Martha: 1810 books
Jane Cooper
A Radiance of Attention
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2019
For her five volumes of poetry over the course of her career, Jane Cooper (1924–2007) was deeply admired by her contemporaries, and teaching at Sarah Lawrence College for nearly forty years, she served as a mentor to many aspiring poets. Her elegant, honest, and emotionally and formally precise...
by Martha Silano
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Martha Silano’s new collection begins with The Big Bang and ends with the unleashing of twelve million bees from a jack-knifed semi. In between Reckless Lovely ricochets from Renaissance masterworks to amusement parks, from fissures to fission, praising the peregrine, the paramecium. Reveling in...
by Martha Schoolman
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
Traditional narratives of the period leading up to the Civil War are invariably framed in geographical terms. The sectional descriptors of the North, South, and West, like the wartime categories of Union, Confederacy, and border states, mean little without reference to a map of the United States. In...
by Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Martha Nussbaum asks: How can we sustain a decent society that aspires to justice and inspires sacrifice for the common good? Amid negative emotions endemic even to good societies, public emotions rooted in love--intense attachments outside our control--can foster commitment to shared goals and keep at bay the forces of disgust and envy.
Breaking the Cycles of Hatred
Memory, Law, and Repair
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2009
Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and between family members differ in so many ways and yet often share this dynamic. In this powerful and timely...
Cultivating Humanity
A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha C. Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such “citizens of the world”...
Défaillances systèmes
Journal d'un AssaSynth, T1
Language: French
Release Date: April 25, 2019
Défaillances systèmes, la première des quatre novellas qui forment « Journal d’un AssaSynth », a reçu :
• Le Prix Hugo de la meilleure novella en 2018
• Le Prix Nebula de la meilleure novella en 2018
• Lauréat du Prix Locus de la meilleure novella en 2018
•...
Upheavals of Thought
The Intelligence of Emotions
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2001
Emotions shape the landscape of our mental and social lives. Like geological upheavals in a landscape, they mark our lives as uneven, uncertain and prone to reversal. Are they simply, as some have claimed, animal energies or impulses with no connection to our thoughts? Or are they rather suffused...
Infantile Autism
The Syndrome and Its Implications for a Neural Theory of Behavior by Bernard Rimland, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2014
In 1964, the release of Dr. Bernard Rimland's book, Infantile Autism, revolutionized the autism field by providing the autism community with much-needed guidance on how to understand and treat individuals on the spectrum. He single-handedly realigned the field from a psychodynamic, parent-blaming...
by Philip Fisher, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Martha C. Nussbaum
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
How should we live? What do we owe to other people? In Goodness and Advice, the eminent philosopher Judith Jarvis Thomson explores how we should go about answering such fundamental questions. In doing so, she makes major advances in moral philosophy, pointing to some deep problems for influential...
by Martha Stark
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2000
How do we position ourselves, moment by moment, in relation to our patients and how do these positions inform both what we come to know about our patients and how we intervene? Do we participate as neutral object, as empathic self-object, or as authentic subject? Do we strive to enhance the patient's...
Supergroom!
101 Ways to Be the Most Romantic Groom-Ever!
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2004
Packed with 101 separate, unique, and inspiring tips to help the would-be romantic fly like cupid's arrow, leap tall wedding cakes in a single bound, and stop his bride-to-be's wedding dress train from derailing, Supergroom! is every man's one-stop love shop for all things borrowed and blue.
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by Martha Graybeal Rowlett
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2013
Most books are like visitors. They come and go. This book can be a long-term companion and assistant as you weave prayer into the tapestry of your life.
Weaving Prayer Into the Tapestry of Life pictures each of us as a weaver at a loom, creating in every moment our lifes tapestry. The transformative...
Love's Promises
How Formal and Informal Contracts Shape All Kinds of Families
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2015
Blends memoir and legal cases to show how contracts can create family relationships
Most people think of love and contracts as strange bedfellows, or even opposites. In Love’s Promises, however, law professor Martha Ertman shows that far from cold and calculating, contracts shape and sustain...