Ben should be focusing on school maintaining his scholarships and making his father proud, but he meets Hannah, a girl from Natick’s sister school, and becomes distracted from his school life. This review has been corrected to remove an extraneous word. In Honestly Ben, Ben takes center stage as he confronts the aftermath of his relationship with Rafe. Agent: Linda Epstein, Emerald City Literary. Ben refuses to be labeled, and the result is a refreshingly honest exploration of modern relationships and an understanding that love can take many shapes and forms. Konigsberg again realistically explores what happens when one’s self butts up against the world’s expectations and assumptions. Ben isn’t homophobic, but that doesn’t make it any easier for him to see himself-captain of the baseball team, son of a farmer-as gay or even bisexual. The trouble is, Ben is in love with Rafe, but he can’t accept the idea of being in love with a boy. The companion to the award-winning Openly Straight, called 'eply satisfying and as honest as its appealing protagonist' ( Booklist ). He’s also having difficulty with Rafe Goldberg, his gay former friend (with whom he got quite close in Konigsberg’s Openly Straight), and might be falling for a girl named Hannah. He’s having a hard time in calculus, a subject that could torpedo his stellar GPA and ruin his chances at receiving the prestigious Pappas Award, which would look fantastic on his college résumé and provide a needed scholarship. Seventeen-year-old Ben Carver is under a lot of pressure.
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Though the state may treat them as enemies as a result, Thoreau argues that there is no other way forward. He argues that the power of governing is with the people and therefore the American people must take back their ability to think and act for themselves “as men first and subjects afterwards.” Thoreau implores his audience to think carefully about the law and its capacity to promote injustice, arguing that his fellow citizens must risk breaking the law and becoming “bad” citizens in the pursuit of justice. Thoreau then makes his first plea to readers, calling for a “better government,” instead of the faulty government he and his fellow citizens currently have. He argues that all of America’s successes have been the result of the American people instead of the American government. Thoreau goes on to critique the American government and its role in furthering injustice and its limited success in governing so far. He argues that like a standing army, a standing government can be perverted and corrupted to serve the ambitions of a few powerful people instead of all the American people. He admits that he believes that the best government is one that governs “not at all.” From there, he asks his readers to reflect on the purpose of a standing government such as the one the United States has currently. Henry David Thoreau begins “Civil Disobedience” by reflecting on the best form of government. Unknown to Libby, she really may have reason to be fearful, for others out there have been waiting for her 25th birthday as well, and they are planning a reunion. Unfortunately, due to the circumstances in which she was found at that very property, her windfall is also steeped in trepidation and fear. To Libby, working a mundane job designing kitchens, this is a blessed windfall. Not just who her parents were but that she is inheriting their long-abandoned mansion in the swanky-Chelsea neighborhood in London a house worth millions of pounds. Upon opening the letter she learns some startling news. Found at just 10-months old, at the scene of an apparent suicide pact, Libby was adopted out, never knowing her true identity. When Libby Jones turns 25 years old, she finally gets to open a letter she has been waiting for her whole life, for it contains the identification of her birth parents. It is never boring as the journey is peppered with a lot of believable, well-rounded characters (family, friends) who are more than just props/soundboards/story-telling devices. The author takes her time to let things play out, which is as it should be. All three of our protagonists are equally heroic, upright, yet totally human in their actions and reactions. No one here is a made out to be the bad guy/gal. But.Terry's friends who know her well.know better.Īs love triangles go, this is one of the most well-done I've read. Their friendship grows strong and everyone, even Terry, thinks it is completely platonic. He knows Jan needs a friend, and needs to get out more from caring for him almost 24/7 for the past 15 years. Terry is intrigued with the fascinating couple, and she strikes up a friendship with Jan when they meet again in a park. She is immediately taken by Rob's incredible joie de vivre, which carries over easily to his loving and devoted wife and caregiver, Jan. Terry, mail carrier by day, aspiring writer by night, is asked to help out a paraplegic ex-pilot Rob in a domestic accident. They may also need to delicately negotiate their way out of several investigations still digging into Snyder and the alleged toxic workplace he built. The league still has to complete its review of the record $6.05 billion sale to Harris and his group that includes heavyweight investors such as Mitch Rales, David Blitzer and Magic Johnson, and NFL owners still have to vote on it. It marked the beginning of the end of Dan Synder's Reign of Terrible and brought hope that the troubled football franchise is headed toward better days. The news that Josh Harris and his group had reached an agreement to finally buy the Washington Commanders last week might have been the most unifying event in the nation's capital in decades. I am very glad that I, and others, once again have the opportunity to read it. The Nobility of Failure is an important work that examines the cultural and historical background of some of the tragic heroes who continue to influence the modern Japanese psyche. Happier still, I was selected to receive a review copy of the new edition of The Nobility of Failure through LibraryThing’s Early Reviewers program. Happily, Kurodahan Press was able to rerelease the volume in 2013 with a newly added preface by Juliet Winters Carpenter. Originally published in 1975, The Nobility of Failure has been out of print for years. While The World of the Shining Prince explores the beauty of court culture in Japan, The Nobility of Failure addresses the country’s more tragic history. In some ways, Ivan Morris’ The Nobility of Failure: Tragic Heroes in the History of Japan could be considered a companion of sorts to his earlier work The World of the Shining Prince: Court Life in Ancient Japan. Wavy is only 13 when their relationship turns sexual, and when Aunt Brenda finds out, she labels Kellen a rapist and works to keep them apart. As the years go by in Greenwood’s episodic tale, we see this affection-starved girl and damaged man fall in love. Only Kellen, a low-level enforcer for Liam who is also the survivor of childhood neglect, shows her any kindness or care. Her drug-dealing husband, Liam, mostly keeps to his own quarters on their ranch compound his open infidelities send Val into fits of immobilizing depression and catatonia-inducing substance abuse, while Wavy struggles to take care of baby brother Donal and keep attending school. We learn after Val is paroled and reclaims Wavy that Scary Mama has been known to stick fingers down her daughter’s throat to remove “dirty” food and then wash out Wavy’s mouth with Listerine. Wavy barely talks and doesn’t eat-or rather, her cousins discover one night, eats out of the garbage pail when everyone else is asleep. Wavy (short for Wavonna) is only 5 when we meet her in 1975, but she’s already been thoroughly traumatized by her meth-addicted mother, Val, whose stint in jail sends the girl to her Aunt Brenda’s house in Tulsa. Greenwood’s powerful, provocative debut chronicles a desolate childhood and a discomfiting love affair. I did marry him, and I don't regret it, but, as much as I hate to admit it, the old bitch from Brooklyn was right. Every bad habit he has, he'll do it the same or more, so don't marry him unless you accept that you're marrying the bad behavior, too.” he will continue to do that, and he'll do it even more. Look at him and think of every bad habit he has, because whatever he does. She then pointed dramatically to my future husband and said in a very loud voice, “You see him? You see this man you want to marry? Well, look at him now, honey. When we gathered in the living room late in the evening to make a toast to our future marriage, one of the Brooklyn relatives came over and grabbed me by the shoulders and turned me to face everyone in the room. The night before I got married, my future in-laws hosted a rehearsal dinner for our wedding party and our out-of-town guests. Now in its 15th edition, Kotler typically revises it thoroughly every three years. In Marketing Management, he created a best-selling textbook, that is by far the dominant choice of business schools throughout the world. Frustrated with the lack of intellectual rigour and analysis of all marketing textbooks then available, Kotler brought his mathematical training to bear on the evidence base of the marketing curriculum. Also in that year, he published a major work on marketing. In 1967, he became the Johnson & Son Professor of International Marketing, a post he still holds today. There, he chose to teach marketing and by 1962 was Professor of International Marketing. He held post-doctoral positions at Harvard (in maths) and the University of Chicago (in behavioural science) before accepting an academic post at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He then took a PhD in economics at MIT, before realising that economics was the wrong subject for him. Philip Kotler was born in Chicago in 1931 and received his MA in Economics from the University of Chicago in 1953, studying with three Nobel Laureates. I’d characterise his principal innovation as bringing the analytical approach of a mathematical economist to what was a woolly and vague social science. His contribution to the field is enormous. Philip Kotler is often viewed as the ‘father of modern marketing’. It highlights common short- and long-term responses to traumatic experiences in the context of individuals who may seek behavioral health services. This chapter begins with an overview of common responses, emphasizing that traumatic stress reactions are normal reactions to abnormal circumstances. How an event affects an individual depends on many factors, including characteristics of the individual, the type and characteristics of the event(s), developmental processes, the meaning of the trauma, and sociocultural factors. The impact of trauma can be subtle, insidious, or outright destructive. Some individuals may clearly display criteria associated with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but many more individuals will exhibit resilient responses or brief subclinical symptoms or consequences that fall outside of diagnostic criteria. Trauma, including one-time, multiple, or long-lasting repetitive events, affects everyone differently. This chapter examines common experiences survivors may encounter immediately following or long after a traumatic experience. Providers need to understand how trauma can affect treatment presentation, engagement, and the outcome of behavioral health services. Trauma-informed care (TIC) involves a broad understanding of traumatic stress reactions and common responses to trauma. |