popular Assistant Professor of Theology at St. Mary's University of Minnesota, extends the Theology of the Body to what it means to be human during the experiences of childbirth, impairment, and dying. Are there spiritual signs in these bodily events that are central to the human experience? Oh yes And the signs mysteriously and wonderfully point to God.

Linda Wolfe's MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF is a wrenching, highly personal and deeply moving story of a family in crisis and a compelling testament to the powerful and universal bonds of the mother/daughter relationship. By turns a medical mystery and a family drama, Wolfe's book chronicles her thirty-eight-year-old daughter's out-of-the-blue, near-fatal stroke, and the fascinating process of physical and mental rehabilitation that allowed her daughter to make an astonishing recovery. With the same eye for detail and psychological astuteness that marked her many cover stories for New York Magazine, Wolfe makes vivid every agonizing moment, from the disastrous mistakes of some doctors and the miraculous intercessions of others, to the terrors that haunt the children of an illness-stricken parent, to the painful, inevitable - and sometimes funny - disputes that arise when a mother-in-law and son-in-law must share the same roof, and the innumerable struggles and difficult choices that face the young stroke survivor. Beautifully written and observed, MY DAUGHTER/MYSELF is an inspiring account of how a mother learns to take life's blows as they come, to master the unfamiliar language of illness and, ultimately, to let her daughter be her guide as, together, they march through an altogether new terrain. The Author: Linda Wolfe, a longtime contributing editor at New York magazine, is an award-winning journalist and novelist. Among her many books are the novel "Private Practices," the nonfiction books "Wasted: The Preppie Murder" and "The Murder of Dr. Chapman," and the culinary classic "The Literary Gourmet." Learn more at LindaWolfe.com. Linda Wolfe s harrowing and moving account of her family s crisis is an intensely personal and universal testament to the mother/daughter bond. Hilma Wolitzer, author of "An Available Man" Linda Wolfe is a superb journalist and a fine novelist and critic, but she has surpassed herself with this eloquent and gripping memoir about her daughter s near brush with death. A must read I could not put it down. Patricia Bosworth, author of "Anything Your Little Heart Desires: An American Family Story" Even during the scariest, most heart-stopping passages, it s a pleasure to read Linda Wolfe s triumphant story of a precious daughter s stroke and recovery. Alix Kates Shulman, author of "To Love What Is" Engrossing. Moving. Powerful. This account of a daughter s debilitating stroke and arduous recovery comes from a place of intense fear and helplessness, and by looking as much inward as outward, Wolfe tells an utterly human story of unexpected resilience: her own and her daughter s. Ron Franscell, author of "The Sourtoe Cocktail Club"

Socialization of accelerated baccalaureate nursing graduates from the perspective of the affective domain specifically, the feeling of being a nurse, has not been studied. The purpose of the phenomenological study was to investigate socialization from the perspective of the feeling of being a nurse of accelerated B.S.N. graduates. Semi-structured, face to face interviews were conducted with eight graduates of an accelerated B.S.N. program. Data were analyzed using Colaizzi's procedural steps. The following findings emerged: (1) The feeling of being a nurse, an attribute of professional identity, coincided with the occurrence of specific incidents during induction socialization; (2) The feeling of being a nurse is a sense of becoming, involving personal commitment and internalization of values during the process of professional socialization; and (3) accelerated BSN graduates have a deep sense of commitment to nursing.

In "Love Me To Death," Linda Wolfe weaves a chilling tale of her hunt for a serial killer wanted in the murder of several accomplished women, among them one of the author's friends. The killer was in the habit of murdering women who were not strangers, but lovers with whom he had relationships. Wolfe gets under the skin of the literal and figurative lady killer and into the lives of the interesting women who were his victims. 'Linda Wolfe has somehow put us as closely in touch with the manner and sensibility of a serial killer as we are ever likely to be." -"The New York Times" 'An intriguing insider's look into the convoluted mind of a killer." -"The Cleveland Plain Dealer" 'An oddly poignant read." -"Mademoiselle" 'Splendid, a real-life thriller.rich in psychological insights, mystery, and excitement." -Susan Isaacs

Intimate, explosive, revelatory American women talk about having been unfaithful to their primary sexual partners. Why did they cheat? How and where did they manage to meet with their lovers? Were the affairs more sexually satisfying than the women’s primary relationships? More emotionally satisfying? Did they feel guilt? Did they keep their affairs secret or admit them to partners or friends? And, whether confessed or not, how did infidelity affect the women’s lives?   Intimate and explosive, Playing Around explores the pleasures and pains of female infidelity and illuminates women’s participation in a behavior that is often viewed as predominantly male.

A medical shocker Twin gynecologists are found dead in their trash-littered Upper East Side Manhattan apartment. Who killed them? And why? Based on a true story that journalist Linda Wolfe was the first to write about, Private Practices explores the mystery behind the deaths of these wealthy and prominent doctors, and the dark and perverse secret that ruled their lives—one they tried desperately to hide until the final moments of their deaths.  

The largest-ever sexual survey of American women Bigger by far than the Kinsey Report or any other sexual study of American women, the Cosmo Report is a landmark work about female behavior. The report is based on the responses of more than one hundred thousand readers of Cosmopolitan magazine to a questionnaire about their sexual habits and preferences. But what makes the book more than a mere set of statistics—however revealing—is that many of the respondents augmented their replies with highly personal letters detailing the sexual practices they engaged in, the ones they most enjoyed, the ones they abhorred, and how they felt about the sexual revolution that transformed the lives of women in the 1970s and 1980s.

A New York Times Notable Book: Acclaimed true-crime journalist Linda Wolfe delivers a riveting, comprehensive account of the Preppie Murder, a crime that shocked a city and a nation. It was called the Preppie Murder-a killer and a victim who were attractive, smart, privileged teenagers. On an August night in 1986 Jennifer Levin left a Manhattan bar with Robert Chambers. The next morning, her strangled, battered body was found in Central Park. Linda Wolfe, hailed by critic John Leonard as "one of our best reporters," goes beyond the headlines and media hype to re-create a story of privilege and excess, sex and partying-of a teenager whose immigrant mother was determined to make a better life for her son, a petty thief and drug user who'd been expelled from the best schools. It's all here, from the initial police investigation, during which Chambers claimed Levin died accidentally during rough sex, to the media frenzy of the courtroom, where Chambers took an eleventh-hour plea. Wolfe also delivers heartbreaking portraits of Levin's grief-stricken father, Chambers's in-denial mother, and the women who dated the accused Preppie Killer while he was out on bail. A finalist for the 1990 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime, Wasted also powerfully depicts the freewheeling 1980s society that spawned a generation steeped in violence and the fatal impulses that drove Robert Chambers to kill.