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Clara Velde is a successful fashion writer in New York City and the star of the story. The book's title refers to the disappearance of Clara's prized emerald ring. Clara associates the ring with her love for the Washington, D.C. politico Ithiel and with her own professional and personal power. The ring's apparent theft leads Clara into a series of psychological crises and forces her to confront a long-buried complex of interpersonal issues.

This fictional memoir, the first of an autobiographical trilogy, traces a self professed failure's nightmarish decent into the underside of American life and his resurrection to the wisdom that emerges from despair.

When we first meet him, Chappie is a punked-out teenager living with his mother and abusive stepfather in an upstate New York trailer park. During this time, he slips into drugs and petty crime. Rejected by his parents, out of school and in trouble with the police, he claims for himself a new identity as a permanent outsider; he gets a crossed-bones tattoo on his arm, and takes the name "Bone".

He finds dangerous refuge with a group of biker-thieves, and then hides in the boarded-up summer house of a professor and his wife. He finally settles in an abandoned schoolbus with Rose, a child he rescues from a fast-talking pedophile. There Bone meets I-Man, an exiled Rastafarian, and together they begin a second adventure that takes the reader from Middle America to the ganja-growing mountains of Jamaica. It is an amazing journey of self-discovery through a world of magic, violence, betrayal and redemption.

Winter, January 1945. It is cold and dark, and the German army is retreating from the Russian advance. Germans are fleeing the occupied territories in their thousands, in cars and carts and on foot. But in a rural East Prussian manor house, the wealthy von Globig family tries to seal itself off from the world. Peter von Globig is twelve, and feigns a cough to get out of his Hitler Youth duties, preferring to sledge behind the house and look at snowflakes through his microscope. His father Eberhard is stationed in Italy - a desk job safe from the front - and his bookish and musical mother Katharina has withdrawn into herself. Instead the house is run by a conservative, frugal aunt, helped by two Ukrainian maids and an energetic Pole. Protected by their privileged lifestyle from the deprivation and chaos around them, and caught in the grip of indecision, they make no preparations to leave, until Katharina's decision to harbour a stranger for the night begins their undoing.

In 1993 Linda Grant's mother, Rose, was diagnosed with multi-infarct dementia. With Roses's memory deteriorating, a whole world was in the process of being lost. In this work she looks at the question of identity, memory and autonomy that dementia raises.

Autobiografie van een afstandsmoeder, van wie de dochter komt te overlijden door verwaarlozing en mishandeling door de adoptie-ouders.

Het leven van de 29-jarige actrice Anna lijkt een aaneenschakeling van succes en plezier, maar toch is ze niet gelukkig. Dan ontmoet ze de Tsjetsjeense klusjesman Vladimir en begint met hem een stormachtige relatie.

bevat: 1. De kleine Zielen; 2. Het late leven; 3 Zieleschemering [en] 4. Het heilige weten

Roots of Empathy — an evidence-based program developed in 1996 by longtime educator and social entrepreneur Mary Gordon — has already reached more than 270,000 children in Canada, the U.S., Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and elsewhere.

Now, as The New York Times reports that "empathy lessons are spreading everywhere amid concerns over the pressure on students from high-stakes tests and a race to college that starts in kindergarten", Mary Gordon explains the value of and how best to nurture empathy and social and emotional literacy in all children — and thereby reduce aggression, antisocial behavior, and bullying.

This comprehensive volume of writings and lectures spans thirty-two years of this popular teacher's career, from 1964 to 1996. Topics include Zen training and practice; Buddhist ethics; illness, death, and dying; and Zen in America. Roshi Philip Kapleau underwent thirteen years of formal training in Japan with two of Japan's most noted Zen masters, Harada Roshi and Yasutani Roshi. Roshi Kapleau returned to the United States in 1966 and has made it his life's work to translate Zen Buddhism into an American idiom.

Tussen het feminisme en de biologische wetenschappen heeft het nooit geboterd. Er zit volgens feministen nogal wat vrouwenhaat verborgen in evolutionaire verklaringen van menselijk sociaal gedrag. Evolutionaire wetenschappers verwijten feministen dat zij, door aan te nemen dat gender-identiteit geheel sociaal geconstrueerd is, antiwetenschappelijk te werk gaan. Vandermassen behandelt de geschiedenis van feministische kritiek op het darwinistische denkkader en ook de geschiedenis van de 'biofobie' onder feministen. Zij komt tot de conclusie dat een goed begrepen darwinistisch perspectief op de menselijke natuur en op de seksen noodzakelijk is om de grote vraagstukken binnen het feminisme op te lossen. Verkorte en licht bewerkte versie van: Who's afraid of Charles Darwin? : Debating feminism and evolutionary theory. - Oxford, 2005.

Hoksbergen schetst in dit boek de geschiedenis van zestig jaar adoptie in Nederland. Adoptie was immer een maatschappelijk kwestie waarover de visies in de loop der tijd veranderden. Zo laat het boek zien dat de adoptie binnen Nederland in de loop der tijd praktisch verdween en dat inter-landelijke adoptie vanaf de jaren zeventig sterk in opkomst kwam. Daarnaast staat het boek ook stil bij andere facetten, zoals het wel en wee van de adoptiegezinnen en de kinderen en komen de procedures, wetgeving en organisaties aan bod die een rol speelden bij het adoptieproces in ons land. Dit alles werd door Hoksbergen geïllustreerd met toepasselijke persoonlijke verhalen.

Psychologische studie naar de redenen, waardoor kinderen binnen één gezin vaak zulke grote karakterverschillen tonen.

Uitleg van de mechanismen in het menselijk brein aan de hand van de zeven hoofdzonden.

It has long been known that the body may respond positively when an individual believes that he or she has been given medication. For years the placebo effect remained an isolated and unexplained phenomenon. Recent research has shown, however, that psychological states and life traumas, including divorce and loss of employment, can adversely affect immune system responses. This volume, composed of contributions by noted researchers in psychiatry, psychology, and neuroscience, explain the fascinating investigations of brain-mind-body relationships that are changing the way we think about health and illness.

The book's first three chapters demonstrate how the brain operates as a health maintenance organization and describe the brain's growth in response to experience. Psychosocial factors in healing are explored in chapters that examine the social environment's effect on susceptibility to illness, the mechanisms and implications of the placebo effect, and the ways in which social support and health are related. Included is a chapter entitled ``The Broken Heart,'' an exceptional explication of the psychobiology of human contact.

Because healing does not merely return the mind or the body to its presymptomatic condition, but more usually brings about lasting change, chapters on psychoneuroimmunology examine the neuropeptide and emotions interactions that promote healing. Possible psychoneuroimmunological mechanisms are considered, and the emerging field as a whole is discussed with a special note on the timely question of AIDS.

The section on coping and stress investigates why demanding situations affect some people's health adversely whereas others thrive under the same duress. Topics include stress resistant personality and coronary-prone behaviors, and examinations of environmental factors that influence health. Other chapters on diet and nutrition, examine how food affects the brain and how the brain regulates body weight.

Together, the articles in this volume describe a world of scientific research that offers potent possibilities for the future of mental and physical health care. It will prove invaluable reading for all mental health clinicians and researchers, physicians, and serious readers interested in the health and well being of the human organism.

Beschrijving van bouw en functie van de menselijke hersenen, waarbij het geheugen, het bewustzijn, het zien, de taal, veroudering, psychiatrische aandoeningen en verslaving aan de orde komen.

Where is the seat of consciousness within the brain? How can we account for a continuum that begins with cells and neurochemicals and ends with such ethereal qualities as imagination, creativity, and that elusive being we call the "self"? In The Creative Loop, Erich Harth, a distinguished researcher in the physics of perception, offers a persuasive theory that explains in detailed fashion how the brain creates the conscious self, the "I" that we all experience as separate from the "It" of the rest of the world. The split known as the "mind-body problem" is, of course, one of the oldest questions of science and philosophy and is still among the most hotly debated today. The classical view held that there was some sort of spirit or homunculus hovering above the physical brain, looking down on the central stage of our perceptions. The prevailing scientific view today rejects not only spirit but also the very hope of there being any "central meaner" observing and making sense of experience, preferring to see unified consciousness itself as a delusion. Whereas Marvin Minsky offers us The Society of Mind and the philosopher Daniel Dennett even describes "an army of idiots" within our brains, Harth presents a view, based on long-known but generally overlooked features of brain structure, that flies in the face of orthodox materialism. Harth takes us out of the old Newtonian world of machine models of the brain and into the almost mystical realm of contemporary physics, focusing on specific structures - the relays within the sensory pathways linking the sense organs and the cerebral cortex - that send information back and forth. It is these relays that, in Harth's view, ultimately give rise toconsciousness and creativity. Each relay serves as a "sketch pad" where perceptions are received and modified before being passed along. Thus what reaches the cortex is not the unvarnished truth but a truth filtered and personalized through improvisation, much like a child talking to herself as she practices her language ability. There is, then, in Harth's view, a unified consciousness built up within the biology of the brain. It simply does not reside atop the system, but rather is deeply embedded within this "hall of mirrors" at the bottom. Unlike the orthodox view which finds no place for freedom of the will in its description of the brain, Harth's approach is a celebration of the messy, intuitive nature of human consciousness and the creativity it exhibits. The beauty of this theory, and of this often lyrical book, lies in its reconciliation of the cold facts of biology and physics with our most humanistic aspirations.

This second edition has been revised especially for Dutch readers. Bonaire is one of several Caribbean islands with a Dutch colonial past and homeland of author, Curvin George. The author shares his views on cultural mindsets and social issues which many may still consider too sensitive to discuss openly. He takes readers on his personal journey to discover inner truths and how people (ab)use the notion of truth. This debut work offers a fresh way of looking at the island's social bottlenecks and challenges people to renew their thinking. The content is bilingual for readers of Dutch and Papiamento, which are both spoken on Bonaire.

Nederland hoort tot de meest welvarende, vrije en gelukkige landen. Dat constateren wetenschappelijk onderzoekers van het geluk. Maar tegelijk zijn anti-depressiva de meest geslikte medicijnen. Talloos zijn de andere therapieën, de zelfhulpboeken en de internetpagina's over depressiviteit. En deskundigen stellen dat depressie nog grotendeels onderbehandeld is. Is depressie een biologisch bepaalde ziekte die nu pas goed herkend en behandeld wordt? Praten de hulpverlening en de farmaceutische industrie ons psychische stoornissen aan? Of bracht de verzorgingsstaat mentale kleinzerigheid op grote schaal?Trudy Dehue bespreekt de geschiedenis van neerslachtigheid. Ze bestudeert de claims van de biopsychiatrie, analyseert de commercialisering van het psychiatrisch onderzoek en de inhoud van de anti-depressivareclames. Ze betoogt dat gangbare verklaringen voor de toename van depressie niet houdbaar of niet volledig zijn. Het werk belicht het proces waarin het ideaal van de maakbare samenleving werd ingeruild voor dat van het maakbare individu. Benadrukten we voorheen omstandigheden als oorzaak van ellende, tegenwoordig gaat de aandacht naar het individuele brein. Daarbij werden we zelf verantwoordelijk voor wat ons vroeger gewoon overkwam. Want nu succes een keuze is geworden, geldt dat voor mislukking evenzeer.

During the neurologist Harold Klawan's lifetime, patients came to him from all over America, exhibiting a huge array of troubles, all of which boiled down to one complaint: something was wrong with their brains. As a sympathetic brain detective, Klawans deduced a great deal from his patients, not only about the immediate causes of their ailments but also about the evolutionary underpinnings of their behaviour.

Korte essays over bijzondere mentale toestanden en psychische aandoeningen.

Beschrijving van onderzoeken en experimenten betreffende dromen en slapen.

Veertien dagen later deden Kimberly en ik onze eerste communie. Samen met ons waren er nog vier andere kinderen die beloofden dat hun zieltje voor eeuwig aan God zou toebehoren. Ik droeg een witte jurk met rode bolletjes en mijn haar was lang en gekruld. Ik vond mezelf het mooist. De andere meisjes Kimberly inbegrepen droegen kleren van jute. Dat was toen volop in de mode. Ik vond het maar niks. Alsof ze een aardappelzak droegen. Mijn jurk was veruit het duurst en ik zag hoe de mensen mij bekeken met ogen van hoe-kunnen-ze-zo'n-dure-jurk-betalen? Ik was toen heel trots op mijn mama. Zij gaf me veel meer dan andere moeders hun kinderen gaven. Armoede zit in Vlaanderen vaak verborgen achter anonieme gevels. Toch is het een harde realiteit voor een op de tien gezinnen. Ik ben iemand/niemand vertelt het unieke verhaal van Emilie en haar gezin. Zij slaagt erin om alles, van bij haar geboorte tot vandaag, 31 jaar later, neer te laten schrijven in een roman over haar leven. Een leven in een generatie van armoede in onze welvaartsmaatschappij. In het nawoord wordt de inhoud in een breder kader geplaatst, want het boek staat model voor het leven van vele andere mensen die generatie-arm zijn.