"At last! A step-by-step failsafe approach to restoring relationships and healing from the inside out." T.B., Los Angeles If you find yourself in difficult relationships... If your intentions are consistently misunderstood by a friend or family member... If your heart is wounded and your partner won't listen... If your life seems like one big hot mess... If you can't seem to find a way to resolve conflicts in your relationships... ...read Heart Language Rules and learn how to grow stronger as you express your feelings and create powerful new strategies to deal with difficult people and situations. Heart Language is a structured healing process that helps families and friends move toward understanding, acceptance and harmony. It promotes a safe communication environment for the healthy expression of emotions and the complete resolution of conflicts. Learn how to: - Communicate with compassion and respect. - Express yourself without aggravating or pushing your partner away. - Stop destructive arguments before they start. - Create a healthy family atmosphere where everyone gets love and attention to process through conflicts. - Listen with compassion instead of reacting or personalizing. - Resolve the conflicts in your life so you can enjoy your family and friends. Heart Language can help you heal your heart and change your life!

"A selection of short stories by Elsie Singmaster that focus on the Pennsylvania-German experience. Includes commentary framing them in historical, cultural, and literary contexts"--Provided by publisher.

We often hear that success requires pushing the boundaries, coloring outside the lines, stepping on toes, and breaking all the rules. But some rules are so critical they aren't meant to be broken. Here, perennially popular Good Morning America host Robin Roberts reveals the 8 rules that she has always honored on her road to success. Illustrated with stories from her work, her family, and her faith, she explains how deceptively simple maxims like "Never lose sight of the Big Picture" and "Give people the benefit of the doubt" are both deeply meaningful and crucial to happiness and genuine accomplishment. Combined with a good dose of Robin's trademark humor, warmth, and honesty, this book will be required reading for anyone in need of an infusion of sincere inspiration. And in light of her announcement in July 2007 that she had breast cancer, Robin's message is bound to touch an even larger audience.

Erickson (English, U. of California-Santa Barbara) examines both scientific and romantic portrayals of the human heart in early modern English literature. After reviewing the Biblical heart, he considers William Harvey's model of a phallic pump in a feminized body, Milton's Paradise Lost, Richardson's Clarissa, Aphra Behn's Oroonoke as a women's perspective, and other works. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Language, Meaning and the Law offers an accessible, critical guide to debates about linguistic meaning and interpretation in relation to legal language. Law is an ideal domain for considering fundamental questions relating to how we assign meanings to words, understand and comment on texts, and deal with socially and ideologically significant questions of interpretation. The book argues that theoretical issues of concern to linguists, philosophers, literary theorists and others are illuminated by the demands of the legal context, since law is driven by the need for practical solutions and for determinate outcomes based on explicit reasoning. Topics covered include: the relationship of linguistics to legal theory, indeterminacy and statutory interpretation, the theory and practice of using dictionaries in law, defamation and language in the public sphere, and the distinction between perjury and deception. This book does not assume specialist knowledge of the field, and is designed as a self-contained, advanced introduction to a fascinating area of study. The reader will gain an overall insight into issues and debates about meaning and interpretation, as well as an understanding of how these questions are shaped by the legal context.