The brief & lovely story little Illusions is about a young girl named Naira Avanesova together with her little adventures in southern Germany (Bavaria). Naira, a smart & curious young girl, has the opportunity to interact with a sweet black cat kept by an elderly woman in her neighborhood on her daily trip to school. A small, lovely pond with stunning goldfish in the old lady's garden also catches her attention. Plus then, Naira's desire to own one of these goldfish grew, the old lady eventually gifted her two goldfish. Nevertheless, as she gets older, her interests shift, and a chapter closes in her life. The story is overall full of beautiful themes of childhood innocence, fleeting moments, time passing, and the impermanence of life. The tale serves as a reminder of the simple miracles that can profoundly impact and influence our lives, even as we grow as well as develop, through Naira's interactions with the black cat, the goldfish, and the pond.

Life Isn't a Fairy Tale: Life Is Tough, but So Are You !

"... takes a new look at the situation in one of the hottest spots on the globe and asks what impact the politicization of women will have on the lives of people in the emerging Palestinian state." -- NWSA Journal This volume introduces the reader to the social and political roles and challenges faced by women of Arab/Palestinian society. Even Arabic commentators have failed to accurately assess the contributions of women within the struggles of Gaza and the West Bank. These essays, written from an "insider's" perspective, show how Palestinian women confront issues of gender, feminism, and the national agenda.

It is a short story by author Kate Chopin about a young woman who flees from her husband's Louisiana home by accident and lives covertly in New Orleans. Athénase, the story's married lady, is stuck, confined by the possibilities that society provides her. After abandoning an unpleasant convent house, the fictitious Athénase finds herself in a marriage that is similarly "wretched," so she flees once more. She was unable to submit a legally binding complaint against her spouse. The loss of freedom is her biggest objection to marriage.

With Jung’s Red Book as their point of departure, two leading scholars explore issues relevant to our thinking today. In this book of dialogues, James Hillman and Sonu Shamdasani reassess psychology, history, and creativity through the lens of Carl Jung’s Red Book. Hillman, the founder of Archetypal Psychology, was one of the most prominent psychologists in America and is widely acknowledged as the most original figure to emerge from Jung’s school. Shamdasani, editor and cotranslator of Jung’s Red Book, is regarded as the leading Jung historian. Hillman and Shamdasani explore a number of the issues in the Red Book—such as our relation with the dead, the figures of our dreams and fantasies, the nature of creative expression, the relation of psychology to art, narrative and storytelling, the significance of depth psychology as a cultural form, the legacy of Christianity, and our relation to the past—and examine the implications these have for our thinking today.