Download or read book The Doctor Who Sat for a Year written by Brendan Kelly and published by Gill & Macmillan Ltd. This book was released on 2019-03-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a psychiatrist, Brendan Kelly is used to extoling the benefits of a daily meditation practice, but following his own advice is a different story. Finding the time to sit quietly every day isn't easy when you're already trying to juggle a stressful job, a busy family life, a cinema addiction, a cake habit and low-level feelings of guilt over an unused gym membership. But this is the year he is going to do it. Can he improve his life by meditating for 15 minutes every day? Will it improve his relationships with his family and patients? And will he ever be more Zen than Trixie the cat? The Doctor Who Sat for a Year is a funny, thoughtful and inspiring book about embracing both meditation and our imperfections. 'An excellent introduction to the path of meditation ... The author describes both how difficult meditation can be in the face of daily distractions and, ultimately, how easy it becomes when simple choices are put in place.' Michael Harding

Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Download or read book All the Year Round written by and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Year s Best Military and Adventure SF Volume 4 written by David Afsharirad and published by Baen Books. This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Year's Best Military and Adventure SF series roars into its fourth year, with more stories of derring-do, military combat, and edge of your seat suspense. Thrilling tales of grand science fiction adventure and military action. Selected from the top print and digital markets, these stories are guaranteedd to challenge, provoke, and entertain. Plus, you be the judge! INTERACTIVE READER VOTING. One story from this anthology will be chosen via proctored online voting for The Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction Reader's Choice Award, presented at DragonCon in Summer 2018. For more information, go to Baen.com. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management). About The Year’s Best Military and Adventure Science Fiction 2015: “Baen’s fan-guided anthology series roars into its second year with a collection of stories just as eclectic as the first. . . . Afsharirad has put together a refreshing military and SF anthology that will be enjoyed by a wide range of readers.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) About The Year's Best Military SF and Space Opera Volume 1: “This intriguing anthology explores the human race’s violent potential [but] also bends toward exploration and the triumph of the human spirit, with brave tales [that] take the reader on a fascinating, thought-provoking, enjoyable journey . . . ”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “[A] nice eclectic mix of magazines—hardcopy and digital—and original anthologies. Afsharirad seems to have cast his nets admirably wide. . . . The variety of styles and topics and themes, and the high level of craft in this assemblage, prove that this subgenre is flourishing. . . . [The collection] should be welcome by raw recruits and veterans alike.”—Locus

Download or read book One Year and Eternity written by Dr. Frank Swaim and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2018-08-31 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: War is as natural as life and death. Life is war. It is the natural means among all living organisms by which the weaker species is vanquished and the stronger species predominates. Beneath a thin veil of civilization, the unrecognized and undeclared war simmers constantly as people compete for ever-diminishing supplies of fuel and food. Dr. Frank Swaim served for a year as a medic with the United States Air Force in Vietnam; he saw this thin veil of civilization torn apart by the open hostilities of war. One Year and Eternity chronicles Dr. Swaim’s year in Vietnam through entries from his logbook kept at the time. He experiences the agony of being separated from his family, the terror of being stationed beyond the front lines and surrounded by hostile Vietcong. Being poorly supplied medically in the midst of woefully unsanitary conditions, Dr. Swaim had to perform major surgical procedures under the most difficult of circumstances. Perhaps worst of all was the low morale of the troops. One Year and Eternity is a book created in the crucible of experience and shaped by a reflective mind. Its message: the fittest survive.

Download or read book History of Louisa County Iowa from Its Earliest Settlement to 1912 written by Arthur Springer and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Year in the Life of Dr Fox written by Frederick L Malphurs and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the years of Mexican President Calderone, drug cartels fought pitched battles against other cartels, the police, the army, and the good citizens of Mexico. Kidnappings, murder, threats, and intimidation by drug cartels impinged on every facet of Mexican life. This story of the de la Vega family in Culiacan, the state capital of the Mexican state of Sinaloa, tells of their struggles with the death of their beloved sister and the courageous brothers who become a force exacting revenge on the Pacific cartel. The family ancestors moved away from Southern California during the 1840's as the influx of white settlers changed the culture and created certain discriminations against Mexican-Americans. The family legend is the de la Vegas sold out and relocated to Culiacan, Mexico where they quickly established prominence socially and financially. In Culiacan, the whispers are frequently heard of their great wealth and of being descendents of the great Zorro. Eduardo de la Vega, known for his dedication to his community and his patients as a noted benefactor and surgeon, and Teodoro de la Vega, a Jesuit priest, beloved by all who know him, vow to protect their city from the cartel. The de la Vegas act with extraordinary stealth, boldly striking at the cartel. Eduardo de la Vega leads a secret life of retribution abetted by his adopted brother, the business wizard, Flaco' Salas. This is a tale of adventure, action love, honor, and strength of family despite constant danger and threat.

Download or read book The Slavonic Year book written by and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Doctor s Recreation Series In the year 1800 written by Charles Wells Moulton and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Doctor s Christmas Eve written by James Lane Allen and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2019-12-08 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: e-artnow presents the Christmas Specials Series. We have selected the greatest Christmas novels, short stories and fairy tales for this joyful and charming holiday season, for all those who want to keep the spirit of Christmas alive with a heartwarming tale. The Doctor's Christmas Eve is a tale of a country doctor from Kentucky who sits the night before Christmas and recollects his various strange cases over the past year and intensely interconnected relationships between his local patients and neighbors.

Download or read book The Doctor written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Story of a Year written by Henry James and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-04-11 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Story of a Year' is a short story by American writer Henry James that first appeared in the March 1865 issue of The Atlantic. The story starts in "early May, two years ago" during the American Civil War. Jack and Elizabeth, a newly-engaged young couple, walk through the country to their New England home. Jack asks Elizabeth to keep their engagement a secret, and she agrees. That night Jack confides in his mother about the engagement. His mother, who is also Elizabeth's guardian, does not approve—she accuses Lizzie of being shallow. The next day Jack gets called off to war.

Download or read book Ten Thousand A year written by Samuel Warren and published by . This book was released on 1845 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Boy Scouts Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Ten Thousand a Year written by Samuel Warren and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-08-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1840.

Download or read book A Year without Men written by Allison Carmen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A road map to every woman's success. Glass ceilings. #MeToo. Less than equal pay for equal work. After decades fighting to free ourselves from male-dominated social and economic structures, women still struggle. But many of us are poised to rise up with innovative ways to approach the many problems facing today’s world. A Year without Men is an essential guide to every woman's success and liberation. Using the events of a very painful year in her own personal and professional life—her husband left her, her consulting business took an unexpected hit, and she faced a serious health scare—business consultant and life strategist Allison Carmen explores the forces in women’s personal and professional lives that hold us back. In A Year without Men, she offers twelve simple, practical tools to help us look within, find our own values, morals, and passions, work on our skills, call on other women, and forge new ways to do business. Together, we can create a new way to earn money, a new way to look at beauty, and so many other new ways to be in the world. Take a stand and gain the power to overcome any obstacle with A Year without Men.

Download or read book The Doctor s Factotum written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: