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Explains why contact with others is so essential to psychological and emotional development. Very humbling stories of neglect and great inspiration to be kind to one another!
A remarkably insightful, and readable, telling of the cultural clash between a Hmong family and their daughter's medical team in California. It thoughtfully captures not just the barrier of language but, more importantly, the fundamental clash of spiritual beliefs and medical science.
A detailed documentary series about the American Civil Rights Movement, using nothing more than archival film footage, on-camera interviews, period music, and a narrator's voiceover.
Before reading this, I had only general understanding of what life was like for people in Afghanistan, especially during the time before our current war.
this is the true story of one young womans look at life behind bars - a story of grace, friendship, of loyalty and love. Vivid honest and revealing - and often very funny.
This is a series of five novels, each sharply, clearly and tightly plotted round significant moments throughout Patrick Melrose's life - the violation of a child, which goes uncomforted; the intensity and texture of mind and mood of the alcoholic and drug addicted; the brittle humour and emptines