Author: Joyce Hackett
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Keywords: novel, inner, disturbance
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2003-10-22
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 078671218X
ISBN-13: 9780786712182

Dark, intense, and often very funny, this critically lauded debut novel tells a story of inherited trauma healed by erotic love in the lives of two unlikely soul mates: Isabel, a former cello prodigy and daughter of a Holocaust survivor, and Giulio, an Italian gigolo. With its hypnotic internal logic, Disturbance of the Inner Ear conjures a ravaged landscape in which anything is possible. Hackett’s musical language comes alive in a pitch-perfect first-person narrative that is evasive yet intimate, and utterly unforgettable. Stylistically daring and psychologically acute, this dazzling debut

Author: Binnie Kirshenbaum
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Keywords: novel, place, one, disturbance
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2004-05-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0060520884
ISBN-13: 9780060520885

Brazen and given to transgressions, the narrator of this mordantly witty novel is an aloof, tough talking, married Manhattan woman who carries on three affairs simultaneously, blithely breaking seven of the Ten Commandments in her search for a safe place to land. Rootless, bouncing from bed to bed, she knows she is pure of heart. If only she could find where her heart got lost. Irreverent and achingly honest, she points to the small but infinitely deep cracks in our masks, drawing the reader into her world of misadventure -- erotic, comic, and deeply unsettling. Juggling four men -- her husban

Author: H., Beam Piper
Publisher: Aegypan
Keywords: disturbance, ministry
Number of Pages: 200
Published: 2007-04-01
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 1603121927
ISBN-13: 9781603121927

Included in this volume are five novelettes from the last decade of Piper’s career. The title story, "Ministry of Disturbance," appeared in the December 1958 issue of Astounding, (where Cambpell blurbed it, "Sometimes getting a job is harder than the job after you get it -- and sometimes getting out of a job is harder than either!"). Also included are "A Slave is a Slave," from the April 1962 issue of Analog ("There has always been strong sympathy for the poor," said JWC, "meek, downtrodden slave -- the kindly little man, oppressed by cruel and overbearing masters. Could it possibly have

Author: Lydia Davis
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Keywords: stories, disturbance, varieties
Number of Pages: 219
Published: 2007-05-15
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0374281734
ISBN-13: 9780374281731

Lydia Davis has been called "one of the quiet giants in the world of American fiction" (Los Angeles Times), "an American virtuoso of the short story form" (Salon), an innovator who attempts "to remake the model of the modern short story" (The New York Times Book Review). Her admirers include Grace Paley, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith; as Time magazine observed, her stories are "moving . . . and somehow inevitable, as if she has written what we were all on the verge of thinking."In Varieties of Disturbance, her fourth collection, Davis extends her reach as never before in stories that take

Author: Peter Chilson
Publisher: Mariner Books
Keywords: species, loving, disturbance
Number of Pages: 229
Published: 2007-08-09
List price: $13.95
ISBN-10: 0618858709
ISBN-13: 9780618858705

Peter Chilson’s fiction debut delivers a fascinating, heart-wrenching view of modern African culture, filtered through the lens of the West. In a novella and four short stories, Chilson, who traveled to Africa first as a Peace Corps volunteer and later as a freelance journalist, uses a phrase borrowed from biology to point out how our “disturbance-loving species” thrives in the most chaotic, seemingly unlivable situations. As this remarkable collection explores the experiences of Americans struggling to cope with the political and social upheaval of life in Africa and of Africans acclimat

Author: Eric Greenleaf
Publisher: Zeig, Tucker & Theisen
Keywords: modern, psychotherapy, resolution, disturbance, evil, problem
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 189194441X
ISBN-13: 9781891944413

Authors:Steward T.A. Pickett, P. S. White,
Publisher: Academic Press
Keywords: dynamics, patch, disturbance, natural, ecology
Number of Pages: 472
Published: 1987-01-11
List price: $127.00
ISBN-10: 0125545215
ISBN-13: 9780125545211

Ecologists are aware of the importance of natural dynamics in ecosystems. Historically, the focus has been on the development in succession of equilibrium communities, which has generated an understanding of the composition and functioning of ecosystems. Recently, many have focused on the processes of disturbances and the evolutionary significance of such events. This shifted emphasis has inspired studies in diverse systems. The phrase "patch dynamics" (Thompson, 1978) describes their common focus. The Ecology of Natural Disturbance and Patch Dynamics brings together the findings and ideas of