Download or read book On Pluto Inside the Mind of Alzheimer s written by Greg O'Brien and published by Good Night books. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about living with Alzheimer’s, not dying with it. It is a book about hope, faith, and humor—a prescription far more powerful than the conventional medication available today to fight this disease. Alzheimer’s is the sixth leading cause of death in the US—and the only one of these diseases on the rise. More than 5 million Americans have been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s or a related dementia; about 35 million people worldwide. Greg O’Brien, an award-winning investigative reporter, has been diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's and is one of those faceless numbers. Acting on long-term memory and skill coupled with well-developed journalistic grit, O’Brien decided to tackle the disease and his imminent decline by writing frankly about the journey. O’Brien is a master storyteller. His story is naked, wrenching, and soul searching for a generation and their loved ones about to cross the threshold of this death in slow motion. On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s is a trail-blazing roadmap for a generation—both a “how to” for fighting a disease, and a “how not” to give up!

Download or read book Reflections from Beyond written by William deGraftColeman and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-08-17 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is, of course, our greatest challenge. Through our attitudes and actions we choose whether we will live it greatly, with grace and power, or live it in vain unhappiness and pain. It is within our capacity as humans to live with wisdom and faith in ourselves, in our Creator, and in those with whom we share the earth. To perceive words of wisdom, one must do one thing: Listen! In his new book, Reflections from Beyond: A Pocket Book of Wisdom,author William deGraftColeman reminds all of us, sufferers and healthy alike, that even though strife abounds everywhere in our world, all is not lost—imbedded in each and every one of us is the power to make life worth living. Instead of looking down on others, let others look up to you. To acknowledge your imperfections is to appreciate your very humanity, but to decline is to deny your very essence! With over 500 pearls of wisdom, Reflections from Beyond was born as deGraftColeman gradually lifted the shroud that more than twenty years of crippling anxiety had cast on his life. The miracle that woke him into living fully can be realized by all of us through these indispensable and thought-provoking insights. With our hearts open and our feet upon our true path, we will find our great fortune in the gift of life.

Download or read book Reflections from Beyond written by Jeannie Judd and published by . This book was released on 2001-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Living Beyond the Daily Grind written by Charles R. Swindoll and published by Inspirational Press (NY). This book was released on 1994-03 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Hope written by Stephen J. Costello and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a host of philosophers such as Arthur Schopenhauer, Gabriel Marcel, Josef Pieper, Paul Ricoeur, Viktor Frankl, Eric Voegelin, Bernard Lonergan, Roger Scruton, John Caputo, and Ludwig Wittgenstein, as well as theologians like Hans Urs von Balthasar, Karl Rahner, Hans Küng, Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis, this book argues passionately for the place of hope as the ‘beyond’ of both a will-o’-the-wisp, facile optimism, on the one hand, and a world-weary, fatuous pessimism, on the other. Drawing on the philosophy of Advaita Vedanta in the concluding chapter, it suggests that only by living from the Self as distinct from the ego can we know ultimate peace and experience the bliss of being that is beyond both hope and happiness. These philosophical reflections are both timely, as the publication appears amid the Coronavirus crisis, and wise. It is warmly recommended for its breadth and depth of knowledge. This book will appeal to students of both Eastern and Western philosophy, as well as spiritual seekers.

Download or read book Beyond National Borders written by Kenʹichi Ômae and published by Kodansha. This book was released on 1988 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond Forgiveness written by Phil Cousineau and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-12-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If we harbor thoughts of violence or hatred, or seek revenge or retribution, we are contributing to the wounding of the world; if we transform those thoughts into forgiveness and compassion, and then move beyond them to actually make amends or restitution, we are contributing to the healing of the world. This timely, powerful and compassionate book helps show us the way." —Deepak Chopra "Nothing will help us survive the present age more than breaking the tragic cycles of violence and revenge that threaten our very existence. To do so, we must honor our soul's desire for deeper forms of reconciliation, a process that Phil Cousineau reveals here as being on the other side of forgiveness, in the ancient ritual of atonement. His book is a profoundly important contribution to the healing of the world, and I give it my blessing." —Robert A. Johnson, author of Transformation, Inner Work and Owning Your Own Shadow As indispensable as forgiveness has been to the healing process throughout history, there is another equally profound action that is needed for ultimate reconciliation, which Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mohandas Gandhi, calls “the other side of the coin.” Turning over the coin of forgiveness, we discover atonement, the half-hidden, much-overlooked other half of the reconciliation process. Beyond Forgiveness shows how acts of atonement—making amends, providing restitution, restoring balance—can relieve us of the pain of the past and give us a hopeful future. This rich and powerful book includes 15 thoughtful contributions by high-profile thinkers and activists including Huston Smith, Michael Bernard Beckwith, Azim Khamisa, Rabbi Michael Lerner, Jacob Needleman, Michael Nagler, Diane Hennacy Powell, James O’Dea, Arun Gandhi, Kate Dahlstedt, Ed Tick, Richard J. Meyer, Rev. Heng Sure, Douglas George-Kanentiio and Katharine Dever. Atonement is put forward as a process that we must all learn to practice—from individuals to nations—if we are to heal our wounds and move forward.

Download or read book Beyond Women s Words written by Katrina Srigley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond Women’s Words unites feminist scholars, artists, and community activists working with the stories of women and other historically marginalized subjects to address the contributions and challenges of doing feminist oral history. Feminists who work with oral history methods want to tell stories that matter. They know, too, that the telling of those stories—the processes by which they are generated and recorded, and the different contexts in which they are shared and interpreted—also matters—a lot. Using Sherna Berger Gluck and Daphne Patai’s classic text, Women’s Words, as a platform to reflect on how feminisms, broadly defined, have influenced, and continue to influence, the wider field of oral history, this remarkable collection brings together an international, multi-generational, and multidisciplinary line-up of authors whose work highlights the great variety in understandings of, and approaches to, feminist oral histories. Through five thematic sections, the volume considers Indigenous modes of storytelling, feminism in diverse locales around the globe, different theoretical approaches, oral history as performance, digital oral history, and oral history as community-engagement. Beyond Women’s Words is ideal for students of oral history, anthropology, public history, women’s and gender history, and Women’s and Gender Studies, as well as activists, artists, and community-engaged practitioners.

Download or read book Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a lucid, brilliant work of nonfiction, Larry McMurtry has written a family portrait that also serves as a larger portrait of Texas itself, as it was and as it has become. Using an essay by the German literary critic Walter Benjamin that he first read in Archer City's Dairy Queen, McMurtry examines the small town way of life that big oil and big ranching have nearly destroyed. He praises the virtues of everything from a lime Dr. Pepper to the lost art of oral storytelling, and describes the brutal effect of the sheer vastness and emptiness of the Texas landscape on Texans, the decline of the cowboy, and the reality and the myth of the frontier.​ McMurtry writes frankly and with deep feeling about his own experiences as a writer, a parent, and a heart patient, and he deftly lays bare the raw material that helped shape his life's work: the creation of a vast, ambitious, fictional panorama of Texas in the past and the present. Throughout, McMurtry leaves his readers with constant reminders of his all-encompassing, boundless love of literature and books.

Download or read book Beyond Forgiveness written by Caro Fraser and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A secret, eye of death bed marriage overturns a will, thus upsetting all a rich family's applecarts. A rich old man knows that he is dying. Haunted by the memories of a woman whom he loved, had a child by, but never married, he goes through a secret wedding ceremony with her, and in his will leaves her and their daughter, Abby 200,000 pounds each. After his death, Abby a single mother on the dole - finds the marriage certificate and discovers from a lawyer that this, plus the strange wording of the will, entitles her to his whole estate and disinherits his legitimate son and daughter. Abby is hardly money grubbing but she's determined to claim what is rightfully hers. Complications ensue, however, as she meets Simon, her childhood friend, and suddenly all sorts of assumptions about the future are thrown into disarray. The power of money, snobbery and lust to overrule morality in even the most respectable is the theme of this observant, amusing and warm hearted novel.

Download or read book Beyond Positivism written by Claire Turenne Sjolander and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 1994 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work adopts the premise that the metatheoretical debates about positivists and post-positivists have reached an impasse; it suggests that an approach driven by theoretical reflexivity offers a basis on which alternative understandings of international relations can be developed.

Download or read book Knowing Beyond Words written by John McQuiston, II and published by Morehouse Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In McQuiston's new book the bestselling author of "Always We Begin Again" collects inspired and inspiring prose and poetry from many of the brilliant men and women who have tried to translate the inexpressible. These include Teresa of Avila, T.S. Eliot, Reinhold Neibuhr, Rabbi David Cooper, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Confucius, and many more.

Download or read book Beyond the Reflection s Edge written by Bryan Davis and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2008 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nathan Shepherd's parents are murdered, leaving only a mirror and notes from his investigator father's last case, Nathan and his father's friend's daughter struggle to solve the mystery before they, too, become victims. Original.

Download or read book Beyond the Mirror written by Henri J. M. Nouwen and published by Crossroad. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beyond the Mirror" is Nouwen's personal story of a near lethal accident and the reluctant journey to that shadowland between life and death.

Download or read book Beyond the Reach of Time and Change written by Frank A. Rinehart and published by University of Arizona Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a comprehensive collection of one hundred black-and-white images of Native American leaders made by Frank A. Rinehart from 1898 to 1900, and includes fourteen essays which reflect upon those photographs from writers, educators, and descendents of those individuals.

Download or read book Beyond the Shade of the Mango Tree written by Edward Dube and published by . This book was released on 2021-07-26 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Tarnished Ivory written by Peter Bourque and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-06-06 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ivory Coast (1973-75) and a Peace Corps trainer in Mali (1986), Peter Bourque kept a personal journal and wrote over 55 letters back to the States. In them, he described the satisfactions and frustrations of living, working and traveling in West Africa as well as his reactions to the people he encountered—Ivorian, French, Malian and American. Decades later, he reflects and elaborates on these writings with current-day observations and candid essays about idealism, world poverty, the Peace Corps, the French, and losing his religion.