Download or read book Five Days at Memorial written by Sheri Fink and published by Crown. This book was released on 2016-01-26 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The award-winning book that inspired an Apple Original series from Apple TV+ • A landmark investigation of patient deaths at a New Orleans hospital ravaged by Hurricane Katrina—and the suspenseful portrayal of the quest for truth and justice—from a Pulitzer Prize–winning physician and reporter “An amazing tale, as inexorable as a Greek tragedy and as gripping as a whodunit.”—Dallas Morning News After Hurricane Katrina struck and power failed, amid rising floodwaters and heat, exhausted staff at Memorial Medical Center designated certain patients last for rescue. Months later, a doctor and two nurses were arrested and accused of injecting some of those patients with life-ending drugs. Five Days at Memorial, the culmination of six years of reporting by Pulitzer Prize winner Sheri Fink, unspools the mystery, bringing us inside a hospital fighting for its life and into the most charged questions in health care: which patients should be prioritized, and can health care professionals ever be excused for hastening death? Transforming our understanding of human nature in crisis, Five Days at Memorial exposes the hidden dilemmas of end-of-life care and reveals how ill-prepared we are for large-scale disasters—and how we can do better. ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times Book Review • ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Chicago Tribune, Seattle Times, Entertainment Weekly, Christian Science Monitor, Kansas City Star WINNER: National Book Critics Circle Award, J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize, PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award, Los Angeles Times Book Prize, Ridenhour Book Prize, American Medical Writers Association Medical Book Award, National Association of Science Writers Science in Society Award

Download or read book Memorials of the lineage early life education and development of the genius of James Watt By G Williamson Edited by J Williamson with plates and facsimiles With a autograph letter from the Hon C Grey written by Watt Club (GREENOCK) and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Boundaries written by Maya Lin and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-04-26 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned artist and architect Maya Lin's visual and verbal sketchbook—a unique view into her artwork and philosophy. Walking through this parklike area, the memorial appears as a rift in the earth -- a long, polished black stone wall, emerging from and receding into the earth. Approaching the memorial, the ground slopes gently downward, and the low walls emerging on either side, growing out of the earth, extend and converge at a point below and ahead. Walking into the grassy site contained by the walls of this memorial, we can barely make out the carved names upon the memorial's walls. These names, seemingly infinite in number, convey the sense of overwhelming numbers, while unifying these individuals into a whole.... So begins the competition entry submitted in 1981 by a Yale undergraduate for the design of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. -- subsequently called "as moving and awesome and popular a piece of memorial architecture as exists anywhere in the world." Its creator, Maya Lin, has been nothing less than world famous ever since. From the explicitly political to the un-ashamedly literary to the completely abstract, her simple and powerful sculpture -- the Rockefeller Foundation sculpture, the Southern Poverty Law Center Civil Rights Memorial, the Yale Women's Table, Wave Field -- her architecture, including The Museum for African Art and the Norton residence, and her protean design talents have defined her as one of the most gifted creative geniuses of the age. Boundaries is her first book: an eloquent visual/verbal sketchbook produced with the same inspiration and attention to detail as any of her other artworks. Like her environmental sculptures, it is a site, but one which exists at a remove so that it may comment on the personal and artistic elements that make up those works. In it, sketches, photographs, workbook entries, and original designs are held together by a deeply personal text. Boundaries is a powerful literary and visual statement by "a leading public artist" (Holland Carter). It is itself a unique work of art.

Download or read book The Lincoln Memorial American Life written by Christopher A. Thomas and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christopher Thomas offers the first detailed analysis of Bacon's design and the memorial as a system, including the statue of Lincoln by Daniel Chester French. Using extensive archival data, Thomas discusses just why the memorial looks as it does.".

Download or read book Memorials of the Life of Amelia Opie written by Amelia Opie and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of Amelia Opie with select quotations from her manuscript writings and correspondence. Preface by Thomas Brightwell, Opie's executor, notes that no autobiography was found among Opie's papers. It also mentions his daughter, Cecilia Brightwell was the main compiler and editor of this volume.

Download or read book Memorial Volume of the first Fifty Years of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions written by Rufus Anderson and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-05-15 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1862.

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Charles Sumner written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Life of William Ellery Channing D D the Centenary Memorial Edition written by William Ellery Channing and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-05-28 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1882.

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of J Jogan Chipman a Representative from Michigan written by United States. 53d Congress, 1st session and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Michael Hahn a Representative of Louisiana Delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate Forty ninth Congress First Session written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Andrew Johnson a Senator from Tennessee written by and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Forty Years at Raritan Eight Memorial Sermons written by Abraham Messler and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Nelson Dingley late a Representative from Maine written by United States. 59th Congress, 3d session and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Evarts W Farr a Representative from New Hampshire written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1881 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Thomas A Hendricks vice president of the United States written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Preston B Plumb a Senator from Kansas written by United States. 52d Cong., 1st sess., 1891-1892 and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Memorial Addresses on the Life and Character of Samuel Sullivan Cox written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: