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“chris forhan”

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  • My Father Before Me

    A Memoir

    by Chris Forhan ...
    An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of secrets. He and his siblings learned, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Mind Full of Music

    Essays on Imagination and Popular Song

    by Chris Forhan ...
    Similar to how songs become familiar and welcoming earworms, these essays will imprint themselves on readers' minds.A Mind Full of Music contemplates and celebrates the mysterious, powerful, dynamic relationship between ourselves and the songs we love: the way in which songs work upon our minds and in which our minds, because of the inevitable creative force of our imaginations and memories, work ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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    My Father Before Me

    A Memoir

    by Chris Forhan ...
    Narrated by George Newbern ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 15 min

    An award-winning poet’s “beautifully written” (The Seattle Times) portrait of an American family and his own coming of age in the 1960s and 1970s in the wake of his father’s suicide. This memoir “belongs on the special shelves we keep for the books we cannot quite forget” (George Hodgman).The fifth of eight children, Chris Forhan was born into a family of secrets. He and his siblings learned, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • How to Fall in Love with Anyone

    A Memoir in Essays

    by Mandy Len Catron ...
    “A beautifully written and well-researched cultural criticism as well as an honest memoir” (Los Angeles Review of Books) from the author of the popular New York Times essay, “To Fall in Love with Anyone, Do This,” explores the romantic myths we create and explains how they limit our ability to achieve and sustain intimacy.What really makes love last? Does love ever work the way we say it does in ... Read more

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    by Maria Pallotta-Chiarolli ...
    Series series Curriculum, Cultures, and (Homo)Sexualities Series
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  • Renegotiate Your Marriage

    Balance the Terms of Your Relationship as It Changes

    by Bonnie Jacobson, PhD ...
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  • Forgotten Families

    Ending the Growing Crisis Confronting Children and Working Parents in the Global Economy

    by Jody Heymann ...
    In the last half-century, radical changes have rippled through the workplace and the home from Boston to Bombay. In the face of rapid globalization, these changes affect us all, and we can no longer confine ourselves to addressing working and social conditions within our own borders without simultaneously addressing them on a global scale. Based on over a thousand in-depth interviews and survey ... Read more

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    What distinguishes humans from nonhuman 'others'? And how do these distinctions shape human sociality and the ways that humans relate to their others? Human Nature and Social Life brings together a collection of articles by prominent anthropologists to address these questions. The articles show how the fundamentally social nature of humans results in an extension of sociality to virtual, semiotic ... Read more

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    Edited by Matthew Hall, Sarah Grogan, Brendan Gough ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This innovative edited collection brings together leading international academics to explore the use of various non-prescription and prescription substances for the purpose of perceived body image enhancement. While studies on drug misuse to date have examined drug use in the context of sporting performance, addiction, and body image for particular groups such as bodybuilders, there has been ... Read more

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    Learning from Specific Models, Volume 2

    Edited by Nancy L. Deutsch ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    The second volume of this SpringerBrief presents a series of papers compiled from a conference addressing how after-school programs can promote positive youth development (PYD) hosted by Youth-Nex, the University of Virginia Center to Promote Effective Youth Development. It examines summer learning and best practices for different types of after-school programs by drawing on the experiences of ... Read more

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