The Rules Of The Tunnel

Author : Ned Zeman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101543412

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The Rules of the Tunnel by Ned Zeman Pdf

A journalist faces his toughest assignment yet: profiling himself. Zeman recounts his struggle with clinical depression in this high- octane, brutally funny memoir about mood disorders, memory, shock treatment therapy and the quest to get back to normal. Thirty-five million Americans suffer from clinical depression. But Ned Zeman never thought he'd be one of them. He came from a happy Midwestern family. He had great friends and a busy social life. His career was thriving at Vanity Fair where he profiled adventurers and eccentrics who pushed the limits and died young. Then, at age thirty-two, anxiety and depression gripped Zeman with increasing violence and consequences. He experimented with therapist after therapist, medication after medication, hospital after hospital- including McLean Hospital, the facility famed for its treatment of writers, from Sylvia Plath to Susanna Kaysen to David Foster Wallace. Zeman eventually went further, by trying electroconvulsive therapy, aka shock treatment, aka "the treatment of last resort." By the time it was over, Zeman had lost nearly two years' worth of memory. He was a reporter with amnesia. He had no choice but to start from scratch, to reassemble the pieces of a life he didn't remember and, increasingly, didn't want to. His girlfriend was gone; friends weren't speaking to him. His life lay in ruins. And the biggest question remained, "What the hell did I do?" By turns hilarious and heartbreaking, profane and hopeful, The Rules of the Tunnel is a blistering account of Zeman's twisted ride to hell and back-a return made possible by friends real and less so, among them the dead "eccentrics" he once profiled. It's a guttural shout of a book, one that defies conventional notions about those with mood disorders, unlocks mysteries within mysteries, and proves that sometimes everything you're looking for is right in front of you.

Author : Rachel Hadas
Publisher : Paul Dry Books
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781589882508

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Strange Relation by Rachel Hadas Pdf

"[A] thoughtful and lucid tale of love, companionship, and heartbreaking illness." —Lydia Davis In 2004 Rachel Hadas's husband, George Edwards, a composer and professor of music at Columbia University, was diagnosed with early-onset dementia at the age of sixty-one. Strange Relation is her account of "losing" George. Her narrative begins when George's illness can no longer be ignored, and ends in 2008 soon after his move to a dementia facility (when, after thirty years of marriage, she finds herself no longer living with her husband). Within the cloudy confines of those difficult years, years when reading and writing were an essential part of what kept her going, she "tried to keep track…tried to tell the truth." "If only all doctors and nurses and social workers who care for the chronically ill could read this book. If only patients and family members stricken with such losses could receive what this book can give them. While Strange Relation relates one illness and the life of one family, it is also, poetically, about all illnesses, all families, all struggles, all living. The art achieves the dual life of the universal and the particular, marking it as timeless, making it for us all necessary."—Rita Charon, MD, PhD, Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University "Rachel Hadas's own wonderfully resonant poems, along with the rich collection of verse and prose by other writers that she weaves into her story, clarify and illuminate over and over again this thoughtful and lucid tale of love, companionship, and heartbreaking illness—illness that, as she shows us so well, is at once frighteningly alien and also deeply a part of our unavoidable vulnerability as mortal beings. Beautifully written, totally engrossing, and very sad."—Lydia Davis "Strange Relation is a deeply moving, deeply personal, beautifully written exploration of how the power of grief can be met with the power of literature, and how solace can be found in the space between them."—Frank Huyler "A poignant memoir of love, creativity and human vulnerability. Rachel Hadas brings a poet's incisive eye to the labyrinth of dementia."—Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, author of Medicine in Translation and Singular Intimacies "Like an elegy, Strange Relation is about loss and grief. Like all elegies, it also memorializes and celebrates. Rachel Hadas, in the course of her personal narrative, cites accounts of dementia, in its social and personal meanings."—Robert Pinsky "Brilliant and tough-minded, poignant but clear-headed, Rachel Hadas shines a steady light on her experience as the wife of an accomplished composer who, at a comparatively early age, descended into dementia. Strange Relation never sacrifices truth for easy answers. Instead, Hadas uses literature to chart a course through wrenching complexities. This lauded and exceptional poet shows how language itself, the very thing her husband loses, became her shield as she crossed the ravaged lands of decision-making, making new discoveries, new friends, and new sense of the world. Strange Relation snaps with bravery, intelligence, and Hadas' tart, candid wisdom."—Molly Peacock "Strange Relation is a beautifully written and piercingly honest account of life with a brilliant man as he descends into dementia, in his sixties."—Reeve Lindbergh

Author : A. B. Yehoshua
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781328622631

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The Tunnel by A. B. Yehoshua Pdf

From the award-winning, internationally acclaimed Israeli author, a suspenseful and poignant story of a family coping with the sudden mental decline of their beloved husband and father--an engineer who they discover is involved in an ominous secret military project Until recently, Zvi Luria was a healthy man in his seventies, an engineer living in Tel Aviv with his wife, Dina, visiting with their two children whenever possible. Now he is showing signs of early dementia, and his work on the tunnels of the Trans-Israel Highway is no longer possible. To keep his mind sharp, Zvi decides to take a job as the unpaid assistant to Asael Maimoni, a young engineer involved in a secret military project: a road to be built inside the massive Ramon Crater in the northern Negev Desert. The challenge of the road, however, is compounded by strange circumstances. Living secretly on the proposed route, amid ancient Nabatean ruins, is a Palestinian family under the protection of an enigmatic archaeological preservationist. Zvi rises to the occasion, proposing a tunnel that would not dislodge the family. But when his wife falls sick, circumstances begin to spiral . . . The Tunnel--wry, wistful, and a tour de force of vital social commentary--is Yehoshua at his finest.

Author : Ned Zeman
Publisher : Gotham
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1592405983

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The Rules of the Tunnel by Ned Zeman Pdf

An award-nominated contributing editor at Vanity Fair recounts his battle with clinical depression and his decision after numerous failed therapies to pursue shock treatment, describing his subsequent efforts to rebuild his memories, relationships and career. 20,000 first printing.

Author : Nazmul Rajib
Publisher : Cisco Press
Page : 1555 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-21
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780134679464

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Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) by Nazmul Rajib Pdf

The authoritative visual guide to Cisco Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) This is the definitive guide to best practices and advanced troubleshooting techniques for the Cisco flagship Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) system running on Cisco ASA platforms, Cisco Firepower security appliances, Firepower eXtensible Operating System (FXOS), and VMware virtual appliances. Senior Cisco engineer Nazmul Rajib draws on unsurpassed experience supporting and training Cisco Firepower engineers worldwide, and presenting detailed knowledge of Cisco Firepower deployment, tuning, and troubleshooting. Writing for cybersecurity consultants, service providers, channel partners, and enterprise or government security professionals, he shows how to deploy the Cisco Firepower next-generation security technologies to protect your network from potential cyber threats, and how to use Firepower’s robust command-line tools to investigate a wide variety of technical issues. Each consistently organized chapter contains definitions of keywords, operational flowcharts, architectural diagrams, best practices, configuration steps (with detailed screenshots), verification tools, troubleshooting techniques, and FAQs drawn directly from issues raised by Cisco customers at the Global Technical Assistance Center (TAC). Covering key Firepower materials on the CCNA Security, CCNP Security, and CCIE Security exams, this guide also includes end-of-chapter quizzes to help candidates prepare. · Understand the operational architecture of the Cisco Firepower NGFW, NGIPS, and AMP technologies · Deploy FTD on ASA platform and Firepower appliance running FXOS · Configure and troubleshoot Firepower Management Center (FMC) · Plan and deploy FMC and FTD on VMware virtual appliance · Design and implement the Firepower management network on FMC and FTD · Understand and apply Firepower licenses, and register FTD with FMC · Deploy FTD in Routed, Transparent, Inline, Inline Tap, and Passive Modes · Manage traffic flow with detect-only, block, trust, and bypass operations · Implement rate limiting and analyze quality of service (QoS) · Blacklist suspicious IP addresses via Security Intelligence · Block DNS queries to the malicious domains · Filter URLs based on category, risk, and reputation · Discover a network and implement application visibility and control (AVC) · Control file transfers and block malicious files using advanced malware protection (AMP) · Halt cyber attacks using Snort-based intrusion rule · Masquerade an internal host’s original IP address using Network Address Translation (NAT) · Capture traffic and obtain troubleshooting files for advanced analysis · Use command-line tools to identify status, trace packet flows, analyze logs, and debug messages

Author : Madhusanka Liyanage,Andrei Gurtov,Mika Ylianttila
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015-08-17
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9781118900284

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Software Defined Mobile Networks (SDMN) by Madhusanka Liyanage,Andrei Gurtov,Mika Ylianttila Pdf

This book describes the concept of a Software Defined Mobile Network (SDMN), which will impact the network architecture of current LTE (3GPP) networks. SDN will also open up new opportunities for traffic, resource and mobility management, as well as impose new challenges on network security. Therefore, the book addresses the main affected areas such as traffic, resource and mobility management, virtualized traffics transportation, network management, network security and techno economic concepts. Moreover, a complete introduction to SDN and SDMN concepts. Furthermore, the reader will be introduced to cutting-edge knowledge in areas such as network virtualization, as well as SDN concepts relevant to next generation mobile networks. Finally, by the end of the book the reader will be familiar with the feasibility and opportunities of SDMN concepts, and will be able to evaluate the limits of performance and scalability of these new technologies while applying them to mobile broadb and networks.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 752 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1883
Category : Law
ISBN : IOWA:31858002990483

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The Law Journal by Anonim Pdf

Author : W. D. Gann
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781787200531

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Tunnel Thru The Air Or Looking Back From 1940 by W. D. Gann Pdf

In this inspirational masterpiece about the role of the human being in the universe, finance trader and author W. D. Gann uses the Bible to explore the secret to successful living. Through direct teachings from the Bible, the reader may learn how to understand, obey and apply the universal laws revealed in the Bible in order to bring about his own latent talents and powers, and in turn be firmly set on the road towards health, happiness and prosperity.

Author : United States. National Bureau of Standards
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1926
Category : Electric engineering
ISBN : UIUC:30112106667915

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Safety Rules for the Operation of Electrical Equipment and Lines by United States. National Bureau of Standards Pdf

Author : G Anderson,B. Roskrow
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780203362297

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The Channel Tunnel Story by G Anderson,B. Roskrow Pdf

The Channel Tunnel is a huge construction project, employing over 14,000 people at peak, and costing over 15611 billion of private money. It has succeeded in spite of great financial, political and techncial difficulties, and a fundamentally flawed contract. This book tells the story of the project, based on the coverage in Construction News and with commentary taken from recent interviews with key project sources.

Author : Charles Penny,Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain)
Publisher : Thomas Telford
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0727725157

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Channel Tunnel Transport System by Charles Penny,Institution of Civil Engineers (Great Britain) Pdf

Very Good,No Highlights or Markup,all pages are intact.

Author : Colin Kirkland
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1995-07-27
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781482271157

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Engineering the Channel Tunnel by Colin Kirkland Pdf

The Channel Tunnel may be the greatest engineering project in Europe this century. This book describes the tremendous engineering achievement of the construction of the tunnel. Written by twenty of the key engineers involved, it provides a fascinating, informative and inspiring account of the project for both engineering professionals and general r

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 912 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Mines and mineral resources
ISBN : UOM:39015001480998

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Bulletin by United States. Bureau of Mines Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1882
Category : Law
ISBN : CORNELL:31924071325058

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The Australian Law Times by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1242 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1931
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112008887470

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Contract Record by Anonim Pdf