Bøger af Deborah Parker

In Becoming Belle da Costa Greene, Deborah Parker chronicles the making and empowerment of a female connoisseur, curator, and library director in a world where such positions were held by men. Greene was the first director of the Morgan Library, and her letters illuminate a life writ large.

Mindful Moments is a brief look at the science of how stress can impact the brain, body, and behaviors. It is written for clients to gain an understanding of how stress can affect both mental and physical health. Not only does this book explain the stress response of the sympathetic nervous system, it explains how to use mindfulness strategies to activate the parasympathetic nervous system. Mindful Moments provides specific exercises and activities to reach and maintain a calm state of being over time. The exercises are simple and easy to incorporate into your daily life.

More relevant now than ever, as sucking up becomes the master trope of the Trump era, this choice romp through the spectacular world of bowing and scraping will entertain and enlighten.

""Commentary and Ideology" makes a timely appearance into the theoretical discussions of today. Parker's work is informed by such theorists as Jauss and Bakhtin and by new developments in bibliographic studies, and this offers a perspective on her material which is both original and truly exciting."--Craig William Kellendorf, Texas A & M University