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The Note

Madsen, Jim

Smith, Laura

Waterford Institute

A young woman chafing at the confines of marriage confronts the high cost of craving freedom and adventure in a memoir that "pushes literary boundaries" (The Atlantic) At twenty-five, as her wedding date approached, Laura Smith began to feel trapped. Not by her fiancé, who shared her appetite for adventure, but by the unsettling idea that it was hard to be at once married and free. Laura wanted her life to be different. She wanted her marriage to be different. And she found in the strangely captivating story of another restless young woman determined to live without constraints both an enticement and a challenge. Barbara Newhall Follett was a free-spirited trailblazer who published her first novel at 11, enlisted as a deck hand on a boat bound for the south China seas at 15 and was one of the first women to hike the Appalachian trail. Then in December 1939, when she was not much older than Laura, she walked out of her apartment on a quiet tree-lined street in Brookline, leaving behind a fraying marriage, and vanished without a trace. Obsessed by her story, Laura set off to find out what had happened. The Art of Vanishing is a riveting mystery and a piercing exploration of marriage and convention that asks deep and uncomfortable questions: Why do we give up on our childhood dreams? Is marriage a golden noose? Must we find ourselves in the same row houses with Pottery Barn lamps telling our kids to behave? Searingly honest and written with a raw intensity, it will challenge you to rethink your most intimate decisions and may just upend your life.

The Art of Vanishing: A Memoir of Wanderlust

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

VIKING

Life is a tricky journey. We think we have it all planned out, or at the very least, we have a general idea of where we are heading. Before we know it, things happen and every plan we've made is out the window. Sometimes we don't even recognize the path we have been forced onto. This is where I found myself years ago. I always thought becoming a mother would be a pretty straightforward process. Get married, become pregnant and nine months later, motherhood is yours. Simple! Well, my journey was anything but simple. Parts of it were full of light and joy, while others included the absolute darkest moments I have ever experienced. Even so, I wouldn't change a single moment. These unexpected twists are where we find ourselves. It's where we discover our strength and resilience. It's how we realize that the good stuff after the dark is much sweeter than it ever could have been before. That's what I learned on my journey to motherhood. That's what I want to share with you.

In Pursuit of Motherhood: My Story of Loss and Triumph

Parenting & Relationships

Family Relationships

Bowker

Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”―people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this groundbreaking book, Smith charts the ebbs and flows of psychology’s consideration of poor clients, and then points to promising new approaches to serving poor communities that go beyond remediation, sympathy, and charity. Including the author’s own experiences as a psychologist in a poor community, this inspiring book: <ul>
<li> Shows practitioners and educators how to implement considerations of social class and poverty within mental health theory and practice. </li> <li> Addresses poverty from a true social class perspective, beginning with questions of power and oppression in health settings.</li> <li> Presents a view of poverty that emerges from the words of the poor through their participation in interviews and qualitative research. </li> <li> Offers a message of hope that poor clients and psychologists can reinvent their relationship through working together in ways that are liberating for all parties.</li>
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Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion: Putting Our Practice to Work (Multicultural Foundations of Psychology and Counseling Series)

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Teachers' College Press

Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”―people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this groundbreaking book, Smith charts the ebbs and flows of psychology’s consideration of poor clients, and then points to promising new approaches to serving poor communities that go beyond remediation, sympathy, and charity. Including the author’s own experiences as a psychologist in a poor community, this inspiring book: Shows practitioners and educators how to implement considerations of social class and poverty within mental health theory and practice.  Addresses poverty from a true social class perspective, beginning with questions of power and oppression in health settings. Presents a view of poverty that emerges from the words of the poor through their participation in interviews and qualitative research.  Offers a message of hope that poor clients and psychologists can reinvent their relationship through working together in ways that are liberating for all parties.

Since 1995, artists Michael Elmgreen (born 1961) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969) have been producing a body of work at the intersection of art, design and architecture, drawing on subjects as diverse as social politics, personal relationships and institutional critique. Their installations and sculptures reconfigure the everyday with subversive wit and tongue-in-cheek melancholy. Among their best-known works are Prada Marfa (2005), a full-scale replica of a Prada Boutique in the Texan desert; Powerless Structures, Fig. 101 (2012), a giant bronze boy on a rocking horse created for the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square; and Death of a Collector (2009) for the Venice Biennale, featuring a life-size swimming pool complete with a besuited floating body. This catalog journeys through the installations conceived for their first major UK exhibition.

Elmgreen and Dragset: This Is How We Bite Our Tongue

Arts & Photography

Lui, Ann

Rashid, Habda

Individual Artists

Whitechapel Gallery

Showcasing her 2021 commission for Whitechapel Gallery, this dynamic catalogue also presents specially-commissioned photography of the Lebanese sculptor's Paris studio, plus a new interview. In her first solo presentation in the UK, Fattal leads us on a journey of transformation. Imagining the large, brick-lined gallery to be a giant kiln, Fattal fills the space with a procession of five characteristic ceramic figures who are embarking on a spiritual and physical metamorphosis, and a series of black and white etchings, drawn from Fattal’s memories of Damascus, as a garden paradise, appear as maps or windows for the voyagers. This accompanying publication documents her new work with brand new photography, and an essay by Canadian poet Lisa Robertson.

Simone Fattal Finding a Way /anglais

WHITECHAPEL GAL

Action / Gesture / Paint: a global story of women and abstraction 1940-70 /anglais

Children's Book Awards International: A Directory of Awards and Winners, from Inception Through 1990

Teen & Young Adult

McFarland Publishing

A brand new, fully updated edition of the most widely-used, frequently-cited, and critically acclaimed multicultural text in the mental health field This fully revised, 8th edition of the market-leading textbook on multicultural counseling comprehensively covers the most recent research and theoretical formulations that introduce and analyze emerging important multicultural topical developments. It examines the concept of "cultural humility" as part of the major characteristics of cultural competence in counselor education and practice; roles of white allies in multicultural counseling and in social justice counseling; and the concept of "minority stress" and its implications in work with marginalized populations. The book also reviews and introduces the most recent research on LGBTQ issues, and looks at major research developments in the manifestation, dynamics, and impact of microaggressions. Chapters in Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 8th Edition have been rewritten so that instructors can use them sequentially or in any order that best suits their course goals. Each begins with an outline of objectives, followed by a real life counseling case vignette, narrative, or contemporary incident that introduces the major themes of the chapter. In-depth discussions of the theory, research, and practice in multicultural counseling follow. <ul>
<li>Completely updated with all new research, critical incidents, and case examples</li> <li>Chapters feature an integrative section on "Implications for Clinical Practice," ending "Summary," and numerous "Reflection and Discussion Questions"</li> <li>Presented in a Vital Source Enhanced format that contains chapter-correlated counseling videos/analysis of cross-racial dyads to facilitate teaching and learning</li> <li>Supplemented with an instructor's website that offers a power point deck, exam questions, sample syllabi, and links to other learning resources</li> <li>Written with two new coauthors who bring fresh and first-hand innovative approaches to CCD</li> </ul>
Counseling the Culturally Diverse, 8th Edition is appropriate for scholars and practitioners who work in the mental health field related to race, ethnicity, culture, and other sociodemographic variables. It is also relevant to social workers and psychiatrists, and for graduate courses in counseling and clinical psychology related to working with culturally diverse populations.

Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice

Health, Fitness & Dieting

SUE, DAVID

Sue, Derald Wing

Neville, Helen A.

Psychology & Counseling

wiley

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