The Living End

Author : Stanley Elkin
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2010-10-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781453204405

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The Living End by Stanley Elkin Pdf

Elkin’s darkly comic novel of the afterlife—the story of one man’s redemptive journey to hell and back When he is killed during a holdup at his Minneapolis liquor store, Ellerbee’s bad luck is only beginning. After a short stint in heaven, Ellerbee is banished to hell, abruptly and without explanation. What follows is a surreal and memorable adventure that brings Ellerbee face-to-face not only with his murderer’s accomplice, but also with God, Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and a host of others, all in his quest for salvation unlike any other. Moving and witty, The Living End is a hilarious send-up of afterlife clichés and a masterful exploration of the absurdities of human existence. This ebook features rare photos and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate and from the Stanley Elkin archives at Washington University in St. Louis.

Author : Lisa Samson
Publisher : WaterBrook
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2010-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307552730

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The Living End by Lisa Samson Pdf

One Last Goodbye. One Last Adventure. Pearly Laurel is devastated by the death of her beloved husband of thirty-five years. The two had always said they couldn’t live without one another, and Pearly has no desire to even try. Then, in the midst of her grief, Pearly finds a tattered list in Joey’s pocket, entitled, “While I Live, I Want to….” His ultimate to-do list sends her off on a mission to accomplish Joey’s last unfulfilled goals–along with a few of her own–before arranging her own death. But the people she meets along the way have something else in mind. Can their unexpected gifts, secrets long hidden in Joey’s journal, and memories from the rich life they shared convince Pearly that, despite her pain and grief, life is still worth living?

Author : Gregg Araki
Publisher : Pharmaceutical Products Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Homosexuality in motion pictures
ISBN : 0688131689

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Totally F***ed Up by Gregg Araki Pdf

Author : Slavoj Žižek
Publisher : Verso
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-04-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781844677023

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Living in the End Times by Slavoj Žižek Pdf

Economics.

Author : John S. Barnett
Publisher : John Barnett
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-11
Category : Bible
ISBN : 9781933561202

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Living Hope for the End of Days by John S. Barnett Pdf

Author : Guy Brown
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780230553323

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The Living End by Guy Brown Pdf

The decline of infections, starvation, heart attack, and stroke has allowed people to reach extreme old age--and ushered in disability, dementia, and degenerative disease, with profound consequences for the self and society. In chapters echoing Dante's nine circles of hell, Dr. Guy Brown explores these vital issues at various levels, from the cell, to the whole body, to society and how all this new medical technology affects the meaning of death. He tracks the seismic shifts in the causes and character of death that are rocking medicine and reveals how technological innovations, such as cloning and electronic interfaces, hint at new modes of "survival" after death.

Author : Robert Leleux
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781429942393

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The Living End by Robert Leleux Pdf

The Living End is a tribute to an unforgettable woman, and a testimony to the way a disease can awaken an urgent desire for love and forgiveness. Told with sparkling wit and warmth, The Living End will resonate with families coping with Alzheimer's, and any reader looking for hope and inspiration. Robert Leleux's grandmother JoAnn was a steel magnolia, an elegant and devastatingly witty woman: quick-tongued, generous in her affections, but sometimes oddly indifferent to the emotions of those who most needed her. When JoAnn began exhibiting signs of Alzheimer's, she'd been estranged from her daughter, Robert's mother Jessica, for decades. As her disease progressed, JoAnn lost most of her memories, but she also forgot her old wounds and anger. She became a happy, gentler person who was finally able to reach out to her daughter in what became a strangely life-affirming experience, an unexpected blessing that gave a divided family a second chance.

Author : Dave Goossen
Publisher : Zero Friction Media
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780987891709

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The Living End by Dave Goossen Pdf

~Imagine you met someone who did something so amazing, so mind-blowingly awesome, so incredible, that you didn’t have any choice but to believe them when they said they were a super-charged version of a human from a future dimension. ~Imagine that same someone claimed to have the power to destroy the world in the palms of his hands. ~Imagine they were also a complete asshole. That’s exactly what Beth and her twin brother, Gavin, have gotten themselves into. Now they’ve got to stop the end of the world or at least find out if they’re getting off the planet before the Big Bang Part Two. In their way are a psychotic zealot or two, a TV preacher with a heart of gold and their own doubts about what they’ve stumbled into the middle of.

Author : Bronnie Ware
Publisher : Hay House, Inc
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-13
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781401956011

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Top Five Regrets of the Dying by Bronnie Ware Pdf

Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

Author : Jan-Bart Gewald,Marja Hinfelaar,Giacomo Macola
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004209862

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Living the End of Empire by Jan-Bart Gewald,Marja Hinfelaar,Giacomo Macola Pdf

Building on the foundational work of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, the essays contained in Living the End of Empire offer a more nuanced and complex picture of the late-colonial period in Zambia than has hitherto been presented in nationalist histories.

Author : T. J. Demos
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 167 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-08-03
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781478012252

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Beyond the World's End by T. J. Demos Pdf

In Beyond the World's End T. J. Demos explores cultural practices that provide radical propositions for living in a world beset by environmental and political crises. Rethinking relationships between aesthetics and an expanded political ecology that foregrounds just futurity, Demos examines how contemporary artists are diversely addressing urgent themes, including John Akomfrah's cinematic entanglements of racial capitalism with current environmental threats, the visual politics of climate refugees in work by Forensic Architecture and Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman, and moving images of Afrofuturist climate justice in projects by Arthur Jafa and Martine Syms. Demos considers video and mixed-media art that responds to resource extraction in works by Angela Melitopoulos, Allora & Calzadilla, and Ursula Biemann, as well as the multispecies ecologies of Terike Haapoja and Public Studio. Throughout Demos contends that contemporary intersections of aesthetics and politics, as exemplified in the Standing Rock #NoDAPL campaign and the Zad's autonomous zone in France, are creating the imaginaries that will be crucial to building a socially just and flourishing future.

Author : Ed Brubaker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1632159155

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Velvet by Ed Brubaker Pdf

"Collects material original[ly] published as VELVET #1-15"--From indicia.

Author : Ed Brubaker
Publisher : Image Comics
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-06-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781632150912

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Velvet Vol. 1 by Ed Brubaker Pdf

Collects VELVET #1-5. From the bestselling creators of "Captain America: The Winter Soldier" comes this smash-hit spy thriller with a unique new twist! When the world's greatest secret agent is killed, all evidence points to Velvet Templeton, the personal secretary to the Director of the Agency. But Velvet's got a dark secret buried in her past...because she's also the most dangerous woman alive.

Author : John O'Donnell,Toby Creswell,Craig Mathieson
Publisher : Hardie Grant Publishing
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781742735559

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The 100 Best Australian Albums by John O'Donnell,Toby Creswell,Craig Mathieson Pdf

Australian music has a proud, colourful and successful history. In 2008, Australian rock and roll turned 50. This book names the best Australian albums of the last 50 years. It places each album in order (from 1 u 100) and discusses why each album deserves its place. It tells the story behind the making of the album, where the album fits in the artist's career and the album's impact on the local and world stage etc. The entries will feature new interviews with the artists and the producers/managers involved in the recording and the release of the album. It wouldn't be a good list if it didn't polarise people and we hope that this list will. We also hope that it will get people sitting around comparing their favourites and discovering or re-discovering these great albums and others. With 70 years of loving and writing about Australian music between us, we shamelessly believe we've earned the right to write this book. And we think we've got it right. Let the debate begin.o u John O'Donnell, April 2010 Finally, here is a much-needed list of argument-starting top 100 seminal/ influential/essential Australian albums of all time. Let the fight begin!

Author : Karen Whitley Bell
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9781454928454

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Living at the End of Life by Karen Whitley Bell Pdf

An updated edition of the most respected book on hospice care—for both patients and caregivers. This warm and informative resource on hospice and other end-of-life care options now gets an update. It receives a new preface and revised guidance on elders who need more long-term care and support, recommendations on pain medications, and advice for those living extended lives with treatable, but not curable, diseases. Written by a hospice nurse, Living at the End of Life reassures us that this difficult time also offers an opportunity to explore and rediscover a richer meaning in life. Drawing on her years of experience, Bell has created a comprehensive, insightful guide to every aspect of hospice care and the final stages of life. For people in hospice, as well as their friends and families, this is an indispensable and trustworthy source of comfort and spiritual healing.