Author: Jonathan Foiles
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1948742489
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 101
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Jonathan Foiles weaves together psychology and public policy, exploring the trauma underlying urbanization in a book Kirkus Reviews calls an "urgent call for reform." When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate studen
Author: Jonathan Foiles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781948742474
Category : Chicago (Ill.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between a mental health or policy track. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. While helping poor patients from the South and West sides of Chicago, he realized individual therapy could not take into account the importance unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing and other policy decisions that impact the well-beings of both individuals and communities. It is easy to be depressed if you live in a neighborhood that has few supportive resources available, or is marred by gun violence. We are able to diagnose people with depression, but how does one heal a neighborhood? This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America, brings policy and psychology together. Through a remarkable set of case studies, Foiles opens up his therapy door to allow us to overhear the stories of Jacqueline, Frida, Robert, Luis, Anthony, and other poor Chicagoans. As we listen, Foiles teaches us how he diagnoses, explains how therapists before him would analyze these patients, and, through statistics and the example of Chicago, teaches us how policy decisions have contributed to these individuals' suffering. The result is a remarkable, unique work with an urgent political call to action at its core.
Author: John Weir
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781636280295
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
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In eleven linked stories, prize-winning novelist John Weir brings his wit and compassion to the question of how a gay white guy from New Jersey lived through fifty years of the twin crises of global AIDS and toxic masculinity in America.
Author: Helena Peričić
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443818267
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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On the Red Horse, Peter and Paul is Helena Peričić's brave, utterly open-hearted and open-minded testimony of her private and intellectual experience of living and surviving the Homeland War in Croatia during the ’90. This edition is bilingual and includes both the English translation and the original text in Croatian.
Author: Efrem Smith
Publisher: NavPress
ISBN: 163146521X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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The Christian life is actually a kind of death. We die to ourselves, take up our cross, and follow Jesus. Dying in Christ, however, is an opportunity—to experience the comforting presence of the Holy Spirit as we spread the Good News of a God who loves us enough to save us and remake us in his image. Efrem Smith helps us see that Christian discipleship is a counterintuitive life. In a world turned upside down by sin, God carefully and lovingly strips us of worldly values and turns us right-side up as good citizens and ambassadors of his Kingdom.
Author: Eric Minton
Publisher: Broadleaf Books
ISBN: 1506471927
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 207
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If we can agree on anything, it's that we are not okay. Our culture is reeling from the ravages of a global pandemic, a precipitous rise in depression and anxiety, suffocating debt, white supremacy, hypercapitalism, and a virulent political animus--to name a few. But what if it's not us? What if it's . . . well, everything? What if trying to conform to a sick culture is actually making us sick? It's Not You, It's Everything is a timely and incisive inquiry into the anxious pursuit of happiness at all costs. Psychotherapist and former pastor Eric Minton claims that the pernicious melding of capitalism and Christianity means a world of competition, perfection, and scarcity disguised as self-help and self-care. Rather than shaming, silencing, or medicating away our disappointment at not having obtained the happiness we were promised, however, Minton posits a radical alternative. In an impertinent, droll, yet pastoral voice, Minton suggests that our "not-okayness" will require rethinking everything we thought we knew about God, depression, the economy, culture, education, technology, and happiness. Our angst--and that of our children and teenagers--is telling us the truth about the kind of world we've created. By naming all the ways we're not okay, we move away from fear and shame and toward love, and trust, and trustworthiness. We'll need nothing less than hip-hop, Mr. Rogers, liberation theology, and Jesus to get us there. But on the other side of our pain is a radical "okayness" that might just set us free.
Author: NAK
Publisher: NAK
ISBN: 0648984699
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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This book is made from love and completely out of sustainable and recycled materials. Treat it with care, Pass it on, donate, gift, and reuse with thought. So much care and energy has been put into each poem, each artwork, and each word. I would like to thank my family and friends for always being so supportive and encouraging in everything I do. A special thank you to my dearest Mother. You are a gift from the Heavens and I am so thankful and privileged to have you as a mother. From all the great decisions I have made, to the spontaneous life choices, and even through all the really bad decisions; you have stuck by me (aside from all our cat and dog fights). This book is broken into five chapters; Life, Healing, Beloved, New Love, and Create . I have incorporated some of my art work which I hope you also enjoy. Happy Reading
Author: Stephen White
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101210923
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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“Kill Me is that rarest of creations—a thinking-person’s thriller. In this age of the same-old same-old-fiction, White’s novel stands dizzyingly above the pack. The concept is unique (and brilliant), the writing is sharp, observant, and wry (White’s trademark), and every page is filled with perfectly realized human emotion—about life, death, and family. Superb.”—New York Times bestselling author Jeffery Deaver He’s fabulously wealthy and lives life to the fullest—enjoying fast, expensive cars, the love of his beautiful wife, and adventures in every corner of the globe. When a friend is stricken down by a terrible illness, he realizes his only fear is to be diminished by disease. That’s when he meets the Death Angels, who promise to end his life should he ever face such a fate. The only hitch is that the contract is irrevocable. And once he signs it, he discovers he has one more all-important task to carry out before it’s executed...
Author: Melody
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1503569608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
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Sit back and enjoy the ride. This book is going to take you on a journey you cannot imagine. It will make you cry and it will make you laugh and it will make you scream for the injustice. It was estimated by the feds that James robbed over 70 banks throughout this country all being full scale takedowns.
Author: Jon Bates
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0359971601
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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