"Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage restores to the literary canon an extraordinarily gifted writer, who was recognized as a major talent in the 1980s before all but disappearing from public view for decades ... With direct and powerful language in the tradition of Lucia Berlin, Kathleen Collins, and Grace Paley, Howland chronicles the tensions of her generation"

Introduces Peter Pan and Neverland using the lyrics of two songs from the classic musical, framed with a simple version of the story of Peter's arrival in the nursery and his teaching the Darling children to fly. Includes the lyrics to "Never Never Land" and "I'm Flying."

Book by Lifton, Betty Jean

"[Looks] at adoption from all sides of the adoptee, birth mother, adoptive parents . . . A provocative, comprehensive inquiry."—- Kirkus Reviews "Honest and moving."—- New York Times "Important and powerful . . . [the author] is concerned not just with adoptees but with the experience of adoptive parents and birth parents."—- Psychology Today "A moving and powerful plea for open discourse instead of secrecy among the participants in the adoption process."—-Public Welfare, American Public Welfare Association The first edition of Betty Jean Lifton's Lost and Found advanced the adoption rights movement in this country in 1979, challenging many states' policies of maintaining closed birth records. For nearly three decades the book has topped recommended reading lists for those who seek to understand the effects of adoption—-including adoptees, adoptive parents, birth parents, and their friends and families. This expanded and updated edition, with new material on the controversies concerning adoption, artificial insemination, and newer reproductive technologies, continues to add to the discussion on this important topic. A new preface and afterword by the author have been added, as well as a greatly expanded resources section that in addition to relevant organizations now lists useful Web sites. Betty Jean Lifton, Ph.D., is a writer, psychotherapist, and leading advocate for adoption reform. Her many books include Journey of the Adopted Self and The King of Children , a New York Times Notable Book. She regularly makes appearances as a lecturer on adoption and has an adoption counseling practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and New York City.

A detailed biography of Janusz Korczak (1878-1942) - doctor, teacher, writer and educational theorist - who was deported along with the children of his orphanage in August 1942 from the Warsaw ghetto to Treblinka, where they perished.

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Book by Rollins, Betty

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A sixteen-year-old unwed mother views her future differently following the birth of her daughter.

Offers a childhood look at the Queen of Sheba, discussing her relationship with her father and her fame as a riddler, and explains her first meeting and subsequent marriage to King Solomon

In this book Bo Rothstein seeks to defend the universal welfare state against a number of important criticisms which it has faced in recent years. He combines genuine philosophical analysis of normative issues concerning what the state ought to do with empirical political scientific research in public policy examining what the state can do. Issues discussed include the relationship between welfare state and civil society, the privatization of social services, and changing values within society. His analysis centres around the importance of political institutions as both normative and empirical entities, and Rothstein argues that the choice of such institutions at certain formative moments in a country's history is what determines the political support for different types of social policy. He thus explains the great variation among contemporary welfare states in terms of differing moral and political logics which have been set in motion by the deliberate choices of political institutions. The book is an important contribution to both philosophical and political debates about the future of the welfare state.

"Umetni?ka misija Boba Dilana jeste "turneja bez kraja", a njegovo delo, delo je u neprekidnom i neprolaznom nastajanju; po tome je, bez imalo nasilnog u?itavanja, uporedivo s jednim od najneobi?nijih i najsmelijih poduhvata u istoriji književnosti - s Fineganovim bdenjem Džejmsa Džojsa. Jer, ne samo da je Džojsov kripti?ni testament pisan pod radnim naslovom "delo u nastajanju" ve? je, baš kao i Tarantula, pisan sa sasvim o?itom namerom da se izdigne iznad svih rutinskih i konvencionalnih na?ina komunikacije autora sa ?itaocem - i uz svesno preuzet rizik od gubitka svake komunikacije. I dok se Džojsovo delo ponajviše bavi tokom podsvesti protagonista, Dilanovo nastoji da do?ara muziku podsvesti - njegove vlastite, ali i podsvesti svakog od nas. Taj nivo, nivo podsvesti, možda je jedino pravo polazište za ?itanje Tarantule. Ovo delo, sasvim izvesno, ne predstavlja neuspeli pokušaj unošenja reda u haos, ve? uspešno do?aranu sliku haosa - zavodljivog haosa kreativnog uma, koji ume da bude zastrašuju?e brutalan i amoralno sablažnjiv, ali i neodoljivo duhovit i dirljivo nežan. To je svet u kome ?italac i sam postaje lik iz Dilanove pesme, neko "ko zna da se nešto doga?a, ali ne zna šta je to". I ve? nakon nekoliko stranica shvata da i ne mora da zna: ovo delo ne treba odgonetati, niti ga treba "razumeti" u bilo kom uobi?ajenom smislu te re?i. Treba ga ?itati naglas, bez agresivnog u?itavanja i štreberskog traženja smisla. Ono nešto neuhvatljivo što ostane posle takvog ?itanja, to je muzika. A ona je, sre?om, izvan i iznad svakog razuma. Zoran Paunovi?, iz Predgovora I još: ako vas u zanimljivost i/ili vrednost Dilanovog pisanja nije uverila dodeljena mu Nobelova nagrada za književnost u 2016. a nisu ni prethodni redovi izvrsnog prevodioca i vrsnog tuma?a rok literature, onda predlažemo da Tarantulu ?itate unatraške. U tom slu?aju odmah ?ete nai?i na tri toposa, od kojih je jedan - Jugoslavija. Možda je sva tajna u tome. Vladislav Bajac" --

"Why is our society in the fix it is in? Is it all Trump's fault? Well, no. As often observed, Trump is a symptom of a virus has been incubating for at least 50 years and maybe 150. But not often observed is where the virus is imbedded: in the psychic core of identity. This book explores the primacy of identity in American society and makes the argument that hyper-polarization was not only predictable but inevitable, based on such unlikely causal bedfellows as biology, multiculturalism and collateral damage from the American Dream"--

"Collected for the first time, the complete surviving works of a major African-American Beat Surrealist poet"--

A compelling and unique biography of one of the best-selling bands of all time, told with synapse-rattling insight by renowned pop scholar Bob Stanley.