A Touch Of Vertigo

Author : Pierre Boileau,Thomas Narcejac
Publisher : Pushkin Vertigo
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781782271390

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Vertigo by Pierre Boileau,Thomas Narcejac Pdf

The original breath-taking psychological thriller behind Hitchcock’s legendary film—the story of a man tormented by his search for the truth, and ultimately destroyed by a terrible secret It could have happened to any of us, but it happened to a man named Flavieres. His days as a detective were over, and everyone knew he had his reasons. But when an old friend appeared out of nowhere with concerns about his withdrawn and mysterious wife, Flavieres didn't have the heart to refuse. Soon, he would be scouring the streets of Paris in search of an answer—in search of a girl who belonged to no one, not even to herself. Intrigue would be replaced by obsession, and dreams replaced by nightmares. This is the story of a desperate man. A man who ended up compromising his own morality beyond all measure, while World War II raged outside his front door. A man tormented—and destroyed—by a dark, terrible secret.

Author : Karinna Damgård
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781982272333

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A Touch of Vertigo by Karinna Damgård Pdf

Everything you want is on the other side of your greatest fear. Although we are sometimes resistant, hard times, challenges, and difficulties help make us who we are. Like the transformative metamorphosis from black coal to diamond, only after extreme pressure, and the passing of time, do we see the result. It is up to us whether we focus on the pain or the result. Many self-help books will say that if we just ask for what we want, we will get it, but what if we never learned to ask for what we really want? In this book, author Karinna Damgård explores how learning from a young age not to trust intuition, not to ask for help for fear of being a burden, has held us back. How will you learn the grandness of truth, if you were always told a lie? How can you learn to empower yourself, if life always taught you the opposite? How can you learn to better yourself if you are always busy watching out for the next big earthquake? Interweaving personal experiences with her expertise as a clairvoyant, healer, mentor, spiritual advisor, and intuitive soul, Damgård seeks to guide others through an introspective and inspirational step-by-step process that encourages movement away from self-imposed fears and expectations and into a new phase of personal growth where we recognize our own beauty, light, divinity, and how we shine with help from God, even in a chaotic world. A Touch of Vertigo is a down-to-earth guide that leads positive change seekers down a thoughtful path of personal growth and spiritual transformation to address fears and move forward into a new beginning filled with divine miracles.

Author : Joanna Walsh
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780989760768

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Vertigo by Joanna Walsh Pdf

“With wry humor and profound sensitivity, Walsh takes what is mundane and transforms it into something otherworldly with sentences that can make your heart stop. A feat of language.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review “Joanna Walsh's haunting and unforgettable stories enact a literal vertigo—the feeling that if I fall I will fall not toward the earth but into space—by probing the spaces between things. Waiting for news in a children's hospital, pondering her husband's multiple online flirtations or observing the tourists and locals at a third-world archeological site, her narrator approaches the suppressed state of panic coursing beneath things that are normally tamed by our blunted perceptions of ordinary life. Vertigo is an original and breathtaking book.” (Chris Kraus)

Author : Andrea Cavalletti
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780823298051

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Vertigo by Andrea Cavalletti Pdf

Reading philosophy through the lens of Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo, Andrea Cavalletti shows why, for two centuries, major philosophers have come to think of vertigo as intrinsically part of philosophy itself. Fear of the void, terror of heights: everyone knows what acrophobia is, and many suffer from it. Before Freud, the so-called “sciences of the mind” reserved a place of honor for vertigo in the domain of mental pathologies. The fear of falling—which is also the fear of giving in to the temptation to let oneself fall—has long been understood as a destabilizing yet intoxicating element without which consciousness itself was inconceivable. Some went so far as to induce it in patients through frightening rotational therapies. In a less cruel but no less radical way, vertigo also staked its claim in philosophy. If Montaigne and Pascal could still consider it a perturbation of reason and a trick of the imagination which had to be subdued, subsequent thinkers stopped considering it an occasional imaginative instability to be overcome. It came, rather, to be seen as intrinsic to reason, such that identity manifests itself as tottering, kinetic, opaque and, indeed, vertiginous. Andrea Cavalletti’s stunning book sets this critique of stable consciousness beside one of Hitchcock’s most famous thrillers, a drama of identity and its abysses. Hitchcock’s brilliant combination of a dolly and a zoom to recreate the effect of falling describes that double movement of “pushing away and bringing closer” which is the habitual condition of the subject and of intersubjectivity. To reach myself, I must see myself from the bottom of the abyss, with the eyes of another. Only then does my “here” flee down there and, from there, attract me. From classical medicine and from the role of imagination in our biopolitical world to the very heart of philosophy, from Hollywood to Heidegger’s “being-toward-death,” Cavalletti brings out the vertiginous nature of identity.

Author : Juan Villoro
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781524748890

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Horizontal Vertigo by Juan Villoro Pdf

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city ’s cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today—one of the world’s leading cultural and financial centers. In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: “Living in the City,” “City Characters,” “Shocks,” “Crossings,” and “Ceremonies.” What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City’s genius loci, its spirit of place.

Author : Santosh Kumar Swain
Publisher : JP Medical Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-02-12
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789352500291

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Management of Vertigo Made Easy by Santosh Kumar Swain Pdf

Management of Vertigo Made Easy is a concise, easy to use guide to this debilitating condition. Enhanced by over fifty images, illustrations and tables, this book simplifies difficult concepts with a straightforward step by step approach to management of vertigo. A final ‘Points to Remember’ section, with clinical tips, makes Management of Vertigo Made Easy an ideal pocket-sized handbook for interns and residents, as well as otolaryngologists, neurologists and physicians.

Author : Martha Grimes
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-04-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781476724058

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Vertigo 42 by Martha Grimes Pdf

"At Vertigo 42, a bar high above London's financial district, Richard Jury meets Tom Williamson - a friend of a friend who is convinced his wife, Tess, was murdered 17 years ago. Tess's death was ruled accidental - a fall caused by vertigo - but Jury agrees to re-examine the case. A young girl's fatal fall at a children's party 22 years ago at Tom and Tess's home may be connected. After an elegantly dressed woman falls from a tower near a pub that Jury and his cronies frequent, and her estranged husband is later found dead, Jury begins to suspect that the now grown "children" from Tess's ill-fated party are the key to solving these interwoven mysteries"--

Author : George Manville Fenn
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781776593255

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Blind Policy by George Manville Fenn Pdf

Settle in for a pulse-pounding read with this fast-paced Victorian mystery from author George Manville Fenn. With the unexpected arrival of a beautiful and mysterious visitor, a physician finds himself thrust into the middle of a very strange situation.

Author : Robert William Baloh,G. Michael Halmagyi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015037462804

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Disorders of the Vestibular System by Robert William Baloh,G. Michael Halmagyi Pdf

An up-to-date, comprehensive review of disorders of the vestibular system authored by some of the most prominent experts in the field, this book covers basic vestibular mechanisms, clinical evaluation, common vestibular diseases, and treatment of vertigo. Part I reviews the anatomy and physiology of the vestibular system focusing on clinically relevant material. Part II analyzes specific details in the patient's history, examination, and laboratory evaluation pointing to the probable site of lesion and likely pathophysiology. Patient history is emphasized since it is the critical first step in understanding the patient's complaints. Part III covers the differential diagnosis and specific treatments of common neurologic disorders. A separate chapter surveys the common syndromes encountered in neurotology. Part IV discusses general principles of treatment relevant to all vestibular disorders. Designed primarily to help physicians who treat patients complaining of dizziness, this book is also a complete source of reference to practitioners in internal medicine, family practice, otolaryngology, neurology, head and neck surgery, and neurosurgery.

Author : Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 540 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:B3779489

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Reports by Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory Pdf

Author : Gauri Mankekar
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9788132215301

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Invasive Fungal Rhinosinusitis by Gauri Mankekar Pdf

Incidence of invasive fungal sinusitis has been increasing over the years. The understanding of its pathophysiology has improved with newer serological tests and diagnostic methods helping in earlier diagnosis and reducing patient morbidity. It was believed earlier that invasive fungal sinusitis is seen only in immune compromised patients but clinical reports suggest otherwise. More anti-fungal drugs are being added to improve incidence of patient survival. This book aims to compile all practical information about invasive fungal sinusitis into a single volume. Therefore, busy clinicians would not have to perform exhaustive literature studies to diagnose invasive fungal sinusitis. The book aims to provide an overview of diseases which could be mistaken for invasive fungal sinusitis and discuss how the management is different. Book sections consist of clinical, microbiological, serological, pathological, radiological and pharmacological features of the disease and its management. Each section is important in today’s context as it dynamically alters the management of the patient. Early clinical suspicion and rapid microbiological, pathological and radiological diagnosis with aggressive treatment with surgical debridement and medical therapy leads to favorable outcomes.

Author : Thomas Brandt,Marianne Dieterich,Michael Strupp
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-24
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781846280818

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Vertigo and Dizziness by Thomas Brandt,Marianne Dieterich,Michael Strupp Pdf

Short and concise, clinically-oriented book with special emphasis on treatments: drug, physical, operative or psychotherapeutic An overview of the most important syndromes, each with explanatory clinical descriptions and illustrations makes it an easy-to-use reference

Author : Adolfo Bronstein
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191642067

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Oxford Textbook of Vertigo and Imbalance by Adolfo Bronstein Pdf

Vertigo, dizziness, and imbalance rank amongst the most common presenting symptoms in neurology, ENT, geriatric medicine, and general practice. These symptoms can originate from many different organs and systems, such as the inner ear, general medical conditions, neurological and psychological disorders. The Oxford Textbook of Vertigo and Imbalance provides an up-to-date summary of the scientific basis, clinical diagnosis, and management of disorders leading to dizziness and poor balance. This textbook is conceptually divided into three sections, detailing the scientific basis, general clinical issues, and specific diseases diagnosed in clinical practice that are responsible for complaints of dizziness and imbalance. Individual chapters address benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, vestibular migraine, vestibular neuritis, stroke, and Ménière's disease. Additional chapters follow a syndrome-based approach and cover multiple conditions, including cerebellar disorders, bilateral vestibular failure and gait, and psychological disorders. The print edition is complemented by an online version, which allows access to the full content of the textbook, contains links from the references to primary research journal articles, allows full text searches, and provides access to figures and tables that can be downloaded to PowerPoint. It serves a useful clinical reference for neurologists, otorhinolaryngologists, audio-vestibular physicians, and senior trainees in those specialties.

Author : SK Conaghan
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-02-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781490863696

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From Ash to Embers by SK Conaghan Pdf

When mind and body come crashing to a halt after years in missions, can the passion be reignited? Shannon tells her story, amid calamity and risk, and faces the demands that come with dreaming big and the logistics of putting new missions paradigms into practice. This is a journey from passion to burnout, and the lingering hope of recovery that glows like burning embers amid the ashes.

Author : Jon Evans,Andrea Mutti
Publisher : Titan Publishing Company
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Detective and mystery comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 1848568371

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The Executor by Jon Evans,Andrea Mutti Pdf

THE EXECUTOR is the story of Joseph, a retired pro athlete, who returns to his hometown in upstate New York when he's named executor of his high-school sweetheart's will. In a search to find out what really happened to Miriam following her mysterious death, Joseph is confronted with his own illicit past and the possibility that the two are connected. "From the Hardcover edition."