Most memory care literature assumes you have access to an unlimited trust fund and private-duty nurses. This manual is written for the crowded trenches of real life. It beautifully combines evidence-based neurological insights (including the cognitive benefits of the mind and mediterranean diets, sleep architecture, and exercise) with accessible, low-cost problem-solving.Above all, it highlights therapeutic humor as your ultimate sanity-saving clinical tool. Embrac...

What do we see when we look at a battlefield? How do we come to understand environments as battlefields in the first place? What happens to our perception of war when we focus on the physical spaces of conflict? Warscapes is the first collection to pursue answers to such questions by considering the relationship between war, environment, and media along three lines: imagined geographies of control that prefigure environments as spaces of war; representations of resistance to occup...

A new, impassioned, ultracontemporary collection from “one of our most acute poetic chroniclers” (The New York Times).Precisely Now unspools against the backdrop of a transmogrified Lower Manhattan, one built back after 9/11, yet where buildings on Wall Street remain pockmarked from anarchist bombings of the 1920s. Out on the very tip of the island, where “moods are painted blue on the blue East River,” on the streets where Federico García Lorca w...

Rus' and Mongol Rule presents the fullest examination in English to date of the economic and social history of Rus' from the thirteenth to the fifteenth centuries and the impact of Mongol rule. Lawrence N. Langer shows how the Mongols were a double-edged sword, encouraging trade while imposing a harsh tribute in silver, furs, and people. Among the topics examined are the Black Death, the demographic crisis and shortage of labor, taxation and admin...

On the eve of her 44th birthday, Nat's "menopause" unleashes more than just a hot flash.Blinding neon magic surges in her veins, awakening a power she never knew existed.She may have even burnt a house down…Fortunately it was her ex-husband's — and he kind of deserved it.So it turns out she's a … neon warrior witch. WTF? That was never on her bingo card.And then things get even weirder.It turns out that no-one in her life is who they are pret...

On the eve of her 44th birthday, Nat's "menopause" unleashes more than just a hot flash.Blinding neon magic surges in her veins, awakening a power she never knew existed.She may have even burnt a house down…Fortunately it was her ex-husband's — and he kind of deserved it.So it turns out she's a … neon warrior witch. WTF? That was never on her bingo card.And then things get even weirder.It turns out that no-one in her life is who they are pret...

The second volume in this essential library gathers James Joyce's modernist vision, Mark Twain's American wit, Jules Verne's boundless imagination, Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure and suspense, Oscar Wilde's epigrammatic brilliance, and Bram Stoker's gothic terror alongside voices from Tolstoy to Tagore, Stendhal to Sienkiewicz. Ranging from French Enlightenment fiction to Victorian sensation novels, Russian realism to early global literature, this collection widens the canon begun in V...

Step beyond the ordinary and enter a world of ghosts, strange encounters, hidden secrets, and unexplained phenomena. The Book of Shadows Vol. 1 is a collection of classic and atmospheric stories by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, Robert W. Chambers, H. G. Wells, Beatrix Potter, Edith Nesbit, Barry Pain, E. F. Benson, D. H. Lawrence, and Thomas Burke. Bringing together a diverse group of writers, this anthology explores the darker and stranger side of classic literature. Within its pages are stor...

Fifty essential works, one sweeping introduction to the world's greatest storytellers. This first volume gathers Jane Austen's social wit, Charles Dickens's unforgettable characters, Fyodor Dostoevsky's psychological depth, Victor Hugo's romantic grandeur, Herman Melville's seafaring epic, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark imagination alongside giants from Cervantes to Tolstoy, the Bronte sisters to Shakespeare. Spanning centuries and continents, from the Spanish Golden Age to Gothic romance, Vic...

On a Mexican verandah, a quiet morning becomes a comic-philosophical meditation on place, perception, and the strange vitality of living things. Carnations, coffee, parrots, the sweeping servant Rosalino, and the resigned little dog Corasmin are transformed into emblems of Mexico itself, where imitation, laughter, and identity seem forever unstable. The parrots' uncanny mimicry, especially of Rosalino and Corasmin, opens into a larger vision of a world that begins and ends in sudden ruptur...

D. H. Lawrence's essays and literary meditations blaze with philosophical urgency, turning questions of art, faith, and human nature into a fierce confrontation with life itself. From wartime literary circles to the symbolic struggle of the lion and the unicorn, he rejects easy activism, moralizing fiction, and false peace, arguing that real change must rise from within, through the slow growth of new life and deeper consciousness. Across these pieces, Lawrence presents existence as a tens...

In Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious, D. H. Lawrence mounts a fierce challenge to Freud and Jung, treating psychoanalysis not as a neutral therapy but as a worldview with dangerous moral consequences. He probes the struggle between instinct and ethics, the mystery of the unconscious, and the hidden forces shaping love, family, and selfhood, arguing for a "true" unconscious that is creative and life-giving rather than pathological. Lawrence attacks the Freudian tendency to reduce the psych...