Author : DANIEL. SACK
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 30,32 MB
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472056905
Lively essays on the meanings and methods of tears in performance
Author : Heather C. Lench
Publisher : Springer
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 16,5 MB
Release : 2018-04-20
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 3319776193
This eye-opening text brings together research from behavioral science, neuroscience, and other fields to make a cogent case for emotions acting as a practical framework for living our lives. A dozen basic emotions are analyzed in terms of what causes them, how they change thoughts and behaviors, and the functional value of these responses. Contrary to the common idea of emotions as fleeting occurrences, they are shown as having the potential for lasting impact on moods, thoughts, and behaviors. Intriguing findings assert that even negative emotions such as jealousy and anger can have positive results such as promoting positive goals, and can lead to successful outcomes in overarching domains such as cognition and well-being. Among the topics covered: · How fear and anxiety promote attention and protective behavior. · How sadness and depression promote analysis of complex problems in goal-pursuits. · How happiness promotes processing and attention. · How love promotes relationship development and goal attainment. · How pride promotes sense of self and identity. The Function of Emotions is a valuable resource for students, researchers, and clinicians interested in the psychology and neuroscience of emotions and their function in everyday life. It will attract an interested readership among professionals working in such fields as education, management and leadership, social work, and psychotherapy.
Author : Tom Lutz
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780393321036
This provocative and indispensable book provides a natural and cultural history of our most mysterious and complex human function: our ability to shed tears. All humans, and only humans, weep. Tears are sometimes considered pleasurable, sometimes dangerous, mysterious, deceptive, or profound. Tears of happiness, tears of joy, the proud tears of a parent, tears of mourning, tears of laughter, tears of defeat --what do they have in common? Why is it that at times of victory, success, love, reunion, and celebration the outward signs of our emotions are identical to those of our most profound experiences of loss? Why We Cry looks at the many different ways people have understood weeping, from the earliest known representation of tears in the fourteenth century B.C. through the latest neurophysiological research. Despite our most common romantic assumptions, what this brilliant book tells us is that tears are never pure, they are never simple.
Author : Jennette McCurdy
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2022-08-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1982185821
A memoir by American former actress and singer Jennette McCurdy about her career as a child actress and her difficult relationship with her abusive mother who died in 2013
Author : Linda LaTourelle
Publisher : Bluegrass Publishing Inc
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 22,89 MB
Release : 2004-05
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9780974533940
A collection of poems, quotes and titles to celebrate the younger child on cards, scrapbooks, and creative projects.
Author : Lee Clay Johnson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 12,63 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101912448
In the mine-riddled town of Bordon, Virginia, a group of lost souls are bound together by alcohol, small-time crime, and music. Leon is a lovesick bass player with a broken hand and a belief that next time—next time—he’ll definitely get it right; Jennifer is the bright-but-battered waitress who can’t quite escape the orbit of Arnett, the local drug dealer. When Jennifer convinces Leon to murder Arnett so she can finally be free, a dark chain of events is set in motion, its violence echoing the pain and misery that shape their fractured lives.
Author : Virginia Uliana
Publisher : Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 2018-02-21
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1640287868
Juliana is a very tall twelve-year-old girl who remembers everything. She discovers how to sing a ditty to become invisible right away in this story. Furthermore, she has to learn something and sing the ditty twice as fast to reappear. Her old friend Kevin, who has a physical disability, soon figures her out and wants to be invisible too! It's amazing the places one can go if they are invisible.
Author : Tiffany Brownlee
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2018-07-17
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1250130549
"Brownlee writes with all the breathless excitement and excruciating longing of a first love, further complicated by the forbidden nature of their romance. . . One of the most believable love triangles on the page in ages."--Entertainment Weekly An attraction between foster siblings sets fire to forbidden love in this contemporary reimagining of Wuthering Heights. Emma’s life has always gone according to her very careful plans. But things take a turn toward the unexpected when she falls in love for the first time with the one person in the world who’s off-limits: her new foster brother, the gorgeous and tormented Dylan McAndrews. Meanwhile, Emma’s AP English class is reading Wuthering Heights, and she’s been assigned to echo Emily Bronte’s style in an epistolary format. With irrepressible feelings and no one to confide in, she’s got a lot to write about. Distraught by the escalating intensity of their mutual attraction, Emma and Dylan try to constrain their romance to the page—for fear of threatening Dylan’s chances at being adopted into a loving home. But the strength of first love is all-consuming, and they soon get enveloped in a passionate, secretive relationship with a very uncertain outcome. Tiffany Brownlee's Wrong in All the Right Ways marks the exciting debut of a fresh voice in contemporary teen fiction. Christy Ottaviano Books
Author : Andrea S. Adams
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 31,29 MB
Release : 2011-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 161739923X
Father O'Malley pulled up a chair and sat close to Anna. As he pressed his lips together, Anna's heart started to race. Something was wrong, very wrong. The next few minutes would be with her the rest of her life, and she recalled every word of what Father O'Malley said as though she were having a terrible dream. 'There's been a plane crash.' From that moment, Anna's Abbott's life is changed forever as she learns the devastating truth that her parents have been killed in a plane crash. In other parts of the state of South Carolina, Michael Bennett and Ragan Carter are given the same tragic news. The Kitchen Table is Susan Chellis's coming-of-age novel, which follows Anna, Michael, and Ragan on a search for belonging. But each character is faced with more than just the heartbreaking loss of their parents. Sixteen-year-old Anna is living with her abusive uncle and an aunt who doesn't believe her, while Ragan searches for love and finds herself pregnant at nineteen and at the mercy of her selfish grandmother. Michael tries to move on and decides to go to law school, only to discover a life-altering secret about his father. All three lives intersect on their path toward home as each character finds peace at their kitchen table. For readers who enjoy romance, drama, and hope, this a novel that will move you and touch your heart.
Author : Ayelet Waldman
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 50,16 MB
Release : 2004-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1402203136
How much would you sacrifice to save someone you love? When Olivia, wild-haired and headstrong, makes a terrible mistake, she must turn to the person least likely to help--her mother, Elaine. Motherhood was a role that Elaine never embraced and her best never amounted to much. But now Olivia faces prosecution for a naïve connection to a drug deal and she needs Elaine more than ever. As the days count down and Olivia's future hangs in the balance, Elaine must decide just how much she is willing to give for a second chance with her daughter. With Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman has crafted a redemptive journey at once highly emotional and unbearably suspenseful, as Olivia and Elaine's struggle builds to a beautiful, heart-wrenching climax. In this luminous, gripping novel, Waldman brings to life the tensions and the tenderness that forge the unshakeable bond between parent and child. Daughter's Keeper reveals the unlimited boundaries of forgiveness and the sacrifices we make for love. "A powerhouse novel of complex emotions so compelling that when I finished the book, I started over again."--Amy Tan "In Daughter's Keeper, Ayelet Waldman shows that the power of love, even when prickling with thorns, can ultimately provide what the criminal system cannot: a hard-fought, hard-won second chance."--Glen David Gold, author of Carter Beats the Devil "Waldman's passion and affection for her characters shine through."--Publishers Weekly "Waldman has written Daughter's Keeper with enough intelligence, tenderness and craft to shape outrage into a story that is both moving and enthralling." --Dave Eggers, author of A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and You Shall Know Our Velocity! "Ayelet Waldman has brought the war on drugs home, and has shown us just how close to home it can come....She looks past headlines and into the heart. What she finds there is hope for us all." --Dorothy Allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina
