Download or read book Lifelines written by Dr. Leana Wen and published by Metropolitan Books. This book was released on 2021-07-27 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From medical expert Leana Wen, MD, Lifelines is an insider's account of public health and its crucial role—from opioid addiction to global pandemic—and an inspiring story of her journey from struggling immigrant to being one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People. “Public health saved your life today—you just don’t know it,” is a phrase that Dr. Leana Wen likes to use. You don’t know it because good public health is invisible. It becomes visible only in its absence, when it is underfunded and ignored, a bitter truth laid bare as never before by the devastation of COVID-19. Leana Wen—emergency physician, former Baltimore health commissioner, CNN medical analyst, and Washington Post contributing columnist—has lived on the front lines of public health, leading the fight against the opioid epidemic, outbreaks of infectious disease, maternal and infant mortality, and COVID-19 disinformation. Here, in gripping detail, Wen lays bare the lifesaving work of public health and its innovative approach to social ills, treating gun violence as a contagious disease, for example, and racism as a threat to health. Wen also tells her own uniquely American story: an immigrant from China, she and her family received food stamps and were at times homeless despite her parents working multiple jobs. That child went on to attend college at thirteen, become a Rhodes scholar, and turn to public health as the way to make a difference in the country that had offered her such possibilities. Ultimately, she insists, it is public health that ensures citizens are not robbed of decades of life, and that where children live does not determine whether they live.
Download or read book Life Lines book 1 written by Dorothy Fallows-Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-11 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Fallows-Thompson started writing when she retired from nursing after a life changing trip to India in 1999. Her first book 'For the love of a boy' was published in 2012: in aid of Charity. 2013: A novel (based on fact) giving a fun look at 'Nurse Training' in the 60's published under the pen name 'Cynthia Myles'. 2014: Two Books of Poems entitled: Life Lines 1&2 for life's varied moments She is now enjoying life on the island of Majorca with her husband Peter.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Heidi Diehl and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2019-06-18 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A graceful, attentive, and beautiful debut.” — George Saunders For fans of Meg Wolitzer and Maggie Shipstead: a sweeping debut novel following an American artist who returns to Germany—where she fell in love and had a child decades earlier—to confront her past at her former mother-in-law’s funeral It’s 1971 when Louise leaves Oregon for Düsseldorf, a city grappling with its nation’s horrific recent history, to study art. Soon she’s embroiled in a scene dramatically different from the one at home, thanks in large part to Dieter, a mercurial musician. Their romance ignites quickly, but life gets in the way: an unplanned pregnancy, hasty marriage, the tense balance of their creative ambitions, and—finally, fatally—a family secret that shatters Dieter, and drives Louise home. But in 2008 she’s headed to Dieter’s mother’s funeral. She never returned to Germany, and has since remarried, had another daughter, and built a life in Oregon. As she flies into the heart of her past, she reckons with the choices she made, and the ones she didn’t, just as her family—current and former—must consider how Louise’s life has shaped their own, for better and for worse. Exquisitely balanced, expansive yet wonderfully intimate, Lifelines explores the indelible ties of family; the shape art, history, and nationality give to our lives; and the ways in which we are forever evolving, with each step we take, with each turn of the Earth.
Download or read book Life Lines Poems to Uplift and Inspire written by Melanie Korach and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of light, delightful poems emitting inspiration and hope to all those taking these words to heart. A true uplifter to all mankind by an exceptional Canadian educator and person. This collection of works is truly awe-inspiring and encapsulates the teachings of renowned authors of self-image and improvement in a wonderful way of presentation - You've turned poetry into a tool of hope and sunshine. I'm very proud - Dad!
Download or read book Life Lines written by Dave Meyer and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Filled with encouraging and thought-provoking quotes and meditations, Life Lines combines practical advice and passages from Scripture to help readers grow in faith and overcome life's obstacles.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Peggy Kohlmeyer and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lifelines is Megan's story of her life events following the broken lines in her palm. Initially hesitating to read her palm, the reader does and speaks of the problems and rewards Megan will have with the excitement of Megan's life, and the daily obstacles she overcomes. Lifelines begins on Megan's last day at the University of Georgia, with the mystery of what will happen on her drive home. Getting out of jail for his third arrest for driving drunk, and spending his day at his favorite bar to celebrate, this driver hits Megan head-on. After the accident, Megan's flashback takes the reader to Athens, Georgia and the details of her life growing up with her single mom and Katy. Following Megan's story will have the reader question whether it is just fate, or is she following the broken lines in her palm. Readers identify with Megan achieving her individual successes after her accident, and continues with her life to bring the reader up to today with the decisions she has to make. The story is based upon an individual's real life events.
Download or read book My Life on the Line How the NFL Damn Near Killed Me and Ended Up Saving My Life written by Ryan O'Callaghan and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of life as a closeted professional athlete from gay NFL player O’Callaghan, against the backdrop of depression, opioid addiction, and the threat of suicide. “[O’Callaghan’s] story is one of beautiful vulnerability, and it further shows the importance of knowing you aren’t alone.” —Oprah Daily, recommended by Gayle King Ryan O’Callaghan’s plan was always to play football and then, when his career was over, kill himself. Growing up in a politically conservative corner of California, the not-so-subtle messages he heard as a young man from his family and from TV and film routinely equated being gay with disease and death. Letting people in on the darkest secret he kept buried inside was not an option: better death with a secret than life as a gay man. As a kid , Ryan never envisioned just how far his football career would take him. He was recruited by the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent five seasons, playing alongside his friend Aaron Rodgers. Then it was on to the NFL for stints with the almost-undefeated New England Patriots and the often-defeated Kansas City Chiefs. Bubbling under the surface of Ryan’s entire NFL career was a collision course between his secret sexuality and his hidden drug use. When the league caught him smoking pot, he turned to NFL-sanctioned prescription painkillers that quickly sent his life into a tailspin. As injuries mounted and his daily intake of opioids reached a near-lethal level, he wrote his suicide note to his parents and plotted his death. Yet someone had been watching. A member of the Chiefs organization stepped in, recognizing the signs of drug addiction. Ryan reluctantly sought psychological help, and it was there that he revealed his lifelong secret for the very first time. Nearing the twilight of his career, Ryan faced the ultimate decision: end it all, or find out if his family and football friends could ever accept a gay man in their lives.
Download or read book The Life of Lines written by Tim Ingold and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-27 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To live, every being must put out a line, and in life these lines tangle with one another. This book is a study of the life of lines. Following on from Tim Ingold's groundbreaking work Lines: A Brief History, it offers a wholly original series of meditations on life, ground, weather, walking, imagination and what it means to be human. In the first part, Ingold argues that a world of life is woven from knots, and not built from blocks as commonly thought. He shows how the principle of knotting underwrites both the way things join with one another, in walls, buildings and bodies, and the composition of the ground and the knowledge we find there. In the second part, Ingold argues that to study living lines, we must also study the weather. To complement a linealogy that asks what is common to walking, weaving, observing, singing, storytelling and writing, he develops a meteorology that seeks the common denominator of breath, time, mood, sound, memory, colour and the sky. This denominator is the atmosphere. In the third part, Ingold carries the line into the domain of human life. He shows that for life to continue, the things we do must be framed within the lives we undergo. In continually answering to one another, these lives enact a principle of correspondence that is fundamentally social. This compelling volume brings our thinking about the material world refreshingly back to life. While anchored in anthropology, the book ranges widely over an interdisciplinary terrain that includes philosophy, geography, sociology, art and architecture.
Download or read book Lifelines from Our Past written by L. S. Stavrianos and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-03-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers an extraordinary interpretation of world history, from the paleolithic era to the present. Renowned historian L.S. Stavrianos conceptualizes human history into three categories: kinship societies, tributary societies, and capitalist societies. In each, he discerns and studies four "life-line" issues - ecology, gender relations, social relations, and war - that encompass the broadest areas of human experience. The revised edition projects forward to the twenty-first century, offering the author's views on possible future scenarios involving the same lifeline issues.
Download or read book Life on the Line written by Grant Achatz and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning chef describes how he lost his sense of taste to cancer, a setback that prompted him to discover alternate cooking methods and create his celebrated progressive cuisine.
Download or read book Life Lines written by Jill Ireland and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her struggle to save her drug-addicted son--and keep her family together.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Harris Solomon and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harris Solomon takes readers into the trauma ward of one of Mumbai's busiest public hospitals, narrating the stories of the patients, providers, families, and frontline workers who experience and treat traumatic injury from traffic .
Download or read book Lifelines to Cancer Survival written by Mark Roby and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: REIMAGINE CANCER SUVIVAL That's what cancer survivor Mark Roby wants you to do. On December 30, 2002, Roby was diagnosed with one of the rarest cancers in the world and told it was unresponsive to all known chemotherapy. His oncologist suggested he "accept the inevitable," but Roby thought otherwise. Quickly realizing that conventional thinking would do little to help him, he created his own, personalized treatment plan targeting his specific tumor. And he survived This is Roby's story, but more importantly it's his compilation of the many resources he painstakingly discovered and wants to share with others who are fighting similar battles. With a medical insider's knowledge of what it takes to stay alive when all the odds are against you, Lifelines to Cancer Survival is the first book to help guide cancer patients toward advanced modalities and testing, such as genetic profiling, personalized vaccines, and more. Roby wants to lead the charge of patients directing and supervising their own care.
Download or read book Life Lines book 2 written by Dorothy Fallows-Thompson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-08-19 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Life Lines Book 2" provides further original and comprehensive analysis of life's varied moments, and is constructed in harmony with the Christian ethos to view nature with a positive mind. The advantage of the poetic form of the book is the way that this gives more vivid and compact expression. This is evident in the characteristic of the poems giving full insight into Christian and social life, as well as life's experiences and activities.
Download or read book Life Lines written by Amir Ali Siassi and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-20 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I’m twenty-nine years young, plenty rhymes careers begun! LA RIMA Si’s music moves rides Amir Ali’s book Life Lines Volume 1 is done Also RECorded about 70 songs in around 2 years time. No doubt, it took may routes to arrive and land on this following line of writing a book and living divine knowing way of life. Rays of light trained brain waves to change shape and length. The Heart’s Art of rights designed my mind state to that of grace and strength. So truly unite black/white to get back to happy, gay gate of gray. Where the light blue sky’s infinite and the dark blue hued ocean’s the limitless space. There where we’re fused, issues diffuse, problems dissolve and bubbly celebration is the case. To be opened no closing nothing’s rude just the good moods we pursue with soothing responses. In tune to increase positive vibrations which generate elevated states producing more consciousness."
Download or read book Lifelines written by Howard Pomann and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 99 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life Lines written by Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy and published by Argo Books. This book was released on 1988 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
