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Acquainted with the Night: Excursions Through the World After Dark
In twelve chapters corresponding to the twelve hours of night, Christopher Dewdney illuminates night's central themes, including sunsets, nocturnal animals, bedtime stories, festivals of the night, fireworks, astronomy, nightclubs, sleep and dreams, the graveyard shift, the art of darkness, and endless nights. With infections curiosity, a lyrical, intimate tone, and an eye for nighttime beauties both natural and man-made, he paints a captivating portrait of our hours in darkness. .
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Acquainted with the Night
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Interesting Online Applications for Seniors: Get Acquainted with Thirteen Free Internet Applications (Computer Books for Seniors series)
Packed with handy advice for those new to the internet, this fantastic guidebook is ideal for any senior citizen looking to take advantage of the myriad opportunities available to them on the World Wide Web. Complete with easy, step-by-step instructions, detailed illustrations, and an accompanying CD-ROM, this helpful guide explores the 13 most useful and popular opportunities available online, including browsing satellite photos of just about anywhere using Google Earth, creating a blog or journal online, buying and selling on eBay, and networking with friends and family through Facebook. .
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Acquainted with the Night: A Parent's Quest to Understand Depression and Bipolar Disorder in His Children
In the space of a few months, 11-year-old Alex Raeburn is bounced among seven psychiatrists and prescribed even more drugs, among them Lithium and Depakote, after lashing out at his 5th-grade teacher. The doctors are swift to prescribe pills but slow to provide therapy, despite varying opinions on what the diagnosis may be--maybe depression, ADHD, or an anxiety disorder. While the family finds little relief from the medical establishment, author Paul Raeburn, Alex's dad, slowly admits that his lack of parenting and anger-management skills may have exacerbated his son's condition. Some of his temper tantrums, one of which involves flooding their kitchen, are as frightening as his son's manic episodes. Ironically, as the science and medicine reporter for BusinessWeek, Raeburn had access to the most prestigious names in psychiatry, but his denial of Alex's emotional problems was so strong that he didn't even bother to look up the (significant) side effects of his son's prescriptions in the Physician's Desk Reference: "I was not going to read about psychiatric drugs and mental illness because I was not going to be the parent of a mentally ill kid." He and Alex are given hope from bipolar expert Kay Redfield Jamison, who, during a book signing, writes, "Things will get better." They do, but not before the Raeburns' marriage disintegrates and Alex's younger sister Alicia is also repeatedly hospitalized for depression and attempted suicide. Raeburn's bravery in telling his childrens' story is to be commended, but the reader is left wondering just how much of Alex and Alicia's misery can be blamed on his own moodiness, prejudices, and procrastination. --Erica Jorgensen.
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In the Ghost-House Acquainted
These soulful lyrics use allusive imagery and ecumenical diction to consider the pastoral as a life to inhabit, not an artifact or idealized place to visit. Here, the specter of loss makes a world more precious-notions of home and love must be ever-evolving as colts are stillborn and pigeons slaughtered, apple blossoms frozen in spring and dead lambs burned in diesel fire. But, these poems insist, there is beauty in the soil and beauty in birth-and death in birth, and beauty in death, as well. And Upon the Earth No Wind Pigeons erupting from a barn.
Twenty-three ewes
stand at once, ice-chunks
clinking in their wool.
I call, soft, call loud
but the mare treads the snow blue.
Am I born to constant
hazard? Wood becomes
more than wood simply
by its burning. Steam
rises up from the land-
I call but do not move.
The moon rising shines even
upon all things and I can't tell
which is mare
and what's weather.
Silence in eaves ever after. "It is rare to see a poet work so hard in the physical world-serious farm labor-and still catch a fleeting glimpse of the spirit. Kevin Goodan does this convincingly because his language is so precise and his mind knows when to jump and when to stand still. This is a remarkable book."-James Tate Kevin Goodan received his BA from the University of Montana and his MFA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. His poems have been -published in Ploughshares and other journals. .
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