This book examines how ‘Therapeutic Recreation’ transforms the social health of children enduring or recovering from life-threatening illnesses such as cancer and leukaemia. With studies drawn from ‘Serious Fun’ projects in the USA, the UK, France, Ireland and Israel, the author explores how camp experiences in convivial circumstances help to bring about healing. Employing central concepts from sociology and anthropology, such as 'liminality', 'mimesis' and 'salutogenesis', Healing Rit...

The root of this misery the narcissists aggressive behavior and an underlying agenda, not anything you’ve done.Yet, many times when you discover the true nature of the narcissist in your life, it is too late to just leave. At least that´s how you feel.By then the relationship is already mentally and maybe even physically abusive. Changing from charming to hurtful or even terrifying, the emotions and power dynamics can overwhelm any construc...

In 1834, a German immigrant to Texas, D. T. F. (Detlef Thomas Friedrich) Jordt, aka Detlef Dunt, published Reise nach Texas, a delightful little book that praised Texas as "a land which puts riches in [the immigrant's] lap, which can bring happiness to thousands and to their descendants." Dunt's volume was the first one written by an on-the-ground observer to encourage German immigration to Texas, and it provides an unparalleled portrait of Austin's Colony from the lower Brazos region and ...

This audiobook is narrated by a digital voice.The root of this misery the narcissists aggressive behavior and an underlying agenda, not anything you’ve done.Yet, many times when you discover the true nature of the narcissist in your life, it is too late to just leave. At least that´s how you feel.By then the relationship is already mentally and maybe even physically abusive. Changing from charming to hurtful or even terrifying, the emotions and powe...

Shakespearean Ethics in Extremity addresses forms of ethical experience on the Shakespearean stage. Early modern theater traffics in the vicarious experience of ethics, often ethics in some extreme or impossible circumstance. It does so not by parading concepts across the stage or ventriloquizing ideas from the philosophical tradition but by bringing to life stories and characters and worlds, by crafting scenes and moments of great emotional and cognitive intensity. What does it f...

The root of this misery the narcissists aggressive behavior and an underlying agenda, not anything you’ve done.Yet, many times when you discover the true nature of the narcissist in your life, it is too late to just leave. At least that´s how you feel.By then the relationship is already mentally and maybe even physically abusive. Changing from charming to hurtful or even terrifying, the emotions and power dynamics can overwhelm any construc...

Despite all that has been written about Vietnam, the story of the 1-A-O conscientious objector, who agreed to put on a uniform and serve in the field without weapons rather than accept alternative service outside the military, has received scarce attention. This joint memoir by two 1-A-O combat medics, James C. Kearney and William H. Clamurro, represents a unique approach to the subject. It is a blend of their personal narratives—with select Vietnam poems by Clamurro—to illustrate noncomba...

Two family names have come to be associated with the violence that plagued Colorado County, Texas, for decades after the end of the Civil War: the Townsends and the Staffords. Both prominent families amassed wealth and achieved status, but it was their resolve to hold on to both, by whatever means necessary, including extra-legal means, that sparked the feud. Elected office was one of the paths to success, but more important was control of the sheriff’s office, which gave one a decided adv...

You've made a choice you can't undo. Maybe you spoke when silence would have been easier. Maybe you stayed quiet when speaking might have mattered. Either way, you can't go back, and you can't fix what happened—and the worst part is knowing that your choice, the right choice, changed something in someone else's life in a way you'll never fully know.This is what The Burden of Keeping Still is actually about.At seventeen, Steve testified against his family. They'd co...

To entertain an idea is to take it in, pay attention to it, give it breathing room, dwell with it for a time. The practice of entertaining ideas suggests rumination and meditation, inviting us to think of philosophy as a form of hospitality and a kind of mental theatre. In this collection, organized around key words shared by philosophy and performance, the editors suggest that Shakespeare’s plays supply readers, listeners, viewers, and performers with equipment for living.In plays...

Founded in 1846, Fredericksburg, Texas, was established by German noblemen who enticed thousands of their compatriots to flee their overcrowded homeland with the prospect of free land in a place that was portrayed as a new Garden of Eden. Few of the settlers, however, were prepared for the harsh realities of the Texas frontier or for confrontation with the Comanche Indians. In his 1867 novel Friedrichsburg, Friedrich Armand Strubberg, a.k.a. Dr. Schubbert, interwove his person...

The Forty-Eighters of Possum Creek: A Texas Civil War Story is a departure for State House Press. This remarkable work of vintage historical fiction focuses on the life of one young man, Kuno Sartorius, who grows up and comes of age in a community of educated German immigrants during the waning months of the Civil War. Author William Trenckmann serialized the novel in his newspaper, Das Bellville Wochenblatt [The Bellville Weekly]. His novel, Die Lateiner am Possum Cr...