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Sufism and the Perfect Human From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

Sufism and the Perfect Human From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

Studying the history of the notion of the ‘Perfect Human’ (al-insān al-kāmil) this book investigates a key idea in the history of Sufism. First discussed by Ibn ‘Arabī and later treated in greater depth by al-Jīlī the idea left its mark on later Islamic mystical metaphysical and political thought from North Africa to Southeast Asia up until modern times. The research tells the story of the development of that idea from Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī and beyond. It does so through a thematic study based on close reading of primary sources in Arabic and Persian of the key elements of the idea including the idea that the Perfect Human is a locus of divine manifestation (maẓhar) the concept of the ‘Pole’ (quṭb) and the ‘Muhammadan Reality’ (al-ḥaqīqah al-Muhammadiyyah) and the identity of the Perfect Human. By setting the work of al-Jīlī against the background of earlier Ibn ‘Arabian treatments of the idea it demonstrates that al-Jīlī took the idea of the Perfect Human in several new directions with major consequences for how the Prophet Muhammad – the archetypal Perfect Human – was viewed in later Islamic thought. Introducing readers to the key Sufi idea of the Perfect Human (al-insān al-kāmil) this volume will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Sufism Islam religion and philosophy. | Sufism and the Perfect Human From Ibn ‘Arabī to al-Jīlī

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Letting Go of Perfect Empower Children to Overcome Perfectionism

Letting Go of Perfect Empower Children to Overcome Perfectionism

Letting Go of Perfect gives parents and teachers the guidance and support they need to help children break free of the anxieties and behaviors related to perfectionism. This second edition:Explores a state of mind that manifests in unhealthy ways among kids and teens today—the need to be perfect. Features updated research on perfectionism new strategies and resources. Delineates the major types of perfectionism and provides practical tips. Explains how students can use their perfectionistic behaviors in a healthy way. Shares advice and stories from real parents educators and students. For children who believe their best is never good enough perfectionism can lead to excessive guilt lack of motivation low self-esteem depression pessimism obsessive or compulsive behavior and a sense of rigidity. This engaging practical book is a must-have for parents and teachers wanting to help children overcome perfectionism raise self-confidence lessen guilt increase motivation and offer a future free of rigidity. | Letting Go of Perfect Empower Children to Overcome Perfectionism

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Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

Getting into the nation's most competitive universities requires more than a good SAT score—it requires a perfect score. Perfect 800: SAT Math: Gives advanced students the tools needed to master the SAT math test. Includes 250+ problems two complete practice tests and 25 logic games. Covers arithmetic concepts algebra geometry trigonometry and more. Emphasizes critical thinking and analytic skills over memorization and trial and error. This updated 2021 edition offers exposure to a wide range of degrees of difficulty in a holistic approach that allows students to experience the real thing including the impact of time constraints on their performance. This book ensures optimal usage of time and maximizes the pace of progress as students prepare for the all-important test. The book contains one complete practice test and a second practice test is downloadable from www. routledge. com/9781646321049. Grades 9-12 | Perfect 800 SAT Math Advanced Strategies for Top Performance

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A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

On June 26 2015 Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy declared same-sex marriage is so ordered across the United States. The day will no doubt be remembered as a landmark shift in how U. S. society views and validates marriage and romantic relationships. But the shift would not have happened without an arguably more important but already forgotten shift four years earlier that saw unprecedented movement in public attitudes alongside record amounts of television representation of LGBQ relationships. Situated at this intersection of legislative attitudinal and representational change A Perfect Union? presents analyses of popular programmes such as Modern Family Grey’s Anatomy The Good Wife Glee Desperate Housewives and House in order to tackle crucial ethical questions regarding the impact of heterosexual knowledges on the rendering of same-sex relationships as relatable and respectable – portraits of heteronormativity that reproduce the masculine/feminine binary monogamous coupledom and the raising of children. Focusing on the connection between heteronormativity and government legitimacy Cory Albertson deftly examines television’s privileging of certain forms of relationships over others shedding light on the reproduction of everyday power relations within LGBQ relationships that hinge on issues of race sexuality class and gender. An engaging study of media constructions of same-sex relationships and the shaping of public expectations and attitudes A Perfect Union? is a must-read for scholars of sociology media and cultural studies and popular culture with interests in gender sexuality and the family. | A Perfect Union? Television and the Winning of Same-Sex Marriage

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How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

This book presents a practical guide to help businesses navigate the complex topics of sustainability in the food industry. The book takes you on a journey along the food value chain from farm to fork exploring key opportunities to increase positive impacts and circularity at each step of the journey. Written by a team of authors with decades of experience in the food industry and academia it provides guidance on how to analyse sustainability across the value chain and life cycle of a food product and how to design implement and communicate strategies to customers. Furthermore the book shows that there are not always straightforward solutions but rather choices and trade-offs that require an understanding of what is best suited to the product customers and business in question. It demystifies a variety of topics such as local sourcing regenerative agriculture plant-based protein and the environmental impact of meat production and draws on a wide range of case studies from across the globe to provide concrete real-world examples. While a perfect food system may not exist informed decisions can go a long way to reshape and transform the food industry as we know it. This book will be of great interest to professionals working in the food and agriculture industries as well as students and scholars of sustainable food systems and sustainable business. | How to Create a Sustainable Food Industry A Practical Guide to Perfect Food

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The Art of Living Foundation Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

The Art of Living Foundation Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

The Hindu-derived meditation movement The Art of Living (AOL) founded in 1981 by Sri Sri Ravi Shankar in Bangalore has grown into a global organization which claims presence in more than 150 countries. Stephen Jacobs presents the first comprehensive study of AOL as an important transnational movement and an alternative global spirituality. Exploring the nature and characteristics of spirituality in the contemporary global context Jacobs considers whether alternative spiritualities are primarily concerned with individual wellbeing and can simply be regarded as another consumer product. The book concludes that involvement in movements such as AOL is not necessarily narcissistic but can foster a sense of community and inspire altruistic activity. | The Art of Living Foundation Spirituality and Wellbeing in the Global Context

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Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe was first published in English in 1967. Throughout the work the idea that Marc Bloch was not only a historian but a great teacher is exemplified as is his ability to ask interesting and original questions through his writing. Topics covered include medieval Germany technical problems in the medieval economy and society and the medieval class structure. | Land and Work in Mediaeval Europe (Routledge Revivals) Selected Papers

GBP 89.99
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The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy A Study of Council Housing Renewal in the London Borough of Hackney

The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy A Study of Council Housing Renewal in the London Borough of Hackney

First published in 1999 this study features Keith Jacobs examining housing practice through a detailed analysis of processes that surround a large-scale housing regeneration initiative in the London Borough of Hackney. It forms part of a series incorporating a wide range of approaches to urban and regional studies with an emphasis on original research linking theory and practice. The series is of interest to those working in planning geography economics sociology public administration and political science. | The Dynamics of Local Housing Policy A Study of Council Housing Renewal in the London Borough of Hackney

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Collaborative Screenwriting and Story Development A Global Guide for Writers Story Teams and Creative Executives

Collaborative Screenwriting and Story Development A Global Guide for Writers Story Teams and Creative Executives

This is a comprehensive guide to teach writing and story development from a collaborative global perspective. This book teaches writers how to take full advantage of emerging opportunities both locally and globally. With an increasing number of international co-productions and many screenwriters now working collaboratively in writers rooms and development groups author Marc Handler explains how to work cooperatively with others to break stories plan seasons create characters and build series. To succeed readers will learn how to give and receive feedback effectively adapt to the style and constraints of executives and brands and contribute to the team building process all within an increasingly global media industry that is in constant flux. This book will help readers develop a global perspective ensuring that they are prepared for new opportunities as they arise. Marc Handler provides cultural insight and understanding as he describes the fundamentals as well as advanced story skills. This book is essential reading for students taking classes such as Screenwriting Fundamentals Writing for Film and TV Introduction to Television Writing and Advanced Screenwriting as well as aspiring and early career screenwriters showrunners producers and creative executives. | Collaborative Screenwriting and Story Development A Global Guide for Writers Story Teams and Creative Executives

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An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities

An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities

Despite having no formal training in urban planning Jane Jacobs deftly explores the strengths and weaknesses of policy arguments put forward by American urban planners in the era after World War II. They believed that the efficient movement of cars was of more value in the development of US cities than the everyday lives of the people living there. By carefully examining their relevance in her 1961 book The Death and Life of Great American Cities Jacobs dismantles these arguments by highlighting their shortsightedness. She evaluates the information to hand and comes to a very different conclusion that urban planners ruin great cities because they don’t understand that it is a city’s social interaction that makes it great. Proposals and policies that are drawn from planning theory do not consider the social dynamics of city life. They are in thrall to futuristic fantasies of a modern way of living that bears no relation to reality or to the desires of real people living in real spaces. Professionals lobby for separation and standardization splitting commercial residential industrial and cultural spaces. But a truly visionary approach to urban planning should incorporate spaces with mixed uses together with short walkable blocks large concentrations of people and a mix of new and old buildings. This creates true urban vitality. | An Analysis of Jane Jacobs's The Death and Life of Great American Cities

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Goldratt's Rules of Flow

Goldratt's Rules of Flow

Marc Wilson is not giving up. He is determined to turn around the struggling family company and keep it despite his father’s decision to sell. The problem is that they are late on more and more projects and their customers won’t tolerate it anymore. Marc is looking everywhere for a solution when in one of his MBA classes he comes across a unique approach that views operations in terms of flow. The concept of flow is straightforward. It’s easy to visualize the stream of projects going through the system and understand that if something clogs the flow the projects pile up; the lead time gets longer and as a result the reliability of due dates suffers. What is not so easy is to uncover the specific obstacles that obstruct the flow and figure out how to remove them. Goldratt’s Rules of Flow is the book that the great Eli Goldratt author of The Goal wanted to write about his later developments in the field of project management. As he passed away before accomplishing it his daughter Efrat Goldratt a brilliant author in her own right has picked up the mantle. Whether you’re a manager in engineering IT service or sales this book will help you gain much better predictability and significantly improve your delivery. | Goldratt's Rules of Flow

GBP 21.99
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Digital Scholarship in Education Multimodality as a Window into Learning

Digital Scholarship in Education Multimodality as a Window into Learning

This book is an essential guide to multimodal theses and dissertations (MTDs) which involve researchers working with digital data such as video. Brendan Jacobs explains how MTDs provide new methodological options which can improve both the visibility and quality of research and then provides a how-to guide for anyone interested in writing an MTD or engaging with digital scholarship. It helps readers understand how digital scholarship can generate insights into learning and contains links to examples of best practice in digital scholarship. Embracing the new methodological possibilities that a purely digital environment provides this book sets a much-needed precedent for using multimodal approaches in your own research from classroom practice right up to PhD level. | Digital Scholarship in Education Multimodality as a Window into Learning

GBP 48.99
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Richard Brautigan

Richard Brautigan

Few contemporary American writers have been subjected to as much laudatory abuse as Richard Brautigan who having become famous in the 1960s was made a cult figure for the hippy generation and was systematically refused recognition as a major novelist once the sentimental wave of the ‘greening of America’ had passed. Marc Chénetier’s study originally published in 1983 was the first book to attempt to assess Brautigan’s writing art which far from weakening over the years had become amid critical indifference more secure in its techniques more all-encompassing in its strategy and more iconoclastic in its goals. In analysing most of Brautigan’s fictional works in the light of his poetics it examines the mechanisms of his metafictional and deconstructive offensive and indicates the direction in which Brautigan was moving at the time.

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Playing Sick? Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome Munchausen by Proxy Malingering and Factitious Disorder

Playing Sick? Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome Munchausen by Proxy Malingering and Factitious Disorder

In the classic edition of this outstanding book originally published in 2004 Dr. Marc Feldman explores the bizarre cases of real patients who feign or even self-induce illness. Playing Sick? chronicles the devastating impact of illness hoaxes including factitious disorders Munchausen syndrome Munchausen by proxy and malingering. Based on years of research and clinical practice Playing Sick? provides the clues that can help professionals family members friends and patients themselves to recognize these diagnoses avoid invasive procedures and understand elusive motives. Dr. Feldman offers practical advice to get emotionally ill patients the help they need. This classic edition is essential reading for physicians social workers and anyone interested in why and how individuals fabricate illness. | Playing Sick? Untangling the Web of Munchausen Syndrome Munchausen by Proxy Malingering and Factitious Disorder

GBP 29.99
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Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

Volume two explores the way a wide range of classic princess tales written by marginalized writers. Rapunzel and Snow White with their pale skin or long ropes of golden hair are particularly popular vehicles for exploring and challenging racialized constructions of beauty. Marriage is the traditional vehicle of a happy ending in Princess tales so marginalized responses to these tales also inherently respond to the doubly colonized position of women in the Anglophone world. The institution of marriage typically exposes the institutional oppression of colonized women. Authors include Charles Chesnutt Jessie Fauset Julia Kavanaugh George Edwards some of the unpublished manuscripts of Jewish-Australian author Joseph Jacobs and the earliest work of Sinèad de Valera as well as fin-de-siècle illustrators such as Harry Clarke and collected oral tales. | Fairy-Tale Revivals in the Long Nineteenth Century Volume II: Fairy- Tale Revival Dramas: Writing Wonder in Transatlantic Ethnic Literary Re

GBP 110.00
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Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

This book recreates in written form seventeen of the most popular frankly personal and engaging lectures on literature given by the award-winning teacher Richard Jacobs who has been working with students for over forty years. This is a book written for students whether starting their studies or more experienced and also for all lovers of literature. At its heart is the conviction that reading thinking about and writing or talking about literature involves us all personally: texts talk to us intimately and urgently inviting us to talk back intervening in and changing our lives. These lectures discuss in an open but richly informed way a wide range of texts that are regularly studied and enjoyed. They model what it means to be excited about reading and studying literature and how the study of literature can be life-changing - perhaps even with the effect of changing the lives of readers of this eloquent and remarkable book. | Literature in our Lives Talking About Texts from Shakespeare to Philip Pullman

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Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

Children have occupied a prominent place in Yiddish literature since early modern times but children’s literature as a genre has its beginnings in the early 20th century. Its emergence reflected the desire of Jewish intellectuals to introduce modern forms of education and promote ideological agendas both in Eastern Europe and in immigrant communities elsewhere. Before the Second World War a number of publishing houses and periodicals in Europe and the Americas specialized in stories novels and poems for various age groups. Prominent authors such as Yankev Glatshteyn Der Nister Joseph Opatoshu Leyb Kvitko made original contributions to the genre while artists such as Marc Chagall El Lissitzky and Yisakhar Ber Rybak also took an active part. In the Soviet Union meanwhile children’s literature provided an opportunity to escape strong ideological pressure. Yiddish children’s literature is still being produced today both for secular and strongly Orthodox communities. This volume is a pioneering collective study not only of children’s literature but of the role played by children in literature. | Children and Yiddish Literature From Early Modernity to Post-Modernity

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Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement

Now in its second edition Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement provides an accessible overview of an important and transformational struggle for social change highlighting key individuals and events influential groups and organizations major successes and failures and the movement’s lasting effects and unfinished work. Focusing on four decades of social cultural and political change in the second half of the twentieth century Marc Stein examines the changing agendas beliefs strategies and vocabularies of a movement that encompassed diverse actions campaigns ideologies and organizations. From the homophile activism of the 1950s and 1960s through the rise of gay liberation and lesbian feminism in the 1970s to the multicultural and AIDS activist movements of the 1980s this book provides a strong foundation for understanding gay lesbian bisexual transgender and queer politics today. This new edition reflects the substantial changes in the field since the book’s original publication eleven years ago. Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement will be valued by everyone interested in LGBTQ struggles the politics of movement activism and the history of social justice in the United States.

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Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

Transcending the Postmodern: The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm gathers an introduction and ten chapters concerned with the issue of Transmodernity as addressed by and presented in contemporary novels hailing from various parts of the English-speaking world. Building on the theories of Transmodernity propounded by Rosa María Rodríguez Magda Enrique Dussel Marc Luyckx Ghisi and Irena Ateljevic inter alia it investigates the links between Transmodernity and such categories as Postmodernity Postcolonialism and Transculturalism with a view to help define a new current in contemporary literary production. The chapters either follow the main theoretical drives of the transmodern paradigm or problematise them. In so doing they branch out towards various issues that have come to inspire contemporary novelists among which: the presence of the past the ascendance of new technologies multiculturalism terrorism and also vulnerability interdependence solidarity and ecology in a globalised context. In so doing it interrogates the ethics aesthetics and politics of the contemporary novel in English. | Transcending the Postmodern The Singular Response of Literature to the Transmodern Paradigm

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The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

The editors express their gratitude to the John M. Olin Foundation for its financial assistance and to the Harvard University Russian Research Center for the facilities and staff support that made this project possible. We wish to thank those who contributed their invaluable scholarly advice including Vernon Aspaturian Abram Bergson Steven Blank Walker Connor Robert Conquest Murray Feshbach Erich Goldhagen Richard Pipes and Marc Raeff. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Barbara A. Anderson and Brian D. Silver with Soviet demographic data used throughout the volume. Susan Zayer and Karen Taylor-Brovkin provided able administrative help. For skillful technical assistance with the manuscript we are indebted to Jane Prokop Elizabeth Taylor and Alison Koff. Catherine Reed Susan Gardos-Bleich Christine Porto and Alex Sich helped generously in diverse ways. Finally the editors profited at every stage from the congenial working atmosphere and the encouragement of colleagues at the Russian Research Center too numerous to mention. To all of them goes our deep appreciation. | The Nationalities Factor In Soviet Politics And Society

GBP 130.00
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On African-American Rhetoric

On African-American Rhetoric

On African-American Rhetoric traces the arc of strategic language use by African Americans from rhetorical forms such as slave narratives and the spirituals to Black digital expression and contemporary activism. The governing idea is to illustrate the basic call-response process of African-American culture and to demonstrate how this dynamic has been and continues to be central to the language used by African Americans to make collective cultural and political statements. Ranging across genres and disciplines including rhetorical theory poetry fiction folklore speeches music film pedagogy and memes Gilyard and Banks consider language developments that have occurred both inside and outside of organizations and institutions. Along with paying attention to recent events this book incorporates discussion of important forerunners who have carried the rhetorical baton. These include Frederick Douglass Harriet Jacobs Sojourner Truth Anna Julia Cooper W. E. B. Du Bois Zora Neale Hurston Malcolm X Martin Luther King Jr. Toni Cade Bambara Molefi Asante Alice Walker and Geneva Smitherman. Written for students and professionals alike this book is powerful and instructive regarding the long African-American quest for freedom and dignity.

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An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma Modes of Existing and Confrontations with Reality

An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma Modes of Existing and Confrontations with Reality

An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma provides a new existential framework for understanding the experiences of interpersonal trauma building on reflections from Marc Boaz’s own personal history clinical insight and research. The book suggests that psychology psychotherapy and existentialism do not recognise the significance of the existential movements that occur in traumatic confrontations with reality. By considering what people find at the limits and boundaries of human experiencing Boaz describes the ways in which they can disillusion and re-illusion themselves and how this becomes incorporated into their modes of existing in the world and in relation to others. In incorporating the experience of trauma into the way people live – all the existential horror terror and liberation contained within it – Boaz invites them to embrace an expansive ethic of (re)(dis)covery. This ethic recognises the ambiguity and spectrality of interpersonal trauma and expands the horizons of our human relationships. The book provides an important basis for professionals wanting to work existentially with interpersonal trauma and for people wanting to deepen their understanding of the trauma they have experienced. | An Existential Approach to Interpersonal Trauma Modes of Existing and Confrontations with Reality

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Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 Strangers in Paradise

Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 Strangers in Paradise

Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 examines Paris as a center of international culture that attracted artists from Western and Eastern Europe Asia and the Americas during a period of burgeoning global immigration. Sixteen essays by a group of emerging and established international scholars - including several whose work has not been previously published in English - address the experiences of foreign exiles immigrants students and expatriates. They explore the formal and informal structures that permitted foreign artists to forge connections within and across national communities and in some cases fashion new transnational identities in the City of Light. Considering Paris from an innovative global perspective the book situates both important modern artists - such as Edvard Munch Sonia Delaunay-Terk Marc Chagall and Gino Severini - and lesser-known American Czech Italian Polish Welsh Russian Japanese Catalan and Hungarian painters sculptors writers dancers and illustrators within the larger trends of international mobility and cultural exchange. Broadly appealing to historians of modern art and history the essays in this volume characterize Paris as a thriving transnational arts community in which the interactions between diverse cultures peoples and traditions contributed to the development of a hybrid and multivalent modern art. | Foreign Artists and Communities in Modern Paris 1870-1914 Strangers in Paradise

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Dying to be Ill True Stories of Medical Deception

Dying to be Ill True Stories of Medical Deception

Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with illness. By playing sick we gained sympathy care and attention and were excused from our responsibilities. Though doing so on occasion is considered normal there are those who carry their deceptions to the extreme. In this book Dr. Marc Feldman describes people’s strange motivations to fabricate or induce illness or injury to satisfy deep emotional needs. Doctors family members and friends are lured into a costly frustrating and potentially deadly web of deceit. From the mother who shaves her child’s head and tells her community he has cancer to the co-worker who suffers from a string of incomprehensible tragedies to the false epilepsy victim who monopolizes her online support group disease forgery is ever-present in the media and in many people’s lives. In Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception Dr. Feldman with the assistance of Gregory Yates has chronicled this fascinating world as well as the paths to healing. With insight developed from 25 years of hands-on experience Dying to be Ill is sure to stand as a classic in the field. | Dying to be Ill True Stories of Medical Deception

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