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A collaborative book on the works of Charles Dickens that takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. The literary conversation prioritizes the act of live reading and the experience of encountering an intense or problematic feeling when reading Dickens's works.

Can reading literature really help our mental health? This book shows how and why,not by instruction or prescription, but by emotion and exploration. Offering case histories of individual readers and reading groups, the authors showcase the health and wellbeing benefits which come from our access to written human stories and imagined situations

Shakespearean thinking is always dynamic: thinking that happens in the living moment of its performance, in quickly passing process. This book offers a model of human mentality that can be shown through the dense immediacy of dramatic thinking, as embodied above all in Shakespeare's working method.

Why Victorian Literature Still Matters is a passionate defense of the enduring impact of Victorian realism today. With a nod to the popularity of phrenology within that era, noted literary scholar Philip Davis points to a corner of the human mind where all Victorian literature resides.

Philip Davis presents the first full-scale biography of Bernard Malamud (1914-1986), the self-made son of poor Jewish immigrants who went on to become one of the foremost novelists and short-story writers of the post-war period. The time is ripe for a revival of interest in a man who at the peak of his success stood alongside Saul Bellow and Philip Roth in the ranks of Jewish American writers.

This little book is intended to give an overview of how the energy systems of the Human body work. It provides basic information and is pitched for people who work in non-precise ways with energy and those who are studying these topics. It is not intended to provide information in the very detailed form that Acupuncturists need.All energy therapies (e.g. Reiki, Reflexology, EFT, and TFT) work with the energetic parts of ourselves. They have been in use in various forms for centuries. In some cultures they are widely used and accepted, in others they have fallen into disuse and disrepute as the scientific model of life became established. This is particularly true of modern Western Cultures.

This text seeks to locate the underlying secrets of Shakespeare's dynamic power. It offers a technical language which, close to Shakespeare's own, is capable of responding suddenly to the speed, transforming shape and power of Shakespeare's way of thinking as it comes into meaning.

This book provides practical guidelines for overcoming the problems faced by minute takers and achieving accuracy in the minute-taking process.

Winner of the 1983 National Book Award, The Mathematical Experience conveyed the power and beauty of its topic to a broad audience. The study version added exercises and other classroom aids. This softcover edition includes new epilogues by the original authors.