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1. Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America (Sexual Cultures)
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2008 Winner, MLA First Book Prize
Charting the proliferation of forms of mourning and memorial across a century increasingly concerned with their historical and temporal significance, Arranging Grief offers an innovative new view of the aesthetic, social, and political implications of emotion. Dana Luciano argues that the cultural plotting of grief provides a distinctive insight into the nineteenth-century American temporal imaginary, since grief both underwrote the social arrangements that supported the nations standard chronologies and sponsored other ways of advancing history.
Nineteenth-century appeals to grief, as Luciano demonstrates, diffused modes of sacred time across both religious and ostensibly secular frameworks, at once authorizing and unsettling established schemes of connection to the past and the future. Examining mourning manuals, sermons, memorial tracts, poetry, and fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, William Apess, James Fenimore Cooper, Catharine Maria Sedgwick, Susan Warner, Harriet E. Wilson, Herman Melville, Frances E. W. Harper, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Elizabeth Keckley, and Ralph Waldo Emerson, Luciano illustrates the ways that grief coupled the affective body to time. Drawing on formalist, Foucauldian, and psychoanalytic criticism, Arranging Grief shows how literary engagements with grief put forth ways of challenging deep-seated cultural assumptions about history, progress, bodies, and behaviors.
2. Facing A Death in the Family: Caring for Someone Through Illness and Dying, Arranging the Funeral, Dealing with the Will and Estate (Wiley Legal and Practical Guide)
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This easy-to-understand guide to the difficult task of caring for aging or ailing loved ones, and eventually dealing with their death, combines information about the law with practical advice on every aspect of caregiving and the loss of a loved one.3. Making Arrangements
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Making ArrangementsDescription
The small town of Barrington, with its picturesque cottages, breathtaking gardens and friendly neighbors, is very appealing. Things are going swimmingly for Lang Eldridge, an unlikely cancer survivor who is marking the one-year anniversary of her death sentence. She spent her supposed final year of life making sure her beloved husband, Jack, could survive without her. A caramel cake is in the freezer for his first birthday without her and love letters for every occasion are carefully written and tied with a pink ribbon. But just as she is packing for their celebratory trip, Jack drops dead on the tennis court. Devastated and reeling from shock, Lang realizes all of her perfect arrangements are in utter disarray. A mute stray dog posts itself on her front porch and a grammar-butchering fashion plate, A.J. Cole, practically takes up residence, regularly revealing too much information to loner Lang. Her son, Teddy, a tennis has-been, has his own ideas of how she should manage her life, and they dont include cavorting about with a veterinarian who resembles Wimpy. Lillian, Langs long-lost mother, reappears and is as obnoxious as ever, waving to the pews at Jacks funeral like she is Miss America. Langs granddaughter, Katie D, is a consistent bright spot, and Lang cant imagine her life without her. As she realizes Jack wasnt exactly the person she thought he was, she discovers a secret he carried to his grave could ruin her life. If she lets it. Compared to the Mitford Years by Jan Karon and Good Grief by Lolly Winston, Making Arrangements features rich sassy writing with characters youll want to slap. It is a story of family life and friendship, about mothers of both grown and young children, and how strangers (even the most irritating) can evolve into sisters. Relationships of all sorts can bloom into love (at any age) and the love between family, between mothers and children, grandparents and grandchildren, and sisters, is worth sustaining.4. The Art of Arranging Flowers
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A moving and eloquent novel about love, grief, renewaland the powerful language of flowers.Ruby Jewell knows flowers. In her twenty years as a florist she has stood behind the counter at the Flower Shoppe with her faithful dog, Clementine, resting at her feet. A customer can walk in, and with just a glance or a few words, Ruby can throw together the perfect arrangement for any occasion.
Whether intended to rekindle a romance, mark a celebration, offer sympathy, or heal a broken heart, her expressive floral designs mark the moments and milestones in the lives of her neighbors. Its as though she knows just what they want to say, just what they need.
Yet Rubys own hearts desires have gone ignored since the death of her beloved sister. It will take an invitation from a man whos flown to the moon, the arrival of a unique little boy, and concern from a charming veterinarian to reawaken her wounded spirit. Any life can be derailed, but the healing power of community can put it right again.
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5. Arranging: A Beginner's Guide
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In straightforward, step-by-step fashion, authors Blake Henson and Gerald Custer show how to take a piece of existing music and craft a workable, polished arrangement that meets the needs of your ensemble in the real world.Arranging: A Beginner s Guide is full of ideas, examples, and exercises to try out and adapt, grounded in the belief that arranging is not only a necessary skill, it is one that is relatively easy to learn and master. This book is written for conductors, church musicians, teachers, and students at all levels.
Learn how to:
Reconfigure a piece to fit your choral circumstances
Translate your ideas into practical, performable music
Turn a solo song into a choral piece
write a descant
Transform a piano part into an arrangement for band or strings
Extend a hymn into an anthem with introduction, interludes, and coda
Create within copyright law
With numerous examples and helpful tips plus humor and insight this engaging and practical workbook is designed to make the arranging process simple and fun.
6. It's Your Funeral: This book will save you money of funeral arranging
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It s Your Funeral This Book Will Save You Money on Funeral ArrangingDescription
The oldest game in the world? Well, some funeral directors out there definitely see it as a licence to print money. Industry insider, John Parry, has a decade of experience and has witnessed many vulnerable bereaved families exploited by funeral arrangers determined to reach their revenue targets. Dont be one of them! This practical book will not only clue you up on how the industry works, but also guide you through the myriad of choices and practicalities that need to be arranged to ensure that your loved one gets the beautiful, dignified funeral they deserve without you getting ripped off. Note: If some funeral directors feel offended by some of the revelations contained within this book, the author makes no apology for attempting to draw attention to what is currently a tarnished, but only occasionally corrupt industry.7. Arranging Grief: Sacred Time and the Body in Nineteenth-Century America (Sexual Cultures) by Dana Luciano (2007-11-01)
8. Arranging a Funeral - A Book of Resources
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Arranging a Funeral A Book of ResourcesDescription
An important part of pastoral ministry for many clergy is conducting funerals for families who have had little or no contact with the church, sometimes in circumstances involving suicide, death of a baby or child, or even murder. This book has been written with the aim of drawing the bereaved family as far as possible into the preparation of the funeral, and contains services for various occasions combined with resources material of readings, prayers and suggestions of appropriate music.9. Flowers - 30 Minute Challenge: Adult coloring Travel Book. Pocket-Size. Your Coloring Book When You Are Traveling (Volume 2)