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ISBN 9781905119356

Title Offa's Dyke

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Offa's DykeLandscape and Hegemony in Eighth CenturyBritain

By Ian Bapty & Keith Ray

The massive ancient earthwork that provides the sole commemoration of anextraordinary Anglo-Saxon king and that gives its name to one of our most popularcontemporary national walking trails remains an enigma. Despite over a century ofstudy, we still do not fully understand how or why Britain's largest linear monumentwas built, and in recent years, the views of those who have studied the Dyke havediverged even as to such basic questions as its physical extent and date of construction.This book provides a fresh perspective on the creation of Offa's Dyke arising from overa decade of study and of conservation practice by its two authors. It also provides anew appreciation of the specifically Mercian and English political context of itsconstruction. The authors first summarise what is known about the Dyke fromarchaeology and history and review the debates surrounding its form and purpose.They then set out a systematic approach to understanding the design and constructionof the massive linear bank and ditch that has come to stand proxy for the Anglo-Welshborder. What can currently be deduced about the build qualities of the Dyke are thensummarised from the authors' recent (and newly intricate) study of details of itslocalised form and construction and its landscape setting. The authors meanwhile alsoexplain Offa's Dyke as an instrument of late 8th-century Mercian statecraft and theimperial ambitions of Offa himself.

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PUBLICATION DATE:30 April 2015

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ISBN 9781782979234

Title Greece, Macedon and Persia

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Greece, Macedon and PersiaEdited by Erin Garvin, Graham Wrightson & Timothy Howe

This book contains a collection of papers related to the history and historiography ofWarfare, Politics and Power in the Ancient Mediterranean world. The contributions,written by 19 recognized experts from a variety of methodological and evidentiaryperspectives, show how ancient peoples considered war and conflict at the heart ofsocial, political and economic activity. Though focusing on a single theme – war – thepapers are firmly based in the context of the wider social and literary issues of AncientMediterranean scholarship and as such, consider war and conflict as part of a complexmatrix of culture in which historical actors articulate their relationships with societyand historical authors articulate their relationships with history. The result is a richunderstanding of Ancient World history and history-writing. The volume is presentedin honour of Waldemar Heckel, a foremost scholar of Alexander the Great and AncientWarfare.


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ISBN 9781909990029

Title Stonehenge

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StonehengeMaking Sense of a Prehistoric Mystery

By Colin Richards, Joshua Pollard, Julian Thomas, Kate Welham& Mike Parker Pearson

Stonehenge is an iconic monument for people all around the world. Built around 5000years ago, it stands for mystery and forgotten secrets waiting to be decoded. In thislatest book in the Council for British Archaeology’s ‘Archaeology for All’ series,Professor Mike Parker Pearson presents an up-to-date interpretation of Stonehenge andits landscape. Drawing on his years of research and excavation, the author presents ahighly readable account that is lavishly illustrated with images by the renownedphotographer Adam Stanford and the reconstruction artist Peter Dunn.


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CONTRIBUTORS:Colin RichardsJoshua PollardJulian ThomasKate WelhamMike Parker Pearson

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READER INTERESTS:British & Irish PrehistoryEuropean Neolithic

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ISBN 9781909990012

Title The First World War and its Home Front in Britain

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The First World War and its HomeFront in BritainAn Archaeological Handbook

Edited by John Schofield & Wayne D. Cocroft

This latest CBA Practical Handbook forms part of the CBA-led project to record thephysical legacy of the First World War on the Home Front in the UK. The bookprovides invaluable background information for anyone interested in identifying andrecording the remains of the Home Front, from practice trenches to works by conscientious objectors to Homes fit for Heroes. Extensively illustrated, with botharchive and modern images, the book also includes guidance on researching the HomeFront.


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ISBN 9781632430021

Title Truth of My Songs

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Truth of My SongsPoems of the Trobairitz

By Claudia Keelan

Truth of My Songs is a translation of poems written by the women troubadours, knownas trobairitz, whose poems disappeared after the Albigensian crusade of 1129.Together, the poems present a profound argument - for and against - the notion of fin'amor, the pure or fine notion of love, invented by their male counterparts. Tragic,raucous, vulgar, silly, and strange, the poems of the trobairitz prove that women'shistory has been recorded since the first woman raised her voice and lifted a pen.


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ISBN 9781611687491

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Danger on the PageA Fiction Writer's Guide to Sex, Violence, DeadNarrators, and Other Challenges

By Brian Shawver

Although fiction writers must concern themselves with "big picture" issues such asplot, theme, and character development, much of the day-to-day work of writing involves finding answers to seemingly minor questions: How should I describe theexterior of a house? How can I construct the voice of a historical narrator withauthenticity? How should I depict a physically atypical character? Few books on themarket address the problems and opportunities present in these and other questions, yetthey are the ones that most writers grapple with on a daily basis.

Danger on the Page: A Fiction Writer's Guide to Sex, Violence, Dead Narrators, andOther Challenges identifies and explores some of the more common and intractablesituational challenges of fiction writing, with chapters grouped into the general subjectareas such as scenes, characters, points of view, and settings. Shawver delves into thepitfalls and opportunities of writing about sex, violence, sports, and love; he examineswriting from the perspective of a different race, gender, or species; he interrogatesconventional beliefs about the use of brand names, the description of architecture, andthe portrayal of nature. Throughout, he gives dozens of examples from both literaryand commercial fiction so readers can borrow (or reject) other writers' techniques andexplore the myriad challenges of fiction writing on their own.

A lively and witty approach to a diverse range of specific writing issues, Shawver'sbook will appeal especially to intermediate-level writers seeking to bring their craft tothe next level.


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ISBN 9780932440495

Title Dirty Bomb

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Dirty BombBy Mark Neely

Robin Behn called Mark Neely's first collection "nothing less than a mandala of thehuman spirit." Now, in Dirty Bomb, his formidable talents take on a wider and morepublic dimension.

This book of poems explores life in 21st-century America, particularly thejuxtaposition of intimate human relationships with the politics and violence of U.S.militarism, terrorism, and the threat of environmental apocalypse. Oil tankers leak,atrocities play out across the internet, "the present / always drags the past into thefuture." Yet Neely's piercing intelligence and dry wit keep the poems light on their feetand unexpected in their perceptions. Angry, baffled, moon-drunk, and visionary, thesepoems chart the promise and the danger of America in fresh and memorable ways.


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SERIES:FIELD Poetry Series

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ISBN 9781611687514

Title Diseases of Poverty

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Diseases of PovertyEpidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and ModernPlagues

By John R. Butterly & Lisa V. Adams

Only a few decades ago, we were ready to declare victory over infectious diseases.Today, infectious diseases are responsible for significant morbidity and mortalitythroughout the world.

This book examines the epidemiology and social impact of past and present infectiousdisease epidemics in the developing and developed world. In the introduction, theauthors define global health as a discipline, justify its critical importance in the modernera, and introduce the Millennium Development Goals, which have become criticaltargets for most of the developing world. The first half of the volume provides anepidemiological overview, exploring early and contemporary perspectives on diseaseand disease control. An analysis of nutrition, water, and sanitation anchors thediscussion of basic human needs. Specific diseases representing both "loud" and"silent" emergencies are investigated within broader structures of ecological andbiological health such as economics, education, state infrastructure, culture, andpersonal liberty. The authors also examine antibiotic resistance, AIDS, malaria,tuberculosis, and pandemic influenza, and offer an epilogue on diseases of affluence,which now threaten citizens of countries both rich and poor.

A readable guide to specific diseases, richly contextualized in environment andgeography, this book will be used by health professionals in all disciplines interested inglobal health and its history and as a textbook in university courses on global health.


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CONTRIBUTORS:John R. Butterly Lisa V. Adams

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ISBN 9781632430014

Title Essay

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EssayA Critical Memoir

By Donald Revell

Essay: A Critical Memoir is an experiment of the old school and of revived delight inthe pleasures of close reading. What if all the poems are true? What if the allegories ofa man or woman's life are in every way, and always, the actual shape of that life? Toread is to find oneself again and again at the center of a pageant. To write is to call thepageant home. Essay is a memoir of Dante and Beatrice in New York circa 1968 andof an anti-war movement in something very much like Paradise.


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ISBN 9781933880488

Title Esther

Title ID 495603

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EstherA Novel in Verse

By Pam Bernard

A novel-in-verse, Esther is molded with the poet's tools - among them sound andimage, and the belief that the smallest increments of language can provide the grace towithstand, in the name of family, the onslaught of human failings and cruelty.


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ISBN 9781935536512

Title Furs Not Mine

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Furs Not MineBy Andrea Cohen

The poems in Furs Not Mine display Andrea Cohen's masterful craft and lyricism andher keen wit. In Cohen's elegiac shoals, we see how "Great griefs are antidotes / forlesser sorrows," and in her strange, surprising narratives, we glimpse a man dartinginto traffic for a hubcap, "meaning to build his dream / vehicle from scrap." Thesepoems, too, have the feel of dreamy constructions, in which bliss "from a distance, canlook like pain." That's the magic of this collection: it holds loss and promise in thesame image - sometimes even the same word.


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ISBN 9780991545445

Title Industry of Brief Distraction

Title ID 495618

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Industry of Brief DistractionBy Laurie Saurborn Young

In a voice at once direct, musical, and surreal, these poems document the journey of awoman as she examines her role in both the political landscape of modern Americanculture and within the scope of her familial history. Addressing modern environmentalconcerns and global destruction, the poems maintain a connection with a larger literaryhistory as well as the author's personal history. Sometimes grounded in the concrete,physical world, sometimes floating in imaginative abstraction, this book unveils a version of the America we live in, this industry of brief distraction.


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ISBN 9781632430038

Title Laodicea

Title ID 495625

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LaodiceaBy Donald Revell & Eric Ekstrand

Laodicea speaks English sympathetically at the edge of sense, where this world revealsanother latent; and this world remains ordinary, just like we like it. In a time when weare told, amazingly, the universe is math, what does this mean for our friendships, forour language? Laodicea reminds, laughingly, that "The mind and the world / togetherare a Co-Cathedral" - the impulse for love and play.


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CONTRIBUTORS:Donald RevellEric Ekstrand

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ISBN 9780872331921

Title Life of the Garment

Title ID 495627

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Life of the GarmentPoems

By Deborah Gorlin

In her vital, elegiac poems, Deborah Gorlin inventories her dead in urgent acts ofrecognition and commemoration. Family members - both nuclear and extended - appear in their native stories to reanimate local histories, intimate geographies, and losttimes. In a different series of personae poems, Gorlin catalogues dolls and totemswithin their particular cultural habitats, which range from Africa to the Andes, andimagines their daemonic hopes, dreams and emotions. In a final act of inclusion, shetakes stock of her own spiritual hesitations, yearnings, approximations, andexplorations of such crazy topics as fingernails, Hebraic trees, and fat.


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ISBN 9781935536574

Title Lighting the Shadow

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Lighting the ShadowBy Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Lighting the Shadow is about a woman's evolving journey through desire, grief,trauma, and the peculiar historical American psyche of desire and violence. Thesepoems explore the international and psychological wars women survive - wars inflictedthrough various mediums that employ art, race, and literature. Furthermore, thecollection is about a woman's transformation and acceptance of her complicatedattempts to balance her spirit's own spectrum. Pulling the poet away from death, thesepoems insist that she open her life to her own powers and the powers of a greater world- a world that is both bright and dark.


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ISBN 9781935536543

Title Listen & Other Stories

Title ID 495629

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Listen & Other StoriesBy Liam Callanan

Listen is a book where characters ask readers to do just that: listen to their stories,especially because many aren't the type of people who often get listened to - even though they should. These characters' trials, missed connections, and sundry challengesare full of surprises - some good, some bad, some funny, some wise, and some all thisat once. Perhaps most surprising of all, there's tenderness here and a lot of heart -which often gets the collection's characters into a lot of trouble.


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ISBN 9781632430069

Title Memos

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MemosBy Susan Terris

From the author's "Memo to the Reader": "if you open this book and expect to/ know me you will find both truth // and lie all poets lie and lay and have / lainso discover inside what's mad // or curious yet beware ye who enter / for you maysee yourself herein"


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ISBN 9780991545469

Title Neighbors

Title ID 495636

Edition ID 93181

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NeighborsBy Jay Nebel

Neighbors is a book of lyric narratives about the men and women who live and worknext to us, the people standing in line at the DMV or buying milk and bread at thegrocery store. Jay Nebel gives voice to an America lost in the graffiti of park benchesand 24-hour diner parking lots, where men attempt CPR on gorillas and beat each otherin back alleys with baseball bats, as well as revere their mothers. These are poems thatlook through the windows at the secret lives of our neighbors, their affairs andaddictions, their curses and loves.


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ISBN 9781632430052

Title Particulars of Place

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Edition ID 93185

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Particulars of PlaceBy Brenda Hillman, Garrett Caples, Paul Ebenkamp & Richard O.Moore

The last living member of the original circle of Anarcho-pacifist poets at the birth ofthe San Francisco Renaissance, Richard O. Moore presents his second book,Particulars of Place. The title poem is a meditation on life in the twilight of AmericanEmpire, posing the question of how to live in an age of endless warfare. Throughout,Moore's commitment to social justice mingles with his interest in Wittgenstein'slinguistic philosophy, resulting in a poetic amalgam unique to Moore himself.Reflecting a lifetime of devotion to the art of poetry, Particulars of Place confirmsMoore's paradoxical position as a newly emerging old master.


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ISBN 9781935536567

Title Pax Americana

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Pax AmericanaBy Paul Otremba

The poems in Pax Americana are born out of the violent, fractious, and disillusioningopening to the 21st century. The decade of protracted wars and economic collapse -coupled with the polarizing of wealth and ideologies in this country - create thecatalysts for this book. These are social poems that want to talk, and through talkinghopefully make a space where people can meet and find meaning in each other.


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ISBN 9780872331884

Title Prosody

Title ID 495644

Edition ID 93189

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ProsodyThe Meters of Poetry in English

By Alan Soldofsky, David Koehn & Donald Justice

Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Justice died in 2004 after a long and distinguished life asa poet and professor. His famous course on prosody is renewed here by two of hisformer students - David Koehn and Alan Soldofsky - members of the current generation of acclaimed poets.

From novice to professional to critic - every poet will benefit from examples anddiscussion of Justice's approach to prosody. Supplemental materials include lecturenotes for instructors, and exercises based on Justice's original text.


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CONTRIBUTORS:Alan SoldofskyDavid KoehnDonald Justice

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ISBN 9781935536581

Title Repetition

Title ID 495647

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RepetitionBy Rebecca Reilly

Repetition is a poetic memoir of a daughter's grief after her father's death, as told to aloved one. These meditative prose poems journey through Paris, New York and Berlinon bike rides "to watch the tower sparkle in the distance" and on walks "past the zoo inthe dark, the animals calling." Paul Celan and Gertrude Stein accompany the daughterthrough her grief until the speaker can finally say, "it's enough - you can go now."


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CONTRIBUTOR:Rebecca Reilly

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ISBN 9781933227627

Title Saint Christopher

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Imprint Name Tagus Press at UMass Dartmouth


Saint ChristopherA Novella

By Carlos Reis, Earl E. Fitz, Gregory Rabassa & José Maria deEça de Queirós

Set in the Middle Ages but written in the early twentieth century, Eça de Queirós'snovella, Saint Christopher, is a powerful indictment of those who profess the value ofmorality but who do not practice it. The narrative is just as relevant today - when issuesof religion, hypocrisy, and social justice are more urgent than ever - as it was when itfirst appeared in 1912. Written as though it were the product of a dialogue betweenJesus and Proudhon (whose theories animate much of the narrative), Saint Christopherchallenges today's ethically motivated reader to do what the narrative's protagonist does, that is, take up the cause of the wretched and abused of this earth.


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SERIES:Adamastor Series

CONTRIBUTORS:Carlos ReisEarl E. FitzGregory RabassaJosé Maria de Eça de Queirós

PAGES:168pp

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PUBLICATION DATE: 7 April 2015

READER INTEREST:Fiction


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ISBN 9781555538507

Title Salem

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SalemPlace, Myth, and Memory

Edited by Dane Anthony Morrison & Nancy Lusignan Schultz

How is a sense of place created, imagined, and reinterpreted over time? That is theintriguing question addressed in this comprehensive look at the 400-year history ofSalem, Massachusetts, and the experiences of fourteen generations of people who livedin a place mythologized in the public imagination by the horrific witch trials andexecutions of 1692 and 1693.

But from its settlement in 1626 to the present, Salem was, and is, much more than this.In this volume, contributors from a variety of fields examine Salem's multiple urbanidentities: frontier outpost of European civilization, cosmopolitan seaport, gateway tothe Far East, refuge for religious diversity, center for education, and of course, "WitchCity" tourist attraction.


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IMPRINT:Northeastern University Press

CONTRIBUTORS:Dane Anthony MorrisonNancy Lusignan Schultz

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ISBN 9781935536550

Title Series | India

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Series | IndiaBy Elizabeth T. Gray

Anchored by braided and unstable narratives of young Westerners in India, the poemsin Series | India explore the rich borderlands that run between the familiar and theforeign, illumination and opacity, gods and charlatans.

In lyrics deeply informed by Gray's study and experience in India, and formallycharacterized by shifting and juxtaposed perceptions, perspectives, and voices, weencounter a young couple seeking refuge and enlightenment in a place where the linesbetween the divine, the human, the gorgeous, the deadly, and the hilarious are oftenindistinct.

How do we make meaning of our encounters with love, death, the divine, the absurd, the horrific? What and how do we actually see? How do we choose? The poems explore these hard questions with compassion, humor, and awe.


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ISBN 9781632430076

Title Shields & Shards & Stitches & Songs

Title ID 495655

Edition ID 93200

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Shields & Shards & Stitches & SongsBy Dan Beachy-Quick

Shields call out to the violence from which they also protect us, a paradox that belongsas well to the images etched upon them. In these poems seven shields each suffer aprocess, one of wounding, and of healing the wound back to song. Shards are what remain of shields, fragment words relict from the first poem. Shards become stitches,barest suture of meaning made only from what language in the shard remains. Last,built upon the stitches, keeping intact what letters and words there remain, seven songsto replace seven shields, born out of a violence they seek only to sing themselves past.


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ISBN 9781632430045

Title Some Habits

Title ID 495657

Edition ID 93202

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Some HabitsBy C. Violet Eaton

Some Habits proceeds by way of a series of letters charting the dreams, observations, apologies, and epiphanies of an unnamed addressor. The poem is infected by thevernacular language of the Ozark mountain region, and by the cultural effluvia of theflat lands hemming the Mississippi River. In the manner of the great poetic epistles,Some Habits risks unknowing its subject. Who broadcasts? Who receives?


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ISBN 9780932440488

Title Some Slow Bees

Title ID 495658

Edition ID 93203

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Some Slow BeesBy Carol Potter

Carol Potter's four previous books have earned many admirers and multiple awards.But the scope and depth of Some Slow Bees, winner of the 2014 FIELD Poetry Prize,will be a revelation even to her most devoted fans.

Potter's new collection is a book about trouble, about loss: relationships, farms,parents, places. But there's also humor, a wry look at the way we invite or stumble intotrouble and how we embrace the adventure. From children at their desks watching the flood leak into the schoolroom, to the narrator and her lover paddling down a river inthe dark, the book charts a journey from loss to repair. It ends with a sonnet sequence,"The Miss Nancy Papers," that leads us from the psychological terrain of the 1950sinto the present, where "if anyone knew what war we were coming home from / wewould come home from it." This is a book about how to get lost, and how to get home.


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SERIES:FIELD Poetry Series

CONTRIBUTOR:Carol Potter

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ISBN 9780872331945

Title Sparks from the Anvil

Title ID 495659

Edition ID 93204

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Sparks from the AnvilThe Smith College Poetry Interviews

Edited by Christian McEwen

Sparks from the Anvil: The Smith College Poetry Interviews is a collection ofdiscussions with contemporary poets, ranging from established elders like W.S.Merwin and Maxine Kumin to dazzling newcomers like Aracelis Girmay and theDickman brothers, Matthew and Michael. In conversation with Christian McEwen,they describe their habitual writing practice, influences, and development, as well astheir sense of the American poetry scene, and whatever else comes up in the course ofa long, thoughtful, richly meandering exchange.

The sixteen interviewed poets are:

Annie BoutelleMatthew DickmanMichael DickmanPatrick DonnellyRita DoveNikky FinneyAracelis GirmayEdward Hirsch

Jane HirshfieldYusef KomunyakaaMaxine KuminGwyneth LewisW.S. MerwinPatricia SmithChase TwichellJean Valentine


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ISBN 9781611687736

Title The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer's Family

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The Emotional Journey of theAlzheimer's FamilyBy Kesstan Blandin & Robert B. Santulli

Alzheimer's disease is a growing public health crisis. According to the Alzheimer'sAssociation, there are 5.4 million victims of this disease; by 2050, there will be closeto 15 million people who suffer from this debilitating disorder of memory, thinking,personality, and functioning. The disease profoundly affects immediate familymembers, close friends, and neighbors. These people - the Alzheimer's family -undergo tremendous psychological and emotional change as they witness the cruel andrelentless progression of the disease in their loved one.

Incorporating over thirty years of experience with Alzheimer's patients and theirfamilies with current medical knowledge, the authors chart the complex emotionaljourney of the Alzheimer's family from the onset of the disease through the death ofthe loved one. They discuss the anger that rises in the face of discordant views of thedisease, the defenses that emerge when family members are unwilling to accept adementia diagnosis, and the common emotions of anxiety, guilt, anger, and shame.They focus especially on grief as the core response to losing a loved one to dementia,and describe the difficult processes of adaptation and acceptance, which lead to personal growth. Final chapters emphasize the importance of establishing a carecommunity and how to understand and cope with personal stress.

This volume will be useful to medical professionals and ordinary people close to orcaring for a person with dementia.


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CONTRIBUTORS:Kesstan BlandinRobert B. Santulli

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ISBN 9781611687231

Title The Living Line

Title ID 495674

Edition ID 93219

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The Living LineModern Art and the Economy of Energy

By Robin Veder

Robin Veder's The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development oflate-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American modernism. The authorilluminates connections among the histories of modern art, body cultures, andphysiological aesthetics in early-twentieth-century American culture, fundamentallyaltering our perceptions about art and the physical, and the degree of cross-pollinationin the arts.

The Living Line shows that American producers and consumers of modernist visual artrepeatedly characterized their aesthetic experience in terms of kinesthesia, the sense ofbodily movement. They explored abstraction with kinesthetic sensibilities and usedabstraction to achieve kinesthetic goals. In fact, the formalist approach to art wasgalvanized by theories of bodily response derived from experimental physiologicalpsychology and facilitated by contemporary body cultures such as modern dance,rhythmic gymnastics, physical education, and physical therapy. Situating thesecomplementary ideas and exercises in relation to enduring fears of neurasthenia, Vedercontends that aesthetic modernism shared industrial modernity's objective of efficientlymanaging neuromuscular energy.

In a series of finely grained and interconnected case studies, Veder demonstrates thatdiverse modernists associated with the Armory Show, the Société Anonyme, the Stieglitz circle (especially O'Keeffe), and the Barnes Foundation participated in thesediscourses and practices and that "kin-aesthetic modernism" greatly influenced the formation of modern art in America and beyond.

This daring and completely original work will appeal to a broad audience of arthistorians, historians of the body, and American culture in general.


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SERIES:Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture

CONTRIBUTOR:Robin Veder

PAGES:384pp

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READER INTEREST:Victorian Art


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ISBN 9781935536529

Title The Names of Birds

Title ID 495676

Edition ID 93221

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The Names of BirdsBy Daniel Wolff

A field guide to perception, The Name of Birds is about how we see the "naturalworld." That is, how we approach what isn't us and name what we see. It also offersdetailed observations of common North American birds.


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PAGES:72pp

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ISBN 9781611685169

Title The Sea Mark

Title ID 495681

Edition ID 93226

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The Sea MarkCaptain John Smith’s Voyage to New England

By Russell M. Lawson

By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer andexplorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had wonrenown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the VirginiaColony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful Powhatan and securedthe help of Pocahontas. By 1614 he was seeking new adventures. He found them on the7,000 miles of jagged coastline of what was variously called Norumbega, NorthVirginia, or Cannada, but which Smith named New England. This land had been previously explored by the English, but while they had made observations and mapsand interacted with the native inhabitants, Smith found that "the Coast is . . . even as aCoast unknowne and undiscovered." The maps of the region, such as they were, wereinaccurate. On a long, painstaking excursion along the coast in a shallop, accompaniedby sailors and the Indian guide Squanto, Smith took careful compass readings andmade ocean soundings. His Description of New England, published in 1616, whichincluded a detailed map, became the standard for many years, the one used by suchsubsequent voyagers as the Pilgrims when they came to Plymouth in 1620.

The Sea Mark is the first narrative history of Smith's voyage of exploration, and itrecounts Smith's last years when, desperate to return to New England to start acommercial fishery, he languished in Britain, unable to persuade his backers to exploitthe bounty he had seen there.


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CONTRIBUTOR:Russell M. Lawson

PAGES:240pp

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ISBN 9781942155058

Title The Yoyo & the Piggy Bank

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Edition ID 93231

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The Yoyo & the Piggy BankBy Keith Eveland & Susan Werner Thoresen

Anna's pal Jackson dazzles her with his bright-green yoyo, inspiring Anna to buy herown. But how? Anna's mother encourages her to earn the money herself, providingAnna with an heirloom piggy bank for saving (and rattling!) her coins. Neighbors offerpaying chores and teach Anna some wicked tricks for the sparkly purple yoyo shewants from Mr. Jones's store. The colorful illustrations capture the joy Anna feelsearning her coins, learning about money, and shaking her humongous piggy bank asshe nears her goal.


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ISBN:9781942155058

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IMPRINT:Peter E. Randall Publisher

CONTRIBUTORS:Keith EvelandSusan Werner Thoresen

PAGES:40pp

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ISBN 9781935536536

Title Tidal

Title ID 495687

Edition ID 93232

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TidalBy Josh Kalscheur

Tidal focuses on Chuuk State, a group of islands that are a part of the Federated Statesof Micronesia. This focus encompasses Micronesia's morality, its taboos and myths,and how information and stories disseminate between villages, social groups,ethnicities, classes, and genders. Using persona, these poems explore and challenge theidea of witness.


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ISBN 9781611684261

Title Tommy Gun Winter

Title ID 495688

Edition ID 93233

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Tommy Gun WinterJewish Gangsters, a Preacher's Daughter, and theTrial That Shocked 1930s Boston

By Nathan Gorenstein

This is the true tale of two brothers, sons of a successful Jewish contractor, who alongwith an MIT graduate and a minister's daughter once competed for headlines with JohnDillinger, Pretty Boy Floyd and Bonnie and Clyde.

The gang was led by the angry, violent, yet often charismatic Murton Millen, a small-time hoodlum and aspiring race-car driver. With his younger brother, Irv, and laterjoined by neighborhood buddy and MIT graduate Abe Faber, Murt launched a careerof increasingly ambitious robberies. But it was only after his sudden marriage to thebeautiful eighteen-year-old Norma Brighton that the gang escalated to murder. Theircrime wave climaxed at a Needham, Massachusetts, bank on February 2, 1934, whenMurt cut down two local police officers - Francis Haddock and Forbes McLeod - witha Thompson submachine gun stolen from state police.

The killings, the dogged investigation by two clever detectives, and the record-settingtrial with seventeen psychiatrists were national news. In Depression-era America thisBoston saga of sex, ethnicity, and bloodshed made the trio and their "red-headed gunmoll" infamous. Gorenstein's account explores the Millen, Faber, and Brightonfamilies and introduces us to cops, psychiatrists, newspaper men and women, andordinary citizens caught up in the extraordinary Tommy Gun Winter of 1934.


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ISBN:9781611684261

PRICE:£20.00

IMPRINT:ForeEdge from University Press ofNew England

CONTRIBUTOR:Nathan Gorenstein

PAGES:344pp

BINDING:Hardback


READER INTEREST:Modern History


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ISBN 9781611686944

Title Trauma and Recovery on War's Border

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Trauma and Recovery on War'sBorderA Guide for Global Health Workers

Edited by Cynthia Maung, Kathleen Allden & Nancy Murakami

An increasing number of students and professionals are choosing to travel the globe toengage with the realities of trauma and human suffering through mental health aid. Butin the field of global mental health, good intentions are not enough to ensure goodtraining, development, and care. The risk of harm is real when outsiders deliver mentalhealth aid in culturally inappropriate and otherwise naïve ways.

This book, based on the experiences of the co-editors and their colleagues at BurmaBorder Projects (BBP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the mental health andpsychosocial well-being of the displaced people of Burma, sets out global mentalhealth theory allied with local perspectives, experiences, real-life challenges, strengths,and best practices. Topics include assessment and intervention protocols, vulnerable groups and the special challenges they present, and supervision and evaluationprograms. An introduction by the editors establishes the political and health contextsfor the volume.

Written in a style appropriate for academic audiences and lay readers, this book willserve as a fundamental text for clinicians, interns, volunteers, and researchers whowork in regions of the world that have suffered the violence of war, forceddisplacement, human rights violations, poverty, and oppression.


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ISBN:9781611686944

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CONTRIBUTORS:Cynthia MaungKathleen AlldenNancy Murakami

PAGES:344pp

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ISBN 9781937679415

Title Unknown Sky

Title ID 495692

Edition ID 93237

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Unknown SkyBy Marc Cohen

“Cohen’s poetry is a kind of highly polished, metaphysical poetry (but firmly rooted inthe realities of present-day urban existence). I think his is a unique voice which soundslike nobody else’s, except perhaps the quieter lyrical poems of Hart Crane—one of thehigh points in twentieth-century poetry and a path which, curiously, few poets havechosen to follow. Whether or not Cohen has done so, his poetry hungers after thesublime in the same way Crane’s does, without making any concessions to theancillary graces and seductions of poetic language, yet achieving them almostfortuitously, through his intense concentration on the task at hand: the making of thepoem.”—John Ashbery


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PRICE:£13.00

IMPRINT:Sheep Meadow Press

CONTRIBUTOR:Marc Cohen

PAGES:80pp

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ISBN 9781942155041

Title Wild Dolphin Rider

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Wild Dolphin RiderBy Nancy Donovan & Susan Spellman

Through the magic of desire, Sean discovers he can speak with Mari, a young dolphinmother, who takes him aboard her back for a day on the ocean. But just beyond theharbor jetty, Mari's pod is scattered by a tuna fleet, and Sean soon wonders if either heor the pod will survive to tell the tale. Searching for Mari's missing son, they confrontthe dangers of the sea - from lost drift nets to lightning storms - and readers learn howdifferent life is for wild dolphins from those in captivity.


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ISBN:9781942155041

PRICE:£11.00

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CONTRIBUTORS:Nancy DonovanSusan Spellman

PAGES:80pp

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ISBN 9781937679446

Title Wild Domestic

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Wild DomesticBy Natania Rosenfeld

Wild Domestic: such contraries, deftly held in balance, lie at the heart of NataniaRosenfeld's debut collection in which poems are energized as much by the poet's life-affirming, lush, appetitive drives as they are reined in by her sober-eyed vision ofcaged birds of prey and flayed rabbits; I am thinking in particular of the remarkablesequence inspired by Soutine: "The torso stretched / like pulled meat, / a skull, vacantbloody / mouth at the point / of the genitals." Rosenfeld knows how to write to thetight, serrated measures of duress - war-ravaged Europe haunts her imagination - but inthe end it is the robust, androgynous body and its runaway anima that gain the highground: "In her teeth/now a rose, now a dagger, / she slashes her world." - GabrielLevin


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CONTRIBUTOR:Natania Rosenfeld

PAGES:64pp

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ISBN 9780872331907

Title Workbook for Prosody by Donald Justice

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Workbook for Prosody by DonaldJusticeBy Alan Soldofsky & David Koehn

This workbook matches each chapter of the Donald Justice textbook, Prosody: TheMeters of Poetry in English, with parallel chapters that include summary lecture notesfor the instructor, exercises based on excerpts from the Justice text, and exercises basedon new supplementary materials. Instructors who want supplementary material andguiding exercises to accompany the Prosody textbook to use in fashioning courses forundergraduate and graduate work in writing poetry.


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ISBN:9780872331907

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CONTRIBUTORS:Alan SoldofskyDavid Koehn

PAGES:128pp

BINDING:Paperback


READER INTERESTS:EducationPoetry


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ISBN 9781611687521

Title Diseases of Poverty

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Diseases of PovertyEpidemiology, Infectious Diseases, and ModernPlagues

By John R. Butterly & Lisa V. Adams

Only a few decades ago, we were ready to declare victory over infectious diseases.Today, infectious diseases are responsible for significant morbidity and mortalitythroughout the world.

This book examines the epidemiology and social impact of past and present infectiousdisease epidemics in the developing and developed world. In the introduction, theauthors define global health as a discipline, justify its critical importance in the modernera, and introduce the Millennium Development Goals, which have become criticaltargets for most of the developing world. The first half of the volume provides anepidemiological overview, exploring early and contemporary perspectives on diseaseand disease control. An analysis of nutrition, water, and sanitation anchors thediscussion of basic human needs. Specific diseases representing both "loud" and"silent" emergencies are investigated within broader structures of ecological andbiological health such as economics, education, state infrastructure, culture, andpersonal liberty. The authors also examine antibiotic resistance, AIDS, malaria,tuberculosis, and pandemic influenza, and offer an epilogue on diseases of affluence,which now threaten citizens of countries both rich and poor.

A readable guide to specific diseases, richly contextualized in environment and geography, this book will be used by health professionals in all disciplines interested inglobal health and its history and as a textbook in university courses on global health.


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CONTRIBUTORS:John R. ButterlyLisa V. Adams

PAGES:208pp

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ISBN 9781611687446

Title The Emotional Journey of the Alzheimer's Family

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The Emotional Journey of theAlzheimer's FamilyBy Kesstan Blandin & Robert B. Santulli

Alzheimer's disease is a growing public health crisis. According to the Alzheimer'sAssociation, there are 5.4 million victims of this disease; by 2050, there will be closeto 15 million people who suffer from this debilitating disorder of memory, thinking,personality, and functioning. The disease profoundly affects immediate familymembers, close friends, and neighbors. These people - the Alzheimer's family -undergo tremendous psychological and emotional change as they witness the cruel andrelentless progression of the disease in their loved one.

Incorporating over thirty years of experience with Alzheimer's patients and theirfamilies with current medical knowledge, the authors chart the complex emotionaljourney of the Alzheimer's family from the onset of the disease through the death ofthe loved one. They discuss the anger that rises in the face of discordant views of thedisease, the defenses that emerge when family members are unwilling to accept adementia diagnosis, and the common emotions of anxiety, guilt, anger, and shame.They focus especially on grief as the core response to losing a loved one to dementia,and describe the difficult processes of adaptation and acceptance, which lead topersonal growth. Final chapters emphasize the importance of establishing a carecommunity and how to understand and cope with personal stress.

This volume will be useful to medical professionals and ordinary people close to orcaring for a person with dementia.


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CONTRIBUTORS:Kesstan BlandinRobert B. Santulli

PAGES:248pp

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ISBN 9781611687248

Title The Living Line

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The Living LineModern Art and the Economy of Energy

By Robin Veder

Robin Veder's The Living Line is a radical reconceptualization of the development oflate-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century American modernism. The authorilluminates connections among the histories of modern art, body cultures, andphysiological aesthetics in early-twentieth-century American culture, fundamentallyaltering our perceptions about art and the physical, and the degree of cross-pollinationin the arts.

The Living Line shows that American producers and consumers of modernist visual artrepeatedly characterized their aesthetic experience in terms of kinesthesia, the sense ofbodily movement. They explored abstraction with kinesthetic sensibilities and usedabstraction to achieve kinesthetic goals. In fact, the formalist approach to art wasgalvanized by theories of bodily response derived from experimental physiologicalpsychology and facilitated by contemporary body cultures such as modern dance,rhythmic gymnastics, physical education, and physical therapy. Situating thesecomplementary ideas and exercises in relation to enduring fears of neurasthenia, Vedercontends that aesthetic modernism shared industrial modernity's objective of efficientlymanaging neuromuscular energy.

In a series of finely grained and interconnected case studies, Veder demonstrates thatdiverse modernists associated with the Armory Show, the Société Anonyme, theStieglitz circle (especially O'Keeffe), and the Barnes Foundation participated in thesediscourses and practices and that "kin-aesthetic modernism" greatly influenced the formation of modern art in America and beyond.

This daring and completely original work will appeal to a broad audience of arthistorians, historians of the body, and American culture in general.


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ISBN:9781611687248

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SERIES:Interfaces: Studies in Visual Culture

CONTRIBUTOR:Robin Veder

PAGES:384pp

BINDING:Paperback


READER INTEREST:Victorian Art


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ISBN 9781611686951

Title Trauma and Recovery on War's Border

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Trauma and Recovery on War'sBorderA Guide for Global Health Workers

Edited by Cynthia Maung, Kathleen Allden & Nancy Murakami

An increasing number of students and professionals are choosing to travel the globe toengage with the realities of trauma and human suffering through mental health aid. Butin the field of global mental health, good intentions are not enough to ensure goodtraining, development, and care. The risk of harm is real when outsiders deliver mentalhealth aid in culturally inappropriate and otherwise naïve ways.

This book, based on the experiences of the co-editors and their colleagues at BurmaBorder Projects (BBP), a nonprofit organization dedicated to the mental health andpsychosocial well-being of the displaced people of Burma, sets out global mentalhealth theory allied with local perspectives, experiences, real-life challenges, strengths,and best practices. Topics include assessment and intervention protocols, vulnerable groups and the special challenges they present, and supervision and evaluationprograms. An introduction by the editors establishes the political and health contextsfor the volume.

Written in a style appropriate for academic audiences and lay readers, this book willserve as a fundamental text for clinicians, interns, volunteers, and researchers whowork in regions of the world that have suffered the violence of war, forceddisplacement, human rights violations, poverty, and oppression.


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ISBN:9781611686951

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CONTRIBUTORS:Cynthia MaungKathleen AlldenNancy Murakami

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