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Author : Ian Rohr
Publisher : Blake Education
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1865098337
Originally published: Glebe, Australia: Blake Education, 2002.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Reader's Digest Association
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Courage
ISBN : 0276426924
From the terror of a father and his young son trapped in a Cornish cave by a huge storm tide to a terrified child trapped in an upturned pleasure boat off the coast of Australia... from a crane operator imprisoned in his cabin above a raging fire in Atlanta to the victim of a stabbing who is so close to death a young doctor must perform open heart surgery on the floor of a London pub to save his life. This is a unique and extraordinary anthology of heroism in the face of disaster, and the remarkable courage and determination displayed by those who risk their lives to save others. It is a celebration of the power of the human spirit against all the odds.
Author : Mary Papenfuss,The Breast Cancer Fund
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0811834816
"Climb Against the Odds" documents the inspiring story of a group of women who joined The Breast Cancer Fund to raise awareness and money for the fight against breast cancer by endeavoring to climb some of the world's most daunting peaks, putting their post-cancer bodies and their indomitable spirits through a journey that changed them all. 100 photos.
Author : Nicole Quiroz
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1631297422
In Surviving Against All Odds, Nicole Quiroz presents an intimate and personal account of her life story. From being raised in an abusive household and moving through detention centers and group homes, to falling in with regrettable company, dealing with addiction, struggling to overcome marital obstacles, and more, this book explores the moving testimony of one young woman's perseverance and the transformative power of God's love. Nicole is a dedicated wife and mother to two growing children. She frequently writes poetry and enjoys spending time in her garden. Nicole's faith in God has sustained her during her fight to find freedom from her past. Throughout her life it has been on her heart to help others. She hopes to shine a light on the dark things of this world. Showing that there can be healing through faith in God.
Author : Shannon Rizzotto,John Davidson
Publisher : Mendon Cottage Books
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-01-31
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781310965234
A Survivalist’s Guide to Surviving Against the Odds Table of Contents Introduction Chapter One - Be prepared 1. A full tank of gas 2. Water 3. Food 4. Vitamins 5. Medicinal Items 6. Survival Tools Chapter Two - Surviving the Psychological Chapter Three - How to build a shelter Chapter Four - How to build and maintain a fire Chapter Five - Location is Key Chapter Six - Review Introduction There are times that we may find ourselves in situations where knowing how to survive against all the odds is the one sure thing that WILL in fact save our lives. This book will take you the reader through various scenarios and will show you the basic steps of what you will need in order to survive even the most catastrophic of events.
Author : S. Ann Dunham
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780822392613
President Barack Obama’s mother, S. Ann Dunham, was an economic anthropologist and rural development consultant who worked in several countries including Indonesia. Dunham received her doctorate in 1992. She died in 1995, at the age of 52, before having the opportunity to revise her dissertation for publication, as she had planned. Dunham’s dissertation adviser Alice G. Dewey and her fellow graduate student Nancy I. Cooper undertook the revisions at the request of Dunham’s daughter, Maya Soetoro-Ng. The result is Surviving against the Odds, a book based on Dunham’s research over a period of fourteen years among the rural metalworkers of Java, the island home to nearly half Indonesia’s population. Surviving against the Odds reflects Dunham’s commitment to helping small-scale village industries survive; her pragmatic, non-ideological approach to research and problem solving; and her impressive command of history, economic data, and development policy. Along with photographs of Dunham, the book includes many pictures taken by her in Indonesia. After Dunham married Lolo Soetoro in 1967, she and her six-year-old son, Barack Obama, moved from Hawai‘i to Soetoro’s home in Jakarta, where Maya Soetoro was born three years later. Barack returned to Hawai‘i to attend school in 1971. Dedicated to Dunham’s mother Madelyn, her adviser Alice, and “Barack and Maya, who seldom complained when their mother was in the field,” Surviving against the Odds centers on the metalworking industries in the Javanese village of Kajar. Focusing attention on the small rural industries overlooked by many scholars, Dunham argued that wet-rice cultivation was not the only viable economic activity in rural Southeast Asia. Surviving against the Odds includes a preface by the editors, Alice G. Dewey and Nancy I. Cooper, and a foreword by her daughter Maya Soetoro-Ng, each of which discusses Dunham and her career. In his afterword, the anthropologist and Indonesianist Robert W. Hefner explores the content of Surviving against the Odds, its relation to anthropology when it was researched and written, and its continuing relevance today.
Author : John Stieber
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1523347368
John Stieber was a twelve-year-old schoolboy in Ireland when he was sent to secondary school in Germany. Caught there by the outbreak of the Second World War, he was unable to return to his parents for seven years. In due course, he was called to serve in an anti-aircraft battery and in the National Labour Service. Just after his eighteenth birthday, he was sent to the Russian Front with the elite Paratrooper and Tank Division, Hermann Goring. He lived through an amazing series of events, escaping death many times and was one of the few survivors of his division when the war ended. In this narrative of his early life, John Stieber describes how he went from a carefree childhood through increasing hardships, until every day of his life became a challenge for survival."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Readers (Elementary)
ISBN : 0779139623
The drive to survive is strong--especially when people are in great danger and have little hope. Read some true stories about narrow escapes and amazing survival skills.
Author : Hillary Allen
Publisher : Blue Star Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-04-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781944515959
In 2017, world-class ultrarunner Hillary Allen was ranked #1 in the world sky running series when she fell 150 feet off a mountain ridge, breaking multiple bones and suffering a life-altering blow to her body and athletic career. Out and Back recounts Allen's fight to rehabilitate her body, rebuild her belief in herself, and return to the life and sport she loves. "Powerful and affecting. Hillary is an indomitable force." —Dean Karnazes, New York Times bestselling author and world-renowned ultramarathon athlete Ultramarathon runner and North Face-sponsored athlete Hillary Athlete felt like she was on top of the world in 2017 as she competed in Norway's Tromsø Skyrace. Then, nearly halfway through the 50-kilometer race, Allen fell 150 feet off an exposed cliff ridge, fracturing her back and breaking multiple ribs, both feet, and both of her lower arms. Beginning with the dramatic story of her nearly-fatal accident and remarkable rescue, Out and Back chronicles Allen's incredible road to recovery and how she navigated the physical and mental health hurdles along the way. With vulnerability that reveals remarkable courage, Allen's memoir is a powerful reminder that no matter what setbacks you face in life—injuries, break-ups, job losses, rejections—you have strength inside that you never knew existed. Out and Back is an amazing story of resilience that shows how someone can nearly lose everything and then work hard to heal and come out stronger on the other side. Today, Allen sees her 150-feet fall not as an accident, but as a moment of enlightenment that allowed her to reevaluate her entire life, see the beauty and importance of community, and fall back in love with nature and the reasons she started running in the first place. Allen's story teaches you that the path forward is not always linear, that healing takes time, and that the process of rediscovery is ongoing as you reach within and find what it takes to survive—and thrive. Out and Back is an inspiring read for anyone who wants to bet big on themselves, learn how to live fearlessly, and build the courage to reclaim your life, one day at a time.
Author : Amy Racina
Publisher : Elite Books
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0971088896
A first person account of a fateful solo hiking trip into California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
Author : Tim MacWelch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781681885308
In this action-oriented book, a survival expert walks you through what to do in dozens of scary situations, from riding out a tsunami to surviving the fall of civilization. Fast-paced and remarkably practical, this latest book from best-selling survival expert Tim MacWelch breaks down the odds of your facing dozens of scary situations, from the fairly likely (getting lost in the woods or mugged on the mean streets, for example) to the unlikely but terrifying (being hit by an asteroid, attacked by zombies, or other sci-fi-worthy scenarios)—and provides concrete, doable strategies for how to improve your odds of survival. Each danger is rated with handy graphics that give an-at-a-glance idea as to how likely it is to befall you, how much you should worry about it happening, and how possible it is to increase your odds of survival. And then, in the pages that follow, he gives practical, step-by-step instructions, tutorials, and hints to help you beat the odds and live to tell the tale.
Author : Alan Jacobs
Publisher : Currency
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780451499608
"Absolutely splendid . . . essential for understanding why there is so much bad thinking in political life right now." —David Brooks, New York Times How to Think is a contrarian treatise on why we’re not as good at thinking as we assume—but how recovering this lost art can rescue our inner lives from the chaos of modern life. As a celebrated cultural critic and a writer for national publications like The Atlantic and Harper’s, Alan Jacobs has spent his adult life belonging to communities that often clash in America’s culture wars. And in his years of confronting the big issues that divide us—political, social, religious—Jacobs has learned that many of our fiercest disputes occur not because we’re doomed to be divided, but because the people involved simply aren’t thinking. Most of us don’t want to think. Thinking is trouble. Thinking can force us out of familiar, comforting habits, and it can complicate our relationships with like-minded friends. Finally, thinking is slow, and that’s a problem when our habits of consuming information (mostly online) leave us lost in the spin cycle of social media, partisan bickering, and confirmation bias. In this smart, endlessly entertaining book, Jacobs diagnoses the many forces that act on us to prevent thinking—forces that have only worsened in the age of Twitter, “alternative facts,” and information overload—and he also dispels the many myths we hold about what it means to think well. (For example: It’s impossible to “think for yourself.”) Drawing on sources as far-flung as novelist Marilynne Robinson, basketball legend Wilt Chamberlain, British philosopher John Stuart Mill, and Christian theologian C.S. Lewis, Jacobs digs into the nuts and bolts of the cognitive process, offering hope that each of us can reclaim our mental lives from the impediments that plague us all. Because if we can learn to think together, maybe we can learn to live together, too.
Author : Kelly A. Turner, PhD
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-18
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780062268778
In her New York Times bestseller, Radical Remission: Surviving Cancer Against All Odds, Dr. Kelly A. Turner, founder of the Radical Remission Project, uncovers nine factors that can lead to a spontaneous remission from cancer—even after conventional medicine has failed. While getting her Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkley, Dr. Turner, a researcher, lecturer, and counselor in integrative oncology, was shocked to discover that no one was studying episodes of radical (or unexpected) remission—when people recover against all odds without the help of conventional medicine, or after conventional medicine has failed. She was so fascinated by this kind of remission that she embarked on a ten month trip around the world, traveling to ten different countries to interview fifty holistic healers and twenty radical remission cancer survivors about their healing practices and techniques. Her research continued by interviewing over 100 Radical Remission survivors and studying over 1000 of these cases. Her evidence presents nine common themes that she believes may help even terminal patients turn their lives around.
Author : Alex Kershaw
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780593183748
*The instant New York Times bestseller* The untold story of four of the most decorated soldiers of World War II—all Medal of Honor recipients—from the beaches of French Morocco to Hitler’s own mountaintop fortress, by the national bestselling author of The First Wave “Pitch-perfect.”—The Wall Street Journal • “Riveting.”—World War II magazine • “Alex Kershaw is the master of putting the reader in the heat of the action.”—Martin Dugard As the Allies raced to defeat Hitler, four men, all in the same unit, earned medal after medal for battlefield heroism. Maurice “Footsie” Britt, a former professional football player, became the very first American to receive every award for valor in a single war. Michael Daly was a West Point dropout who risked his neck over and over to keep his men alive. Keith Ware would one day become the first and only draftee in history to attain the rank of general before serving in Vietnam. In WWII, Ware owed his life to the finest soldier he ever commanded, a baby-faced Texan named Audie Murphy. In the campaign to liberate Europe, each would gain the ultimate accolade, the Congressional Medal of Honor. Tapping into personal interviews and a wealth of primary source material, Alex Kershaw has delivered his most gripping account yet of American courage, spanning more than six hundred days of increasingly merciless combat, from the deserts of North Africa to the dark heart of Nazi Germany. Once the guns fell silent, these four exceptional warriors would discover just how heavy the Medal of Honor could be—and how great the expectations associated with it. Having survived against all odds, who among them would finally find peace?
Author : John Misseldine,Oliver Clutton-Brock
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781908117649
A Royal Air Force pilot recounts his harrowing wartime experiences, including being shot down over occupied France, in this thrilling WWII memoir. Born in North London in 1922, John Misseldine enlisted in the Royal Air Force as soon as he turned eighteen. After training in California, he flew fighters with 611 Squadron, led by the legendary Battle of Britain veteran D.H. Watkins. Then, on June 8th, 1942, Misseldine was shot down over Nazi occupied northern France. For more than two months, Misseldine was on the run from the Gestapo, aided and abetted by the French resistance and British Intelligence. Journeying south, he eventually made his way to Gibraltar and escaped back to the British Isles. Misseldine was later commissioned as a pilot officer and posted to Algeria to ferry new Spitfires and Hurricanes to front-line squadrons supporting the Eighth Army. It was there that he met and married a French girl, Mauricette. Sixty-four years later, they are still together.
