Download or read book Why We Curse written by Timothy Jay and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Neuro-Psycho-Social Theory of Speech draws together information about cursing from different disciplines and unites them to explain and describe the psychological, neurological, cultural and linguistic factors that underlie this phenomenon.
Download or read book An Eight Year Goodbye written by Maryanne V. Scott and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-01-27 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Valenti was an unpretentious, humble man who required very little in life to make him happy. He grew up during the Great Depression, working on the family farm in New Jersey, growing tomatoes to sell to Campbell Soup Company. Seeing the Hindenburg fly over his farm, receiving visits to the farm from his cousin, Anne Bancroft, and serving his country in World War II were a few of the highlights of his young adult life that he spoke of often. However, marrying the love of his life and having his daughter and son were the basis of what sustained him every day as he lived the American dream of working hard and prospering. Life had always been wonderful for Sam until later in his life when he started to lose his precious memories and abilities to Alzheimer's disease. His slow cognitive decline lasted for eight long years with his children by his side, helping him to navigate through the stages of the disease. An Eight-Year Goodbye is the story of Sam's journey through this debilitating illness with some helpful suggestions from the author on how to handle some of the heartbreaking challenges that Alzheimer's presents. It is also a story of love and compassion as Sam's children watch their father go from the vital, independent, vibrant man that they grew up with to the feeble, confused man who was no longer able to communicate with his family. This story will touch the heart of anyone whose loved one has experienced or is experiencing the long, slow deterioration that Alzheimer's disease brings.
Download or read book Blood Witch Curse written by Thomas K. Carpenter and published by Black Moon Books. This book was released on 2025-02-11 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A deadly ghost is attacking patients and threatening to bring the overworked hospital to its knees. The protective enchantments in the old Curse Ward are breaking down, leading to unusual events and supernatural sightings across the hospital. Lilith de Meath's problems only get worse as her eldest sister—and a royal pain in the ass—arrives to supervise her attempts to fix their patron Medb. Between the ghost and her overbearing sister, Lily finds her life in the City of Sorcery at a dangerous crossroads. If she can't figure out why the wards are breaking down, or a cure for her family's sickness, then being forced to return to Ireland won't be the worst thing that happens.
Download or read book Tales from Kentucky Nurses written by William Lynwood Montell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This oral history shares stories of Kentucky nurses—from frontier births to emergency rooms and from the early twentieth-century to the present day. From frontier times to the present day, Kentucky nurses have served with intelligence and energy, always ensuring that their patients received the best available care. Folklorist and oral historian William Lynwood Montell collects nearly two hundred stories from these hard-working men and women in Tales from Kentucky Nurses. From humorous anecdotes to spine-chilling coincidences, tragic circumstances, and heartwarming encounters, the tales in this lively volume are recorded exactly as they were told to Montell. This collection features anecdotes from the famous Frontier Nursing Service, which provided essential care to families in remote areas of the state and whose leader, Mary Breckinridge, is remembered for her wit and kindness. In addition, Montell's interviewees share ghost stories and describe folk remedies like the practice of placing an axe under a woman's pillow during labor to cut the pain. These firsthand accounts not only pay homage to an underappreciated profession but also preserve important aspects of Kentucky's history not likely to be recorded elsewhere.
Download or read book Being Bad written by Crystal T. Laura and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being Bad will change the way you think about the social and academic worlds of Black boys. In a poignant and harrowing journey from systems of education to systems of criminal justice, the author follows her brother, Chris, who has been designated a “bad kid” by his school, a “person of interest” by the police, and a “gangster” by society. Readers first meet Chris in a Chicago jail, where he is being held in connection with a string of street robberies. We then learn about Chris through insiders’ accounts that stretch across time to reveal key events preceding this tragic moment. Together, these stories explore such timely issues as the under-education of Black males, the place and importance of scapegoats in our culture, the on-the-ground reality of zero tolerance, the role of mainstream media in constructing Black masculinity, and the critical relationships between schools and prisons. No other book combines rigorous research, personal narrative, and compelling storytelling to examine the educational experiences of young Black males. Book Features: The natural history of an African American teenager navigating a labyrinth of social worlds. A detailed, concrete example of the school-to-prison pipeline phenomenon. Rare insightsof an African American family making sense of, and healing from, school wounds. Suggested resources of reliable places where educators can learn and do more. “Other books have focusedon the school-to-prison pipeline or the educational experiences of young African American males, but I know of none that bring the combination of rigorous research, up-close personal vantage point, and skilled storytelling provided by Laura in Being Bad.” —Gregory Michie, chicago public school teacher, author of Holler If You Hear Me, senior research associate at the Center for Policy Studies and Social Justice, Concordia University Chicago “Refusing to separate the threads that bind the oppressive fabric of contemporary urban life, Laura has crafted a story that is at once astutely critical, funny, engaging, tearful, dialogue-filled, profoundly theoretical, despairing, and filled with hope. Being Bad is a challenge and a gift to students, families, policymakers, soon-to-be teachers, social workers, and ethnographers.” —Michelle Fine, distinguished professor, Graduate Center, CUNY "Perhaps more than any other study on this topic, this book brings to life the complicated, fleshed, lived experience of those most directly and collaterally impacted by the politics of schooling and its relationship to our growing prison nation.” —Garrett Albert Duncan, associate professor of Education and African & African-American Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Download or read book The Curse of Eve the Wound of the Hero written by Peggy McCracken and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2010-11-24 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Curse of Eve, the Wound of the Hero, Peggy McCracken explores the role of blood symbolism in establishing and maintaining the sex-gender systems of medieval culture. Reading a variety of literary texts in relation to historical, medical, and religious discourses about blood, and in the context of anthropological and religious studies, McCracken offers a provocative examination of the ways gendered cultural values were mapped onto blood in the Middle Ages. As McCracken demonstrates, blood is gendered when that of men is prized in stories about battle and that of women is excluded from the public arena in which social and political hierarchies are contested and defined through chivalric contest. In her examination of the conceptualization of familial relationships, she uncovers the privileges that are grounded in gendered definitions of blood relationships. She shows that in narratives about sacrifice a father's relationship to his son is described as a shared blood, whereas texts about women accused of giving birth to monstrous children define the mother's contribution to conception in terms of corrupted, often menstrual blood. Turning to fictional representations of bloody martyrdom and of eucharistic ritual, McCracken juxtaposes the blood of the wounded guardian of the grail with that of Christ and suggests that the blood from the grail king's wound is characterized in opposition to that of women and Jewish men. Drawing on a range of French and other literary texts, McCracken shows how the dominant ideas about blood in medieval culture point to ways of seeing modern values associated with blood in a new light, and how modern representations in turn suggest new perspectives on medieval perceptions.
Download or read book Kellie s Curse written by Maggie Charters and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2012 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on the author's life, entwined with fictional elements, Kellie's Curse: Sometimes the Safest Place Is Inside a Shell introduces us to Crystal Collie as she struggles with her father's paranoid schizophrenia and her erratic mother's depression. This compelling story is set in Port Melbourne during the 1960s, where the sensitive, creative Crystal tries to come to terms with her bewildering world. Eventually, Crystal uses her wiles and artistic talents to overcome her taunting demons - the painful memories of anorexia, rape, domestic violence, losing her soul-mate in horrific circumstances, and helplessly witnessing her father's suicide attempts. Just when she thought she could cope, a dramatic occurrence leaves Crystal fighting for her life. Will she survive? Will she discover the answers to the dark family mysteries that haunt her? Follow the gripping action and heartfelt drama in Kellie's Curse: Sometimes the Safest Place Is Inside a Shell.
Download or read book Djinn Cursed written by Erik Schubach and published by Erik Schubach. This book was released on 2016-07-17 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While out celebrating her twenty first birthday, Angelina Drake finds herself immersed in a curse that goes back generations, to the time when the first Djinn terrorized the world. She has to fight for her life and her friends when an old evil comes knocking. The wishes of the people around her just complicates the situation as she can hear them all, spoken or not. When she finds herself with wings as a result of an errant wish, she must enlist the help of some new friends to try to end the curse that plagues her line.
Download or read book The Way Everyone is Inside written by James Clarke and published by Exile Editions, Ltd.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this, his fourth collection, a retired Justice of the Ontario Court again offers his wise and sometimes wry insights, tinged by frailty and tolerance.
Download or read book Sybil Exposed written by Debbie Nathan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-10-18 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, Sybil Exposed is the New York Times bestselling book that offers a new perspective on the smash hit book and film, Sybil, and on multiple personality disorder itself. Sybil: a name that resonates with legions of obsessed fans who followed the nonfiction blockbuster from 1973. The book rocketed multiple personality disorder into public consciousness and played a major role in having the diagnosis added to the psychiatric bible, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. But what do we really know about how Sybil came to be? In her news-breaking book Sybil Exposed, journalist Debbie Nathan gives proof that the allegedly true story outlined in the megabestseller was largely fabricated. The actual identity of Sybil (Shirley Mason) has been available for some years, as has the idea that the book might have been exaggerated. But Nathan reveals the trio of women behind the legend: the willing patient, her ambitious shrink, and the imaginative journalist who spun their story into bestseller gold. Sybil Exposed draws from an enormous trail of papers, records, photos, and tapes to unearth the lives and passions of these three women whose story exploded into an epic movement with consequences beyond their wildest dreams. Set across the twentieth century and rooted in a time when few professional roles were available to women, this is a story of corrosive sexism, bold but unchecked ambition, runaway greed, utter human vulnerability, duplicity and shared delusion, shaky theories of psychoanalysis exuberantly and drastically practiced, and how one modest young woman’s life turned psychiatry on its head and radically changed the course of therapy—and our culture, as well.
Download or read book The American Ambassador written by Ward Just and published by HMH. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A gripping international thriller” about a Foreign Service officer—and the son who turns to terrorism to spite him (Los Angeles Times). William North Jr. inherited his father’s keen political instincts and passion for justice. But the last time Ambassador North saw his son he seemed like a stranger—and a hostile one at that. Now, just as North prepares to take a new post in Germany, reports emerge that Bill Jr. is aligned with a German terrorist organization. Suddenly, a private conflict between father and son escalates to a matter of national security. North is faced with a terrifying dilemma as loyalty to family and country are directly at odds. The American Ambassador is at once a riveting tale of suspense and a thoughtful meditation on the fragility of Western values in an age of terrorism. “Haunting and persuasive . . . Charged with authenticity . . . A splendid book that is both thoughtful and fast-moving.” —The New York Times “To make out the jagged intersections of ambition and greed, idealism and sell-out in contemporary politics, you need only turn to . . . The American Ambassador.” —Salon.com
Download or read book The Montgomary Curse written by Phoebe St. James and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2008-09 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Awakening from a coma, Caylee Thomas is haunted by terrifying dreams of a girl who died 300 years earlier. Forces draw Caylee to Jaime Montgomary, and the only thing that can keep them apart as they unravel the mystery is the Montgomary Curse.
Download or read book Angel s Curse written by Melanie Tomlin and published by Kylani Press. This book was released on 2016-02-03 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What lengths would you go to for revenge? Helena is furious beyond belief. She can't forgive the angels for what they did to her, and Danizriel — one of their own kind — who sought only to help her. Now she's out for revenge. A coordinated blitz takes place on the solstice and thousands of vampires lay waste to the angelic host, in an attack orchestrated by Helena. In exchange for her help she receives three weapons from the time of the fall — powerful enough to destroy archangels. With three archangels down and one to go, Helena gambles with her soul to pull off the kind of bluff that even Satan might fall for. If she loses, the devil takes it all.
Download or read book The Curse of Misty Wayfair written by Jaime Jo Wright and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2019-01-22 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Left at an orphanage as a child, Thea Reed vowed to find her mother someday. Now grown, her search takes her to Pleasant Valley, Wisconsin, in 1908. When clues lead her to a mental asylum, Thea uses her experience as a post-mortem photographer to gain access and assist groundskeeper Simeon Coyle in photographing the patients and uncovering the secrets within. However, she never expected her personal quest would reawaken the legend of Misty Wayfair, a murdered woman who allegedly haunts the area and whose appearance portends death. A century later, Heidi Lane receives a troubling letter from her mother--who is battling dementia--compelling her to travel to Pleasant Valley for answers to her own questions of identity. When she catches sight of a ghostly woman who haunts the asylum ruins in the woods, the long-standing story of Misty Wayfair returns--and with it, Heidi's fear for her own life. As two women across time seek answers about their identities and heritage, can they overcome the threat of the mysterious curse that has them inextricably intertwined?
Download or read book Curse of the Gold Cross written by Terry Chandler and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Terry Chandler. I am a disabled American that retired from the federal government after twenty-six years of service. I have been so blessed to have traveled the world. Every moment was like a story from the people I met. Now I would like to share with you a moment in time that still lives in my personal journey. My inspiration for writing this story was based on an employee that I met while I was working in South Korea. My work leader recommend that the employee be fired. In the days to come I watched the employee closely, and, from what I could see, he was my best worker. I needed to find out what the real problem was, so I decided to have a meeting with him to hear his side of the story. He started to tell me about his life. He said his mother gave birth to him after being raped in a camp where she was keep to satisfy Japanese soldiers. He said the Koreans hated him because they know who he is and how he came into this world. His face was a reminder of what once was. This grown man just cried like a child that was still in prison; but this time it was a prison of hate and his crime was living.
Download or read book Nox Night Cursed Bundle Books 1 4 written by J.C. Diem and published by Seize The Night Publishing Agency. This book was released on with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This bundle contains books 1 – 4 of the Nox: Night Cursed Series. Hexed On Halloween: On Halloween, a powerful spell is cast and black magic sweeps across the US. Everyone wearing a costume is turned into the person or creature they're pretending to be. Evil clowns, pirates, shifters, zombies and many other monsters run amok, preying on the weak. Xiara Evora was just a normal girl with a normal name before the curse struck. Now she is a hunter of evil monsters and bad guys. She has a trusty staff called Wrath who can kill anything, whether it’s alive, dead or undead. Xiara and the rest of the cursed are drawn to Nox, the City of Night where the Immortal Triumvirate rule. The unholy trinity created the Night Cursed, but it’s unclear why, or what their intentions are. The only thing Xiara is sure of is that they are all trapped in this city with no way out. Tricks And Treats: Xiara’s job as the Guardian of Nox is more complex than she’d ever anticipated. Nox is a hodgepodge of human magic users, vampires, shifters, fae beings and various other types of monsters. The city is divided into five different Districts. Xiara patrols them all in her effort to keep the peace, except for the Demon District in the catacombs beneath Nox. Only someone with a death wish would enter their domain without an invitation. When a new type of being enters Nox, things soon begin to change. Although there are a lot of Night Cursed deities, they aren’t real. They’re just pale imitations with little power. Xiara has a feeling that the minor god is going to become far more of a pest than he first appears. The delicate balance between the Districts is already unstable. The last thing the City of Night needs is for a trickster to shake things up. If he breaks too many laws, the Immortal Triumvirate will order her to use her trusty staff to end his existence. Not even a true deity can survive Wrath’s deathly power. All Hallows’ Apocalypse: As time wears on in Nox, the Night Cursed beings are becoming shunned by the uncursed population. Mistrust is rising in all of the Districts and Xiara is right in the middle of it. It’s her job to keep the peace, but her task is getting harder with each passing year. Crowmon, the trickster god, and Raum, the leader of the demons, have gained a lot of power over the years. Xiara suspects they are searching for a way to increase their standing even more, but she isn’t sure what their plans are. They’ll do anything to increase their influence and they don’t care who will get hurt in the process. Xiara and her team make new friends and allies who will help them with their quest to save the Night Cursed from the Immortal Triumvirate. The unholy trinity fears treachery and they’re aware that someone will eventually try to topple them from their reign. Their solution to avoid their unwanted fate will have consequences that no one could have foreseen. Trickster’s Treachery: Xiara is asked to look for a missing witch who just happens to be one of Crowmon’s priestesses. It’s news to Xiara that the trickster god has holy folk worshipping him, but she has little choice but to help. During her search, she uncovers a conspiracy that goes deeper than she’d realized. The unrest in Nox has grown worse and all of the Districts are becoming unstable. It won’t take much to tip the balance and for an all-out war to begin. Xiara and her team know that rebels will rise to stand against the Immortal Triumvirate. Quilla has foreseen that their hated rulers can be beaten, but there’s no guarantee that they’ll fall. Any chance is better than none, so the motley team of Night Cursed beings vow to assist these insurgents any way they can. Paranormal romance, urban fantasy, dark fantasy, shifters, shapeshifters, werewolves, vampires, witches, wizards, warlocks, magic, fae, fairies
Download or read book Curse of the Pogo Stick written by Colin Cotterill and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fifth Dr. Siri Paiboun mystery Seven female Hmong villagers kidnap Dr. Siri on orders from the village elder who hopes that Yeh Ming, the thousand-year-old shaman who shares the doctor’s body, will consent to exorcise the headman’s daughter. He fears that her soul has been possessed by a demon due to the curse of a mysterious Western artifact. Siri agrees to help and, in so doing, brings to pass a prediction of Auntie Bpoo, a transvestite fortune-teller.
