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August 15, 2001

Here are all of the books we've reviewed that were published August 15, 2001. You can also view all of the books we've reviewed that were published anytime in August 2001.

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Apart from Freud

Psychoanalysis contains at least as much philosophy as science. Sigmund Freud’s disciple Otto Rank even called himself a “philosopher of helping.” He, like so many others, eventually broke with Freud, who was much more concerned... Read More

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The River Jordan

by Deborah Donovan

This compelling blend of fact and fiction brings to life one harrowing episode in the complex history of the Underground Railroad: the escape from slavery of Jane and her seven children from a western Virginia tobacco plantation in... Read More

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So You Want to Write

by Dorothy Goepel

The authors have distilled the essence of the workshops they’ve led for many years, shaping the core material into a book focused on the fundamentals of writing fiction and memoir, to help aspiring authors enrich their own writing. The... Read More

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Lullaby for One Fist

by Holly Wren Spaulding

The fist in the title is an appropriate image for a book of poems about rough edges and marital disillusion, though this fist is womanly-curvaceous and quick. The poet’s rage is elegant, but she’s not wholly resentful, perhaps... Read More

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Creating Emotionally Safe Schools

by Carol K. Oyster

In 1992, (long before the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado) almost half of over 65,000 students in the Houston, Texas, school system stated that they did not identify school as a safe place. Since the... Read More