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Author : Agnes Karpathi
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781434904928
Author : American Philosophical Society
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1422370275
Author : Oliver Sacks
Publisher : Picador
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781743537930
When Oliver Sacks was twelve years old, a perceptive schoolmaster wrote in his report: 'Sacks will go far, if he does not go too far'. It is now abundantly clear that Sacks has never stopped going. From its opening pages on his youthful obsession with motorcycles and speed, On the Move is infused with his restless energy. As he recounts his experiences as a young neurologist in the early 1960s, first in California and then in New York, where he discovered a long-forgotten illness in the back wards of a chronic hospital, as well as with a group of patients who would define his life, it becomes clear that Sacks's earnest desire for engagement has occasioned unexpected encounters and travels - sending him through bars and alleys, over oceans, and across continents. PRAISE FOR OLIVER SACKS "Sacks's empathy and intellectual curiosity, his delight in, as he calls it, "joining particulars with generalities" and, especially, "narratives with neuroscience" - have never been more evident than in his beautifully conceived new book. . .remarkably candid and deeply affecting" Boston Globe "Honest, lucid, passionate, humorous, humane and human (also slightly Martian). . .[a] marvelous memoir, which is as unconventional and singular as the man himself" Wall Street Journal "[Sacks'] delving accounts of the invalids he treats have until now stood in stark contrast to his restraint about revealing himself deeply, even though autobiographical threads run through such books as A Leg to Stand On, Uncle Tungsten and Hallucinations. A doctor - concerned, engaging, humane, eccentric and unforthcoming - has occupied the foreground in his self-description. With On the Move, he has finally presented himself as he has presented others: as both fully vulnerable and an object of curiosity." New York Times
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 934 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1860
Category : Arts
ISBN : UGA:32108057734082
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 734 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1852
Category : Electronic
ISBN : CHI:79233111
Author : Mudie's Library Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026215377
Author : Mudie's Library Ltd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026185757
Author : Amy Bloom
Publisher : Random House
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593243947
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A powerful memoir of a love that leads two people to find a courageous way to part—and a woman’s struggle to go forward in the face of loss—that “enriches the reader’s life with urgency and gratitude” (The Washington Post) “A pleasure to read . . . Rarely has a memoir about death been so full of life. . . . Bloom has a talent for mixing the prosaic and profound, the slapstick and the serious.”—USA Today ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR Amy Bloom began to notice changes in her husband, Brian: He retired early from a new job he loved; he withdrew from close friendships; he talked mostly about the past. Suddenly, it seemed there was a glass wall between them, and their long walks and talks stopped. Their world was altered forever when an MRI confirmed what they could no longer ignore: Brian had Alzheimer’s disease. Forced to confront the truth of the diagnosis and its impact on the future he had envisioned, Brian was determined to die on his feet, not live on his knees. Supporting each other in their last journey together, Brian and Amy made the unimaginably difficult and painful decision to go to Dignitas, an organization based in Switzerland that empowers a person to end their own life with dignity and peace. In this heartbreaking and surprising memoir, Bloom sheds light on a part of life we so often shy away from discussing—its ending. Written in Bloom’s captivating, insightful voice and with her trademark wit and candor, In Love is an unforgettable portrait of a beautiful marriage, and a boundary-defying love.
Author : Elliott Graeme
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Composers
ISBN : OXFORD:600023136
Author : Donald Justice
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2009-05-14
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780307517883
This celebratory volume gives us the entire career of Donald Justice between two covers, including a rich handful of poems written since New and Selected Poems was published in 1995. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Justice has been hailed by his contemporary Anthony Hecht as “the supreme heir of Wallace Stevens.” In poems that embrace the past, its terrors and reconciliations, Justice has become our poet of living memory. The classic American melancholy in his titles calls forth the tenor of our collective passages: “Bus Stop,” “Men at Forty,” “Dance Lessons of the Thirties,” “The Small White Churches of the Small White Towns.” This master of classical form has found in the American scene, and in the American tongue, all those virtues of our literature and landscape sought by Emerson and Henry James. For half a century he has endeavored, with painterly vividness and plainspoken elegance, to make those local views part of the literary heritage from which he has so often taken solace, and inspiration. School Letting Out (Fourth or Fifth Grade) The afternoons of going home from school Past the young fruit trees and the winter flowers. The schoolyard cries fading behind you then, And small boys running to catch up, as though It were an honor somehow to be near— All is forgiven now, even the dogs, Who, straining at their tethers, used to bark, Not from anger but some secret joy.
Author : Donald Justice
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780679765981
Poems in both metered and free verse explore diverse topics, including aging, poetry, loss, and childhood.
Author : Richard Taruskin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 3856 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-07-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780199813698
The Oxford History of Western Music is a magisterial survey of the traditions of Western music by one of the most prominent and provocative musicologists of our time. This text illuminates, through a representative sampling of masterworks, those themes, styles, and currents that give shape and direction to each musical age. Taking a critical perspective, this text sets the details of music, the chronological sweep of figures, works, and musical ideas, within the larger context of world affairs and cultural history. Written by an authoritative, opinionated, and controversial figure in musicology, The Oxford History of Western Music provides a critical aesthetic position with respect to individual works, a context in which each composition may be evaluated and remembered. Taruskin combines an emphasis on structure and form with a discussion of relevant theoretical concepts in each age, to illustrate how the music itself works, and how contemporaries heard and understood it. It also describes how the c
Author : Chloé Cooper Jones
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781982152000
Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Memoir or Autobiography A New York Times Notable Book of 2022 * Vulture’s #1 Memoir of 2022 * A Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA TODAY, Time, BuzzFeed, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year From Chloé Cooper Jones—Pulitzer Prize finalist, philosophy professor, Whiting Creative Nonfiction Grant recipient—an “exquisite” (Oprah Daily) and groundbreaking memoir about disability, motherhood, and the search for a new way of seeing and being seen. “I am in a bar in Brooklyn, listening to two men, my friends, discuss whether my life is worth living.” So begins Chloé Cooper Jones’s bold, revealing account of moving through the world in a body that looks different than most. Jones learned early on to factor “pain calculations” into every plan, every situation. Born with a rare congenital condition called sacral agenesis which affects both her stature and gait, her pain is physical. But there is also the pain of being judged and pitied for her appearance, of being dismissed as “less than.” The way she has been seen—or not seen—has informed her lens on the world her entire life. She resisted this reality by excelling academically and retreating to “the neutral room in her mind” until it passed. But after unexpectedly becoming a mother (in violation of unspoken social taboos about the disabled body), something in her shifts, and Jones sets off on a journey across the globe, reclaiming the spaces she’d been denied, and denied herself. From the bars and domestic spaces of her life in Brooklyn to sculpture gardens in Rome; from film festivals in Utah to a Beyoncé concert in Milan; from a tennis tournament in California to the Killing Fields of Phnom Penh, Jones weaves memory, observation, experience, and aesthetic philosophy to probe the myths underlying our standards of beauty and desirability and interrogates her own complicity in upholding those myths. “Bold, honest, and superbly well-written” (Andre Aciman, author of Call Me By Your Name) Easy Beauty is the rare memoir that has the power to make you see the world, and your place in it, with new eyes.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : NYPL:33433001000193
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Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1839
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCM:5319406719
