Slow Motion

Author : Dani Shapiro
Publisher : Random House
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307828002

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Slow Motion by Dani Shapiro Pdf

From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best friend's stepfather. The moment Lenny Klein entered her life, everything changed: she dropped out of college, began to drink heavily, and became estranged from her family and friends. But then the phone call came. There had been an accident on a snowy road near her family's home in New Jersey, and both her parents lay hospitalized in critical condition. This haunting memoir traces her journey back into the world she had left behind. At a time when she was barely able to take care of herself, she was faced with the terrifying task of taking care of two people who needed her desperately. Dani Shapiro charts a riveting emotional course as she retraces her isolated, overprotected Orthodox Jewish childhood in an anti-Semitic suburb, and draws the connections between that childhood and her inevitable rebellion and self-destructiveness. She tells of a life nearly ruined by the gift of beauty, and then saved by the worst thing imaginable. This is a beautiful and unforgettable memoir of a life utterly transformed by tragedy.

Author : Andie Miller
Publisher : Jacana Media
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781770098701

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Slow Motion by Andie Miller Pdf

"Slow Motion is a collection of non-fiction stories (essays and interviews) about walking. The collection has been written over a period of six years and so the book has become something of a documentary project, witnessing transformation in South Africa through the eyes of pedestrians across the economic, racial and age spectrum. The book could be described as documenting recent history. Though it inevitably looks at the issue of crime, and how we have moved from a race-based to a class-based society and pedestrians of all colours continue to be marginalised and thought of as second-class citizens in an increasingly autocentric society, it is essentially an optimistic book. It tells the stories of South Africans (and visitors) who have chosen to 'reclaim the streets' from predators and traffic. While the focus is primarily on Johannesburg, several of the stories are about Cape Town, contrasting the experience of walking in these two cities. Other international cities such as Los Angeles, Paris, London and Mumbai are also visited along the way. The style of the book is such that, while it can be opened anywhere and each story can be read and enjoyed on its own (a bedside-table book), the stories are interlinked, as people's paths inevitably cross. There is a bigger story at play as well. The band of pedestrians includes writers, artists, political activists, disabled people, dogs and their owners, Walk for Life members, Jews on the Sabbath, domestic workers, refugees, babies learning to walk, and even a golfer and a caddie. The purpose of the book is both to entertain and inform readers"--Publisher's website.

Author : Jean-Marie Pierre
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-24
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781664163089

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Poetry in Slow Motion by Jean-Marie Pierre Pdf

Poetry In Slow Motion Genetic Osmosis Natural Ebullition Deep Sensation Rhythmic Pulsation Authentic Inspirations Inner Vibrations Cerebral Conjunctions within Intuitive Core Connections... Poetry In Slow Motion Seduction (social / Sexual) love passion over humane intuition or instinctive psychology or Psychological Simultaneous thinking through Authentic Inception... axiomatically conception (concept) to Natural Reaction Inner Self-Motivation... Our Mind’s Substantial Intelligence or Judiciousness does actually not need to be A Racket Science to Understand These Natural Genetic Biological / Physiological / Physical Body and Mental Reactions Nakedly or Obviously Expressed Every Second in Our Lives through Staminal Social Reactions...

Author : Derek Jarman
Publisher : Random House
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781473559066

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Smiling in Slow Motion by Derek Jarman Pdf

'The life-affirming expression of an artist engaged in living to the full' The Times Smiling in Slow Motion is Derek Jarman's last journal, stretching from May 1991 until a fortnight before his death in February 1994. Jarman writes with his trademark humour and candour about friends and enemies, as he races through his final years of film-making, gardening and radical political protest. Written from Jarman's Charing Cross Road flat, his famed garden at Dungeness, and finally from his bed in St Bartholomew's Hospital, Jarman meditates on his own deteriorating health and the loss of his contemporaries. Yet Smiling in Slow Motion is not simply a chronicle of illness and regret: it is, at its heart, one of endeavour, determination and pride. WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY NEIL BARTLETT

Author : Mike Nappa
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781400204632

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God in Slow Motion by Mike Nappa Pdf

Jesus was not in a hurry. He had only three years of public ministry—three years to heal and teach and change the world—but the Bible never tells us he was rushing through them. We are the ones who rush through them. Catching the gist of this parable. Smiling at the punch line in that dialogue. We can race through the Gospels in hours, fully briefed on Christ’s life, but hardly changed. Until we sit down with Mike Nappa’s God in Slow Motion. Nappa hasn’t carved up the Gospels for quick review or sliced them into tiny pieces for academic study. He has taken ten important moments from the life of Christ and reveled in them, chewing on their words, relating them to life, comparing them with modern culture, allowing the Spirit to work, and letting Christ change him. The result is a rich, personal, and biblical narrative about Jesus and how His purposes unfold, then and now. See how God is sneaky about his glory. How he presents evidence for belief. How he can be comforting and terrifying at once. This is the “good news” in all its many-splendored wonder: the life of Christ, frame by frame. And it is worth every minute because it will change you too.

Author : Kyle Pratt
Publisher : Camden Cascade Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780996941228

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Nightmare in Slow Motion by Kyle Pratt Pdf

As police officer Peter Westmore helps with the evacuation of Seattle, terrorists explode a nuclear bomb. In the novel A Time to Endure we glimpse the end of Peter’s life. In that novel his brother Caden is on a mission to destroy gangs and terrorists living on the fringe of the Seattle blast zone. During the fighting, Caden goes to his older brother’s abandoned home and discovers Peter’s body and two letters. The contents of one are revealed in A Time to Endure. The other is not. Nightmare in Slow motion is a 13,000 word novelette is set in the Strengthen What Remains series.

Author : Zeynep Kayadelen,ADVOCATES OF SILENCED TURKEY
Publisher : Advocates of Silenced Turkey
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-09-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9798399561493

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Murder of Halil Dinc in Slow Motion by Zeynep Kayadelen,ADVOCATES OF SILENCED TURKEY Pdf

In the darkest days of Germany, the young theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer was arrested and then executed by hanging at the dawn of a Spring morning. The dictator and his fools that Bonhoeffer mentioned in his books are still around. Unfortunately, no lesson is learned from the sufferings of the past and therefore history just repeats itself. Technological advancement has brought outer space increasingly in human’s reach, yet people are more passionate than even primitive societies in surrendering their willpower to the dictators. In this book, you will read the tragic story of a family escaping from the dictator of Turkey and his fools.

Author : Eleanor Cooney
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780062275974

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Death in Slow Motion by Eleanor Cooney Pdf

A raw, unsentimental and passionately written memoir about trying to care for a parent with Alzheimer’s When her once-glamorous and witty novelist-mother got Alzheimer's, Eleanor Cooney moved her from her beloved Connecticut home to California in order to care for her. In tense, searing prose, punctuated with the blackest of humor, Cooney documents the slow erosion of her mother's mind, the powerful bond the two shared, and her own descent into drink and despair. But the coping mechanism that finally serves this eloquent writer best is writing, the ability to bring to vivid life the memories her mother is losing. As her mother gropes in the gathering darkness for a grip on the world she once loved, succeeding only in conjuring sad fantasies of places and times with her late husband, Cooney revisits their true past. Death in Slow Motion becomes the mesmerizing story of Eleanor's actual childhood, straight out of the pages of John Cheever; the daring and vibrant mother she remembers; and a time that no longer exists for either of them.

Author : Barry Purves
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781136140624

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Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance by Barry Purves Pdf

Be inspired by award-winning animator Barry Purves' honest insight into the creative process of making stop motion animations, using his own classic films to illustrate every step along the way. With Barry's enthusiasm for puppets in all their many guises and in-depth interviews from some of the world's other leading practitioners, there is advice, inspiration and entertainment galore in Stop Motion: Passion, Process and Performance. And there's more! Many of the artists and craftsmen interviewed have contributed their own specially drawn illustrations - showing their inspirations, heroes and passion for their craft. These beautiful images help make the book a truly personal journey into the heart of the animation industry with broad appeal for anyone with a love of animation.

Author : Jeff Noon
Publisher : Random House
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781473555365

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Slow Motion Ghosts by Jeff Noon Pdf

'Noon's storytelling is assured and compelling ... it's a belter' Guardian ‘Constantly surprising’ Spectator A viciously occult murder. A curious clue left on the body. The soundtrack to the murder still playing... It is 1981 and Detective Inspector Henry Hobbes is still reeling in the aftermath of the fire and fury of the Brixton riots. The battle lines of society - and the police force - are being redrawn on a daily basis. With the certainties of his life already sorely tested, a brutal murder will shake his beliefs to their very core once more. The manner of the death and its staged circumstances pose many questions to which there are no obvious answers. To track the murderer, Hobbes must cross boundaries into a subculture hidden beneath the everyday world he thought he knew. His investigation takes him into a twisted reality, which is both seductive and devastating, and asks him the one question he has been dreading: How far will he go in pursuit of the truth? Jeff Noon is the author of six acclaimed novels, Vurt, Pollen, Automated Alice, Nymphomation, Needle in the Groove and Falling Out of Cars, as well as two collections of short fictions, and is also the crime fiction reviewer for The Spectator. He lives in Brighton.

Author : Mary F. Burke,Judy Gould
Publisher : Teaching and Learning Company
Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780787744977

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Fast Forward & Slow Motion: How to Pace the Action by Mary F. Burke,Judy Gould Pdf

Build your classroom into a winning team of writers. This packet, which focuses on pacing the action in a story, is full of writing strategies and practice items and will help you coach your young writers to become more confident authors.

Author : Mark Tully
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2017-11-22
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9789351180975

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India In Slow Motion by Mark Tully Pdf

Mark Tully is incomparable. No foreign commentator has a greater understanding of the passions, the contradictions, the charms and the resilience that constitute India. In India in Slow Motion, Tully and his colleague Gillian Wright delve further than ever before into this nation of over one billion people, attempting to unravel a culture that, famously, has always resisted unravelling. India in Slow Motion is the account of a journey that for Tully and Wright has no true beginning or end. Covering a diverse range of subjects-from Hindu extremism to child labour, Sufi mysticism to the crisis in agriculture, the persistence of political corruption to the problem of Kashmir-this book challenges the preconceptions others have about India, as well as those India has about itself. India is often depicted as a victim of forces too wild to be controlled-of post-colonial malaise, of religious strife, of the caste system, of a corrupt bureaucratic machine. India in Slow Motion refutes this, probing into the heart of the Indian experience and arguing that change is possible and that solutions do exist. In the process it brings the country and its people brilliantly alive.

Author : Peter Blauner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1639511482

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Slow Motion Riot by Peter Blauner Pdf

Author : William Todd Schultz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781608196814

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An Emergency in Slow Motion by William Todd Schultz Pdf

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide at the age of 48, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work. In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion reveals the creative and personal struggles of Diane Arbus. Schultz, an expert in personality psychology, veers from traditional biography to look at Arbus's life through the prism of five central mysteries: her childhood, her outcast affinity, her sexuality, her time in therapy, and her suicide. He seeks not to give Arbus some definitive diagnosis, but to ponder some of the private motives behind her public works and acts. In this approach, Schultz not only goes deeper into her life than any previous writing, but provides a template to think about the creative life in general. Schultz's careful analysis is informed, in part, by the recent release of Arbus's writing by her estate, as well as interviews with Arbus's last therapist. An Emergency in Slow Motion combines new revelations and breathtaking insights into a must-read psychobiography about a monumental artist -- the first new look at Arbus in 25 years.

Author : Pamala Condit Kennedy,Richard Kennedy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1569553599

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Suffering in Slow Motion by Pamala Condit Kennedy,Richard Kennedy Pdf

This inspirational book answers questions about terminal illness, dementia, and coping with these situations.