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This 19th-century guide provides practical advice on how a woman can manage her own health and well-being. Topics include exercise, hygiene, and nutrition, as well as tips for dealing with common ailments. Written by a prominent physician, this timeless book is a must-read for any woman looking to take control of her health.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

This fascinating biography offers a detailed portrait of the life and work of the famous 19th-century illustrator George Cruickshank. Written by his friend and colleague Walter Hamilton, it includes many of Cruickshank's most famous drawings, as well as a rare example of one of his engraved bank notes.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

A classic reference work for law students and practitioners, Indermaur's book provides concise summaries of important cases in conveyancing and equity law. With clear language and detailed analysis, Indermaur demystifies complex legal concepts.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Un essai fondateur sur les principes de gouvernement et la nature de la liberté politique, civile et religieuse. Écrit par Joseph Priestley, penseur anglais et érudit de la Révolution américaine, cet ouvrage est une analyse approfondie des idées de l'époque et une réflexion sur les valeurs fondamentales de la société. Un texte incontournable pour comprendre l'histoire de la pensée politique.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Explore Henry Ward Beecher's musings on art and nature in this collection of essays. This book is perfect for readers who love to reflect on the beauty around them.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Could the shlock-rock '70s band Kiss in any way affect the outcome of a death-dealing twenty-first-century virus? Is Bob Ross--that permed, inimitable painter of Edenic nostalgia on PBS--actually an emissary from the land of personal loss? Might the work of Edward Hopper reflect facets of a global plague? What is the grammar, finally, of grief, of isolation? The essays in Chad Davidson's Bring Out Your Dead: Elegies from the Plague Year mainly concern the loss of the author's father directly before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways in which the pandemic itself provided a strangely ideal backdrop to grieving. Refracted through the kaleidoscopic, yet strangely stagnant, isolation period in the first year of COVID, his father's death--another plague visited on the author--found its way into all his waking hours, coloring whatever he tried to write, particularly when he tried not to let it. Friends both lost and nearly so, the burning of Notre Dame in Paris, even the seemingly inconsequential discovery of a rash of chew toys in the yard: these events assumed an unmistakable gravity, considered in the midst of a pandemic and the ruins of personal grief. Bring Out Your Dead adds Davidson's father to the growing list of loved ones lost in--and, in this case, right before--the pandemic. It's a personal memorial, given over to a father's memory and the grief endured while living through dueling plagues (one viral, the other psychological). In the end, the book becomes more about the ways we eulogize, how we remember those who are gone, why their memories persist, and what summons them back into our thoughts, our language, and our lives.

Die Bewältigung von Verlust und Trauer ist eine universelle Herausforderung, die jeden von uns im Laufe des Lebens berührt und eine der tiefsten menschlichen Emotionen darstellt. Die Art und Weise, wie wir mit Trauer umgehen, ist vielfältig und wird von unseren persönlichen Erfahrungen, Überzeugungen, Werten und Ansichten beeinflusst. In Zeiten der Trauer suchen wir nach Wegen, mit unseren Gefühlen und Gedanken umzugehen, Trost zu finden und unsere innere Stärke wiederzuerlangen. Trauer kann viele Formen annehmen, sei es der Verlust eines geliebten Menschen, das Ende einer Beziehung oder der Abschied von einer wichtigen Phase unseres Lebens. Diese Sammlung von 72 Essays bietet eine einzigartige und facettenreiche Perspektive auf die Trauerbewältigung aus verschiedenen Epochen und Disziplinen. Es werden Gedanken und Ideen verschiedener historischer Persönlichkeiten aus Kunst, Wissenschaft, Literatur, Medizin und Philosophie erkundet und dargestellt. Die Essays bieten Einblicke in die Art und Weise, wie diese Persönlichkeiten Verlust und Schmerz erlebt und verarbeitet haben. Ihre Ansichten sind so vielfältig wie ihre Hintergründe, und jede Perspektive kann wertvolle Einsichten und Inspirationen bieten. Inspirationen, die Trauernde motivieren können sich mit Theorien, Ideen, Visionen, Biographien, Religionen oder Kunst auseinanderzusetzen oder sogar durch Impulse ins Handeln zu kommen.

Lynne Kemen's Shoes for Lucy is a beautiful and relatable collection of poems that explores a wide range of emotions. From grief to rediscovery, Kemen writes with a deft hand, creating vibrant and introspective pieces that remind us to cherish life's simple pleasures.- Kelli Russell AgodonAuthor of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)Shoes for Lucy is like a beautiful summer storm on the porch - bursts of light, cool breeze, fragments of childhood dreams, and echoes spreading out in all directions.- Jack B. BedellAuthor of Against the Woods' Dark Trunks, Poet Laureate of Louisiana, 2017-2019A genre-bending powerhouse of a collection. A spare, artful blend of poetry and fiction, Kemen combines masterful storytelling with lyrical prowess. A bit Oliver, a bit Forster, and a bit Bass, Kemen deftly invokes her literary heroes, while inking her heart on her sleeve. "I go outside and touch my flowers and wish it was you." she longingly writes. Penned in the beautiful voice of a wise and witty friend.-Nicole TallmanAuthor of Poems for the People (SCE Press) and Something Kindred (SCE Press)

Part nature guide, part self-help column, and all love letter to the more-than-human world, Utter, Earth is an exercise in wonder. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Amy Leach. A light, literary take on an animal book for grown-ups, a tongue-in-cheek self-help column with lessons drawn from nature, a sort of hitchhiker's guide to the more-than-human world--Isaac Yuen's Utter, Earth is a celebration, through wordplay and earthplay, of our planet's riotous wonders. In a time of dirges and elegies for the natural world, Utter, Earth features odes to sloths, tributes to trilobites, and ringing endorsements for lichen. For animal lovers and readers of Brian Doyle, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, and Amy Leach, each essay of this one-of-a-kind collection combines joyous language, whimsical tangents, and scientific findings to remind us of and reconnect us with those to whom we are inextricably bound. Highlighting life that once was, still is, and all that we stand to lose, this living and lively mini encyclopedia (complete with glossary) shines the spotlight on the motley, fantastical, and astonishing denizens with whom we share this planet.

These powerful essays share critical moments of a writer's life: scenes from sixty years of passionate married love; suicides faced and suicide contemplated; trauma at the DMV; a night lost searching for a harpsichord in the mountains of Florence, Italy; the tale of a beloved cousin whose plane is shot down by Japanese Zeros; and a precious friendship between two women writers derailed by the poisons of religion and politics. In the titular essay (included in Best American Essays 2023) a food bank, assuaging the pandemic's terrors with gifts of food and prayers, becomes a portal for intimate confidences entrusted to us by a voice of unspoiled authenticity and perennial vigor.

"Covid-19 stole so much. But one of the things it couldn't steal was the power of stories."¿From the author of the international bestseller The Headmaster's Wife and other novels comes a collection of essays written during the Covid-19 pandemic while the author sheltered in place in his tiny Vermont town. While in isolation, he observed a small town at its best: neighbors helping neighbors, the joys of gardening, the pleasure of a small boy riding his bike, and walks in the park with his dog Hugo. Childhood memories and stories of family life are intertwined, and what the reader gains is a sense of community, family, and belonging. "¿¿I sat on my porch, and thought about how small my world had become," writes Greene. His world, and these stories, may be small, but they show us how the human capacity for love is grand, and how that love is greater than the ills that befall us. In Notes from the Porch Greene's capacity for true storytelling is at its finest, and it's a great gift to us all.

A collection of the year's top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi."Food and travel are natural companions," writes guest editor Padma Lakshmi. From this pairing comes "the possibility of seeing anew, of examining how we make and assign meaning." The essays in this year's Best American Food and Travel Writing circle the world--from Dakar in Senegal, to Michoacán in south-central Mexico, to the Camino de Santiago in Spain--and deepen our understanding of our place in it. An ode to the American grilled cheese spurs the desire to find beauty in the smallest daily activities. An obsessive odyssey for the perfect Chinese food blossoms into a heart-wrenching search for a lost childhood. Bold and insightful, joyful and moving, this collection celebrates the experiences that connect us all.The Best American Food and Travel Writing 2024 includes C PAM ZHANG - LIGAYA MISHAN - KIESE LAYMON - MARIAN BULL - MAYUKH SEN - BEN TAUB - AND OTHERS

A collection of the year's best essays, selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris and series editor Kim Dana Kupperman."Imparting some piece of yourself--any part--is arduous and warrants some kind of commendation," writes guest editor Wesley Morris in his introduction. Both personal and personable, the essayists in this volume use their own vulnerability to guide readers on excursions that unfold on uncomfortable edges. From contemplating the nuances of memory to exploring the complexities of family, romance, gender identity, illness, and death, Morris's selection of essays presents a roundup of the thinkers who masterfully grapple with the issues of our time.The Best American Essays 2024 includes TEJU COLE - MICHAEL W. CLUNE - YIYUN LI - JAMES McAULEY - RÉMY NGAMIJE - JENNIFER SENIOR - SALLIE TISDALE - JERALD WALKER - JENISHA WATTS and others

Award-winning environmentalist, author, and journalist Bill McKibben selects twenty science and nature essays that represent the best examples of the form published in the previous year."This was the most anomalous year (so far) in human history," guest editor Bill McKibben writes, "the year in which the relationship between people and planet showed its most dramatic signs yet of unraveling." The selections in The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 reveal a trying year for our planet--from the Lahaina wildfire tragedy to the lush Amazon jungle slowly turning to savanna--while also celebrating the earth's beautiful and mysterious ways--from the largest beaver dam on earth to the heroic innovation to prevent birds from crashing into Chicago's expanse of glass buildings. These essays offer solace in trying times, showing a way for a better future. They are, as McKibben says, "a reminder that this world is still a lovely and deep place, well worth the fighting for."The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2024 includes IAN FRAZIER - AMANDA GEFTER - DOUGLAS FOX - SARAH KAPLAN - BEN GOLDFARB - RAYMOND ZHONG - ALEX CUADROS - AND OTHERS

Climate shocks - and the many negative climatic tipping points - are all too real. So are positive, economic ones pointing in theright direction. The climate race is on, and despite the best attempts by some, there's no going back. Low-carbon, high-efficiency technologies will only get better and cheaper over time. Oil, coal, and gas, meanwhile, are commodities, whose prices will always fluctuate due to geopolitical vagaries and other factors out of our control. The best medicine for addressing "fossilflation"? Getting off fossil fuels.In this collection of over a dozen globally syndicated columns, written over the past year since the US Infl ation Reduction Lawbecame law, climate economist Gernot Wagner takes a sober look at both unmitigated climate risks and the trillion-dollarbusiness opportunities of the clean-energy race. Not every company or country will win. The one clear winner: the planet.Wagner lays out in clear, crisp language what it takes to take advantage of the opportunities, how to avoid some of thepitfalls, and how the EU and the rest of the world should respond to the US.

In this debut collection of personal essays, Eugen Bacon offers critical perspectives on blackness, Afrofuturism, colonialism, historicity, and (mis)recognition as she explores the untapped possibilities of speculative fiction. Using a variety of analytic, narrative, and anecdotal techniques, Bacon shares her experiences as an African Australian woman, mother, and writer who occupies a liminal space that is "betwixt" worlds and genres. She also considers work by "other" writers-ranging from Roland Barthes and Jorge Luis Borges to Suyi Davies Okungbowa, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, and Sheree Renée Thomas-in an effort to chart a path towards greater social and cultural truth. Literary, adventurous, and insightful, Bacon excavates the world(s) that not only construct contemporary authorship but the fluid nature of identity itself.An Earnest Blackness received the British Fantasy Award for best work of nonfiction. It was also a finalist for the Locus and Ditmar Awards.

Serien Æter blev lanceret i 2021 af forlaget Arkiv for Detaljer. Pamfletterne undersøger via kunst, litteratur, filosofi, samtaler, ritualer o.l. alt det, vi ikke umiddelbart kan se. Tanken bag Æter er at gøre det åndelige jordnært og tilgængeligt og at tilføje livet magi. Hver pamflet har ét fokusområde. Æter udkommer 2-4 gange om året og er støttet af Statens Kunstfond. Hvert nummer er håndsyet i 200 eksemplarer.I dette nr. undersøger SOLEN ER SEXET kroppens visdom. Hvad ville lingam og yoni sige, hvis de kunne tale? Med udgangspunkt i tantra og somatisk sexologi – lingam og yoni er sanskrit og betyder pik og kusse – lytter vi til et kor af lingammer og yonier, som taler og synger om at være til. SOLEN ER SEXET er et kunstnerkollektiv med skiftende besætning, som gør op med prædefinerede kønskasser og hylder samhørighed. Bag Æter nr. 5 står forfatter og dramatiker Bjørn Rasmussen, sangskriver og somatisk sexolog Lise Westzynthius og multikunstner Kim Richard Adler Mejdahl.