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Movies and Mental Illness

Using Films to Understand Psychopathology

by Danny Wedding, Ryan M. Niemiec

Explores flms according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM5 and ICD11 • Provides psychological ratings of nearly 1,500 flms • Includes downloadable teaching materials Films can be a powerful aid to learning about mental illness and psychopathology. Movies and Mental Illness has established a great reputation as a uniquely enjoyable and highly memorable text for learning about psychopathology. The new edition of this acclaimed book has been updated to include the latest flms and new topics. Includes downloadable material for teachers and discussion groups.

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Psychology

Positive Psychology at the Movies

Using Films to Build Character Strengths and Well-Being

by Ryan M. Niemiec, Danny Wedding

This book uses movies as a medium for learning about the latest research and concepts, such as mindfulness, resilience, meaning, positive relationships, achievement, well-being, as well as the 24 character strengths laid out by the VIA Institute of Character. This book systematically discusses each of the 24 character strengths, balancing film discussion, related psychological research, and practical applications. Resources provided in this book include a suggested syllabus for a complete positive psychology course based on movies, a list of suitable movies for children, adolescents, and families as well as a list of questions for classroom and therapy discussions. Target Group: Psychologists, consultants, therapists and counselors, movie enthusiasts, and all those interested in positive psychology and improving life.

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June 2020

A Mouse Daughter's Wedding

by Yang Yongqing

"A Mouse Daughter's Wedding" originates from a folklore. After a little mouse girl came to a marriage age, she wanted to find the most powerful bridegroom from all kinds of creatures. However, she eventually found that the best is one of the mice. Each picture is lively and vivid, and the story becomes alive on paper.

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Biography & True Stories

July 2024

As Good as a Marriage

by Jill Liddington

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Children's & YA

2020

Auntie Beetle

by Mohammadreza Shams

Auntie Beetle leaves her father’s house to decide who she wants to marry. She meets several people, but not everyone is gentle enough for her to fall in love with. She’s looking for someone that would treat her well, even when they face problems… “Auntie Beetle” is an Old Iranian folktale that is considered very progressive for its time. It has a feministic approach to the matter of marriage and tells the story of a girl who doesn’t wait for true love to find her and seeks to find what she truly deserves.

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Decorative arts

2016

The Hope Chest. Ukrainian Treasures

by Yaryna Vynnytska, Yulia Tabenska

Exclusive deluxe edition on the traditional heritage of Ukraine with special features - die cutting, foil stamping, blind embossing, textured varnish. We went across all the regions of Ukraine in quest of folk treasures and came up with a list of Ukrainian must-haves – the things that should belong in hearts and homes of every Ukrainian. We carefully packed them in our Hope Chest as if it were a cultural Ark preserving its treasures from the outpour of globalizing floods — so that they may be returned to where they belong. These are not simple belongings but powerful totems. In having them in your home, goodness is instilled — for in stillness, you find yourself.

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Fiction

That Other Orphanhood

by Gabriela Couturier

That Other Orphanhood speaks to that deeply dissatisfied inner self who feels trapped in a life that is very different from the one we intended to live. It is, also, a novel about a coming of age of sorts: the main character stands at the threshold of mid-life, and while she is a successful career woman with a good marriage and a seemingly enviable life, she knows the decisions she makes from now on will have ever more permanent consequences. Changing course to pursue a long-coveted dream might endanger not only everything else she has achieved but the very foundations of her life. And the insistent beckoning of maternity feels more like a question than an answer in her orderly world. With her struggle against the increasingly common nightmare of infertility as a leitmotiv, That Other Orphanhood reflects on the contradictions that threaten the harmony between our ambitions, the expectations of society and our very essence.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2021

Religion and life cycles in early modern England

by Caroline Bowden, Emily Vine, Tessa Whitehouse

Religion and life cycles in early modern England assembles scholars working in the fields of history, English literature and art history to further our understanding of the intersection between religion and the life course in the period c. 1550-1800. Featuring chapters on Catholic, Protestant and Jewish communities, it encourages cross-confessional comparison between life stages and rites of passage that were of religious significance to all faiths in early modern England. The book considers biological processes such as birth and death, aspects of the social life cycle including schooling, coming of age and marriage and understandings of religious transition points such as spiritual awakenings and conversion. Through this inclusive and interdisciplinary approach, it seeks to show that the life cycle was not something fixed or predetermined and that early modern individuals experienced multiple, overlapping life cycles.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2013

Women of the English Nobility and Gentry, 1066-1500

by Jennifer Ward

While there is increasing interest in the lives of medieval women, the documentary evidence for their activities remains little known. This book provides a collection of sources for an important and influential group of women in medieval England, and examines changes in their role and activities between 1066 and 1500. For most noble and gentry-women, early marriage led to responsibilities for family and household, and, in the absence of their husbands, for the family estates and retainers. Widowhood enabled them to take control of their affairs and to play an independent part in the local community and sometimes further afield. Although many women's lives followed a conventional pattern, great variety existed within family relationships, and individuality can also be seen in religious practices and patronage. Piety could take a number of different forms, whether a woman became a nun, a vowess or a noted philanthropist and benefactor to religious institutions. This volume provides a broad-ranging and accessible coverage of the role of noble women in medieval society. It highlights the significant role played by these women within their families, households, estates and communities.

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June 2018

Die allerbeste Prinzessin

by Poznanski, Ursula / Illustrated by Büchner, SaBine

An innovative & different princess story! • The three princesses love to quarrel • Original and incredibly witty • Written by Ursula Poznanski and stunning illustrations by Sabine Büchner • Translation Grant! Bianca, Violetta and Rosalind are three adorable princesses. But they share a tiny quirk: they love to argue! One day a visitor asks for entrance into the castle. Prince Waldomir doesn’t enjoy hunting dragons anymore and rather prefers to get married know. Of course each princess is convinced to be the best choice and the prince’s one and only. So a rat race is launched before they have even met the puny prince for the first time…

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Humanities & Social Sciences

October 2024

Bartered bridegrooms

Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy

by Suriyah Bi

In this eye-opening ethnography, we learn about the experiences of Muslim migrant husbands from Pakistan and Kashmir, who marry their British counterparts in the hope of marital and global social mobility bliss. For many, the parallel and intertwined migration and marital journeys do not pan out in the way they had hoped. Many experience precarity and vulnerability within the household and/or in employment, with some even being subjected to harrowing forms of domestic violence. Migrant husbands navigate an increasingly hostile British immigration system not only in public but also in private, at the hands of their wives and in-laws. The ethnography demonstrates how citizenship can be deployed as a performance of white power within single group identity, differentiated through colonial legacies of 'Britishness'.

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Humanities & Social Sciences

January 2017

The divorce of King Lothar and Queen Theutberga

Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio

by Rachel Stone, Charles West

In the mid-ninth century, Francia was rocked by the first royal divorce scandal of the Middle Ages: the attempt by King Lothar II of Lotharingia to rid himself of his queen, Theutberga and remarry. Even 'women in their weaving sheds' were allegedly gossiping about the lurid accusations made. Kings and bishops from neighbouring kingdoms, and several popes, were gradually drawn into a crisis affecting the fate of an entire kingdom. This is the first professionally published translation of a key source for this extraordinary episode: Archbishop Hincmar of Rheims's De divortio Lotharii regis et Theutbergae reginae. This text offers eye-opening insight both on the political wrangling of the time and on early medieval attitudes towards magic, penance, gender, the ordeal, marriage, sodomy, the role of bishops, and kingship.The translation includes a substantial introduction and annotations, putting the case into its early medieval context and explaining Hincmar's sometimes-dubious methods of argument.

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The Painting Series of Chinese Folk Tales: The Wedding of Heiyu

by The Editorial Board

This series contains 31 titles of picture books. It is a collection of traditional Chinese classic tales, including fables, myths, idioms and folk legends. It’s playful and readable with attractive illustrations and concise text.

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Literature & Literary Studies

July 2018

Shakespeare's London 1613

by David M. Bergeron

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Health & Personal Development

September 2021

Loving, Lying, and Healing

Heal an infidelity and renew your love pacts so as not to suffer

by Tere Díaz Sendra

Is fidelity an agreement with an expiration date?Does infidelity always involve heartbreak and conflict?After we discovered an infidelity, is it possible to repair and restore trust?Living a committed and loving relationship is a deeply human longing. The issue ofinfidelity (a frequent love conflict) must be addressed by integrating thecontradictions and ambivalences of human nature, particularly on the topic oflove. Infidelity is a very complex phenomenon that is characterized by theexistence of a “villain” and a “victim”. Many times it is explained in a moralistic wayand that prevents exploring the motivations that drive it, the beliefs that supportit and the procedures that complicate it. Love requires commitment andcertainties, while erotic desire opens different paths within the same territory oflove. The correct management of these two forces is key to understanding andovercoming infidelity.

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March 2016

Bell Tower and Drum Tower

by Liu Xinwu

A story within one day – from 5 a. m. to 5 p. m. A vivid picture of secular life in Beijing. Winner of Mao Dun Literature Prize. Everything begins in an archaic quadrangle dwelling in Beijing, where Xue Jiyue’s mother gets up early to prepare for the son’s wedding banquet.Other characters show up one after another. After narrating their behaviors during the day, the author goes back and tells about their past, with a special concern about the inﬂuences from vicissitudes of time, especially how the Cultural Revolution changed those individuals’ courses of life.The Bell Tower and Drum Tower stand there still, witnessing all of those earthshaking changes.

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1987

Tie-Break

by Nastase, Ilie / Französisch Steffen, Christine

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Humanities & Social Sciences

March 2022

Female Fortune

by Jill Liddington

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Social & cultural history

July 2013

The shadow of marriage

by Katherine Holden

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July 1992

Marriage, Property and Succession.

by Herausgegeben von Bonfield, Lloyd

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Transacting Muslim masculinities as colonial legacy

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Heal an infidelity and renew your love pacts so as not to suffer

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