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Eight Stories Up: An Adolescent Chooses Hope Over Suicide by DeQuincy A. Lezine, PH.D with David Brent, M.D., is both the touching memoir of how Lezine survived the desire to commit suicide and a useful guide that will ease the isolation and hopelessness caused by the thoughts of suicide. The excerpt below, the preface to […]
What Kirsty has been reading this week.
Mark McNeilly criticizes civic knowledge of American citizens.
Herbert Ford introduces us to the New Jersey Jewish Film Festival.
Ammon Shea explores cheating in the OED.
An excerpt from Guy de Maupassant’s short story ‘A Nightmare’.
Anatoly answers questions posed in March.
Mark Gregory Pegg helps us understand religious violence with historical perspective.
Ben’s Place of the Week is Argungu, Nigeria.
Naomi S. Baron, author of Always On: Language in an Online and Mobile World, explains to us the generation gap in text messaging.
An excerpt from Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide For Individuals and Families.
Living With Bipolar Disorder: A Guide For Individuals and Families by Michael W. Otto, Noreen A. Reilly-Harrington, Robert O. Knauz, Aude Henin and Jane N. Kogan aims to help suffers learn how to better recognize mood shifts before they happen, minimize their impact, and move on with their lives. This book teaches individuals with bipolar […]
An excerpt from The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales.
The press blogs Rebecca has been reading.
Sally G. McMillen, author of Seneca Falls and the Origins of the Women’s Rights Movement looks at Hillary Clinton’s run for president.
All dictionaries have mistakes. Ghost words creep in, there are occasional misspellings, or perhaps the printer was hung over one day and misplaced some punctuation. In addition to these normal forms of human error there are others that are created by language, as it continues its inexorable change.