Damocles On The Couch

Author : Herbert L. Stricklin
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781466973008

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Damocles On The Couch by Herbert L. Stricklin Pdf

Damocles On The Couch, is about getting your life straight,and it is about stories. Throughout history humans have used stories as vehicles to communicate and pass along information. Herb Stricklin, therapist and educator, has found that stories are a tremendous tool for relaying information regarding sound principles to live one’s life by. Stories afford the listener an opportunity to take the information that they are hearing and apply it to their lives on a much deeper level than just hearing cold hard facts. Jesus used parables to relay some of his most powerful messages. Ancient Greeks and Romans used plays to both entertain and educate those witnessing the performance. Morality plays, such as The Sword Of Damocles, help us to learn life lessons and understand the human condition. In this story, Damocles finds himself placed in a chair with a sword dangling over his head suspended by a single hair. The angst and fear that he experiences is a universal experience for humans (not necessarily a sword, but we have all had things “hanging over our heads”). Stricklin uses stories such as this to paint a picture for people regarding healthy and unhealthy ways of confronting life’s many challenges.

Author : Francis Cairns
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter
Page : 537 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-27
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110267228

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Roman Lyric by Francis Cairns Pdf

Francis Cairns has made well-known contributions to the study of Roman Epic and Elegy. Papers on Catullus and Horace assembles his substantial body of work on Roman Lyric - about 30 papers published between 1969 and 2010 in many European and American periodicals, themed volumes and Festschriften, along with some new papers. Many aspects of the lyric poetry of Catullus and Horace are treated in this collection. Particular emphasis is given to the political and religious interests of both poets, to their interactions with their contemporaries, to the ‛learning’ which informs their poetry, and to their generic practices. Philological problems of text and interpretation are treated pari passu, as are relevant aesthetic questions. The volume is fully indexed and contains a composite bibliography and addenda and corrigenda. Papers on Catullus and Horace will make access to this body of important scholarly material easier and more convenient for scholars and students of Latin poetry.

Author : Denise Little
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0756405599

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Swordplay by Denise Little Pdf

From from the sword of Damocles to the legendary Excalibur, these 17 all-new spellbinding tales get straight to the point. These weapons each come sheathed in their own fascinating story that cuts right to the heart of fantasy adventure. Authors include Jean Rabe, Annie Rees, and Laura Resnick. Original.

Author : Theresa A. Veach,Donald R. Nicholas,Marci A. Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781134941858

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Cancer and the Family Life Cycle by Theresa A. Veach,Donald R. Nicholas,Marci A. Barton Pdf

This book uses current psychosocial literature in combination with empirical research and clinical accounts of family adaptation to help professionals and families cope with the impact of cancer. It is broad in scope and includes families in any life cycle (i.e. single adults, children, adolescents, and later life). This book, with its solid theoretical foundation, will be especially beneficial to any professional who is helping a family to adapt to cancer.

Author : George W. Dunn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433075794903

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The Temple of Justice and Other Poems by George W. Dunn Pdf

Author : Jeff Champion
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781844682966

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The Tyrants of Syracuse Volume II by Jeff Champion Pdf

This is the story of one of the most important classical cities, Syracuse, and its struggles (both internal and external) for freedom and survival. Situated at the heart of the Mediterranean, Syracuse was caught in the middle as Carthage, Pyrrhus of Epirus, Athens and then Rome battled to gain control of Sicily. The threat of expansionist enemies on all sides made for a tumultuous situation within the city, resulting in repeated coups that threw up a series of remarkable tyrants, such as Gelon, Timoleon and Dionysius. In this first volume Jeff Champion traces the course of Syracuse's wars under the tyrants from the Battle of Himera (480 BC) against the Carthaginians down to the death of Dionysius I (367 BC), whose reign proved to be the high tide of the city's power and influence. One of the highlights along the way is the city's heroic resistance to, and eventual decisive defeat of, the Athenian expeditionary force that besieged them for over two years (415-413 BC), an event with massive ramifications for the Greek world. This is the eventful life story of one of the forgotten major powers of the ancient Mediterranean world.

Author : Quintus Curtius
Publisher : Fortress of the Mind Publications
Page : 713 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780578645872

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Digest by Quintus Curtius Pdf

This book is a collection of Quintus Curtius's most important essays covering the period from 2016 to 2019. The range of topics is diverse and compelling, and includes history, moral philosophy, travel and exploration, language, and the wisdom of the Near East. "No branch of knowledge," the author notes, "is tangential to the curve of wisdom." These writings provide a window into a philosophy of life based on a belief in achievement through struggle, wisdom, moral goodness, and direct experience.

Author : Bruce Sterling
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781497688124

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Ascendancies by Bruce Sterling Pdf

Two dozen tales of future shock and twisted history from an undisputed king of cyberpunk science fiction, including Nebula Award finalists “Sunken Garden” and “Dori Bangs.” Time magazine describes Bruce Sterling as “one of America’s best-known science fiction writers and perhaps the sharpest observer of our media-choked culture working today in any genre.” Sterling’s abilities are on full display in Ascendancies, a collection of speculative fiction from a world-class world-building futurist, alternate historian, and mad prophet operating at the peak of his extraordinary powers. Here are twenty-four stories that span the illustrious career of the author who, along with William Gibson and Neal Stephenson, injected the word cyberpunk into the science fiction lexicon. These tales not only traverse galaxies and employ mind-boggling technologies, they also cut back across the centuries into a richly imagined past with style and a sharp satiric edge. Sterling’s unparalleled imagination and courageous originality carry the reader into the future universe of the warring Shapers and Mechanists, rival sects of exiled humanity with radically opposed views of human augmentation. Several stories feature the questionable adventures of the footloose con man Leggy Starlitz in a somewhat-skewed and still-dangerous post–Cold War world. Sterling explores the cyberpunk trope of technology gone wild and the resultant decline of civilization with appropriate gravity, while presenting parables of strangers stuck in very strange lands in a more whimsical vein. Whether chronicling an alien’s encounter with Crusaders in disputed Palestine, depicting the discovery of the key to immortality in a nineteenth-century Times Square magic shop, or portraying bicycles and bad guys in a near-future Tennessee, Sterling’s stories are smart, surprising, genre bending, bold, and outstanding, one and all.

Author : Wendy Schlessel Harpham
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1994-02-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780393254464

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After Cancer: A Guide to Your New Life by Wendy Schlessel Harpham Pdf

Having this book on my nightstand is like having an empathetic and wise friend at my side as I chart a new course after cancer treatment. Dr. Harpham blends practical information with the intimate understanding of a veteran. Her book serves as a companion and inspiration on my voyage. —Ellen Hermanson, editor, Networker (National Coalition for Cancer Survivorship Newsletter) This is the first book written by a doctor for the layperson that addresses the medicine, the practical issues, and the psychosocial elements of recovery after cancer treatment. The author a cancer survivor herself, understands that surviving cancer is more than just killing cancer cells and getting through treatment. Patients must deal with the emotional, social, spiritual, and financial fallout of a cancer diagnosis. By helping survivors understand that they can’t go back to where they were before cancer, she liberates them to move forward to a different, “new normal.” Writing in a reader-friendly, question-and-answer format, Dr. Wendy Harpham addresses a wide range of issues realistically yet hopefully. Among them are understanding the medicine of reevaluation, follow-up, and prevention treatment; dealing with the most common physical aftereffects of treatment; learning how to make decisions about work and school; relating to friends and family; helping children deal with parent’s cancer; and coping with the practicalities of living wills and insurance. An important section on post cancer fatigue will be of special interest to patients who find that exhaustion is one of the most difficult problems with which they deal.

Author : William F. Hansen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0801436702

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Ariadne's Thread by William F. Hansen Pdf

"Ariadne's Thread is a mini-encyclopedia of more than a hundred such international oral tales, all present in the literature of ancient Greece and Rome. It takes into account writings, including early Jewish and Christian literature, recorded in or translated into Greek or Latin by writers of any nationality. As a result, this book will be invaluable not only to classicists and folklorists but also to a wide range of other readers who are interested in stories and storytelling."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : George Payn Quackenbos
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1864
Category : English language
ISBN : NYPL:33433082511761

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Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric by George Payn Quackenbos Pdf

Author : George Payn QUACKENBOS (the Elder.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 474 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1857
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018195707

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Advanced Course of Composition and Rhetoric: a series of practical lessons, etc by George Payn QUACKENBOS (the Elder.) Pdf

Author : Paul L. MacKendrick,Herbert M. Howe
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0299808963

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Classics in Translation, Volume II by Paul L. MacKendrick,Herbert M. Howe Pdf

Annotation Here, translated into modern idiom, are many works of the authors whose ideas have consitituted the mainstream of classical thought. This volume of new translations was born of necessity, to answer the needs of a course in Greek and Roman culture offered by the Department of Integrated Liberal Studies at the University of Wisconsin. Since its original publication in 1952, Classics in Translation has been adopted by many different academic insititutions to fill similar needs of their undergraduate students. This new printing is further evidence of this collection's general acceptance by teachers, students, and the reviewing critics.

Author : Charles Moore
Publisher : charles
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Its Money – The Epilogue by Charles Moore Pdf

Let me tell you why you should be reading this book. You’re here because you know something. What you know you cannot explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there is something wrong with the world. You don’t know exactly what it is, but it’s there, like a splinter in your mind driving you mad. It is this feeling that has brought you to this book. Our ancestors did not realise that they were duped – that these unpredictable and claimed, one off banking and financial crisis, are in fact deliberately engineered by commercial bankers to create the illusion that there is a problem, that only they can provide the solution. The way banks crush the people is to grind them between the millstones of debt and engineered inflation. This book provides a positive future for Money that is completely different, where capital will be scarce and therefore valued. The free flow of Capital means capital will be less wasted on spurious, inflationary, or speculative projects. Capital will be the basis for recovering economic progress, so sadly lost at an increasing pace since the dollar became purely an irredeemable fiat currency based solely upon unrepayable future dated private bank debt. The World Currency Unit, carries no credit or counterparty risks, it serves as a "value anchor" to the worlds currencies within all economic environments, making it the most crucial reserve asset worldwide. Collectively with the knowledge of money, currency, and capital, free from all forms of extortion and violence, we can change our future, this book provides the knowledge and tools to create a better world for ourselves, our family, and our society.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1830
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026776549

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Mrs. Herbert and the Villagers ... Third Edition, Stereotype by Anonim Pdf