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Collectors : a novel
\"From critically acclaimed author Paul Griner comes Collectors, a novel about one woman's risky fascination with a handsome, enigmatic man. Jean Duprez, an ad agency art director who specializes in effectual but unnerving concepts for her clients, meets the handsome and mysterious Steven Cain at a family wedding. Despite Cain's marked indifference to her and his unsettling personal history, Jean finds herself drawn to him, confiding her own indiscretions in him despite their having just met. As their liaison continues, it becomes a mirror for the collecting process as well: how goods are bought and sold, who determines their worth, and most importantly, the tense, complicated bargaining between buyer and seller. What is never quite clear is whether Jean is the innocent prey of a dangerous lothario or if she's deliberately put herself in harm's way. In the masterful hands of Paul Griner, Collectors becomes not just a novel about what one woman will risk for love or something like it, but a probing examination of the intricacies of relationship power dynamics, and how they are never quite what they seem. \"-- Provided by publisher.
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Jumper
\"Blair Scott is in her second season as a wildland firefighter when the Forest Service puts out a call for an additional class of smokejumpers. She and her best friend Jason both apply, though neither expects to get in since they're only nineteen. But it's been a devastating fire season, and they are both accepted. But going to training camp is only the first step--everyone expects the teenage rookies will wash out in the first week. Blair has always been touchy about people telling her she isn't good enough, so she begins taking unnecessary risks to prove herself. It doesn't take long before everything spins out of control, leaving Blair struggling to cope.\"--Front jacket flap.
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Autoimmune Illness as a Death-drive: An Autobiography of Defence
This essay returns Derrida's metaphor of autoimmunity to its biomedical origins and explores how various autobiographical narratives of autoimmune disease can provide a novel reading of Derrida's deconstruction of the Freudian death-drive. I argue that Derrida's autoimmunity autoimmunely secures the risks of psychoanalysis, science, science fiction, and deconstruction itself.
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Bubbles
While trying to cheer up her depressed mother, twelve-year-old Sophie gets roped into doing a triathlon as part of a school project on risk-taking, and discovers she can see people's thoughts in bubbles above their heads.
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ON WRITING AND RISK
WRITING AND RISK is a topic that has preoccupied my thoughts for at least the last few years.
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Bubbles
While trying to cheer up her depressed mother, twelve-year-old Sophie gets roped into doing a triathlon as part of a school project on risk-taking, and discovers she can see people's thoughts in bubbles above their heads.
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\The shimmering edge\: Surfing, risk, and climate change in Tim Winton's 'breath'
'Breath', Tim Winton's coming-of-age surfing novel, indirectly links the voluntary risk-taking of adolescent surfers with that of a society teetering on the edge of oceanic climate change. This paper draws on risk theory, the sociology of surfing, oceanic studies, and Winton's related writings to provide an ecocritical reading of 'Breath'.
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Ethical Dilemmas, Good Intentions, and the Road to Hell: A Clinical-Ethical Perspective on Yalom's Depiction of Trotter's Therapy
Fiction in literature can assist in the analysis of therapeutic and ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy. Lying on the Couch (Harper Collins, 1997), Yalom's account of Dr. Seymour Trotter and Mrs. Belle Felini's therapeutic encounter, describes a complex series of issues and dilemmas. In the present article a reanalysis of the case from the perspective of a clinical and ethical consultation is presented. The therapeutic crisis that preceded the sexual relationship and the initial presentation of the client are considered in detail. Following the discussion of each of these periods, alternative modes of understanding and intervening in the treatment are presented. The in-depth exploration of a fictional case such as this one allows therapists to critically evaluate the decisions that underlie problems in the therapeutic encounter. The article concludes with specific recommendations for clinical and ethical practice.
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Taking risks
A hole in my life. Jack Gantos. Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2002. $16.00. 0-374-39988-3. Jack Gantos bravely tells about his bleakest year when he participated in a drug scam at the age of 20 and spent 15 months in a medium security federal prison. His candid memoir carefully avoids glamorizing his crime.
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