"Hecht gleefully invites readers on a lively stroll through three millennia of clashes between believers and nonbelievers" ( Detroit Free Press )."Jennifer Hect's romp—lighthearted but serious—brings to life an awesome array of figures in philosophy, science, and literature, in a way that is wonderfully engaging." —Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States

Worldwide, more people die by suicide than by murder, and many more are left behind to grieve. Despite distressing statistics that show suicide rates rising, the subject, long a taboo, is infrequently talked about. In this sweeping intellectual and cultural history, poet and historian Jennifer Michael Hecht channels her grief for two friends lost to suicide into a search for history’s most persuasive arguments against the irretrievable act, arguments she hopes to bring back into public c...

The Wonder Paradox offers a lively, practical, and transcendent road map to meaning and connection through poetry.Where do we find magic? Peace? Connection?We have calendars to mark time, communal spaces to bring us together, bells to signal hours of contemplation, official archives to record legacies, the wisdom of sages read aloud, weekly, to map out the right way to live—in kindness, justice, morality. These rhythms and structures of society were all...

Im Buch wird das Konzept der Entschulung anhand von drei Hauptformen vorgestellt: Entschulung der Gesellschaft, Entschulung des Lernens (Freilernen und Homeschooling) und Entschulung der Schule. Die historischen und theoretischen Bezüge sind leicht verständlich aufbereitet und praktische Beispiele liefern Einblicke in eine Bewegung, die zunehmend mehr Bedeutung in der bundesdeutschen Bildungslandschaft gewinnt. Die politische Brisanz und die bemerkenswerten Ähnlichkeiten in der praktischen...

Find out how a mischievous boy became a phenomenal swimmer and the greatest Olympian of all time in this inspiring addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Who Was? series!Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Michael Phelps began swimming at age seven at the urging of his mom. As a young boy, Michael was brimming with energy--more energy than most other kids his age--and Mrs. Phelps thought this sport could help keep him calm and focused. As Michae...

Proclaiming the gospel is the central feature of Christian mission, thus making communication a critical challenge as missionaries attempt to share the message by learning language and culture. However, very few consider the influence of identity on communication. In this interdisciplinary work, Dr. Benjamin Isola Akano engages with Michael Hecht’s communication theory of identity, which argues that it is a multi-layered phenomenon with interlocking and shifting frames that leads to an ide...

This book is based on an in-depth conversation between Howard Burton and poet, author and historian commentator Jennifer Michael Hecht. After intriguing details about how she combines writing poetry, doing scholarly history and public writing, this wide-ranging conversation movingly embellishes upon Jennifer Michael Hecht's book Stay: A History of Suicide and the Philosophies Against It, which is an intellectual and cultural history of the most persuasive arguments against suicide from the...

Now in its third edition, this text examines how African Americans personally and culturally define themselves and how that definition informs their communication habits, practices, and norms.This edition includes new chapters that highlight discussions of gender and sexuality, intersectional differences, contemporary social movements, and digital and mediated communication.The book is ideally suited for advanced students and scholars in intercultural communication, interpe...

Find out how a mischievous boy became a phenomenal swimmer and the greatest Olympian of all time in this inspiring addition to the #1 New York Times bestselling Who Was? series!Born and raised in Baltimore, Maryland, Michael Phelps began swimming at age seven at the urging of his mom. As a young boy, Michael was brimming with energy--more energy than most other kids his age--and Mrs. Phelps thought this sport could help keep him calm and focused. As Michae...

Adolescent Relationships and Drug Use explores the communicative and relational features of adolescent drug use. It focuses on peer norms, risk, and protective factors and considers how drugs are offered to adolescents, examining such factors as who makes the offers and how they are resisted, where the offers take place, and what relationship exists between the persons making the offers and the persons receiving them. Unlike other studies of drug resistance, this work examines the...

In der heutigen Psychiatrie stellt die Psychotherapie einen Hauptpfeiler der Therapie dar. Es gilt, ausgehend von den zahlreichen Therapiemethoden und Techniken eine auf die individuellen Patientenbedürfnisse angepasste Psychotherapie anzubieten, die die Komplexität der Erkrankung, Stärken und Schwächen im Funktionsniveau sowie den sozialen Kontext berücksichtigt. Das vorliegende Lehrbuch bietet Ärzten und Psychologen eine systematische Grundlage für die psychotherapeutische Tätigkeit in d...

Communicating with Our Families: Continuity, Interruption, and Transformation examines how communication technologies are shaping childhood, parenthood, and families by exploring topics such as parental loneliness, family storytelling, family technology rules, mindful technology usage, multigenerational communication, and community. The scholars in this volume work from a human communication perspective and use various research modes of inquiry including quantitative, qualitative, and inte...