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The ArtsMarch 2024The loneliness room
A creative ethnography of loneliness
by Sean Redmond
This remarkably unique book takes the conceit of the loneliness room to show how everyday artistic practice opens up loneliness to new definitions and new understandings. Refusing to pathologise loneliness, the book draws on the creative submissions supplied by its participants to demonstrate that being lonely can mean different things to different people in differing contexts. Filled with the photographs, paintings, videos, songs, and writings of its participants, The loneliness room is a deeply moving account of loneliness today.
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June 2022Loneliness
by Krieger, Tobias; Seewer, Noëmi
While transient and situational feelings of loneliness are usually attributed anadaptive function, persistent feelings of loneliness are associated with high levelsof distress and a variety of psychological and somatic complaints. Persistentfeelings of loneliness play a central role in the development and/or maintenanceof various mental disorders. This book sensitizes professionals to the topic of loneliness, summarizes the current state of the phenomenology and prevalence of loneliness, and identifies various risk factors for the development and maintenance of loneliness. In addition, empirical associations of loneliness with psychological and somaticdisorders and clinical phenomena such as suicidality are reported. The bookpresents various explanatory models and describes specific intervention optionsbased on them. These are intended to support professionals in dealingwith loneliness in therapy and to enable a therapy tailored to the individual circumstances of a person. Target group: For:• medical and psychologicalpsychotherapists• specialists working in psychiatry,psychotherapy, or psychosomaticmedicine• clinical psychologists• general practitioners• students and teachers in psychotherapeutictraining, furthertraining, and continuing education
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2017Blossoms Like Fire and Loneliness: Selected Poems and Paintings of Gu Cheng
by Gu Cheng
The writings and paintings were compiled by Gu Cheng’s sister Gu Xiang. 80 lyrics and dozens of pictures were selected. Two essays on poetry were also included in this book, which confessed personal writing and life in summary, expressed the original opinions about Chinese literary tradition, and disclosed the secret association between the author himself and the literary history.
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Children's & YAI Am Not Alone
by Ramy Tawil
Maher realizes one day he is an only child with no siblings. He starts to feel a bit lonely, and wishes he had siblings - like his friends and cousins. Luckily, his toys are here and now it’s time to show Maher what it means to be surrounded with brothers and sisters.It’s a heartwarming story that shows how rich and powerful the imagination of an only child can be.
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Children's & YADecember 2018The Tree Boy
by Srididhya Venkat and Nayantara Surendranath
Sid is a lonely boy who detests idle, lonely trees. He has good reasons though. At least he likes to think so. He does not notice the friendship between the dangling leaves, dancing to the song of the wind. He ignores countless birds returning to the safety of their comfy homes, nestled in the soft spots of rough branches, after a long day of collecting worms. So when he is called a brainless tree for missing a save in soccer at school, it is easy for him to decide he never wants to be a tree, until one morning he wakes up to have transformed into one. Srividhya Venkat spins a delectable fantasy around thinking twice about what you wish for, or not and depicts the transformation of Sid’s lonely life after he embraces the excitable voices of kids twisted in his vines and the ecosystem hovering above him. Nayantara Surendranath’s eccentric combination of art collage and digital creation expresses the refreshing quirks that breathe life into the tale.
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Literature & Literary StudiesMarch 2018Beauty of the Useless
by Ye Zhaoyan
This essay collection deserves careful reading. It is a book of heart-to- heart talk. Ye Zhaoyan’s prose is free and approachable, just like talking with an old friend when you read them. He can observe the desolation and warmth of human nature and see clearly the pain and goodness of the world. With this book to accompany, one is not alone in the hard times.
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Children's & YA2020Lili, Where Are You?
by Taravat Jalali Farahani
Pada had made a doll, one that is different from all his previous creations. The doll, however, suddenly goes missing. Papa looks everywhere for her; from the barbershop and the shoemaker’s store to the flower shop and the ice cream shop. There is no trace of the doll. Until… “Lili, Where Are You?” aims to help children cope with loss and loneliness, as well as strengthen the skills of observation and problem-solving in children.
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SO SAD, SO HAPPY
by Anton Gudim
So Sad So Happy is a collection of comics. Deliberately using few words and playing with perspective, Moscow-based illustrator Anton Gudim wittily depicts loneliness and frustration of modern living with deadpan humour. With restrained colours and simple art style, his comics challenge stereotypes and habits that we take for granted with a twist on each page. They encourage us to look at the world with a refreshed eye.
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Children's & YA2017The Boxer
by Hasan Mousavi
He was a professional boxer who loved to box because it made him feel powerful. But the day came when there was nothing left for him to box, no one applauded for him or praised him or came to watch him anymore. One day, he began to think about his loneliness and his worn-out gloves and he wondered why his boxing no longer made people or even himself happy… AWARDS & RECOGNITION: Biennial of Illustration Bratislava GRAND PRIX International Youth Library White Ravens Catalog Sharjah Children’s Illustration Exhibition
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FictionEstepicursor (Steppicursor)
by Marcelo Vera
After the collapse of her life as a couple and the breakdown of her expectations and projects, she desperately needs a place, something or someone to hold onto so as not to remain like a rolling plant at the mercy of the wind. With a simple, profound prose and full of references to popular culture, the Argentine author Marcelo Vera continues to deepen the narrative of the loss. After the publication of his first novel, Solo, and the poem El glitter de los solitarios, he experiments with the loneliness of a separation, the failure of motherhood and the fragility of illusion.
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Children's & young adult fiction & true stories2019The Skeleton without a Closet
by Oksana Lushchevska
In life of every teenager there are moments of loneliness... Anya has practically no friends. Her classmates are constantly bullying her because of her body type. Anya's best friend Kira has moved to another town… The only joy for the girl is Science, Anatomy in particular. She dreams to become a Medical Expert, so she writes her blog on Anatomy. Anya also has a secret friend, who will always support, understand and console her. And he’ll probably help her to become more confident and popular among her classmates. The story by Oksana Lushchevska The Skeleton without a Closet describes the problems of bullying, soul searching and asserting opinion.
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January 2013Let the Death Live long
by Chen Ximi
The book is written by Chen Ximi, the wife of Chinese famous writer Shi Tiesheng. It is a heart-touching memorial essay collection. The death of Shi left Chen in endless loneliness, which made her start to make a effort to write this book. She tried to converse with the great philosopher in human history by reading, meditation, walking and writing, searching the meaning of void. By this way, she deepened her thinking, became a broad-minded woman, learnt to explore the meaning of life. The stylish writing skill and touching heart whisper is on the page .In her true and beautiful word, readers can find the meaning of life and death, love, honesty, solitary, time and life, feel the light of wisdom.
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Health & Personal DevelopmentNurturing Your Soul’s Resilience
A Path to Inner Strength and Wellbeing
by Gaby Gschwend
Fears, stress, loneliness, losses and negative beliefs about oneself and the world reduce our own well-being and have a great impact on both mental and physical health. How can we strengthen our resilience to increase and maintain health and wellbeing? The book encourages the reader to take responsibility for the successes in their life and actively contribute to their health and shows how to increase resilience. Many examples illustrate different ways and exercises that strengthen resilience and enable the readers to actively contribute to their own health and wellbeing. Important factors are a friendly attitude toward oneself which includes the own perception of one’s weaknesses, strengthening positive attitudes and feelings. Target Group: psychotherapists, psychiatrists, clinical and health psychologist
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June 2016Once upon a Time in Northern Jiangsu
by Zhou Jian
This novel mainly describes the difficult transformation of the lower classes in Northern Jiangsu from spiritual desolation to the establishment of beliefs in the decades between the 1920s and 1937 when the Japanese soldiers massacred civilians in Nanjing. Focusing on the small town of Wujiaji in Northern Jiangsu and the maturity of the main character Zhang Rujin (pet name Nafu), the novel highlights the historical change of the common people from paying no attention to national affairs to devoting themselves to the cause of fighting against Japanese aggressors. It can be called the annals of the Chinese lower society in the first half of the 20th century. It also offers a profound and objective analysis of the living condition and spiritual world of the lower classes in China during that turbulent period to the extent that this is a rare epic in China about the life of common people on the Northern Jiangsu Plain.
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January 2019Heavenly Girl
by Zhou Jing
Heavenly Girl (Tian Nü) is based on a legendary story in The Classic of Mountains and Seas·Da Huang Bei Jing as a starting point. It describes the difficult journey of the Nü Ba out of the desert to find her identity after having exhausted her powers in aid to her father Huang Di at the war with Chi You. She became the Drought Godness then as drought emerged wherever she went. With the first-person narrative, the main body of the story describes the loneliness and the curiosity of the life of the goddess with her destructive ability. At the same time, the narratives about the protagonist from different persons are presented, offering a different perspective. The work is immense, exquisite in structure, full of characters and strong in originality and artistry.
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Humanities & Social SciencesFebruary 2017Welsh missionaries and British imperialism
The Empire of Clouds in north-east India
by Andrew May
In 1841, the Welsh sent their first missionary, Thomas Jones, to evangelise the tribal peoples of the Khasi Hills of north-east India. This book follows Jones from rural Wales to Cherrapunji, the wettest place on earth and now one of the most Christianised parts of India. As colonised colonisers, the Welsh were to have a profound impact on the culture and beliefs of the Khasis. The book also foregrounds broader political, scientific, racial and military ideologies that mobilised the Khasi Hills into an interconnected network of imperial control. Its themes are universal: crises of authority, the loneliness of geographical isolation, sexual scandal, greed and exploitation, personal and institutional dogma, individual and group morality. Written by a direct descendant of Thomas Jones, it makes a significant contribution in orienting the scholarship of imperialism to a much-neglected corner of India, and will appeal to students of the British imperial experience more broadly.
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Humanities & Social SciencesOctober 2020Dealing with Borderline Personality Disorder
by Bohus, Martin; Reicherzer, Markus
About three out of one hundred adults experience a longer borderline episode once in their lives: violently fluctuating emotions, suicidal crises, self-harm and deep despair are accompanied by problems in the interpersonal sphere. These particularly affect the basic feeling of “belonging” to others, so that profound loneliness and lostness often alternate with disappointment and anger. This guidebook provides information about the various characteristics of borderline personality disorder and its origin. The aim is to encourage those affected to seek effective psychotherapeutic treatment focusing on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), which was specifically developed for the treatment of borderline disorder and has proven to be very effective. The structure and workings of DBT are explained, pressing questions are addressed, and initial guidance for self-help is provided as well as assistance for relatives and references to self-help groups.
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March 2023Why We Need Comfort
On the trail of a human need
by Jean-Pierre Wils
— The accompanying book to the Kassel exhibition "Trost" ("Comfort") in spring 2023 — A book to counter desolation in these challenging times — What comfort is and why people need it "Comfort" is one of those words that has a somewhat tarnished reputation: cold comfort, false comfort, consolation prize, someone is not to be comforted ... "Action instead of comfort" is the maxim; "therapy instead of resignation" the variant. There is something old-fashioned about comfort. And still we long for it; people have always looked for "sources of comfort". In the midst of the climate and global political upheavals of our time, in the middle of a Ukraine war, a play recently celebrated at the Salzburg Festival is called, "Crazy for Consolation". People seek comfort because just helping is no longer helping; they are at the end of their abilities. "Comfort" would appear to be a gift in both senses of the word. But "comfort" is a mystery. Jean-Pierre Wils attempts to solve it in this essay.
