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Book Healersand Heroes

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thea Marshall
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1945-01-25
  • ISBN : 9780960057511
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book Healersand Heroes written by Thea Marshall and published by . This book was released on 1945-01-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Battle of the Bulge "...was the largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in World War II and the second deadliest battle in American history..." (Wikipedia)Healers and Heroes is the riveting day-by-day account of the movements and actions of 22 men from the 26th (Yankee) Division rifle battalion aid station, from its landing on the French coast of Normandy in September 1944, through heavy combat in Lorraine, Eastern France, to its ultimate test in the Battle of the Bulge across the Ardenne during the winter of 1944-1945, followed by the final breakthrough into Germany and the end of World War II in Europe. The main narrator, Lt. Robert Marshall, was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry for his actions on January 9th, 1945 near North Nothum, Luxemburg. Following Marshall's wounding and evacuation, this narrative was completed by SSGT Walter German.

Book The Healer

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  • Author : Allison Butler
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
  • Release : 2014-10-01
  • ISBN : 0857991914
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book The Healer written by Allison Butler and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Englishwoman, a Scottish laird ... a love that will surpass all borders. A sumptuous romance in the spirit of Diana Gabaldon and Darry Fraser. 1402, the Anglo-Scottish border. Lynelle Fenwick is the daughter of an English lord, but was deemed cursed when her mother didn't survive childbirth and has been an outcast all her life. Raised by the village healer, who has since died, Lynelle truly is alone. When her younger half-brother is captured during a Scottish raid, she sees a last chance to redeem herself to the father who rejected her, and offers to be held captive in his place. Across the turbulent border, Lynelle strikes a bargain with William Kirkpatrick, laird of Closeburn. She will spend two weeks inside the clan's castle tending William's younger brother who is in need of a healer's care. The laird has his own family curse to deal with, along with a deep distrust of healers - and Lynelle has exaggerated her healing skills to obtain her half-brother's freedom. Despite their differences, William and Lynelle are drawn to each other ... then an unexpected foe threatens to divide them forever ... Enemies by birth and circumstance, they can only succeed together.

Book Black Heroes

Download or read book Black Heroes written by Jessie Carney Smith and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available for the first time in paperback, "Black Heroes" is a "who's who" of 150 individuals who have made a lasting and profound impact on our culture, from W.E.B. Du Bois to Colin Powell, from Rosa Parks to Maya Angelou. 215 photos.

Book Heroic Measures

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  • Author : Jennifer Kosak
  • Publisher : BRILL
  • Release : 2018-07-17
  • ISBN : 9047405951
  • Pages : 239 pages

Download or read book Heroic Measures written by Jennifer Kosak and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates the importance of Greek medical thought in the work of Euripides. The first part of the book argues for the significance of the healing figure in Euripidean drama, while the second part analyzes the role of traditional and rationalist healing strategies in the construction of Euripidean plots and arguments. The work will be of interest to those pursuing studies in Greek drama, Greek intellectual history and Greek medicine.

Book Jesus  the Best Capernaum Folk Healer

Download or read book Jesus the Best Capernaum Folk Healer written by Zorodzai Dube and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book takes the established fields of orality, performance, and first-century Christian healthcare studies further by combining analogues of praise performances to Apollo, Asclepius, and those from the Dondo people of South Eastern Zimbabwe to propose that Jesus’s healing stories in Mark’s Gospel are praise-giving narratives to Jesus as the best folk healer within the region of Capernaum. The book argues that the memory of Jesus as the folk healer from Capernaum survived and possibly functioned in similar contexts of praise-giving within early Christian households. The book goes through each healing story in Mark’s Gospel and imaginatively listens to it through the ears of analogue from praise-giving given to Greek healers/heroes and similar practices among the Dondo people. The power, completeness, and effectiveness in which Jesus healed each of the mentioned conditions provoke praise-giving from the listeners to the best folk healer in the village. In each instance, while Mark is calling for attention to the new healer, more so, he is raving praise-giving.

Book Saving Lives

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  • Author : Sandy Summers
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 2015
  • ISBN : 0199337063
  • Pages : 457 pages

Download or read book Saving Lives written by Sandy Summers and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fully updated and expanded edition of Saving Lives highlights the essential roles nurses play in contemporary health care and how this role is marginalized by contemporary culture. Through engaging prose and examples drawn from television, advertising, and news coverage, the authors detail the media's role in reinforcing stereotypes that fuel the nursing shortage and devalue a highly educated sector of the contemporary workforce. Perhaps most important, the authors provide a wealth of ideas to help reinvigorate the nursing field and correct this imbalance.

Book Healers and Hellraisers

Download or read book Healers and Hellraisers written by Eileen Welsome and published by . This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Milton H  Erickson  MD  An American Healer

Download or read book Milton H Erickson MD An American Healer written by Betty Alice Erickson and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Milton H Erickson is one of the most studied people in the field of hypnosis and psychotherapy. Hundreds of thousands of words have been written analyzing his therapeutic methods and words with miles and miles of film, audio and videotapes. In Milton H Erickson MD: An American Healer read about the man Milton H Erickson, rather than his psychotherapeutic techniques. Told from the perspective of three of his children, this book uniquely explores the personal side of this world-famous psychiatrist. It is a remarkable spiritual journey. As a part of his life-long struggle to overcome the physical effects of polio, Erickson acquired prodigious observational and interactional skills, as well as a powerfully calm healing presence. With photographs, stories and a DVD of one of his clinical sessions, this book brings to light the quiet spirituality of an extraordinary healer.

Book Women Healers and Physicians

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  • Author : Lilian R. Furst
  • Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
  • Release : 2021-12-15
  • ISBN : 0813181666
  • Pages : 371 pages

Download or read book Women Healers and Physicians written by Lilian R. Furst and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women have traditionally been expected to tend the sick as part of their domestic duties; yet throughout history they have faced an uphill struggle to be accepted as healers outside the household. In this provocative anthology, twelve essays by historians and literary scholars explore the work of women as healers and physicians. The essays range across centuries, nations, and cultures to focus on the ideological and practical obstacles women have faced in the world of medicine. Each examines the situation of women healers in a particular time and place through cases that are emblematic of larger issues and controversies in that period. The stories presented here are typical of different but parallel facets of women's history in medicine. The first six concern the controversial relationship between magic and medicine and the perception that women healers can harm or enchant as well as cure. Women frequently were banished to the edges of medical practice because their spiritualism or unorthodoxy was considered a threat to conventional medicine. These chapters focus mainly on the Middle Ages and the Renaissance but also provide continuity to women healers in African American culture of our own time. The second six essays trace women healers' efforts to seek professional standing, first in fifth-century Greece and Rome and later, on a global scale, in the mid-nineteenth century. In addition to actual case studies from Germany, Russia, England, and Australia, these essays consider treatments of women doctors in American fiction and in the writings of Virginia Woolf. Women Healers and Physicians complements existing histories of women in medicine by drawing on varied historical and literary sources, filling gaps in our understanding of women healers and nulling social attitudes about them. Although the contributions differ dramatically, all retain a common focus and create a unique comparative picture of women's struggles to climb the long hill to acceptance in the medical profession.

Book The Black Gryphon

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mercedes Lackey
  • Publisher : Astra Publishing House
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 1101127295
  • Pages : 349 pages

Download or read book The Black Gryphon written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in Mercedes Lackey's classic Mage Wars trilogy featuring the gryphons, set in the beloved fantasy world of Valdemar It is an age when Valdemar is yet unfounded, its organization of Heralds yet unformed, and magic is still a wild and uncontrolled force. Skandranon Rashkae is perhaps the finest specimen of his race, with gleaming ebony feathers, majestic wingspan, keen magesight, and sharp intelligence. Courageous, bold, and crafty, Skan is everything a gryphon should be. He is the fulfillment of everything that the Mage of Silence, the human sorcerer called Urtho, intended to achieve when he created these magical beings to be his champions, the defenders of his realm—a verdant plain long coveted by the evil mage Maar. Now Maar is once again advancing on Urtho's Keep, this time with a huge force spearheaded by magical constructs of his own—cruel birds of prey ready to perform any evil their creator may demand of them. And when one of Urtho's Seers wakes from a horrifying vision in which she sees a devastating magical weapon being placed in the hands of Maar's common soldiers, Skandrannon is sent to spy across enemy lines, cloaked in the protective of Urtho's powerful Spell of Silence.

Book The Wounded Healer

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  • Author : Henri J. M. Nouwen
  • Publisher : Image
  • Release : 1979-02-02
  • ISBN : 0385148038
  • Pages : 145 pages

Download or read book The Wounded Healer written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Image. This book was released on 1979-02-02 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radically fresh interpretation of how we can best serve others from the bestselling author of The Return of the Prodigal Son, hailed as “one of the world’s greatest spiritual writers” by Christianity Today “In our own woundedness, we can become a source of life for others.” In this hope-filled and profoundly simple book, Henri Nouwen inspires devoted men and women who want to be of service in their church or community but who have found traditional outreach alienating and ineffective. Weaving keen cultural analysis with his psychological and religious insights, Nouwen presents a balanced and creative theology of service that begins with the realization of fundamental woundedness in human nature. According to Nouwen, ministers are called to identify the suffering in their own hearts and make that recognition the starting point of their service. Ministers must be willing to go beyond their professional, somewhat aloof roles and leave themselves open as fellow human beings with the same wounds and suffering as those they serve. In other words, we heal from our wounds. The Wounded Healer is a thoughtful and insightful guide that will be welcomed by anyone engaged in the service of others.

Book Healers and Healing in Early Modern Italy

Download or read book Healers and Healing in Early Modern Italy written by David Gentilcore and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did people of the past explain and deal with illness? This pioneering new book explores the wide range of healers and forms of healing in the southern half of the Italian peninsula that was the kingdom of Naples between 1600 and 1800. Drawing on numerous sources, the book uncovers religious and popular ideas about disease and its causation and cures--and uncovers new territory in the history of medicine.

Book Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment

Download or read book Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment written by Günter Wallner and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-07-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last decade has witnessed the rise of big data in game development as the increasing proliferation of Internet-enabled gaming devices has made it easier than ever before to collect large amounts of player-related data. At the same time, the emergence of new business models and the diversification of the player base have exposed a broader potential audience, which attaches great importance to being able to tailor game experiences to a wide range of preferences and skill levels. This, in turn, has led to a growing interest in data mining techniques, as they offer new opportunities for deriving actionable insights to inform game design, to ensure customer satisfaction, to maximize revenues, and to drive technical innovation. By now, data mining and analytics have become vital components of game development. The amount of work being done in this area nowadays makes this an ideal time to put together a book on this subject. Data Analytics Applications in Gaming and Entertainment seeks to provide a cross section of current data analytics applications in game production. It is intended as a companion for practitioners, academic researchers, and students seeking knowledge on the latest practices in game data mining. The chapters have been chosen in such a way as to cover a wide range of topics and to provide readers with a glimpse at the variety of applications of data mining in gaming. A total of 25 authors from industry and academia have contributed 12 chapters covering topics such as player profiling, approaches for analyzing player communities and their social structures, matchmaking, churn prediction and customer lifetime value estimation, communication of analytical results, and visual approaches to game analytics. This book’s perspectives and concepts will spark heightened interest in game analytics and foment innovative ideas that will advance the exciting field of online gaming and entertainment.

Book Healers and Achievers

Download or read book Healers and Achievers written by Raphael S. Bloch, M.D. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2012-05-31 with total page 791 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Summary of Healers and Achievers (ID No. 110473) by Raphael S. Bloch, M.D. It is not widely known that throughout history physicians have contributed more than just medical care to civilization. Healers and Achievers is a series of biographies of doctors from ancient Egypt to the twenty-first century who distinguished themselves with lasting non-medical accomplishments. They include the architect of the first Egyptian pyramid, a pope, the "Fathers" of astronomy, geology, magnetism, and taxonomy, American Founding Fathers, French Revolutionaries, a buccaneer, world-class athletes, a spy, and an astronaut. Their life stories are told in the context of the eras in which they lived, and their fields of medical and non-medical expertise are explained in terms comprehensible to both laymen and physicians.

Book Overcoming the Power of Difficult and Dangerous People

Download or read book Overcoming the Power of Difficult and Dangerous People written by Shirley Hancen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-07-03 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Men are not disturbed by things that happen, but by their opinions of the things that happen. Epictetus Blessed is the man who fi nds wisdom, the man who gains understanding for she (wisdom) is more profi table than silver or gold. She (wisdom) is more precious than rubies nothing you desire can compare with her her ways are pleasant ways and all her paths are peace. Proverbs, Chapter 3

Book Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership

Download or read book Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership written by Scott T. Allison and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 782 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past decade, research and theory on heroism and heroic leadership has greatly expanded, providing new insights on heroic behavior. The Handbook of Heroism and Heroic Leadership brings together new scholarship in this burgeoning field to build an important foundation for further multidisciplinary developments. In its three parts, "Origins of Heroism," "Types of Heroism," and "Processes of Heroism," distinguished social scientists and researchers explore topics such as morality, resilience, courage, empathy, meaning, altruism, spirituality, and transformation. This handbook provides a much-needed consolidation and synthesis for heroism and heroic leadership scholars and graduate students.

Book Swimming with Elephants

Download or read book Swimming with Elephants written by Sarah Bamford Seidelmann and published by Conari Press. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two decades in the study and practice of medicine, Sarah Seidelmann took a three month sabbatical to search for a way to feel good again. Having witnessed human suffering early in her career and within her own family, she longed for a way to address more than just the physical needs of her patients and to live in a lighter, more conscious way. Swimming with Elephants tells the eccentric, sometimes poignant, and occasionally hilarious experience of a working mother undergoing a bewildering vocational shift from physician to shamanic healer. During that tumultuous period of answering her call, Sarah met an elephant who would become an important spirit companion on her journey, had bones thrown for her by a shaman in South Africa, and traveled to India for an ancient Hindu pilgrimage, where she received the blessing she had been longing for. Ultimately, she discovered an entirely different way of healing, one that she had always aspired to, and that enabled her to help those who are suffering.