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Book The Silent Escape

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lena Constante
  • Publisher : Univ of California Press
  • Release : 1995-04-07
  • ISBN : 9780520913554
  • Pages : 278 pages

Download or read book The Silent Escape written by Lena Constante and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1995-04-07 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 1992 Association des Ecrivains de Langue Française Prix Européen "I have lived, alone, in a cell, 157,852,800 seconds of solitude and fear. Cause for screaming! They sentence me to live yet another 220,838,400 seconds! To live them or to die from them."--from The Silent Escape Victim of Stalinist-era terror, Lena Constante was arrested on trumped-up charges of "espionage" and sentenced to twelve years in Romanian prisons. The Silent Escape is the extraordinary account of the first eight years of her incarceration--years of solitary confinement during which she was tortured, starved, and daily humiliated. The only woman to have endured isolation so long in Romanian jails, Constante is also one of the few women political prisoners to have written about her ordeal. Unlike other more political prison diaries, this book draws us into the practical and emotional experiences of everyday prison life. Candidly, eloquently, Constante describes the physical and psychological abuses that were the common lot of communist-state political prisoners. She also recounts the particular humiliations she suffered as a woman, including that of male guards watching her in the bathroom. Constante survived by escaping into her mind--and finally by discovering the "language of the walls," which enabled her to communicate with other female inmates. A powerful story of totalitarianism and human endurance, this work makes an important contribution to the literature of "prison notebooks."

Book The Shroud of Silence

    Book Details:
  • Author : Oskar Koplowitz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1953
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book The Shroud of Silence written by Oskar Koplowitz and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quest for Silence

Download or read book Quest for Silence written by Harry A. Wilmer and published by Daimon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What ever happened to silence? Actually nothing, and Harry Wilmer takes great pains to show how we have submerged it under a toxic barrage of noise. Using both clinical examples of the power of silence from his case histories, and cultural values of silence, he uncovers a astonishing theme in the Japanese idea of MA as silence. Wilmer points out how silence gives meaning to words, dreams, thought, action and music. From his long experience as a Jungian analyst, he weaves his ideas into an eminently practical treatise on the phenomenology of silence. With many references to literature as well as his personal life experiences and crises, he offers a readable and important new story of the universal and spiritual significance of silence in a world of jackhammer noise.

Book Shroud of Silence

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  • Author : Carol D. Slama
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 9780764220395
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book Shroud of Silence written by Carol D. Slama and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of Spencer Mitchell, Marissa Tomsen searches for her brother who disappeared after joining a secretive New Age group.

Book No Shroud of Silence

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  • Author : Sandi Keaton-Wilson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2018-09-25
  • ISBN : 9781945049125
  • Pages : 168 pages

Download or read book No Shroud of Silence written by Sandi Keaton-Wilson and published by . This book was released on 2018-09-25 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NO SHROUD OF SILENCE, a collection of literary poems and stories that span decades of life in southern Kentucky, speaks of family, place, grief, resilience, spirituality, and humor. In the title poem a woman declares her independence and refuses to bend to the wishes of others.ADVANCE PRAISE"In No Shroud of Silence, Keaton-Wilson unleashes not only her own story but also the stories of countless other Appalachian women into a psalm of hope that teaches us to hold hands across the centuries and embolden each other to sing out, to never again be stopped, so that our daughters and granddaughters will always know how loved and how lovely they are."-Rebecca Gayle Howell"[P]owerful¿her poems give voice to emotions most of us hold but cannot express. Her opening three-page comparison of Appalachia to a tall, raw-boned woman of indefinite years is worth the price of the book alone."-Sandra P. Aldrich "Sandi Keaton¿ like her southeast Kentucky homeland, is a woe-struck and a strong-willed survivor. No Shroud of Silence demonstrates the rich variety of what it means to be an Appalachian writer. ¿There is much healing going on here for reader and writer in poems and stories that 'study old wounds,/ then bandage them with those healing words'. Read this book ¿"-Rob Merritt

Book Noonshade

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  • Author : James Barclay
  • Publisher : Prometheus Books
  • Release : 2010-04-07
  • ISBN : 1591028515
  • Pages : 570 pages

Download or read book Noonshade written by James Barclay and published by Prometheus Books. This book was released on 2010-04-07 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now the land of Balaia, still riven by war, must live with the consequences. The Dawnthief spell – designed to destroy the world, but cast to save it – has torn a hole in the sky, a pathway into the dragon dimension, and, through it, unfriendly eyes are turning to Balaia. With war already sweeping the land, there are no armies to send against the dragons. All that stands between Balaia and complete dominion by these tyrannous beasts is a tiny, but legendary band of mercenaries: The Raven. And if they fail, Balaia will fall beneath the wings of countless dragons… James Barclay has created a fantasy epic of rare intensity and blistering pace peopled by characters you can believe in.

Book Code Blue

Download or read book Code Blue written by Richard E. Deichmann M.D. and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2008-12-16 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book that finally gives a physicians inside story of the evacuation of Memorial Medical Center following Katrina a gripping tale of abandonment and survival. A toxic stew of floodwaters surrounded Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans after Katrina when the levees broke. Over two thousand people were trapped in the squalid conditions without security as the death toll steadily rose inside. Bodies stacked up in the chapel as the temperature soared in the overcrowded hospital and the situation became increasingly desperate. Doctors, nurses, and staff worked around the clock, caring for those inside and trying to evacuate the facility, also known as Baptist Hospital. Allegations of euthanasia would later make headlines across the country and be investigated by state and local officials. Code Blue: A Katrina Physicians Memoir finally tells the inside story of the hellish nightmare those who struggled to survive the ordeal were cast into. Dr. Richard Deichmann, the hospitals chief of medicine and one of the leaders of the evacuation, gives his compelling account of the rapidly deteriorating state of affairs at the hospital. He takes us through the daily horrors and numbing disappointments. This gripping tale of survival, despite betrayal and abandonment by the authorities, may change forever the way you view the threat of a mass disaster. What Others are Saying about Code Blue: A Katrina Physicians Memoir As a physician who has been on hurricane duty for prior storms, I thought I could imagine what it would be like if we were hit by a severe storm. I was wrong. This book should serve as a warning about what can happen when basic modern conveniences such as power, running water, communications and safety are taken away. - Karen Blessey, MD

Book Z  rich 95  Open Questions in Analytical Psychology

Download or read book Z rich 95 Open Questions in Analytical Psychology written by Mary Ann Mattoon and published by Daimon. This book was released on 1997 with total page 747 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Zurich Congress marked a return to the origins of Analytical Psychology: here it was that C.G. Jung lived for the first six decades of this century and developed the school of psychology he came to be known for. Here, too, is where many of today's Jungian analysts from all over the world received their training, and their initiation into the profession. As this collection of the complete proceedings attests, the theme of open questions drew a bountiful array of intriguing responses, and this to the largest gathering of Jungian analysts ever: more than 800 in all.

Book Figures in Black

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Louis Gates (Jr.)
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 0195060741
  • Pages : 348 pages

Download or read book Figures in Black written by Henry Louis Gates (Jr.) and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that Black literature cannot be characterized strictly as social realism, and offers a textual analysis of works by eighteenth- to twentieth-century Black writers.

Book Weaving the Word

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  • Author : Kathryn Sullivan Kruger
  • Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9781575910529
  • Pages : 206 pages

Download or read book Weaving the Word written by Kathryn Sullivan Kruger and published by Susquehanna University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Through an analysis of specific weaving stories, the difference between a text and a textile becomes blurred. Such stories portray women weavers transforming their domestic activity of making textiles into one of making texts by inscribing their cloth with both personal and political messages."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Law  Text  Terror

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  • Author : Ian Ward
  • Publisher : Cambridge University Press
  • Release : 2009-04-16
  • ISBN : 0521519578
  • Pages : 211 pages

Download or read book Law Text Terror written by Ian Ward and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-16 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ian Ward places contemporary political and jurisprudential responses to terrorism within a broader literary, cultural and historical context.

Book The Lady of the Shroud

Download or read book The Lady of the Shroud written by Bram Stoker and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 1966 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Sketcher

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  • Author : John Eagles
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1856
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 418 pages

Download or read book The Sketcher written by John Eagles and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Blackwood s Edinburgh magazine

Download or read book Blackwood s Edinburgh magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 1008 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis

Download or read book Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis written by Pablo Lerner and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-02 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Speculating on the Edge of Psychoanalysis, Pablo Lerner questions, and takes a step beyond, the prevailing paradigm of Lacanian psychoanalysis and its emphasis on the sovereignty of language and jouissance. Arguing for the existence of a primordial real void outside and independent of language, Lerner re-thinks the structure and functioning of Lacan’s three orders and their complex interrelations. Silence, darkness, and emptiness are the names of the voids within the symbolic, the imaginary, and the real, and, in the gaps between these orders, the voids converge. Thus, Lerner re-conceptualizes the fundamental structure of the field of subjectivity, offering radical and original perspectives on a diverse range of psychoanalytical, philosophical, and theological topics. Chapters span themes such as creation and poetry, death and solitude, intuition and mysticism, truth and being, pantheism and polytheism, the poetic art of interpretation, and introduces a new mathematical conceptualization of psychoanalytic metapsychology and the clinical structures. This volume offers new psychoanalytic perspectives of great interest for practitioners and scholars in the fields of psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology, and literary studies.