Author:
Publisher: Companion Press
Keywords: hope, healing, heart, finding, touchstones, grief, essential, understanding
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2004-02-01
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 1879651351
ISBN-13: 9781879651357

Explaining the important difference between grief and mourning, this book explores every mourner’s need to acknowledge death and embrace the pain of loss. Also explored are the many factors that make each person’s grief unique and the many normal thoughts and feelings mourners might have. Questions of spirituality and religion are addressed as well. The rights of mourners to be compassionate with themselves, to lean on others for help, and to trust in their ability to heal are upheld. Journaling sections encourage mourners to articulate their unique thoughts and feelings.

Author: Alan D. Wolfelt PhD
Publisher: Companion Press
Keywords: support, group, leading, bereavement, starting, guide, understanding, grief
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1879651408
ISBN-13: 9781879651401

This guide to facilitating support groups offers bereavement caregivers practical strategies for creating and maintaining a productive environment for mourners. Logistical considerations such as setting up and publicizing a new group are discussed, as is the importance of prescreening new members. Tips for creating a set of ground rules are provided, and the pros and cons of creating structured and unstructured meetings are considered. Responding constructively to problems in the group is also discussed, with helpful, time-proven models provided for evaluating group and individual progress.

Authors:Robert Speaight, Francis Pagan,
Publisher: Companion Guides
Keywords: companion, guides, guide, burgundy
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2000-04-10
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1900639173
ISBN-13: 9781900639170

As elegant as it is exhaustive. The whole book has body and bouquet, (its author) is well-read, witty, relaxed and impeccably observant. GUARDIAN Burgundy is one of the richest areas in France - rich in its art and architecture, its history, its food and wines, and its glorious countryside. Nowhere in Europe are there greater examples of the Romanesque: the basilica of the Madeleine at Vézelay, the sculptures of Gislebertus of Autun, the cathedral of St Philibert at Tournus. The very names of its vineyards - Corton, Chambertin, Montrachet - conjure up the robust and mature bouquet of the prov

Author: Richard Barber
Publisher: Companion Guides
Keywords: companion, guides, dordogne, gascony, guide
Number of Pages: 348
Published: 2002-06-26
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1900639270
ISBN-13: 9781900639279

The corner of south-west France comprising Gascony and the Dordogne is the quintessence of provincial France. Many will be content to enjoy the douceur de vivre, the good food and the unspoiled countryside, but for those who are interested in the past this is rich terrain. Much of England’s history between 1154 and 1453 was bound up with events in the region, as the French lands of Henry II remorselessly slipped from the grasp of the English kings. This is the land of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Gaston Phebus, the scene of Richard I’s death, and of the Black Prince’s triumphs an

Authors:Alastair Boyd, Alastair Boyd, Richard Oliver,
Publisher: Companion Guides
Keywords: companion, guides, spain, madrid, guide, central
Number of Pages: 488
Published: 2002-05-06
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1900639378
ISBN-13: 9781900639378

This book performs with great thoroughness all the usual functions of a guidebook. But it is much more than a mere inventory of buildings, paintings, sculpture, routes and views, supplemented by appendices packed with practical information. The authors - from their long experience and deep knowledge of the country - are exceptionally well-equipped to draw together into a coherent whole all the threads of history, art, culture and recent developments. They steer you in most rewarding directions, enlivening the hallowed hush of museum or sacristy with an original interpretation of some great pai

Author: Jim Stovall
Publisher: Companion Enterprises
Keywords: flame, keeper
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2009-01-05
List price: $19.99
ISBN-10: 0615224709
ISBN-13: 9780615224701

You are about to embark on a journey that will take you around the world and back in time. Jim Stovall’s masterfully crafted prose will enlighten your soul, taking you places where other people from other times will act as a mirror to help you understand your own time and place and, more importantly, yourself. Knowledge is built upon knowledge. Humanity is separated from all other creatures in that human beings can exchange knowledge with one another so that one person may learn from the experiences of literally hundreds who have gone before. Knowledge is the first step to understanding

Author: John Freely
Publisher: Companion Guides
Keywords: companion, guides, marmara, istanbul, guide
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2000-05-04
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1900639319
ISBN-13: 9781900639316

Istanbul is the only city in the world that stands astride two continents, spreading across from Europe into Asia at the southern end of the Bosphorus, the incomparably beautiful strait linking the Black Sea with the Sea of Marmara in northwestern Turkey. This Companion Guide to Istanbul goes as far as the region around Marmara from the Bosphorus to the Dardanelles, which flows into the Aegean past the historic ruins of Troy on its Asian shore. Revised and updated for this new edition, the book is a guide to the Byzantine and Ottoman monuments and to the many other places of great historic int