Seductive Delusions

Author : Jill Grimes
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-15
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421419244

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Seductive Delusions by Jill Grimes Pdf

Sexually active young people urgently need this book. A 2009 Book of the Year, USA Book News “It can’t happen to me.” Many high school students and young adults, seduced by their sense of invincibility, are stunned when they are diagnosed with a sexually transmitted infection (STI). But the fact is that anyone can catch an STI: no age group, social class, economic class, culture, religion, gender, or ethnic group is immune. To drive home the risks and realities of unprotected sex, Dr. Jill Grimes shares real-life stories of young people—medical students, college freshmen, teenagers, young parents, talented entrepreneurs—who have gotten an STI. Dr. Grimes narrates the story of Liz, who got syphilis; Sofia, diagnosed with gonorrhea and chlamydia; and Zoe, with pubic lice. She describes how Justin got herpes, Sean got trichomoniasis, and Luke contracted hepatitis C. The accounts of these young men and women and their exam-room conversations with their doctors evoke both the physical symptoms and complicated emotional reactions that often go together with infection. Fact sheets throughout the book explain each sexually transmitted infection and answer frequently asked questions about symptoms, treatment, and prevention. Used in high schools for the past five years, this new edition of Seductive Delusions shows how technological advances have speeded doctor-patient communication, including test results and treatment recommendations. It explains simplified STI testing, explores the frighteningly high incidence of date sexual assault, examines dramatic changes in cervical cancer prevention and Pap tests, and clarifies why HPV vaccines are now routinely recommended for all children—boys and girls. Whether reading the book from cover to cover or jumping directly to a specific disease, readers will relate to the dramatic stories while learning medically reliable information. Making emotionally and physically safe decisions about sex is easier when you know how STIs are spread, how to avoid getting one, what their symptoms are, and how they are diagnosed and treated.

Author : Gerard Henry
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575675749

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Seductive Delusions by Gerard Henry Pdf

In Seductive Delusions, Gerard Henry addresses one of the most important topics of this millennium--sexuality and the new sexual ethic. Henry emphasizes how the bombardment of sexual images on TV, billboards, the Internet and other forms of media continually assaults the message of abstinence. In response, Henry walks readers through a mine field of lies while shining light on the truth as he speaks to the issues of lust and love, marriage and commitment, premarital sex and STDS, sexual attitudes and self-respect.

Author : Michael Dunne
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2007-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780807154618

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Calvinist Humor in American Literature by Michael Dunne Pdf

Though the phrase "Calvinist humor" may seem to be an oxymoron, Michael Dunne, in highly original and unfailingly interesting readings of major American fiction writers, uncovers and traces two recurrent strands of Calvinist humor descending from Puritan times far into the twentieth century. Calvinist doctrine views mankind as fallen, apt to engage in any number of imperfect behaviors. Calvinist humor, Dunne explains, consists in the perception of this imperfection. When we perceive that only others are imperfect, we participate in the form of Calvinist humor preferred by William Bradford and Nathanael West. When we perceive that others are imperfect, as we all are, we participate in the form preferred by Mark Twain and William Faulkner, for example. Either by noting their characters' inferiority or by observing ways in which we are all far from perfect, Dunne observes, American writers have found much to laugh about and many occasions for Calvinist humor. The two strains of Calvinist humor are alike in making the faults of others more important than their virtues. They differ in terms of what we might think of as the writer/perceiver's disposition: his or her willingness to recognize the same faults in him- or herself. In addition to Bradford, West, Twain and Faulkner, Dunne discovers Calvinist humor in the works of Flannery O'Connor, Herman Melville, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ernest Hemingway, and many others. For these authors, the world -- and thus their fiction -- is populated with flawed creatures. Even after belief in orthodox Calvinism diminished in the twentieth century, Dunne discovers, American writers continued to mine these veins, irrespective of the authors' religious affiliations -- or lack of them. Dunne notes that even when these writers fail to accept the Calvinist view wholeheartedly, they still have a tendency to see some version of Calvinism as more attractive than an optimistic, idealistic view of life. With an eye for the telling detail and a wry humor of his own, Dunne clearly demonstrates that the fundamental Calvinist assumption -- that human beings are fallen from some putatively better state -- has had a surprising, lingering presence in American literature.

Author : Penfold Dax
Publisher : Strategic Book Publishing
Page : 153 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2013-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781618977670

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An Extraordinarily Quirky Anthology of the Uncanny and Rum by Penfold Dax Pdf

Who but "Penfold Dax" could write a collection of poetry titled An extraordinarily quirky anthology of the uncanny and rum: The random musings and observations from a schizophrenic mind? According to Penfold: "I started writing poetry a few years ago as a tool to help me manage the effects of schizophrenia. This method of utilizing occupational practices to aid my coping abilities is called occupational therapy and it is widely used in the field of mental health care. At first I started writing just for personal reasons, and I only saw it as a personal hobby to aid my own health. I found that writing or any form of artistic expression was extremely affective in doing so. Over a period of time I developed my own personal style, and after receiving very positive feedback from the people that I showed my work to, I decided to take writing poetry more seriously, resulting in the collection in this book." An extraordinarily quirky anthology presents a collection of poetry with both a serious and humorous take on a wide range of random subjects. You will discover many colorful characters in the book, including Fredrick Brumble, Col. Switherskew, Shadow man, Stan the waffling man, and many more in humorous, awkward, and bizarre situations and circumstances. You will also discover the serious side of life as well as mental illness issues and matters of the heart. Yes, the book is quirky! It will take you on a rollercoaster ride of emotions, but drop you off safely at the end. First-time author Penfold Dax lives in England.Publisher's website: http: //sbprabooks.com/PenfoldDax

Author : Cindy Pierce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351818575

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Sex, College, and Social Media by Cindy Pierce Pdf

Sex in college has never been simple. And with modern technology, the rising rates of sexual assault and STDs, and an increasingly ambiguous hookup culture, it is getting ever more complex. Sex, College, and Social Media: A Commonsense Guide to Navigating the Hookup Culture is a compassionate, funny, and well-researched primer for the modern college student, both male and female. It covers a range of topics, including: * How improved communication can make sex better for everyone * Ways that porn and the media have warped our expectations * Trustworthy information about STDs and contraception * How to have a healthy relationship with alcohol and drugs * What terminology is appropriate and respectful to use for all things LGBTQ * The facts about sexual assault on campus, and what to do if you or someone you know is assaulted * Consent * and much more Based on author Cindy Pierce's experience talking to college students and on extensive social and medical research, Sex, College, and Social Media provides trustworthy answers for pressing questions about all aspects of the college social scene. It will prepare entering freshmen for their new environment and continue to provide helpful and supportive guidance through senior year and beyond.

Author : E. C.
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Alcohol
ISBN : OXFORD:600033454

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The Worship of Bachus, a Great Delusion by E. C. Pdf

Author : Yolanda Powell,William J. Powell
Publisher : Moody Publishers
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781575679211

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Soul Food & Living Water by Yolanda Powell,William J. Powell Pdf

As God-conscious families, we all struggle to maintain a vibrant faith that will lead to strength and happiness in the midst of declining social values and daily challenges. Marital commitment, child rearing, financial stewardship and family harmony are problems that can become intensely magnified, draining our joy and ability to sufficiently thrive. Overflowing with Biblical teaching, practical examples and real encouragement, Soul Food and Living Water provides the spritual nourishment you and your family need. Written in culturally sensitive language, reflecting the rich heritage and strong's faith of African Americans, Soul Food and Living Water refreshes and equips families for today's challenges. Soul Food and Living Water is a personal invitation to come and dine at the Lord's table, to be comforted in His presence and to feast upon His Words. So eat well and drink deep!

Author : Oliver Lovesey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317019657

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The Postcolonial Intellectual by Oliver Lovesey Pdf

Addressing a neglected dimension in postcolonial scholarship, Oliver Lovesey examines the figure of the postcolonial intellectual as repeatedly evoked by the fabled troika of Said, Spivak, and Bhabha and by members of the pan-African diaspora such as Cabral, Fanon, and James. Lovesey’s primary focus is Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, one of the greatest writers of post-independence Africa. Ngũgĩ continues to be a vibrant cultural agitator and innovator who, in contrast to many other public intellectuals, has participated directly in grassroots cultural renewal, enduring imprisonment and exile as a consequence of his engagement in political action. Lovesey’s comprehensive study concentrates on Ngũgĩ’s non-fictional prose writings, including his largely overlooked early journalism and his most recent autobiographical and theoretical work. He offers a postcolonial critique that acknowledges Ngũgĩ’s complex position as a virtual spokesperson for the oppressed and global conscience who now speaks from a location of privilege. Ngũgĩ’s writings, Lovesey shows, display a seemingly paradoxical consistency in their concerns over nearly five decades at the same time that there have been enormous transformations in his ideology and a shift in his focus from Africa’s holocaust to Africa’s renaissance. Lovesey argues that Ngũgĩ’s view of the intellectual has shifted from an alienated, nearly neocolonial stance to a position that allows him to celebrate intellectual activism and a return to the model of the oral vernacular intellectual even as he challenges other global intellectuals. Tracing the development of this notion of the postcolonial intellectual, Lovesey argues for Ngũgĩ’s rightful position as a major postcolonial theorist who helped establish postcolonial studies.

Author : Kamyar Esmaeili, M.D.
Publisher : Independently Published [Kindle Direct Publishing Platform]
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-25
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781720736837

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Information-including Medicines; Physics and Mechanism of Action (With Emphasis on "Viremedy") A Synopsis ["Version: Dec 2022"] by Kamyar Esmaeili, M.D. Pdf

["Version: Dec 2022"] ► OVERVIEW: ♦ An "information-including medicine" is a material that the rendition of its respective physical information via a certain part of the living system termed "parallel body" leads to its corresponding biotic qualities in the living being. Viremedy, homeopathic medicines, and the so-called intentional healing medicines are among such medicines. ♦ Viremedy, as a basic remedy, could raise the vitality of the living creature within the framework of its nature. A rise in vitality means "a general increase in the fulfillment degree of biotic capabilities, such as resistance (resilience) to exogenous and endogenous stresses, in the broad sense". This basic remedy improves the natural regulatory and healing operations. ♦ In this text, allowing for the related facts and experiments, "the Physical Essence" and "the Mechanisms of the Actions" of information-including medicines have been generally explicated by putting forward a working theory. Additionally, "Viremedy", "its Origin", and some relevant topics have been presented. These topics are also included: "Some Controlled Experiments Conducted About any Effects of Viremedy on Vitality"; "Some Points About the Holistic Healing Process Actuated by Viremedy Use"; "Some Application Methods of Viremedy"; "The Possible Use of Other Treatments Together With Viremedy". (What is entitled the "Improved Homeopathy" has been briefly introduced in this synopsis as well.) ♦♦ As a rule, facts, rather than words, are the final judge. /●●●/ ► Information-including medicines are broadly used in practice in some therapeutic modalities like homeopathy, etc. ♦ There are controversial discussions about such medicines and the related topics. For instance, in view of the high dilution of homeopathic medicines, sometimes beyond Avogadro’s Limit, some scholars have considered them the inert substances called Placebo, having no specific virtue! Oppositely, some others have counted homeopathy as a credible therapeutic modality. ♦ Here, regarding an interdisciplinary approach, "the Physical Essence" and "the Mechanisms of the Actions" of information-including medicines have been generally clarified by putting forward a comprehensive theory. In light of this theory, the related facts can be explained and the results of some related experiences can be methodically predicted. Allowing for this theory, we can also find suitable ways for "the reproduction and the reinforcement of the special information-including remedy named Viremedy", "keeping this remedy in appropriate conditions", "the various methods of Viremedy application", and "the apposite application of other treatments, like homeopathic treatments, together with this remedy". ♦ Viremedy is Not a Monopolistic Production or Finding of any Person or Group. ♦♦ Most of all, facts, like the results of the appropriate controlled experiences suitably designed and performed to correctly evaluate the degree of vitality, are the final judge. /●●●/ ► SOME RELATED DOMAINS: Health and Medical Sciences, Integrative Medicine, Holistic Medicine, Complementary and Alternative Medicine, Parallel Body Medicine, Information Medicine, So-called Energy Medicine, Homeopathy, Improved Homeopathy, Healing, Natural Medicine (Naturopathic Med.), Vitherapy, Holism, Information-including Medicines, Modern Physics, Evidence-based Medicine /●●●/ NOTIFICATION: ►► This book in paperback and Kindle formats can be bought from "AMAZON". ♦♦ All sales revenue of the book, the author’s share, will be spent on the activities involving Viremedy and the related matters like accomplishing the studies, improving Viremedy use, etc. - Citation: Esmaeili, Kamyar: «Information-including Medicines; Physics and Mechanism of Action (With Emphasis on "Viremedy") A Synopsis [Subtitle: Viremedy, Homeopathic Medicines, and the So-called Intentional Healing Medicines]». Independently Published [Kindle Direct Publishing Platform]; Pp. 251; Version: Dec 2022. ♦ The Book, especially in PDF format, has also been presented on some websites like https://sites.google.com/site/viremedy, archive.org, etc. ►► Viremedy is Not a Monopolistic Production or Finding of any Person or Group. ►►► https://sites.google.com/site/viremedy

Author : Eugen Fischer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781134322251

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Philosophical Delusion and Its Therapy by Eugen Fischer Pdf

Philosophical Delusion and its Therapy provides new foundations and methods for the revolutionary project of philosophical therapy pioneered by Ludwig Wittgenstein. With the help of concepts adapted from cognitive linguistics and cognitive psychology, the book analyses how philosophical reflection is shaped by pictures and metaphors we are not aware of employing and are prone to misapply. Through innovative case-studies on the genesis of classical problems about the mind and perception, and on thinkers including Locke, Berkeley and Ayer, the book demonstrates how such autonomous habits of thought systematically generate unsound intuitions and philosophical delusions.

Author : Dante Alighieri
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 489 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781681376066

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Purgatorio by Dante Alighieri Pdf

A new translation of Dante's Purgatorio that celebrates the human elements of the second part of The Divine Comedy. This is a bilingual edition with an illuminating introduction from the translator. Winner of the American Literary Translators Association 2022 National Translation Award in Poetry. Purgatorio, the middle section of Dante’s great poem about losing, and subsequently finding, one’s way in the middle of one’s life is, unsurprisingly, the beating heart of The Divine Comedy, as this powerful and lucid new translation by the poet D. M. Black makes wonderfully clear. After days spent plumbing the depths of hell, the pilgrim staggers back to the clear light of day in a state of shock, the sense of pervasive dread and deep bewilderment with which he began his pilgrimage as intensified as it is alleviated by his terminal vision of evil. The slow and initially arduous climb up the mount of Purgatory that ensues, guided as always by Virgil, his poetic model and mentor, is simultaneously a reckoning with human limits and a rediscovery of human potential in the light of divine promise. Dante’s Purgatorio, which has been an inspiration to poets as varied as Shelley and T. S. Eliot, is a book full of human stories and philosophical inquiry; it is also a tale of individual reintegration and healing. Black, a distinguished psychoanalyst as well as a poet, provides an introduction and commentary to this masterpiece by Dante from a contemporary point of view in this bilingual edition.

Author : Ágnes Darab
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-16
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781527549586

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The Anecdotal Narration and Encyclopedic Thought of Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia by Ágnes Darab Pdf

Pliny the Elder’s Naturalis Historia, with its varied content, enables and expects the reader to employ a complex interpretative technique. One aspect of Pliny’s diction is that he often interrupts the discussions of topics with digressions and begins to address something that seemingly has nothing to do with the subject. The hypothesis suggested by this book is that these digressions that occur in different places and in great number throughout the text of Naturalis Historia should not be regarded as mistakes fragmenting the encyclopedia’s structure. Most of these digressions are anecdotes. Researching the aetiological anecdotes, and those about the life of animals, famous persons from political or intellectual life, and the most important Greek painters and sculptors requires the application of different perspectives. When we approach anecdotes from the perspective of narrative techniques, the role of the stories as exempla becomes clearer, and its further aspects can be spotted. This book also draws attention to Pliny the writer, an aspect of the text that has been contested until very recently.

Author : Michael Baumgarten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Bible
ISBN : HARVARD:HWJSHH

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The Acts of the Apostles by Michael Baumgarten Pdf

Author : Michael Baumgarten
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1099109452

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The Acts of the Apostles, Or The History of the Church in the Apostilic Age by Michael Baumgarten Pdf

Author : Louis-Philippe de Ségur
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0024951168

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Les Quatre Ages de la Vie. The Four Ages of Life. Translated from the French of General Count P. de Ségur by Louis-Philippe de Ségur Pdf