The Mind-Body Interface in Somatization: When Symptom Becomes Disease represents a unique contribution to the clinician's tool chest for diagnosing and treating psychosomatic illness. This book breaks new ground by asking and answering many of the key questions that trouble every practicing clinician: Why do patients use somatization? Can we predict who will be a somatizer? Is there an underlying process involved? Why are these patients so difficult to treat?Beginning with...

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast in August 2005 with devastating consequences. Almost all analyses of the disaster have been dedicated to the way the hurricane affected New Orleans. This volume examines the impact of Katrina on southern Mississippi. While communities along Mississippi's Gulf Coast shared the impact, their socioeconomic and demographic compositions varied widely, leading to different types and rates of recovery. This volume furthers our understanding of the pac...

"A sweeping yet rigorous analysis of Dixon and his work. The collection approaches the southern intellectual through multiple methodologies -- from literary theory and film studies to social history and religious studies. We get an exhaustive yet diverse perspective on Dixon's influence and legacy." -- Journal of American HistoryThomas Dixon Jr. (1864--1946), best remembered today as the author of the racist novels that served as the basis for D. W. Griffith's controversial 1915 cla...

Shady Rest, Texas, has the dubious reputation for being the deadliest town in America. Getting yourself killed is as easy as blinking and twice as quick. Sure enough, Matt Jensen hasn't swallowed his whisky before the town's marshal is gunned down before his eyes. Matt defends himself by putting two bullets in the shooter's chest, unaware that he's in line for a $5,000 bounty--as long as he stays in Shady Rest to collect it. And staying gets even more tempting when a red haired beauty deci...

In the late 19th century, natural silk was a luxury reserved exclusively for the ultra-wealthy. When a French chemist named Hilaire de Chardonnet invented the very first "artificial silk," he democratized high fashion. There was only one slight problem: his beautiful, shimmering new fabric was made from nitrocellulose—the exact same chemical compound used to manufacture military explosives. Chardonnet's process involved treating wood pulp with nitric acid and pushing the resulting highly v...

When Mouse sets out on his adventure, he discovers that brave isn't something you are—it's something you do!Mouse's day is full of big moments and bigger feelings. But with each step forward—jumping to shake off fear, accepting a friend's comforting hug, or simply pausing to breathe—he builds his courage toolkit. Because taking a brave journey doesn't mean you have to be fearless. It means you know how to just keep going.in her first book for children, form...

A lot of adventures begin in the minds of children rambling around dark corners of an old camel-back trunk. Hidden deep in the corners of the musty old treasure chest were secrets of vast proportions about things kids should not question. For a child to get in the trunk was a death-defying act. But the curious minds of children pushed that thought aside for another day. Hidden in the trunk were strange relics of years gone by. An old paper umbrella from the orient tucked safely away was so...

You may feel like a confident person but we've all been there when we hear that little voice that creeps up in your head saying "you're really going to screw this up."That little voice in your head, is like a saboteur and I call her Karen (sorry Karen's of the world). You'll meet her in my Confidence Quotient book, and she starts talking full blast and high speed.You freeze, you second guess yourself, sometimes, if you are honest, you walk away.But you don't have to...

A mother’s love is always for her children no matter how good or bad and she would do anything for her children either one or ten children, I always said the hardest job in the world is raising children from sun up to sun down or a woman’s job is never easy I think it’s time for men to stand up for the hard working women or men who raise God’s precious angels.

Lenny is the story of the meeting of two different cultures, two different social classes, and two different generations in one improbable friendship. It takes the reader through time and distance from a present-day cemetery burial back to the forties when a young black man joined the Red Tail fighter squadron that protected American Bombers through to the sixties when a young white man started his railroad career and how their two lives intertwined.

Putting our modern life to poetry is no easy feat. William takes everything from the monstrous to the mundane and puts it down in prose for all of us to enjoy. You may see yourself or someone you know in his poems.

Named a 2024 Choice Outstanding Academic TitleMemory Wars explores how commemorative sites and patriotic fanfare marking the mission of General John Sullivan into Iroquois territory during the Revolutionary War continue to shape historical understandings today. The 1779 expedition was planned and ordered by General George Washington. It was a massive enterprise composed of four forays involving thousands of men wh...