Product Description: The greatest deterrent to a good life is fear. Anxiety traps far too many of us in lifestyles, jobs and relationships that are mundane and unfulfilling, while causing our self-esteem and self-confidence to suffer. In "Navigating Through Fear," family therapist Susan Stewart takes you along with her as she backpacks solo through Europe as a 50-year old, while teaching her well-proven methods for navigating through fear and expanding risk-taking behaviors...read more

Product Description: "Fundamentally, my works are almost always in the nature of a proposal," Thomas Schtte contends, while conceding that "nonetheless, mostly they exist in the form of models." Schtte's notion of models is, consequently, encompassing and complex: at its core lies hypothesis and speculation...read more

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What is the role of the senses in the creation and reception of poetry? How does poetry carry on the long tradition of making experience and suffering understood by others? With Poetry and the Fate of the Senses, Susan Stewart traces the path of the aesthetic in search of an explanation for the role of poetry in our culture. The task of poetry, she tells us, is to counter the loneliness of the mind, or to help it glean, out of the darkness of solitude, the outline of others. Poetry, she contends, makes tangible, visible, and audible the contours of our shared humanity. It sustains and transforms the threshold between individual and social existence.Herself an acclaimed poet, Stewart not only brings the intelligence of a critic to the question of poetry, but the insight of a practitioner as well. Her new study draws on reading from the ancient Greeks to the postmoderns to explain how poetry creates meanings between persons. Poetry and the Fate of the Senses includes close discussions of poems by Stevens, Hopkins, Keats, Hardy, Bishop, and Traherne, of the sense of vertigo in Baroque and Romantic works, and of the rich tradition of nocturnes in visual, musical, and verbal art. Ultimately, Stewart explores the pivotal role of poetry in contemporary culture. She argues that poetry can counter the denigration of the senses and can expand our imagination of the range of human expression.Poetry and the Fate of the Senses won the 2004 Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism in Memory of Newton Arvin, administered for the Truman Capote Estate by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. It also won the Phi Beta Kappa Society's 2002 Christian Gauss Award for Literary Criticism. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Scipone was an Italian painter and poet of the late 1920s. Collected here are a sampling of his writings and drawings, published together for the first time. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This is the first book to focus purely on interpreting biopsy pathology specimens from heart and heart/lung transplant patients.Each chapter contains a brief introduction covering the clinical conditions seen in these patients, followed by a large body of colour photographs explained by detailed captions to give a comprehensive overview of the subject...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Shattered Dreams is the devastating account of 5 years in the life of an ordinary woman, and her struggle to keep up the facade of the perfect marriage. Once the safety of her 3 children was threatened, however, she knew it was time to make her escape...read more

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A pair of family therapists interviews single, divorced, and widowed women in the middle of life across the country, offering lessons in living richly and rewardingly by making the most of one's freedom and independence (view table of contents)