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English
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The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
ix, 962 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In Far from the Tree, Andrew Solomon tells the stories of parents who not only learn to deal with their exceptional children but also find profound meaning in doing so. His proposition is that diversity is what unites us all. He writes about families coping with deafness, dwarfism, Down syndrome, autism, schizophrenia, multiple severe disabilities, with children who are prodigies, who are conceived in rape, who become criminals, who are transgender....
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 578 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Essays chronicle the author's activist stint on the Moscow barricades in 1991, his 2002 account of cultural rebirth in post-Taliban Afghanistan, and other stories of profound change.
Psychologist, lecturer and activist Andrew Solomon's essays about places undergoing seismic political and cultural shifts, around the globe and across a generation. A testament to the importance of travel and bearing witness, they encompass South Africa and Brazil, China...
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Language
English
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"The mother of one of the two shooters at Columbine High School draws on personal recollections, journal entries and video recordings to piece together what led to her son's unpredicted breakdown and share insights into how other families might recognize warning signs,"--NoveList.
On April 20, 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold walked into Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. In a matter of minutes, they killed twelve students and a teacher...
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"FAR FROM THE TREE follows families meeting extraordinary challenges through love, empathy, and understanding. This life-affirming documentary encourages us to cherish loved ones for all they are, not who they might have been. Based on Andrew Solomon's award-winning, critically acclaimed, New York Times bestselling non-fiction book "Far From the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity."--Container.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"Based on the pioneering New York Times series, About Us collects the personal essays and reflections that have transformed the national conversation around disability. Boldly claiming a space in which people with disabilities can be seen and heard as they are-not as others perceive them-About Us captures the voices of a community that has for too long been stereotyped and misrepresented. Speaking not only to those with disabilities, but also to their...
Publisher
Rizzoli New York
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
240 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
"World monuments presents fifty of the world's most compelling destinations, cultural heritage sites, and significant architectural works that must be seen and preserved. In commemoration of its fiftieth anniversary, World Monuments Fund has commissioned eight of todays' most important writers... Each essay explores a specific place and theme relating to WMF's history and the challenges of its conservation work: Anne Applebaum writes about war and...
10) Corrigan
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
319 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Corrigan, a gaunt, handsome man in a wheelchair transforms the life of lonely widow Devina Blunt. She is galvanised into action by his passion and energy. But who is this strong and priest-like man?
Publisher
Voltage Pictures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hardin will always be ... Hardin. But is he really the deep, thoughtful guy Tessa fell madly in love with or has he been a stranger all along? She wishes she could walk away. It's just not that easy. Not with the memory of the passionate nights they spent together. Still, Tessa's not sure she can endure one more broken promise. She's focused on her studies and just starting an exiciting new internship at Vance Publishing. She's also being pursued...
13) The in-laws
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Full screen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very different. One is a podiatrist, happy with his quiet life. The other is a CIA operative, who lives life on the edge, and when circumstances gets out-of-hand, involves the other in an arms-smuggling sting.
14) The in-laws
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2003
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When two fathers of an engaged couple meet for the first time, they know they are very different. One is a podiatrist, happy with his quiet life. The other is a CIA operative, who lives life on the edge, and when circumstances gets out-of-hand, involves the other in an arms-smuggling sting.
Publisher
William Morrow & Company
Pub. Date
[1998]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 161 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Collected here are the exquisite paintings, sets, costumes, photography, sculpture, poetry, and writing New York City Ballet has spawned from the great creative minds of our time." Contributors include: W.H. Auden, Richard Avedon, Marc Chagall, Martha Graham, Eric Carle, Joan Didion, Madeleine L'Engle, George Plimpton, Susan Sontag, Wendy Wasserstein, and many more.
16) My father married your mother: writers talk about stepparents, stepchildren, and everyone in between
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
©2006
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
283 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
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Description
"With the U.S. divorce rate hovering around 50 percent, most people recognize remarriage as a now-familiar occurrence. And remarriage often means stepfathers, -mothers, -brothers, and -sisters, and the formation of a new type of blended family. Jacquelyn Mitchard, Barbara Kingsolver, Roxana Robinson, Susan Cheever, and others share experiences of being stepdaughters, stepmothers, or ex-wives."--The publisher - (July 2006).
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