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Book SynopsisIn his quest to define sporting greatness', double Olympic champion Alistair Brownlee has spent nearly 4 years interviewing and training with some of the greatest minds in sport to discover what it takes to become and remain a champion.Featuring:Ian Botham Mark Cavendish Alastair Cook Alex Danson Richard Dunwoody Donna Fraser Chris Froome Anna Hemmings Denis Irwin Michael Johnson Kílian Jornet Stuart Lancaster AP McCoy Ronnie O'Sullivan Michael Owen Adam Peaty Ian Poulter Paula Radcliffe Ian Thorpe Mark Webber Shane WilliamsFrom an early age Alistair Brownlee has been obsessed with being the very best, and not just improving his sporting performance across his three specialist triathlon disciplines of swimming, cycling and running, but also understanding how a winner becomes a dominant champion. Winning gold in consecutive Olympic Games has only strengthened this need and desire.Over the last 4 years Alistair has been on a journey to learn from the best, talking t

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Book SynopsisThe village of Whitwick is a simple one, like many British villages were around the country in the early twentieth century. Within its boundaries of pubs, small corner shops, farms and coalmines, is a small world in itself. Every person knows every other person and that sense of community and playing one''s part in that community is what gives a sense of purpose to each citizen. ''The Man Within the Compass'' is home to Zachariah and Sarah Parker, a hardy couple that do everything together, a real team. Vital members of their community, Zachariah and Sarah, with their modest wealth but big dreams, build their lives and the future of their family in the walls of the Compass inn and in the boundaries of Whitwick. Though they won''t change the world, ensuring the security and prosperity of generations to come is all they need.

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Book SynopsisTable of ContentsChronological List of Firsts Thematic List of Firsts Preface Acknowledgments Introduction Medical Firsts 1. First Medical School Still in Existence, 1088 2. First Successful Cesarean Operation, 1337 3. First Hospital in North America, 1524 4. First Documented Condom Use, 1562 5. First Wheelchair, 1595 6. First American Dentist, 1630 7. First Microbiologist, 1674 8. First Clinical Trial, 1747 9. First Female Doctor with a Full Medical Degree, 1754 10. First Publicly Funded American Psychiatric Hospital, 1773 11. First Vaccine, 1796 12. First Successful Human-to-Human Blood Transfusion, 1829 13. First University-Trained African American Doctor, 1837 14. First Hypodermic Needle, 1844 15. First Use of Anesthesia in Surgery, 1846 16. First International Health Organization, 1851 17. First Epidemiological Study, 1854 18. First Use of Antiseptic Spray, 1865 19. First Successful Brain Tumor Operation, 1879 20. First Baby Incubator, 1880 21. First Steps toward Universal Health Care, 1883 22. First Cancer Immunotherapy Treatment, 1891 23. First Successful Open Heart Surgery, 1893 24. First Breast Augmentation Surgery, 1893 25. First Medical X-ray, 1895 26. First Electric Hearing Aid, 1898 27. First Recognized Human Virus, 1900 28. First American Food and Drug Purity Laws, 1906 29. First Human Laparoscopy, 1910 30. First Vitamin Identified, 1912 31. First Country to Legalize Abortion, 1920 32. First Physical Therapy Organization, 1921 33. First Isolation and Purification of Insulin, 1922 34. First Antibiotic, 1928 35. First Gender Affirmation Surgery, 1930 36. First Successful Joint Replacement, 1940 37. First City with Fluoridated Water, 1945 38. First Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, 1947 39. First FDA-Approved Chemotherapy Drug, 1949 40. First Drug to Treat Depression, 1952 41. First Automated Blood Counter, 1953 42. First Successful Human Organ Transplant, 1954 43. First Patient Treated with Ongoing Hemodialysis, 1960 44. First Oral Contraceptive, 1960 45. First Successful Human Xenotransplant, 1963 46. First Disease Cured Using Stem Cells, 1963 47. First Diagnostic Computed Tomography Scan, 1971 48. First Monoclonal Antibodies, 1975 49. First Sequencing of a DNA-Based Genome, 1977 50. First Magnetic Resonance Imaging of a Human, 1977 51. First Baby Born through In Vitro Fertilization, 1978 52. First Human Disease Eradicated Globally, 1980 53. First Robotic Surgery, 1985 54. First FDA-Approved Drug to Treat HIV/AIDS, 1987 55. First Laser Vision Corrective Surgery, 1988 56. First Mammal Cloned from an Adult Cell, 1996 57. First FDA-Approved Botanical Drug, 2006 58. First Country to Legalize Euthanasia, 2011 59. First 3D-Printed Prosthesis, 2012 60. Firsts of the Future Index

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Book SynopsisTwo girls, three wheels, one mission. If you've ever been to Bangkok you'll have most likely been catapulted through the streets in a tuk tuk, one of the city's ubiquitous three-wheeled taxis. With white knuckles and ringing ears you'll have stepped out at the end and vowed to take a regular taxi next time. But one summer Jo Huxster and Ants Bolingbroke-Kent decided to drive a tuk tuk that little bit further – to Brighton, a mere 12,561 miles away. Their mission: to raise £50 000 for the mental health charity Mind. Tuk Tuk to the Road is the inspirational story of the ultimate road trip – the countries they traverse, the people that help them, the nail-biting border crossings, the extremely friendly policemen… Every detail of their record-breaking tukathon is chronicled in colourful and often hilarious detail. Twelve countries, two continents, one earthquake and the odd snapped accelerator cable later, this is the entertaining, honest, and above all, remarkable story of two girls who proved that with a little bit of determination, anything is possible.Trade Review‘What a brave and marvellous adventure!’ Stephen Fry 'A wonderful idea… Mental illnesses are painful and often hidden diseases which afflict millions of people. Thank goodness that there are those who want to help and thereby transform the lives of so many suffering in silence and hiding.'Melvyn Bragg, President of Mind

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Book SynopsisDo I Look at You with Love? were the words uttered by Mark Freeman’s mother when she learned, once again, that he was her son. This book explores the experience of dementia as it transpired during the course of the final twelve years of her life, from the time of her diagnosis until her death in 2016 at age 93. As a longtime student of memory, identity, and narrative, as well as the son of a woman with dementia, he had a remarkable opportunity to try to understand and tell her story. Much of the story is tragic. But there were other periods and other dimensions of relationship that were beautiful and that could not have emerged without her very affliction. In the midst of affliction there were gifts, arriving unbidden, that served to alert Freeman and his family to what is most precious and real. These are part of the story too. Part narrative psychology, part memoir, part meditation on the beauty and light that might be found amidst the ravages of time and memory, Freeman’s moving story is emblematic of nothing less than the bittersweet reality of life itself.Trade Review"In Do I Look, the autoethnographic form enables Freeman to make the fullest use of himself as a person reflecting on his own life and as a scholar who can frame those reflections in relation to others’ thinking. (…) Do I Look at You with Love? broadens our imagination of research, while it troubles our sense of personal, community, and clinical responsibility." – Arthur W. Frank in the Journal of Medical Humanities, 17 July 2021. “Written in a prose which is both scholarly and profoundly compassionate, Mark Freeman recounts the journey of his mother’s dementia from a son’s perspective, using insights gained from his years of thinking about how we come to tell the stories we live, what happens when those threads fall apart, and exploring what cultural tools are available to us to tell stories of decline and death. This book will bring fresh insights combined with a deep sense of recognition to anyone interested in questions of memory and identity, who has lived with someone with dementia, or even struggled with the gradual loss of a loved one. While the story told here is about a particular person, in a particular time and place, with a particular son, Freeman offers the reader a philosophical contemplation on the meaning of love and loss, inviting us to reflect on who we are in relation to others in our lives, and the trouble of making sense when those others can no longer be present.” – Molly Andrews, Professor of Political Psychology and co-director, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, author of Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life and Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change “Through his deep, intimate portrait of his relationship with his mother over more than a decade of dementia, Freeman investigates questions central to being human: How do we locate ourselves in space and time? Do we still have a self when we don’t have our story? How do we discover our deepest level of connection to others? This engaging book gently challenges each of us to question our part in upholding society’s disdain for aging, illness and death and digs to the bedrock of what is needed for us to be good to one another. In a humble yet scholarly manner, Freeman invites us to develop our own understandings through visiting with him and his beloved mother on her journey through dementia to death.” – Susan Bluck, Professor of Psychology and Director, Life Story Lab, University of Florida “For more than thirty years, Mark Freeman’s philosophically inspired contributions to narrative inquiry have widened and deepened our conceptual understanding of how stories work in and on our sense-making lives. In Do I Look at You with Love?, Freeman embarks on a different kind of inquiry, attempting to join his academic dexterity to his own (and his mother’s) lived experience in order to reimagine dementia. The result is a daring, refreshing, and intimate portrait that merges the academic and the personal, the intellectual and the spiritual, the desire to make sense and the attentiveness to let go of the sense one has made. Do I Look at You with Love? is a gift that guides readers to a deeper understanding of the human condition, the sacred, and the unknown. Freeman’s most ingenious observations show how identities too often are imposed on us, requiring us to challenge the moral understanding and consequences of the stories, or fragments of story, that circulate widely in the community in which we find or locate ourselves. This makes the task of keeping the door open without expectations nearly impossible. We become entrapped by our own (or our culture’s) story. Freeman shows the many ways in which the caregiver of a parent with dementia lives in a canonical story saturated with dread, terror, worry, and hopelessness. Typically, the parent is ill and the caregiver wounded. How then to care with compassion, patience, and generosity; with gentleness, humanity, and honesty; with loving kindness? Freeman approaches these questions by candidly fusing doubt and hope, seeking a story that might prepare future caregivers (and students of the human sciences) for both the perils and the joys lying ahead. Refusing to romanticize or revile, Freeman gradually recognizes that what may violate, deprive, or disrupt us may also bring us closer to the moral good and a capacity to ‘be with’ that validates the priority of the other and allows a measure of beauty and joy to arise. In the process, he shows us what it can mean for an academic and/or a caregiver to strive for an acute self-consciousness and an appropriately shameless subjectivity. This is Freeman’s intellectual and spiritual gift to readers. Do I Look at You with Love? made me feel as if I was in conversation with another consciousness intent on feeling less alone and more human, and helping me, the reader, to feel that way as well. If this represents Freeman’s goals for an artful human science, I am all in.” – Art Bochner, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida, author of Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences and co-author (with Carolyn Ellis), Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories “Not only does Mark Freeman honor his mother's memory with this remarkable book, he honors his readers by entrusting them with a self—and soul—searching account of his mother's last 12 years with dementia. He has managed to incorporate many aspects of his philosophical scholarship and understanding of narrative psychology into a work that reads like an intimate conversation, often poetic in its beauty. At the same time, perhaps because he emphasizes the irreducible uniqueness of his relationship with his mother, it seems impossible to read his book without asking questions about the meaning of love and finitude and relation to the Other in one’s own life.” – Doris Brothers, Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, author of Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis and Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience “Mark Freeman writes of his mother's dementia with a son's sharp wonderment and intimate sorrow. Layered over these, he offers a psychologist's search for understanding, a search that yields as many questions as answers. What is a self without memory, without narrative? Tracing the progression of his mother's loss, he discovers profound sweetness alongside the pain; moments of startling, salty humor; and eventually a kind of found poetry in their increasingly pared-down verbal exchanges, which read almost like nursery rhymes, full of puzzlement and beauty and love.” – Leah Hager Cohen, James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing, College of the Holy Cross, author of Strangers and Cousins and The Grief of Others “In Do I Look at You with Love?, Mark Freeman invites readers into his deep and complicated relationship with his mother as she moves through messy stages of Alzheimer’s disease. As he bears witness to his mother’s life—and his own—Mark rises to the needs of the situation by gradually giving himself over to the ‘priority of the other.’ Acknowledging both the terror and the joy of ‘being with’ his mother over years of her steady decline, Mark’s love story evokes empathy and identification with the demands of a life circumstance akin to being held ‘hostage.’ The stories he tells about their time together evoke the tragic dimensions yet ‘sacred beauty of finite life,’ the sometimes quiet joy of cognitive decline, and the love and care between mother and son. The astute conceptual analysis of the stages she (and they) go through provide insight into the mortal reality of the life we all live. The ethical questions that arise lead to innovative thinking about our role as researchers and characters in the personal stories we tell, and how we represent the ‘other.’ Do I Look at You with Love? is storytelling and analysis at its best, written by the most keenly observant and sensitive narrative psychologist of our time. Mark has accomplished his goal to ‘memorize’ his mother, and now this story lives with readers, no doubt moving us to do the same with our loved ones.” – Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, University of South Florida, author of Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work and Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness “Mark Freeman, a major thinker in narrative psychology, tells the story of his mother’s evolving dementia with his penetrating mind and his expansive heart. As he struggles to stay emotionally connected to her, he analyzes with his penetrating insight, the role and limits of narrative in our lives. This beautifully written book is both moving and illuminating, a must-read for anyone who lives or works with people with dementia or any psychologist interested in how we are created by, but exist beyond, our life narratives.” – Ruthellen Josselson, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Fielding Graduate University, author of Narrative and Cultural Humility: Lessons from the “Good Witch” Teaching Psychotherapy in China and Paths to Fulfillment: Women’s Search for Meaning and Identity “In ‘memorizing’ carefully the phases of his mother’s journey with dementia, a journey he shared with her, Freeman draws on a wealth of insight into the links between memory, identity, and narrative to pen for us not just a moving tribute to what he calls dementia’s ‘tragic promise,’ but also a deeply thoughtful meditation on the precious beauty of Life itself, in all its complexity and mystery, transiency and loss.” – William Randall, Professor of Gerontology, St. Thomas University, author of In Our Stories Lies Our Strength: Aging, Spirituality, and Narrative and The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life: Tales from the Coffee ShopTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Different Kind of Story Chapter 1: A Relational Perspective on Dementia Chapter 2: Protest Chapter 3: Presence Chapter 4: Dislocation Chapter 5: Release Chapter 6: Death, Dementia, and the Face of the Divine Coda: Reimagining Dementia, Reimagining Life References About the Author

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Book SynopsisDo I Look at You with Love? were the words uttered by Mark Freeman’s mother when she learned, once again, that he was her son. This book explores the experience of dementia as it transpired during the course of the final twelve years of her life, from the time of her diagnosis until her death in 2016 at age 93. As a longtime student of memory, identity, and narrative, as well as the son of a woman with dementia, he had a remarkable opportunity to try to understand and tell her story. Much of the story is tragic. But there were other periods and other dimensions of relationship that were beautiful and that could not have emerged without her very affliction. In the midst of affliction there were gifts, arriving unbidden, that served to alert Freeman and his family to what is most precious and real. These are part of the story too. Part narrative psychology, part memoir, part meditation on the beauty and light that might be found amidst the ravages of time and memory, Freeman’s moving story is emblematic of nothing less than the bittersweet reality of life itself.Trade Review"In Do I Look, the autoethnographic form enables Freeman to make the fullest use of himself as a person reflecting on his own life and as a scholar who can frame those reflections in relation to others’ thinking. (…) Do I Look at You with Love? broadens our imagination of research, while it troubles our sense of personal, community, and clinical responsibility." – Arthur W. Frank in the Journal of Medical Humanities, 17 July 2021. “Written in a prose which is both scholarly and profoundly compassionate, Mark Freeman recounts the journey of his mother’s dementia from a son’s perspective, using insights gained from his years of thinking about how we come to tell the stories we live, what happens when those threads fall apart, and exploring what cultural tools are available to us to tell stories of decline and death. This book will bring fresh insights combined with a deep sense of recognition to anyone interested in questions of memory and identity, who has lived with someone with dementia, or even struggled with the gradual loss of a loved one. While the story told here is about a particular person, in a particular time and place, with a particular son, Freeman offers the reader a philosophical contemplation on the meaning of love and loss, inviting us to reflect on who we are in relation to others in our lives, and the trouble of making sense when those others can no longer be present.” – Molly Andrews, Professor of Political Psychology and co-director, Centre for Narrative Research, University of East London, author of Narrative Imagination and Everyday Life and Shaping History: Narratives of Political Change “Through his deep, intimate portrait of his relationship with his mother over more than a decade of dementia, Freeman investigates questions central to being human: How do we locate ourselves in space and time? Do we still have a self when we don’t have our story? How do we discover our deepest level of connection to others? This engaging book gently challenges each of us to question our part in upholding society’s disdain for aging, illness and death and digs to the bedrock of what is needed for us to be good to one another. In a humble yet scholarly manner, Freeman invites us to develop our own understandings through visiting with him and his beloved mother on her journey through dementia to death.” – Susan Bluck, Professor of Psychology and Director, Life Story Lab, University of Florida “For more than thirty years, Mark Freeman’s philosophically inspired contributions to narrative inquiry have widened and deepened our conceptual understanding of how stories work in and on our sense-making lives. In Do I Look at You with Love?, Freeman embarks on a different kind of inquiry, attempting to join his academic dexterity to his own (and his mother’s) lived experience in order to reimagine dementia. The result is a daring, refreshing, and intimate portrait that merges the academic and the personal, the intellectual and the spiritual, the desire to make sense and the attentiveness to let go of the sense one has made. Do I Look at You with Love? is a gift that guides readers to a deeper understanding of the human condition, the sacred, and the unknown. Freeman’s most ingenious observations show how identities too often are imposed on us, requiring us to challenge the moral understanding and consequences of the stories, or fragments of story, that circulate widely in the community in which we find or locate ourselves. This makes the task of keeping the door open without expectations nearly impossible. We become entrapped by our own (or our culture’s) story. Freeman shows the many ways in which the caregiver of a parent with dementia lives in a canonical story saturated with dread, terror, worry, and hopelessness. Typically, the parent is ill and the caregiver wounded. How then to care with compassion, patience, and generosity; with gentleness, humanity, and honesty; with loving kindness? Freeman approaches these questions by candidly fusing doubt and hope, seeking a story that might prepare future caregivers (and students of the human sciences) for both the perils and the joys lying ahead. Refusing to romanticize or revile, Freeman gradually recognizes that what may violate, deprive, or disrupt us may also bring us closer to the moral good and a capacity to ‘be with’ that validates the priority of the other and allows a measure of beauty and joy to arise. In the process, he shows us what it can mean for an academic and/or a caregiver to strive for an acute self-consciousness and an appropriately shameless subjectivity. This is Freeman’s intellectual and spiritual gift to readers. Do I Look at You with Love? made me feel as if I was in conversation with another consciousness intent on feeling less alone and more human, and helping me, the reader, to feel that way as well. If this represents Freeman’s goals for an artful human science, I am all in.” – Art Bochner, Distinguished University Professor Emeritus, University of South Florida, author of Coming to Narrative: A Personal History of Paradigm Change in the Human Sciences and co-author (with Carolyn Ellis), Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories “Not only does Mark Freeman honor his mother's memory with this remarkable book, he honors his readers by entrusting them with a self—and soul—searching account of his mother's last 12 years with dementia. He has managed to incorporate many aspects of his philosophical scholarship and understanding of narrative psychology into a work that reads like an intimate conversation, often poetic in its beauty. At the same time, perhaps because he emphasizes the irreducible uniqueness of his relationship with his mother, it seems impossible to read his book without asking questions about the meaning of love and finitude and relation to the Other in one’s own life.” – Doris Brothers, Psychologist/Psychoanalyst, author of Toward a Psychology of Uncertainty: Trauma-Centered Psychoanalysis and Falling Backwards: An Exploration of Trust and Self-Experience “Mark Freeman writes of his mother's dementia with a son's sharp wonderment and intimate sorrow. Layered over these, he offers a psychologist's search for understanding, a search that yields as many questions as answers. What is a self without memory, without narrative? Tracing the progression of his mother's loss, he discovers profound sweetness alongside the pain; moments of startling, salty humor; and eventually a kind of found poetry in their increasingly pared-down verbal exchanges, which read almost like nursery rhymes, full of puzzlement and beauty and love.” – Leah Hager Cohen, James N. and Sarah L. O'Reilly Barrett Professor in Creative Writing, College of the Holy Cross, author of Strangers and Cousins and The Grief of Others “In Do I Look at You with Love?, Mark Freeman invites readers into his deep and complicated relationship with his mother as she moves through messy stages of Alzheimer’s disease. As he bears witness to his mother’s life—and his own—Mark rises to the needs of the situation by gradually giving himself over to the ‘priority of the other.’ Acknowledging both the terror and the joy of ‘being with’ his mother over years of her steady decline, Mark’s love story evokes empathy and identification with the demands of a life circumstance akin to being held ‘hostage.’ The stories he tells about their time together evoke the tragic dimensions yet ‘sacred beauty of finite life,’ the sometimes quiet joy of cognitive decline, and the love and care between mother and son. The astute conceptual analysis of the stages she (and they) go through provide insight into the mortal reality of the life we all live. The ethical questions that arise lead to innovative thinking about our role as researchers and characters in the personal stories we tell, and how we represent the ‘other.’ Do I Look at You with Love? is storytelling and analysis at its best, written by the most keenly observant and sensitive narrative psychologist of our time. Mark has accomplished his goal to ‘memorize’ his mother, and now this story lives with readers, no doubt moving us to do the same with our loved ones.” – Carolyn Ellis, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, University of South Florida, author of Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work and Final Negotiations: A Story of Love, Loss, and Chronic Illness “Mark Freeman, a major thinker in narrative psychology, tells the story of his mother’s evolving dementia with his penetrating mind and his expansive heart. As he struggles to stay emotionally connected to her, he analyzes with his penetrating insight, the role and limits of narrative in our lives. This beautifully written book is both moving and illuminating, a must-read for anyone who lives or works with people with dementia or any psychologist interested in how we are created by, but exist beyond, our life narratives.” – Ruthellen Josselson, Professor of Clinical Psychology, Fielding Graduate University, author of Narrative and Cultural Humility: Lessons from the “Good Witch” Teaching Psychotherapy in China and Paths to Fulfillment: Women’s Search for Meaning and Identity “In ‘memorizing’ carefully the phases of his mother’s journey with dementia, a journey he shared with her, Freeman draws on a wealth of insight into the links between memory, identity, and narrative to pen for us not just a moving tribute to what he calls dementia’s ‘tragic promise,’ but also a deeply thoughtful meditation on the precious beauty of Life itself, in all its complexity and mystery, transiency and loss.” – William Randall, Professor of Gerontology, St. Thomas University, author of In Our Stories Lies Our Strength: Aging, Spirituality, and Narrative and The Narrative Complexity of Ordinary Life: Tales from the Coffee ShopTable of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: A Different Kind of Story Chapter 1: A Relational Perspective on Dementia Chapter 2: Protest Chapter 3: Presence Chapter 4: Dislocation Chapter 5: Release Chapter 6: Death, Dementia, and the Face of the Divine Coda: Reimagining Dementia, Reimagining Life References About the Author

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Book SynopsisThis memoir is a story of loss and gain, of alienation and reconciliation, and of how such experiences go into the making of a psychoanalyst. In sharing his own very troubled family history, his decade as a Carmelite monk, his marriage and career as a psychoanalyst, Gargiulo shows how the diverse pieces of one’s life can fit together into something that is meaningful and real. This is one person’s life - but it relates to us all. “We are bound together, each of us,” the author writes, “in our living, our troubles and our joys. As we hear another's story, we are, simultaneously, writing our own autobiography.”Trade Review"After reading this potent, poignant and moving, beautifully written memoir, we appreciate what the meaning is of the psychoanalytic idea of placing emphasis on remembering." – in: The Psychoanalytic Review 96/5 (October 2009) "Broken Fathers/Broken Sons is a rare combination of memoir and musing. Playful and wise, it is an ode to what is broken inside all of us, as well as to what seeks healing....it allows us to put back together both questions and quests, as we journey out of a decade of looking for a better father in God in a Carmelite monastery, into psychoanalytic practice. Out of one man’s coming to terms with the damage of a painful father/son relationship, comes a poignant and fierce cry against inequality, be it between parent and child, or analyst and patient." – Erika Duncan, novelist, founder of Herstory Writers Workshop "In this intensely personal and humane memoir Dr. Gargiulo plumbs the depths of relationships between a father and a son. Not since Turgenev’s Fathers and Sons have these issues been so keenly examined and so directly held up to scrutiny. The precepts of psychoanalytic thought brought forward by Gargiulo speak to everyman in this book that merits a place on one’s bookshelf next to the work of the great Russian novelist." – Norman Itzkowitz, Professor Emeritus, Princeton UniversityTable of ContentsPreface Remembering Humpty Carmelite Passage Finding A Voice Mother Earth Talking Memories Running Interlude (Of Elephants and Kings) Bridges Holding Dreams Dancing with God The Dreaming Knight Grieving Lilacs Finding My Father Memory and Time End Thoughts Epilogue Appendix (Poems For Late Night Reading)

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Book SynopsisTish Davidson is a medical writer specializing in making accurate technical information accessible and enjoyable for a general readership. She is the author of What You Need to Know about Diabetes (2020), The Vaccine Debate (2018), and Vaccines: History, Science, and Issues (2017), as well as numerous books for children.

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Book SynopsisMensun Bound is a leading maritime archaeologist who has discovered many of the world's most famous shipwrecks. Artefacts that he has raised can be found on permanent display in over a dozen museums worldwide. His excavations have featured in many documentaries and were the subject of a four-part series by the Discovery Channel entitled Lost Ships. He founded the first academic unit for maritime archaeology in England and from 1992 to 2013 was the Triton Fellow in Maritime Archaeology at St. Peter's College, Oxford University. He is a Trustee of the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust and was Director of Exploration on the 2019 and 2022 expeditions to locate Shackleton's Endurance. The Ship Beneath the Ice is his first book.

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