Untangling Karma: Intimate Zen Stories on Healing Trauma by Judith Ragir
English | July 5th, 2022 | ISBN: 1948626691 | 280 pages | True EPUB | 3.67 MB
"This book is at once a love letter to Zen practice and a critique of late twentieth century American Zen. Judith inspires us to investigate our own karmic knots, and in the middle of this suffering, she invites us to walk quietly down to the neighborhood pond and take a cooling dip in the moonlight." -Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones, and many other books

Shahrzad Siassi, "Forgiveness in Intimate Relationships: A Psychoanalytic Perspective"
English | 2013 | pages: 184 | ISBN: 1780490623, 0367101181 | PDF | 0,5 mb
How can one overcome deeply-held resentment so as to resume or establish a bond with a traumatizing person, mindful that the experience of the self is rooted in the very intimate relationships from which such trauma arose? This book centres on the challenge of forgiveness and recovery from trauma in intimate relationships as viewed psychodynamically in the clinical context. Traumas inflicted by intimates, especially by parents, differ from transgressions and betrayals-however legitimately traumatizing-committed in less psychically-rooted relationships. While some betrayals are in fact not forgivable, what is at issue when parents or other intimates betray is the inevitable yearning for reunion: a wish whose potential fulfillment raises the spectre of re-traumatization and humiliation and is thus fraught with risk.

The Inheritors: An Intimate Portrait of South Africa's Racial Reckoning by Eve Fairbanks
English | July 19th, 2022 | ISBN: 1476725241 | 416 pages | True EPUB | 4.18 MB
A dozen years in the making, The Inheritors weaves together the stories of three ordinary South Africans over five tumultuous decades in a sweeping and exquisite look at what really happens when a country resolves to end white supremacy.

Hanneke Grootenboer, "Treasuring the Gaze: Intimate Vision in Late Eighteenth-Century Eye Miniatures"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0226309665 | 223 pages | PDF | 10.8 MB
The end of the eighteenth century saw the start of a new craze in Europe: tiny portraits of single eyes that were exchanged by lovers or family members. Worn as brooches or pendants, these minuscule eyes served the same emotional need as more conventional mementoes, such as lockets containing a coil of a loved one's hair. The fashion lasted only a few decades, and by the early 1800s eye miniatures had faded into oblivion. Unearthing these portraits in Treasuring the Gaze, Hanneke Grootenboer proposes that the rage for eye miniatures-and their abrupt disappearance-reveals a knot in the unfolding of the history of vision. Drawing on Alois Riegl, Jean-Luc Nancy, Marcia Pointon, Melanie Klein, and others, Grootenboer unravels this knot, discovering previously unseen patterns of looking and strategies for showing. She shows that eye miniatures portray the subject's gaze rather than his or her eye, making the recipient of the keepsake an exclusive beholder who is perpetually watched. These treasured portraits always return the looks they receive and, as such, they create a reciprocal mode of viewing that Grootenboer calls intimate vision. Recounting stories about eye miniatures-including the role one played in the scandalous affair of Mrs. Fitzherbert and the Prince of Wales, a portrait of the mesmerizing eye of Lord Byron, and the loss and longing incorporated in crying eye miniatures-Grootenboer shows that intimate vision brings the gaze of another deep into the heart of private experience. With a host of fascinating imagery from this eccentric and mostly forgotten yet deeply private keepsake, Treasuring the Gaze provides new insights into the art of miniature painting and the genre of portraiture.

Alec Wilkinson, "The Protest Singer: An Intimate Portrait of Pete Seeger"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0307269957, 0307390985 | 176 pages | EPUB | 3.5 MB
A true American original is brought to life in this rich and lively portrait of Pete Seeger, who, with his musical grace and inextinguishable passion for social justice, transformed folk singing into a high form of peaceful protest in the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on his extensive talks with Seeger, New Yorker writer Alec Wilkinson lets us experience the man's unique blend of independence and commitment, charm, courage, energy, and belief in human equality and American democracy.

Robert Augustus Masters Ph.D. - Knowing Your Shadow: Becoming Intimate with All That You Are
English | eBook | Size: 702.18 MB

Jim Burns, "Creating an Intimate Marriage: Rekindle Romance Through Affection, Warmth & Encouragement"
English | 2006 | ISBN: 0764202065, 076420405X | EPUB | pages: 208 | 0.4 mb
A Marriage Full of A.W.E. If you think intimacy in marriage is an impossible goal, think again. Even if your relationship is the high maintenance variety, you can still find that meaningful connection you are seeking by cultivating three important ingredients in your relationship: Affection, Warmth, and Encouragement-AWE. Sharing personal stories of both success and failure, Jim Burns' candid and vulnerable style will encourage you to work toward rekindling the fires of your romance, no matter how chilly the coals may have grown. Important areas discussed include communication, sexuality, friendship, forgiveness, worship, attitudes, and priorities. This is not a pie-in-the-sky approach to marriage. The challenges of everyday life with a spouse are faced head-on by someone who has not only experienced them himself but also coached hundreds of other couples and individuals in their struggles. The practical help he offers will equip you to tackle the real-life issues of marriage and find true and lasting intimacy with your spouse. Each chapter includes helpful follow-up exercises and questions for personal reflection.

English | 2014 | MP3 | M4B | ASIN: B00J4RUDI4 | Duration: 11:18 h | 311 MB
Lydia Denworth / Narrated by Karen Saltus

The Earth: an intimate history By Richard A. Fortey
2005 | 528 Pages | ISBN: 0006551378 | EPUB | 9 MB
The paperback of the Sunday Times bestseller that reveals how the earth became the shape it is today. This book will change the way you see the world -- permanently. The face of the earth, criss-crossed by chains of mountains like the scars of old wounds, has changed constantly over billions of years. Its shape records a remote past of earthquakes, volcanos and continental drift, and the ongoing subtle shifts that bring our planet alive. Richard Fortey introduces us to the earth's distinct character, revealing the life that it leads when humans aren't watching. He follows the continual movement of seabeds, valleys, mountain ranges and ice caps and shows how everything -- our culture, natural history, even the formation of our cities -- has its roots in geology. In Richard Fortey's hands, geology becomes vital and exhilarating and unmistakably informs our lives in the most intimate way.

The Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls By Joan Jacobs Brumberg
1998 | 336 Pages | ISBN: 0679735291 | EPUB | 8 MB