Brooklyn, fine Ottocento. Mary Handley, intelligente e anticonformista, poco dopo essere stata licenziata per insubordinazione, si ritrova per caso sulla scena di un delitto. Mary si rivela particolarmente abile nel raccogliere indizi, tanto che viene assunta dal Dipartimento di Polizia, ma risolvere il caso non sarà facile. È una giornata come le altre quando l'avvocato Anna Ferrari riceve una telefonata misteriosa che la avvisa di un pericolo imminente al cimitero. Poche parole, in un italiano incerto, che però Anna non se la sente di ignorare. Si precipita lì, ma quando arriva ormai è troppo tardi: a terra giace il cadavere insanguinato di una donna. Inizia così a indagare a fondo, ma presto è chiaro che le sue ricerche danno fastidio a qualcuno... Daniel Connell, ex avvocato in carriera della City, esercita in periferia. Quando un vecchio conoscente gli chiede aiuto per denunciare un abuso di potere da parte della polizia, Daniel finisce nel mirino dei poliziotti e della malavita. Non solo: presto dovrà fare i conti con i fantasmi del passato.

From the best-selling author of The Tiger and The Golden Spruce, this debut novel is a gripping survival story of a young man trapped, perhaps fatally, during a border crossing.

Hector is trapped. The water truck, sealed to hide its human cargo, has broken down. The coyotes have taken all the passengers’ money for a mechanic and have not returned. Those left behind have no choice but to wait.

Hector finds a name in his friend Cesar’s phone. AnniMac. A name with an American number. He must reach her, both for rescue and to pass along the message Cesar has come so far to deliver. But are his messages going through?

Over four days, as water and food run low, Hector tells how he came to this desperate place. His story takes us from Oaxaca — its rich culture, its rapid change — to the dangers of the border. It exposes the tangled ties between Mexico and El Norte — land of promise and opportunity, homewrecker and unreliable friend. And it reminds us of the power of storytelling and the power of hope, as Hector fights to ensure his message makes it out of the truck and into the world.

Both an outstanding suspense novel and an arresting window into the relationship between two great cultures, The Jaguar’s Children shows how deeply interconnected all of us, always, are.

Over 40? Getting forgetful? Having trouble learning new things, or remembering that actress’s name without reaching for your smartphone? Neurobics are simple, unique brain exercises that can be done anywhere, anytime. Now, the Neurobics bestseller How to Keep Your Brain Alive is repackaged in a trim, tote-able format that makes it an ideal gift.

Based on leading neurobiological research, Keep Your Brain Alive introduces a regimen of mental cross-training—a series of deceptively simple exercises that help stimulate the production of natural growth factors called neurotrophins, which in turn grow brain cells and keep the brain younger and stronger. And nothing so easily stimulates the brain as breaking routines and using the five senses in new and unexpected ways. So if you’re right-handed, wake up tomorrow and brush your teeth with your left hand. Or close your eyes before you get in the car and insert the key into the ignition. Every time you open a new circuit in your brain, it’s like doing a round of mental sit-ups.

Case Studies in Sexual Deviance is a comprehensive text that covers 14 different forms of sexual deviance, each contained within one chapter that functions as an exemplar to assist other clinicians with treating that problem. Each chapter covers topics such as assessment, case formulation, relevant research, denial and treatment engagement, adjunctive treatment/case management, forensic issues, relapse prevention, and priorities for future research. Written by international authorities, this book is useful both as a text and as a professional handbook.

Chazan has played a major role in Hebrew and Judaic studies in US universities, and colleagues honor him with 13 studies on areas of his particular interest. The topics include Guibert of Nogent and William of Flay and the problem of Jewish conversion at the time of the First Crusade, the commentary of Rashi on Isaiah and the Jewish-Christian debate, Jewish knowledge of Christianity during the 12th and 13th centuries, dreams as a determinant of Jewish law and practice in northern Europe during the high middle ages, the Jewish cemeteries of France after the expulsion of 1306, and tales and ideas of Jewish martyrdom in Shevet Yehudah. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Although cardiac surgery has made an enormous progress during the last decades, the discipline has to cope with essential changes: Patients are increasingly cared for by cardiologists and therefore referred to the surgeon in a later stage of disease. Consequently, they are more often in an increasingly serious state or in advanced age with significant comorbidities. In order to meet the requirements of these different patient groups, cardiosurgical treatments require special protectional strategies for the heart in order to perform the planned operations safely. This book presents the latest knowledge of modern techniques of myocardial protection taking into consideration the different patient groups and current scientific strategies. Furthermore, it discusses present and future scientific approaches in myocardial protection and preservation.

In Women in Love (1920), Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen who first appeared in Lawrence's earlier novel, The Rainbow, take center stage as Lawrence explores their growth and development in their relationships with two powerful men, Rupert Birkin and his friend Gerald Crich. A novel of regeneration and dark, destructive human passion, Women in Love reflects the impact on Lawrence of the First World War in the potential both for annihilation and salvation of the self. A full introduction and detailed notes offer an illuminating discourse on one of Lawrence's most extraordinary, innovative, and unsettling works.

Lawrence's first major novel was also the first in the English language to explore ordinary working-class life from the inside. No writer before or since has written so well about the intimacies enforced by a tightly-knit mining community and by a family where feelings are never hidden for long. Paul Morel is caught between his need for family and community and his efforts to define himself sexually and emotionally. Lawrence's powerful description of Paul's relationships makes this a novel as much for the beginning of the twenty-first century as it was for the beginning of the twentieth.

Nella città mineraria di Beldover, due sorelle, Ursula e Gudrun, cercano la felicità inseguendo i loro sogni d'amore con Rupert, direttore della scuola locale, e Gerard, un uomo infelice e tormentato dai suoi rimorsi. Le storie dei quattro si incrociano fra passione, tradimenti, abbandoni, ma alla fine il sentimento più forte e solido vincerà la sfida contro il tempo.

Features the original Haggadah text in both Hebrew and a new English translation, and includes information on the roots of Passover, its confrontation with modernity, and its relationship to other rabbinical teachings.

Women in Love explores the lives of Brangwen sisters, Ursula and Gudrun, and their developing love affairs with Rupert Birkin, an intellectual, and Gerald Crich, and industrialist. The despair of one sister's relationship contrasts with the happiness of the other's as the four clash in thought, passion and belief, in their search for a life that is truly complete. The novel is the sequel to The Rainbow and, although written in 1916, it remained unpublished in England until 1921.
In his Introduction Amit Chaudhuri discusses Lawrence's style and imagery. This edition also includes a chronology of Lawrence's life and work, further reading, notes and appendices containing the original forward to Women in Love, a fragment of 'The Sisters', the 'Prologue' and 'Wedding' chapters from an earlier draft, a map and discussion of the setting and people involved.

These three novellas show D. H. Lawrence's evocation of human relationships - both tender and cruel - and the devastating results of war. In The Fox, two young women living on a small farm during the First World War find their solitary life interrupted. As a fox preys on their poultry, a human predator has the women in his sights. The Captain's Doll explores the complex relationship between a German countess and a married Scottish soldier in occupied Germany, while in The Ladybird, a wounded prisoner of war has a disturbing influence on the Englishwoman who visits him in hospital.
In her introduction, Helen Dunmore discusses the profound effect the First World War had on Lawrence's writing. Using the restored texts of the Cambridge edition, this volume includes a new chronology and further reading by Paul Poplawski.

This massive volume of specialized studies, which is dedicated to the immensely productive scholar Emanuel Tov (Bible studies, Hebrew U. of Jerusalem, Israel: a bibliography of his work is included), contains 31 articles on aspects of the Dead Sea Scrolls, 12 on the Septuagint, and 13 on the Hebrew Bible. Among the topics of part 1 are the origins of Jewish opposition to Rome based on the Qumran eschatological war cycle, using the Bible to interpret meanings in Psalms from Qumran, scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls, Qumran messianism, a search for the scribe of the fragment 1AS, and political leadership and organization of the Dead Sea Scrolls community. Topics from parts 2 and 3 include an overview of the significance of Septuagint studies, messianism in Hebrew and in Greek, and religion and politics in Psalm 2. Not indexed. Annotation (c) Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

This book responds to a long-standing need in the field of psychotherapy created by the gradual demise of the medical model. If we are not to define people by their deficits, how can we organize our understanding of them?
The concept of competence provides a conceptual replacement for the medical model. It is based on a systematic search for the strengths and resources that people bring to life but often do not recognize or use fully. Beginning with the idea that most symptoms represent adaptive attempts gone awry, a competence approach develops the healthy urges that reside within symptoms and helps clients organize around those instead of around the problems themselves.
Most thinking about proactive, positive approaches to people's problems avoids the problems and symptoms entirely. The competence approach takes the problems and symptoms as very real and uses them as a guide to what the person really wanted to begin with. Instead of eschewing psychopathology, it embraces it and tries to learn from it. The best proactive map for change is based on a new understanding and use of the "pathology."
Using numerous case illustrations, this book delineates the why and how of this way of building therapy around hidden strengths, based on a strong partnership with families. Courage, hope, vision, and other concepts not usually treated in psychotherapy are taken seriously and developed as important aspects of treatment. Ultimately, this approach offers people a direct, positive challenge to find and develop the best that is in them.

The procession that crosses Chaucer's pages is as full of life and as richly textured as a medieval tapestry. The Knight, the Miller, the Friar, the Squire, the Prioress, the Wife of Bath, and others who make up the cast of characters -- including Chaucer himself -- are real people, with human emotions and weaknesses. When it is remembered that Chaucer wrote in English at a time when Latin was the standard literary language across western Europe, the magnitude of his achievement is even more remarkable. But Chaucer's genius needs no historical introduction; it bursts forth from every page of The Canterbury Tales.