Download or read book It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks written by Catherine Lloyd Burns and published by North Point Press. This book was released on 2007-05-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a series of losses. I've decided to be very Zen about it. I have lost two husbands, my parents, my brother, countless friends; it is just one loss after another. You might as well get used to it." So muses the author's mother in this poignant and humorous memoir about mothers and daughters. Loss is a way of life for both Catherine and her mother. But where it made the daughter ravenous for contact, it made the mother lose her appetite for people. While the two always had a fierce attachment, by turns intimate and tumultuous, decades of fractious and contentious and frustrating interactions found a reprieve after the birth of Catherine's daughter, Olive. Witty and direct, weaving back and forth in time, the book charts the transformation of this volatile and unique mother-daughter relationship from longing to connection. A book about love, mortality, and the nature of family bonds, It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks is a must-read for anyone trying to navigate their way through the distance between their fantasies of love and the realities of family relationships.
Download or read book The Dimwit s Dictionary written by Robert Hartwell Fiske and published by Marion Street Press, Inc.. This book was released on 2002 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The perfect tool for writers who seek to eliminate stale, trite language. The entries in this reference are conveniently arranged to allow writers to quickly find the offending phrase and a sharp alternative.
Download or read book Study Guide to DSM IV TR written by Michael A. Fauman and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study Guide to DSM-IV-TR® demonstrates the fundamental features of DSM-IV-TR disorders through brief clinical vignettes, and questions and answers. These vignettes help beginning students and experienced clinicians visualize a disorder in the context of a multidimensional patient who is characterized by more than just the fulfillment of individual diagnostic criteria. Study Guide to DSM-IV-TR® • Describes common problems in diagnosis• Provides guidelines for resolving issues of diagnostic uncertainty• Summarizes the core concepts of the diagnostic group discussed in each chapter• Presents interesting case examples that provide "diagnostic prototypes" of the individual disorders included in DSM-IV-TR• Includes self-assessment questions that allow the reader to test their understanding of DSM-IV-TR Several new sections have been added • Boundary Between Normality and Abnormality• Dimensional vs. Categorical Classification Study Guide to DSM-IV-TR® is an indispensable companion designed to help students, residents, and clinicians conceptualize how DSM-IV-TR can be used in everyday practice.
Download or read book Orphan written by Roger Dean Kiser and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2001 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roger Dean Kiser, Sr., was raised by the Children's Home Society, a Florida orphanage, and then was passed on to the Florida School for Boys at Marianna. The dramatic true account of the abuse he suffered under the care of professionals will change how people view the juvenile justice system. His childhood was filled with a mixture of physical, mental, and sexual abuse that would have left a lesser man wishing for death, yet Kiser is grateful for simply being alive. This poignant moving story is true, sharp, and motivational and it will deeply affect the hearts and minds of all who read it. Chronicling his life through the eyes of the child he once was, Roger Dean Kiser takes readers on an unforgettable journey as he recounts his childhood with a wide-eyed innocence that illustrates the resiliency of the human spirit.
Download or read book My Own Country written by Abraham Verghese and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir and first book from the author of the beloved New York Times bestseller Cutting for Stone. Nestled in the Smoky Mountains of eastern Tennessee, the town of Johnson City had always seemed exempt from the anxieties of modern American life. But when the local hospital treated its first AIDS patient, a crisis that had once seemed an “urban problem” had arrived in the town to stay. Working in Johnson City was Abraham Verghese, a young Indian doctor specializing in infectious diseases. Dr. Verghese became by necessity the local AIDS expert, soon besieged by a shocking number of male and female patients whose stories came to occupy his mind, and even take over his life. Verghese brought a singular perspective to Johnson City: as a doctor unique in his abilities; as an outsider who could talk to people suspicious of local practitioners; above all, as a writer of grace and compassion who saw that what was happening in this conservative community was both a medical and a spiritual emergency. Out of his experience comes a startling but ultimately uplifting portrait of the American heartland as it confronts—and surmounts—its deepest prejudices and fears.
Download or read book Idioms in the News 1 000 Phrases Real Examples written by and published by Peter Bengelsdorf. This book was released on with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks written by Catherine Lloyd Burns and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2007-05 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is a series of losses. I've decided to be very Zen about it. I have lost two husbands, my parents, my brother, countless friends; it is just one loss after another. You might as well get used to it. So muses the author's mother in this poignant and humorous memoir about mothers and daughters. Loss is a way of life for both Catherine and her mother. But where it made the daughter ravenous for contact, it made the mother lose her appetite for people. While the two always had a fierce attachment, by turns intimate and tumultuous, decades of fractious and contentious and frustrating interactions found a reprieve after the birth of Catherine's daughter, Olive. Witty and direct, weaving back and forth in time, the book charts the transformation of this volatile and unique mother-daughter relationship from longing to connection. A book about love, mortality, and the nature of family bonds, It Hit Me Like a Ton of Bricks is a must-read for anyone trying to navigate their way through the distance between their fantasies of love and the realities of family relationships.
Download or read book Goodbye Fatty Hello Skinny written by Kim Rinehart and published by Artrum Media. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rinehart's memoir reveals how to lose weight by simply rearranging eating habits.
Download or read book Fatass No More written by Kim Rinehart and published by Artrum Media. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So, you want to lose weight? Well, so did Kim Rinehart. In fact, she wanted to lose it so badly, she went on diet after diet looking for something that would make her skinny again. However, none of them worked and what was worse, some of them even made her gain more weight! So, after being stymied by diets that required special foods or special preparation, she struck out on her own, devising her own plan to lose weight while still eating the foods she loved - even cheeseburgers and french fries. And it worked! What's even better is that it's so easy anyone can do it. Told with humor, Fatass No More! How I Ate Cheeseburgers and Fries and Still Lost Weight is a real person's story of weight loss which will show how you, too, can lose weight by simply rearranging your eating habits. This is not your ordinary weight loss book. This one actually works. This newly reissued, updated edition contains a bonus chapter on how the author dealt with the problem of baby weight.
Download or read book 101 Moments of Motherhood written by Regan Long and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2013-03-20 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a mother, what more do we want then to feel empowered, motivated and inspired? We want to learn from our own mistakes, as well as those of other experienced mothers. We want to be able to expand upon our strengths, and to have the opportunity to share the good, the bad, and the ugly with fellow women. This book is for every woman the young, the seasoned, and everyone in between. For each woman who has already been blessed with the gift of motherhood, for the mothers-to-be, for every woman who is considering becoming a mother. This book is a collection of 101 moments that will leave each reader feeling moved, feeling touched, feeling inspired, but most of all, feeling compelled to read these stories again and again. 101 Moments of Motherhood is set up in an ideal way to pick up the book and open to any page to receive some type of emotional or inspirational discovery. But most of all, you will be reminded that we are not on this intimidating yet exhilarating, exhausting yet rejuvenating, absolutely incredible journey alone.
Download or read book No Apologies Given written by Michael Purcell and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-04-29 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book of poetry is the work of about fifteen years time. The early poems were attempts to make commentaries on society as I saw it. The influence came from my upbringing and the adventures and work I did up until I started writing. There were long periods of no creative activity but during manic episodes of my bipolarism, I would write more than one poem. I continued to develop my craft and started to read my poems to small groups during poetry nights in the Albany area. I got to hear and meet other talented poets. Within the last two years my output has increased and enough poems were written to be put in this book. They are meant to be provocative, to make the reader think, to inspire, to call to action, and to spread the seeds of love. Share this experience with others.
Download or read book Surviving Emotional Work for Teachers written by Jean Hopman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-10-29 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surviving Emotional Work for Teachers is a guide to improving teachers’ wellbeing and practice through support of their emotional workload. The book argues that teachers should be given a formal opportunity to debrief on challenging events, allowing them to reflect on and reframe these experiences in a way that informs future practice to prevent the emotional fatigue that can lead teachers to leave the field altogether. Each chapter opens with a teacher’s story, acknowledging the emotional layers present in the scenario and what learnings can be drawn from it. Each of these stories features tension between what is expected of teachers, and how they are limited to act, which is further fuelled by underlying assumptions. This is valuable reading for teachers at all stages of their career, whether preparing for the complex work ahead or making sense of past and current experiences. This book offers a reflexive process that teachers and schools can implement to facilitate the useful exploration of their emotion. Such a process is vital for the overall wellbeing of any school.
Download or read book Thin Skins written by Campbell Mattinson and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2011-10-04 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Australian wine is in trouble: just as a growing number of connoisseurs scoff at its taste, the way its grown, and how its made, hundreds of the countrys small wineries are battling to survive. Thin Skins addresses the forces fighting Australian wine and harming its reputation. In witty, insightful writing thats a combination of P.J. ORourke and Oz Clarke, Campbell Mattison debunks the lies and showcases the people who are saving the industry by producing great wine. Anyone who enjoys drinking Australian wine, or cares about how it is farmed, will savor this entertaining, inspiring story.
Download or read book Why I Serve written by Cassandra Taylor and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2023-01-18 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My goal for this book was to highlight fifty women veterans. But the outpouring response from the women warriors' willingness to share the reason behind their selfless service in the US Military was beyond what I could have ever imagined. These stories you are about to read will either make you laugh, cry, cheer, or get angry; they may even shock you! Just know that these women did what most women would not do, and that's serve their country. Women have been serving and loving America long before America loved her, but that never stopped the heart of a warrior.With over two million women that have served, past and present, what better way to show them homage than this? Storytelling is the best form of historical documentation, and these stories need to be told. Here is a small yet powerful introduction to sixty-eight of America's most brave and beautiful women telling their story Why I Served.
Download or read book The Longest War written by M. Stefan Strozier and published by World Audience Inc. This book was released on 2017-03-12 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories from the Afghanistan War and other wars, veterans are welcome to contribute their stories to this ongoing project.
Download or read book A Stroll at Leisure with God written by John D. Talbert and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-07-12 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The word "cancer" is frightening. What happens when a doctor tells you that you have cancer? How do you deal with that? What goes on in the immediate aftermath of that diagnosis? What is chemotherapy like? How will you feel? These are only a few of the questions that proliferate when we face any uncertain turn in the road of life. A Stroll at Leisure with God is a unique perspective of how to walk with the Lord through any crisis or lifes daily challenges. Through it all, whatever comes our way, we can learn what it truly means to have faith, even in times of crisis.
Download or read book Off the Furrow written by Mark Lages and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2021-05-16 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Howard Mirth is a sixty-five-year-old son, husband, and father. He earns a decent living, pays his taxes, loves his family, and stays out of trouble. But one day he snaps, and he finds himself locked up in a mental hospital. Join Howard as he sorts through his confusing life and finds his way back to the real world.
