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Christianity has often seemed impatient with the idea of doubt. Certainty, not irresolution, has been seen as the test of faith and key to unlocking participation in the supposed life to come. But when his marriage collapsed, Alex Wright knew that all his own certainties had been reduced to rubble. The future he had planned on the Norfolk coast disappeared as fast as a sea-fret burning up in the noonday sun. In this moving book, written out of his...
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"Injections + Appointments + Egg Retrieval + Embryo Transfer = Resources (Energy x Time x Emotion)"
That's the equation that was projected onto the screen when Beth Kohl and her husband first showed up at the in vitro fertilization (IVF) clinic. "Good evening," the program's psychologist told the gathered infertile couples. "Before you begin your treatment, you should know that this program is emotionally and psychologically stressful."
And how.
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"From the Greek mathematicians Euclid and Archimedes, whose work is even now required reading, to the theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking, the greatest practitioners from a wide range of scientific disciplines are represented here. Each entry gives a biographical background of its subject and a description of the main themes of their work, together with concise expositions of some of their key ideas."--From publisher.
24) Empire EQ
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Nights of wild dancing, sunset dinners at luxurious restaurants, noonday shopping sprees at expensive markets and early morning walks across sandy beaches,life in Saga City is everything a girl can dream of, and for Yumi, that dream she created in her mind is lived out every day across the sprawling metropolis. In Saga, wealth is the greatest equalizer, and Yumi and her friends take full advantage of its pleasures. While Jay and Kara enjoy the city's...
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This volume collects 50 of her classic short works, published between 1892 and 1920. Here are:
LOU, THE PROPHET
PETER
A TALE OF THE WHITE PYRAMID
A SON OF THE CELESTIAL
THE ELOPEMENT OF ALLEN POOLE
THE CLEMENCY OF THE COURT
"THE FEAR THAT WALKS BY NOONDAY"
ON THE DIVIDE
A NIGHT AT GREENWAY COURT
THE PRINCESS BALADINA - HER ADVENTURE
TOMMY, THE UNSENTIMENTAL
THE COUNT OF CROW'S NEST
WEE WINKIE'S WANDERINGS
THE BURGLAR'S CHRISTMAS
THE...
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Excerpt: "'My dear, the case is as plain as noonday; you must give this man up.” The case is not plain to me, father-at least, not in your sense. Anne, you are very positive and self-opinionated, but you cannot-it is not possible-set up your judgment against mine on such a point. You, an inexperienced, prejudiced girl, a rustic with no knowledge of the world! What do you know about the man? Oh, I allow he is well enough to look at; he has had the...
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For many, it appears that things in this world have changed, and these changes, primarily technological, tend to make life better for all of us.
From the Beginning offers a perspective that challenges the change that most individuals consider progress. Certainly compared to our history, technology gives the impression that progress is being made, but to what end?
The revelations received to write this book are backed up by scripture-scripture that...
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"In the tradition of The Emperor of All Maladies and The Noonday Demon, a moving, eye-opening exploration of PTSD. Just as polio loomed over the 1950s, and AIDS stalked the 1980s and '90s, posttraumatic stress disorder haunts us in the early years of the twenty-first century. Over a decade into the United States' "global war on terror," PTSD afflicts as many as 30 percent of the conflict's veterans. But the disorder's reach extends far beyond the...
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The good news on beating the blues
Do you want the good, the bad, or the best news first? OK, the bad news is that an estimated 264+ million people worldwide suffer from a depressive illness. The good news is that we know how to defeat these illnesses better than ever before using a growing range of highly effective psychotherapies, medications, and other therapeutic methods that are improving all the time. And the best news: because of these advances,...
30) Right of thirst
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"It's brilliant, start to finish. The voice is an achievement, and the world of emotion he delivers. It's solid-so solid it reminds me of a mature Hemingway. . . . It's clear and deep and wise." - Stewart O'Nan, author of Songs for the Missing, on RIGHT OF THIRST
"One of the finest novels I've read in years. . . . Ultimately, this book is a timely, powerful exploration into the uses and limits of benevolence . . . an exploration into the limits of...
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In Drink: The Intimate Relationship Between Women and Alcohol, award-winning journalist Anne Dowsett Johnston combines in-depth research with her own personal story of recovery, and delivers a groundbreaking examination of a shocking yet little recognized epidemic threatening society today: the precipitous rise in risky drinking among women and girls.
With the feminist revolution, women have closed the gender gap in their professional and educational...
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Have you ever been in an earthquake? Earthquakes shake our most basic assumptions: that the ground will remain steady beneath our feet, that the world's current existence is the way it will always be. But when tectonic plates shift under the earth's surface and the ground shakes beneath our feet, it rattles the bedrock assumptions on which we build our lives. The Gospel of Matthew reports that on the first Easter morning, an earthquake rocked the...
33) Going Sane
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"Phillips has made psychoanalytic thought livelier and more poetic than ever… One of [his] finest and most broadly appealing books." - New York Times
"Phillips offers a detailed description of what sanity can mean today." - Los Angeles Times
"Beautifully written…clever and funny, and properly profound…A lovely addition to Phillips' guides to living a happier life." - GQ
"Phillip's arguments, both thought provoking and provocative, may affect...
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"#1 New York Times bestselling author David Brooks, a controversial and eye-opening look at how our culture has lost sight of the value of humility - defined as the opposite of self-preoccupation - and why only an engaged inner life can yield true meaning and fulfillment"--
35) Eastward of Eden
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INTRODUCTION: A SAFARI INTO GENESIS: Genesis 2:19 – After Adam, an adult, was created, God offered him the option to name animals. Let's join him. We'll wear our jungle fatigues and tracking boots. We'll include a large quick-lens camera. Zoom lens binoculars and a knapsack containing some rations, dangles from our neck. We have heard from doubting Thomases who would discourage us from examining the New World emanating from Genesis. Our binoculars...
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It happened in an instant but the feeling lasted more than an hour. Wave after wave of glowing, humming energy coursed through me. I remember crying...or was it laughing? No, it was cry-laughing. Luckily, I was lying down because otherwise I would have collapsed.
It was like pure love and pure energy had been injected into my veins and was flooding every atom of my body. My eyes were closed, and I had a blackout-mask on, but I needed to squint...
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The book, Intimacy with God is a reminder of the fact that life without a close relationship with God is a losing game. God created us to have one on one relationship with Him, which is why He created us in His image and likeness. We do not own ourselves. Our life is a gift from God and we must live this brief lifespan with a sense of responsibility and purpose. God is not just a factor of life; He is the very source of life. Apostle Paul declares,...
39) There Is No Blue
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THE GLOBE AND MAIL: BOOKS TO READ IN FALL 2023
Martha Baillie's richly layered response to her mother's passing, her father's life, and her sister's suicide is an exploration of how the body, the rooms we inhabit, and our languages offer the psyche a home, if only for a time.
Three essays, three deaths. The first is the death of the author's mother, a protracted disappearance, leaving space for thoughtfulness and ritual: the washing of her body,...
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Psychiatry has come a long way since the days of chaining "lunatics" in cold cells and parading them as freakish marvels before a gaping public. But, as Jeffrey Lieberman, MD, reveals, the path to legitimacy for "the black sheep of medicine" has been anything but smooth. Here, Dr. Lieberman traces the field from its birth as a mystic pseudo-science through its adolescence as a cult of "shrinks" to its late blooming maturity--beginning after World...