Mona Lisa To Marge

Examines how thirty artistic masterpieces were conceived, achieved cult status, and attained eternal fame by inspiring other artworks, advertisements, cartoons, and book and album covers.

Set in the Tuscan region of Italy, this vibrantly-illustrated children's book is a heart-warming tale about a mother and daughter's adventure in a distant land. Guaranteed to entertain and excite the young reader, it will educate and captivate them as they journey along with the characters on their voyage of discovery. In their quest to find the object of their desire, it is imperative they muster all their strength in facing their odds with great determination and perseverance. Throughout the adventure, the author wishes to convey important values to her young reader as not to give up hope and surrender for it takes real character to keep plugging on in pursuit of one's dreams in the face of adversity. The book also presents the benefits of camaraderie, compassion and compromise. Aside from the story, "Mona Lisa's Cherry Pie," it's the author’s expectation to inspire her readers to explore this geographic region and the cultural aspects of the main character's namesake, Mona Lisa. To embrace the excitement of following one's passion and the courage to embrace the challenges along the way is what the author aspires to accomplish.

Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy have, in one way or another, focused on the amelioration of the negative. This has only done half the job; the other half being to actively bring Positive Experience into patients’ lives. Positive Psychoanalysis moves away from this traditional focus on negative experience and problems, and instead looks at what makes for a positive life experience, bringing a new clinical piece to what psychoanalysts do: Positive Psychoanalysis and the interdisciplinary theory and research behind it. The envelope of functions entailed in Positive Psychoanalysis is an area of Being described as Subjective Well-Being. This book identifies three particular areas of function encompassed by SWB: Personal Meaning, Aesthetics, and Desire. Mark Leffert looks at the importance of these factors in our positive experiences in everyday life, and how they are manifested in clinical psychoanalytic work. These domains of Being form the basis of chapters, each comprising an interdisciplinary discussion integrating many strands of research and argument. Leffert discusses how the areas interact with each other and how they come to bear on the care, healing, and cure that are the usual subjects of psychoanalytic treatment. He also explores how they can be represented in contemporary psychoanalytic theory. This novel work discusses and integrates research findings, phenomenology, and psychoanalytic thought that have not yet been considered together. It seeks to inform readers about these subjects and demonstrates, with clinical examples, how to incorporate them into their clinical work with the negative, helping patients not just to heal the negative but also move into essential positive aspects of living: a sense of personal meaning, aesthetic competence, and becoming a desiring being that experiences Subjective Well-Being. Drawing on ideas from across neuroscience, philosophy, and social and culture studies, this book sets out a new agenda for covering the positive in psychoanalysis. Positive Psychoanalysis will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychotherapists, neuroscientists and philosophers, as well as academics across these fields and in psychiatry, comparative literature, and literature and the mind.

When Rowena's handsome English teacher invites her to a poetry reading, the shy high school girl changes overnight from a wallflower to an attractive, much-sought-after femme fatale.

Promoting the expansion of art in society and education, this book highlights the significance of the arts as an instrument of social justice, inclusion, equity, and protection of the environment. Including twenty-seven diverse case studies of socially engaged art practice with groups like the Black Lives Matter movement, the LGBTQ community, and Rikers Island, this book guides art educators toward innovative, transdisciplinary, and diverse methodologies. A valuable resource on creating spaces for change, it addresses the relationships between artists and educators, museums and communities.

When Marge and Norman, two hikers who have never met, converge at a trailhead, they are surprised to find two packets next to the trail map at the wood kiosk—and each has their respective names written on them. How’d they get there? And who placed them there? Marge notices that the trailhead name has been changed, and although she’s hiked the trail many times, she’s never seen the sign that says, You need to know who you are before you know where you’re going. Marge is slim, strong, and principled. Norman is overweight and self-centered. Together they must complete the exercises contained in each packet—exercises designed to answer three questions: What are your values? What is your mission? What is your vision? The two hikers follow their instructions, guided by the trail markers, to a boat dock on Blue Gem Lake, where two chairs just happen to be awaiting them. And a surprise ending follows to cap off this mysterious and intriguing adventure!

In the 1950s, America was seen as a vast melting pot in which white ethnic affiliations were on the wane and a common American identity was the norm. Yet by the 1970s, these white ethnics mobilized around a new version of the epic tale of plucky immigrants making their way in the New World through the sweat of their brow. Although this turn to ethnicity was for many an individual search for familial and psychological identity, Roots Too establishes a broader white social and political consensus arising in response to the political language of the Civil Rights and Black Power movements. In the wake of the Civil Rights movement, whites sought renewed status in the romance of Old World travails and New World fortunes. Ellis Island replaced Plymouth Rock as the touchstone of American nationalism. The entire culture embraced the myth of the indomitable white ethnics—who they were and where they had come from—in literature, film, theater, art, music, and scholarship. The language and symbols of hardworking, self-reliant, and ultimately triumphant European immigrants have exerted tremendous force on political movements and public policy debates from affirmative action to contemporary immigration. In order to understand how white primacy in American life survived the withering heat of the Civil Rights movement and multiculturalism, Matthew Frye Jacobson argues for a full exploration of the meaning of the white ethnic revival and the uneasy relationship between inclusion and exclusion that it has engendered in our conceptions of national belonging.