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"His parents need to know he won't leave this hospital alive." Seventeen and perfectly healthy one moment and the next I was unconscious on the floor. Soon we learned that I had suffered a massive and likely fatal brain bleed. Though I was given...

Three Rings and Swords, The Bushido Code and Stories of the Samurai, The great master Samurai brought to the forefront the awareness of how to embody self-control and restraint in order to discipline their minds through their physical and spiritual training. As they liberated...

Author: Nivedita SenGuptaISBN-10: 9394600213ISBN-13: 9789394600218Publisher: Qurate Books Private LimitedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2022Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d

Author: Paul W. BassISBN-10: 1956027211ISBN-13: 9781956027211Publisher: Acclaim PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2022Pages: 336Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.54lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.06w x 0.63d

Dr. Charles Silverstein has made a habit of breaking down barriers. He successfully persuaded the American Psychiatric Association to remove homosexuality as a mental illness in 1973. With Edmund White, he co-authored the landmark publication The Joy of Gay Sex in 1977. He was...

"It would be difficult to think of anyone who has been more percipient about international affairs in recent decades." - Jacob Heilbrunn, Editor of The National InterestBorn in Wales in 1930, Owen Harries was educated at the Universities of Wales and Oxford. He migrated...

'Many people have a powerful story to tell about a turning point that led to them finding their purpose, their passion.' When historian Henry Reynolds witnessed extreme racial injustice, he was ignited to change the course of his research. Whistleblower Andrew Wilkie bravely spoke...

Enter the world of Professor Peter Smith. I have lived a full, exciting, and unique life. In my youth I lived a conundrum. My rebellious nature drew me my away from my academic studies into the world of punk rock; a very different world...

In his graphic biography Nick Cave: Mercy on Me, Reinhard Kleist paints an expressive and enthralling portrait of the musician, novelist, poet, and actor. It is, according to Nick Cave himself, "a complex, chilling and completely bizarre journey into Cave World." Nick Cave &...

How on earth can you 'fall into' online dating? Well, separated and sixty-four, I somehow managed to do just that, and what an experience that turned out to be!Bewildering, fascinating, at times a real laugh and a few narrow escapes thrown into themix, I...

Nigel was born in autumn 1959. His life has been 'colourful' or 'chequered' depending on whom you ask. His GP of some decades has said 'writing and studying are your therapy, Nigel. They are what saved you.' He left home for the counterculture as...

A memoir documenting a rollercoaster ride of ups, downs, difficulties, disasters, stresses and successes in the work of a former teacher with a dream to transform classrooms all over the world.In this diary - with great good humour and with present-day observations made with...

Jane was a much loved and cared for child, but the dynamics of the British Colonial rule in the Caribbean, where she was raised, the governmental control in the school system, and the island's cultural fervour during the 1950s and 60s all play a...

The book is intended as a testimony to the body of Christ, that indeed, God is forever faithful. Scripture says in Psalm 89:2, "For I have said, 'Mercy shall be built up forever; your faithfulness you shall establish in the very heavens.'" Whenever we...

The book is intended as a testimony to the body of Christ, that indeed, God is forever faithful. Scripture says in Psalm 89:2, "For I have said, 'Mercy shall be built up forever; your faithfulness you shall establish in the very heavens.'" Whenever we...

Zelma's Aphorisms, Old-School Wisdom, Instructive, Inspirational, Hilarious to Outrageous is inspired by the Book of Proverbs, the book of wisdom for living. The teachings include instruction on folly sin, goodness, wealth, poverty, the tongue, pride, humility, justice, vengeance, strife, gluttony, love, lust, laziness, friends,...

Zelma's Aphorisms, Old-School Wisdom, Instructive, Inspirational, Hilarious to Outrageous is inspired by the Book of Proverbs, the book of wisdom for living. The teachings include instruction on folly sin, goodness, wealth, poverty, the tongue, pride, humility, justice, vengeance, strife, gluttony, love, lust, laziness, friends,...

Adventurous life experiences shared from four different continents invoke 'Enlightenment through Entertainment'. This compelling story of migration is a personal voyage of self-discovery. Melding values from the east and the west, to achieve the best of both worlds..., it's a journey from separation and...

This is an anthropological and historical study of Wara Wara Balodea Chiefdoma, an ancient and formerly very isolated, hill chiefdom in northern Sierra Leone. West Africa, called Wara Wara Bafodea, with rice growing in the chiefdom's south and grain in its north. The book...

This is an anthropological and historical study of Wara Wara Balodea Chiefdoma, an ancient and formerly very isolated, hill chiefdom in northern Sierra Leone. West Africa, called Wara Wara Bafodea, with rice growing in the chiefdom's south and grain in its north. The book...

Janet Vanik Divel's connection to Baltimore started when the Vanik and the Koerner families descended on America's shores as immigrants migrating from Germany and Czechoslovakia in the late 1800s. They and many other families shaped America and the little city of Baltimore, Maryland. In...

Janet Vanik Divel's connection to Baltimore started when the Vanik and the Koerner families descended on America's shores as immigrants migrating from Germany and Czechoslovakia in the late 1800s. They and many other families shaped America and the little city of Baltimore, Maryland. In...

The book is about a young Indian Boy that grows up in a small town in South Dakota. There is a section of the town that was for all the Natives to live that was called "Indian Town". The boy grows up in poverty...

Over a three year period, I experienced three life-changing events. In 2019, I finally answered God's call and began the process of ministry candidacy in the United Methodist Church. In 2020, COVID touched the lives of everyone--affecting the way we work, learn, and interact...

If your life has become or will become a journey, this book is definitely intended for you.A journey is a great joy for the author and his family - a pleasure, something that really counts. The journeys of his family have been neither documentary...

Author Margaret Seven Wellman, daughter of legendary Hollywood director William A. Wellman, tells the story of her childhood as it was lived room-by-room, inside and out, at her home on Barrington Avenue. Poetic glimpses of family life appear to the reader like scenes from...

William Canary's career has taken him from the rough-and-tumble of New York politics to the inner workings of the George H. W. Bush White House to responsibility for maintaining the transportation infrastructure in the critical days following the September 11 terrorist attacks.Along the way,...

William Canary's career has taken him from the rough-and-tumble of New York politics to the inner workings of the George H. W. Bush White House to responsibility for maintaining the transportation infrastructure in the critical days following the September 11 terrorist attacks.Along the way,...

The Greatest Generation was called to acts of uncommon bravery to defend the fate of Europe, Asia, and the Free World from the Axis Powers. As more of them are laid to rest, it is more important than ever that we document and remember...

A firsthand account of insanity and recovery. Clifford Whittingham Beers (1876-1943) was the founder of the American mental hygiene movement. Born in New Haven, Connecticut, he was one of five children, all of whom would suffer from psychological distress and die in mental institutions....

More stories about the experiences of a Wilderness Park Ranger in the Adirondack Mountains. Related title(s): Excuse Me, Sir..., Forgive Me, Ma'am..., Thanks Anyway, Sir...Author: Larry WeillISBN-10: 1595310177ISBN-13: 9781595310170Publisher: North Country BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/04/2007Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.58d

Over 200 adventures written in chilling detail by twenty-nine women who in solar winter reached the summits of all 46 Adirondack High Peaks.Author: Carol WhiteISBN-10: 1595310029ISBN-13: 9781595310026Publisher: North Country BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/30/2005Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.68d

A helpful road map to a future successful career through life stories shared by a group of distinguished university women, all professors of Pediatrics at the University of Rochester. In this inspiring collection of life stories, distinguished women pediatricians reflect on how following their...

The fascinating letters of conductor-author Nicolas Slonimsky (1894-1995) to his wife, sharing his adventures as he traveled around the world to conduct new American music. In the mid-twentieth century renowned musicologist, conductor, and lexicographer Nicolas Slonimsky traveled to cities throughout the world to play...

This small book of remembrance was produced to honor the life of Warren James Hays, known to all as Jay, who was a friend to all who knew him. Some knew him in his energetic youth. Some of us were fortunate to have known...

That very best of times... "This story captures a moment in time when Birmingham City FC became a force in the land. In 1954 I was eleven years of age. Britain was still emerging from the ravages of the Second World War. And yet......

The fully authorized biography and collector's guide from the 1960s group known for the songs "She's Not There," "Tell Her No" and "Time Of The Season," as well as the album "Odessey And Oracle."Author: Greg RussoISBN-10: 0979184576ISBN-13: 9780979184574Publisher: CrossFire Pub.Language: EnglishPublished: 08/19/2022Pages: 194Format: PaperbackWeight:...

PART I of Shiraz and Beyond is a collection of letters written to her parents by a young American mother living in Iran. She, together with her American husband and their four small children, lived there for 30 months before the 1979 Revolution. She...

Eurydice (c.410-340s BCE) played a significant part in the public life of ancient Macedonia, the first royal Macedonian woman known to have done so, though hardly the last. She was the wife of Amyntas III, the mother of Philip II (and two other short-lived...

Jack McDonnell shares his story of near death from a sudden heart attack to the struggles to recovery. Ultimately culminated with the need for a heart and lung transplant. His journey takes us through the process of getting listed and approved for transplant, waiting...

This book is about the life of a teenage boy who went through a tough, difficult experience in order to escape the Soviet (Russian) slaughter of the Hungarian people. Leaving his family and country at age 19 was a very difficult time. Going to...

A relaxed and enjoyable exposé for those on the spectrum and those who have (or may come to have) the privilege of regularly engaging with individuals of this all too often misunderstood personality type.A business biography spanning one hundred eleven years (?) of a...

A relaxed and enjoyable exposé for those on the spectrum and those who have (or may come to have) the privilege of regularly engaging with individuals of this all too often misunderstood personality type.A business biography spanning one hundred eleven years (?) of a...

Through Poems for the People Author Teresia Simmons' Mahogany Musings Book Series, readers explore the process of living through and overcoming pain, the experiences of being Black in America, healing past hurts and the joy of hope and love. ResilienceWith Love and Loss, experience...

On May 13th, 1985, the city of Philadelphia did the unthinkable: dropped a bomb on its own people. 6221 Osage Avenue-the home of the anarcho-primitivist MOVE organization-burned, along with sixty-one nearby homes.Fourteen-year-old Trigger witnesses the bombing and its aftermath. He's left to make sense...

SHORTLY AFTER THE BIRTH OF THEIR DAUGHTER KATIE, Steve and Stacy Trebing encountered every parent's worst nightmare: the discovery that their child had a devastating disease. Diagnosed with Diamond Blackfan anemia (DBA), a rare bone marrow affliction, Katie would have to bear a lifetime...

Despite the life-altering trials in Bill Vossler's life - being abandoned by his father at age three, the painful Biblical rantings of Apocalypse Granny, and the effects of an alcoholic home - he was "saved" by an empty lot across the street where he...

Born in a farming village in rural Spain, a young girl is faced with the harsh realities of life at an early age. Forced to be separated from her parents continents away she is raised by her grandparents as if one of their own....

Born in a farming village in rural Spain, a young girl is faced with the harsh realities of life at an early age. Forced to be separated from her parents continents away she is raised by her grandparents as if one of their own....

Mental illnesses are serious matter that needs to be treated as such. Not only do people need to be more empathetic towards people who are suffering from mental illnesses, but also needs to be supportive of them in their time of need. Nothing tells...