In the late medieval era, pain could be a symbol of holiness, disease, sin, or truth. It could be encouragement to lead a moral life, a punishment for wrong doing, or a method of healing. Exploring the varied depictions and descriptions of pain—from martyrdom narratives to practices of torture and surgery—The Modulated Scream attempts to decode this culture of suffering in the Middle Ages.
Esther Cohen brings to life the cacophony of howls emerging from the written record of physicians, torturers, theologians, and mystics. In considering how people understood suffering, explained it, and meted it out, Cohen discovers that pain was imbued with multiple meanings. While interpreting pain was the province only of the rarified elite, harnessing pain for religious, moral, legal, and social purposes was a practice that pervaded all classes of Medieval life. In the overlap of these contradicting attitudes about what pain was for—how it was to be understood and who should use it—Cohen reveals the distinct and often conflicting cultural traditions and practices of late medieval Europeans. Ambitious and wide-ranging, The Modulated Scream is intellectual history at its most acute.

The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture

Literature & Fiction

Cohen, Esther

History & Criticism

University of Chicago Press

- Presented into two clear and understandable sections: theoretical/empirical and intervention programs - Both authors have immense experience dealing with disaster and mass trauma, both in Israel and in the United States - Serves as both a reference tool and as a toolkit that can be used by all important players involved, which include mental health personnel, teachers, and parents

School-Based Multisystemic Interventions For Mass Trauma (Ifip International Federation for Information Processing S)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Klingman, Avigdor

Mental Health

Springer

Emerging out of the chaos of misleading dietary information, Alchemy of Nourishment is a transformative new approach to activating the innate wisdom of your body’s capacity to thrive as nature intended. Our fast-paced lifestyle, lack of time in nature, and polluted environment increase our stress levels, placing extraordinary demands on our body’s ability to detoxify. Toxic overload is at the root of all disease, which can manifest as headaches, weight gain, lack of energy, brain fog, IBS, high blood pressure, and even cancer. This easy to follow, step-by-step guide leads you to tangible, positive changes in your relationship with food, lifestyle, and physical and emotional health. Alchemy of Nourishment integrates science with ancient wisdom to provide a blueprint for wholeness and health. Establish an intimacy with your body that opens the doorway to a vibrant mind, body, and spirit. Through mindfulness practices, real food, and understanding, the Art, Science and Magic of eating will change your life. Restore, Rebuild, Rejuvenate, Thrive!

Alchemy of Nourishment: The Art, Science and Magic of Eating

Nutrition

Ancient Arts Press

No Charge for Looking

Schocken

Poetry. Women's Studies. BREAKFAST WITH ALLEN GINSBERG is a collection of fifty poems, some very funny and others very personal and poignant, written by the author of GOD IS A TREE AND OTHER MIDDLE-AGE PRAYERS (Pleasure Boat Studio, 2008) and The Book Doctor (fiction). Cohen has several poems about writing, but most of them are about her friends and family, about daily observations of life both in New York City and in a small village in the Catskills. These poems will make a reader smile, sometimes laugh, almost always reflect on his or her own daily existence and human interactions.

Breakfast with Allen Ginsberg

Poetry

Pleasure Boat Studio: A Literary Press

We all tell lies.
But Jewish lies are a little bit different.
Here's an example:
It doesn't matter if you read this.
The Jewish people speak many languages. There's English, of course, and Hebrew, and let's not forget Yiddish and Ladino. But the language Jews have mastered is saying one thing and meaning another. And after a while, everyone understands the real meaning of the "lie."
Esther Cohen has been listening all her life. She's written down what she's heard, and the result is this small book with a big punch: the first ever list of these subtle (sort of), sly (very), and hilarious Jewish "lies." New Yorker cartoonist Roz Chast is a master interpreter of lies herself--bringing this particular set to life in her inimitably quirky style.
Don't Mind Me is a unique compilation of all-too-familiar phrases guaranteed to make you smile. For anyone who's ever been on the receiving end of one of these lies, this is one book that rings absolutely true.

Don't Mind Me: And Other Jewish Lies

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Hyperion

- Presented into two clear and understandable sections: theoretical/empirical and intervention programs - Both authors have immense experience dealing with disaster and mass trauma, both in Israel and in the United States - Serves as both a reference tool and as a toolkit that can be used by all important players involved, which include mental health personnel, teachers, and parents

School-Based Multisystemic Interventions For Mass Trauma

Psychology & Counseling

Inspired by the frustrations of writer's block, the vagaries of modern romance, and a deep-seated love for reading, The Book Doctor combines urbane, sophisticated, mordantly funny storytelling with tremendous heart. Smart, independent, quirky, and well-read, Arlette Rosen makes her living helping people write the books they've always dreamed of, and she's quite good at it. She likes this work, likes the freedom of someone else's sentences, likes being able to change, in intuitive ways only she knows, small details here and there. By the time she meets new client Harbinger Singh, she has worked on sixty-four books, chosen from hundreds of submissions. Harbinger Singh makes his living as a tax attorney, but what he really wants to do is write a novel, a grand, sweeping saga he intends to call Hot and Dusty. While the romance that blooms between these two unlikely lovers is more about longing than lust, it triggers something in each that just might be called hope. With uncompromising wit and a fierce tenderness, Esther Cohen has written a modern-day comedy of manners about relationships, writer's block, and the enduring-if elusive-creative spirit.

Book Doctor: A Novel

United States

Counterpoint

Arlette Rosen earns her living helping strangers with their book ideas - she believes she knows a good book from a bad one, and believes that all writers should aim to be a Joyce or a Proust. But when Harbinger Singh enters her life needing help with his writing, both their lives are altered forever.

Poetry. Esther Cohen writes with humor and joy and lots of energy. You can't help but smile when you encounter her delightful images. In her title poem, for example, you learn that she once wrote a poem and "'God Is a Tree' was the title. / Louis Savitsky didn't like it./ He asked why / I had the chutzpah / to believe I knew. / A few years later, Louis's daughter / became a Scientologist." It is those seemingly unrelated comments, presented with a straight "face," that startle and amuse as they challenge one's thinking. These poems have a definite Jewish tone to them, but certainly one doesn't need to be Jewish in order to appreciate them.

God Is a Tree and Other Middle-Age Prayers

Pleasure Boat Studio

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The Modulated Scream: Pain in Late Medieval Culture

School-Based Multisystemic Interventions For Mass Trauma (Ifip International Federation for Information Processing S)

Alchemy of Nourishment: The Art, Science and Magic of Eating

No Charge for Looking

Breakfast with Allen Ginsberg

Don't Mind Me: And Other Jewish Lies

School-Based Multisystemic Interventions For Mass Trauma

Book Doctor: A Novel

Book Doctor: A Novel

God Is a Tree and Other Middle-Age Prayers