Some Of The Dead Are Still Breathing

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477316900

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Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing by Charles Bowden Pdf

The third book in Charles Bowden’s “accidental trilogy” that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: “How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?” As humanity moves further into the twenty-first century, Bowden continues to interrogate our roles in creating the ravaged landscapes and accumulated death that still surround us, as well as his own childhood isolation, his lust for alcohol and women, and his waning hope for a future. We witness post-Katrina New Orleans and terrorist-bombed Bali; we encounter our shared actions with the animal world and the desirous need for consumption; we see the clash and erosion of our physical and figurative borders, the savagery of our own civilization. A man of his time and out of time, Bowden seeks acceptance and a will to endure what may lie ahead.

Author : Adolf Jackson
Publisher : BookRix
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-31
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9783748700845

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I'm Still Breathing: Dead Language Gasping by Adolf Jackson Pdf

These are the writings from a place of acceptance of independence, and singularity. Celebration of mistake made, greatest lessons only ourselves can teach. A bridge between letting go of our egotistical ideals and rediscovering common sense. Inspired by faults in our eyes. For whom, in a quest; a journey that is inseparable from a soul. Nothing is lost. Nothing is given. Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is absolute. ... I’m still breathing

Author : Suzette Llewellyn,Suzanne Packer
Publisher : Harper Inspire
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780310126744

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Still Breathing by Suzette Llewellyn,Suzanne Packer Pdf

‘A timely book and a conversation starter on race in Britain.’ Rachel Edwards, Author of Darling and Lucky ‘A timely book in a year that has made clear that Britain still has a very long way to go towards becoming the model of racial equality it aims to be.’ Kenya Hunt ‘Powerful and sometimes painful testimonies but they also provide uplifting and enriching experiences.’ Stephen Bourne ‘I'm so proud to hold this book in my hand. We are here in all our richness.’ Adjoa Andoh, Actor, Director ‘This book is such a moving read for everyone of all ages and races.’ Colin Jackson, CBE ‘A reinforcement of evocative truths that hurt and sting deeply but also empower tremendously.’ Sharon Duncan-Brewster The whole world is watching. 25 May, 2020. George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, is killed in Minneapolis while being arrested. His death, witnessed by horrified bystanders, is captured on camera – and within hours has spread far and wide across social media. We’re all bystanders now. The protests that follow express shock, sorrow, and outrage. Because what’s happened, has happened before – away from witnesses and cameras. The story didn’t begin here, and this is not where it ends… STILL BREATHING assembles a cast of 100 black voices to talk about their experiences of racism in Britain. Actresses Suzette Llewellyn (Eastenders) and Suzanne Packer (Holby City) are joined by musicians, Members of Parliament, poets, artists, athletes, civil servants, doctors, lawyers, and more. Touching on Windrush and the workplace, race riots and reforms, these essays seek to educate, to bear witness – and to offer hope for a better future, in Britain and around the world.

Author : K. C. Kontraband
Publisher : Simms Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1949433315

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Dead...But Still Breathing by K. C. Kontraband Pdf

Vices are a part of everyday life; a routine, some good and some bad, and others will get you killed. Choose wisely.

Author : Alice Feeney
Publisher : Flatiron Books
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781250144836

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Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney Pdf

My name is Amber Reynolds. There are three things you should know about me: 1. I’m in a coma. 2. My husband doesn’t love me anymore. 3. Sometimes I lie. Amber wakes up in a hospital. She can’t move. She can’t speak. She can’t open her eyes. She can hear everyone around her, but they have no idea. Amber doesn’t remember what happened, but she has a suspicion her husband had something to do with it. Alternating between her paralyzed present, the week before her accident, and a series of childhood diaries from twenty years ago, this brilliant psychological thriller asks: Is something really a lie if you believe it's the truth?

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780812988413

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When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi Pdf

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : Charles Bowden
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477316849

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Blood Orchid by Charles Bowden Pdf

Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and joints, and roams through village bars and streets in the Sierra Madre mountains. In these wanderings resides a yearning for the understanding of past and present sins, the human penchant for warfare, abuse, and oppression, and the true war between humanity, the industrialized world, and the immense tolls of our shared land. Deeply personal, hauntingly prophetic, and bracingly sharp, the start to Bowden’s harrowed quest to unearth our ugly truths remains strikingly poignant today.

Author : Nathaniel Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1815
Category : Dissenters, Religious
ISBN : HARVARD:AH4EFG

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The Works of Nathaniel Lardner by Nathaniel Lardner Pdf

Author : Nathaniel Lardner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 668 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1838
Category : Theology
ISBN : UOM:39015067856933

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The Works of Nathaniel Lardner, D.D. with a Life by Dr. Kippis ... by Nathaniel Lardner Pdf

Author : Nigel Fong,Marianne Tsang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 664 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789811261992

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A Strategy To And Worked Practice For The Mrcp Paces by Nigel Fong,Marianne Tsang Pdf

This is a book for candidates preparing for the MRCP PACES examination, designed to aid in the consolidation of clinical knowledge and skills, and its application in the exam setting.

Author : John Pearson,Richard Williams
Publisher : Aurum
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781845138523

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The Bluebird and the Dead Lake by John Pearson,Richard Williams Pdf

In 1964, in Australia's remote outback, on the dazzling saltpan of Lake Eyre, Donald Campbell set out to drive his Bluebird car at over 400 miles an hour - faster than any man in history. Things went wrong from the start: unseasonal rains, a sodden lake bed in which every high-speed run slewed dangerously, money running short...even an Aboriginal curse. WIth death shimmering on the horizon before him, the lonely Campbell tried to hold his nerve until he broke the record. Campbell would lose his life eventually on Coniston Water, with over thirty years passing before his body was recovered in 2001, but this strangest - and greatest - of all his world record attempts was witnessed by a young reporter. John Pearson's classic book about Donald Campbell is an extraordinarily compelling and moving portrait of a modern tragic hero, fighting a battle with inhospitable elements and the outer limits of technology - and, above all, with himself.

Author : Evanthia Lyons,Adrian Coyle
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781473933934

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Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology by Evanthia Lyons,Adrian Coyle Pdf

Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology is a clear, step-by–step guide linking theory with practice, that offers a unique combination of perspectives on five qualitative approaches: grounded theory, interpretative phenomenological analysis, discourse analysis, narrative analysis and thematic analysis that can be applied to a common data set. This text provides practical advice and guidance from experts as well as a comparison of the different methods, which will help students decide the approach that’s right for them and their research project. The second edition of this text: Introduces a fifth, additional qualitative approach, Thematic Analysis Explores the ethical challenges of qualitative work Takes a look at mixed methods and pluralist research Includes worked-out examples of qualitative analyses and brand new tools for learning, including ‘road maps’ for qualitative analysis Analysing Qualitative Data in Psychology, Second Edition is the perfect text for psychology students engaged in qualitative research or studying research methods, at either undergraduate or postgraduate level.

Author : Qi Men
Publisher : Funstory
Page : 1428 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2020-04-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781648846137

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The Dead Zone: Maya Stela by Qi Men Pdf

In 1992, an old man with black eyes "stole" an unpublished and commonly found Mayan stone tablet at the site of Copanmaya, 56 kilometres west of Santa Rosa. The information recorded on it was a huge 'wealth' that no one could even imagine.In 2016, leftists who helped their grandfathers with their books at home stumbled on a stone tablet wrapped in parchment, and at the same time an international group seeking his "help" came knocking. But that was not the only surprise.The black stone forest carved with his name in the Yiyang Maya Project, Henan Province;The lacquered gold wooden box hidden under the ancient lake of Tzu Lake in Ningbo City;the grave robber Uncle Li, who knew him and had bought him deliberately;As if the old man knew him well;The weirdest thing is his father's determination that he is doomed ...

Author : Matthew Heiti
Publisher : Coach House Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781770563551

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The City Still Breathing by Matthew Heiti Pdf

A body is found on the side of a highway. It goes missing, making its way, over the course of one early winter night, all around the northern town of Sudbury and through the lives and dreams of eleven very different people, all damaged in some way, eventually bringing them together in a strange moment of violence.

Author : Emma Shortt
Publisher : Entangled: Select Otherworld
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781622660346

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Waking Up Dead by Emma Shortt Pdf

Where there is horror can there be love? Jackson Hart is a survivor. It's been two years since the virus first hit the country, and she watched almost everyone she loves die...or turn into zombies with a ferocious and insatiable appetite for flesh. Her instincts and her machete keep her alive, even if she’s forgotten almost everything she knows about living. Luke Granger never expected to see another living human being, let alone that she'd be a fiery little thing who stirs his blood. Outnumbered by the dead, their only hope of survival is to get the hell out of Chicago and head south. Food is running out, and the walking dead are no longer mindless. Jackson and Luke finally have something to live for––if they can just survive the night.