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Fat tells a story that is at once unique and universal: that of a young woman coming of age while struggling against the oppressive weight of an eating disorder and family dysfunction. In this provocative memoir, Austrian-born author and artist Regina Hofer documents her battle with body dysmorphic disorder, anorexia nervosa.
In the opening scene of Twister, Piedro lies in a hospital bed with a wheelchair at his side. Casting a shadow from the doorway, his caretaker remarks on Ohow quickly one gets used to this kind of thing,O as she goes on to empty his catheter bag and help him into his wheelchair.
An iconoclast and best-selling author of both nonfiction and fiction, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing, thinking, and writing about the cultures of animals such as lions, wolves, dogs, deer, and humans. In this compulsively readable book, she provides a plainspoken, big-picture look at the commonality of life on our ......
Examines the life and writings of Roman Catholic Church reformer Ivan Illich (1926-2002) in the context of the wider field of cultural criticism that took shape in the 1960s and beyond.
Bastien is eight years old, and his mother is ill. She often has what his father and grandparents call "episodes." According to the doctors, she suffers from "bipolar disorder with schizophrenic tendencies."
"A graphic memoir exploring the author's personal and political feelings about his decision to marry his longtime partner when same-sex marriage became legal"--
Three Thousand Deities of Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam
From the tragic young Adonis to Zashapuna, first among goddesses, this handbook provides the most complete information available on deities from the cultures and religions of the ancient Near East, including Anatolia, Syria, Israel, Sumer, Babylonia, Assyria, and Elam. The result of nearly fifteen years of research, this handbook is more ......
