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Author : J. T. Rogers
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service Inc
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Afghanistan
ISBN : 0822226073
Originally published: Great Britain: Faber and Faber Limited, 2010.
Author : Kieran Healy
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2010-08-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226322384
More than any other altruistic gesture, blood and organ donation exemplifies the true spirit of self-sacrifice. Donors literally give of themselves for no reward so that the life of an individual—often anonymous—may be spared. But as the demand for blood and organs has grown, the value of a system that depends solely on gifts has been called into question, and the possibility has surfaced that donors might be supplemented or replaced by paid suppliers. Last Best Gifts offers a fresh perspective on this ethical dilemma by examining the social organization of blood and organ donation in Europe and the United States. Gifts of blood and organs are not given everywhere in the same way or to the same extent—contrasts that allow Kieran Healy to uncover the pivotal role that institutions play in fashioning the contexts for donations. Procurement organizations, he shows, sustain altruism by providing opportunities to give and by producing public accounts of what giving means. In the end, Healy suggests, successful systems rest on the fairness of the exchange, rather than the purity of a donor’s altruism or the size of a financial incentive.
Author : J. T. Rogers
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0865478848
My God, Russian soldiers being shot with Chinese bullets. Sometimes the world is so beautiful. It's 1981. As the Soviet army burns its way through Afghanistan, CIA operative Jim Warnock is sent to try to halt its bloody progress, beginning a secret spy war behind the official hostilities. Jim and his counterparts in the KGB and the British and Pakistani secret services wrestle with ever-shifting personal and political loyalties. With the outcome of the entire Cold War at stake, Jim and a larger-than-life Afghan warlord decide to place their trust in each other. Spanning a decade and playing out in Washington, D.C., Pakistan, and Afghanistan, Blood and Gifts is a sweeping, often shockingly funny epic set against one of the greatest historical events of recent history, the repercussions of which continue to shape our world.
Author : Nuruddin Farah
Publisher : Arcade Publishing
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1559704845
Instantly, her whole life is turned upside down."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Susan C. Petrey
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010504772
Author : M. R. Carey
Publisher : Orbit
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2014-06-10
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780316278140
In the ruins of civilization, a young girl's kindness and capacity for love will either save humanity -- or wipe it out in this USA Today bestselling thriller Joss Whedon calls "heartfelt, remorseless, and painfully human." Melanie is a very special girl. Dr Caldwell calls her "our little genius." Every morning, Melanie waits in her cell to be collected for class. When they come for her, Sergeant keeps his gun pointed at her while two of his people strap her into the wheelchair. She thinks they don't like her. She jokes that she won't bite, but they don't laugh.
Author : Alistair MacLeod
Publisher : New Canadian Library
Page : 169 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780771099694
The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple – a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a child’s reality conflicts with his parents’ memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father. Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm. Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.
Author : N. E. Davenport
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-04-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063058507
Blending fantasy and science fiction, N. E. Davenport’s fast-paced, action-packed debut kicks off a duology of loyalty and rebellion, in which a young Black woman must survive deadly trials in a racist and misogynistic society to become an elite warrior. It’s all about blood. The blood spilled between the Republic of Mareen and the armies of the Blood Emperor long ago. The blood gifts of Mareen’s deadliest enemies. The blood that runs through the elite War Houses of Mareen, the rulers of the Tribunal dedicated to keeping the republic alive. The blood of the former Legatus, Verne Amari, murdered. For his granddaughter, Ikenna, the only thing steady in her life was the man who had saved Mareen. The man who had trained her in secret, not just in martial skills, but in harnessing the blood gift that coursed through her. Who trained her to keep that a secret. But now there are too many secrets, and with her grandfather assassinated, Ikenna knows two things: that only someone on the Tribunal could have ordered his death, and that only a Praetorian Guard could have carried out that order. Bent on revenge as much as discovering the truth, Ikenna pledges herself to the Praetorian Trials—a brutal initiation that only a quarter of the aspirants survive. She subjects herself to the racism directed against her half-Khanaian heritage and the misogyny of a society that cherishes progeny over prodigy, all while hiding a power that—if found out—would subject her to execution…or worse. Ikenna is willing to risk it all because she needs to find out who murdered her grandfather…and then she needs to kill them. Mareen has been at peace for a long time… Ikenna joining the Praetorians is about to change all that. Magic and technology converge in the first part of this stunning debut duology, where loyalty to oneself—and one’s blood—is more important than anything.
Author : Titmuss, Richard
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447349600
Richard Titmuss (1907-1973) was a pioneer in the field of social administration (now social policy). In this reissued classic, listed by the New York Times as one of the 10 most important books of the year when it was first published in 1970, he compares blood donation in the US and UK, contrasting the British system of reliance on voluntary donors to the American one in which the blood supply is in the hands of for-profit enterprises, concluding that a system based on altruism is both safer and more economically efficient. Titmuss’s argument about how altruism binds societies together has proved a powerful tool in the analysis of welfare provision. His analysis is even more topical now in an age of ever changing health care policy and at a time when health and welfare systems are under sustained attack from many quarters.
Author : Gary Robert Villani
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-21
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781480953161
Gifts from the foot of the Cross By: Gary Robert Villani This volume came to fruition at the request of attendees from many of the Sunday school classes the author has led over the past twenty years. The majority of spiritual messages contained in this book came directly from the support material prepared for these sessions, which ultimately led to class members stating, “You’ve got to put that on paper!” Gifts from the foot of the Cross is not a devotional. The underlying theme of the book is simple and direct—it is designed to reach the everyday Christian and let them know they are not alone in facing the stumbles, slips, trips, and falls they may be experiencing in their daily spiritual walk. Additionally, there are numerous suggestions on how to successfully avoid these pitfalls, and each entry is backed by Biblical passages. It is Gary’s sincere hope that the reader will immediately identify with the material in these stories and subsequently find spiritual support and direction to get back on the spiritual wellness trail.
Author : Jacob Copeman,Dwaipayan Banerjee
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781501745102
In this ground-breaking account of the political economy and cultural meaning of blood in contemporary India, Jacob Copeman and Dwaipayan Banerjee examine how the giving and receiving of blood has shaped social and political life. Hematologies traces how the substance congeals political ideologies, biomedical rationalities, and activist practices. Using examples from anti-colonial appeals to blood sacrifice as a political philosophy to contemporary portraits of political leaders drawn with blood, from the use of the substance by Bhopali children as a material of activism to biomedical anxieties and aporias about the excess and lack of donation, Hematologies broaches how political life in India has been shaped through the use of blood and through contestations about blood. As such, the authors offer new entryways into thinking about politics and economy through a "bloodscape of difference": different sovereignties; different proportionalities; and different temporalities. These entryways allow the authors to explore the relation between blood's utopic flows and political clottings as it moves through time and space, conjuring new kinds of social collectivities while reanimating older forms, and always in a reflexive relation to norms that guide its proper flow.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 604 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1889
Category : Judaism
ISBN : NLI:1994215-30
Author : Nora Roberts
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250123022
Nora Roberts, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the epic Year One returns with Of Blood and Bone, a new tale of terror and magick in a brand new world. They look like an everyday family living an ordinary life. But beyond the edges of this peaceful farm, unimaginable forces of light and dark have been unleashed. Fallon Swift, approaching her thirteenth birthday, barely knows the world that existed before—the city where her parents lived, now in ruins and reclaimed by nature since the Doom sickened and killed billions. Traveling anywhere is a danger, as vicious gangs of Raiders and fanatics called Purity Warriors search for their next victim. Those like Fallon, in possession of gifts, are hunted—and the time is coming when her true nature, her identity as The One, can no longer be hidden. In a mysterious shelter in the forest, her training is about to begin under the guidance of Mallick, whose skills have been honed over centuries. She will learn the old ways of healing; study and spar; encounter faeries and elves and shifters; and find powers within herself she never imagined. And when the time is right, she will take up the sword, and fight. For until she grows into the woman she was born to be, the world outside will never be whole again.
Author : C. N. Cheeks
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781434985880
Author : Michael Stapleton
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2013-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781483634104
This is a biography of my life and the lives that have touched mine as the son of veterinarian Dr. Bob Stapleton and Ruth Carter Stapleton, an evangelist and faith healer in the '70s, and as a nephew to a former president and First Lady, Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter. It uncovers my life's journey of my encounters with the law, the press, the death of my mother and grandmother, as well as the good times with visits to the White House and Camp David, the Democratic National Conventions, the Ryder Cup and Masters, and the births of my children, to finally unveiling my struggle with alcohol.