Off The Deep End

Author : Nic Compton
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2017-09-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781472941107

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Off the Deep End by Nic Compton Pdf

Confined in a small space for months on end, subject to ship's discipline and living on limited food supplies, many sailors of old lost their minds – and no wonder. Many still do. The result in some instances was bloodthirsty mutinies, such as the whaleboat Sharon whose captain was butchered and fed to the ship's pigs in a crazed attack in the Pacific. Or mob violence, such as the 147 survivors on the raft of the Medusa, who slaughtered each other in a two-week orgy of violence. So serious was the problem that the Royal Navy's own physician claimed sailors were seven times more likely to go mad than the rest of the population. Historic figures such as Christopher Columbus, George Vancouver, Fletcher Christian (leader of the munity of the Bounty) and Robert FitzRoy (founder of the Met Office) have all had their sanity questioned. More recently, sailors in today's round-the-world races often experience disturbing hallucinations, including seeing elephants floating in the sea and strangers taking the helm, or suffer complete psychological breakdown, like Donald Crowhurst. Others become hypnotised by the sea and jump to their deaths. Off the Deep End looks at the sea's physical character, how it confuses our senses and makes rational thought difficult. It explores the long history of madness at sea and how that is echoed in many of today's yacht races. It looks at the often-marginal behaviour of sailors living both figuratively and literally outside society's usual rules. And it also looks at the sea's power to heal, as well as cause, madness.

Author : Kate Davies
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328629678

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In at the Deep End by Kate Davies Pdf

"A fresh, funny, audacious debut novel about a Bridget Jones-like twenty-something who discovers that she may have simply been looking for love -- and, ahem, pleasure -- in all the wrong places (aka: from men)"--

Author : Kelly E. Nault
Publisher : Stepping Stones for Life Ltd.
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Child rearing
ISBN : 9780973493801

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When You are about to Go Off the Deep End, Don't Take Your Kids with You : a Step-by-step Guide to Permanently Eliminate Chaos and Frustration in Your Home, and Unleash the "ultimate Mom" Within You by Kelly E. Nault Pdf

Author : Patti Davis
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-28
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781631497995

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Floating in the Deep End: How Caregivers Can See Beyond Alzheimer's by Patti Davis Pdf

With the heartfelt prose of a loving daughter, Patti Davis provides a life raft for the caregivers of Alzheimer’s patients. “For the decade of my father’s illness, I felt as if I was floating in the deep end, tossed by waves, carried by currents, but not drowning,” writes Patti Davis in this searingly honest and deeply moving account of the challenges involved in taking care of someone stricken with Alzheimer’s. When her father, the fortieth president of the United States, announced his Alzheimer’s diagnosis in an address to the American public in 1994, the world had not yet begun speaking about this cruel, mysterious disease. Yet overnight, Ronald Reagan and his immediate family became the face of Alzheimer’s, and Davis, once content to keep her family at arm’s length, quickly moved across the country to be present during “the journey that would take [him] into the sunset of [his] life.” Empowered by all she learned from caring for her father—about the nature of the illness, but also about the loss of a parent—Davis founded a support group for the family members and friends of Alzheimer’s patients. Along with a medically trained cofacilitator, she met with hundreds of exhausted and devastated attendees to talk through their pain and confusion. While Davis was aware that her own circumstances were uniquely fortunate, she knew there were universal truths about dementia, and even surprising gifts to be found in a long goodbye. With Floating in the Deep End, Davis draws on a welter of experiences to provide a singular account of battling Alzheimer’s. Eloquently woven with personal anecdotes and helpful advice tailored specifically for the overlooked caregiver, this essential guide covers every potential stage of the disease from the initial diagnosis through the ultimate passing and beyond. Including such tips as how to keep a loved one hygienic, and careful responses for when they drift to a time gone by, Davis always stresses the emotional milestones that come with slow-burning grief. Along the way, Davis shares how her own fractured family came together. With unflinching candor, she recalls when her mother, Nancy, who for decades could not show her children compassion or vulnerability, suddenly broke down in her arms. Davis also offers tender moments in which her father, a fabled movie star whom she always longed to know better, revealed his true self—always kind, even when he couldn’t recognize his own daughter. An inherently wise work that promises to become a classic, Floating in the Deep End ultimately provides hope to struggling families while elegantly illuminating the fragile human condition.

Author : W. Hodding Carter
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2008-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781565126428

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Off the Deep End by W. Hodding Carter Pdf

Hodding Carter dreamed of being an Olympian as a kid. He worshipped Mark Spitz, swam his heart out, and just missed qualifying for the Olympic trials in swimming as a college senior. Although he didn't qualify for the 1976, 1980, 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, or 2004 Olympics, he never stopped believing he could make it. And despite past failures and the passage of time, Carter began his quest once more at the age of forty-two. Maybe he's crazy. But then again, maybe he's onto something. He entered the Masters Championships. He swam three to four miles each day, six days a week. He pumped iron, trained with former Olympians, and consulted with swimming gurus and medical researchers who taught him that the body doesn't have to age. He swam with sharks (inadvertently) in the Virgin Islands, suffered hypothermia in a relay around Manhattan, and put on fifteen pounds of muscle. Amazingly, he discovered that his heartbeat could keep pace with the best of the younger swimmers'. And each day he felt stronger, swam faster, and became more convinced that he wasn't crazy. This outrageous, courageous chronicle is much more than Carter's race with time to make it to the Olympics. It's the exhilarating story of a man who rebels against middle age the only way he can—by chasing a dream. His article in Outside magazine, on which this book is based, was the winner of a Lowell Thomas award from the Society of American Travel Writers Foundation.

Author : Traci Morris
Publisher : The Java Tree Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Jump Off: The Deep End by Traci Morris Pdf

“A Good Girl Gets Caught Up...Don't Judge Me Until You've Heard My Story...” "Always perfect," Merci Townsend, gets tangled into a relationship she never fathomed with an engaged, older, high-powered business man. In the process, she earns a sordid status - Jump Off.Going against everything she was brought up to believe, her life goes into a downward spiral, challenging her secret belief that she could make it without God. Wealthy, millionaire business heir, James Jansen III, stokes the desires of women everywhere with his dynamic looks and powerful status. On the surface, he seems like the generic hero out of a romance novel. Underneath, the truth is anything but. He is unconditionally and irrevocably, human. Jump Off:The Deep End is a Christian Cautionary Tale of Fiction that is UNAPOLOGETICALLY REAL, contemporary and full of romance. With elements of humor and the sobering truth, it's inspirational without being too religious - and full of surprises!

Author : Lisa Brenninkmeyer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1943173001

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Opening Your Heart by Lisa Brenninkmeyer Pdf

This introductory course has been designed for women who are brand new to Walking with Purpose as well as those with more experience in Bible study. The themes we'll explore are the timeless, foundational, core questions that people return to century after century. Delving into these topics will help fill holes in our spiritual foundations so that we have something firm to stand on when life gets shaky. A DVD series, Priorities complements the course. Immensely practical and encouraging, Opening Your Heart is the perfect starting point as you seek to grow closer to God.

Author : Jeff Kinney
Publisher : Penguin Group Australia
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780143796091

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The Deep End: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (15) by Jeff Kinney Pdf

In The Deep End, book 15 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley and his family hit the road for a cross-country camping trip, ready for the adventure of a lifetime. But things take an unexpected turn, and they find themselves stranded at an RV park that’s not exactly a summertime paradise. When the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation – or if they’re already in too deep. And don’t miss an all-new fantasy from Greg’s best friend in Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Adventure, the follow-up to the instant #1 bestseller Diary of an Awesome Friendly Kid: Rowley Jefferson’s Journal.

Author : Julie Mulhern
Publisher : Country Club Murders
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1732755922

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The Deep End by Julie Mulhern Pdf

Swimming into the lifeless body of her husband's mistress tends to ruin a woman's day, but becoming a murder suspect can ruin her whole life. It's 1974 and Ellison Russell's life revolves around her daughter and her art. She's long since stopped caring about her cheating husband, Henry, and the women with whom he entertains himself. That is, until she becomes a suspect in Madeline Harper's death. The murder forces Ellison to confront her husband's proclivities and his crimes--kinky sex, petty cruelties and blackmail. As the body count approaches par on the seventh hole, Ellison knows she has to catch a killer. But with an interfering mother, an adoring father, a teenage daughter, and a cadre of well-meaning friends demanding her attention, can Ellison find the killer before he finds her?

Author : Jessica Grayson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1642535362

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Lost in the Deep End by Jessica Grayson Pdf

Destined to be together...destined to be apart.I want her.I desire Elizabeth Langdon unlike anything I've ever experienced before, and there is nothing I can do about it. I came to Terra (Earth) on a short-term mission, and then I must fulfill my duty to wed my betrothed to keep the peace on my home planet. Except, I feel nothing for my betrothed and I feel everything for Elizabeth.And I can never tell her.If I form the mind link with her to take her as my mate, she'll know the dark secret I carry within me-the horror of my race. She'd never look at me the same, and that is something I cannot risk.

Author : Dan Muise
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Music
ISBN : 0634029568

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Gallagher, Marriott, Derringer & Trower by Dan Muise Pdf

"Rory Gallagher, Steve Marriott, Rick Derringer and Robin Trower are legends. The glue behind legendary barn-burning, hard-touring outfits like Taste, The Small Faces, Humble Pie, Johnny Winter, The Edgar Winter Group and Procol Harem, and later realizing their full potentials as solo artists, this is the first biography of four players whose dedication to music and virtuosity has been inspirational to a generation of fans and admirers." -- Back cover.

Author : Emily Silver
Publisher : Emily Silver
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Off The Deep End by Emily Silver Pdf

I’m the nerdy reporter. He’s the hotshot diver. We’re complete opposites. There’s no way this will ever work. My entire life, I’ve had one dream. To be the best reporter I can be and tell stories that matter. When the opportunity to shadow an Olympian lands in my lap, I’m determined to rise to the occasion. But nothing can prepare me for Wes Cooper in all his glory. Wes is the cocky athlete who has no interest in having a green reporter standing in his way. Or asking too many questions. Which is fine. I’m here to do my job, not be his friend. But when he extends an olive branch, I start to rethink things. There’s clearly more to him than meets the eye. The more time I spend with him, the more I want to know. Professionally, of course. Except when he looks at me like that, I feel all kinds of unprofessional things. I’m a goner.

Author : Ben Wicks
Publisher : Vancouver, BC : Library Services Branch
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Children
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040900164

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No Time to Wave Goodbye by Ben Wicks Pdf

Within hours of the German invasion of Poland in 1939, children were being evacuated out of the cities into the countryside in a carefully planned operation. For all these children, evacuation was an emotional experience; for some it was deeply traumatic, yet others discovered the pleasure of living in the country and formed lasting friendships.;Here, in their own words, are the personal accounts of evacuees, both famous and unknown, written in reponse to advertisements placed in newspapers all over the world. Many of them speak here for the first time and snapshots of the children both then and now are included, as well as letters written by children to their parents in the cities.;The introduction is by one-time evacuee Michael Caine and the author himself was also evacuated and brings his own experiences to bear on this exploration of a phenomenon that dramatically changed so many children's lives.

Author : Traci Hunter Abramson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Christian fiction
ISBN : 159811199X

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The Deep End by Traci Hunter Abramson Pdf

Author : Melisenda Edwards,Katalin Wight
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-30
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9781612436913

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Deep End of the Pool Workouts by Melisenda Edwards,Katalin Wight Pdf

A guide to the hottest new trend in full-body, no-impact exercise—pool workouts where your feet never touch the bottom Whether you’re a professional athlete or general fitness enthusiast, wouldn’t you prefer a workout that’s kinder to your joints while also producing amazing results? Thanks to the higher force required to move your body against water’s resistance and the absence of any impact during the exercises, the workouts in this book do just that. By detailing proper form and technique, this handy guide makes sure you gain maximum benefit from your water workout, including greater: • SPEED • POWER • STRENGTH • FLEXIBILITY