Author : Angela Marsons
Publisher : Bookouture
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781786814746
Dying Truth
Angela Marsons
Dying Truth
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The Death of Truth
Michiko Kakutani
Author : Michiko Kakutani
Publisher : Crown
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525574835
The Death of Truth by Michiko Kakutani Pdf
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning critic comes an impassioned critique of America’s retreat from reason We live in a time when the very idea of objective truth is mocked and discounted by the occupants of the White House. Discredited conspiracy theories and ideologies have resurfaced, proven science is once more up for debate, and Russian propaganda floods our screens. The wisdom of the crowd has usurped research and expertise, and we are each left clinging to the beliefs that best confirm our biases. How did truth become an endangered species in contemporary America? This decline began decades ago, and in The Death of Truth, former New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani takes a penetrating look at the cultural forces that contributed to this gathering storm. In social media and literature, television, academia, and politics, Kakutani identifies the trends—originating on both the right and the left—that have combined to elevate subjectivity over factuality, science, and common values. And she returns us to the words of the great critics of authoritarianism, writers like George Orwell and Hannah Arendt, whose work is newly and eerily relevant. With remarkable erudition and insight, Kakutani offers a provocative diagnosis of our current condition and points toward a new path for our truth-challenged times.
Top Five Regrets of the Dying
Bronnie Ware
Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956011
Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf
Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.
Dying to Be Me
Anita Moorjani
Author : Anita Moorjani
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401937522
Dying to Be Me by Anita Moorjani Pdf
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! "I had the choice to come back ... or not. I chose to return when I realized that 'heaven' is a state, not a place" In this truly inspirational memoir, Anita Moorjani relates how, after fighting cancer for almost four years, her body began shutting down—overwhelmed by the malignant cells spreading throughout her system. As her organs failed, she entered into an extraordinary near-death experience where she realized her inherent worth . . . and the actual cause of her disease. Upon regaining consciousness, Anita found that her condition had improved so rapidly that she was released from the hospital within weeks—without a trace of cancer in her body! Within this enhanced e-book, Anita recounts—in words and on video—stories of her childhood in Hong Kong, her challenge to establish her career and find true love, as well as how she eventually ended up in that hospital bed where she defied all medical knowledge. In "Dying to Be Me," Anita Freely shares all she has learned about illness, healing, fear, "being love," and the true magnificence of each and every human being!
Dying for the Truth
Blog del Narco
Author : Blog del Narco
Publisher : Feral House
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Drug control
ISBN : 9781936239573
Dying for the Truth by Blog del Narco Pdf
Many view Mexico as a tropical oasis, but it is also a country that faces horrifying violence as a result of the drug trade. Fed up with threats and forced silence, some decided the truth needed to be told. They started Blog del Narco to expose the atrocities within the Mexican drug trade. Their accounts have been published in English - along with the gruesome images that tell the stories without need for a common language - so the rest of the world can learn about the horrors caused by international demand for Mexican drugs.
The Truth about Death and Dying
Karen Meyers,Robert N. Golden,Fred Peterson
Author : Karen Meyers,Robert N. Golden,Fred Peterson
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781438125817
The Truth about Death and Dying by Karen Meyers,Robert N. Golden,Fred Peterson Pdf
Offers clear and concise information and covers the many issues, feelings, and processes that relate to death and dying.
Dying for the Truth
Paul Moorcraft
Author : Paul Moorcraft
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473879171
Dying for the Truth by Paul Moorcraft Pdf
The role of war correspondents is crucial to democracy and the publics discovery of the truth. Without them, the temptation to manipulate events with propaganda would be irresistible to politicians of all hues.It starts by examining how journalists have plied their trade over the years most particularly from the Crimean War onwards. Their impact on the conduct of war has been profound and the author, an experienced journalist, explains in his frank and readable manner how this influence has shaped the actions of politicians and military commanders. By the same token the media is a potentially valuable tool to those in authority and this two-way relationship is examined.Technical developments and 24 hour news have inevitably changed the nature of war reporting and their political masters ignore this at their peril and the author examines the key milestones on this road.Using his own and others experiences in recent conflicts, be they Korea, Falklands, Balkans, Iraq or Afghanistan, the author opens the readers eyes to an aspect of warfare that is all too often overlooked but can be crucial to the outcome. The publics attitude to the day-to-day conduct of war is becoming ever more significant and this fascinating book examines why.
The Honest Truth
Dan Gemeinhart
Author : Dan Gemeinhart
Publisher : Scholastic UK
Page : 107 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-05
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781910002148
The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart Pdf
Mark has been in and out of hospital his whole life - and he's fed up. So when his cancer returns, he decides he's had enough. Running away with his dog Beau, he sets out to climb a mountain - and it's only when he's left everything behind that Mark realises he has everything to live for.
Living with Learning Disabilities, Dying with Cancer
Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
Author : Irene Tuffrey-Wijne
Publisher : Jessica Kingsley Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781849050272
Living with Learning Disabilities, Dying with Cancer by Irene Tuffrey-Wijne Pdf
Cancer.
Death and Dying
Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby
Author : Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780791097991
Death and Dying by Harold Bloom,Blake Hobby Pdf
Some of the greatest works of literature have wrestled with the task of illuminating the human experience of death. This new title discusses the role of death and dying in works such as Beloved, A Farewell to Arms, Lord of the Flies, Paradise Lost, and many others. Featuring approximately 20 essays, Death and Dying provides valuable insights on this recurring theme in literature.
Dying Wishes
Anitha Krishnan
Author : Anitha Krishnan
Publisher : Dream Pedlar Publications
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781775227830
Dying Wishes by Anitha Krishnan Pdf
*** 2023 Rakuten Kobo Emerging Writer Prize Finalist *** When I was seven, my mother died. I struck a bargain with the Gods to bring her back to life. For thirteen years now, I have served as a Harbinger of Death, coaxing dying wishes out of mortals so that the God of Death may grant them moksha, liberation from the cycles of birth and death. The man about to die this evening claims he has nothing to offer me. He is dying a content man, a rarity in our world. But when the God of Death arrives to lead his soul away, the man changes his mind about dying and flees, surreptitiously planting on me an enigma. I only know I cannot trust any God with this secret. And that I will pay an unbearable price for this concealment. Yet again, I underestimate how savagely the Gods can wound me. Set in Burlington, Ontario, this contemporary fantasy novel weaves Hindu mythology and South Indian folklore into a quest for belonging across different worlds – the World of Mortals and the World of Gods, India and Canada, the past and the present, the world outside and the one within. It is an offering to lovers of whimsical worlds and heartbreaking prose, and to anyone yearning to simply belong.
Dying to be Happy
Chris Stepien
Author : Chris Stepien
Publisher : Wellspring
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Death
ISBN : 1942611633
Dying to be Happy by Chris Stepien Pdf
The Truth about Death and Dying
Rui Umezawa
Author : Rui Umezawa
Publisher : Random House Digital, Inc.
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Canada
ISBN : 0385659091
The Truth about Death and Dying by Rui Umezawa Pdf
"Yasu was simply crazy. But no crazier than the rest of the war." Rui Umezawa's first novel weaves in and out of the lives of three generations of the Hayakawa family, starting during World War II in Japan and ending in present-day Toronto. The story is tragic, hilarious, lyrical and universal, tracing the legacy of war and the past on one family's fortunes and memories. Film director Atom Egoyan says: "This ambitious debut creates a dense world of overlapping events -- from the smallest details of domestic life to the grandest scale of atrocity and horror. Rui Umezawa presents this unique world of cause and effect with a carefully harnessed sense of despair, yearning and beauty." Maimed physically and emotionally, Shoji Hayakawa leaves the devastation of post-war Japan and moves to the University of Milwaukee to teach physics. His father, Yasujiro, was the doctor in the village of Kitagawa, and an outspoken pacifist in dangerous times. Shoji and his wife Mitsuyo still recall their wartime childhood: bartering for food, evacuation to the countryside, returning to the burnt remains of the cities. Transplanted into suburban America, Mitsuyo's mother will watch life through the windows, marvelling at how absurdly people act even when they have everything they need: food, water, clothes, and no bombs. Shoji has two sons, Toshi and Kei. Toshi is a gentle boy but sees the world with an abnormal intensity. Objects seem to speak to him. He has to lock himself in a closet to concentrate on his homework, and lies face down in the school corridor with his forehead pressed against the cool linoleum to calm himself. Exuberant but noisy, he is stopped from taking piano lessons. He is an embarrassment to his mother and to his angry brother Kei, who leaves for Canada to build a career as a rock musician. Mitsuyo, so demanding of Kei, considers Toshi insane and never expects anything of him. Yet Toshi, full of imagination, finds humour and wonder in the world. Quill and Quire called The Truth About Death and Dying an extraordinary first novel that "falls somewhere between Thomas Wolfe and Monty Python." The absurd sense of humour, the unforgettably comic scenes -- such as Yasu emerging naked from the bathroom clutching mushrooms, or dancing in the bomb shelter -- are inextricably entwined with tragic memories. With the dark shadows of Hiroshima and Nagasaki as well as Pearl Harbor always present, this novel examines how our sense of what is normal and what is crazy can be skewed, especially in times of war. Of the passages that take place in wartime Japan, the author says they "owe most of their details to what was told to me by my parents, and to Japanese movies and comic books set during World War II. I grew up with stories of the war and pacifism, both at home and in the Japanese media. My father was never conscripted to fight, because he excelled so much at science and the government felt he would be more useful in a lab than on a battlefield.... My father would often recount, however, having to run and take shelter from bombs while going to university in Nagoya. For the rest of his life, he refused to watch war movies, because the whistling sound of bombs falling frightened him terribly." "When I think about Japan in relation to the Second World War, more often then not, I'm remembering people who were treated like animals in Japanese POW camps. Or the Chinese who suffered tremendously at the hands of the Japanese military in places like Nanjing or Manchuria.... However, one of the things I think the book illustrates is this: Japanese wartime atrocities were unforgivable, but at the same time, Japanese civilians like my father were suffering too."
Seven Fallen Feathers
Tanya Talaga
Author : Tanya Talaga
Publisher : House of Anansi
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781487002275
Seven Fallen Feathers by Tanya Talaga Pdf
Winner, 2017 Shaughnessy Cohen Writers' Trust Prize for Political Writing Winner, 2017 RBC Taylor Prize Winner, 2017 First Nation Communities Read: Young Adult/Adult Winner, 2024 Blue Metropolis First Peoples Prize, for the whole of her work Finalist, 2017 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Nonfiction The groundbreaking and multiple award-winning national bestseller work about systemic racism, education, the failure of the policing and justice systems, and Indigenous rights by Tanya Talaga. Over the span of eleven years, seven Indigenous high school students died in Thunder Bay, Ontario. They were hundreds of kilometres away from their families, forced to leave home because there was no adequate high school on their reserves. Five were found dead in the rivers surrounding Lake Superior, below a sacred Indigenous site. Using a sweeping narrative focusing on the lives of the students, award-winning author Tanya Talaga delves into the history of this northern city that has come to manifest Canada’s long struggle with human rights violations against Indigenous communities.
The Valedictorian of Being Dead
Heather B. Armstrong
Author : Heather B. Armstrong
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781501197062
The Valedictorian of Being Dead by Heather B. Armstrong Pdf
From New York Times bestselling author and blogger Heather B. Armstrong comes an honest and irreverent memoir—reminiscent of the New York Times bestseller Brain on Fire—about her experience as the third person ever to participate in an experimental treatment for depression involving ten rounds of a chemically induced coma approximating brain death. For years, Heather B. Armstrong has alluded to her struggle with depression on her website, dooce. It’s scattered throughout her archive, where it weaves its way through posts about pop culture, music, and motherhood. In 2016, Heather found herself in the depths of a depression she just couldn’t shake, an episode darker and longer than anything she had previously experienced. She had never felt so discouraged by the thought of waking up in the morning, and it threatened to destroy her life. For the sake of herself and her family, Heather decided to risk it all by participating in an experimental clinical trial. Now, for the first time, Heather recalls the torturous eighteen months of suicidal depression she endured and the month-long experimental study in which doctors used propofol anesthesia to quiet all brain activity for a full fifteen minutes before bringing her back from a flatline. Ten times. The experience wasn’t easy. Not for Heather or her family. But a switch was flipped, and Heather hasn’t experienced a single moment of suicidal depression since. “Breathtakingly honest” (Lisa Genova, New York Times bestselling author), self-deprecating, and scientifically fascinating, The Valedictorian of Being Dead brings to light a groundbreaking new treatment for depression. The Valedictorian of Being Dead was previously published with the subtitle “The True Story of Dying Ten Times to Live.”