The Story As Told from a Fan's Perspective
The narrative captures the 2008 Philadelphia Phillies baseball season through a fan's perspective, detailing daily events and games throughout the regular and post-seasons. It combines game day stories with insightful columns, offering a vivid portrayal of the team's journey and the emotions of its supporters.
A therapeutic relationship is a web of interactions, tasks, and processes in space and time. It is not easy to stay aware of the relationship in the thick of talking and trying to help someone, but doing so boosts flexibility and enables deeper formulation. A therapist who can attend not only to a specific therapeutic model, but also to relational factors underlying all therapy, has a far greater chance of enabling change. Therapy with a Map sets out a therapeutic process of talking accompanied by visual conversation maps set down in real time on paper. Like all maps, these help us to find our way, notice when we are lost, track our route, and survey the wider landscape. The book uses mapping to introduce the tools and concepts of Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), along with other relational, conversational, and narrative approaches. By mapping patterns of thinking and relating, therapists can help clients to develop self-understanding, solve problems, and take away a freer, more self-aware relationship with themselves in the world.
Easy Money & Other Stories is a collection straddling the line between literary and crime fiction. Life can be that way. When you live on the south shore of Long Island a few miles east of Queens, mobsters aren't just characters you see in the movies, sometimes they turn out to be friends of friends, your neighbors, guys who drink in the same bar as you. Welcome to the borderland where the outskirts of New York City overlap with the Long Island suburbs. Meet Tiny the giant, Muscles, Scooter, Potatoes, Babydoll, and Thunder Zymborowski, formerly known as Big Hoss the Jersey Strangler. If you live here, you may come to realize that crime -- organized crime, semi-organized crime, and horribly unorganized crime -- is taking place all around you. In these darkly funny tales, men and women face the consequences of their terrible decisions. People living too close to the edge wander still closer and fall off into darkness. But there's also the sweetness of family, friendship, camaraderie, first love, and teenage heartache to lighten the mood. Absurd, raunchy, grotesque, subversive, vulgar, and violent -- these stories are also often hilarious and oddly touching.
A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Everyday Conversational Awareness
Talking with a Map explores the interplay between how we talk and how we relate. We learn to relate before we learn to talk, and every conversation depends on making sense of our interactions as much as our language. Conversation has the potential to bring us a deeper and clearer perspective, but we are also capable of getting lost or into a mess. Tackling this and offering a means to improve conversational skill for those who depend on it (e.g. teachers, nurses, managers) as well as anyone seeking the courage, compassion and curiosity to have better conversations and relationships, Talking with a Map presents a series of simple steps for making word maps of discussions as they develop. These maps track the hidden patterns in what we say and how we relate to each other while speaking, making visible the links and gaps in our discussions and helping us to achieve a shared understanding of conversations.
Inspired by the quarantine singing from Italian balconies during the COVID-19 outbreak, this book captures the author's reflections on the pandemic through poetry. As the virus's statistics unfold, the writing process intertwines with the evolving crisis, revealing the inadequacies in testing and reporting. The author, motivated by a sense of urgency and the desire to finish long-standing projects, explores various poetic forms, expressing thoughts on societal issues and the need for change. Amidst despair, there's a glimmer of hope that this pandemic might lead to necessary transformations.
The collection features 100 twenties, a poetic form introduced by Jackson Mac Low, consisting of five stanzas with four lines each. Composed spontaneously and in a meditative state, these poems embrace a free-associational style that encourages readers to engage actively in deriving meaning. With minimal connective elements, the work invites diverse interpretations, making the reader a co-creator in the poetic experience rather than a passive observer.
The collection features poetic narratives that explore themes such as family, friendship, society, patriotism, and athletics, reflecting the author's experiences over the past decade. Readers are encouraged to connect emotionally with the heartfelt expressions and find positivity in their own lives through the relatable events depicted in the poems.
The Longman IGCSE series is designed to meet the requirements of the new London Examinations IGCSE specifications.
Student Book
Written specifically for Edexcel's International GCSE Biology qualification, in a clear and engaging style that students find easy to understand, this book includes a wide range of activities and exercises for self-study as well as examination style questions and summaries that aid revision. Full answers to the Student Book questions are available to teachers and parents by emailing customersolutions@pearson.com (for UK teachers and parents) or icsorders@pearson.com (for all other teachers and parents).
