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Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Imber-Black, Evan

Roberts, Janine

Psychology & Counseling

Harpercollins

In a timely, groundbreaking guide, two family therapists explore how to use rituals to make the happy moments in life more joyous, the sad moments more comforting, the important moments more memorable, and the intimate moments more cherishable. Line drawings.

Self-Help

Evan Imber-Black

Janine Roberts, Ed.D.

Relationships

Perennial

Considers oral, written, and enacted stories as powerful tools for helping clients understand themselves and others in their families and communities. Six types of story are described, and techniques are offered for accessing and working with stories and for training therapists to work with story modalities. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

Tales and Transformations: Stories in Families and Family Therapy

W.W. Norton & Co., Inc.

Authors Evan Imber-Black and Janine Roberts show how we can learn to tap the power of rituals to mark transitions, express important values, heal the past, and deepen relationships. Each chapter looks at the special issues and possibilities for nuclear, extended, single-parent, and remarried families, as well as for single adults and couples. The authors also pay particular attention to how changing gender roles are reflected in our rituals, and how revitalized traditions can actually alter the course of intimate relationships. Filled with first-person stories and practical examples, this book will help all readers enhance the meaning of traditions old and new, reinforcing and celebrating life's many milestones and ties.

Rituals for Our Times: Celebrating, Healing, and Changing Our Lives and Our Relationships (The Master Work Series)

Religion & Spirituality

Jason Aronson, Inc.

This book takes its readers on a journey into the very heart of the hunt for viruses - to the key experiments originally performed to prove that these invisibly small particles are the cause of diseases previously blamed on toxins or bacteria and into the latest research. It sheds light on the extraordinary assumptions that underlay much of this research - and on the vaccines that developed from this. The author, an investigative journalist who has researched and produced investigative films for the BBC, American and Australian television, was asked by parents with children severely ill after vaccination, to discover if the medical authorities were hiding anything from them. She agreed, but had no idea how long this search would take. She expected at best to uncover a small degree of contamination. On the ensuing decade-long journey of discovery, she learnt it is not just the added mercury that we have to worry about. She discovered that the top government scientists admit to colleagues that vaccines are contaminated with viruses from chickens, humans and monkeys, with RNA and DNA fragments, with 'cellular degradation products', and possibly 'oncogenes and prions.' They report alarmingly that it is impossible to commercially purify vaccines. They express great concerns, but the public is not told despite the possible consequences for long-term public health. A recent US court decision has linked autism with vaccine contamination. The author cites her sources by name - and gives references and Internet links where they are available. I She reveals evidence that the World Health Organisation has discovered the MMR vaccine is contaminated with chicken leukosis virus, but has decided not to tell the public of this, and to continue to make the vaccine with eggs from contaminated chickens. She reports US biowarfare researchers tried to create new agents to destroy our immune systems - and worked on a bacterium to make it a hospital superbug. Did they manage to create HIV? A senior professor told her that the vaccine program was so contaminated that HIV might well have spread though it without any need for military intervention. She set out to find the evidence to resolve this, and to learn how HIV apparently spread so far and fast. She needed to know more about this virus so went to the foundation research widely held today to have found HIV and proved it caused AIDS. She was then rocked to discover that this same research was investigated for scientific fraud for a five year period by powerful US scientific institutions and by Congress,. Why is this not widely known? She found their reports and discovered they found major errors in this research, some so serious that these made it impossible to repeat these experiments and thus to verify them! She reveals the evidence unearthed - reproducing key documents so the reader can assess them for themselves. This is explosive material. In the final part of this book the author reports recent research that is revolutionising biology and offering much hope for the future. These new developments shed new light on the relationships between our cells and viruses. They are not necessarily enemies. Readers may find these new developments radically change the ideas they have held about viruses since childhood. This book has over 500 references and includes several documents unearthed under Freedom of Information legislation. `It has a scientific glossary and is fully indexed..

Fear of the Invisible

Medical Books

Basic Sciences

Impact Investigative Media Productions

Follow a young woman off the plane, down winding dusty paths, and through the doors of an orphanage where children are waiting to teach you the most important lessons in life. Travel past the orphanage to the surrounding villages, and stoop inside darkened huts to greet men, women, and children whose stories of amazing faith give you strength and courage to go forth and fight the everyday battles. See the AIDS epidemic spread from household to household, yet watch as each one rises from the ashes and keeps going. Return in the evening to the quiet cement house enveloped in darkness, the only light a small glow from your candle. Look around the room at your new friends, a people willing to trust God and find joy in the midst of these devastating circumstances. You will come to realize that no matter what a person faces, the pain of grief and hardship is greatly diminished in the presence of lavish love. Come experience true love! Janine Roberts grew up in Vienna, West Virginia. She graduated from West Virginia Wesleyan College in 1999 and Asbury Theological Seminary in 2004. Janine traveled to Zimbabwe in 1998 and 2002 before moving to Fairfield Children's Homes from 2004 to 2007. During her time there, she worked with Zimbabwean volunteers to expand a program called HOPE. This program provides nutrition, education, and medical support to orphans so that they can continue living with relatives in their communities. She plans to return to live in Zimbabwe in 2009. For her current updates from Zimbabwe, please visit www.hopeofzim.blogspot.com.

Dare to Love Completely

Christian Books & Bibles

Xulon Pr

Janine Roberts holds a Masters in Theology, a Summa cum Laude in Philosophy and a BSc in Sociology. Ordained a Catholic priest in 1967, she studied at the LSE and worked on soup runs for the homeless. When she left the Church, Mother Teresa of Calcutta visited but failed to persuade her to return. The author then resolved her gender identity issue while working in the Outback with Aborigines - and has never ceased to see herself as engaged in sacred work. Her human rights and anti-racism work won support Freedom from Hunger, War on Want, the World Council of Churches, Survival International and many others. Her investigative articles appeared front page in major newspapers and her films on US, Canadian, Australian and UK television.  US Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney invited her to testify at Congress and stated: 'Janine Roberts is that rare individual who unflinchingly speaks truth to power. She battles her way past all obstacles and provides us a glimpse of those who are in the innermost circles of global power. I count myself among the privileged of the world to know of Janine and her work.' Boyd Tonkin, Literary Editor of the Independent, wrote of her 2003 book, 'Glitter and Greed': 'formidably well researched', 'one of the most dogged and damning exposés to appear in years', 'her gripping book for once merits that tarnished plaudit 'brilliant'. Some early reviews for this book  'Janine's story is one of personal courage, conviction, sacrifice and triumph as she journeys to her rebirth as the woman she was born to be. Exceptionally well written, with many references... Janine's story is both fascinating and inspirational! Definitely a must read book!' Suzanne Read in Manchester 'Truth is indeed stranger than fiction. Robust scholarship runs throughout this passionate and honest autobiography. She has delved deep into spiritual philosophy, science and history to put her unique experience of life into context. Hers is a strong voice that both challenges and touches the heart.' Kay Bridger in London 'Janine has written her story with bare boned honesty. I fell in to her footsteps and was moved by her words. Deeply personal, incredibly brave. Her words touched me, I felt so much that she was sat beside me as I turned the pages of her wonderful life. This book is a beautiful story of love, courage and strength peppered with gentle humour.' Kate in Lincolnshire

The Seven Days of My Creation: Tales of Magic And Gender

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

meadow books

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