Why is it that the relationships we care about most - those with our intimate partners - often seem doomed to fail? Why do we feel compelled to punish those closest to us who love and appreciate our real qualities? In "Fear of Intimacy", the authors bring almost 40 years of clinical experience to bear in challenging the usual ways of thinking ...
In this early feminist text, first published in 1970, Shulamith Firestone presents a history of the first wave of feminism, and draws on the works of Marx, Freud, and de Beauvoir, among others, to argue for a radical vision of feminist politics.
This book provides expert advice on tapping into the true heart of this intriguing 'country at the end of the continent'. It features the best cultural coverage of any guidebook to Panama including provocative features on the Embera, Kuna and Panama's other indigenous groups. It also offers all the local insights, maps and out-there ideas you'll ...
Expanded coverage of the less frequently visited Central Valley & Highlands. Interviews with locals contain contemporary cultural tidbits. Includes more volunteer options and a new color guide for the eco-conscious traveler. Environment chapter and Wildlife guide written by David Lukas, a regional experts on natural history. Transport chapter ...
Tiraz Firestone's spiritual autobiography follows her on a tumultuous journey from Orthodox Judaism to Christian mysticism to Hinduism, and back again.
the most detailed map coverage of any Japan guidebook lead author Chris Rowthorn is a long-term Kyoto resident, Japanese arts expert & sashimi buff Japan's culture & lifestyle is addictive: 38 per cent of travellers to Japan find themselves on a long-haul trip up-to-the-minute advice on getting the most out of your visit the Hamamatsu Matsuri, a ...
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes presents new scientific evidence of a series of prehistoric cataclysmic events that not only validates the legends and myths of our ancestors' extinctions by fire, quake, and flood, but shows how these events suggest that we are entering a thousand-year cycle of increasing danger and possibly a new cycle of natural ...
Something of a child prodigy when he started his career playing with legends like Bix Beiderbecke at the age of 14, jazz clarinetist Benny Goodman was instrumental in the late-1930s birth of the Swing era, having developed his big band over the course of several years earlier in the decade. Goodman also formed one of the first racially integrated ...
Is the market leading guide to Central America's number 1 travel and ecotourism destination. It features full colour wildlife guide and adventure travel section, insightful content, expert advcice and easy to follow maps.
After 25 years of research and clinical practice, the authors of this workbook reveal an ages-old truth: namely that the sworn enemy of mental health is one's own silent voice! The book includes dozens of exercises, questionnaires, self-assessments, and journaling activities.
This is the only guidebook to comprehensively cover both Botswana and Namibia. The expert author has lived with Bushman and given a Harvard University dissertation on these tribal communities. It contains special sections to get to know the people of Botswana and Namibia, and explore the striking national parks and reserves. It also features a 16 ...
Japanese script is provided for all key listings to aid navigation. Written by resident authors. Forecasted that 850,000 Americans and 162,000 Canadians will visit Japan in 2008 (PATA).
This title helps Jews understand Islam - a reasoned and candid view. Muslim-Jewish relations in the United States, Israel, and Europe are tenuous. Jews and Muslims struggle to understand one another and know little about each other's traditions and beliefs.Firestone explains the remarkable similarities and profound differences between Judaism and ...
This book presents an insightful and inspiring analysis of the plays that won the Pulitzer Prize during the first 50 years of its existence (1917-1967). In a series of accessible and straightforward essays, Paul Firestone provides insight into how these dramas reflect America's cultural values and mores, organizing them by their major themes: ...
This one-stop guide has essential information on pre-trip planning, including health and safety, budget, tickets, packing, the latest technologies for keeping in touch, and even includes tips on how to choose your travel companions. This guide is primarily aimed at 18-25-year-olds planning a significant overseas trip, perhaps working or ...
Based on 28 years of research into the problem of resistance, this book offers a consistently developed hypothesis centering around the concept of the "Fantasy Bond, " an illusion of connection originally formed with the mother and later with significant others in the individual's environment.
What internal factors cause a person to end his or her life, and what are the familial and societal factors which seem to make a destructive contribution? The answers to both questions are at the heart of this volume, which will be invaluable for practitioners when assessing risk and designing treatment for depressed and suicidal patients. The ...
Jews, Christians, and Muslims each claim in one way or another to be God's chosen community. Whether called chosenness or election, the special nature of that divinely authorized statusits implied or stated superiorityhas been glorified by religious civilizations when in positions of imperial power and has sustained religious communities suffering ...
This title offers extensive information on some of the world's most luxurious safari lodges through to the best basic backpacker accommodation. It also contains a dedicated Music chapter by specialist Jane Cornwall. It is one of very few guides to cover South Africa, Lesotho, Swaziland, Botswana, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Zambia and Malawi. ...
An exciting and entertaining collection of in-depth, unorthodox interviews with America's major sports superstars--by the host of ESPN's Up Close. Called "the best interviewer" in sports by Sports Illustrated, six-time Emmy award-winner Firestone has earned a reputation for getting sports superstars to open up and tell all. Photos. Advertising on ...
Focusing on the distinguished American sports columnist, this is a compilation of more than 200 of Jim Murray's best phrases and one-liners covering a multitude of topics. 12 photos.
The seventh edition offers expanded coverage of the coast of Kenya, road tested facts for travelers regarding the safe travel zones, and a special section on wildlife. color photos, 89 maps.
Her foot is as long as four men lying head to toe. Her hand is as long as a canoe. The Statue of Liberty is the tallest woman in the United States and one of the country's most beloved symbols of freedom. Listen as park ranger Jeanetta tells the amazing story of Lady Liberty's journey in 1885 from France to New York Harbor.
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