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Winner of the New England Book Festival and Reader's Favorite Awards, The Box of Daughter is the compelling true story of the author's struggle to recover from emotional abuse and family bullying, and her quest to raise her self-esteem and create a more authentic life.

This captivating memoir offers many insights on the process of healing from Complex PTSD, describing the author's journey of recovery after growing up in a deeply dysfunctional family and illustrating how a person with Complex PTSD can make the leap from surviving to thriving.

In her...

This text provides technical data and guidance on defining a robust and appropriate design fire for use in the fire safety engineering design of a building. It explains:

• what a design fire is
• how it can be determined
• the limitations of current methodologies
• experimental data and calculation methods.

Current approaches to defining an appropriate design fire, ranging from the quantification of fuel load based on surveys of real buildings to experimental measurements, are described in detail.
Aimed at professionals involved in the...

Proving fruitful in various applications throughout its two millennia of predominance, the rhetorical techne appears to have entertained a particularly symbiotic interrelation with drama. With contributions from (among others) a Classicist, historical, linguistic, musicological, operatic, cultural and literary studies perspective, this publication offers interdisciplinary assessments of specific reciprocities between the system of rhetoric and dramatic works: tracing the longue duree of this nexus highlighting its Ancient foundations, its various Early Modern formations,...

As a guiding principle of Eastern art and design, Notan (a Japanese word meaning dark-light) focuses on the interaction between positive and negative space, a relationship embodied in the ancient symbolism of the Yang and the Yin. In composition, it recognizes the separate but equally important identity of both a shape and its background.
Since their introduction in the West, the intriguing exercises associated with Notan have produced striking results in every branch of Western art and design. This book, by two American artists and teachers who made an intensive study of Notan, was the...