Madeline Levine has been a practicing psychologist for 25 years, but it was only recently that she began to observe a new breed of unhappy teenager. When a bright, affluent 15-year-old girl, a seemingly unlikely candidate for emotional problems, came into her office with the word 'empty' carved into her left forearm, Levine was shaken. The girl ...
Lost Landscapes documents the search by Poli sh writer and historian, Agata Tuszynska to trace the remain s of Polish Jewish culture after the Holocaust and 45 years of communist rule. She was influenced in this quest by readi ng Isaac Bashevis Singer. '
Nearly half a century of illuminating prose by the Nobel Laureate is collected here, offering a sustained encounter with one of the late 20th century's most important literary voices. Czeslaw Milosz writes ethical statements, biographical and autobiographical sketches, criticism, and political pieces, displaying his eclectic erudition and ...
Now available in English for the first time, this collection brings together some of noted poet Czeslaw Milosz's early essays and letters, composed in German-occupied Warsaw during the winter of 1942-43.
Wojdowski relates this Holocaust story in a complex mixture of standard Polish, slang, thieves' argot, Yiddish and Hebrew. This English translation includes a foreword by Henryk Grynberg, also a Holocaust survivor.
The diary of one year in Milosz's life, 1987-88, concerns itself as much with his experience of remembering the events as with the actual events themselves.
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man ...
In twelve nonfiction tales, Hanna Krall reveals how the lives of World War II survivors are shaped in surprising ways by the twists and turns of historical events. A paralytic Jewish woman starts walking after her husband is suffocated by fellow Jews afraid that his coughing would reveal their hiding place to the Germans. A young American man ...
What's best for the children "An intelligent guide to parents in their greater concern for children viewing violence...On target...Provocative and eminently readable."-Richard D. Heffner, producer/moderator The Open Mind and professor, communications and public policy, Rutgers University Written by Madeline Levine, a psychologist and mother, See ...
In this gathering of essays and reminiscences, written over a span of three decades, the Nobel prize-winning Polish Poet traces a kind of informal autobiography against the street map of his home city of Wilno.
The diary of one year in Milosz's life, 1987-88, concerns itself as much with his experience of remembering the events as with the actual events themselves.
Nobel Prize-winning poet Milosz compiles a series of short pieces about a host of topics including Camus and Baudelaire, money, happiness, and meditations on many aspects of his important literary life. The entries, concerning the many phases of his 60-year career, are arranged alphabetically.
Parenting is more than a series of chores to be done, or a biological entitlement to be taken for granted. Instead, raising children is a precious privilege that requires being in tune with your child's basic nature. That shift in attitude alone is the beginning of an alliance with your kids that will open you to a richer and more fulfilling ...
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