Family constellations work has broadened and developed in many different fields as a method of counseling and therapy. In addition to constellations in organizations and schools, applying this approach to working with illness and disease has expanded the potential for healing effects in the field of medicine as well. A view of transgenerational entanglements and family dynamics casts a new light on health and disease, and the insights gained from constellations with illness and health problems have led to a more holistic view of those who are ill. In Even if it Costs me my Life, Stephan Hausner aims to provide a picture of the healing potential of systemic constellations, entering into the reciprocal effects of family dynamics and illness. Extensive use of case studies demonstrates this technique in action, revealing how existing illnesses and pathologies are rooted within the family dynamic, and setting up healing postures to facilitate growth, development, and direction.

Family constellations work has broadened and developed in many different fields as a method of counseling and therapy. In addition to constellations in organizations and schools, applying this approach to working with illness and disease has expanded the potential for healing effects in the field of medicine as well. A view of transgenerational entanglements and family dynamics casts a new light on health and disease, and the insights gained from constellations with illness and health problems have led to a more holistic view of those who are ill. In Even if it Costs me my Life, Stephan Hausner aims to provide a picture of the healing potential of systemic constellations, entering into the reciprocal effects of family dynamics and illness. Extensive use of case studies demonstrates this technique in action, revealing how existing illnesses and pathologies are rooted within the family dynamic, and setting up healing postures to facilitate growth, development, and direction.

The canon of Edgar Allan Poe, one of the foremost writers of dark and atmospheric fiction and poetry, offers readers haunted shores teeming with various erudite men brooding in the waning light over their feelings for unobtainable women. Yet, whether the tales or verses are grotesque or sinister, Poe's narrators are Outsiders, dealing with emotions that so many LGBT individuals feel: isolation and abandonment as well as loneliness and lost love. In the Shirley Jackson Award nominated Where Thy Dark Eye Glances, editor Steve Berman has assembled a range of tales that queer the prose and poetry of the Poe, the man himself, as well as dark and eerie stories about reading Poe's work.

Veronica establishes a religious empire that is ruling over what’s left of the world. She creates other beings like herself, which she adopts as children. After training them and teaching them how to utilize their powers and become superior beings capable of healing everything and solving any and every conflict, problems arise. Michal begins using her subtle powers of mind-control to deceive Veronica’s children into rebelling against her. Now there are beings just as powerful as Veronica trying to destroy everything. They know her every thought, they can see the future, and they have all the powers that Veronica has. Plus, she loves them more than anything. How does she stop a creature just as powerful as herself without hurting them and proving that this mind-controller was responsible. A more sinister plot unfolds. The Bleeders in Africa are getting stronger and strogner and forming an alliance, besides all of this, the man in charge of running the country, Caophe, who is all the books, has developed a bad sex and drug addiction. Besides all of this, Michal has an even bigger chip she is about to play. She is manipulating Veronica’s children to resurrect an even more powerful project. Sherman’s first project. Michal revives Project Rain and is mind-controlling him. Everything is being blamed on Veronica and her religious empire. Michal corrupts Religious history and conspiracies to make it look like Veronica is an evil dictator while in secret controlling everyone to do evil. One last thing I forgot to mention. Project Rain’s power is the control over the reality of life and death. Whatever he touches, whatever he looks at or breathes on or advances toward, dies. Veronica must face death itself and somehow save the lives of her wicked children.

Simple songs or airs, in which a male poetic voice either seduces or excoriates a female object, were an influential vocal genre of the French Baroque era. In this comprehensive and interdisciplinary study, Catherine Gordon-Seifert analyzes the style of airs, which was based on rhetorical devices of lyric poetry, and explores the function and meaning of airs in French society, particularly the salons. She shows how airs deployed in both text and music an encoded language that was in sensuous contrast to polite society's cultivation of chaste love, strict gender roles, and restrained discourse.