Escape To Another Reality

Author : Andrew Solomon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2014-09-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781451611038

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The Noonday Demon by Andrew Solomon Pdf

The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations, around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. He takes readers on a journey into the most pervasive of family secrets and contributes to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition.

Author : Terry Pratchett
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-25
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781448126972

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A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett Pdf

Terry Pratchett in his own words With a foreword by Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchett earned a place in the hearts of readers the world over with his bestselling Discworld series – but in recent years he became equally well-known as an outspoken campaigner for causes including Alzheimer’s research and animal rights. A Slip of the Keyboard brings together the best of Pratchett’s non fiction writing on his life, on his work, and on the weirdness of the world: from Granny Pratchett to Gandalf’s love life; from banana daiquiris to books that inspired him; from getting started as a writer to the injustices that he fought to end. With his trademark humour, humanity and unforgettable way with words, this collection offers an insight behind the scenes of Discworld into a much loved and much missed figure – man and boy, bibliophile and computer geek, champion of hats, orang-utans and the right to a good death.

Author : Jack Groverland
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9798765233696

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Escape to Another Reality by Jack Groverland Pdf

“I once believed like you, that I was an objective observer of the world around me. Then at age 22, I was arrested and bound for prison. Suddenly, I had a mental shift which felt like an invasion of my mind by an unknown entity and it had me running for my life under a hail of bullets. In the terrifying process I did not just escape the police, the city and state I was arrested in, but I escaped reality as I knew it, running past buildings that were sky high, and flat without definition—people were taller, cars longer and the street I was running on narrowed all the way to the horizon like a surreal painting. In this psychedelic state, everything appeared to move shower, allowing me to dodge gunfire and miraculously escape the police. When the hallucination ended I was in a different City. Without money, personal I.D. or a place to sleep, I was forced to live in a different reality, one which included an unseen power that meddled in my life.” WARNING: Jack’s memoirs include miracles ,mayhem, love and murder.

Author : Nadine Brandes
Publisher : Out of Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-10
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 1621840298

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A Time to Die by Nadine Brandes Pdf

How would you live if you knew the day you'd die? Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government's crooked justice system. But when the authorities find out about her illegal activity, they cast her through the Wall -- her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about eternity, and about herself changes Parvin forever and might just save her people. But her clock is running out.

Author : Christopher Edge
Publisher : Nosy Crow
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-02-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781788007955

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Escape Room by Christopher Edge Pdf

The latest mind-blowing novel from award-winning author Christopher Edge, Escape Room is a thrilling adventure that challenges readers to think about what they've done to save the world today. When twelve-year-old Ami arrives at The Escape, she thinks it's just a game - the ultimate escape room with puzzles and challenges to beat before time runs out. Meeting her teammates, Adjoa, Ibrahim, Oscar and Min, Ami learns from the Host that they have been chosen to save the world and they must work together to find the Answer. But as he locks them inside the first room, they quickly realise this is no ordinary game. From a cavernous library of dust to an ancient Mayan tomb, a deserted shopping mall stalked by extinct animals to the command module of a spaceship heading to Mars, the perils of The Escape seem endless. Can Ami and her friends find the Answer before it's too late? With cover illustration by David Dean. "A writer of genuine originality" - Guardian Check out these other brilliant books from Christopher Edge: - The Many Worlds of Albie Bright - The Jamie Drake Equation - The Infinite Lives of Maisy Day - - The Longest Night of Charlie Noon -

Author : Michael Green
Publisher : IVP Books
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 087784349X

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Running from Reality by Michael Green Pdf

Author : Ursula K. Le Guin,Eric Beddow
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544341685

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Changing Planes by Ursula K. Le Guin,Eric Beddow Pdf

Winner of the PEN/Malamud Award for Short Story A New York Times Notable Book In these “vivid, entertaining, philosophical dispatches” (San Francisco Chronicle), literary legend Le Guin weaves together influences as wide-reaching as Borges, The Little Prince, and Gulliver’s Travels to examine feminism, tyranny, mortality and immortality, art, and the meaning—and mystery—of being human. Sita Dulip has missed her flight out of Chicago. But instead of listening to garbled announcements in the airport, she’s found a method of bypassing the crowds at the desks, the nasty lunch, the whimpering children and punitive parents, and the blue plastic chairs bolted to the floor: she changes planes. Changing planes—not airplanes, of course, but entire planes of existence—enables Sita to visit societies not found on Earth. As “Sita Dulip’s Method” spreads, the narrator and her acquaintances encounter cultures where the babble of children fades over time into the silence of adults; where whole towns exist solely for holiday shopping; where personalities are ruled by rage; where genetic experiments produce less than desirable results. With “the eye of an anthropologist and the humor of a satirist” (USA Today), Le Guin takes readers on a truly universal tour, showing through the foreign and alien indelible truths about our own human society.

Author : Jennifer Smith
Publisher : NavPress
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781496403926

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The Unveiled Wife by Jennifer Smith Pdf

As a young bride, Jennifer Smith couldn’t wait to build her life with the man she adored. She dreamed of closeness, of being fully known and loved by her husband. But the first years of marriage were nothing like she’d imagined. Instead, they were marked by disappointment and pain. Trapped by fear and insecurity, and feeling totally alone, Jennifer cried out to God: What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening to us? It was as if a veil had descended between her and her husband, and between her and God—one that kept her from experiencing the fullness of love. How did Jennifer and her husband survive the painful times? What did they do when they were tempted to call it quits? How did God miraculously step in during the darkest hour to rescue and redeem them, tearing down the veil once and for all? The Unveiled Wife is a real-life love story; one couple’s refreshingly raw, transparent journey touching the deep places in a marriage that only God can reach. If you are feeling disappointment or even despair about your marriage, the heart-cry of this book is: You are not alone. Discover through Jennifer’s story how God can bring you through it all to a place of transformation.

Author : Geoffrey A. Moore
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780062040916

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Escape Velocity by Geoffrey A. Moore Pdf

“Readthis book to learn how to create a company as powerful as Apple.”—Guy Kawasaki,former chief evangelist of Apple InEscape Velocity Geoffrey A. Moore, author of the marketing masterwork Crossingthe Chasm, teaches twenty-first century enterprises how to overcome thepull of the past and reorient their organizations to meet a new era ofcompetition. The world’s leading high-tech business strategist, Moore connectsthe dots between bold strategies and effective execution, with an action planthat elucidates the link between senior executives and every other branch of acompany. For readers of Larry Bossidy’s Execution,Clay Christensen’s Innovator’s Solution, and Gary Vaynerchuck’sCrush It!, and for anyone aiming for the pinnacle of business success, EscapeVelocity is an irreplaceable roadmap to the top.

Author : Adam Clare
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-03
Category : Escapes (Amusements)
ISBN : 1536826855

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Escape the Game by Adam Clare Pdf

Escape rooms are a new, fun and immersive way for people to play. They provide a venue for players to work together to overcome an exciting challenge -- a challenge you will make. Escape rooms are sometimes known as escape games, exit games, puzzle rooms, adventure rooms, riddle rooms, and other names. --Page 11.

Author : Peter Jenkins
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780060959555

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A Walk Across America by Peter Jenkins Pdf

Twenty-five years ago, a disillusioned young man set out on a walk across America. This is the book he wrote about that journey -- a classic account of the reawakening of his faith in himself and his country. "I started out searching for myself and my country," Peter Jenkins writes, "and found both." In this timeless classic, Jenkins describes how disillusionment with society in the 1970s drove him out onto the road on a walk across America. His experiences remain as sharp and telling today as they were twenty-five years ago -- from the timeless secrets of life, learned from a mountain-dwelling hermit, to the stir he caused by staying with a black family in North Carolina, to his hours of intense labor in Southern mills. Many, many miles later, he learned lessons about his country and himself that resonate to this day -- and will inspire a new generation to get out, hit the road and explore.

Author : Vincent Bugliosi
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 688 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393072037

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Four Days in November: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy by Vincent Bugliosi Pdf

"A book for the ages." —Los Angeles Times Book Review Four Days in November is an extraordinarily exciting, precise, and definitive narrative of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963, by Lee Harvey Oswald. It is drawn from Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, a monumental and historic account of the event and all the conspiracy theories it spawned, by Vincent Bugliosi, legendary prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of Helter Skelter. For general readers, the carefully documented account presented in Four Days is utterly persuasive: Oswald did it and he acted alone.

Author : Mabel Dodge Luhan
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1987-04-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780826325105

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Edge of Taos Desert by Mabel Dodge Luhan Pdf

In 1917 Mabel Sterne, patron of the arts and spokeswoman for the New York avant-garde, came to the Southwest seeking a new life. This autobiographical account, long out-of-print, of her first few months in New Mexico is a remarkable description of an Easterner's journey to the American West. It is also a great story of personal and philosophical transformation. The geography of New Mexico and the culture of the Pueblo Indians opened a new world for Mabel. She settled in Taos immediately and lived there the rest of her life. Much of this book describes her growing fascination with Antonio Luhan of Taos Pueblo, whom she subsequently married. Her descriptions of the appeal of primitive New Mexico to a world-weary New Yorker are still fresh and moving. "I finished it in a state of amazed revelation . . . it is so beautifully compact and consistent. . . . It is going to help many another woman and man to 'take life with the talons' and carry it high."--Ansel Adams

Author : Angus Deaton
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691259253

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The Great Escape by Angus Deaton Pdf

A Nobel Prize–winning economist tells the remarkable story of how the world has grown healthier, wealthier, but also more unequal over the past two and half centuries The world is a better place than it used to be. People are healthier, wealthier, and live longer. Yet the escapes from destitution by so many has left gaping inequalities between people and nations. In The Great Escape, Nobel Prize–winning economist Angus Deaton—one of the foremost experts on economic development and on poverty—tells the remarkable story of how, beginning 250 years ago, some parts of the world experienced sustained progress, opening up gaps and setting the stage for today's disproportionately unequal world. Deaton takes an in-depth look at the historical and ongoing patterns behind the health and wealth of nations, and addresses what needs to be done to help those left behind. Deaton describes vast innovations and wrenching setbacks: the successes of antibiotics, pest control, vaccinations, and clean water on the one hand, and disastrous famines and the HIV/AIDS epidemic on the other. He examines the United States, a nation that has prospered but is today experiencing slower growth and increasing inequality. He also considers how economic growth in India and China has improved the lives of more than a billion people. Deaton argues that international aid has been ineffective and even harmful. He suggests alternative efforts—including reforming incentives to drug companies and lifting trade restrictions—that will allow the developing world to bring about its own Great Escape. Demonstrating how changes in health and living standards have transformed our lives, The Great Escape is a powerful guide to addressing the well-being of all nations.

Author : W.M. Akers
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780063043978

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Westside Lights by W.M. Akers Pdf

The Alienist meets the magical mystery of The Ninth House as W. M. Akers returns with the third book in his critically acclaimed Jazz Age fantasy series set in the dangerous Westside of New York City, following private detective Gilda Carr’s hunt for the truth—one tiny mystery at a time. The Westside of Manhattan is desolate, overgrown, and dangerous—and Gilda Carr wouldn’t have it any other way. An eccentric detective whose pursuit of tiny mysteries has dragged her to the brink of madness, Gilda spends 1923 searching for something that’s eluded her for years: peace. On the revitalized waterfront of the Lower West, Gilda and the gregarious ex-gangster Cherub Stevens start a new life on a stolen yacht. But their old life isn’t done with them yet. They dock their boat on the edge of the White Lights District, a new tenderloin where liquor, drugs, sex, and violence are shaken into a deadly cocktail. When her pet seagull vanishes into the District, Gilda throws herself into the search for the missing bird. Up late watching the river for her pet, Gilda has one drink too many and passes out in the cabin of her waterfront home. She wakes to a massacre. Eight people have been slaughtered on the deck of the Misery Queen, and Cherub is among the dead. Gilda, naturally, is the prime suspect. Hunted by the police, the mob, and everyone in between, she must stay free long enough to find the person who stained the Hudson with her beloved’s blood. She will discover that on her Westside, no lights are bright enough to drive away the darkness.