Includes a new introduction and the author’s final revisions. Originally published by NAL Plume in 1982.

"Fifty Words has a gimlet eye, providing meticulously chosen, artfully integrated details that let us understand why its characters so love and loathe each other. Like Mr. Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? it understands how closely hate and love can be linked in marriage."-The New York TimesIn Fifty Words, a Brooklyn brownstone becomes a marital battleground for Adam and Jan; Do Not Disturb dramatizes Adam's infidelity at a hotel ...

Ten years after the end of their affair in New York, two lovers meet in a hotel room far from their homes. Both are now married, both have children and both have been wondering about the road not taken. What begins as a casual meal and an evening of catching up turns into a painful, hilarious, passionate and moving voyage towards a moment that could change both their lives forever.Uncompromising in its attitude to modern marriage and infidelity, What the Night is For poses...

Based on a real-life event, a monied client at a progressive law firm pressures the partners to drop a pro bono case they passionately believe in. Will they choose the easy path to preserve their business or keep fighting for what they believe is right?An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance starring:Michael Gross as BennettSean Sinitski as Hal and othersBob Adrian as AbeNed Schmidtke as DelTony Mockus Jr. as Pete and othersScott Lowell...

Part of the Oxford Textbooks in Clinical Neurology series, the Oxford Textbook of Neuro-Oncology is a comprehensive account of the diagnosis, management, and treatment of tumours of the nervous system in children and adults. The second edition covers the most up to date surgical, medical, and radiation therapies of nervous system tumours as well as tumour-related and treatment-related complications. Chapters are organized according to the widely accepted and referenced Wo...

Patients with pain emanating from their spines represent some of the most frequent and challenging cases for physical therapists. Here is a comprehensive and practical introduction to the management of back pain and restricted spinal function caused by intervertebral disk damage. The authors provide evidence-based, clinically oriented strategies for the diagnosis and therapeutic treatment of disk injury in the lumbar, thoracic, and cervical spinal regions. The text gives an overview of res...

Innerhalb weniger Jahre haben sich unsere Therapiemöglichkeiten von primären und metastatischen Tumoren des Gehirns entscheidend verbessert. Dieses Buch soll ein systematischer Leitfaden zur Behandlung dieser Tumoren sein: Es fasst die aktuellen neuroonkologischen Therapien zusammen und folgt dabei in seiner Systematik der revidierten WHO-Klassifikation für Tumoren des zentralen und peripheren Nervensystems.

East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte, is an edited collection of thirty-one essays that trace the experience of a California community over three centuries, from eighteenth-century Spanish colonization to twenty-first century globalization. Employing traditional historical scholarship, oral history, creative nonfiction and original art, the book provides a radical new history of El Monte and South El Monte, showing how interdisciplinary and community-engaged scholarship ca...

Francis Weller ci conduce in un itinerario controcorrente, invitandoci “sul margine selvaggio del dolore”, dove impariamo a coltivare l’arte del lutto e a riconoscere la vitalità, la comunione con gli altri e con il pianeta che possono emergere quando smettiamo di temere la perdita e la accogliamo come parte essenziale del vivere.In una cultura sempre più disallineata dai bisogni dell’anima – segnata da modelli di amnesia e anestesia che indeboliscono la nostra capacità di attrav...

**Hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world—a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being aliveThe bestselling book on grief and loss from psychotherapist Francis Weller: “One of the best books on grief I have ever read. … It helped me turn to and understand my grief in ways I never had before. It has helped me feel alive again.” —Anderson Cooper**Profoundly moving, beautifully written, The Wild Edge of Sorrow is a balm for the soul and a nece...

**Hope and healing for a profoundly fractured world—a pathway home to the brightness, pains, and gifts of being aliveThe bestselling book on grief and loss from psychotherapist Francis Weller: “One of the best books on grief I have ever read. … It helped me turn to and understand my grief in ways I never had before. It has helped me feel alive again.” —Anderson Cooper**Profoundly moving, beautifully written, The Wild Edge of Sorrow is a balm for the soul and a nece...

Rito e modernità si propone di cambiare radicalmente la nostra concezione del rito. Con l'aiuto di prospettive psicoanalitiche e antropologiche, illustra il processo di creazione di mondi"come se", fondati nella capacità della mente di immaginare universi condivisi, di passare da un mondo immaginario all'altro, comune al rito e al gioco. I riti tracciano i confini dei mondi immaginari, tra cui l'empatia e altri ambiti di creatività, come la musica, l'architettura e la letteratura. I riti c...