![]() ![]() Kross runs the wonderfully named Emotion and Self Control Lab at Michigan University, an institution he founded and where he has devoted the greater part of his career to studying the silent conversations people have with themselves: internal dialogues that powerfully influence how they live their lives. At the peak of his anxiety, his negative thoughts running wildly on a loop, he found himself, somewhat comically, Googling “bodyguards for academics”. ![]() ![]() But telling himself this did no good at all. Kross, whose area of research is the science of introspection, knew that he was overreacting that he had fallen victim to what he calls “chatter”. ![]() Ten years ago, Kross found himself sitting up late at night with a baseball bat in his hand, waiting for an imaginary assailant he was convinced was about to break into his house – a figure conjured by his frantic mind after he received a threatening letter from a stranger who’d seen him on TV. A s Ethan Kross, an American experimental psychologist and neuroscientist, will cheerfully testify, the person who doesn’t sometimes find themselves listening to an unhelpful voice in their head probably doesn’t exist. ![]()
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"One of the most interesting writers of the past 10 years.Lockwood's genius for irony is matched by the radiance of her reverence." - The Atlantic " No One Is Talking About This reaches for the sublime, online and off.Lockwood is a modern word witch, her writing splendid and sordid by turns." - New York Times Book Review ![]() ![]() Named a "Most Anticipated Book of 2021" by Harper's Bazaar, Vulture, O, the Oprah Magazine, Parade, Refinery29, Good Housekeeping, The Guardian, WIRED, USA Today, Buzzfeed, Esquire, AV Club, and more! ![]() ![]() ![]() And now you’re supposed to perform? Huh, good luck.Īnd then get up at 4:00am to catch that flight to go to the Bahamas. Here you’ve had all the hype of the wedding all day long. ![]() ![]() So many wedding nights are just disastrous for couples, because they have these unrealistic expectations. I just think it’s so important to talk about what these expectations are. If you read past the first four chapters in this book and you’re in love and you’re engaged, I’ll tell you, it will make you frisky. This book is written in such a way that the first four chapters are to be read by the engaged couple. Well, certainly as soon as they’re engaged. When do you suggest, Kevin, that an engaged couple start talking about marriage sexual expectations and why? In fact, it’s a mandate - if you’re a Christian - it’s a mandate that you will fulfill each other in marriage, sexually. Where I come from, the wedding bed cannot be defiled, in other words, we should be able to enjoy each other. So your sex life really is a microcosm, if you will, of the marriage. I mean those are about as rare as they come. Rarely do you ever see a marriage where they have this fantastic sex life and no communication and no emotional intimacy. 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Sara tries to comfort Heather, who brushes it off, despite her new limp. ![]() Sara's awakening begins when she learns that her friends, ''the burnout boys,'' have gang-raped her classmate Heather. When provoked, Sara has a tormented desire to corkscrew someone. She's a naïve teenager (and a Canadian), so it's only a Swiss Army knife. Sara is afflicted with an overwhelming sense of compassion. ![]() ![]() This genetic combination produced a girl who is half Holden Caulfield, half Emily the Strange. Her mother belongs to a free-love cult somewhere in California. Her father is a pot-growing anti-logging crusader. ''I was born with a fever, but it seemed to subside for 16 years,'' says Sara Shaw, the narrator of Rebecca Godfrey's first novel, ''The Torn Skirt.'' Sara is 16, lives on Victoria Island in British Columbia and longs to escape. ![]() ![]() ![]() The cape was inside, and I thought I was crazy." ![]() I didn't go get my father because I knew he would say, 'Go back in and investigate it.' So I bravely went back in and the drawer had been closed. "I ran away into the living room and I took a deep breath. I just stood there like, 'What do I do? What am I looking at?'" she said. "My black cape was floating in front of the dresser, and the drawer where I kept the cape was open. Heading toward her bedroom to get out a favorite costume, a witch's cape, she was stopped short by a holiday-worthy sight. She was about 12 years old and getting ready to go trick-or-treating while her dad typed busily away in his New York City apartment, she recalled. 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But the story is not ready-made for a happy ending, and I wasn't prepared for the quiet simplicity of the finale. ![]() ![]() The one actual actress in the bunch (Tina Andrews, an amazing performer) plays the "tough nut" Conrack has to crack, and once she falls under his charms, it all seems a breeze. ![]() These students (uneducated black kids on an island off South Carolina) are actually shown learning, and their collective wide-eyed innocence is remarkably sweet. Pat Conroy's autobiographical book "The Water Is Wide" proves to be something of a Southern "Up The Down Staircase", yet despite the teacher-going-against-the-odds formula, "Conrack" really does move the audience with each little breakthrough and creative flash. ![]() ![]() ![]() A first edition of John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath in good condition is worth around $2,500. Additionally, some books by famous authors are better than others. Who wrote that?Ī book is more likely to appeal to collectors, and therefore be worth more, if you have actually heard of the book or its author. If you have one on a good book, treasure it and be sure to protect it with a plastic sleeve. This huge difference in value is largely due to the fact that more than 90% of dust jackets are destroyed, either deliberately or due to their ephemeral and fragile nature. ![]() ![]() Scott Fitzgerald’s Tender is the Night with dust jacket is around $6,000. If there is one single thing that is a make or break for book value, it would be the dust jacket. Dust jackets, dust jackets, and more dust jackets! Scott (1896-1940), Tender is the Night, New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1934, first edition with dust jacket, sold for: $8,295 1. ![]() ![]() ![]() His dissertation was titled: “Neither Liberal Nor Libertarian: A Natural Law Approach to Social Justice and Economic Rights.”Īnderson has made appearances on ABC, CNN, CNBC, MSNBC, and Fox News. He received his bachelor of arts degree from Princeton University, graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude, and he received his doctoral degree in political philosophy from the University of Notre Dame. ![]() ![]() Supreme Court justices, Justice Samuel Alito and Justice Clarence Thomas, in two Supreme Court cases. He is the author of When Harry Became Sally: Responding to the Transgender Moment and Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom. He is the co-author of What Is Marriage? Man and Woman: A Defense and Debating Religious Liberty and Discrimination, and the co-editor of A Liberalism Safe for Catholicism? Perspectives from “The Review of Politics.”Īnderson’s research has been cited by two U.S. ANDERSON, Ph.D., is the President of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the Founding Editor of Public Discourse, the online journal of the Witherspoon Institute of Princeton, New Jersey. ![]() ![]() Add the cardigan and neckline variations, and you've got more than 1,000 patterns! Even more variations are possible by adding different neck finishes, edgings, waist shapings, and color or stitch patterns. If you're counting, that's 75 options for each of the six styles, or 450 patterns in all (all with yarn yardage estimates). Each size is further divided into six possible gauges: 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7 stitches per inch. Each style is provided in fifteen sizes (in two-inch graduations) from a 26-inch chest circumference for a two-year-old child to a 54-inch chest circumference for a large adult. This sequel to the phenomenal best seller The Knitter's Handy Book of Patterns, presents easy-to-follow charted instructions for eighteen sweaters, three in each of the six most popular sweater constructions: drop shoulder, modified drop shoulder, set-in sleeve, saddle shoulder, raglan, and seamless yoke. ![]() ![]() Both a pattern book and a reference book, The Knitter's Handy Book of Sweater Patterns has been created for knitters who want standard sweater patterns in a variety of sizes and gauges, as well as those who want a template from which to develop their own design ideas. ![]() ![]() ![]() While social media didn’t always value hooks (we will talk about this more honestly one day – in fact, after her critique of Beyoncé and capitalism folks were quite vicious), I would venture to say there would be no hashtag or internet feminism without hooks’ insistence on plainly and brilliantly articulating Black feminist theory. I came to Black radical resistance through her. ![]() The Feminist Wire would not exist without hooks’ urging to “talk back”. I would not be a Black feminist if it were not for bell hooks. – V (formerly Eve Ensler) Tamura Lomax, PhD So I reached out to gather some memories from, as Stephanie Troutman says, “the beloved community bell helped to create”. Bell once wrote that “one of the most vital ways we sustain ourselves is by building communities of resistance, places where we know we are not alone”. ![]() |