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Book Living with Enza

    Book Details:
  • Author : M. Honigsbaum
  • Publisher : Springer
  • Release : 2016-10-18
  • ISBN : 0230239218
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book Living with Enza written by M. Honigsbaum and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Never since the Black Death has such a plague swept over the face of the world,' commented the Times , '[and] never, perhaps, has a plague been more stoically accepted.' When the Great Influenza pandemic finally ended, in April 1919, 228,000 people in Britian alone were dead. This book tells the story of the Great Influenza pandemic.

Book Living an Abundant Life

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sandy Forster
  • Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 1614484066
  • Pages : 214 pages

Download or read book Living an Abundant Life written by Sandy Forster and published by Morgan James Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get inspired to unleash your full potential and enjoy a life of wealth and abundance with this story collection from the creator of WildWealthy.com. Have you been searching for ways to live a truly fulfilling life? Do you want more happiness, wealth, good health and joy? If you’ve answered yes to these questions, then Living an Abundant Life will provide you with the answers you seek to living a truly amazing life! In this book you will learn some of the best kept secrets on how to enrich your life beyond your wildest dreams from some of the greatest international leaders and teachers in today’s world, including Neale Donald Walsch, Jack Canfield and Mark Victor Hansen. Inside you will discover. . . . Why your attitude is the essence of your ultimate success Stop sabotaging yourself and get what you desire How to transform your life despite your current circumstances How to find your own definition of abundance even through adversity And more! If you want more out of life, love, and the world around you, then Living an Abundant Life is the life guide you’ve been waiting for.

Book A Bird Named Enza

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dawn C. Meier
  • Publisher : Booklocker.com
  • Release : 2003-07
  • ISBN : 9781591133650
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book A Bird Named Enza written by Dawn C. Meier and published by Booklocker.com. This book was released on 2003-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a story based on the Influenza of 1918. It is written from the perspective of one man and his inability to save his family and town from this deadly disease. To this day, the influenza of 1918 remains a mystery. It spread with alarming speed across the country and, after it ran its deadly course, the pandemic had taken more than 600,000 lives in America, 40 million worldwide.

Book Viral Modernism

    Book Details:
  • Author : Elizabeth Outka
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2019-10-22
  • ISBN : 0231546319
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book Viral Modernism written by Elizabeth Outka and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-22 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The influenza pandemic of 1918–1919 took the lives of between 50 and 100 million people worldwide, and the United States suffered more casualties than in all the wars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries combined. Yet despite these catastrophic death tolls, the pandemic faded from historical and cultural memory in the United States and throughout Europe, overshadowed by World War One and the turmoil of the interwar period. In Viral Modernism, Elizabeth Outka reveals the literary and cultural impact of one of the deadliest plagues in history, bringing to light how it shaped canonical works of fiction and poetry. Outka shows how and why the contours of modernism shift when we account for the pandemic’s hidden but widespread presence. She investigates the miasmic manifestations of the pandemic and its spectral dead in interwar Anglo-American literature, uncovering the traces of an outbreak that brought a nonhuman, invisible horror into every community. Viral Modernism examines how literature and culture represented the virus’s deathly fecundity, as writers wrestled with the scope of mass death in the domestic sphere amid fears of wider social collapse. Outka analyzes overt treatments of the pandemic by authors like Katherine Anne Porter and Thomas Wolfe and its subtle presence in works by Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, and W. B. Yeats. She uncovers links to the disease in popular culture, from early zombie resurrection to the resurgence of spiritualism. Viral Modernism brings the pandemic to the center of the era, revealing a vast tragedy that has hidden in plain sight.

Book Envisioning Disease  Gender  and War

Download or read book Envisioning Disease Gender and War written by J. Fisher and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This critical study illuminates the neglected intersection of war, disease, and gender as represented in an important subgenre of World War I literature. It calls into question public versus private perceptions of time, mass media, urban spaces, emotion, and the increasingly uncertain status of the future.

Book Instant Presence

Download or read book Instant Presence written by Enza Vita and published by Watkins Media Limited. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note this is an updated edition of Enza Vita's Always Already Free which was published in 2015. This book is a practical guide to accessing an awakened state, offering a spiritual practice, "Instant Presence", that is based on Enza Vita's own profound encounter with enlightenment. She gets to the heart of what is wrong with so much of our spiritual strivings: if a practice is bound to a goal then that is an obstacle, because in reality there is no goal to be achieved. What we are looking for is here now and has always been. Using a helpful question-and-answer format that highlights ways of embracing her "no-practice practice", Enza guides readers in searching for the individual "I" and realizing that this "I" does not exist. She explains the meaning of real meditation, which lies in letting go of control rather than in seeking to control the experience, and offers "presence pause" exercises and many hints and tips for letting your thoughts be and accessing true awareness. Her book shows that sudden awakening is an ever-present possibility, as well as revealing the power and seduction of our thoughts and emotions that keep us held in narrow self-definitions and create endless suffering. Enza seeks always to support readers' spiritual journey from their initial search through the integration of spiritual enlightenment into everyday life, showing that true awakening is not a faraway dream or mere intellectual knowledge but the direct realization of our true nature that is always available here and now. This brilliant contribution to our modern understanding of authentic identity and Presence brings us to a new awareness of ourselves and our innate wholeness and completeness." – Lama Surya Das, author of Awakening the Buddha Within. "This is a great contribution to our appreciation of the genuine voice of Pure Presence. It brings us to a deeper awareness of what it means to study the self and our intrinsic true nature as that which is already perfect, whole and complete. It is certainly worthy of your time and attention." – Zen Master Dennis Genpo Merzel, author of Big Mind, Big Heart.

Book Dying for the nation

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucy Noakes
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 2020-02-05
  • ISBN : 1526135663
  • Pages : 269 pages

Download or read book Dying for the nation written by Lucy Noakes and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2020-02-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death in war matters. It matters to the individual, threatened with their own death, or the death of loved ones. It matters to groups and communities who have to find ways to manage death, to support the bereaved and to dispose of bodies amidst the confusion of conflict. It matters to the state, which has to find ways of coping with mass death that convey a sense of gratitude and respect for the sacrifice of both the victims of war, and those that mourn in their wake. This social and cultural history of Britain in the Second World War places death at the heart of our understanding of the British experience of conflict. Drawing on a range of material, Dying for the nation demonstrates just how much death matters in wartime and examines the experience, management and memory of death. The book will appeal to anyone with an interest in the social and cultural history of Britain in the Second World War.

Book No Man s Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wendy Moore
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2020-04-28
  • ISBN : 1541672739
  • Pages : 368 pages

Download or read book No Man s Land written by Wendy Moore and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war and the Spanish flu, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments. In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of global war and pandemic when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.

Book Very  Very  Very Dreadful

Download or read book Very Very Very Dreadful written by Albert Marrin and published by Knopf Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2018-01-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From National Book Award finalist Albert Marrin comes a fascinating look at the history and science of the deadly 1918 flu pandemic--and its chilling and timely resemblance to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. In spring of 1918, World War I was underway, and troops at Fort Riley, Kansas, found themselves felled by influenza. By the summer of 1918, the second wave struck as a highly contagious and lethal epidemic and within weeks exploded into a pandemic, an illness that travels rapidly from one continent to another. It would impact the course of the war, and kill many millions more soldiers than warfare itself. Of all diseases, the 1918 flu was by far the worst that has ever afflicted humankind; not even the Black Death of the Middle Ages comes close in terms of the number of lives it took. No war, no natural disaster, no famine has claimed so many. In the space of eighteen months in 1918-1919, about 500 million people--one-third of the global population at the time--came down with influenza. The exact total of lives lost will never be known, but the best estimate is between 50 and 100 million. In this powerful book, filled with black and white photographs, nonfiction master Albert Marrin examines the history, science, and impact of this great scourge--and the possibility for another worldwide pandemic today. A Chicago Public Library Best Book of the Year!

Book And in Flew Enza

    Book Details:
  • Author : Sherri Fuchs
  • Publisher : Publishamerica Incorporated
  • Release : 2004-01
  • ISBN : 9781413705164
  • Pages : 138 pages

Download or read book And in Flew Enza written by Sherri Fuchs and published by Publishamerica Incorporated. This book was released on 2004-01 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alice is growing up in Cincinnati during World War I. Her life is turned upside-down when her favorite older brother enlists in the army. SheA[a¬a[s left at home with a perfect older sister who doesnA[a¬a[t understand her and a tidy, tattling younger brother whom Alice always has to take care of. At least Alice has her best friend Alex living next door. Little does she know that she will soon be fighting a war of her ownA[a¬anot against the Germans in Europe, but against a deadly disease which invades her city, the United States, and the world. Will someone so young be able to make a difference against such a killer? Will this epidemic end before it has taken the people Alice loves, or Alice herself?

Book Pandemic Re Awakenings

    Book Details:
  • Author : Guy Beiner
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2021-11-16
  • ISBN : 0192657380
  • Pages : 240 pages

Download or read book Pandemic Re Awakenings written by Guy Beiner and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pandemic Re-Awakenings offers a multi-level and multi-faceted exploration of a century of remembering, forgetting, and rediscovering the influenza pandemic of 1918-1919, arguably the greatest catastrophe in human history. Twenty-three researchers present original perspectives by critically investigating the hitherto unexplored vicissitudes of memory in the interrelated spheres of personal, communal, medical, and cultural histories in different national and transnational settings across the globe. The volume reveals how, even though the Great Flu was overshadowed by the commemorative culture of the Great War, recollections of the pandemic persisted over time to re-emerge towards the centenary of the 'Spanish' Flu and burst into public consciousness following the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. The chapters chart historiographical neglect (while acknowledging the often-unnoticed dialogues between scientific and historical discourses), probe silences, and trace vestiges of social and cultural memories that long remained outside of what was considered collective memory.

Book Britain and World War One

Download or read book Britain and World War One written by Alan G. V. Simmonds and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The First World War appears as a fault line in Britain’s twentieth-century history. Between August 1914 and November 1918 the titanic struggle against Imperial Germany and her allies consumed more people, more money and more resources than any other conflict Britain had hitherto experienced. For the first time, it opened up a Home Front that stretched into all parts of the British polity, society and culture, touching the lives of every citizen regardless of age, gender and class. Even vegetables were grown in the gardens of Buckingham Palace. Britain and World War One throws attention on these civilians who fought the war on the Home Front. Harnessing recent scholarship, and drawing on original documents, oral testimony and historical texts, this book casts a fresh look over different aspects of British society during the four long years of war. It revisits the early war enthusiasm and the making of Kitchener’s new armies; the emotive debates over conscription; the relationships between politics, government and popular opinion; women working in wartime industries; the popular experience of war and the question of social change. The book also explores areas of wartime Britain overlooked by recent histories, including the impact of the war on rural society; the mobilization of industry, and the importance of technology, as well as exploring responses to air raids, food and housing shortages; the challenges to traditional social and sexual mores and wartime culture. Britain and World War One is an essential book for all students and interested lay readers of the First World War.

Book The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 1919

Download or read book The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918 1919 written by María Isabel Porras Gallo and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2014 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Spanish Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919 sheds new light on what the World Health Organization described as "the single most devastating infectious disease outbreak ever recorded" by situating the Iberian Peninsula as the key point of connection, both epidemiologically and discursively, between Europe and the Americas. The essays in this volume elucidate specific aspects of the pandemic that have received minimal attention until now, including social control, gender, class, religion, national identity, and military medicine's reactions to the pandemic and its relationship with civilian medicine, all in the context of World War I. As the authors point out, however, the experiences of 1918-19 remain persistently relevant to contemporary life, particularly in view of events such as the 2009 H1N1 swine flu pandemic. Contributors: Mercedes Pascual Artiaga, Catherine Belling, Josep Bernabeu-Mestre, Ryan A, Davis, Esteban Domingo, Magda Fahrni, Hernán Feldman, Pilar León-Sanz, Maria Luísa Lima, Maria deFátima Nunes, María-Isabel Porras-Gallo, Anny Jackeline Torres Silveira, José Manuel Sobral, Paulo Silveira e Sousa, Christiane Maria Cruz de Souza. María-Isabel Porras-Gallo is Professor of History of Science in the Medical Faculty of Ciudad Real at the University of Castile-La Mancha (Spain). She is the author of Un reto para la sociedad madrileña: la epidemia de gripe de 1918-1919 and co-editor of El drama de la polio. Un problema social y familiar en la España franquista. Ryan A. Davis is Assistant Professor in the Department of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures at Illinois State University. He is the author of The Spanish Flu: Narrative and Cultural Identity in Spain, 1918.

Book Always Already Free

    Book Details:
  • Author : Enza Vita
  • Publisher : Baraka Publishing (an imprint of InnerSelf Pty Ltd
  • Release : 2015-02
  • ISBN : 0994206615
  • Pages : 115 pages

Download or read book Always Already Free written by Enza Vita and published by Baraka Publishing (an imprint of InnerSelf Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2015-02 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This brilliant contribution to our modern understanding of authentic identity and Presence brings us to a new awareness of ourselves and our innate wholeness and completeness. Enza’s personal awakening story, in the first few pages, is worth the price of admission. Enlightened wisdom is like an endangered natural resource today, which we overlook at our peril; let’s join in exploring and developing our own innate transformational resources for a change.” — LAMA SURYA DAS, author of Awakening the Buddha Within “This is a great contribution to our appreciation of the genuine voice of Pure Presence. It brings us to a deeper awareness of what it means to study the self and our intrinsic true nature as that which is already perfect, whole and complete. It is certainly worthy of your time and attention. — ZEN MASTER D. GENPO MERZEL, author of Big Mind, Big Heart Based on Enza’s own experience, Always Already Free is a guide to discovering the deepest truth about who we are. In this book, the author: • Presents her own personal direct encounter with the awakened state. • Thoroughly addresses the ongoing debate between the necessity of spiritual practice and the ever-present possibility of sudden awakening, while at the same time offering detailed instructions for the practice “Instant Presence - Allowing Natural Meditation To Happen.” • Lays out what it means to consciously live and embody the truth of one’s being, the phenomenon of “finding and losing” oneself, and the power and seduction of our thoughts and emotions that keep us held in narrow self-definitions and create endless suffering. • Guides the reader from the seeking process through the integration of spiritual enlightenment into everyday life and reveals that enlightenment is not a faraway dream, intellectual knowledge or even an experience but the direct realization of our true nature always available here and now. “While it’s true that we are always the Self"– says Enza Vita “if this hasn’t been truly and directly realized, this knowledge won’t do us any good. Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate. Realization is not about you, the wave, realizing it is ocean. The ocean realizes itself in you and reveals itself to have never been just a wave.”

Book This Is My Life

Download or read book This Is My Life written by Pamela Tumeka Koyana-Letlaka and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-11-26 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is not about the political history of Apartheid South Africa; it is about an extraordinary South African woman?s life. It depicts where she was born, and chronicles her courageous journey into exile to Lesotho, Zambia, Zaire, and Britain, culminating with a diplomatic assignment in the United States of America. This is where the politics of the day intersects with personal lives, making us all more deeply appreciative of how profoundly the ?personal is political?.

Book The Shoemaker s Wife

    Book Details:
  • Author : Adriana Trigiani
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2012-05-24
  • ISBN : 1849834245
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book The Shoemaker s Wife written by Adriana Trigiani and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lives of two young Italian lovers, Enza Ravanelli, a practical girl born into poverty and Ciro Amadei, a dreamer raised in a convent orphanage, are woven together in this lush, epic novel set against the landscape of world events in the first half of the 20thcentury. The Shoemaker's Wifespans two world wars, immigration, the birth of American manufacturing, the rigors of assimilation and the perils of the Great Depression. Like the times they were born into, Enza and Ciro's story is filled with surprising twists and turns. Together, they embrace the promise of a new and better life as they attempt to survive by the labour of their own hands. But when Ciro is diagnosed with a deadly cancer from the bombs he endured in World War I, he returns home alone to Italy to say goodbye, and solve a final mystery about his family.

Book Insights in Biology

    Book Details:
  • Author : Education Development Center, Inc. Staff
  • Publisher : Kendall Hunt
  • Release : 1997-03
  • ISBN : 9780787222079
  • Pages : 196 pages

Download or read book Insights in Biology written by Education Development Center, Inc. Staff and published by Kendall Hunt. This book was released on 1997-03 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: