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Writing the History of Post-war Housing Complexes and Neighborhoods. A Take on Research Strategies and Methodologies
Filippo De Pieri
Between the 1950s and the 1970s urban middle classes had a central role in the process of growth and transformation of post-war urban environments in Europe. New housing complexes and neighborhoods were built in the outskirts of the city, as a response to their residential aspirations, desires of mobility, housing cultures, and strategies of modernization, contributing to the construction of a quite homogeneous residential landscape.
In the last decade, a multifaceted panorama of studies has dealt with the history of post-war middle-class housing, contributing to understand such changes and their social implications, interweaving different project scales and cultures and adopting different perspectives and methodologies.
The historical investigation of housing complexes and neighborhoods has therefore become a fruitful field of exchange between scholars with difference competences and an exceptional testing ground to experiment with methods and practices of historical research, bringing to the light new fields of work for the history of post-war architecture and urbanism and new lines of methodological investigation. These include micro-historical approaches, comparative and transnational histories, revised approaches to typological studies, fieldwork-based enquiries, ethnographic observations of spatial transformations, visual studies of ordinary built environments, oral histories, experiences with public history, etc.
The session aims at exploring and analyzing the most recent trends in the study of post-war housing complexes and neighborhoods built for the middle classes, paying particular attention to a discussion of research strategies. We encourage papers that address one or more case studies, outlining the methodological choices behind the research work and their implication for an understanding of post-WWII residential landscapes. Questions discussed in the session may include:
- the relation between architectural history and the social sciences;
- the contamination between fieldwork techniques and archival research;
- the public dimension of historical research, through initiatives of collection and conservation of memories and life experiences of the middle classes;
- the evolution of research practices in housing history in relation to the emergence of new fields of investigation.
Assistant Professor of history and theory of architecture at the Politecnico di Milano. Her research focuses on the transatlantic transfer of architectural and urban knowledge; the history of housing practices, cultures, forms and theories; terminology and the study of the ordinary. She has held several visiting fellowships, amongst others at the Canadian Center for Architecture, the Kyoto University, the Israel Institute of Advanced Studies. She was awarded several research grants (Graham Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Studies). She is the author of Europe meets America. William Lescaze, Architect of Modern Housing (2016) and Housing the 40.000. Explorations in the Middle-class City (2015, co-authored with F. De Pieri and C. Renzoni). She is the co-editor of the books The Housing Project. Discourses, Ideals, Models and Politics in 20th Century Exhibitions (2019, with Stéphanie Dadour), Post-war Middle-Class Housing. Models, Construction and Change (2015, with Federico Zanfi) and Storie di Case. Abitare l’Italia del boom (2013, with F. De Pieri and others). She co-chairs with Yael Allweil and Susanne Schindler the research group "Retheorizing the Architecture of Housing" and is involved in the COST Action EU_MCMH European Middle-class Mass Housing (chair A. Vaz Milheiro) and in the the MCA ITN program TACK_Communities of Tacit Knowledge (chair Tom Avermaete).
Filippo De Pieri
Associate Professor of architectural and urban history at Politecnico di Torino. His research focuses on the history of contemporary European, North American, and East Asian cities. His publications include the books Il controllo improbabile: progetti urbani, burocrazie, decisioni in una città capitale dell’Ottocento (Milan: Franco Angeli, 2005), Storie di case: abitare l’Italia del boom (Rome: Donzelli, 2013, as a co-editor), Explorations in the Middle-Class City (Siracusa: Lettera 22, 2015, as a co-author) and Beijing Danwei: Industrial Heritage in the Contemporary City (Berlin: Jovis, 2015, as a co-editor), as well as several articles and guest-edited issues for international journals. He has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University (USA) and Tsinghua University (China) and is presently a visiting scholar at the EPFL (Switzerland) where he is leading the international research project “Memory and the city: assessing tools for interdisciplinary research and teaching.


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Classes in Second Life for Virtual World Educators, Librarians and Others
UIUC GSLIS and the Illinois Alliance Library System are pleased to offer a series of non-credit continuing education courses for librarians, educators, and others interested in libraries, learning, and teaching in virtual worlds such as Second Life. Classes available include: Second Life 101, Virtual World Librarianship, Technical Skills for Virtual Worlds, Working with a Class in Second Life, Setting up an Educational presence in second life, and Setting up your library in second Life: An Applied Approach. For more information and to register, go to http://www.lis.uiuc.edu/programs/cpd/VW/ For more information, contact Marianne Steadley at UIUC at email@example.com
“Dirty Dancing” at the Lodge! Please join us for a sixties dance at the lodge on Investing InfoIsland Saturday, September the 6th at 6 PM SLT. Gabrielle Reil will be DJing and playing all the oldies that make you want to kick off your shoes and get comfy, down and dirty! For more information contact Hypatia Dejavu.
Hot Topics – Activism and Protest: What’s Its Place in a Virtual World?
Hot Topics – Activism and protest: What’s its place in a virtual world? Wednesday, September 3rd at the Info Island Auditorium we’ll continue our Hot Topics series with a panel discussion on activism and protest in virtual worlds. For more information contact Abbey Zenith.
SciFi & Fantasy Portal – “The Terminator”
Join us for our monthly Film of the month discussion on “The Terminator” on Saturday September 6 at 1 m sl at Info Island 210-94-33. Symmetry Munfo and Hawk Lightcloud will lead the discussion. Set in a possible future, this is a complicated view of how humanity and technology might interact. The film sparked serious discussions. Join us to share your ideas and insights. Our discussions are always thought-provoking and fascinating. For more information contact Franja Russell.
So you Want your Library or Organization in Second Life? A Practical Approach
So You Want Your Library or Organization in Second Life? A Practical Approach, the introductory program for getting your organization into SL, will be held at the following dates and times:
Saturday, September 13th at 8:00 a.m. SLT to accommodate those who cannot attend during the work week.
There is also a session on Tuesday, September 2nd at 8:00 a.m. SLT on Cybrary City 1. For more information contact Sonja Morgwain
Introduction to Kiva and Its Programs
Wednesday, September 3rd, 8:00 am SLT, Cybrary City 1, Open Auditorium Mercedes Ochs, event coordinator for Nonprofit Commons and Kiva.org volunteer will present an overview of the microlending program developed by Kiva and how this non-profit uses Second Life. She will also discuss the recent grants offered through the American Library Association in support of programs about Kiva in real life libraries. For more information contact Sonja Morgwain.
Book Discussion at Reader’s Garden
Thursday, September 4th 6:00 pm Book Discussion of Louise Erdrich’s latest book, Plague of Doves. Reader’s Garden, Info Island. Presentation in voice and chat. For more information contact Sonja Morgwain.
Live Music with Juel Resistance
Live Suzen JueL Resistance Concert, Friday, September 5th at 6:00 pm SLT at INKA’s Place, Eduisland 3. Contact Sonja Morgwain for more information.
The Role of Libraries in Virtual Worlds
The Library Virtual Worlds Group will be hosting a virtual lecture by Paul Fishwick, Professor of Computer and Information Science and Engineering at the University of Florida, on Friday, September 12, 11am-12pm. Prof. Fishwick will be leading a discussion on the role of libraries in virtual worlds as well as providing a tour of his recent work in Second China. Pre-lecture questions posed by Prof. Fishwick will be posted on the Virtual Worlds Group wiki <http://virtualworldsgroup.wetpaint.com/page/Lecture+Series> by September 8.
Come join us in Second Life at (Cybrary City, 97 x 15 x 24; slurl http://slurl.com/secondlife/Cybrary%20City/97/15/24/?title=UF%20Libraries or come join us in West 212 for a live simulcast. Questions about the event may be directed to Laura Jordan, firstname.lastname@example.org .
Prof. Fishwick received his B.S. in Mathematics from the Pennsylvania State University, M.S. in Applied Science from the College of William and Mary, and Ph.D. in Computer and Information Science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. He is a Fellow of the Society for Computer Simulation (SCS) and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He has also had much experience working with games and simulations for learning and cognition.
Alexandrian Free Library: Caledon, Winterfell, Steelhead & New Toulouse Library events September 1st – 10th
Steelhead Public Library
Fractured Fairy Tale Festival
Steelhead City, Steelhead
The Steelhead Public Library will be cosponsoring a Fractured
Fairytale Festival from from Sept 1 through Sept 6. Events will
include an art and sculpture exhibit, a storytelling festival, a
formal ball on Friday 9/5 from 5-7pm slt, and a Euro-friendly formal
dance on Saturday 9/6 from 2-4pm slt. For details, IM Riven Homewood,
CeAire DeCosta, or TotalLunar Eclipse
The Caledon Library is pleased to announce the opening of its Steampunk collection.
Steampunk, a child of the Science Fiction sub-genres Cyberpunk and Alternate History, which traces its roots back to such tecno-fantastist writers as Verne and Wells, has become increasingly popular as both a narrative setting and a distinctive aesthetic sensibility. The inspiration for such communities as Steeltopia and New Babbage as well as Caledon, steampunk is becoming more and more a part of life on the grid. The Caledon Library honors this vigorous, brass-cogged, steam-huffing form of expression with a collection of resources including “Precursor” works from 19th century fiction as well as 20th & 21st century writing, criticism, art, photography, and very much so on, plus an associated collection of primary source material on 19th & early 20th century airships.
Do us the honour to visit the Caledon Library Steampunk Dirigible in Caledon Victoria City
Opening Sept 1st
West of Ireland Library Events
Join us at the West of Ireland Library and Cultural Center for these events:
Sunday, 31 August @ 11am – Summer and Sea Stories with the WOI Storytellers, Derry McMahon, Caledonia Skytower and Elder Priestman (to be followed by the Tartan Time dance party in The Glen, so wear plaid!)
Tuesday, 2 Sept @ 7pm – Han Sontse continues “Ariel: A Book of the Change” a good sci-fantasy read.
Wednesday, 3 Sept @ 7pm – Rei Hax will relate more of “Ender’s Game” by a classic sci-fi book Orson Scott Card.
Thursday, 4 Sept @ 7pm – Shandon Loring entertains us with Irish Myths and Legends and some tales of the ‘little folk’ in the Catskill Mtns of New York state.
Friday, 5 Sept @ 5pm – Sioban McMahon will bring a chapter from Steinbeck’s “Cannery Row”. If there is time Caledonia Skytower and Derry McMahon will offer mermaid and nautical stories and poems. (To be followed by “Nautical Night” dance party at the Neart deck.)
Saturday, 6 Sept @ 2pm – Elder Priestman will tell a story from “Zion’s Cause” by Jim Peyton, fine tales from Kentucky
Sunday, 7 Sept @ 11am – Caledonia Skytower will read “Beat to Quarters” from the Horatio Hornblower series, and Elder Priestman will bring summer and nautical stories.
Please IM Derry McMahon with any questions! And please join us at any of these events! http://slurl.com/secondlife/West%20of%20Ireland/44/171/26
Proust: The Kiss of the Matrix
Proust lu/le baiser de la matrice
1993-2050 :57 ans autour de “la recherche…”
Veronique Aubouy/Agnès de Cayeux
Jeudi 4 septembre 2008/Friday september 4
21:15 french time/12:15 pm SLT
Biblio – Ebeoplex Island
“The Kiss of the Matrix” Véronique Aubouy proposes to more than 3000
people worldwide to read in front of their web-camera a page of “A la
Recherche du temps perdu” by Marcel Proust. After this experience, all
of the words have been read in French, by people of all backgrounds,
what will provide a film of approximately 170 hours.
The web-shooting will take place live on the Internet from September
27, 2008 twelve o’clock GMT. It is open to all. Véronique Aubouy
invites you today to register on her blog and you are free to invite
friends to build a network of “Kiss of the Matrix.”
The Bibliothèque Francophone in Second Life will join the reading by
inviting 30 avatars who will all read a part of the text in the
grounds of Ebeoplex, while they have taken place on a giant mandala.
Of course, as curious as we are, Véronique Aubouy is willing to tell
all who is interested about her project on Friday 4 September at the
Written by Lori Bell


Already recognised as one of the most exemplary corporate citizens in Rizhao, China, Asia Symbol continues to play a supportive and collaborative role in building communities in its operation areas.
As part of the city’s drive to promote reading, the pulp and paper producer distributed over a thousand books to the community on the morning of 21 April 2019. Members of the public received the free books, which include best-sellers and popular titles suitable for all ages.
Asia Symbol has gone the distance in helping to foster a stronger reading culture, having introduced the “Books on Buses” initiative on selected public buses. During their commute, passengers are free to browse the books, which are kept in thoughtfully designed pockets in the bus.
The Rizhao Jianghe Library, which opened in 2015.
The presence of RGE companies has brought about not only economic progress, but also growth in the social and cultural spheres. Previously, 30 million yuan (about US$4.5 million) was donated to the construction of a library, which opened in December 2015. This was followed by a donation of 5 million yuan worth of books in 2016 and a 900,000 yuan donation towards the renovation of another library in 2018.
First started in 2017, the book giveaway event is now in its third consecutive year. Well-received as a major charity event in Rizhao, the book giveaway event looks set to continue thanks to the warm support of Asia Symbol, a winner of multiple awards and accolades in corporate citizenship and social responsibility.
These community development-focused initiatives are just some of Asia Symbol’s many programmes, all of which are guided by its sustainability policy and its commitments to shared value creation, energy saving and environmental protection, and employee and community care.


Legendary Castles of the Palatinate
The Pfalz, or Palatinate, is a wonderfully beautiful land of high green mountains and lush valleys, very similar to the American Appalachians except for the many huge and bizarre deep red colored rock outcroppings and spires (called Felsen) protruding from their summits. The Pfalz is situated in the west/southwest of Germany bordering on France. It is known to have been settled as early as the beginning of the 5th century and because of it's location has been at the center of frontier struggles reaching back to the Roman empire. Throughout the rich Palatinate lands are to be found many perseverant standing castles and ruins testifying to the richness of it's history. They preserve the romantic memories and tales of the Knights, Ladies, Lords, and Hierophants who ruled, lived in, and strove over them along the centuries leading to the present, a visible reminder of the many remarkable events that transpired and the various interesting memorable personages that shaped them.
In these pages I've put together both a photographic and historically introspective look at some of these magnificent constructions and their stories with the help of the best photography from many other Castle enthusiasts and visitors. The histories were obtained by having personally been to many of the displayed castles and listening to their stories first hand, as well as translating and extracting them from various German historical and folk records. These events are portrayed as accurately as possible, but if any inconsistencies are noticed it would please me for them to be brought to my attention.
I sincerely hope you enjoy tripping back to ages past, and that you learn something from the colorful history on the way.
- Keith Laney


By Cokie Roberts
“…a riveting exploration of the ways in which the conflict transformed not only the lives of women in Washington, D.C., but also the city itself.”
I was captivated with Capital Dames from the beginning; reintroduced to women I’d seen on PBS and heard about in history class. Women like Varina Howell Davis, Elizabeth Blair Lee, and Clara Barton. Roberts weaves the stories of pre-war Washington, threading the lives and friendships of these formidable women from both the north and the south, through the turbulent war years and beyond.
Her book is well researched, drawing from multiple sources, many never before published. Roberts has an engaging way of storytelling, blending snippets from newspaper articles and diaries with the vast amount of material she investigated.
Each chapter showcases a group of different women. From Adele Cutts Douglas, Jesse Benton Frémont, Sojourner Truth, and Julia Dent Grant to Kate Chase Sprague, Mary Todd Lincoln and Dorothea Dix; I was drawn into the drama of their lives. The challenges and heartbreak along with the utter devastation, for a time, of the Union, pushed many of these women into new and demanding roles.
A few of my favorites
Sojourner Truth (born Isabella Baumfree), was born into slavery but escaped in 1826, but not before seeing two of her children sold away from her. Tall, deep voiced and in her sixties, she made a name for herself with a speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention that came to be known as “Ain’t I a woman?” Sojourner preached the abolitionist movement through Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Kansas, adding woman’s rights in the mix along the way. When the Civil War broke out, she solicited supplies for the African-American regiments and ended up in Washington, working for the National Freedman’s Relief Association. Written about by the bestselling abolitionist author Harriet Beecher Stowe, the illiterate woman made her living by selling her life story, Narrative of Sojourner Truth.
Jesse Benton Frémont trekked halfway around the world with children in tow, following her husband to San Francisco. Caught up in the gold rush of 1849, she survived disease and delay in Panama, and saw her husband, John, elected as the first U.S. Senator form California. She campaigned passionately and publicly for her husband’s republican nomination for president. Her enormous popularity couldn’t secure the presidency. John was ultimately defeated by James Buchanan.
Elizabeth Blair Lee chronicled wartime life in Washington. She was a favorite of President Andrew Jackson and lived for a time in the White House. As the daughter of Francis Preston Blair (a confidant of Abraham Lincoln) and the sister of Montgomery Blair (postmaster general during the civil war), she had a front row seat to the political maneuverings of Lincoln’s cabinet. Lizzie, as she was called, was married to Samuel Lee, a U.S. Navy Commander in the Union Army and a cousin to Robert E. Lee. A consummate letter-writer, she maintained friendships across enemy lines, particularly Varina Davis (wife of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States) and Harriet Lane (niece of James Buchanan.) Lizzie served for many years as a directress of the Washington City Orphan Asylum, caring for abandoned children.
Fighting the good fight, Dorothea Dix vigorously advocated for the mentally ill and created the first generation of American mental asylums. She was appointed Superintendent of Army Nurses by the Union Army and set guidelines for nurse candidates. Many male doctors and surgeons didn’t want female nurses in their hospitals, butthe crisis made it necessary to accept the female volunteers. Dorothea mandated that they be between 35-50 years old, plain-looking and wear unhooped black or brown dresses. Her army nurses cared equally for both the Union and Confederate wounded.
Rose Greenhow lived among Washington society and was a confederate spy. Fraternizing with Massachusetts Senator Henry Wilson, the chairman of the Military Affairs Committee, and Secretary of State Seward, she was able to keep abreast of Union plans. Recruited by spymaster Captain Thomas Jordan, Rose assembled a network of southern spies, even as she entertained northern congressman and lobbied for a position for her son-in-law in the Union army. Quite the ruse. She was eventually arrested and relocated along with her daughter, also named Rose, to the Old Capitol Prison. Released without trial in May of 1862 on the condition she stay within Confederate boundaries, she eventually traveled to Europe. Returning to the Confederacy in 1864 aboard a British blockade runner, she ran aground at the mouth of the Cape Fear River near Wilmington, NC while being pursued by a Union gunboat. Fearing capture and reimprisonment, Rose fled by rowboat, which was swamped. She drowned, weighed down by $2,000 worth of gold sewn into her underclothes.
Kate Chase Sprague and Mary Todd Lincoln. One wanted what the other had. The other coveted what the one was. Katherine Chase, daughter of Salmon P. Chase, was a beautiful, educated, alluring and highly ambitious twenty year-old when Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. Lincoln’s wife, Mary Todd Lincoln, was a mother of four sons, frumpy, insecure, prone to jealousy, and twice as old as her rival in Washington society. Kate married William Sprague, Senator from Rhode Island and a millionaire industrialist, using his fortune to further her father’s relentless ambition to become president. Mary fought congress over her household budgets, buried two sons and eventually her husband. The rich seam to be mined here is deep indeed.
In closing, Robert’s book is a must-read for anyone interested in the stories of women who stepped softly and strode boldly through Washington during the twenty turbulent years covered in her book. Rest assured that several of these memorable women will find themselves written about in this blog.


The cartoon begins with a sheet of paper reading "Merry Christmas from Slippy V and Garbo!". Then, it goes to Slippy V and Garbo wishing their viewers a merry Christmas. Garbo takes a peak to see what was inside that present. After this, the shot of a dead little guy, a log cabin, and 3 rocks.
The cartoon can be seen on several public domain tapes and DVDs. It can also be seen as a bonus feature on the 2014 How the Grinch Stole Christmas! DVD as part of the Archiplex Home Video library.


Who was Buddha and what is Buddhism?
Who practices Buddhism and what are its core values?
How can Buddhism help me in my daily life?
Seekers can find answers to these questions and much more in the books on this list, compiled by Special Services Librarian Elizabeth Lang.
Advice on Dying and Living a Better Life by The Dalai Lama.
The Dalai Lama draws upon a seventeenth-century poem, credited to the First Panchen Lama, to explore the eight stages of death. For each stage he discusses how to enrich life on earth, prepare for death, and die without fear. Translated and edited by Buddhist scholar Jeffrey Hopkins. RC 56568.
The Art of Happiness at Work by The Dalai Lama and Howard C. Cutler.
In this sequel to The Art of Happiness (RC 47827, BR 13301), a psychiatrist questions the Dalai Lama about applying Buddhist principles in the workplace. The Tibetan spiritual leader advises that career satisfaction is related to staying motivated, having a realistic "sense of self," and maintaining "basic human values" such as kindness and compassion. Art of Happiness series. RC 57386, BR 15725.
Buddha in Your Backpack: Everyday Buddhism for Teens by Franz Metcalf.
Provides information on Buddha and his teachings, applying Buddhist philosophy to issues facing teenagers, such as family relations, school, body changes, sexual attraction, friendship, and personal ethics--without preaching religious conversion. Includes introductions to meditation and further study. Some descriptions of sex. For junior and senior high readers. RC 56665.
The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self by Woody Hochswender, Greg Martin, Ted Morino.
Introduction to this eastern Asian religion by followers of Nichiren Buddhism. Contends that everyone can become a Buddha, or enlightened one, by understanding life’s profound truths. Explains basic Buddhist principles and describes ways, including chanting, to access one’s "Buddha nature" and apply it to overcome obstacles and attain happiness. RC 61168.
Buddha, the Quest for Serenity: A Biography by George N. Marshall.
A popular biography of Siddhartha Gautama, the oriental prince who became the Buddha and who more than any other man influenced the religion and philosophy of the far East. Also serves as a layman’s introduction to Buddhism and contains a glossary of Buddhist theological terms. RC 14221.
Buddhism: A Concise Introduction by Huston Smith and Philip Novak.
Describes the history, fundamental teachings, and practices of this Eastern religion. The first half of the book explores the life of the Buddha (born circa 563 B.C.E.), explains the core tenets, and distinguishes between various sects. The final chapters discuss the Western expansion and adaptations of Buddhism, particularly in America. RC 56816.
Buddhism: A Very Short Introduction by Damien Keown.
Concise guide to Buddhism as a religion and a way of life. Examines the life and teachings of Buddha, the development of Buddhist thought and practice, and the relevance of the faith to contemporary issues. Explores key topics of karma, rebirth, meditation, ethics, Buddhism in the West, and more. RC 59971.
An End to Suffering: The Buddha in the World by Pankaj Mishra.
Indian author of the novel The Romantics (RC 52514) presents his autobiographical journey on the subcontinent exploring Buddhist philosophy. Describes his search to understand Buddha’s relevance in the modern world by discussing the personal and social issues that Buddha addressed and their impact on twentieth-century politicians. RC 61617.
Ethics for the New Millennium by The Dalai Lama.
Appeals to all human beings to practice a "positive ethical conduct" towards others based on universal principles. Expounds on the necessity for love and compassion as guiding forces in behavior that will lead to happier, fulfilled lives. RC 48810.
Insight Meditation: The Practice of Freedom by Joseph Goldstein.
In Buddhist teaching, wisdom is knowing that whatever arises has the nature to cease. This knowledge stops clinging which in turn stops suffering. Meditation retreat leader Goldstein asserts that practicing meditation and selfless nonharming behavior leads to enlightenment or freedom from suffering. He then discusses how to meditate with this goal in mind and points out the traps to avoid along the way. RC 37540.
An Introduction to Buddhism: Teachings, History, and Practices by Peter Harvey.
Harvey’s account of the 2,500-year history of Buddhism describes its development from origins in India, its expansion throughout Asia, and its introduction into Europe and America. He discusses the practices of ethics, devotion, monasticism, and meditation, pointing out the diversity within Buddhist traditions as well as the beliefs and rites common throughout the Buddhist world. RC 34538.
The Miracle of Mindfulness: A Manual on Meditation by Thich Nhat Hanh.
Although this guide to engaged Buddhism was written by a Vietnamese monk for his students, it recommends exercises that can be performed anywhere. The practice of mindfulness can transform an everyday activity such as washing dishes, taking a bath, lying in bed, or breathing into a meditation. Translated by Mobi Ho. RC 44957.
The Teachings of the Compassionate Buddha edited by Edwin A. Burtt.
The Oriental religion of Buddhism, founded twenty-five centuries ago by Siddhartha Gautama of India, is now practiced by millions. This book includes the early scriptures of Buddhism, as well as Buddhist thought in later centuries. BR 7899, RC 58027.
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying by Sogyal Rinpoche.
Buddhist spiritual leader Rinpoche maintains that most westerners need a fundamental change in attitude towards death and dying--they need to understand the truth of impermanence. He discusses practicing to prepare for death and helping others with death. He stresses his belief in the importance of the dying person’s last thoughts being filled with positive emotions and sacred feeling while the person lets go of grasping, yearning, and attachment. Edited by Patrick Gaffney and Andrew Harvey. RC 36890, BR 9358.
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön.
American Buddhist nun describes how to apply her religion’s philosophy to achieve happiness. Explains how to communicate, experience difficult emotions, and become compassionate using eight worldly dharma or basic Buddhist beliefs. RC 53374.


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My narration of Dear Fahrenheit 451: Love and Heartbreak in the Stacks by Annie Spence came out last week. I feel as though I hit the jackpot when I was chosen to narrate this book. As you may imagine, my path to becoming a narrator was by way of being a massive bookworm. Annie is a librarian, and the book is largely composed of letters to books. As someone who often feels like she is in conversation with her favorite (and least favorite) books, I felt a kinship with Annie's writing immediately. This book is witty, smart, occasionally laugh-out-loud funny, sometimes heartbreaking, and was deliciously fun to narrate. Check it out! And if you, too, are a lover of books, I suspect you will end up with a lengthy To Read list you cannot wait to tackle!
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Norman Rockwell and Disavowal
My opinion of Norman Rockwell, until very recently, has been a mixed one. I have always appreciated his amazing ability for visual storytelling and his exceptional talents as an illustrator- particularly the subtle ways in which he stylizes his figures to achieve the maximum nostalgic appeal. On the other hand, his art is one that I often find too accessible. Anyone can understand a Rockwell painting, which is the great predicament of his work. No one was better in making art for the masses, but its commercial nature detaches it from the level of “high art”, or at least that has been the case. At times, I have often felt put off by the sentimental and kitschy nature of his paintings, even while simultaneously admiring his technical achievements.
It came then as a both a great compliment and a frustration to find Rockwell’s name come up so often in connection with my work. In using 50s reference images and balancing the borderline of nostalgia, his works are understandably unavoidable. Five months ago I reluctantly wrote a paper on Norman Rockwell to appease the constant comparisons. It was a frustrating exercise in that every book I looked at reinforced the opinion that Rockwell’s paintings speak only at the shallow nostalgic level. Looking at his paintings left me with a strong desire to purge narrative from my work completely. It was only after writing that paper that I was referred to a controversial new book and current swell of new appreciation for Rockwell that’s gaining momentum today.
Since he remains so essential to the work I’m trying to do, I’ve decided to give Rockwell another chance by looking deeper into who he was and what he means to my work. In his book “The Underside of Innocence”, author Richard Halpern discusses the innocence found in the works of Norman Rockwell as an act of “disavowal”. He borrows the term from Freud, who in his writings on psychoanalysis wrote that disavowal is one of several ways of suppressing something unbearable. In Freudian terms, disavowal is different than repression or denial, or simply banishing unwanted knowledge all together. To disavow something is to simultaneously know and not know something. It involves a splitting of the self. For Halpern, this is the way to approach the works of Norman Rockwell. “Rockwell’s paintings do produce an innocent world, and to that degree they are acts of disavowal. But at the same time, under the guise of innocence, they often present potentially disturbing materials that they then dare the viewer to see and recognize. Rockwell’s work thus lays bare the mechanisms of disavowal. What Rockwell paints is not the innocence itself but its manufacture. And his work confronts the viewer with the ethical choice of seeing or not seeing” (Halpern 6).
It goes without saying that this new theory of Rockwell is controversial. Rockwell’s middlebrow admirers have always loved his work in part because it looks wistfully toward the past. It both partakes of and contributes to the myth that the world was a simpler, happier place than now. Rockwell was obviously intentional in doing this, but he was also much more clever than we give him credit for, and his work is filled with nuances that are easily looked over.
A great example of Rockwell’s deliberate trickery is “The Art Critic” from 1955. In the painting, a young art student in an art museum holds an easel and paints as he leans forward to investigate a painting of a baroque woman, who humorously leers back at him with a raised eyebrow and strange grin. It’s a painting that anyone would find funny for the way the painting interacts with the art student. The picture takes on a completely new meaning when it’s discovered that the boy in the picture is Rockwell’s son Jarvis, and the woman is Rockwell’s wife Mary. In short, the entire painting is an Oedipal joke- one that his family found embarrassing.
In the painting, the young art student gazes through the magnifying glass at a broach on the bosom of the woman, the same broach the mythological Oedipus used to gouge his eyes out upon learning of his despicable actions. A group of men in the painting on the adjacent wall smirk at him in disgust. Through it all, the art student is unfazed, completely unaware of what he is doing. Jarvis Rockwell later recalled, “My father made it very plain that the sexual joke was important to the painting” (Halpern 86). It’s clear from Rockwell’s writings and the work itself that he delighted in playing jokes and in hiding things in plain sight, especially on the magazine covers read by millions. Not all of Rockwell’s jokes are sexual. Uncertain of his place in the art world, Rockwell often makes distinct references to traditional themes in the history of art, which the Oedipus complex of “The Art Critic” also demonstrates.
To the untrained eye, Rockwell’s work is all about innocence. Rockwell knew as good as anyone that innocence is a commodity, a fact he makes known in his book through frequently disclosing how well he was paid. “Rockwell and others such as Walt Disney purveyed a view of American culture that was patriotic, optimistic, and imbued with middle-class values, secure in the virtuousness and rightness of the American way” (Halpern 8). For generations of Americans Rockwell symbolizes a better time when life was simple. He also remains the poster boy for American conservativism. In reality, he was a progressive thinker who often felt stifled in his limitations as a commercial artist. The Saturday Evening Post didn’t allow him to place African Americans on the cover except for rare instances. Only near the end of his life when he was painting for himself did he tackle issues such as racism head-on in his work.
As a well-paid illustrator, Rockwell understood the commodity of innocence and had personal reasons to value it. Rockwell battled feelings of inadequacy his entire life. As a young man, he was gangly and unatheletic, constantly made fun of for his beanpole frame and large Adam’s apple. Throughout his career, even at the height of his popularity, he was banished by the art world for being a commercial illustrator. “That is the essential paradox of Rockwell’s life: he was America’s best-loved and most famous artist but, according to the gatekeepers of the institutional world of art, he wasn’t an artist at all” (Marling 7). These deep-seeded insecurities translated into opposite themes in his paintings; scenes of nostalgic innocence and great humor. There were episodes from Rockwell’s childhood that profoundly shaped his views on innocence and idealism. In his autobiography “My Adventures as an Illustrator”, Rockwell relates a powerful memory from his boyhood in New York City, which continues to haunt him even as an old man:
“The memory is of a vacant lot in the yellow light of late afternoon, and a drunken woman in filthy gray rags following a man and beating him over the head with an umbrella. The man stumbling through the coarse littered grass, his arms raised to cover his head, and the woman cursing and screaming, beating him incessantly until he fell, then standing over him, kicking and striking him again and again about the head and belly and legs. And I remember that we kids watched, silent, from the edges of the lot, until a policeman ran up and grabbed the woman. The man got slowly up and seeing the policeman struggling with the woman, attacked him, swinging drunkenly and swearing. Against this image of the city, exaggerated and distorted as it is, I have never been able to rid myself of it entirely” (Rockwell 31).
It was with deep personal insecurities and doubts about potential for the world that Rockwell made images for the masses. Understanding his viewpoint is helpful in understanding his work. The big question remains: how can I use the example of Rockwell’s work in my own? Having researched this new approach to Rockwell, the topic of disavowal is something I am deeply interested in. I’ve always been aware of the duality in my subject matter, and Rockwell’s use of hiding things in plain sight is intriguing to me. I do not aspire to make Rockwellian paintings that so blatantly grasp nostalgia, but I do see commonalities with his work.
If disavowal is simultaneously knowing and not knowing something, I think it’s a proper context to explain how my work functions and a good concept to push in future work. When the viewer encounters my paintings, they know the images on a surface level. With 50s images, there is an undeniable nostalgia that resonates with people, regardless of age and experience. The viewer can understand scenes of families and resonate with the collective idealized American memory of post-war America. Also inherent in the imagery is the reality behind 50s optimism or the “not knowing” of disavowal- the absence of diversity, the differences in family dynamics and domestic roles, and the presence of constant cold war fear. These are a few of the many aspects to the period that get glazed over by idealism. When I confront old photographs of unknown people, I’m interested in who they are behind the veneer. I’d like to think that the viewer is also confronted with this question. I’m also interested in making my painting accessible and visually alluring in a way that speaks to idealism while at the same time saying more. Merely consuming an image- as opposed to confronting it- is what allows disavowal to do its work.
Richard Halpern sums up Rockwell best: “If disavowal bespeaks an inability to bear complication, and if it reacts to its discomfort by splitting and idealizing its subjects, then Rockwell’s lessons about disavowal can never be grasped unless we are willing to see this artist for the complex creature he is: a wholesome pervert, a knowing innocent, and a kitschy genius” (Halpern 52). Rockwell’s work and the concept of disavowal has taught me that I can be more deliberate about introducing those undercurrents to my work. The trick then becomes doing so without tuning the painting into an overly accessible Rockwellian narrative. And so, the work continues.
Halpern, Richard. “Norman Rockwell: The Underside of Innocence”. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London. 2006.
Hennessey, Maureen Hart and Anne Knutson. “Norman Rockwell: Pictures for the American People”. Harry N. Abrams, New York. 1999.
Marling, Karal Ann. “Rockwell: Americas Most Loved Painter”. Taschen, Köln, 2005.
Rockwell, Norman. “My Adventures as an Illustrator”. Henry N. Abrams, New York. 1988


The Worthy Elephant: On Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood
For the fiftieth anniversary of the book’s publication, a discussion of craft, veracity and the literary appeal of true crime.
-From In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Has there been a more evocative opening of a nonfiction book than this first paragraph of Truman Capote’s “nonfiction novel,” In Cold Blood? This year is the 50th anniversary of the book’s publication in 1966 and it’s a reminder that with this book, Capote managed to simultaneously achieve commercial success and earn critical respect. But his modern nonfiction classic is also among the most controversial of all works of journalism.
In Cold Blood is seen as a pioneering book, and was originally published as a series in The New Yorker. It was the first conscious attempt to harness the techniques of fiction and journalism to document a crime, effectively inventing the modern true crime genre. Why a crime? Capote said “murder was a theme not likely to darken and yellow with time.” The book has sold millions of copies and is in print to this day; it has been translated into 30 languages and studied on university curriculums. It was the subject of a black-and-white movie in 1967, a colour remake in 1996, and films about the author’s reporting on the crime came out in 2005 (Capote, with Philip Seymour Hoffman as the titular character) and 2006 (Infamous, with Toby Jones).
At the heart of the text was the key technique that is perhaps the reason the work lends itself so well to cinema: reconstructing scenes and dialogue. Reading In Cold Blood is a singular experience, more engrossing than any of Capote’s fiction, showing a writer in command of his powers. But in the decades since the book was published, evidence of Capote’s elastic attitude toward the truth surfaced. In just one of many examples in Gerald Clarke’s 1988 biography of Capote, Clarke detailed how a key moment at the end of the book, when Kansas Bureau of Investigation Detective Alvin Dewey met a girlfriend of Nancy Clutter’s at her gravesite, never happened. In the 2012 book, Truman Capote and the Legacy of In Cold Blood, author Ralph L. Voss’ research emphasizes the ways that Capote changed timelines, invented scenes and exaggerated the role played by Detective Dewey, his hero, among many other examples of fact-fudging, many of them departing from Capote’s own 6,000 pages of notes.
It didn’t help matters that at the time Capote publicly declared his book was entirely factual. Also, he bragged that he didn’t use a tape recorder nor take many notes when conducting interviews, relying instead on what he claimed was a near-photographic memory. After Capote’s death in 1984, George Plimpton told The New York Times: “Sometimes he said he had ninety-six per cent total recall and sometimes he said he had ninety-four per cent total recall. He could recall everything but he could never remember what percentage recall he had.”
In a journal entry in 1967 about the actor Robert Blake, who portrayed Perry Smith in Richard Brook’s film adaptation of his book, Capote wrote: “Reflected reality is the essence of reality, the truer truth … all art is composed of selected detail, either imaginary or, as in In Cold Blood, a distillation of reality.”
In Cold Blood really should have carried the disclaimer “based on a true story,” like so many movies do today. But that wasn’t Capote’s ambition at the time. After successfully writing fiction, he wanted to create a masterpiece based on the power that comes when the public believes what they’re reading is true.
The book raises many questions. How much “fiction,” if any, is permissible in a work of creative nonfiction? Does artistic vision trump verifiable reportage? Can we forgive the sins of writers experimenting with long-form nonfiction at a time when clear guidelines hadn’t been established? Writer and crime specialist (both fiction and non) Sarah Weinman and I will discuss Capote and his legendary book… — David Hayes
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Book Review – An Inconvenient Posting (Laura J Stephens)
Debra R. Bryson, MSW, LCSW, CPC, co-author of A Portable Identity: A Woman’s Guide to Maintaining a Sense of Self While Moving Overseas, revised edition, 2005
August 8, 2013
Moving overseas has a profound effect on a woman’s identity when she moves overseas to support her husband’s career; change ripples through every aspect of her being. A wide range of feelings are normal to experience to some degree during transition, including feelings of depression.
In An Inconvenient Posting, Laura J. Stephens courageously shines the light on her illusion that “everything was okay” when she was spiraling downward into a clinical depression; powerfully exposing an often dark, isolating, and lonely side of an international relocation for the accompanying spouse.
The author shares with the reader the early warning signs that gnawed at her; feelings of detachment, loneliness, isolation, despair, anger, loss, and resentment; and how she dutifully pushed these feelings aside to focus on the more positive aspects of the move to support her husband’s career and to give her family the often much sought after opportunity to experience another culture.
Stephen’s story chronicles the desolation she felt and how she reached a pivotal turning point, unable to contain her pain any longer; she reached out to get the help she needed. With the guidance of a trusted therapist, Stephen’s learns how the onset of her depressive episode was triggered by her experience relocating internationally as her identity was flung into a state of transition; beginning from the time she and her husband first learned of the possibility of moving from her hometown in England to the wilds of Houston, Texas in the United States.
Essential to Stephen’s recovery was her willingness to look inward and acknowledge she was in trouble; her commitment to finding the supports she needed, and her tenacity to move forward and resolve her depression. Emerging stronger within herself in a foreign land, Stephen’s story, along with an array of resources, gives hope to anyone struggling with clinical depression during an international relocation.
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Ousland - Alone across Antarctica
This was one of the last remaining challenges. Since 1915,
adventurers, explorers and polar travellers had dreamt of
crossing the Antarctic. Many had tried, and equally many
had failed. Børge Ousland was one of these.
Still the dream persisted. In November 1996, polar travellers
from four nations stood at the edge of the Antarctic ice,
filled with a vision of a distant goal. Never before was
there such a race for the world's uttermost destination.
Only one man was to make it.
On 17th January, Børge Ousland unbuckled his skis,
and entered Scott Base situated deep within the Ross Sea.
At the same moment, he also entered polar history. No other
person of our modern age has undertaken so many polar expeditions
with such success.
The readers of this book are introduced to a man who does
not waste words on his great accomplishments. They are not
overwhelmed by an abundance of ice and cold, toil and hunger.
Rather are they able to imagine themselves in his place,
about to set out on a journey - be it on a smallor grand
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Across the past two years, Capital Football engaged the football community in two separate reviews of the competition structures offered to our female and male players.
The aim of the reviews was to analyse registration data, model alternate development structures, measure those models against local football needs and Football Federation Australia (FFA) criteria, and engage with the football community to gather feedback.
Below can be found the materials that were sent out in the process of facilitating the reviews in the football community.
Below can be found the Outcome document, detailing the findings of the Women’s competition review.
Below can be found the Outcome document, detailing the findings of the Men’s and Boys’ competition review.


Section 69 Code on Social Security, 2020
Section 69 Code on Social Security, 2020 :
Section 69 National Social Security Board and State Unorganised Workers’ Board.
No deduction of wages in certain cases.
No deduction from the normal and usual daily wages of a woman entitled to maternity benefit under the provisions of this Chapter shall be made by reason only of—
(a) the nature of work assigned to her by virtue of the provisions contained in section 59; or
(b) breaks for nursing the child allowed to her under the provisions of section 66.
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Philip Rivers Children’s Books Review
Philip Rivers is a quarterback for the New York Giants. He is widely considered one of the best passers in the National Football League. In his five years with the Giants, he has been an all time great, guiding the team to big wins against the Super Bowl champion New Orleans Saints and the eventual loser to the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the 2021 postseason. There is no doubt that the Super Bowl was the most exciting event in the New York Giants franchise history. This article will focus on some of the key books that are relevant to anyone who is interested in studying the history of the New York Giants Super Bowl victory.
“The Passing Season” by John Advice is a useful book to read after watching the game. In this book, the writer covers every significant part of typically the football season from training and preparation for the championship online game itself. The guide offers the right classes to become assimilated if a coach has been to plan typically the team’s practices and workouts based upon the upcoming opposition.
“The Call of typically the Wild” by Mary Vanbergen is definitely an exciting book in regards to a son’s search for their father, who has been missing since he was a toddler. The adventure rambles through many little towns and is usually colorful and interesting. It would make a good interesting read with young children. It could also make a new nice gift.
“The Tough Way” by Sam Raimi is a movie regarding the insane life of an NBA point guard. Film production company depicts Rivers as one of Blackjack the best college athletes ever, but the existence of an NBA level guard is some thing that is not necessarily easy. Rivers requires a lot of pride in the particular basketball skills that he has plus the sacrifices that this individual made along the particular way. The publication is a fun read with several entertaining moments.
“The Life of Philip Rivers” by David Epstein is a great little book of which explores the existence from the legendary NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE quarterback. The guide is chock full of entertaining reports about Rivers in addition to includes some interesting biographies and images of Rivers. The author provides a few interesting insights regarding the infamous locker space talk that permeated the team. This book would be advantageous for parents that are trying to educate youngsters values in addition to life lessons through the example of their particular favorite athlete.
“The Greatest Loser” by Tom Silva is a new collection of the finest training and mindset speeches provided by Phil cannella Rivers during their illustrious career inside football. The guide contains some tasty memories of Streams and his five decades playing sports. The book is chock full associated with tips that deal with issues such as weight loss, diet, core strength, mental toughness, attitude, plus more. All of these types of topics can help children become better folks when they achieve adulthood.
“Run With typically the Dogs: A Unforgettable Training Program for Moms and dads and Children regarding New York Football” by Rich Shankman is a important book that details a number of the important issues facing kids these days. The book covers many different topics this kind of as obesity, nutrition, and other factors that parents need to keep in thoughts. This book gives a great perspective regarding what it takes to lead a lifestyle that will become beneficial later on. Within addition, this guide provides some hilarious anecdotes regarding Rivers’ personality. The writer of this book has a special method of presenting typically the message that comes from a prosperous football career.
These are usually three great textbooks on Philip Streams children’s books that are sure to you should. They each share their own unique perspective on the well-known athlete. Each of these books would be beneficial to mother and father that are trying in order to teach youngsters important lessons throughout their own lives. Philip Streams is an image in the history of American sports. His contributions to be able to the game regarding football should in no way be forgotten.


The British School of Kosovo marks World Book Day 📚📖
24 April 2019
In the framework of various activities implemented by BSK in honor of the World Book Day, students of all levels organized activities aimed at promoting books and reading culture.
Primary level students marked this day with an awareness campaign where they read each other stories, poems and their favorite tales.
Meanwhile the middle level students did their part by organizing various plays such as drama and monologues, read poetry and sayings about books, and also had fun with various quizzes and pantomimes that were related to the World Book Day.


Once upon a time, on March 19, 1925, in Topeka, KS, Clyde and Elsie Morris, brought a perfect baby girl into the world. They chose to name her Ruth Charlene, though this is not the name most of you will remember her by. Her parents were inspired by this success and went on to bring four more perfect children into the world: Phil, Clyde, Dale and Arlene. Only one, Clyde, will be greeting her on this leg of her journey.
At 14, she met little Bobby Soelter who, not long after, would grow up to be tall, dark, and handsome Robert Soelter. He would be her constant companion for her adventures over the next seven decades. Bob was the one who first nicknamed her "Sherry", as we know her. They continued the family tradition and brought three perfect children into the world, Eric, Michael, and Laura, who Bob and Sherry raised in Abilene.
While Sherry may have described herself as a housewife, anyone who knew her knows that this only brushes the surface. Cooking probably started as just part of the job description, but she soon transcended the basics of feeding her family and elevated her recipes to an art form for which she will fondly be remembered. Her creative nature also guided her to pursue many other art forms including pottery, textiles, and painting to name a few. In addition to creating art, she held a deep appreciation of the beauty in the world around her, including wild flowers, birds, and architecture.
Besides caring for her family, she cared for many people in the community, starting with her role as a troop leader for both the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts, art teacher at St. Andrew's School, and volunteer for the Red Cross and Meals-on-Wheels. She continually expanded her involvement in the community throughout her life, going on to be a member of the Kansas and Dickinson County Arts Councils, Friends of the Library, and a supporter of the Great Plains Theater. She even reached out beyond her community, hosting participants in the People-to-People exchange and the Abilene-Minori Japanese Sister City Program.
Her full commitment to causes larger than herself shows in her dedication to learn foreign languages while traveling around the world and presenting herself gracefully to many different cultures, all the while, building lasting relationships. In summary, we know that Sherry will be missed not only by her family who love her very much, but by everyone she touched throughout her life.
For our part, we will send her off with a few words found by her oldest son ,Eric, for this occasion and three onions on a cocktail spear (carefully placed in a Ziplock bag) that we know she would never leave home without.
In another time's forgotten space, your eyes looked from your mother's face;
wildflower seed on the sand and stone, may the four winds blow her safely home.
A celebration of her life will be held 10:00 AM Saturday, May 14th, at the Eisenhower Park Rose Garden.


The Feeling Good Handbook PDF Downlaod
All About The Feeling Good Handbook
This book helps you: free yourself from fears, phobias and panic attacks; overcome self-defeating attitudes; discover the five secrets of intimate communication; put an end to marital conflict; and, conquer your procrastination and unleash your potential for success. In Feeling Good: The New Mood Therapy Dr David Burns introduced a groundbreaking, drug-free treatment for depression that has helped millions of people around the world. Now, in this long-awaited sequel, he reveals powerful new techniques and provides practical exercises that will help you cope with problems and learn how to make life a happier, more exhilarating experience.
The Feeling Good Handbook Details:
- Amazon Sales Rank: #838 in Books
- Published on: 1999-05-01
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Most helpful customer reviews
517 of 524 people found the following review helpful.
Effective and user-friendly tools
By Philip Hamilton
In both this book and its predecessor ("Feeling Good"), David Burns has done an excellent job of putting tools into our hands so we can change the feelings and behaviors that we want to change. The tools in this book that I've found most helpful include (i) instruments to measure both anxiety and depression, (ii) a "pleasure-predicting sheet," (iii) a daily mood log to help identify and change unwanted feelings, and (iv) tools to help you overcome procrastination.
I agree with another reviewer who said that this book and "Feeling Good" overlap to a great extent, and I recommend this one. You don't need to read "Feeling Good" first, and the worksheets in this "Handbook" are larger and easier to copy and work with.
While Dr. Burns uses tools from cognitive behavioral therapy, I strongly recommend that you also obtain "A Guide to Rational Living," by Albert Ellis. Dr. Ellis invented rational (cognitive) behavioral therapy in the mid-1950s and still writes, lectures, and works with clients. While Burns' books are generally better written than Ellis', Dr. Ellis teaches you how to use cognitive techniques more effectively than Dr. Burns does. Instead of just showing you how to recognize faulty thinking that produces unwanted feelings and behaviors and think of alternative thoughts, Dr. Ellis teaches you how to PERSUADE YOURSELF that this faulty thinking is both irrational and counter-productive. In my view, the difference in their approaches is similar to that between an intellectual discussion and a thoroughly persuasive speech. In order to make the desired changes, you need to convincingly and powerfully persuade yourself to change your thinking.
Together, this book and "A Guide to Rational Living" give you most all of the tools you need to experience the changes that you want in your feelings and behaviors. The approaches in both books require work. Passively reading them (or anything) will not lead to significant changes. The best news of all is this: There is hope! And you can have the tools at your fingertips.
121 of 123 people found the following review helpful.
Very important book
By A Customer
This is a crucial book to evaluate for those suffering from depression but skeptical of the effectiveness of most psychologists and self-help books.
Burns is one of the biggest popularizers of cognitive-behavioral therapy, one of extremely few therapeutic forms that have stood up to any scientific scrutiny. Over the last 20 years, CBT has become the predominant form of therapy practiced by psychologists. This book is intensive CBT, much more involving and direct than the form practiced in most psychologists' offices.
Burns takes a very simple approach: he does not place any weight on diagnostic categories or figuring out "why" people behave the way they do or the roots of their problems. Instead, every depressed thought is traced to irrational thought processes. Why those thought processes were developed is irrelevant; the challenge is identifying one's distortions and learning to think more rationally.
Contrary to some reviewers' opinions, I believe this book is best for people who have long-term depression in the medium range (recurrent major depression or dysthymia), with substantial experiences with psychologists. Clearly for more extreme cases - a manic depressive or a suicidal person - the first course of action should be a psychiatrist or psychologist, not a self-help book. This book requires a very high level of involvement and personal responsibility. I believe that it is patients who think of themselves as having a medical problem, seeing psychologists and taking medication for years and perhaps feeling dependent on them, who will at some crisis point become frustrated, develop the energy and motivation to work through a book like this and benefit the most from it. Patients with more minor depression will not feel sufficiently motivated to actually do the exercises, which take a substantial amount of time and clash with other life priorities.
CBT encourages short-term (only 12 weeks on average if seeing a psychologist!) therapy and extreme personal responsibility. For most problems, I believe CBT, either in the form of this book or combined with short-term therapy, is much better than seeing a psychologist long-term. Long-term psychotherapy without very clear goals strongly encourages dependence on the psychologist or medication and reinforces the idea that one is permanently ill. This dependence produces further irrational thinking and can very easily lead to continual depression. Reading a book like this and doing its exercises is an exercise in independence and self-reliance and a major accomplishment in itself. The ability to solve one's own problems is difficult to achieve but extremely powerful - perhaps the only solution - for relieving long-term depression.
Burns feels that virtually no one should be on medication long-term - more than about a year - a view that is somewhat debatable (he excludes, obviously, bipolar and schizophrenic patients). The long-term effectiveness of SSRIs is unproven, but Burns' one-year limit seems purely arbitrary.
CBT is also more art than science - although anyone with any experience with psychologists or self-help books will realize that this is true of the entire field. Often Burns' methods and categorizations of irrational thoughts seem completely arbitrary and hardly authoritative. They could probably use more refinement and clarity. What I think is important is that CBT, and even simply reading Burns' book "Feeling Good", have been demonstrated through scientific means - double-blind testing - to produce considerable improvement.
All in all, this is a book with a clear philosophy that has stood up to scientific scrutiny, unlike psychoanalysis or most other therapeutic methods practiced by psychologists. It requires high involvement and emphasizes personal responsibility, and one has to develop considerable motivation to make any use of it. But the results can be extremely worthwhile.
317 of 333 people found the following review helpful.
A moderately effective course in cognitive therapy
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Many people don't buy into the whole "root of your problems" mentality that seems to infect the mental health fields nowadays. That's understandable. There certainly is something to be said for a more pragmatic, straightforward approach to the treatment of certain mental states. It is to this group of people that Dr. David Burns addresses his Feeling Good Handbook.
The methods in The Feeling Good Handbook are aimed at helping those suffering from depression, anxiety, and other "mild" mental issues to train themselves into healthy mental patterns. Burns has put together a series of writing exercises and journaling that is intended to help readers recognize fallacies in their thought processes. He then spends a great deal of time on each of these fallacies of thought and how to overcome them.
Burns is an avid supporter of cognitive therapy. It is obvious that Burns feels the best way to mental health is through learning to master these negative thought processes. Furthermore, he states outright that it is possible to train yourself to be positive and happy by following these exercises.
Like most self-help books, Burns' popular book has both positive and negative attributes. Burns has managed to accurately classify the thought traps that those suffering from clinical depression and anxiety fall into. He also presents them in such a way that they are easily memorable and will often return to the reader's mind throughout the course of the day. Burns also includes a surprisingly accurate quiz to gauge the progress of the reader.
However, Burn's book depends very heavily on the reader following his instructions with exactness--and some of them are extremely tedious. This is, perhaps, not the best way to help those suffering with depression. Usually depression saps an individual of their desire to do anything at all. Additionally, Burns tends to be a little over-simplistic about his methods and even more over-enthusiastic about their results.
On its own, The Feeling Good Handbook is a moderately useful book in the amateur diagnosis and treatment of mild depression. When used in conjunction with a counselor who understands cognitive therapy, this book is an excellent tool in training the reader to think in a new way.
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Virginia Leebrick was a well known and sought after portrait painter in Northwest Kansas. In addition
a family of four children, teaching high school for some 20 years, contributing to Vacation Bible Schools, home
Bible studies and her Sunday School class, she found time to paint. Virginia used pastels to paint images that
are well known to
Western Kansas residents. Farm and ranch subjects, charcoal sketches, and still lifes were among her repetoire. But
Virginia was best known for her portrature. She painted many just for the personal satisfaction it gave her, or as gifts
to causes she felt deserving, but she also did many commissioned works for friends across the area.
In her latter years, she suffered from macular degeneration,which gradually brought her ability to serve
others through her painting to a close. As a result,there are quite a number of paintings which she had not fully
completed, and a number of others which she felt were not of high enough quality to display. Her family would like
to share some of those with you, through the Internet. An identifying feature has been added to all the images. We
hope it will not prove too distracting as you enjoy the great talent that Mom displayed.
We would also like to invite you to share good quality photographs of paintings that you own or that you know are
being displayed in public places, such as libraries, newspaper offices, churches, banks and the like. Her work was
just too good to not be enjoyed by a wide audience. Please respond to the email address below if you would like to
offer a photograph or inform us of one of Virginia's works on display.


The Beatles - Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Companion CD to the film 'Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years)
The Beatles: Live At The Hollywood Bowl is a new album that captures the joyous exuberance of the band’s three sold-out concerts at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl in 1964 and 1965. The CD will be packaged in a ‘digisleeve’ and accompanied by a 24 page booklet with new liner notes by David Fricke.
Many apologies but this item is now out of stock. Go to the Maximiles catalogue


Types of Publications
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To submit your manuscript click here or send us an e-mail attachment to the Editorial Office at ✉ [email protected]; A manuscript acknowledgment number will be emailed to the corresponding author within 72 hours.
Follow the step-by-step instructions provided in the author's section of the respective journals for which you submit the manuscript.
Returning authors: Thereafter you can use this account for the submission of new manuscripts. If you cannot remember your password you can recover it by using the forgot password section and if it is the case with the ID mail us at ✉ [email protected]
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Note: Please download the Cover letter here for submission with the manuscript.


Table of Contents
Is AIDS a New Disease?
Is HIV the Cause of AIDS?
Is the “AIDS Test” Accurate?
Is the Rate of HIV Increasing?
Is AIDS Our Biggest Health Threat?
Are We All at Risk for AIDS?
Is AIDS Devastating Africa?
Are New Drug Treatments Responsible for Declines in AIDS?
Does HIV Take Years to Cause AIDS?
Do Pregnant Women Who Test HIV Positive Give Their Babies AIDS?
AZT: A Drug in Search of a Disease
A Sobering Report on Protease Inhibitors and “Combo Cocktails”
What’s Up with Viral Load?
Are These Facts News to You?
Public Health, Public Relations, and AIDS
Can Popular Consensus Be Wrong?
If It’s Not HIV, What Can Cause AIDS?
Incorrect Information about HIV and AIDS Costs Lives
If You Have Tested Positive
Options for Healing and Wellness
What You Can Do to End AIDS
Sources for Further Information
Understanding AIDS Speak: A Guide to Language in the Age of HIV
Appendix: The Other Side of AIDS
HIV and AIDS in 2007: A Brief Update


What Churches Can Learn From Public Libraries
Reverend Chase Peeples is the Pastor at Park Hill Christian Church. Pastors are communicators, and this message is one that resonates with the mission and vision of the Parkville Living Center, despite the PLC not being a church.
“I thought about […] your work with Parkville Living Center as I wrote an article”
– Chase P.
Today is the third anniversary of the morning my mother died from an inoperable brain tumor. I’ve been thinking about her more than usual as this date approached. Some of the best memories of my mother are of our regular trips to the public library when I was a child. My mother was a lifelong avid reader who would bring home piles of books to read. Near the end of her life, she shared with me how it grated on her as a child when the librarian in her small Arkansas town refused to allow her to check out books she was interested in because they were books about subjects for boys not girls. Perhaps that’s why she encouraged me to check out whatever books I wanted. I would come home with stacks of books so tall there was no way I could ever finish them, but my mother never minded. I learned libraries are magical places. Just imagine a place where you can take home as much as you like for free with the only requirement being you must bring it back so the next person can do the same. Magic.
It’s too bad most American churches refuse to function in a similar way. Our giving to our communities comes with strings attached. We offer worship services, programs and ministries explicitly for free, but the implicit expectations are those who partake of what we offer will join our churches, increase our membership rolls, raise our attendance figures and most importantly give to our budgets. The almighty figures of weekly attendance and contributions drive everything we do. Given Jesus’ selfless giving of his very life, one might think we would know better. I realize libraries are funded by taxes, have membership drives and take donations, but everyone knows what their mission is–to serve their communities. I expect most people would say the same is not true for churches. Declining numbers and budgets have only heightened the anxiety of congregations and led churches to adopt bunker mentalities. We are less likely to serve the people around us. Our communities rightly understand we serve them for our own selfish reasons.
Sociologists, community planners and social service providers have declared we are losing so-called “third spaces” in our communities. Third spaces are places where people spend time and build relationships other than home (first place) and work (second place). Traditionally third spaces could be houses of worship, community centers, barber shops and hairdressers, coffee shops and bars, and yes, libraries. Yet, the combination of zoning which isolates people by income, age, race, etc. along with technology allowing for online connection, shopping, entertainment etc. has led to dwindling numbers of third places. Architects, planners and government leaders have learned that communities without third places lead to social isolation (especially for seniors) and declines in community health of every sort.
Public libraries continue to meet this need for a third place in all kinds of ways besides the very important service of supplying free books, periodicals and similar material. A University of Pennsylvania study described public libraries as “dynamic, social responsive institutions, a nexus of diversity, and a lifeline for the most vulnerable among us.” (When was the last time you heard a church described that way?) Libraries partner with area health systems and social services to address community needs. They provide “neutral” meeting spaces and public events responding to community demand. They offer literacy programs, assistance to immigrants, programs for children, support to LGBTQ people and people with disabilities. They provide access to technology many people cannot otherwise access including internet access, computers and printers. Libraries even help feed their communities via community gardens, farmers markets and nutrition programs. The list of creative services libraries provide is endless.
One of the greatest things libraries offer their communities is grace. In our commodified society where everything has a price and most interactions are transactional, libraries are the exception. You can use a library whoever you are even if you do not pay taxes to support it. Increasingly libraries are doing away with fines, because they realize the fines penalize the people who need library services the most. In a society intent on trying to sell us something at every turn, libraries remind us of how great it is to share, borrow and return things. We don’t have to get everything from an Amazon van and then pay for a storage unit to hold all our stuff we didn’t need in the first place. Instead, we can simply borrow it from the library and return it–for free!
90% of Americans describe their local library as “friendly and welcoming.” Two thirds of Americans say closing of their local library would have a major impact on their community. 50% said they had visited their local library in the last six months. As a local minister, I can tell you the chances of your average church getting such good ratings is slim and none. Maybe it is time we consider why this is the case.
Grace and Peace,
Rev. Chase Peeples
Our mission is to engage the whole individual; mind, body and soul through connection, education, events and activities that celebrate our personal life journey within our diverse and dynamic community.
In the heart of Parkville, a space in which individuals commune to learn, support, and foster the mind, body and soul throughout the various life stages we each encounter.
How We Got Started
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We are living in a digital world where documents are mostly saved as soft copies. But despite this fact, there are still a lot of people who prefer to print things. If you are making your own book, manuals, or even small zines, you might want to bind them yourself. Actually, it’s not that hard at all and you don’t need to have an experience to start doing so.
Read the full tutorial at I try DIY.
Printed, cut, and bound materials can be a great customized gift idea. Learning the craft can be convenient if you’re printing documents to be distributed to a small group of people.


By: Yadi Setiadi on 18 Feb 2021
The Journal of Nutrition and Culinary Education Media (JMPGK) is a six-month journal that contains texts in the fields of education, nutrition and culinary. The scope of the JMPGK is in the form of research results and analytical-critical studies in the fields of Education, Nutrition, and Culinary. Posting of articles in this journal is addressed to the editor's office. Detailed information for article loading and article writing instructions is provided in each issue. Articles that are submitted will go through a selection process for bestari partners or editors. This journal is published regularly twice a year, namely April and November.
Learn more at https://ejournal.upi.edu/index.php/Boga#:~:text=Jurnal%20Media%20Pendidikan%20Gizi%20dan,Pendidikan%2C%20Gizi%2C%20dan%20Kuliner


We can always use extra hands in the library. We have about 1,600 books that get checked out during our 6 day rotation! That's ALOT of books to checkout, checkin and re-shelve! It is easy to do and we are more than happy to teach you how. Students love coming into the library and seeing familiar faces there to help them out. It is a great way for you to have an impact on the whole school and get to see your child's class when they come to library. You can sign up on the PTO website under library volunteers. It is currently set up for you to pick a day (Monday through Friday) and a time slot. However, I realize that for many that type of commitment is difficult. If you can volunteer AT ALL we will not turn you away! Just send me an email and let me know what works for you. If you are not sure what time your child's class comes to library look under the FAQ tab and 'schedules'. The link below will take you to the PTO volunteer page where you can sign up for a time slot. Thank you!


Welcome to the National Park Service's official blog for America's National Parks in the Pacific. Join us as we EXPLORE our Natural Wonders, CELEBRATE our Unique Cultures & HONOR our Heroes. Aloha, Talofa, & Hafa Adai!
The Liberation of Guam (1944). U.S. Marines come ashore on Japanese-held Guam in the summer of 1944. This photo shows the "First American Flag over Guam." (War and Conflict series, National Archives 127-N-63472).


FAQs and More Information about the IMT Institutional Repository
1. Why an institutional repository?
The Repository has been created with the following mission:
2. Who can submit items to the Repository?
Only IMT resident faculty and Repository staff can deposit papers in the Repository. A current IMT Intranet Username and Password is required. For an item to be accepted for inclusion in the repository, at least one of the authors of the work must have a current affiliation with IMT. Before depositing items in the Repository for the first time, authors should sign and submit to Library staff a copy of the Deposit Agreement. Items may be deposited by a person other than the author or creator provided the depositing is done with the author's permission. IMT students can request to submit his/her articles published in peer-reviewed journals.
3. Which of my publications should I submit to the Repository?
It is IMT policy that all members of resident faculty are required to submit, at minimum, the bibliographic information concerning journal articles, books and book sections published from 2005 on. Deposit of publications released prior to such date, as well as working papers and conference items and is strongly encouraged. It also recommended that the full text of items be deposited where possible.
For more information on full text and copyright, see the Deposit Guide.
4. What types of items will be accepted?
Journal articles (accepted, submitted and published versions), working papers (including technical reports, project reports, manuals and discussion papers), conference papers and workshop items (including papers, presentations and posters), books, book chapters, theses,. If you would like to deposit something that falls outside of this range, please contact the Repository manager to discuss its suitability.
5. Which formats are acceptable?
The Repository accepts the following formats:
6. How do I deposit an item in the Repository?
You must LOGIN to deposit materials. Your LOGIN username and password is the same as you use to login to the IMT intranet. Once logged in, you are automatically taken to the "Manage Deposits" screen. There are 5 steps involved in depositing an item in the Repository, steps you will be guided through once you click on the "New Item" box:
Your deposited item will not be publicly viewable until it is "released" by the Repository's administrator. The administrator will check that the submission meets all of the IMT Institutional Repository guidelines before making the material public. For more detailed instructions see the Full Deposit Guide.
7. Which full text version of my publication should I deposit?
Over 70% of journal publishers permit author to deposit a copy f their paper on an institutiional website. However the Repository must comply with copyright law. In order to check the full text version you are allowed to deposit, please visit the website SHERPA/RoMEO. If you need further information or help, please contact Library staff
8. Is Eprints connected to Lginmiur website?
Eprints is not connected to Cineca systems. For this reason, if you have a professor profile on Loginmiur website, you will have to deposit your publications twice (in Eprints and in Loginmiur). Library staff can also support you with the deposit in Loginmiur.
9. Who should I contact if I have questions or concerns?
If you have questions about the content of the Repository or the deposit process please contact Tania Iannizzi. For technical issues please contact Leonardo Mezzina.


Join Compass Advisor, Guy Leman, for an informational event – Exploring Retirement! This educational event is designed to cover topics for those who are nearing the transition to retirement, including Social Security Basics, estate planning, and the phases of retirement. It will be held in the Library Meeting Room at Pella Public Library on Wednesday October 24th. from 7pm – 8pm.
For more information about this event, please call the Pella Public Library at 641-628-4268.


Future and past events
Future and Past Events for Adoptees
Find out about past and future events run by and attended by the Adult Adoptee Movement.
25th April 2023 – Formal apology from Welsh Government
We’re pleased to share with you that on Tuesday, April 25th at around 4.45 pm the Welsh Deputy Minister for Social Services will make a statement in the Senedd on Historical Adoption Practices.
Adoptees who would like to attend in person can contact the Senedd to reserve a seat in the public gallery.
3rd May 7:30 pm – 8:30 pm – Adoptee Voices Zoom
This is the first of our regular adoptee-only Zoom chats. We want to make adoptee voices heard and be counted!
Please come and join us to talk about the things that matter to you.
Do you have any questions about the work we’ve been doing, is there anything you think we should be focusing on, and any other suggestions or requests you may have?
To receive the link please register here.
24th May 8:00 pm – 9:30 pm – Adoptee Book Club
When I First Held You – Anstey Harris
Our book club is for adoptees only and ticketed, free or by voluntary donation a portion of which will be passed to Anstey. Please reserve your place via Eventbrite to receive the link.
We are delighted to announce that author and adoptee Anstey Harris will join us for our first online Adoptee Book Club to talk about her latest novel When I First Held You.
In order to allow attendees to speak freely in a safe space, we will not be recording the event.
When I First Held You is available in print, ebook, and audio formats in the UK and the USA. Anstey has asked us to remind UK readers that you don’t need to buy the novel in order to support her–if you check it out from your local library she will still get a fee.
May | Return to Seoul screening with Director Davy Chou
Return to Seoul will be screening in London in May at the Barbican and at the British Film Institute. Director Davy Chou will attend the Barbican screening on 3 May and the 6pm BFI screening on 5 May, and will hold a Q&A after the film.
April 2023 | The In-Between Lines Project at Coram | Open Mic
“We hold you and we can guide you”. Debbie Nahid from the Adult Adoptee Movement talked to younger adoptees about the lifelong impact of adoption at Coram’s In-Between Lines Project open mic session.
March 2023 | Webinar with the Movement for an Adoption Apology: Why an Apology Matters
Powerful testimony from mothers and adoptees. The Adult Adoptee Movement and the Movement for an Adoption Apology have come together in a webinar to discuss why an apology matters. The UK Government has refused to issue an apology for historic forced adoptions, despite its acknowledgment of a violation of human rights.
February 2023 | Website Launch and Meet the Team
We discuss how we came about, the JCHR inquiry The Violation of Family Life: Adoption of Children of Unmarried Women 1949–1976 in July 2022, as well as the lifelong impact of adoption, and our vision for the future.
Huge thank you to all those who attended!
February 2023 | Webinar with the Ollie Foundation
The recording will be available shortly
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In 2013, the Central African Republic was engulfed by violence. In the face of the rapid spread of the conflict, journalists, politicians, and academics alike have struggled to account for its origins.
In this first comprehensive account of the country’s recent upheaval, Louisa Lombard shows the limits of the superficial explanations offered thus far – that the violence has been due to a religious divide, or politicians’ manipulations, or profiteering. Instead, she shows that conflict has long been useful to Central African politics, a tendency that has been exacerbated by the international community’s method of engagement with so-called fragile states. Furthermore, changing this state of affairs will require rethinking the relationships of all those present – rebel groups and politicians, as well as international interveners and diplomats.
An urgent insight into this little-understood country and the problems with peacebuilding more broadly.