Download or read book Eating Glass written by Mark D. Jacobsen and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as we celebrate what we have achieved, applaud ourselves for daring greatly, and shrug off failure, we are dying inside. Because, nobody has really, honestly told us what failure feels like, and the truth is, it is terrifying and it is lonely and it hurts like hell. "Fail fast, fail often, fail forward" We live in an age that acknowledges the importance of failure and resilience to success. Yet, in our rush to bounce back from setbacks, we often miss that the journey through failure and renewal can be a difficult one that plays out over months or years. In this moving memoir, Air Force officer and entrepreneur Mark D. Jacobsen tells the story of his ambitious moonshot effort to use emerging drone technology to break sieges and deliver humanitarian aid in war-torn Syria. Even as his small volunteer team achieved breakthrough successes, cascading challenges brought down the effort and took Mark past the limits of his strength. In the two years that followed, amidst a grueling PhD program and a difficult faith transition, Mark learned to walk failure's path and find new life on the other side. Eating Glass is a compassionate and profound guide that will speak to any dreamer or achiever who is navigating the aftermath of a failure experience. It provides steady assurance that we are never alone in our journeys and that our seasons of failure are fertile times in which we grow.
Download or read book Smoking Cigarettes Eating Glass written by Annita Perez Sawyer and published by Santa Fe Writer's Project. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." —Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the PainA cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilienceSawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s.
Download or read book Secrets of the Sideshows written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Nickell - once a carnival pitchman, then a magician, private detective, and investigative writer - has pursued sideshow secrets for years and has worked the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition. For this book, he interviewed showmen and performers, collected carnival memorabilia, researched published accounts of sideshows and their lore, and even performed some classic sideshow feats, such as eating fire and lying on a bed of nails as a cinderblock was broken on his chest. The result of these varied efforts, Secrets of the Sideshows tells the captivating story of the magic, tricks - real or illusory - and performers of the world's midway shows."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Strange Deaths written by Val Stevenson and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book An account of the manners and customs of the modern Egyptians written by Edward William Lane and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Fond of Light from the Dark written by Josh Hill and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-05 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Chiang Mai Food Diaries and other tales written by Alex Gunn and published by Booksmango. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiang Mai is the most fascinating place on earth…and so is the food. Have you eaten a termite or met a Blacking Man? Have you seen the tree top spear fisherman, or tried to chew your way through a deep fried chicken head or a plateful of live shrimps? Have you ever wondered why there is a huge, stagnant, six mile and otherwise pointless canal running around the outer reaches of the south side of the city? This is a book about food, Chiang Mai, termites, sausages, ghosts, history, cooking, Islam, markets, death, noodles, forest fires, mushrooms and fish farming. (I think I’ve covered all bases). “Definitely on par with Bill Bryson but with more of a personal touch.” Alan, goodreads.com “Easily accessible, humorous and often embarrassingly honest.” Chiang Mai City Life “Love his books. Very funny, inspiring and interesting. Highly recommend to anyone.” Valerie, amazon.co.uk “Laugh out loud funny.” Sam, goodreads.com “He’s very, very funny and quirky and easy to read.” Ashley, amazon.com For more information about food and Chiang Mai visit the blog at: www.thelifechangepeople.com
Download or read book On Understanding Grammar written by Talmy Givón and published by Academic Press. This book was released on 2014-05-10 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On Understanding Grammar covers the interdependencies among the various aspects of linguistics and the human language. This eight-chapter text considers some pertinent topics in linguistics, such as discourse-pragmatics, diachronic syntax, topology, creology, method, and ontology. Chapter 1 describes the notions of fact, theory, and explanation, particularly about how these notions manifest themselves in actual practice. Chapter 2 redefines syntax in terms of communicative function and discourse-pragmatics, and about the relation between the function of grammatical devices and their formal properties. Chapter 3 deals with discourse-pragmatics and how it transcends the narrow bounds of deductive logic, as well as the function and ontology of negation in language, and how those relate to the fundamental information-theoretic principle of figure versus ground. Chapter 4 explores the two major aspects of case systems, namely, the semantic role and pragmatic function, and how the two interact in determining the typological characteristics of grammars. Chapter 5 examines the relation between discourse and syntax based on diachronic, ontogenetic, phylogenetic viewpoints. Chapter 6 tackles the relation between synchronic grammar and diachronic change, while Chapter 7 describes the relationship between human language and its phylogenetic evolution. Chapter 8 is about language and ontology, as well as the relation between cognition and the universe. This book will prove useful to linguistics and language researchers.
Download or read book Out There written by Henry Alford and published by AtRandom. This book was released on 2001-06-12 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join investigative humorist Henry Alford as he navigates the wild world of internet personalities — celebrating individuals ranging from the movie reviewer Filthy Critic to the cartoonist Angry Little Asian Girl; from online stack trader Tokyo Joe, who conducts much of his business in the nude, to a lovable Kansas contractor who critiques hardware and power tools and answers to the name Too Pig — in search of the one who warrants the distinction “funniest”.
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Download or read book Listverse com s Epic Book of Mind Boggling Top 10 Lists written by Jamie Frater and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of crazy-but-true facts, peculiar occurrences, despicable crimes, bizarre records, unbelievable creatures, and many more shocking oddities. Delving into the shocking side of pop culture, science and history, Listverse.com’s Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Top 10 Lists offers a wealth of fascinating reading with over 200 lists and more than 2,000 interesting facts, including: • Alien Artifacts • Creepy Urban Legends • Bizarre Murder Weapons • Horrific TV Accidents • Outrageous Rock Tales • Twisted Circus Acts • Terrifying Villains • Crazy-but-True Movie Plots • Dirty CIA Operations • Monstrously Evil Babysitters • Strange Hamburger Facts • Animal Freaks of Nature • Mind-Blowing Technologies
Download or read book An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians written by Edward William Lane and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perception. Yet the editions in print during most of the twentieth century would not have met Lane's approval. Lacking parts of Lane's text and many of his original illustrations (while adding many that were not his), they were based on what should have been ephemeral editions, published long after the author's death. Meanwhile, the definitive fifth edition of 1860, the result of a quarter century of Lane's corrections, reconsiderations, and additions, long ago disappeared from bookstore shelves. Now the 1860 edition of Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians is available again, with a useful general introduction by Jason Thompson. Lane's greatest work enters the twenty-first century in precisely the form that he wanted.
Download or read book The Collector of Leftover Souls written by Eliane Brum and published by Graywolf Press. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Longlisted for the National Book Award for Translated Literature Urgent investigative essays covering a wide range of humanity in Brazil, from the Amazon to the favelas Eliane Brum is a star journalist in Brazil, known for her polyphonic writing that gives voice to people often underrepresented in popular literature. Brum’s reporting takes her into Brazil’s most marginalized communities: she visits the Amazon to understand the practice of indigenous midwives, stays in São Paulo’s favelas to witness the joy of a marriage and the tragedy of young men dying due to drugs and guns, and wades through the mud to capture the boom and bust of modern-day gold rushes. Brum is an enormously sensitive and perceptive interlocutor, and as she visits these places she provides intimate glimpses into both everyday and extraordinary lives: a poor father on the way to bury his son, a street performer who eats glass, a woman living out her final 115 days, and a hoarder rescuing the “leftover souls” of the city. The Collector of Leftover Souls showcases the best of Brum’s work from two books, combining short profiles with longer reported pieces. These vibrant missives range across current issues such as the human cost of exploiting natural resources, the Belo Monté Dam’s eradication of a way of life for those on the banks of the Xingu River, and the contrast between urban centers and remote villages. Told in the vibrant and idiomatic language of the people Brum writes about, The Collector of Leftover Souls is a vital work of investigative journalism from an internationally acclaimed author.
Download or read book No More Idols written by Crystal Y. Holt and published by Author House. This book was released on 2011-01-21 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, as I looked through My rose-colored glasses at an image that appeared to reflect me I remember like it was yesterday, God spoke directly to me in a soft, gentle, audible and crystal clear voice and said It is not my will! NO MORE IDOLS! Written by Crystal Y. Holt LITTLE CHILDREN, KEEP YOURSELVES FROM IDOLS. AMEN. (1 JOHN 5:21). This word was quickened to my spirit in 1996, yet at that time I did not fully understand it. One might ask what exactly is an IDOL and how do you keep yourself from an IDOL? An IDOL is anything and everything you put before God! The rest is my story to tell
Download or read book The Revolt of the Oyster written by Don Marquis and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2023-09-11 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I hope I am not snobbish. Indeed, I think I have proved over and over again that I am not, by frankly confessing that I am an American. But at the same time I could not repress a little exclamation of pleasure at the fact that we were haunted by the ghost of a member of the English aristocracy. You may say what you will, but there is a certain something—a manner—an air—I scarcely know how to describe it, but it is there; it exists. In England, one meets it so often—I hope you take me...FROM THE BOOKS.
Download or read book 7 best short stories by Don Marquis written by Don Marquis and published by Tacet Books. This book was released on 2020-05-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The journalist and writer Don Marquis obtained recognition in life, one of the works of this collection (The Old Soak) being transformed into a play and later, a movie still in the silent movie era. The seven short stories selected here bring all the humor, satire and wit of this writer. Enjoy your reading!The Old SoakThe Revolt of the OysterThe Professor's AwakeningThe Saddest ManBehind the CurtainKaleToo American
