Considered by many during his lifetime as the most well-known scientist in the world, Stephen Jay Gould left an enormous and influential body of work. A Harvard professor of paleontology, evolutionary biology, and the history of science, Gould provided major insights into our understanding of the history of life. He helped to reinvigorate paleontology, launch macroevolution on a new course, and provide a context in which the biological developmental stages of an organism's embryonic growth could be integrated into an understanding of evolution. This book is a set of reflections on the many areas of Gould's intellectual life by the people who knew and understood him best: former students and prominent close collaborators. Mostly a critical assessment of his legacy, the chapters are not technical contributions but rather offer a combination of intellectual bibliography, personal memoir, and reflection on Gould's diverse scientific achievements. The work includes the most complete bibliography of his writings to date and offers a multi-dimensional view of Gould's life-work not to be found in any other volume.

Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life

Biographies & Memoirs

Kelley, Patricia

Ross,Robert

Professionals & Academics

Oxford University Press

For everyone who has been or ever will be close to someone who is dying, this book is aimed at helping them to understand not only what the experience of death is like, but also how to interpret the symbolic messages by which the dying attempt to communicate their needs to us. In many cases, the dying need to pass on some vital message before they feel able to "let go". Often, communication can break down entirely, with neither side feeling able to reach the other or to express feelings honestly. The authors draw on their many years of hospice nursing to show that by keeping an open mind and by listening carefully to dying people, friends and relations can begin to understand not only what they need to tell them, but also what the experience is like.

Final Gifts: Understanding and Helping the Dying

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Callaghan, Maggie

Psychology & Counseling

Hodder & Stoughton Religious Division

Five years after its first publication, with more than 150,000 copies in print, Final Gifts has become a classic. In this moving and compassionate book, hospice nurses Maggie Callanan and Patricia Kelley share their intimate experiences with patients at the end of life, drawn from more than twenty years experience tending the terminally ill. Through their stories we come to appreciate the near-miraculous ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and even choreograph their own final moments; we also discover the gifts—of wisdom, faith, and love—that the dying leave for the living to share. Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, Final Gifts shows how we can help the dying person live fully to the very end.

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Callanan, Maggie

Bantam]

A guide to understanding the needs of the terminally ill shares true stories of patients facing death that reveal the ways in which the dying communicate their needs, reveal their feelings, and choreograph their final moments. Reprint.

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying

Parenting & Relationships

Offers families, friends, and care-givers of terminally-ill patients advice on understanding their needs

Poseidon Pr

Based on a series of letters written by the author to her recently widowed brother-in-law, a compassionate guide helps readers to work through their own sadness and anger over the loss of a loved one. 17,500 first printing.

Companion To Grief

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Simon&Schuster

Filled with practical advice on responding to the requests of the dying and helping them prepare emotionally and spiritually for death, this book shows readers how to help the dying person live fully to the very end. "A hopeful, helpful work . . . provides a gentle way to think about the unthinkable".--"Publishers Weekly".

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying (Walker Large Print Books)

Christian Large Print

The Uses of Writing in Psychotherapy explores the various ways in which writing can be used to increase the effectiveness, efficiency, and accountability of psychotherapy. Although writing has been used by therapists in many ways over the years, and the benefits of writing are mentioned in the professional and popular literature, this is the first volume in over 20 years that compares the curative powers of writing across theoretical approaches and with various populations.Therapists and scholars from various specialties discuss their views on writing in psychotherapy. The term “writing” covers a wide range of activities, including expressive writing, checklists and charts, letters, and art work, as well as writings by therapists and clients, in session and between sessions. There are informative chapters on using writing with special populations--the deaf, refugee families, the elderly, and incest victims. Aimed at practicing social workers and other psychotherapists seeking new ideas for increasing the effectiveness of their practices, this interesting volume is also helpful for therapists in training, and as an adjunct text for graduate courses in social work, counseling, and therapy.

The Uses of Writing in Psychotherapy

Literature & Fiction

Routledge

Sarayacu Quichua pottery (Publication / SIL Museum of Anthropology)

SIL Museum of Anthropology

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Stephen Jay Gould: Reflections on His View of Life

Final Gifts: Understanding and Helping the Dying

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs, and Communications of the Dying

Companion To Grief

Final Gifts: Understanding the Special Awareness, Needs and Communications of the Dying (Walker Large Print Books)

The Uses of Writing in Psychotherapy

Sarayacu Quichua pottery (Publication / SIL Museum of Anthropology)

The Uses of Writing in Psychotherapy