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Growing up in southeast England during WWII, Christine Marks experienced her share of hardships, but few were so drastic as to leave indelible marks, unlike the terrible accident that befell her as a young wife and mother. Gradually though, she overcame the physical impediments the accident visited on her through a combination of acceptance, courage and a latterly found faith in the spiritualist church. Part memoir, part introduction to the spiritualist faith and its attendant rituals and beliefs, this is the story of a woman's continuing journey into the realms of the universe beyond the...

There Must Be More to Life is the first monograph on German painter Christine Jackob-Marks (born 1943), a veteran of Berlin's art scene. Covering 50 years of abstract landscapes, nudes and animal paintings, it compiles over 200 works.

This collection comprises essays from various interdisciplinary perspectives – e.g. literary scholarship, intermediality, art history, psychoanalysis, philosophy, and medicine – to analyze and interpret the fictional and non-fictional works by Siri Hustvedt, an author whose reputation and public presence have been growing steadily in the 21st century and who is recognized as one of the most widely read and appreciated contemporary American writers. In her significance and stature as a public intellectual, she is not merely an American writer but a transnational, cosmopolitan author, who...