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Author : Oliver Sacks,Oliver W. Sacks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1998-04-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780684853956
Originally published: New York: Summit Books, 1984.
Author : Mary O'Brien
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843867435
Mary O'Brien never let the grass grow under her feet, even though she lost both legs at the age of two in a farm accident. As Ireland's first double amputee to be fitted with artficial limbs she soon learned to ride a bicycle and careered off into a full life. Now with colour and humour Mary charts the milestones along the way: Growing up in a large family where her accident was never discussed. Her years as just another of the girls at a convent boarding school. Working as an Occupational Therapist for 30 years through a revolution in mental health care. Meeting and marrying John and raising two sons. Learning to swim and then going on to win Triple Gold at the Disabled Games and Stoke Mandeville. Studying Art, teaching it, and gaining wide recognition as a professional artist. Being awarded an M.B.E. Between these pivotal moments Mary describes all other trials, tribulations and triumphs of a remarkable life. Through it all, she stands tall on the only limbs she has ever known while her warm vivid memories present a unique picture of Ireland since the Second World War. They will inspire readers to constantly reach beyond their limitations and make their mark.
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Knopf Canada
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-09-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781039002517
Here the doctor becomes the patient, as Dr. Sacks chronicles the mountaineering accident which left him with the uncanny feeling of being "legless," and raises profound questions of the physical basis of identity. In A Leg To Stand On, it is Dr. Sacks himself who is the patient: an encounter with a bull on a desolate mountain in Norway has left him with a severely damaged leg. But what should be a routine recuperation is actually the beginning of a strange medical journey, when he finds that his leg uncannily no longer feels a part of his body. Sacks's description of his crisis and eventual recovery is not only an illuminating examination of the experience of patienthood and the inner nature of illness and health, but also a fascinating exploration of the physical basis of identity.
Author : Amy Hindley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : People with disabilities
ISBN : 0473439344
Author : Jame R. Morey
Publisher : Customer Strategy Academy
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1733250190
Have you undergone a below the knee amputation (BKA) or an above the knee amputation (AKA)? ★ ★ Do you know anyone who has? ★ ★ This book is filled with valuable information, strategies and tips for BKA and AKA amputees, as well as for upper limb amputees, their family members and caregivers. ★ ★ You will gain insight, advice, hope, encouragement, understanding, and a bit of humor from someone who has gone through it. ★ ★ This is a story of challenge and hope - not merely roadblocks or tragedy. ★ ★ You will have "a leg to stand on" - even when life has thrown you a curveball.
Author : Rob Sullivan
Publisher : McGraw Hill Professional
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-19
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0071402772
Looking for a job is intimidating, especially when significant experience is the main thing a job hunter is lacking. In Getting Your Leg in the Door When You Don't Have a Leg to Stand On, the author, a successful headhunter and job-hunting coach, shares insights and techniques that he learned from working with job hunters at all levels. He presents expert advice, case studies, and strategies for getting the interview, then demonstrating the qualities and skills most likely to convince an employer of one's abilities.
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593466681
In his most extraordinary book, the bestselling author of Awakenings and "poet laureate of medicine” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients inhabiting the compelling world of neurological disorders, from those who are no longer able to recognize common objects to those who gain extraordinary new skills. Featuring a new preface, Oliver Sacks’s The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat tells the stories of individuals afflicted with perceptual and intellectual disorders: patients who have lost their memories and with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people and common objects; whose limbs seem alien to them; who lack some skills yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents. In Dr. Sacks’s splendid and sympathetic telling, his patients are deeply human and his tales are studies of struggles against incredible adversity. A great healer, Sacks never loses sight of medicine’s ultimate responsibility: “the suffering, afflicted, fighting human subject.”
Author : Cari Lynn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Brokers
ISBN : 1841126640
'Leg The Spread' tells the story of one woman's experience of surviving the stereotyping, stress and sexism of the ultimate boys club - the commodities trading floor.
Author : Stephen King
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307743688
A monumentally devastating plague leaves only a few survivors who, while experiencing dreams of a battle between good and evil, move toward an actual confrontation as they migrate to Boulder, Colorado.
Author : Colleen Haggerty
Publisher : She Writes Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781631529245
When Colleen Haggerty lost her leg in an accident during her senior year of high school, she could have retreated from life and let her disability become her defining quality—and no one would have blamed her for it. Instead, she went the opposite way. In the years following her accident, Haggerty explored her physical world with vigor, testing the limits of her body by joining a ski team, playing with a co-ed soccer team, and taking up kayaking and backpacking. She also tested the limits of her heart, pursuing love and passion with restless men. In A Leg to Stand On, Haggerty recounts her life as a disabled woman, from redefining herself as a young woman after tragedy—fierce and able, but haunted by hard choices and suppressed grief—to choosing marriage and motherhood. That choice comes at great cost to the physical freedom Haggerty has fought for, but ultimately she redemption, fulfillment, and self-acceptance in the bargain. No one will read this book without being inspired to accept their past and create the future they always wanted.
Author : Timothy McHenry
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-05
Category : Pets
ISBN : 1475951442
When Tim McHenry first set eyes on Dixie, he sensed that his life would never be quite the same. Dixie had been hit by a car which resulted in the loss of her left front leg. She was given a second chance thanks to the compassion of a shelter director and the skill of a generous veterinarian. Tim adopted Dixie. Her rehabilitation became Tim’s responsibility. Little did he know that he would be the one who would soon need rescuing. Together, Tim and Dixie discovered that their extraordinary love would ultimately lead them on a path to redemption and give them both a leg to stand on.
Author : Lois Olson
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-30
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781490848334
A three-legged dog and a broken goat--how will these creatures help an amputee find purpose and meaning in her life?
Author : D.D. Mayers
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781785382598
This book tells the story of one man's journey from happiness to despair and back again. At thirty-two and at the peak of health, D.D. Mayers lived in a Kenyan paradise with his beautiful wife. Then tragedy struck; an accident left him paralysed from the waist down, destined to spend the rest of his life in a wheelchair. Mayers takes the reader on an emotional yet witty and amusing tour of his life, guiding us from his childhood (and the ‘pointless' schooling he receives) through to his emergence as a young man who somehow finds himself earning money as a professional actor. One role takes him to Kenya, where we meet his wonderful wife, and we join the two for a trip through the Middle East, many years before war ravaged much of its warmth and beauty. After moving to London for a number of years, the couple return to Kenya - only for them to experience a life-changing event. The gripping storytelling throughout the book takes us from the author’s despair and feelings of worthlessness all the way through to a final, peaceful contentment. You will laugh and you will cry - but you won’t be able to put the book down.
Author : Joan Bauer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2005-06-02
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 9781101657904
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
Author : Chuck Gahagen, MD
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-04-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780557027583