Download or read book Crossing Back Over written by Brett Stevens and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brett’s most recent manic episode has derailed him from life as the director of operations at a prominent software start-up in Texas. He is now at home, fully dependent on his mother, and officially diagnosed with bipolar disorder. Brett is terrified. He has no guarantees on his long-term health, no understanding of how his medication works and is still dealing with hell-like anxiety, restlessness, mania, and depression. Crossing Back Over: The Practice of Owning and Accepting Bipolar Disorder details Brett’s battle with taming the beast that is bipolar. Written in the same style as part 1 of his story, Crossover: A Look inside a Manic Mind, Crossing Back Over sheds light on what true recovery looks and feels like from a firsthand account. No matter the environment, recovering from a serious event takes hard work, discipline, patience, and acceptance. Crossing Back Over allows the reader to peek behind the curtain of an individual determined to find a happy life, even with his chronic brain disorder. This book is valuable for anyone who is facing a deeply personal challenge.
Download or read book Crossing Back written by Marianna De Marco Torgovnick and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the award-winning author of Crossing Ocean Parkway, a personal memoir about adjusting to loss through books, meditation, and the process of memory itself Marianna De Marco Torgovnick experienced the rupture of two of her life’s most intimate relations when her mother and brother died in close proximity. Mourning rocked her life, but it also led to the solace and insight offered by classic books and the practice of meditation. Her resulting journey into the past imagines a viable future and raises questions acute for Italian Americans but pertinent to everyone, about the nature of memory and the meanings of home at a time, like ours, marked by cultural disruption and wartime. Crossing Back: Books, Family, and Memory without Pain presents a personal perspective on death, mourning, loss, and renewal. A sequel to her award-winning and much-anthologized Crossing Ocean Parkway, Crossing Back is about close familial ties and personal loss, written after the death of her remaining birth family, who had always been there, and now were not. After their loss, she entered a spiritual and psychological state of “transcendental homelessness”: the feeling of being truly at home nowhere, of being spiritually adrift. In a grand act of symbolic reenactment, she found herself moving apartments repeatedly, not realizing she did so subconsciously to keep busy, to stave off grief. By reading and studying great books, she opened up to mourning, a process she constitutionally resisted as somehow shameful. Over time, she discovered that a third death colored and prolonged her feelings of grief: her first child’s death in infancy, which, in the course of a happier lifetime, had never been adequately acknowledged. Her new losses led her finally to take stock of her son’s death too. Reading and meditating, followed by writing, became daily her healing rituals. A warm and intimate user’s guide to books, family, and memory in the mourning process, the end-point being memory without pain, Crossing Back is a wide-ranging memoir about growing older and learning to ride the waves of change. Lively and conversational, Torgovnick is masterful at tracking the moment-to moment, day-to-day challenges of sudden or protracted grief and the ways in which the mind and the body seem to search for—and sometimes find—solutions.
Download or read book Crossing Ocean Parkway written by Marianna Torgovnick and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The acclaimed author of Gone Primitive interweaves autobiographical moments with engrossing interpretations of American cultural icons, from Dr. Doolittle to Lionel Trilling, from The Godfather to Camille Paglia, to create this unflinching account of crossing cultural boundaries--of what it means to be an Italian American.
Download or read book Options for Estimating Illegal Entries at the U S Mexico Border written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is responsible for securing and managing the nation's borders. Over the past decade, DHS has dramatically stepped up its enforcement efforts at the U.S.-Mexico border, increasing the number of U.S. Border patrol (USBP) agents, expanding the deployment of technological assets, and implementing a variety of "consequence programs" intended to deter illegal immigration. During this same period, there has also been a sharp decline in the number of unauthorized migrants apprehended at the border. Trends in total apprehensions do not, however, by themselves speak to the effectiveness of DHS's investments in immigration enforcement. In particular, to evaluate whether heightened enforcement efforts have contributed to reducing the flow of undocumented migrants, it is critical to estimate the number of border-crossing attempts during the same period for which apprehensions data are available. With these issues in mind, DHS charged the National Research Council (NRC) with providing guidance on the use of surveys and other methodologies to estimate the number of unauthorized crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border, preferably by geographic region and on a quarterly basis. Options for Estimating Illegal Entries at the U.S.-Mexico Border focuses on Mexican migrants since Mexican nationals account for the vast majority (around 90 percent) of attempted unauthorized border crossings across the U.S.-Mexico border.
Download or read book Crossing the Borders of Time written by Leslie Maitland and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2013-01-08 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried from the arms of the Catholic Frenchman she loved and promised to marry. As the Lipari carried Janine and her family to Casablanca on the first leg of a perilous journey to safety in Cuba, she would read through her tears the farewell letter that Roland had slipped in her pocket: “Whatever the length of our separation, our love will survive it, because it depends on us alone. I give you my vow that whatever the time we must wait, you will be my wife. Never forget, never doubt.” Five years later – her fierce desire to reunite with Roland first obstructed by war and then, in secret, by her father and brother – Janine would build a new life in New York with a dynamic American husband. That his obsession with Ayn Rand tormented their marriage was just one of the reasons she never ceased yearning to reclaim her lost love. Investigative reporter Leslie Maitland grew up enthralled by her mother’s accounts of forbidden romance and harrowing flight from the Nazis. Her book is both a journalist’s vivid depiction of a world at war and a daughter’s pursuit of a haunting question: what had become of the handsome Frenchman whose picture her mother continued to treasure almost fifty years after they parted? It is a tale of memory that reporting made real and a story of undying love that crosses the borders of time.
Download or read book Crossing Back Over written by Wanda F. Ross and published by Llumina Press. This book was released on 2002-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Elizabeth and Gavin seek to unravel the mystery of the bond between them, they uncover a truth that forever changes the way they view the meaning and importance of their existence here on Earth.
Download or read book The Crossing The Cleansing and Healing of The Nations written by Marcus Ford and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crossing The Cleansing and Healing of The Nations: The Lord allowed my family and I, to travel to many places near and far, calling us forerunners and those first in flight to take the journey first to receive instructions to better prepare all those that have yet to enter in. The Lord instructed us in the year 2013 - 2014 to document everything we heard and saw from Him, all these things documented being relevant for today. This was a journey about relationship with the Father, and the proper aligning of the body of Christ to Christ the head. It was a returning to our first love. The prodigal son returning home to the Father's house. The lost sheep being found, and coming back fully to the Lord and being Spirit led, manifested sons and daughters of God, only saying what we heard the Father say and only doing what we saw the Father do, being doers and not just hearers of the word of God. It was a journey of going deeper, higher, and farther in our relationship with the Father. It's about showing our love to, towards, and for Him by doing all He commands us to do. After we completed our journey with the Lord He said that it was not only a cleansing and healing for us but, that it was and is the cleansing and healing of the nations. A word we heard as we traveled with the Lord was, "The persecution was going to be allowed making all people uncomfortable until they lined up." As we traveled the Lord said to us that there was no abandoning, going backwards, aborting, or going AWOL on this God mission, God assignment. There was only going forward. After traveling the Lord then laid on our hearts to form the group called, "The Crossing" where He began to have us release the word that we had gathered. The choosing, timing, order was all under His direction to do so. This is a cleansing journey that the Lord is requiring from the whole world. It's time to return to our Creator, Father, God and lover of our souls. He loves us, but it's time for us to love Him in return for the love He has for us. It's time to lay everything down including your life to follow after Him. It's time for the forsaking of all. It's time to make Him Lord of ALL! It's past time!!! Before reading the book be sure that you are sincere about crossing over because there is no going back once you have crossed over.
Download or read book The Crossing The Cleansing and Healing of The Nations written by Marcus Ford and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-23 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crossing The Cleansing and Healing of The Nations: The Lord allowed my family and I, to travel to many places near and far, calling us forerunners and those first in flight to take the journey first to receive instructions to better prepare all those that have yet to enter in. The Lord instructed us in the year 2013 - 2014 to document everything we heard and saw from Him, all these things documented being relevant for today. This was a journey about relationship with the Father, and the proper aligning of the body of Christ to Christ the head. It was a returning to our first love. The prodigal son returning home to the Father's house. The lost sheep being found, and coming back fully to the Lord and being Spirit led, manifested sons and daughters of God, only saying what we heard the Father say and only doing what we saw the Father do, being doers and not just hearers of the word of God. It was a journey of going deeper, higher, and farther in our relationship with the Father. It's about showing our love to, towards, and for Him by doing all He commands us to do. After we completed our journey with the Lord He said that it was not only a cleansing and healing for us but, that it was and is the cleansing and healing of the nations. A word we heard as we traveled with the Lord was, "The persecution was going to be allowed making all people uncomfortable until they lined up." As we traveled the Lord said to us that there was no abandoning, going backwards, aborting, or going AWOL on this God mission, God assignment. There was only going forward. After traveling the Lord then laid on our hearts to form the group called, "The Crossing" where He began to have us release the word that we had gathered. The choosing, timing, order was all under His direction to do so. This is a cleansing journey that the Lord is requiring from the whole world. It's time to return to our Creator, Father, God and lover of our souls. He loves us, but it's time for us to love Him in return for the love He has for us. It's time to lay everything down including your life to follow after Him. It's time for the forsaking of all. It's time to make Him Lord of ALL! It's past time!!! Before reading the book be sure that you are sincere about crossing over because there is no going back once you have crossed over.
Download or read book Border Crossing written by Pat Barker and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-02-09 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the north of England, Barker's new novel portrays a child psychiatrist who rescues a man from drowning one day while walking on a beach in Northumberland. Uncannily, he recognizes the man: it's Danny Miller, a child murderer at whose trial he once gave evidence. Since the trial, he has reconsidered that evidence and found it lacking. Now he confronts the man whose altered fate may be his responsibility.
Download or read book The Crossing written by Cormac McCarthy and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995-03-14 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a novel with the unstoppable momentum of a classic western and the elegaic power of a lost American myth. In the late 1930s, sixteen-year-old Billy Parham captures a she-wolf that has been marauding his family's ranch. But instead of killing it, he decides to take it back to the mountains of Mexico. With that crossing, he begins an arduous and often dreamlike journey into a country where men meet ghosts and violence strikes as suddenly as heat-lightning—a world where there is no order "save that which death has put there." An essential novel by any measure, The Crossing is luminous and appalling, a book that touches, stops, and starts the heart and mind at once. Look for Cormac McCarthy's latest bestselling novels, The Passenger and Stella Maris.
Download or read book The Distance Between Us written by Reyna Grande and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the author's experiences as an illegal child immigrant, describing her father's violent alcoholism, her efforts to obtain a higher education, and the inspiration of Latina authors.
Download or read book Dark at the Crossing written by Elliot Ackerman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST “Transports readers into a world few Americans know” —Washington Post A timely new novel of stunning humanity and tension: a contemporary love story set on the Turkish border with Syria. Haris Abadi is a man in search of a cause. An Arab American with a conflicted past, he is now in Turkey, attempting to cross into Syria and join the fight against Bashar al-Assad's regime. But he is robbed before he can make it, and is taken in by Amir, a charismatic Syrian refugee and former revolutionary, and Amir's wife, Daphne, a sophisticated beauty haunted by grief. As it becomes clear that Daphne is also desperate to return to Syria, Haris's choices become ever more wrenching: Whose side is he really on? Is he a true radical or simply an idealist? And will he be able to bring meaning to a life of increasing frustration and helplessness? Told with compassion and a deft hand, Dark at the Crossing is an exploration of loss, of second chances, and of why we choose to believe--a trenchantly observed novel of raw urgency and power. “Promises to be one of the most essential books of 2017” —Esquire
Download or read book Crossover written by Brett Stevens and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2019-06-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brett is intense. Intense as a youth piecing together the world. Intense as an undersized point guard, middle child, and student. Intense as a professional poker player, manager, and problem solver. But most notably, intense as an unaware manic mind set free in the world. Crossover: A Look inside a Manic Mind is a personal memoir detailing the evolution of psychotic thoughts and how they influenced Brett's behavior during the three manic episodes that spanned the past decade of his life. Through basketball, poker, and work, Crossover offers a firsthand account of how the world looks and feels as a person with Bipolar I from childhood traits to adult expression. Brett's recall of these incidents is so detailed because he has a rare condition called hypermnesia, an unusually enhanced, vivid, and precise memory. His perspective sheds light on the progression of bipolar disorder and will enhance your ability to learn and empathize with those affected by the illness. Suicide among people with bipolar disorder is thirty times higher than the general population, yet the cause and prevention remain a mystery. Brett's story is educational and inspiring for anyone who suffers from or has been affected by mental illness. It is a must read for medical professionals, therapists, students, and teachers.
Download or read book Crossing Over written by Paul Scanlon and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 2007-01-07 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jordan represents the barrier God is calling you to cross over. It represents the transition between where you are now, and where He wants you to be.
Download or read book Crossing Over written by Ruben Martinez and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2002-08-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Both an award-winning journalist and a poet, Martnez tracks a migrant family from Mexico to the U.S., and shows how migrant culture is changing America. 13 illustrations.
Download or read book Crossing Borders written by Dorothee Schneider and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aspiring immigrants to the United States make many separate border crossings in their quest to become Americans—in their home towns, ports of departure, U.S. border stations, and in American neighborhoods, courthouses, and schools. In a book of remarkable breadth, Dorothee Schneider covers both the immigrants’ experience of their passage from an old society to a new one and American policymakers’ debates over admission to the United States and citizenship. Bringing together the separate histories of Irish, English, German, Italian, Jewish, Chinese, Japanese, and Mexican immigrants, the book opens up a fresh view of immigrant aspirations and government responses. Ingenuity and courage emerge repeatedly from these stories, as immigrants adapted their particular resources, especially social networks, to make migration and citizenship successful on their own terms. While officials argued over immigrants’ fitness for admission and citizenship, immigrant communities forced the government to alter the meaning of race, class, and gender as criteria for admission. Women in particular made a long transition from dependence on men to shapers of their own destinies. Schneider aims to relate the immigrant experience as a totality across many borders. By including immigrant voices as well as U.S. policies and laws, she provides a truly transnational history that offers valuable perspectives on current debates over immigration.
Download or read book Crossing the United States Mexico Border written by Carole Brown Hudson and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The focus statement: Regardless of constraint and conflict, students have crossed the United States-Mexico Border for the purpose of education. How does routine border crossing affect the literacy practices and identity of a Hispanic student attending college in the United States? This is a qualitative research study that examined the literacy practices of a Mexican-American, undergraduate college student enrolled at The College of Education and Human Development at The University of Texas at San Antonio. This student travels regularly between San Antonio, Texas and her home in Monterrey, Nuevo León, Mexico, crossing the U.S.-Mexico Border to attend classes. The student volunteer answered questions during an oral interview and completed a written questionnaire about her reading, writing, and language proficiency practices, affected by crossing the United States-Mexico Border for education. She also recorded a timeline of what she read and the locale and time of each reading activity during one week. I compared her experiences with those of students in existing studies who crossed the border for educational purposes. Field notes were compiled by the researcher during and between all interchanges with the student. An open coding method was used as a measure for evaluating answers about this student's literacy practices. Further, these oral, written and timeline reports were considered in identifying literacy practices and changes over time in her identity, as she traveled back and forth between her home country, Mexico, and her host country, the United States. This study involved three themes: 1) Reading habits and literacy practices of a transnational student, 2) Locale and mobility during reading activities (U.S. and Mexico), 3) Self-identity or how the subject perceived herself as a reader and transnational student in her home country and host country. The questions posed were: 1. What does a Mexican-American transnational adolescent read who traveled back and forth across the U.S.-Mexico Border, to attend school on both sides of the border? (reading/literacy practices), 2. What did she indicate she preferred to read? Did she read in both Spanish and English? Did locale affect her choice of language or type of reading? (reading/literacy habits and locale), 3. How did her reading, communication and language proficiency change over time? (reading/literacy/speaking practices), 4. How did her self-image change over time? (self-image/identity).
