Bipolar Epileptic Papa And Businessman

Author : Bruce Bowman
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-10-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798886041521

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Bipolar, Epileptic Papa and Businessman by Bruce Bowman Pdf

Bipolar, Epileptic Papa and Businessman By: Bruce Bowman Having very little insight into the lives of his grandparents and parents before his birth, Bruce Bowman has written an account of his life in an effort to share his experiences with his wife of forty-eight years, three children, and ten grandchildren. Bipolar, Epileptic Papa and Businessman is that account. It begins with an overview of his family history. Born in 1948 along with his twin sister Bonnie, the two joined their other three sisters, Pat and Pam also twins, at three years old, and Julie the eldest at 6. Bruce decided at an early age he was all boy and was very independent of his four sisters. He sheds highlights on his youth and as he grows and becomes more independent. Things were quite different in the fifties and sixties and this book is interlaced with nostalgia during his life. Shortly after marriage, he was diagnosed with transient epileptic amnesia and later went through recurring bouts of bipolar depression. The depression was especially tough while running his business on Maui.

Author : Bruce Bennett
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781906897994

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Cycling and Cinema by Bruce Bennett Pdf

A unique exploration of the history of the bicycle in cinema, from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films. Cycling and Cinema explores the history of the bicycle in cinema from the late nineteenth century through to the present day. In this new book from Goldsmiths Press, Bruce Bennett examines a wide variety of films from around the world, ranging from Hollywood blockbusters and slapstick comedies to documentaries, realist dramas, and experimental films, to consider the complex, shifting cultural significance of the bicycle. The bicycle is an everyday technology, but in examining the ways in which bicycles are used in films, Bennett reveals the rich social and cultural importance of this apparently unremarkable machine. The cinematic bicycles discussed in this book have various functions. They are the source of absurd comedy in silent films, and the vehicles that allow their owners to work in sports films and social realist cinema. They are a means of independence and escape for children in melodramas and kids' films, and the tools that offer political agency and freedom to women, as depicted in films from around the world. In recounting the cinematic history of the bicycle, Bennett reminds us that this machine is not just a practical means of transport or a child's toy, but the vehicle for a wide range of meanings concerning individual identity, social class, nationhood and belonging, family, gender, and sexuality and pleasure. As this book shows, two hundred years on from its invention, the bicycle is a revolutionary technology that retains the power to transform the world.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 11 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-06-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521864268

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The Cambridge History of Medicine by Roy Porter Pdf

Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, 'The Cambridge History of Medicine' surveys the rise of medicine in the West from classical times to the present. Covering both the social and scientific history of medicine, this volume traces the chronology of key developments and events.

Author : Louis-Cyril Celestin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9783319030203

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Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard by Louis-Cyril Celestin Pdf

Genius and dilettantism often go hand in hand. Nowhere is this truer than in the life of Charles-Edouard Brown-Séquard, the bilingual physician and neurologist who succeeded Claude Bernard as the Chair of Experimental Medicine at the College de France in Paris after having practiced in Paris, London and in the USA, especially in Harvard. For most men, making one discovery of global importance would have sufficed to satisfy their curiosity and self-image. Not so Brown-Séquard. His explanation of the neurological disparity following the hemi-section of the spinal cord was a unique achievement that added his name to the syndrome and made him immortal. Yet, the demons of his mind tormented him in his endless search for medical truths and drove him to explore other phenomena, seeking to explain and remedy them. This unique biography shows for the first time the conflict between his professional and personal life, and should appeal to all students of medical history and psychology.

Author : Nadya Tolokonnikova
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781529393132

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Read and Riot by Nadya Tolokonnikova Pdf

"as indispensable to confronting, say, your domineering mother-in-law or your local city council as it is to helping foment an ongoing and ever-escalating insurrection against, say, a sexist, racist, nepotistic power-mad oligarchy threatening to destroy democracy as we know it...My advice: Buy one" - VOGUE A guerrilla guide to radical protest and joyful political resistance from artist, activist and Pussy Riot founder Nadya Tolokonnikova. The face of modern protest is wearing a brightly colored ski mask. Nadya Tolokonnikova, founding member of the Russian activist group Pussy Riot, is a creative activist, professional protestor, brazen feminist, shocking visual artist, and force to be reckoned with. Her spontaneous, explosive approach to political action has involved jumping over barbed wire, kissing police officers, giving guerilla performances in crowded subway cars, and going on a hunger strike to protest the abuse of prisoners. She's been horse-whipped by police in Sochi, temporarily blinded when officers threw green paint in her eyes, and monitored by the Russian government. But what made Nadya an activist icon overnight happened on February 21, 2012, when she was arrested for performing an anti-Putin protest song in a Moscow church. She was sent to a Russian prison for 18 months and emerged as an international symbol of radical resistance, as calls to "Free Pussy Riot" resounded around the world. With her emblematic ski mask, black lipstick, and unwavering bravery, Nadya has become an emissary of hope and optimism despite overwhelming and ugly political corruption. Read & Riot is structured around Nadya's ten rules for revolution (Be a pirate! Make your government shit its pants! Take back the joy!) and illustrated throughout with stunning examples from her extraordinary life and the philosophies of other revolutionary rebels throughout history. Rooted in action and going beyond the typical "call your senator" guidelines, Read & Riot gives us a refreshing model for civil disobedience, and encourages our right to question every status quo and make political action exciting--even joyful.

Author : Laura Harris Smith
Publisher : Chosen Books
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441263674

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Seeing the Voice of God by Laura Harris Smith Pdf

God is always speaking . . . even when He doesn't use words. We live in a post-verbal society that communicates through images--television, smartphones, the Internet--and our Creator longs to communicate with us visually if we'll live with our eyes wide open. With absorbing insight, Seeing the Voice of God demystifies nighttime dreams and daytime visions, revealing the science behind the supernatural and giving you a biblical foundation for making sense of what you see. You'll also: · learn to discern if what you see is from God · study the ten most common types of dreams · discover spirit, mind, and medical tips for better dream recall · interpret dream symbols and imagery · review the best iPhone and Android sleep cycle apps Includes a comprehensive Dream Symbols Dictionary with over 1,000 biblical definitions.

Author : A. Dunst,S. Schlensag
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1349490326

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The World According to Philip K. Dick by A. Dunst,S. Schlensag Pdf

As the first essay collection dedicated to Philip K. Dick in two decades, this volume breaks new ground in science fiction scholarship and brings innovative critical perspectives to the study of one of the twentieth century's most influential authors.

Author : Marie Grace Brown
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781503602687

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Khartoum at Night by Marie Grace Brown Pdf

In the first half of the twentieth century, a pioneering generation of young women exited their homes and entered public space, marking a new era for women's civic participation in northern Sudan. A provocative new public presence, women's civic engagement was at its core a bodily experience. Amid the socio-political upheavals of imperial rule, female students, medical workers, and activists used a careful choreography of body movements and fashion to adapt to imperial mores, claim opportunities for political agency, and shape a new standard of modern, mobile womanhood. Khartoum at Night is the first English-language history of these women's lives, examining how their experiences of the British Empire from 1900–1956 were expressed on and through their bodies. Central to this story is the tobe: a popular, modest form of dress that wrapped around a woman's head and body. Marie Grace Brown shows how northern Sudanese women manipulated the tucks, folds, and social messages of the tobe to deftly negotiate the competing pulls of modernization and cultural authenticity that defined much of the imperial experience. Her analysis weaves together the threads of women's education and activism, medical midwifery, urban life, consumption, and new behaviors of dress and beauty to reconstruct the worlds of politics and pleasure in which early-twentieth-century Sudanese women lived.

Author : Vivian R. Isenstein,William Krasner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Behavior disorders in children
ISBN : UCSD:31822021878764

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Children at Risk by Vivian R. Isenstein,William Krasner Pdf

Behavioral research scientists long have been suggesting that certain children run a greater risk of developing mental problems in adulthood, because of either environmental stresses or genetic predisposition. This concept of vulnerability, considered in light of more recent research data, has intrigued Dr. Jon E. Rolf of the University of Vermont. He theorized that very young children do show early symptoms of behavior disorder which, if recognized, could be amenable to early intervention and thus prevented from developing into adult psychopathology. However, little working data existed concerning the origins of behavioral disorders among the very young. Consequently, Dr. Rolf, with support from the National Institute of Mental Health, initiated the Vermont Child Development Project, hoping to identify specific deviant behaviors in pre-school children, as well as factors within family backgrounds, that contribute to children's maladjustment. Dr. Rolf's program illustrates the value of a research project-gathering valuable data for future strategies that is also a service project dealing with the pressing needs of today's children at risk.

Author : William Alexander
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780472051090

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Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? by William Alexander Pdf

Prisons are an invisible, but dominant, part of American society - the United States incarcerates more people than any other nation in the world, with 25 percent of the world's prisoners currently held within its borders. In Michigan, the number of prisoners rose from 3,000 in 1970 to more than 50,000 by 2008, a shift that Buzz Alexander witnessed firsthand when he came to teach at the University of Michigan. Is William Martinez Not Our Brother? describes the University of Michigan's Prison Creative Arts Project (PCAP), a pioneering program founded in 1990 that works with incarcerated youth and adults in Michigan juvenile facilities and prisons.

Author : Hilary Cotter,Michael Coles
Publisher : Apress
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2009-01-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781430215950

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Pro Full-Text Search in SQL Server 2008 by Hilary Cotter,Michael Coles Pdf

Businesses today want actionable insights into their data—they want their data to reveal itself to them in a natural and user–friendly form. What could be more natural than human language? Natural–language search is at the center of a storm of ever–increasing web–driven demand for human–computer communication and information access. SQL Server 2008 provides the tools to take advantage of the features of its built–in enterprise–level natural–language search engine in the form of integrated full–text search (iFTS). iFTS uses text–aware relational queries to provide your users with fast access to content. Whether you want to set up an enterprise–wide Internet or intranet search engine or create less ambitious natural–language search applications, this book will teach you how to get the most out of SQL Server 2008 iFTS: Introducing powerful iFTS features in SQL Server, such as the FREETEXT and CONTAINS predicates, custom thesauruses, and stop lists Showing you how to optimize full–text query performance through features like full–text indexes and iFilters Providing examples that help you understand and apply the power of iFTS in your daily projects

Author : Tova Navarra
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 0816049971

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The Encyclopedia of Complementary and Alternative Medicine by Tova Navarra Pdf

More than four hundred alphabetically arranged entries provide information on various types of alternative, complementary, and integrative healing methods.

Author : Byron Preiss
Publisher : ibooks
Page : 1 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-10-05
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Secret by Byron Preiss Pdf

The tale begins over three-hundred years ago, when the Fair People—the goblins, fairies, dragons, and other fabled and fantastic creatures of a dozen lands—fled the Old World for the New, seeking haven from the ways of Man. With them came their precious jewels: diamonds, rubies, emeralds, pearls... But then the Fair People vanished, taking with them their twelve fabulous treasures. And they remained hidden until now... Across North America, these twelve treasures, over ten-thousand dollars in precious jewels, are buried. The key to finding each can be found within the twelve full color paintings and verses of The Secret. Yet The Secret is much more than that. At long last, you can learn not only the whereabouts of the Fair People's treasure, but also the modern forms and hiding places of their descendants: the Toll Trolls, Maitre D'eamons, Elf Alphas, Tupperwerewolves, Freudian Sylphs, Culture Vultures, West Ghosts and other delightful creatures in the world around us. The Secret is a field guide to them all. Many "armchair treasure hunt" books have been published over the years, most notably Masquerade (1979) by British artist Kit Williams. Masquerade promised a jewel-encrusted golden hare to the first person to unravel the riddle that Williams cleverly hid in his art. In 1982, while everyone in Britain was still madly digging up hedgerows and pastures in search of the golden hare, The Secret: A Treasure Hunt was published in America. The previous year, author and publisher Byron Preiss had traveled to 12 locations in the continental U.S. (and possibly Canada) to secretly bury a dozen ceramic casques. Each casque contained a small key that could be redeemed for one of 12 jewels Preiss kept in a safe deposit box in New York. The key to finding the casques was to match one of 12 paintings to one of 12 poetic verses, solve the resulting riddle, and start digging. Since 1982, only two of the 12 casques have been recovered. The first was located in Grant Park, Chicago, in 1984 by a group of students. The second was unearthed in 2004 in Cleveland by two members of the Quest4Treasure forum. Preiss was killed in an auto accident in the summer of 2005, but the hunt for his casques continues.

Author : Anne Stibbs
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Crossword puzzles
ISBN : OCLC:1259497052

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Crossword Lists by Anne Stibbs Pdf

Author : Ali A. Allawi
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300135374

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The Occupation of Iraq by Ali A. Allawi Pdf

Involved for over thirty years in the politics of Iraq, Ali A. Allawi was a long-time opposition leader against the Baathist regime. In the post-Saddam years he has held important government positions and participated in crucial national decisions and events. In this book, the former Minister of Defense and Finance draws on his unique personal experience, extensive relationships with members of the main political groups and parties in Iraq, and deep understanding of the history and society of his country to answer the baffling questions that persist about its current crises. What really led the United States to invade Iraq, and why have events failed to unfold as planned? The Occupation of Iraq examines what the United States did and didn't know at the time of the invasion, the reasons for the confused and contradictory policies that were enacted, and the emergence of the Iraqi political class during the difficult transition process. The book tracks the growth of the insurgency and illuminates the complex relationships among Sunnis, Shias, and Kurds. Bringing the discussion forward to the reconfiguration of political forces in 2006, Allawi provides in these pages the clearest view to date of the modern history of Iraq and the invasion that changed its course in unpredicted ways.