Download or read book A Very Capable Life written by John Leigh Walters and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Written in his mother's unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman." "Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression - even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In celebrating Zarah Petri, A Very Capable Life pays homage to all "ordinary" women of the early twentieth century who challenged society's conventions for the sake of survival." --Book Jacket.
Download or read book In Capable Arms written by Sarah Kovac and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2013-09-17 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Kovac was born with Arthrogryposis Multiplex Congenita (AMC), a rare congenital birth defect that left her with arms that she could barely use. Growing up, she was the only one in her class with a disability, setting her apart as “different” and unpopular. Realizing her unique place in the world, Sarah began adapting, working to her strengths, and eventually learned to use her feet to do such activities as changing her son's diapers, making dinner, putting on makeup, and even typing on the computer--even as she grew in spiritual and emotional maturity and independence in exceptional ways. Picked up by national news network CNN, Sarah’s story went viral and she was suddenly presented with a platform from which to share her love for God. In Capable Arms brings readers on Sarah’s journey, crying with her through intense frustration and the desire to be perfect, cheering her through physical training and pain, and admiring her eventual spiritual surrender as she let go of her insecurities and let God use her . . . even her crippled arms. Sarah brings readers face to face with their own struggles, challenges them with questions about self-worth and fear, then offers guidance, wisdom, and inspiration for finding hope—and healing—in the arms of the One who loves them no matter what.
Download or read book A Little Life written by Hanya Yanagihara and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 833 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A stunning “portrait of the enduring grace of friendship” (NPR) about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. A masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century. NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • MAN BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST • WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE A Little Life follows four college classmates—broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition—as they move to New York in search of fame and fortune. While their relationships, which are tinged by addiction, success, and pride, deepen over the decades, the men are held together by their devotion to the brilliant, enigmatic Jude, a man scarred by an unspeakable childhood trauma. A hymn to brotherly bonds and a masterful depiction of love in the twenty-first century, Hanya Yanagihara’s stunning novel is about the families we are born into, and those that we make for ourselves. Look for Hanya Yanagihara’s latest bestselling novel, To Paradise.
Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-06-28 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate, a powerful account of growing up in a poor Rust Belt town that offers a broader, probing look at the struggles of America’s white working class Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The decline of this group, a demographic of our country that has been slowly disintegrating over forty years, has been reported on with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually their grandchild (the author) would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of their success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that this is only the short, superficial version. Vance’s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother, struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, and were never able to fully escape the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. Vance piercingly shows how he himself still carries around the demons of their chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Download or read book Fortunate Life written by A.B. Facey and published by Fremantle Press. This book was released on 2018-04-21 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Albert Facey’s story is the story of Australia.Born in 1894, and first sent to work at the age of eight, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a labourer and farmer and jackaroo, becoming lost and then rescued by Indigenous trackers, then gaining a hard-won literacy, surviving Gallipoli, raising a family through the Depression, losing a son in the Second World War, and meeting his beloved Evelyn with whom he shared nearly sixty years of marriage.Despite enduring unimaginable hardships, Facey always saw his life as a fortunate one.A true classic of Australian literature, Facey’s simply penned story offers a unique window onto the history of Australian life through the greater part of the twentieth century – the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.
Download or read book Life written by Valentin Matcas and published by Valentin Leonard Matcas. This book was released on 1901 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are an intelligent living human being, and in order to assure your meaning and success throughout life, you have to know everything about life, everywhere, in all forms and realities. You have to learn everything about nature, society, and organic life, about the true origins of life, about creating life and about the divine, and about your own meaning in life and in the world as an intelligent living human being. While these are not random ideas, but these specific needs for higher knowledge are embedded continuously within your own higher level intelligent needs and meanings, just because this is the case with all intelligent life. But is this important knowledge about life actually available to you and everyone else? Yes or no, since there are many instances to consider. Yet when you are capable to find the necessary knowledge about life, meaning, society, and the world, you are truly capable to live your life at the intelligent human level. While if you cannot find it, you keep on searching, since your own higher level needs and meanings never leave you alone until you learn everything necessary in life and in the world. And so you do, otherwise, you end up living your life on lower developmental levels, addicted, in servitude, or only intuitively, through animal instincts. And it certainly matters, just because you are an intelligent living human being by nature, now forced to live life below your level, unfulfilled and even punished intrinsically for your continuous failure. But where exactly can you find this important knowledge? Who can shine a living light on the accurate truth? Do you still wait for science to do so, when science had already offered you everything that it knows since high school? Throughout this book, we model life in all significant details, as we study everything alive and intelligent, from the smallest cellular components to the entire human body, mind, and spirit, and to all forms of life, because everything is alive and meaningful in the world. If you want to learn more about life in all forms and realities, this book is for you.
Download or read book Stay in Shape Lead a Healthy Life written by Valentin Matcas and published by Valentin Leonard Matcas. This book was released on with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can you eat as much as you desire, while staying slim and attractive for life, enjoying your good health and your youthful vitality? And if you ever become sick, how can you regain your good health and maintain it indefinitely? Even more, how can you prolong your life as much as possible, remaining young looking, strong and vibrant continuously? These are essential questions and you should always consider them, since you should always be able to lose weight and maintain your good health with ease, because your body and mind can remain proper and fit for as long as they are not harmed or unbalanced. And even when they are harmed or unbalanced, your body and mind can still recover on their own, to offer you good health, sustained vitality, and a beautiful young appearance. This is exactly what you want, but how can you achieve it? Because you have tried everything, as you still gain weight. Additionally, you feel weak many times, even depressed, while you become sick too. And since it happens to everybody, is it actually your fault? Why is everybody sick, weak, tired, overweight, wrinkled, on stimulants, on medication, and on all drugs? Why can you not remain healthy indefinitely, the way you should, and the way your body and mind are supposed to offer? These are important questions, while their answer is rather simple. Since many times, a variety of factors harm your body and mind, even continuously, for various reasons, and now, your body and mind cannot recover, unless you identify, understand, and counteract these main factors first. Therefore, in order for you to have your good health, vitality, happiness, vibrancy, and good appearance, you have to find out what harms your body and mind in the first place, along with everything keeping them unbalanced, and you solve it. Because throughout life and throughout the world, you always have causes generating effects generating causes generating effects, in very large lines of causality, and this is why you have to find these main problems generating the entire line of causality affecting your health, vitality, feelings, and appearance. Otherwise, you end up solving effects and symptoms but not main causes, while your problems persist. These keep manifesting while your mind and body are doomed to remain sick, weak, and dreadful, indefinitely. Since this is how people suffer and die, for these main causes, for these hidden, ignored, or unidentified problems, as these are numerous throughout life and society, affecting you continuously. What main causes exactly? The main causes determining you to eat excessively and therefore to gain weight, yet there are other main causes affecting you continuously, which are just as dreadful. Because just by attempting to stop eating as you do during diets, you never arrive to lose weight, since you never solve the main causes making you hungry in the first place, with all consequences piling up and intensifying. While there are many main causes interfering right now with your health, feelings, vitality, proper reasoning, happiness, and bodily appearance, and you should know them well. Because in general, people focus on everything else while attempting to lose weight, they focus on their symptoms and effects, but not on the main dreadful factors causing these. And it never works. Throughout this book, you learn everything about health, nutrition, and fitness, helping you stay slim, healthy, vigorous, happy, vibrant, and attractive for life, while helping you identify and avoid many problems and illnesses. If you seek the perfect program and lifestyle keeping you fit, this book is for you.
Download or read book It s Kind of a Funny Story written by Ned Vizzini and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does. That's when things start to get crazy. At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he's just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away.
Download or read book ICON ISHIC 2020 written by Hamdan Hadi Kusuma and published by European Alliance for Innovation. This book was released on 2020-10-14 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1th International Conference on Islamics History and Civilization (ICON-ISHIC 2020) is organized by the Research Institutions and Community Service Universitas Islam Negeri Walisongo Semarang. The aims of the conference are to provide a platform to the researchers, experts, and practitioners from academia, to discover, develop and abstract the understanding of the position of Muslims in the global context; To Critically evaluate the identity of the Muslims in the Globalized World in its integration and contribution; To examine and criticise various forms of expression and articulation of Islam in its relevance in the development of society; To review the relation and significance of the discourse and practice of Islam in combating radicalism; To understand and map the danger of environmental degradation as well as further align and promote on conserving the environment; To explore and seek the reinterpretation of Gender Role in the light of Quranic Interpretation in the field of mathematics, science education and environment studies.
Download or read book This Chair Rocks written by Ashton Applewhite and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author, activist, and TED speaker Ashton Applewhite has written a rousing manifesto calling for an end to discrimination and prejudice on the basis of age. In our youth obsessed culture, we’re bombarded by media images and messages about the despairs and declines of our later years. Beauty and pharmaceutical companies work overtime to convince people to purchase products that will retain their youthful appearance and vitality. Wrinkles are embarrassing. Gray hair should be colored and bald heads covered with implants. Older minds and bodies are too frail to keep up with the pace of the modern working world and olders should just step aside for the new generation. Ashton Applewhite once held these beliefs too until she realized where this prejudice comes from and the damage it does. Lively, funny, and deeply researched, This Chair Rocks traces her journey from apprehensive boomer to pro-aging radical, and in the process debunks myth after myth about late life. Explaining the roots of ageism in history and how it divides and debases, Applewhite examines how ageist stereotypes cripple the way our brains and bodies function, looks at ageism in the workplace and the bedroom, exposes the cost of the all-American myth of independence, critiques the portrayal of elders as burdens to society, describes what an all-age-friendly world would look like, and offers a rousing call to action. It’s time to create a world of age equality by making discrimination on the basis of age as unacceptable as any other kind of bias. Whether you’re older or hoping to get there, this book will shake you by the shoulders, cheer you up, make you mad, and change the way you see the rest of your life. Age pride! “Wow. This book totally rocks. It arrived on a day when I was in deep confusion and sadness about my age. Everything about it, from my invisibility to my neck. Within four or five wise, passionate pages, I had found insight, illumination, and inspiration. I never use the word empower, but this book has empowered me.” —Anne Lamott, New York Times bestselling author
Download or read book The True Life Stories of the Most Notorious Pirates Vol 1 2 written by Captain Charles Johnson and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-25 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Charles Johnson's 'The True Life Stories of the Most Notorious Pirates (Vol. 1&2)' is a vivid and detailed account of the lives of infamous pirates during the Golden Age of Piracy. Written in a captivating and thrilling narrative style, Johnson brings to life the daring adventures, betrayals, and treacheries of these ruthless buccaneers. Drawing from historical records and first-hand accounts, Johnson provides readers with an authentic glimpse into the high seas escapades of pirates such as Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, and Black Bart. The book is a valuable resource for scholars and history enthusiasts interested in the pirate lore of the 18th century. The elaborate descriptions of pirate ships, rituals, and battles immerse the reader in the brutal world of piracy, shedding light on the motivations and complexities of these outlaws. Captain Charles Johnson, believed to be a pseudonym for an unknown author, is said to have been a mariner or sailor with firsthand knowledge of the pirate lifestyle. His mysterious background adds an air of authenticity to his accounts, making 'The True Life Stories of the Most Notorious Pirates' a compelling read for those fascinated by maritime history and adventure tales. Johnson's meticulous research and compelling storytelling make this book a must-read for anyone intrigued by the enigmatic world of pirates and privateers. I highly recommend 'The True Life Stories of the Most Notorious Pirates' to readers seeking an exhilarating and informative journey into the hidden world of piracy and the captivating characters who filled the seas with danger and intrigue.
Download or read book The Human Meaning written by Valentin Matcas and published by Valentin Leonard Matcas. This book was released on with total page 107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love and the Divine are the best meanings there can be, just because love stands at the top of your feelings and you treasure the most, while the Divine is everything that exists. You cannot find anything beyond love and the Divine capable enough to set your meaning in life and in this world, simply because there is nothing else beyond them. However, there is significantly more to learn and understand about the human meaning, just because, as it is presented in this world today through science, literature, philosophy, and through the rest of ideologies, it is not enough. You fail to understand the human meaning, and this causes you to fail your own meaning in life and in this world, at least your natural meaning, as you receive it from Life and from the Divine. Because the concept of meaning is presented to you empirically today, you cannot understand it accurately in this manner but only through doctrine and beliefs, you can never engage your reasoning in this manner in order to grasp accurately your own natural meaning, your natural meaning is easily hijacked, and everything is done on purpose, to harm and exploit you. In this manner, you end up fulfilling consensually implemented meanings throughout life, on behalf of the rich and the powerful of this world, since they are the ones controlling ideologies and therefore consensual meanings in this world. Not much that you do now counts for Life and for the Divine, despite of what ideologies tell and promise, and when you look back, now you may see the kind of world that you create. And do not blame the rich and the powerful of this world, since you are the one doing everything, for them. Many times, it is for your children that you struggle throughout life, to make them happy, to make them worthy, and to make everything count, because this is exactly your meaning in your family. Yet can’t it be the same in your community and in society? Does it ever make a difference to have or not to have a specifically defined meaning in life and in this world? Yes, it certainly makes a difference, because all meanings count, even the slightest ones, since they are connected. And it is always a matter of identifying your meanings instead of fulfilling them unknowingly, otherwise you end up working your entire life in vain. While through your consensually induced meanings, you end up working against the meanings of others, deliberately or not, living your life against your loved ones. While they can certainly feel, and this ruins entire relationships. This is your consensual meaning in your family, in society, in life, and in this world. And so you end up living your life against yourself, against your own natural meaning. Throughout this book, we follow, identify, define, understand, and model the human meaning, genuine and consensual, from all perspectives and in all contexts. You learn about your meaning in life, in this world, in society, within your family and genetic line, within you own cognitive system, within higher worlds, and within everything that exists.
Download or read book Man Proposes God Disposes written by Pierre Maturié and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crystal clear evocation of another time and place and a compelling meditation on hope and loss
Download or read book Inspired Lives written by Clea McDougall and published by timeless books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a collection of articles, photography, and illustrations by some of the most innovative thinkers writing about yoga, inspired living and the places where the two meet. Some books on yoga will teach you a posture, how to hold a pose. Through compelling exposition, artful photography and delightful illustrations, Inspired Lives teaches how people think expansively to bring yoga to their lives. The best from the Utne Award winning, Ascent Magazine, Inspired Lives presents dynamic stories in heartfelt prose that distills the essential teachings of yoga into the art of living life.
Download or read book The Lives and Characters of the Most Eminent Writers of the Scots Nation written by George Mackenzie and published by . This book was released on 1722 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lost Among the Living written by Simone St. James and published by Berkley. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes discussion questions and excerpt from The broken girls (pages 325-337).
