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Robert Downham died on Wednesday August 23 1967 of Reticulum Cell Sarcoma Three weeks before he died he did not know he was sick Nine days after diagnosis he was dead This is his story and the story of Sally his young wife and mother of his two young children and all the others whose lives touched his life and who had to go on living It is about life and death and grief and the lessons that the survivors learned This inspiring work chronicles Sally Millers thirtyyear journey of grief and recovery A professional educator Dr Miller has constructed a book that leads readers through their grief as they read about hers Along with her own moving story Miller provides a framework that readers can use to identify and process their own grief Mourning and Dancing is designed for people who are trying to cope with any loss even if years have passed since the loss or losses occurred Its format includes truelife stories of the authors family and individuals with whom she has walked through grief The vignettestyle of presentation allows the newly aggrieved to read the book in small doses a key ingredient for healing Written after thirty years of learning this touching book will show readers how to incorporate loss into their lives how to live with the pain and how to have hope and heal as a result of that brave endeavor
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Turn My Mourning Into Dancing sold at 24.78 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
The author suggests that the way through suffering is not denial but rather in living fully in the midst of the trials life brings our way and that by greeting lifes pains with something other than despair we can find surprising joy in our suffering
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Reclaiming Heimat Trauma and Mourning sold at 52.07 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by , and sold by Abebooks.com.
In Reclaiming Heimat Jacqueline Vansant focuses on nine memoirs by seven Austrian reéimigrésErnst Lothar Stella KleinLow Hans Thalberg Minna Lachs Franziska Tausig Hilde Spiel and Elisabeth Freundlichwho provide moving accounts of the profound loss of Heimat homehomeland and self and the desire to recover the loss in part by returning home A disparate group with varying relationships to Judaism they were nonetheless bound together by statesanctioned antiSemitism As a result their individual life stories reflect group experiences that are notably different from the collective memories of the general Austrian population Vansant uses these autobiographical accounts to construct a useful framework to explore issues of individual and collective identity and cultural memory in an Austrian context By examining the textual manifestations of the traumas of exile and return and the process of mourning the loss of homeland on rhetorical thematic and metaphorical levels she reveals the difficulty in reconnecting to the Austrian we as a Jewish Austrian in postwar and postHolocaust AustriaReclaiming Heimat will interest students and scholars of Holocaust and Exile studies as well as German and Austrian literature This book is also intended for a general readership interested in the aftermath of the Nazi era
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American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in Blackness is a professional dancers personal journey over four decades across three continents and twentythree countries and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America In this memoir Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international careerOsumares story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement black militancy and hippie counterculture It was there that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement She moved to Europe where she taught jazz ballet and established her own dance company in Copenhagen Returning to the United States she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company in New York City and played key roles in integrating black dance programs into mainstream programmingat the Lincoln Center After dance fieldwork in Ghana Osumare returned to California and helped develop Oaklands black dance scene Along the way she collaborated with major artistic movers and shakers among them Katherine Dunham Pearl Primus JeanLeon Destine and Donald McKayleNow a black studies scholar Osumare uses her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition justice and selfempowerment This is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist and a worldrenowned dance scholar who has boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a black woman
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A vivid and mesmerizing memoir of the six months the author spent in Cuba in 1970 a time when she began to develop her own fervent political conscienceAlma Guillermoprietoan awardwinning journalist and arguably our most cleareyed observer of Latin Americanow turns her keen powers of observation onto her own younger self In this richly evocative chronicle Guillermoprieto describes the remarkable transforming journey she made as a twentyyearold when her love of dancewhich had led her from her native Mexico to the New York dance studios of Martha Graham Merce Cunningham and Twyla Tharptook her to a job teaching poorly trained but ardent dance students in Cuba At first unaffected by the revolutionary spirit and the adoration of Castro that pervaded the island Guillermoprieto slowly fell under the spell of the idealism that buoyed the often destitute lives of the Cuban people And as she opened herself to what became a complex galvanizing revolutionary experience she found as well the ideas and ideals that would shape her thinking for the rest of her life Beautifully written and deeply felt Dancing with Cuba is a revelatory account of the making of an impassioned political heart and mind
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A renowned editor of The New York Times movingly recounts his life remembers a turbulent childhood as an African American growing up in the 1950s and 1960s a brother addicted to drugs and violence and a grandmother who inspired him to reach for the sky 17500 first printing
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Nick Papandreou mixes fact and fiction to explore his childhood and his family particularly his father and grandfather who were both prime ministers of Greece It follows Alex a young American boy as he leaves the United States and moves to Greece with his family in the early 1960s Just eight yearsold Alex has to come to terms with the often bizarre and rarely straightforward life of a political dynasty
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American Society for Aesthetics Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance AestheticsBefore Columbus Foundation American Book AwardDancing in Blackness is a professional dancers personal journey over four decades across three continents and twentythree countries and through defining moments in the story of black dance in America In this memoir Halifu Osumare reflects on what blackness and dance have meant to her life and international careerOsumares story begins in 1960s San Francisco amid the Black Arts Movement black militancy and hippie counterculture It was there that she chose dance as her own revolutionary statement She moved to Europe where she taught jazz ballet and established her own dance company in Copenhagen Returning to the United States she danced with the Rod Rodgers Dance Company in New York City and played key roles in integrating black dance programs into mainstream programmingat the Lincoln Center After dance fieldwork in Ghana Osumare returned to California and helped develop Oaklands black dance scene Along the way she collaborated with major artistic movers and shakers among them Katherine Dunham Pearl Primus JeanLeon Destine and Donald McKayleNow a black studies scholar Osumare uses her extraordinary experiences to reveal the overlooked ways that dance has been a vital tool in the black struggle for recognition justice and selfempowerment This is the inspiring story of an accomplished dance artist and a worldrenowned dance scholar who has boldly developed and proclaimed her identity as a black woman
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 053
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Photographer and Grateful Dead insider Rosie McGee tells dozens of previouslyuntold stories of living traveling and working with the Dead during their first decade as a band The book is illustrated with 200 of her rare and candid photographs many never before seen in print Not just for Deadheads or baby boomersthis book is for anyone seeking a womans intimate account of the San Francisco rock music community in the Sixties rare in a field of such books most often written by men Included are firsthand stories of Autumn Records The Matrix nightclub the Acid Tests Olompali life in the HaightAshbury the Human BeIn the Grateful Dead and the authors bust at 710 Ashbury New York Toronto and Montreal with the Dead and Jefferson Airplane Monterey Pop Altamont the Deads Europe 72 tour and encounters with individuals as diverse as Tom Donahue Phil Spector Lenny Bruce Janis Joplin Owsley Stanley Timothy Leary Jesse Colin Young Julie Christie and many others
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A lively and entertaining memoir of a life in public service to the city and state of New YorkWhen he was twentyfive Sam Aldrich danced with Queen Elizabeth II in London By the time he was thirtyseven he was marching with Martin Luther King Jr in Selma Recounting the journey between and beyond those two points and musing over the irony of the contrast they represent is the subject of this remarkable and entertaining memoirAfter a cosseted childhood in New Yorks silk stocking district including weekends on Long Islands Gold Coast and summers in Dark Harbor Maine Aldrich was expected to follow in his fathers footsteps and pursue a career in high finance Dancing with the queen of England was just a small function of the privileged life and family into which I was born he writes and events such as this would be a regular part of my upperclass welltraveled social life Instead and to his parents chagrin he chose decades of hard work in the public sector serving as deputy police commissioner in New York City director of the New York State Division for Youth executive assistant to Governor Nelson Rockefeller president of the Brooklyn Center of Long Island University and commissioner of the New York State Office of Parks Recreation and Historic Preservation before entering teaching fulltime at midlifeIllustrated with photographs from Aldrichs personal collection this lively memoir offers personal insights into New York State politics and history Whether working to develop an effective system for rehabilitating juvenile offenders in New York City trying to find an environmentally sound means for development in the Hudson River Valley or teaching public policy at SUNYs Empire State College Aldrich shows what it means to follow ones passions and interests and to take the gifts one has been given and use them to try to make this world a better place
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In this funny insightful memoir a young socialite risks social suicide when she takes a job at a legendary funeral chapel on New York Citys Upper East SideGood Mourning offers a behindthescenes look at one of the most famous funeral homes in the countrywhere not even big money can protect you from the universal experience of grieving Its Gossip Girl meets Six Feet Under told from the unique perspective of a fashionista turned funeral planner Elizabeth Meyer stumbled upon a career in the midst of planning her own fathers funeral which she turned into an upbeat party with Rolling Stones music thousands of dollars worth of her mothers favorite flowers and a personalized eulogy Starting out as a receptionist Meyer quickly found she had a knack for helping people cope with their grief as well as creating fitting sendoffs for some of the citys most highpowered residents Meyer has seen it all two women who found out their deceased husband yes singular was living a double life a famous corpse with a missing brain and funerals that cost more than most weddings By turns illuminating emotional and darkly humorous Good Mourning is a lesson in how the human heart grieves and growswhether youre wearing this seasons couture or drugstore flipflops
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Mourning Becomes the Law Philosophy sold at 43.61 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by philosophy, and sold by Abebooks.com.
Mourning Becomes the Law is the philosophical counterpart to the late Gillian Roses acclaimed memoir Loves Work It presents a powerful and eloquent case against postmodernism and breathes new life into the debates about power and domination transcendence and eternity Addressing topics such as architecture cinema painting poetry the Holocaust and Judaism Gillian Rose enables us to connect ideas about the individual and society with theories of justice This is philosophy for the nonphilosopher
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Mourning Becomes the Law is the philosophical counterpart to the late Gillian Roses acclaimed memoir Loves Work It presents a powerful and eloquent case against postmodernism and breathes new life into the debates about power and domination transcendence and eternity Addressing topics such as architecture cinema painting poetry the Holocaust and Judaism Gillian Rose enables us to connect ideas about the individual and society with theories of justice This is philosophy for the nonphilosopher
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This memoir of Native American teacher writer and artist Warren Petoskey spans centuries and lights up shadowy corners of American history with important memories of Indian culture and survival Warrens family connects with many key episodes in Indian history including the tragedy of boarding schools that imprisoned thousands of Indian children as well as the traumatic effects of alcohol abuse and bigotry He writes honestly about the impact of these tragedies and continually returns to Indian traditions as the deepest healing resources for native peoples He writes about the wisdom that comes from practices such as fishing hunting and sharing poetry This memoir is an essential voice in the chorus of Indian leaders testifying to major chapters of American history largely missing from most narratives of our nations past
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