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Book Survival and Loss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Developmental Studies Center Staff
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2008-11-15
  • ISBN : 9781598927467
  • Pages : 30 pages

Download or read book Survival and Loss written by Developmental Studies Center Staff and published by . This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nonfiction text used as a read-aloud describing how, In the late 1800s and early 1900s, the U.S. government forcibly educated Native American children at off-reservation boarding schools. This book briefly describes the origins of the schools and looks closely at the impact of school life on the children and on Native American culture at large.

Book Artifacts of Loss

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  • Author : Jane Elizabeth Dusselier
  • Publisher : Rutgers University Press
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 0813544084
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book Artifacts of Loss written by Jane Elizabeth Dusselier and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Artifacts of Loss, Jane E. Dusselier looks at the lives of these internees through the lens of their art. These camp-made creations included flowers made with tissue paper and shells, wood carvings of pets left behind, furniture made from discarded apple crates, gardens grown next to their housingùanything to help alleviate the visual deprivation and isolation caused by their circumstances. Their crafts were also central in sustaining, re-forming, and inspiring new relationships. Creating, exhibiting, consuming, living with, and thinking about art became embedded in the everyday patterns of camp life and helped provide internees with sustenance for mental, emotional, and psychic survival.

Book The Lost Ways

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  • Author : Claude Davis, Sr.
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2019-07-08
  • ISBN : 9781732557178
  • Pages : 430 pages

Download or read book The Lost Ways written by Claude Davis, Sr. and published by . This book was released on 2019-07-08 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Red Sky In Mourning

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  • Author : Tami Oldham Ashcraft
  • Publisher : Hyperion
  • Release : 2003-07-16
  • ISBN : 9780786886760
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Red Sky In Mourning written by Tami Oldham Ashcraft and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 2003-07-16 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New available in paperback, a true-life adventure story with everything: page-turning suspense, remarkable acts of courage, wrenching despair, and a triumphant, life-affirming ending. Red Sky in Mourning is the story of Tami Oldham Ashcraft's 41-day journey to safety, which she survived through fortitude and sheer strength of character. Interspersed with flashbacks to her romance with her doomed fiance Richard, this survival story offers an inspiring reminder that even in our darkest moments we are never truly alone.

Book Marching Through Suffering

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  • Author : Sandra Fahy
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 0231538944
  • Pages : 267 pages

Download or read book Marching Through Suffering written by Sandra Fahy and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marching Through Suffering is a deeply personal portrait of the ravages of famine and totalitarian politics in modern North Korea since the 1990s. Featuring interviews with more than thirty North Koreans who defected to Seoul and Tokyo, the book explores the subjective experience of the nation's famine and its citizens' social and psychological strategies for coping with the regime. These oral testimonies show how ordinary North Koreans, from farmers and soldiers to students and diplomats, framed the mounting struggles and deaths surrounding them as the famine progressed. Following the development of the disaster, North Koreans deployed complex discursive strategies to rationalize the horror and hardship in their lives, practices that maintained citizens' loyalty to the regime during the famine and continue to sustain its rule today. Casting North Koreans as a diverse people with a vast capacity for adaptation rather than as a monolithic entity passively enduring oppression, Marching Through Suffering positions personal history as key to the interpretation of political violence.

Book The Sudden Loss Survival Guide

Download or read book The Sudden Loss Survival Guide written by Chelsea Hanson and published by Mango Media Inc.. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Restore Your Spirit after Sudden Loss Healing after loss. When a loved one passes unexpectedly, the person left behind can lose their bearings. After the sudden loss of her mother, Chelsea Hanson, a nationally-recognized grief educator and founder of With Sympathy Gifts and Keepsakes, didn’t know where to turn for help, what to do next, or how to put the pieces of her life back together. Hanson’s The Sudden Loss Survival Guide gathers everything that she learned during her own recovery process and provides an indispensable road map to aid those who’ve experienced a life-changing loss. A proactive, intentional approach. While you cannot control losing a loved one, you can consciously guide your own recovery. Through the application of simple, proactive practices, The Sudden Loss Survival Guide will empower you to overcome the darkness and anxiety of grief. Action-based tools. The Sudden Loss Survival Guide includes heart-lifting prompts and action steps that guide you towards reengaging in life and discovering deeper meaning. Through Hanson's grief healing practices, this book delivers the essential answers and tools needed to survive, cope, and heal from the devastating impact of sudden loss. The Sudden Loss Survival Guide is a distinctive grief recovery handbook. In this book, discover: • Seven practices for healing, including creative memorialization and maintaining an ongoing spiritual connection • Skimmable, stand-alone passages with immediate, usable information for the trauma you’re facing • A transformative method for living a meaningful, fulfilling life in remembrance of your loved one Readers of grief books like It’s OK That You’re Not OK, I Wasn’t Ready to Say Goodbye, and Grief Day By Day will learn how to live again with the help of The Sudden Loss Survival Guide.

Book What We Have

Download or read book What We Have written by Amy Boesky and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Amy Boesky's blogs and view other content on the Penguin Community. The stirring true story of a woman who chose fearlessness in the face of a fatal family legacy and discovered the pleasure of living each moment to its fullest At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters had grown up in time's shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head now that each of them approached thirty-five-the deadline their doctors prescribed for having preventive surgery with the hope they could thwart their family's medical curse. But Amy didn't want to dwell on that now. She wanted to plan for a new baby, live her life. And with the appreciation for life's smallest pleasures, she did just that. In What We Have, Amy shares a deeply transformative year in her family's life and invites readers to join in their joy, laughter, and grief. In a true story as compelling as the best in women's fiction, written with the sagacity of Joan Didion and the elegance of Amy Bloom, Amy Boesky's journey celebrates the promise of a full life, even in the face of uncertainty.

Book Diving Into Darkness

Download or read book Diving Into Darkness written by Phillip Finch and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2008-09-30 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finch chronicles the harrowing true story of two friends who plunge 900 feet into the water in South Africa--and only one returns. What happened that day is the stuff of nightmarish drama, but it's also a compelling human story of friendship and of coming to terms with loss and tragedy. 8-page color photo insert.

Book Blue Genes

Download or read book Blue Genes written by Christopher Lukas and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with heartrending honesty, a memoir that captures the devastation of this family legacy of depression and details the strength and hope that can provide a way of escaping its grasp. “A compassionate but clear-eyed view of his family history.” —Washington Post Christopher (Kit) Lukas’s mother committed suicide when he was a boy. He and his brother, Tony, were not told how she died. No one spoke of the family’s history of depression and bipolar disorder. The brothers grew up to achieve remarkable success; Tony as a gifted journalist (and author of the classic book, Common Ground), Kit as an accomplished television producer and director. After suffering bouts of depression, Kit was able to confront his family’s troubled past, but Tony never seemed to find the contentment Kit had attained—he killed himself in 1997.

Book What Happens After Death

Download or read book What Happens After Death written by Migene González-Wippler and published by Llewellyn Worldwide. This book was released on 1997 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A text which poses the question; what does modern science and the world's religions tell us about the mystery of life after death? This book explores these issues, enabling readers to experience one soul's journey through the afterlife.

Book Everyday Survival  Why Smart People Do Stupid Things

Download or read book Everyday Survival Why Smart People Do Stupid Things written by Laurence Gonzales and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-10-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Well-written and fascinating . . . this is the kind of book you want everyone to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Curiosity, awareness, attention,” Laurence Gonzales writes. “Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don’t understand.” In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the blessings of evolution to overcome the hazards of everyday life. Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world—whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder.

Book The Grief Survival Guide

Download or read book The Grief Survival Guide written by Jeff Brazier and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-06-01 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jeff Brazier has experienced bereavement in many forms: In his childhood, helping his two boys through the devastating death of their mother, Jade Goody, witnessing the anguish of his own mum when she lost both of her parents, and hearing the stories of his coaching clients who are coming to terms with loss. No one can be an expert on grief, but within this book Jeff provides support and guidance from someone who has been there. Accessible and hands-on The Grief Survival Guide offers practical advice on everything from preparing for the eventuality of death, managing grief, how best to support family and friends, and moving forward. There is no 'one size fits all' approach so instead Jeff teaches us that the best we can do is understand, cope and survive.

Book Survival Mom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lisa Bedford
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2012-04-24
  • ISBN : 0062089455
  • Pages : 316 pages

Download or read book Survival Mom written by Lisa Bedford and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the creator of TheSurvivalMom.com comes this first-of-its-kind guidebook for all the “prepper” moms keen to increase their family's level of preparedness for emergencies and crises of all shapes and sizes. Publisher’s Weekly calls Lisa Bedford’s Survival Mom an “impressively comprehensive manual,” saying, “suburban mom Bedford helps readers learn about, prepare for, and respond to all manner of disasters. . . . From 'Instant Survival Tip' sidebars to a list of 'Lessons from the Great Depression'. . . Bedford's matter-of-fact yet supportive tone will keep the willies at bay.”

Book A Chronicle of Grief

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mel Lawrenz
  • Publisher : InterVarsity Press
  • Release : 2020-07-21
  • ISBN : 0830839224
  • Pages : 173 pages

Download or read book A Chronicle of Grief written by Mel Lawrenz and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2020-07-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award "Eva not breathing. Pray." That text message was Mel Lawrenz's entry into the harsh reality of losing his thirty-year-old daughter. Things would never be the same. How could he and his family cope with this devastating loss? In this narrative of grief, Pastor Mel Lawrenz chronicles how his family struggled to survive the sudden death of their beloved daughter. In raw, vivid episodes, he describes the immediacy of the pain and the uncertainty of what comes next. In the agony of traumatic loss, Lawrenz apprehends the realities of love and life and offers insights on how to navigate our life priorities before or after tragedy hits. You are not alone. You too can find a way forward.

Book 5 13

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nancy Rankie Shelton
  • Publisher : People & Society
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 9781942146377
  • Pages : 275 pages

Download or read book 5 13 written by Nancy Rankie Shelton and published by People & Society. This book was released on 2016 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 5-13: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Survival, the realities of sharing life and death exemplify what it means to live and to love and will resonate with readers.It's two days after Christmas and seven days after Jack's 58th birthday. Jack and his wife, Nancy, are enjoying their morning in their second home in Gainesville, Florida, when out of the blue Jack has a seizure. That afternoon he's diagnosed with stage four metastatic lung cancer. In the following weeks, the constant uncertainty and ever-changing diagnoses of his disease, his rapidly deteriorating health, and the stress and confusion of managing his treatment define their lives. After four emergency trips to the hospital that all result in lengthy stays, he fights back from everything, even partial paralysis, absolutely refusing to stay down.By March, Jack is strong enough to return home to Maryland with Nancy, where he continues treatment while they try to pick up the pieces of their lives. He survives three more emergency admissions to the hospital, but the stays are much shorter and he experiences more outpatient than inpatient care. Though Jack is able to return to work, Nancy is not - she spends her time and energy supporting Jack's efforts to heal and providing care and encouragement for him. Jack's health continues to fail. On June 9th he dies.Cancer is not the sum total of their lives or this memoir. Reflections of the 35 years they were together are woven throughout the narrative. Jack's childhood, their first date, the birth of their only child, their relationships with others that shaped both their personalities are all part of their story. Nancy's identity as a wife, mother (and mother-in-law), sister, daughter and friend are all part of the experience.In 5-13: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Survival Nancy Rankie Shelton encourages readers to overcome their fears of cancer, remain steadfast and loving, survive the death of a loved one, and continue living. 5-13 is a brave love story beautifully written.

Book Navigating Loss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Donna Marie Todd
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2020-05
  • ISBN : 9780999901632
  • Pages : 106 pages

Download or read book Navigating Loss written by Donna Marie Todd and published by . This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leadership is everyone's business! Everyone must function as a leader at some time and in some arena--whether in an organization, an agency, a task force, a committee, a community group, or even a family setting--and everyone can learn to lead effectively. The Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI) will show you how! Use the LPI: Observer to get feedback from your colleagues and/or supervisors on your use of the five leadership practices: challenging the process, inspiring a shared vision, enabling others to act, modeling the way, and encouraging the heart.

Book Bushcraft 101

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dave Canterbury
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2014-07-04
  • ISBN : 1440579784
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Bushcraft 101 written by Dave Canterbury and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-07-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “With advice on not just getting along, but truly reconnecting with the great outdoors, Dave Canterbury’s treasure trove of world-renowned wisdom and experience comes to life within these pages.” —Bustle A New York Times Bestseller in Sports and Travel! The ultimate resource for experiencing the backcountry! Written by survivalist expert Dave Canterbury, Bushcraft 101 gets you ready for your next backcountry trip with advice on making the most of your time outdoors. Based on the 5Cs of Survivability--cutting tools, covering, combustion devices, containers, and cordages--this valuable guide offers only the most important survival skills to help you craft resources from your surroundings and truly experience the beauty and thrill of the wilderness. Inside, you'll also discover detailed information on: Choosing the right items for your kit. Manufacturing needed tools and supplies. Collecting and cooking food. Protecting yourself from the elements. With Canterbury's guidance, you'll not only prepare yourself for any climate and situation, you'll also learn how to use the art of bushcraft to reconnect with nature in ways you've never imagined.