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Tibetan
weddings in ne'u na village
By Charles Kevin Stuart
ISBN: 978-0-9824012-0-0
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The
Early Jesus Movement and Its Parties
A New Way to Look at the New Testament
By Harry W. Eberts, Jr. and Paul R. Eberts
What
have generations of New Testament scholars
been hiding from us over all the ages?
Harry and Paul Eberts have produced a book that challenges readers to rethink how they approach the New Testament. Most scholars have presumed a reasonably unified movement among the Christian churches led by Peter, Paul, James, and Philip during the period immediately following Jesus’ death and resurrection. This book suggests that at least four parties—one led by Peter and the other eleven disciples; one by James the brother of Jesus and as many as 500 “brethren;” one by Stephen, Philip, and Apollos who were Greek-speaking Jews having Alexandria as their base; and one by Paul and Barnabas (among other apostles) “who did not know Jesus in the flesh”— vied with each other to portray Jesus as the Son of God.
Up to now, most scholars have presumed the Gospels to be at least somewhat “additive” in developing the character of Jesus. The Eberts’ suggest that each Gospel represents the viewpoint of one of the four parties, thus presenting differing views of the meaning of Jesus’ life, his death, and his resurrection. For a long time, scholars have presumed the “Jesus movement” was unified in its evangelizing, but the Eberts’ posit that the four parties went among different ethnic groups initially, but came to compete for the same converts while undercutting each other, as they did in Ephesus and Corinth, in seeking to convert Jews and Gentiles to Christianity.
Scholars have believed that small differences in churches’ governance and worship were “options” chosen by each congregation. But the Eberts’ suggest that each party developed its own patterns of church governance, worship, and practices. There has been the regular presumption that St. Paul’s letters were unified statements of his views of beliefs, behaviors, and practices in the early churches. The Eberts’ instead suggest a shifting over time that is shown by his letters, in Paul’s theology and ethics as the apostles struggled with the other Christian parties and with the Gentiles to convert nonbelievers to Christianity.
The book speaks directly to these and other controversies as it carefully documents directly from New Testament writings how, where, and why these four parties emerged to struggle with each other and thereby generate what are now considered the major sacred writings about that historical figure identified first as Jesus of Nazareth and later known as Jesus the Christ.
ISBN: 978-0-9824012-3-1 144 pages
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Noted
pianist and Julliard professor, Paul Sheftel, asks, “When learning to play a C
chord, why not also learn F and G chords, since they all use only white keys?”
The three modules are all about groupings that concentrate on the 12 major scales, their perfect, major and minor intervals, and the 12 major triads in root position and first and second inversions. These are all studied in logical groupings. There is a specific musical composition for each scale, chord and interval.
Startling
poems of incisive intelligence and deep compassion.
Marie Ponsot finds The Touch “rich, lyrical, sharp, a big world
well perceived, Cynthia Kraman’s poems are alive with real ideas. . . . You
have to read this. Pure pleasure.”
Bob Holman says, “The Touch, the long-awaited new book of poetry
from medievalist and former punk-rocker Cynthia Kraman, tosses New Formalism on
its ear, and is rock lyrics . . . resuscitates Wordsworth . . . a superb,
extraordinary, shocking, unflinching, charming, hilarious, perfectly gem-cut
book.”
The book is in two parts: My Heart Was Like A Sword has as its formal
basis medieval number theory; Speak in the Dark’s form refers to the
days of Biblical creation and the weekly life of each of us. The poet writes,
“I will leave it to the reader to find her and his own macro and micro
readings of the poems’ many days and nights, of nature created and creating,
and the ongoing annihilations and regenerations of love and war.”
These are heights, when they are not depths. A rich vein in our new poetry.–Richard
Howard
This is a book to read and re-read, the real thing. –Thomas Beller
This book is the seventh in the Bowery Books series.
ISBN: 978-0-9800508-8-2 140 pages
The Depository Trust Company
By William T. Dentzer Jr
The Depository Trust
Company reports the early 1970s origin and evolution of The Depository Trust
Company (DTC), the world’s largest securities depository, and how it became
the basis of The Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (DTCC) in 1999.
It describes the basic policies and company culture of DTC and DTCC and
shows how these organizations made the clearance and settlement of virtually all
trades in U.S. equity, corporate debt, and municipal securities more accurate
and less costly, obliterating through automation the conditions that created the
Wall Street “paperwork crisis” of the late 1960s.
ISBN: 978-0-9800508-5-1 100 pages
Body
of Water
By Janet Hamill
Photographs by Patti Smith
With
mercurial wands, Baal’s angels, decks with wild Jacks of oracle bones, tempest
Serpens, Lord Byron on the Bridge of Sighs, stallions mottled grey, a “dark
blue stronger than the Flemish blue of hummingbirds,” and poesis lying in the
ashes of a dress, Janet Hamill turns her wizard poet’s eye on an immense body
of alchemical empathies. This book is a romantic, surreal, lyrical Voyage. It
twists and turns with the playful tide of poetic vision, enhanced by the
delicate measures of Patti Smith’s photography. Kudos all around.
—Anne Waldman
Reading Janet Hamill now, as I have over the last thirty years, I’m amazed
again at the particulars of the world her poetry makes—a night world, as I
read it, peopled with bright creatures and splashes of color, beautiful and
terrifying by turns. With this there is a mix, too, of pop forms and strains,
and of catholic and pagan names and images—angels and saints and hermits—as
in the vision of her sleeping gypsy: “firebird sweets / a morsel a taste of
carrion / . . . as in a dream.” With this and much more, she has become
indispensable.
—Jerome Rothenberg
With its unbridled surrealistic, hypnotic imagery, Janet Hamill’s alchemy of
language gives us back communion with our souls. With a magician’s grace she
reminds us of the enchantment of our being. Hers is a music both modern and
magik.
—Maureen Owen
. . . Janet Hamill has sought transcendence in language on the page or sung . .
. Hamill’s mastery of form and feeling comes together to create a poem that
delicately examines celebrity, gallantry, silence, talent, and beauty. Only a
poet could do that. Or maybe only Janet Hamill.
—Patricia Spears Jones
This book is the sixth in the Bowery Books series.
ISBN: 978-0-9800508-6-8 100 pages
Religion:
What It Has
Been and What It Is
By Jay G. Williams
What It Has Been
Beginning with a review of the human needs that all religions
seek to fulfill, Dr. Williams traces the world’s religions as they evolved
through four cultural channels: China , India
and South
The various religious traditions are followed down all four
cultural streams to contemporary time—through their confrontations with the
Enlightenment, Nietszche (“God is dead!”), Freud, and perhaps most
profoundly with
About the author
Jay G. Williams is chair of the department of religious studies
and director of Asian studies of
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The Near East - Sumer, Egypt, Assyria, and
Babylonia
Early Chinese Buddhism
The Modern Near East and Europe
Index
Life
and Marriage in Skya rgya:
A Tibetan Village
By Blo brtan rdo rje with Charles Kevin Stuart
Life and Marriage in Skya rgya, a Tibetan
Village is an important achievement, delving deep into
contemporary Tibetan society, enabling us to explore the crucial negotiations
between tradition and modernity, both individually and collectively, that
confront present-day Tibetan villagers.
* * *
Skya rgya is a farming village in A mdo, the
Tibetan name by which the northwest of the Tibetan Plateau is known. While Tibetans largely welcome the material benefits that have been brought to
them by the march of modernity, it is also inevitable that many of their older
traditions have come to be seen as outdated. By juxtaposing voices from earlier
periods with those that reflect contemporary experiences, [the author] has
provided us with a fascinating window onto the processes of change and
development, as they are being experienced by Tibetans in this area.
This book provides a rich resource for all those interested in the history and
culture of the region, . . . . [the author’s narratives give] us a direct and
vivid insight into the lives, experiences and expectations of members of his
home community. By letting four of his informants speak to us directly he allows
us to enter into the joys and pains, hopes and fears of these Tibetans, old and
young. We have a rare chance to observe how the dilemmas and celebrations that
characterized an early era have persisted or evolved as local society is
propelled into the modern world of twenty-first century China.
Fernanda Pirie
The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies
Oxford University
Blo brtan rdo rje’s honest rendering of the details of his family life and his
experiences conducting field
research make this a page-turning account of life in a rural Tibetan area that
is already vanishing.
When Blo brtan rdo rje was young, there was not even a bridge to cross the
Yellow River into Gcan tsha
County; coracle boats were the principle mode of transport across the river.
After bridges were built in
the late 1980s, life has been changing rapidly
This is not to suggest that no change had come to this Tibetan village before
this time, as the arrival of
the troops of the Muslim warlord, Ma Bufang, prior to the Communist period are
also documented
here. The forced conversion of neighboring (down-valley) Tibetans to Islam was a
crucial vehicle for
the later commercial changes introduced in the 1990s.
Gray Tuttle
Department of East Asia Languages and Cultures
Columbia University
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Fernanda Pirie
The Arranged
Marriages of Young Children
Introduction to the
Village of Skya rgya
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Half the range of the piano keyboard! |
At last a serious critical examination of the utterly unique vocalist celebrated for her "four-octave voice," Yma Sumac! A confounding, sometimes heartbreaking, mixture of absurd show-biz hype, stunning virtuosity, and sometimes ravishing artistry, Yma Sumac was a firmly established recording artist of the folk music of her native Peru when she came to America to be “discovered.” And discovered she was—by the publicity department of Capitol Records and the “Exotica” pop music maestro Les Baxter.
From there her story becomes ever more tangled and weird—and deeply interesting. Yma herself is an amazingly contradictory mix. Nicholas Limansky (a formally trained professional singer) is able to demonstrate that she was startlingly sophisticated technically even though almost entirely self-taught. What is perhaps even more astonishing than the celebrated 4-octave range of her voice—and its effortless clarity and sweetness—was the nearly incredible longevity—fully 4 decades!—of her ability to command it.
With the enthusiastic collaboration of her quixotic, charming, slightly rascally husband, she went along with the corruption of her artistic identity by the gleefully amoral record-company publicists, creators of her public persona—Inca Princess (sometimes Priestess!)—from a primitive mountain tribe (or, sometimes, descended from a line of kings that was said to go back several hundred years before there were any Incas)! Imperious as any diva with her intimates and musical collaborators, she maintained an unassailable dignity and unaffected graciousness as a performer and in relation to her fans.
All documented in this large, lavishly illustrated volume—an extensively researched biography (her birth date established once and for all!), many personal anecdotes of her intimates, technical discussions of her voice and her music, generous excerpts from reviews and priceless examples of publicity material.
About the author:
Nicholas
E. Limansky
studied voice at Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and has a performance degree
from the University of West Virginia. He has sung with The Bach Aria Group,
Musica Sacra, New York Choral Artists (of the NewYork Philharmonic), and the
Opera Orchestra of New York. He reviews new vocal releases of historical singers
for Opera News, The Record Collector, Classical Singer and
Opera Quarterly. His vocal specialty is the acuto-sfogato
(extended-vocal-range) soprano. His work on Yma Sumac has covered nearly three
decades.
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Return to Peru and Performance in New York
Yma at The Ballroom
Yma for a New Generation
A
Singer's Manual of Foreign Language Dictions
By Richard F. Sheil, Ph.D.
Professor Richard Sheil lays out the fundamentals for singing accurately and
clearly in the crucial languages for singers: Roman Church Latin, French, German, Hebrew,
Italian, Spanish, and Russian.
Emeritus professor of music in the State University of New York, Richard F. Sheil guides students, singers and anyone who wishes to sing properly in a foreign language through an education of the highest degree. His writing is clear and lively. His comprehensive text will be an indispensable tool for every singer from established professionals to voice majors to those who want to sing in church on Sunday morning. A lesson from Professor Sheil will revitalize your expression of all these languages.
ISBN 0-9703923-7-0 196 pages
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Modern
Psychoanalysis of the Schizophrenic Patient:
Theory of the Technique
By Hyman Spotnitz, M.D., Med.Sc.D.
Second Edition
What Freud called the "stone wall" was first breached by this
pioneering psychiatrist and psychoanalyst with this seminal work in 1969. This
substantially revised and enlarged edition is the comprehensive and definitive handbook
for practitioners of the talking cure of the disorders that arise before speech.
ISBN 0-9703923-6-2 250 pages $47.50
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The
Jottings of David Daube
Edited By
Calum MacNeill Carmichael
David
Daube’s life spanned almost the entire 20th century and he was witness to its
history. Born a Jew in Germany in 1909, he spent World War II and
its aftermath in Britain on the faculties of Cambridge, Aberdeen, and Oxford. He
came to the United States in the ’60s—to the University of California at
Berkeley where he reveled in what he called the “unmanicured, unclubbable,
countercultural attitudes.” Through it all he never lost his love for the land
of his birth—though it didn’t love him back for many years: he was on
Hitler’s list of those to be put to death once Germany had conquered England.
One of the great legal minds of our time, Daube’s depth of scholarship in a range of subjects—ancient literature, English literature, ancient law, medical ethics, much more—was matched by a dazzling agility and originality of mind—for instance: though raised in an Orthodox Jewish home, he produced strikingly original work on the New Testament.
Not your typical fusty professor, he was a brilliant and charming commentator on matters personal, political, social, and philosophical. The reader of these jottings (set down in the 1970s and ’80s) will understand within a page or two why those who knew him treasured him as a friend, mentor, and intellectual provocateur. These private reflections, gathered by one of his most distinguished students, are charming, insightful, thought-provoking, sometimes profound, and sometimes just amusing. His commentaries on political and social issues of his time ranged from bravely original thought on Israel and the Palestinians to an amusing and enlightening review of the sensational porn film Deep Throat.
Here are some sample jottings:
“I love women. They provide the unhappiness that I need in life.”
“People are more struck by the asininity of the law when they are trapped by it than when they are let off.”
“We are all of us survivors all the time; everything that is, is a survivor relative to what has fallen by the wayside. Naturally, having escaped from Hitler’s clutches myself, I am a bit more alive to the whole business than the average guy.”
ISBN 978-0-9800508-1-3 204 pages
Estamos
Aqui:
Poems by Migrant Farmworkers
Translated by Janine Pommy-Vega
Edited by Sylvia Kelly, Bob Holman, and Majorie Tesser
Everybody
talks about the plight of illegal immigrants in the US, but who gives us their
own voices, tells us of the daily lives, of these shadow workers? Estamos Aquí-We
Are Here-a heartstirring collection of poems written by migrant workers, speaks
of joy and heartbreak in the direct voices of Mexican and Central American
migrant farmworkers. Presented in both Spanish and English, these poems
ultimately succeed in humanizing them, revealing them as our neighbors. In
workshops after a day's backbreaking, sunbaked labor at migrant camps in upstate
New York sponsored by the GENESEO Migrant Center, and led by renowned Beat poet
Janine Pommy Vega, here came poems of home, of crossing borders, of the joys and
agonies of work. Until now, there's really been no way to tap into the inner
worlds of the Latino pickers of the produce that feeds the majority of our
populace, while their small earnings return to their families back home. Now,
with Estamos Aquí, we realize that we are in this together, a
relationship to evolve, not a problem to solve. The fourth book in the Bowery
Books Poetry Series, Estamos Aquí is a must for those studying illegal
immigrant farmworkers, interested in contemporary Spanish-English poetry
translations, having an awareness of the relationship of outsider arts, arts
education, and the political intricacies of US immigration policy.
ISBN 978-0-9790972-3-2 1
16 pagesSweet
Land of Security
By Michael T. Geary
Are
the post-9/11 measures initiated by the government and law enforcement agencies
the products of a totalitarian impulse, or panic?-or are they simply a prudent
response to a seriously perilous world? Are our liberties likely to be narrowed
down forever?-or will we restore them when the crisis is over? (How will we know
when it's over?)
One way to begin thinking carefully about that is to consider how Americans have responded in the past. Our struggle to reconcile the conflicting claims of liberty and security is not an easy one-but it turns out to have a history. It is, in fact, one of the threads the historical fabric of our nation is woven from.
Here a lawyer and professor does what a lawyer does: he examines the precedents, from the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1799 through the Civil War, the forced relocation of Japanese Americans in World War II, the Red Scares of the 20th Century to our present "war on terror."
This work shows the balance of liberty and security from the Alien and Sedition Acts in the Adams administration through the creation of military commissions in the Mexican War, Lincoln's suspension of habeas corpus in the Civil War, the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II, the Red Scares of the twentieth century, to the "War on Terror."
About the author:
Michael Geary is the Coordinator of the Criminal Justice Program at Albertus
Magnus College, in New Haven, Connecticut. He joined the College's faculty in
2003 after retiring as a sergeant from the New York City Police Department.
Professor Geary received his B.S. in Criminal Justice in 1983, his M.S. 1995,
and his J.D. from Pace University School of Law in 1996.
ISBN 978-0-9790972-4-9 208 pages
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Assessment
of Giftedness:
A Concise and Practical Guide
By Julie Lamb-Milligan
What
tests are used to identify giftedness?
How are decisions made about placement and services after a battery of tests
have been administered?
Beyond standardized testing, how do students qualify for services?
A guide for parents, teachers, and university students seeking to identify
and/or work with the gifted. It conveys:
a history of assessing and identifying giftedness
traditional and non-traditional measures for identifying the gifted
procedures and test instruments used for appropriate and accurate assessment
guidance for identifying giftedness among subpopulations
methods for recognizing giftedness in the primary grades
the importance of classroom teachers in the assessment process
It also provides:
many practical classroom ideas and activities for nurturing potential giftedness
an Activity Book for students and teachers for each chapter
About the author:
Julie Lamb Milligan is an associate professor at Arkansas State University.
She was for eighteen years a teacher and administrator in school districts
throughout Arkansas before becoming a professor of education at the university.
Dr. Milligan's Ph.D. in gifted education and curriculum and instruction is from
Kent State University. In the past decade she has published numerous articles in
professional journals and publications that concern themselves with educating
the gifted.
ISBN 978-0-9790972-6-3 160 pages
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The
Poetry Dollars
By
Paul L Mills
What
is the shortest distance between a poet and the world of humans who might like
poetry, but have been taught it is obscure and boring? And what poetry would
result from making a living out of that connection?
The answer is THE POETRY DOLLARS, based on the very real life
experiences and work of Paul L. Mills, a.k.a. Poez (www.poezthepoet.com), who
during a ten-year career starting in 1977, invented himself in the form of a
"poet-performer," appearing with a fusion of drama, music, and
improvisation, first in the streets of Boston and New York, then in coffee
houses, nightclubs, concert halls, theaters, on radio and television, as a
straight stand-up performer, in off-Broadway theater, and with a modern dance
company, at such well-known venues as The Bottom Line, CBGBs, Charles Ludlam's
Ridiculous Theater, and The Bitter End in New York, and Le Theatre du Rond-Point
on the Champs-Elysees in Paris, sharing the bill with, among others, beat era
novelist William Burroughs, 60's jazz vocalist Mose Allison, and Richard Hell of
the new wave rock band Television.
There has never been anyone else like him.
This book is indispensable to anyone interested either in the history of spoken
word and performance poetry, or in its future development, because this is
pioneering work that, decades ago, went in directions that contemporary artists
have yet to surmise. THE POETRY DOLLARS is the inevitable
consequence of a web page posted by New York City poetry icons Bob Holman and
Jackie Sheeler, Whatever Happened to Poez? during the 15 years Mills
spent, after disappearing from the New York scene, as a civil rights lawyer in
Los Angeles. Now he is back, married to his former girlfriend, singer-songwriter
Suzanne Vega, with this book from Bowery Books and YBK Publishers.
The work consists of three parts. Part I is an essential instruction guide for
anyone who wants to follow his path into the street. Part II, fictionalized
memoirs of a career in performance poetry. Part III, the poems themselves.
Author Paul L. Mills is a former rock journalist, whose exploits were recounted
by David Felton in a Rolling Stone cover story, and whose work for Boston's
Fusion Magazine was hailed by syndicated Boston Globe columnist George Frazier's
The Lit'ry Life as "brilliant." He is a 1990 graduate magna cum
laude of the Columbia Writing Program.
ISBN 0-9790972-7-4 192 pages
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Title page and Table of Contents op)Bowery Women: Poems
By Alana Ruben Free, Amy Ouzoonian, Ana Castillo, Ange
Mlinko, Ann
Bettison Enzminger, Anne Waldman, Brenda Coultas, Carla Harryman, Celena Glenn,
Cheryl Boyce Taylor, Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, Cynthia Kraman, Daphne Gottlieb, Dawn
Saylor, Deanna Zandt, Diane Burns, Donna Masini, Elaine Equi, Elinor Nauen,
Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, Emily XYZ, Fay Chiang, Gabriella Santoro, Hettie Jones, Honor
Moore, Ishle Yi Park, Jackie Sheeler, Jan Heller Levi, Janet Hamill, Janice Erlbaum,
Janine Pommy Vega, Jen Benka, Jennifer Blowdryer. Jessica Hagedorn, Joy Harjo, Kathryn M.
Fazio, Kim Rosenfield, Kristin Prevallet, Lee Ann Brown, Leslie Scalapino, Leticia
Viloria, Liz Maher, Lynne N. Procope, Maggie Balistreri, Maggie Dubris, Marie Howe, Marie
Ponsot, Marjorie Tesser, Martha Rhodes, Marty McConnell, Mary Reilly, Maureen Owen, May
Joseph, Melissa Christine Goodrum, Nancy Mercado, Naomi Shihab Nye, The O’Debra
Twins, Patricia Smith, Patricia Spears Jones, Rachel Levitsky, Rachel McKibbens, Radhiyah
Ayobami, Regina Cabico, Sapphire, Sarah Herrington, Sarah Quinter, Seren Divine, Shanna
Compton, Simone Gorrindo, Suheir Hammad, Tara Betts, Tsaurah Litzky, Turah, Vicki
Hudspith, Wanda Coleman, and Zhang Er
What
is your signature poem? This question was posed to 76 contemporary American
women poets who have delighted, inspired, and shocked audiences at New York City’s
Bowery Poetry Club. And so was born Bowery Women: Poems,
an extraordinary anthology including such national treasures as Anne Waldman,
Ana Castillo, Sapphire, Jessica Hagedorn, Marie Ponsot, and Marie Howe, former
Broadway and HBO Def Jam poets like Ishle Yi Park and Suheir Hammad, slam
winners, plus a crowd of new talents.
One poet, one poem, one photo. Each poet
offers her greatest hit. In some cases, it is the one poem they’re best known
for, in others, it is the one most published or most often requested, and in
still others, it’s a personal favorite.
The works range from elegant classical poems
with chiseled lines to free-flowing “slam” pieces to experimental forms. The
poets, too, are an unusually diverse group: multi-ethnic,
teens to octogenarians, academics to drop-outs, urban to rural.
What emerges is an entertaining, highly readable,
challenging and stimulating survey of (mostly) American women poets writing today.
New York’s Bowery Poetry Club is where it
all started. An extraordinary venue that promotes poetry in all its forms, it’s
the brainchild of co-editor, poet and educator, Bob Holman. Holman
ran readings at St. Mark’s and the
Nuyorican Poets Café, where he founded and emceed their Poetry
Slams from 1988-1996. He’s also published seven books, created Mouth
Almighty, the spoken word division of Mercury Records, and produced poetry shows for PBS and MTV. Holman teaches at Columbia University.
The book is the third in the Bowery Books series.
ISBN 0976435985 150 pages
Acculturation
in the Navajo Eden:
New Mexico, 1550-1750
By Seymour H. Koenig and Harriet Koenig
Based on years
of field work and scholarly research, these independent students of the native American
cultures of the southwest have produced both a lively report on contemporary religious and
cultural practices, and a readable and engaging study of the history of both the Navajo
and the neighboring, even more ancient Puebloans. Forming theories of poorly
documented precontact cultural practices based on the forms that evolved during and after
Spanish exploration, and that survive today, the Koenigs' "innovative and imaginative
study" have developed "ideas that should stimulate much thought and new
research," according to David Brugge. 136 illustrations, accompanied by
extensive notes. Bibliography. Index.
ISBN 0976435918 344 pages
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Talking
Acadian:
Communication, Work and Culture
By John Chetro-Szivos
TALKING ACADIAN: Communication, Work and Culture provides a look into the
lives of the French-speaking American Acadians, and particularly those who left eastern
Canada to settle in Massachusetts in the 1960s. This book captures their stories
about family life and their values, morés and morals. It also traces the ways that
they use communication to develop and maintain their culture.
What the reader learns is that to talk about Acadians you must talk about work. This group gives us new insights into the world of work -- a central feature of living for the Acadians and crucial to their self-definition.
There are few sources about this culture and their experiences in the United States. This book makes contributions to communication studies, more specifically the Coordinated Management Meaning by analyzing the situated interactions of this community, demonstrating the capacity of communication to transmit the rules and grammar of a culture, and highlighting Cronen's consequentiality of communication.
John Chetro-Szivos is a communication scholar and chair of the Department of Communication at Fitchburg State College in Massachusetts. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from Assumption College, a master's from Anna Maria College, and his doctorate in communication from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has published several works in the field of communication, specifically on the Coordinated Management of Meaning theory and American pragmatism. He is the Chair of the Department of Communication.
ISBN 0976435969 157 pages
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The Bowery Bartenders Big Book
of Poems
By Shappy, Moonshine Shorey, Laurel Barclay, and Gary Mex Glazner
Thirsting for some of that new poetry? Four of New York's Bowery Poetry
Club's great bartenders serve up some verse for all what ails you: the devilishly funny
pop satires of Firecracker Award-winner Shappy; the trembling white-trash truth serums of
Lower East Side Ingenue of the Year, Moonshine Shorey; the rock'n'roll womanifestos of
Laurel Barclay; and a series of drink recipe poems by Poetry Slam International's Minister
of Fun, Gary Glazner. The Club is known for its all-poet staff, for its 24-hour commitment
to serving the world poetry, and for its apple ply bar. Now you can have it all imported
into your living room via the technological wizardry of a Book! Cheers!"
ISBN 0-9764359-2-6
A Simple Country Girl
By Taylor Mead
Taylor Mead's fourth book–his best and
funniest–and his first book in twenty years, A Simple Country Girl, is a
collection of poems that are bright, ephemeral, and brilliant downtown Zen.
Once Poet Laureate of Andy Warhol's Factory and now an indomitable octogenarian, Taylor Mead has recently been seen in Jim Jarmusch's latest, "Coffee and Cigarettes." He's a renowned actor, having appeared in innumerable underground classics from Warhol's "Lonesome Cowboys" to the first film of the Beat generation, "The Flower Thief." On stage he created the title role in Frank O'Hara's "The General Returns from One Place to Another" and Michael McClure's "Spider Rabbit."
Taylor Mead continues to be the most avant poet on the block, if he were in Japan, he'd be a National Treasure. Here, he's got a weekly cocktail gig at the Bowery Poetry Club (every Friday at 6:30PM). Who but Taylor Mead could possibly head the list of a series of books published under the Bowery Poetry Club imprint? Described by the New York Times as "that beacon on the Bowery" and proclaimed "the best poetry club in the world" by the Village Voice, the BPC has launched with YBK Publishers a series of books of and on poetry that will bring the freshest poetry to center stage, in fact, much of the work originates right on stage at the Club. Continuing the series of books will bring you the Club's Bartenders, complete with poetry recipes and "The Bowery Girls," five young women poets of the Bowery.
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The Way of the Naturalist
By Allen H. Benton
“To
Walk in Beauty” reflects a lifetime of studying and interacting directly with nature
in all its myriad forms. Beauty to Allen Benton is not rigidly defined but perceived
through many sensory modalities. There is no biotic limit to where beauty can be found and
experienced. He leads the reader through the changes in the seasons in a typical western
New York backyard and shows how organisms adapt. He perceives and describes beauty in all
life forms: birds and their nests, spiders, slugs, plant galls, vernal flowers and even
carrion beetles. Beauty lost is represented by the passenger pigeon and beauty regained by
the distinctive Bermuda petrel called a cahow, long thought extinct. All of his research
is basic. To Benton, even fleas are worthy of intensive study--especially fleas! I vividly
remember when he described the beauty of fleas to me, many years ago. His is a view of
life that few share and many should emulate.
-Dr. Donald H. Miller, Lyndon State College, Vermont
Allen Haydon Benton is professor of biology, emeritus, at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He has written several books of poetry as well as the definitive "Manual for Field Biology and Ecology and Atlas of Fleas of the Eastern United States.” His most recent is “Birding Through Life: Wanderings of a Born Birder.”
ISBN 0976435918 150 pages
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Birding Through Life:
Wanderings of a Born Birder
By Allen H. Benton
The author blends a scientist's curiosity with a
contagious delight in what he sees. He has the ease of a natural raconteur in showing us
how birding has bound together the decades of a long, rich life.
Allen Haydon Benton is professor of biology,
emeritus, at the State University of New York, Fredonia. He has written several books of
poetry as well as the definitive "Manual for Field Biology and Ecology and Atlas of
Fleas of the Eastern United States.
ISBN 0970392397 168 pages
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Modern Psychoanalysis
By Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies
YBK Publishers is proud to be the publisher of the psychoanalytic journal, Modern Psychoanalysis.
In continuous publication since 1976, Modern Psychoanalysis, the journal of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies is dedicated to extending the theory and practice of psychoanalysis to the full range of emotional disorders through research.
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Volume
Thirty Three/ Number One
Contents
The Second Annual Phyllis W. Meadow Award for Excellence in Psychoanalytic
Writing
Jennifer Wade
A Contract to Terminate: Mourning the End of the Transference
Claire Kahane
Autistic and Dissociative Features in Eating Disorders and Self-Mutilation
Sharon Klayman Farber
Altering Psychotic Processes: Integrated Psychoanalytic Treatment of a
Schizophrenic Patient
J. Christopher Fowler and Andrea
Celenza
Caroline and Gold: The Study of a Fragmented Ego
Angela Sandone-Barr
Psychoanalysis and the “Cognitive Unconscious”: Implications for Clinical
Technique
Dan Gilhooley
The Life and Death of the Unconscious in Modern and Contemporary Art
Steven Poser
Working through Silence with a Schizophrenic Woman
Annette Vaccaro
BOOK REVIEWS
Perversion: Psychoanalytic Perspectives/Perspectives on Psychoanalysis edited by
Dany Nobus and Lisa Downing
Rodrigo Barahona
Understanding Adoption: Clinical Work with Adults, Children, and Parents edited
by K. Hushion, S. B. Sherman, and D. Siskind
Barbara D’Amato
ISSN: 0361-5227 180 pages
Contents
Psychoanalytic Technique / Psychobiography / Religion
The Selected Papers of Murray H. Sherman
INTERVIEWS
On Theodor Reik and Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Murray Sherman
Denis Brian
On Religion and Psychoanalysis: An Interview with Murray Sherman
Frank Malone
PSYCHOANALYTIC TECHNIQUE
Emotional Communication in Modern Psychoanalysis: Some Freudian Origins and
Comparisons
Addressing the Unconscious: Trout Reflections
Siding with the Resistance in Paradigmatic Psychotherapy
Siding with the Resistance versus Interpretation: Role Implications
PSYCHOBIOGRAPHY
Reik, Schnitzler, Freud, and "The Murderer": The Limits of Insight in
Psychoanalysis
T. S. Eliot: His Religion, His Poetry, His Roles
RELIGION AND THE BIBLE
Biblical Commentary as a Psychoanalytic Defense: Two Deeds of Abraham
ISSN: 0361-5227 208 pages
Volume Thirty Two/Number One, 2007
Contents
Some Thoughts on the Countertransference Resistance of the Psychoanalytic
Supervisor
Mimi G. Crowell
On Criticism and Being Criticized: Some Considerations
June Bernstein
The Joy of Violence
Eugene Goldwater
Wrestling with Destiny: The Promise of Psychoanalysis
Lucy Holmes
For the Love of Theory
Robin Pollack Gomolin
Finding the Right Feeling: Objective Countertransference and the Curative
Emotional Communication
Paul Geltner
Fear of the Empty Self: The Motivations for Genital Exhibitionism
Lisa Piemont
BOOK REVIEWS
Working in the Countertransference: Necessary Entanglements by Howard A. Wishnie
Robert J. Marshall
The Soul, the Mind, and the Psychoanalyst: The Creation of the Psychoanalytic
Setting in Patients with Psychotic Aspects by David Rosenfeld
Steven Poser
Words That Touch: A Psychoanalyst Learns to Speak by Danielle Quinodoz
Barbara D'Amato
Practical Psychoanalysis for Therapists and Patients by Owen Renik
William Sharp
ISSN: 0361-5227 120 pages
Volume Thirty One/Number Two, 2006
Contents
The Phyllis W. Meadow Award for Excellence in Psychoanalytic Writing
The
Editors and Jennifer Wade
Pushing Through Boundaries of Inner Space: The Need for Analytic Transparency in
the Treatment of a Juggler
Claudia Luiz
Hysteria as a Concept: A Survey of Its History in the Psychoanalytic Literature
Stephen R. Guttman
Oedipus Rex Revisited
Patrick Lee Miller
Writing as a Protective Shell: The Analysis of a Young Writer
Alina Schellekes
Suppose There Were No Mirrors: Converging Concepts of Mirroring
Robert J.
Marshall
BOOK REVIEWS
Gerald Fishbein and Kenneth Feingold
ISSN: 0361-5227 192 pages
Volume Thirty One/Number One, 2006
Contents
"Freud and Modern Psychoanalysis": A Summary of André Green's Presentation
The Editors
"Freud and Modern Psychoanalysis": A Discussion
Phyllis W. Meadow and André GreenModern Psychoanalysis Meets André Green: The Case of Z
Jane Synder
Analysis of a Narcissistic Wound: Reflections on André Green's "The Dead Mother"
Michal Adiv-Ginach
The Presence of the Absent Object in the Compulsion to Repeat
Janine Baker
A plea for Classical Neurosis in Modern Psychoanalysis
Joseph Scalia III
Essays In Honor of Phyllis W. Meadow (1924-2005)
There's No Such Thing As A Mother
Juen Bernstein
Intuitive Listening
Lynne Laub
Emotional Communication: Resolving A Resistance to Feeling Hate
Barbara D'Amato
Becoming an Analyst: Learning to Live with Madness, Aggression and the Unknown
Luc Holmes
BOOK REVIEWS
Rodrigo Barahona and Janine Baker
ISSN: 0361-5227
146 pagesVolume Thirty/Number Two, 2005
Theory and Practice of Modern Analytic Group Analysis: Selected Papers of Leslie Rosenthal
Contents
Introducton
Arnold Berstein
RESISTANCE IN GROUPS
Resistance in Group Therapy: The Interrelationship of Individual and Group Resistance
Leslie Rosenthal
A Study of Resistances in a Member of a Therapy Group
Leslie RosenthalCastouts and Dropouts: Premature Termination in Group Analysis
Leslie RosenthalThe New Member: "Infanticide" in Group Psychotherapy
Leslie RosenthalThe Thermostatic Function of Group Analyst: Regulating the Degree Of Stimulation in the Group
Leslie RosenthalThe Resolution of Group-Destructive Resistance in Modern Group Analysis
Leslie Rosenthal
GROUP THERAPY WITH CHILDREN
The Case of Henry
Leslie Rosenthal
S. R. Slavson --- An Appreciation
Leslie RosenthalQualifications and Tasks of the Therapist in Group Therapy with Children
Leslie RosenthalModifications in Therapeutic Technique in the Group Treatment of Delinquent Boys
Morris Black and Leslie RosenthalAn Approach to Resistance in the Classroom
Renee Rosenthal and Leslie Rosenthal
MODERN ANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE ON GROUPS
The Contributions of Hyman Spotnitz to Modern Analytic Group Psychotherapy
Leslie Rosenthal
The Therapeutic Effect of the Group as Preoedipal Mother
Leslie RosenthalA Modern Analytic Approach to Group Resistance
Leslie RosenthalGroup Supervision of Groups: A Modern Analytic Perspective
Leslie RosenthalAn Approach to Resistance in the Classroom
Leslie RosenthalISSN: 0361-5227 ISBN: 0976435977 187 pages
Volume Thirty/Number One, 2005
Contents
The Death of an Entrepreneur: A Systematic Analysis of a Manic Defense
Robin Pollack-Gomolin
Aspects of Disintegration and Integration in Patient Speech
Dan Gilhooley
Toward a Psychobiology of Desire: Drive Theory in the Time of Neuroscience
Mary Shepard
Listening with the Intuitive Ear
Theodore Laquericia
Countertransference in Projective Identification and Sadomasochistic States
Paul Geltner
Jekyll and Hyde: A Literary Forerunner to Freud's Discover of the Unconscious
Barbara D'Amato
Infandum: Oral-Sadistic Imagery in Dante's Inferno, Canto XXXIII
Christian Talbot
ISSN: 0361-5227 ISBN: 0976435950 141 pages
Volume Twenty-Nine/Number Two, 2004
Contents
Single-Case-Study Methodology and the Contact Function
Mary Shepard
The Case Study in Psychoanalytic Education
Nigel Mackay and Steven Poser
Understanding the Fieldwork Experience: How Do We Know When Students "Get It" about Narcissism?
Vicki G. Semel
Speaking the Unspeakable
Nicole Kirman
Publish or Perish: Writing
Blocks in Dissertation Writers- The ABD Impasse
Rose Fichera McAloon
When Drives Are Dangerous: Drive Theory and Resource Overconsumption
Frances Bigda-PeytonConflict and Deficit in Modern Psychoanalysis
Rodrigo Barahona
ISBN 0976435942 135 pages
Love Poems
about Emma
By Robert Glover
Feel its
pain—live its pain.
This is not so much a litany of unrequited love as of a
wholly pledged but unplaced love. So simply written, its complexity is revealed in
the parallel responses felt by the reader.
Who is Emma?
Find out by clicking here.
ISBN 0-9703923-8-9 108 pages
Following are excerpts from Love Poems about Emma. They are snippets chosen to help show the pain.
Read the book.
Feel the pain.
| [from] Why Can’t I Be Like Other Men? Other
men fall in love and marry. I
have fallen in love with you, but
when I am near you I
feel so awkward that I can’t even say hello. How can I marry you if I can’t even say hello? |
[from] Hiding My Love I never look your way. I look any way but your way. When you are not in the room, I cannot even look in the direction where you would have
sat. Someone, I fear, might figure out I was looking at YOUR chair.
|
[from] If You Loved Me But if you loved me, oh how my heart would soar. All my hidden, secret love would and I would dedicate my life to you. |
[from] What I’d Do
For A Date With You For a date with you I’d propose to you, I’d marry you, I’d spend my life with you, I’d have twelve kids with you. . . .
|
[from] Every Day I Pray
For You Prayer is all I have to offer, to make you become mine. Mine forever, till death do us part. Mine to honor, to cherish, to protect, to care for and be
proud of. Mine to raise children with, mine to plan a future with. Only a miracle could ever make you mine. |
|
No death is more difficult to deal with than the death of one’s child. The
child’s age matters scarcely at all. A parent who grieves the death of an adult child
simply has had more years to come to love that child.
Debbie’s Stories tells the recollections of her father and the relatives and friends of a young woman who died at the age of thirty-seven after battling lupus, scleroderma, and lung cancer.
These are reminiscences presented by the people in Debbie’s life who loved her. They are stories, plain and simple. There is no denouement. There are no suspense-filled passages. And, while this book is about an ending, it, itself, has no ending. It is an outpouring of love exhibited through the recall of feelings and wishes and the love that surrounds those whose lives were touched by this young woman.
This book is a unique opportunity to participate in the lives of people who would otherwise remain unknown to you. It enables sensing somewhat the affect the death of one’s child can have even many years after it occurs. And, most importantly, one senses and witnesses the healing effect that storytelling has on those involved. Through its stories this book brings life again through recall and enables communication when communication is obviously impossible.
Debbie’s family and friends have been supported in their grief by an international group called The Compassionate Friends and have themselves become involved in forwarding the Friends’ efforts. The mission of The Compassionate Friends is to assist families toward the positive resolution of grief following the death of a child of any age and to provide information to help others be supportive.
YBK Publishers is proud to publish Debbie’s Stories. The new technology that we use, print-on-demand, enables us to produce very small numbers of books in a commercially viable environment. It provides a platform from which books of limited sales potential can be made nationally available and be successful publishing ventures as well. We are pleased to participate in a process that broadens the publishing base making available to a significant few what would otherwise not be disseminated at all.
ISBN 0-9703923-5-4 120 pages
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By Duncan C. Stephens
The
definitive and comprehensive guide to successful home remodeling projects.
You will learn how to:
Find the best contractors for your job
Evaluate bids and negotiate effectively with subcontractors
Write contracts that won't leave out important details
Live with your remodeling project as it happens
Prevent frustrating cost overruns
Learn from the mistakes of other
In most cases it is more cost-effective to remodel the home you already own than it is to move to a new house. Yet if the thought of a contractor and building crew turning your home (and life) inside out makes you more than a bit nervous, let this handy volume come to your rescue. It will solve the many potential problems of home remodeling before they occur.
About the author:
Duncan Stephens is associated with homebuilder associations in several states and produces the annual Connecticut Homebuilder Association show. He recently remodeled a 750-square-foot, circa-1948 ranch house into a 1,600-square-foot, two-story Cape in an historic Connecticut neighborhood.
ISBN 0970392311 160
pages
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Taoist Healing Gestures
By Emma I. Gonikman
Taoist Healing Gestures is a blend of simple practices with explanations
of more complex nontraditional healing methods. The Mudras (patterns of finger placement)
illustrated in this book require no knowledge at all of alternative medicine while
fostering immediate self-healing. Using the experience of ancient Tao and the masters of
Qi Gong, there is special focus on Chinese medical traditions throughout the book.
Emma I. Gonikman, M.D., of Minsk, Belarus, is highly qualified to prepare this work as she
was educated at the Medical School at Leningrad, Russia and is now President and
Scientific Director of the Center for Natural Medicine, Santana, in Minsk. She is the
Chief Consultant on Nontraditional Medicine of the Ministry of Public Health for all of
Belarus as well as being the Scientific Director of the Polish Association of Doctors of
Alternative Medicine.
Dr. Gonikman has published sixteen other books, some of them, like this one, best-sellers.
They are currently available only in Russian.
ISBN 0970392346 173 pages
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Unfinished
Ruins
By Bernard J. Looks
Beyond being a poet, Martin S. Dworkin was a writer,
photographer and editor of extraordinary ability. As a successful and widely published
critic of film, Dworkin broke new ground in maintaining that everything we do in society
has an educational aspect. During the fifties and early sixties, he was writing film
criticism on a regular basis for such journals as The New Republic, The New Leader, The
Progressive, and Canadian Commentator. As a teacher, throughout the sixties and
seventies, he offered two highly praised courses of his own origination at Columbia’s
Teachers College in New York City. He was a research associate at the Institute of
Philosophy and Politics of Education at Teachers College and was General Editor of his own
series, published by Teachers College Press. Also during the sixties and seventies,
Dworkin was often invited to lecture at universities on such diverse subjects as
photographic education, cinema, film study in higher education, and radio.
Dworkin’s poems are mined from the experiences of his life, especially what he lived
through during World War II. According to Bernard Looks, the editor of this collection,
“They are pervaded by a profound pessimism which, I can attest, characterized him
throughout his life. But, despite this pessimism, Dworkin never ceased his struggle to
make sense of the wreckage that the war brought and left in its wake during the post war
period.”
Bernard J. Looks is Emeritus Head of the Social Studies Department of the Great Neck South
High School in New York. He has been a lecturer in humanities at the United States
Merchant Marine Academy, a Visiting Scholar at Columbia University’s department of
history, and a Visiting Fellow at Princeton University’s department of history. In
preparation are a collection of the film criticism of Martin Dworkin as well as a memoir
of Dworkin’s life and work, and a translation of the philosophical memoir, How I
Arrived at This Conclusion, by Charles Renouvier, distinguished French philosopher.
Praise for Martin S. Dworkin:
It is not often ...that I meet with the consistent quality and subtle perception to be
found in the reviews and critical pieces of [The Progressive by] your columnist
Martin Dworkin.
—Amos Vogel, founder, New York Film Festival
It would be hard to find courses anywhere that give teachers a deeper understanding of
what education is all about than the two which Martin Dworkin of Teachers College offers
in Aesthetics and Education and Education, Ideology, and Mass Communication.
—Charles E. Silberman, author of
Crisis in the Classroom and Crisis in Black and White
ISBN 0970392338 119 pages
Changing
Your Mind About Love:
What You Need to Know to
Have the Relationship of a Lifetime
By Judy Kelpsas and Tina Birnbaum
Can you really learn how to stay in love?
Give up these destructive myths:
• There is a natural gulf between men and women
• Unconditional love is the ideal model for relationships
• Relationships are a contest
• Independence and freedom is the best path to happiness
• Men don't want lasting love as much as women do
• Real love depends on finding the right person
Half of all marriages end in divorce. Staying in love is easier said than done. Too often
we find ourselves exhausted by arguments, frustration and disappointment. What it takes is
changing the way you think about love, and changing what you do about it!
Find out how loving relationships can last for you—
• Frustration is inevitable—and survivable
• You can create and enjoy the benefits of emotional generosity
• There is power in your relationship that you never knew was there
• You can learn how to express emotion to support, not damage, your relationship
• Learning from conflict is the smart alternative to arguing
Take charge of your relationship instead of just letting it happen
Tina Birnbaum MA, LCPC and Judy Kelpsas, MS, LCPC are two of the co-founders of
Transitions: Associates in Psychotherapy in Chicago where they are well known as the
developers of Parenting As Partners. They have each appeared in radio and
television features on child development, women's issues and family health, including T.
Berry Brazelton's What Every Baby Knows.
ISBN 097039232X
140 pages
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