Friday, 10. September 2010
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This book looks at the ever-present anxieties associated with language change. Focusing on English from Alfred the Great to the present, Tim Machan offers a fresh perspective on the history of language. He reveals amusing and sometimes disconcerting aspects of our linguistic and social behavior and suggests that anxiety about language has sometimes allowed us to avoid the issues we really find disturbing: when speakers of English worry over grammar, sounds, or words the real source of their anxiety is often not language at all but issues like immigration or social instability.
Drawing on an array of evidence from archives, literature, history, polemics, and the press, as well as centuries of legislation, Tim Machan uncovers the perennial nature of concerns about the poverty and purity of English. There has never been a time, he shows, when we weren’t worried about the corruption of language and its apparent connections with educational standards, the morality of youth, the integrity of society, and the identity of our nations. This is a fascinating story, told here in consummate fashion, combining insight and anecdote, and learning with wit – a book for everyone interested in languages and the people who speak them.
Language Anxiety: Conflict and Change in the History of English
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Thursday, 9. September 2010
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Now the best-selling and award-winning Fruit of the Spirit Bible Study Series has been completely updated and revised for the new millennium. This volume is on peace. 6 SESSIONS.
Peace: Overcoming Anxiety and Conflict
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Wednesday, 8. September 2010
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We all get stuck in a rut sometimes. If you are looking for relief from panic, anxiety, hopelessness or desperation, this 40-minute audio program will help you find immediate and long-term relief and comfort and even provide you with new possibilities for how to handle these feelings.
Calm Beneath the Waves: Help relieve panic, anxiety and desperation
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Tuesday, 7. September 2010
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Confused by her ability to feel other people’s feelings, highly sensitive Jenna comforts herself by rescuing dead animals and escaping from elementary school. When her parents divorce, her mentally ill grandmother moves in and her sensitive uncle commits suicide. After the funeral, Jenna begins to read the messages coming in through her senses more clearly, as comforting guidance and premonitions about love, life, people and the planet. This is a decade-long journey of a girl whose nervous system is intricately developed, leading to sensory highs and emotional lows. Every secret thought and fear of this sensitive child (ages 6-17) is revealed here. Since 15-20% of kids and adults have the trait of high sensitivity, this perspective needs to be heard. The story addresses a sensitive child/teen’s anxiety, sadness, courage, and urgent desire to do good things for the world. Edited by Emmy Award winner Molly McKitterick. Endorsed by Psychologist Elaine Aron and Author, Coach Eva Gregory.
Help Is On Its Way: A Memoir About Growing Up Sensitive
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Monday, 6. September 2010
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PRESCRIPTION FOR ANXIETY
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Sunday, 5. September 2010
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The author, herself an analyst, gives an intimate picture of how Winnicott conducted her treatment, how he interpreted, how he offered her a holding environment, how he dealt with anger (his and hers), and how he helped her recover from a deep, cataclysmic depression.
Psychotic Anxieties and Containment: A Personal Record of an Analysis With Winnicott
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Saturday, 4. September 2010
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This is a Danish classic available in translation. From the preface: “The Concept of Anxiety” is one of Kierkegaard’s major works. It summarizes and anticipates themes that are developed in his other works, but not by presenting a unified perception. It has more the character of a work that constitutes a turning point: themes from earlier works (in particular Either/Or) are pursued in a broken way that gives a new starting point for later works. Even though “The Concept of Anxiety” is often an unreasonably difficult book, it is worthwhile to read as a gateway to the entire works of Kierkegaard. ‘In the following chapters I will provide a thematic introduction to Kierkegaard’s body of work based on “The Concept of Anxiety”. In chapter 1, which in volume is already different from the others, I explore ways of thinking and major themes in The Concept of Anxiety, and then in the following chapters I pursue them in other works, only to return to The Concept of Anxiety. ‘Since an introduction to Kierkegaard is also an invitation to read Kierkegaard himself; I give many text references as we go along, but I hope in a discrete way so that it does not disturb the coherent reading of the book. The text references are also extensive for another reason. When one wants to examine the major themes of Kierkegaard’s work, it is important to connect these themes to the individual works in order to get a feeling for both the often complex development in the individual text and for the differences and tensions between the individual works. At the same time I have in a more discursive way tried to hold on to questions, cross referencing them with the individual works’.
The Concept of Anxiety in Soren Kierkegaard
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Friday, 3. September 2010
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It almost goes without saying that the rise in popularity of television has killed the audience for “serious” literature. This is such a given that reading Fitzpatrick’s challenge to this notion can be very disconcerting, as she traces the ways in which a small cadre of writers of “serious” literature–DeLillo, Pynchon, and Franzen, for instance–have propagated this myth in order to set themselves up as the last bastions of good writing. Fitzpatrick first explores whether serious literature was ever as all-pervasive as critics of the television culture claim and then asks the obvious question: what, or who, exactly, are these guys defending good writing against?
Fitzpatrick examines the ways in which the anxiety about the supposed death of the novel is built on a myth of the novel’s past ubiquity and its present displacement by television. She explores the ways in which this myth plays out in and around contemporary fiction and how it serves as a kind of unacknowledged discourse about race, class, and gender. The declaration constructs a minority status for the “white male author” who needs protecting from television’s largely female and increasingly non-white audience. The novel, then, is transformed from a primary means of communication into an ancient, almost forgotten, and thus, treasured form reserved for the well-educated and well-to-do, and the men who practice it are exalted as the practitioners of an almost lost art.
Such positioning serves to further marginalize women writers and writers of color because it makes the novel, by definition, the preserve of the poor endangered white man. If the novel is only a product of a small group of white men, how can the contributions of women and writers of color be recognized? Instead, this positioning abandons women and people of color to television as a creative outlet, and in return, cedes television to them. Fitzpatrick argues that there’s a level of unrecognized patronization in assuming that television serves no purpose but to provide dumb entertainment to bored women and others too stupid to understand novels. And, instead, she demonstrates the real positive effects of a televisual culture.
The Anxiety of Obsolescence: The American Novel in the Age of Television
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Thursday, 2. September 2010
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Four brilliant essays by the author of Hermes and His Children hailing the elemental force of the irrational in a world that is all too often ‘explained’ and ‘understood’:
- Moon Madness-Titanic Love
- Cultural Anxiety
- Reflections on the Duende
- Consciousness of Failure.
López-Pedraza passionately urges us to acknowledge our roots in the soul and our debt to the unknowable.
Cultural Anxiety
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Wednesday, 1. September 2010
Anxiety Disorders
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