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The Gig of Their Lives

When a faded HOLLYWOOD LEGEND, a has-been BROADWAY IMPRESARIO, and an out-of-work NEW YORK ACTOR meet at WEST PALM ACRES, an upscale retirement community in West Palm Beach, each of their lives is magically and beautifully revived, proof that there is no expiration date on talent -- or love.

The Wrong Side of an Illness: A Doctor's Love Story is a non-fiction novel based on the memoirs of a general hospital psychiatrist whose life is turned upside down by physical signs of his wife's silent illness. What follows is his extraordinary account of their journey through her battle with ovarian cancer. His ability to translate emotion into prose allows him to share with his reader the subtle nuances of the narrator's altered role, the family's experience, the complexity of medical interactions in the setting of tragic illness, and the hope that follows from a loving marriage...

When her 15-year marriage breaks up, Brenda explores who she is now, often blending and confusing reality with her fictional characters. Facing her demons, she rewrites, revises, and polishes the script in order to move on, taking her to new heights in New York, London, and Cypress.

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In this ethnographic study of the teaching of writing, Karen Surman Paley reveals the social significance of first-person writing and the limitations of a popular taxonomy of composition studies. Paley looks critically at the way social constructionists have created an Other in the field of composition studies and named it expressivist.

Paley demonstrates the complexity of approaches to teaching writing through an ethnographic study of two composition faculty at Boston College, a programthat some would say is expressivist. She prompts her colleagues to consider how family...

ADHD in Adults: A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management is the product of a unique collaboration of international specialists. This volume offers easy-to-read guidance, and includes checklists, rating scales and treatment planning tools. It was designed for a broad audience of caregivers working in diverse settings, including psychiatrists, social workers, primary care physicians, nurse specialists and psychologists.

The authors are highly acclaimed clinicians, investigators and educators. They offer step-by-step guidance for implementation of best practices,...

ADHD in Adults: A Practical Guide to Evaluation and Management is the product of a unique collaboration of international specialists. This volume offers easy-to-read guidance, and includes checklists, rating scales and treatment planning tools. It was designed for a broad audience of caregivers working in diverse settings, including psychiatrists, social workers, primary care physicians, nurse specialists and psychologists.

The authors are highly acclaimed clinicians, investigators and educators. They offer step-by-step guidance for implementation of best practices,...

Language is the most essential medium of scientific activity. Many historians, sociologists and science studies scholars have investigated scientific language for this reason, but only few have examined those cases where language itself has become an object of scientific discussion. Over the centuries scientists have sought to control, refine and engineer language for various epistemological, communicative and nationalistic purposes. This book seeks to explore cases in the history of science in which questions or concerns with language have bubbled to the surface in scientific discourse....