The Reflective, Facilitative and Interpretive Practices of the Coordinated Management of Meaning: Making Lives, Making Meaning, showcases practical applications of the theory of Coordinated Management of Meaning (CMM). In the facilitation section, CMM creates dynamics within groups leading toward improved ways of working together; in the interpretation section CMM offers alternative frames to interpret interactions with one another; and in the reflection section CMM is a means to reflect o...

Vida, obra (y muerte) de una mujer extraordinaria, comprometida íntegramente consigo misma y con su época.Un retrato del siglo XX que interpela los debates sobre identidad del XXI.Edith Stein recorrió un sinuoso camino de búsqueda que la llevó del judaísmo al agnosticismo, a la filosofía, al catolicismo y que concluyó en el infierno de los campos de concentración nazis. Nacida en Polonia en 1891, fue la primera muj...

Includes a 2015 Derringer Award winning short story: "The Kaluki Kings of Queens."Come meet the relatives. As diverse in theme and mood as the city itself, these stories take us from from the explosive excitement of the New York City Marathon to a secret cellar in Queens, from the warmth of an immigrant culture to the moneyed New York art world, and from brutality and poverty to Wall Street's privileged thugs. What the families have in common is this: their lives ha...

Slices of life beyond the tourist's view. By turns funny, tough, and somber, the twenty-one helpings of New York attitude in Fresh Slices reveal neighborhoods both rich and poor, where oldtimers desperately protect their secrets and brand new arrivals indulge dangerous appetites. There is as much variety in tone and setting as in Gotham itself, and yet each of these crime stories also reflects the city's most infectious and unifying principle, that specia...

This book is for those at or nearing the end stages of their lives and for those who are dear to them. Following on the heels of Dr. Elizabeth Kübler Ross, I see that there is once again a need to change the way we in our society perceive the death transition. There is a continuum I believe we need to acknowledge and come to terms with before we face the conclusion of our human experience on this earth. I emphasize "before" because when someone is in the throes of grief (for one's own life...

Irene Adler wird von Mycroft Holmes nach Wien geschickt, wo sie einen Mann namens Hans Gruber treffen soll. Doch als sie seine Wohnung erreicht, liegt der Mann tot auf der Straße. Gruber war einer Geheimorganisation auf der Spur, die offenbar eine große Sache plant. Irene macht die Bekanntschaft mit dem Schauspieler Franz, dem Freund des Toten, der sie fortan bei ihren Ermittlungen unterstützt. Doch bald darauf geraten sie zwischen die Fronten der Polizei und der Mörder, die ihnen auf den ...