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Book Pushing Time Away

Download or read book Pushing Time Away written by Peter Singer and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account of a teacher in Austria—a friend of Freud and one of the millions of victims of the Holocaust—is “beautifully written and deeply moving” (Joyce Carol Oates). Peter Singer’s Pushing Time Away is a rich and loving portrait of the author’s grandfather, David Oppenheim, from the turn of the twentieth century to the end of his life in a concentration camp during the Second World War. Oppenheim, a Jewish teacher of Greek and Latin living in Vienna, was a contemporary and friend of both Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler. With his wife, Amalie, one of the first women to graduate in math and physics from the University of Vienna, he witnessed the waning days of the Hapsburg Empire, the nascence of psychoanalysis, the grueling years of the First World War, and the rise of anti-Semitism and Nazism. Told partly through Oppenheim’s personal papers, including letters to and from his wife and children, Pushing Time Away blends history, anecdote, and personal investigation to pull the story of one extraordinary life out of the millions lost to the Holocaust. A contemporary philosopher known for such works as The Life You Can Save and Animal Liberation, Singer offers a true story of his own family with “all the power of a great novel . . . resonant of The Reader by Bernhard Schlink or An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro” (The New York Times). This ebook features an illustrated biography of Peter Singer, including rare photos from the author’s personal collection.

Book Time Away from the Norm

Download or read book Time Away from the Norm written by Mali Arena and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time Away from the Norm is a self-inspired guide for those of you experiencing time off work, and are looking for ideas and inspiration to help manage your time, and enable you to cope and deal successfully. It is brimming with useful advice and stimulation for ensuring that you make good use of your time off and gain some valuable experiences and insight along the way. Work tends to occupy a third of our daily lives, so to suddenly have all of this extra time available can come as quite a shock, and be a difficult and emotional time for some. This guide addresses these issues and bases itself on the concept of creating a new routine; a new Norm, an exciting Norm. By unleashing your inner being and helping to discover a whole new you, this Norm will help you get by when your usual Norm is temporarily out of bounds. The guide is aimed primarily at those who have been signed off work, but can just as easily be applicable to all types of people experiencing Time Away from the Norm: graduates, school leavers, pensioners, contractors, freelancers, the post-op as well as those who are job-hunting, on maternity leave or have been made redundant - this is the ultimate guide in helping you get started and seeing your time off through to the end.

Book Time Away From the Heart The Bloom

Download or read book Time Away From the Heart The Bloom written by Brianna Barnes and published by Brianna Barnes. This book was released on 2018-10-21 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Being a woman is not easy. There is a time when a woman has to do what she has to do. Life as a single parent is rough. Callene Gaines is a single mother who is raising an adult boy named Coitan in modern day society. Pain consumed with anger takes over her life as she realizes she is dealing with unresolved issues between herself and the father, her son, has never known. Will she be able to forgive and push back past hurts and have a complete family that she always dreamed of? Or will her anger consume her and everyone connected with her?

Book Some Time Away  Lovers in Time Series  Book 3

Download or read book Some Time Away Lovers in Time Series Book 3 written by Marilyn Campbell and published by ePublishing Works!. This book was released on 2018-08-28 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marilyn Campbell never fails to deliver an outstanding story!" ~ Ellen Wulf, Verified Reviewer High-School Sweethearts Reunite to Solve a Murder in Time to Save Mankind in SOME TIME AWAY a Paranormal Time-Travel Romance by Marilyn Campbell -- Present Day and 1927, Crystal Island, Off the Coast of Southeast Florida –- Tales of ghosts and paranormal activity throughout Crystal Island entice Noah Nash to set his next horror novel in the Davenport Hotel, off the south-east Florida coast. But his reason for bringing Maggie Harrison on as an assistant is entirely personal. Working for a temp agency, Maggie agrees to the assignment, doubting the now famous author will even remember her from their high-school days. But, unbeknownst to the would-be lovers, they have been selected by an otherworldly organization to travel back to 1927 and solve an impossible murder at The Davenport. Succeed and a happily-ever-after is theirs. Fail and they will lose much more than each other. Publisher's Note: Readers who enjoy romance, sex and mystery as well as fans of Callie Langridge, Bethany Claire, Gillian Doyle and Barbara Longley will certainly enjoy Marilyn Campbell's delightfully fun romp through time. "This author knows how to write love stories. If you enjoy an easy read, with lots of romance and sex, this is the one for you." ~Ramcy, Verified Reviewer THE LOVERS IN TIME SERIES, in order Out of Time Just in Time Some Time Away It's About Time THE INNERWORLD AFFAIRS SERIES, in order Romulus Falcon Gallant Gabriel Logan Roman Blaze MARILYN CAMPBELL has been published in the genres of suspense, futuristic, time-travel, paranormal, erotic and lighthearted contemporary romances, non-fiction metaphysical works and has had a screenplay produced. A true thrill-junkie, she has jumped out of an airplane, raced around the Indy 500 track, driven solo throughout the United States and believes a labyrinth walk under the full moon can have magical results. Unfortunately, Marilyn has not yet figured out how to time-travel...except in her stories. She currently resides in western Massachusetts.

Book Homesick and Happy

Download or read book Homesick and Happy written by Michael Thompson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An insightful and powerful look at the magic of summer camp—and why it is so important for children to be away from home . . . if only for a little while. In an age when it’s the rare child who walks to school on his own, the thought of sending your “little ones” off to sleep-away camp can be overwhelming—for you and for them. But parents’ first instinct—to shelter their offspring above all else—is actually depriving kids of the major developmental milestones that occur through letting them go—and watching them come back transformed. In Homesick and Happy, renowned child psychologist Michael Thompson, PhD, shares a strong argument for, and a vital guide to, this brief loosening of ties. A great champion of summer camp, he explains how camp ushers your children into a thrilling world offering an environment that most of us at home cannot: an electronics-free zone, a multigenerational community, meaningful daily rituals like group meals and cabin clean-up, and a place where time simply slows down. In the buggy woods, icy swims, campfire sing-alongs, and daring adventures, children have emotionally significant and character-building experiences; they often grow in ways that surprise even themselves; they make lifelong memories and cherished friends. Thompson shows how children who are away from their parents can be both homesick and happy, scared and successful, anxious and exuberant. When kids go to camp—for a week, a month, or the whole summer—they can experience some of the greatest maturation of their lives, and return more independent, strong, and healthy.

Book Time Away

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ben Campbell Johnson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2010
  • ISBN : 9780835810111
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Time Away written by Ben Campbell Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the joys, challenges, and benefits of a personal retreats and offers step-by-step instructions that will enable anyone to make the most of this dedicated time with God.

Book Away West

    Book Details:
  • Author : Patricia McKissack
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 2006-12-28
  • ISBN : 0142406880
  • Pages : 146 pages

Download or read book Away West written by Patricia McKissack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2006-12-28 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical chapter book series from three-time Coretta Scott King Award winner and Newbery Honor author, Patricia C. McKissack. Unlike his older brothers, thirteen-year-old Everett was "born in freedom," never knowing life as a slave. His most prized possession is the medal his father earned in the Civil War. Now, more than 125 years later, that treasure is kept in the Websters' attic with other "scraps of time," ready to be discovered by another generation eager to know its family history. The second novel in Patricia C. McKissack's family saga recounts a young Southern boy's dream of heading west to a new life and the way in which his journey teaches him the deeper meaning of the medal his father won. "A rewarding tale that highlights a lesser-known aspect of American's pioneer story." --School Library Journal

Book Home and Away

Download or read book Home and Away written by Nancy French and published by Center Street. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: David French, potential independent candidate for the 2016 presidential election, and his wife Nancy deliver a powerful story of what happens when a person--or rather, a family--answers the call to serve their nation. David French picked up the newspaper in the comfort of his penthouse in Philadelphia, and read about a soldier - father of two - who was wounded in Iraq. Immediately, he was stricken with a question: Why him and not me? David was a 37-year-old father of two, a Harvard Law graduate and president of a free speech organization. In other words, he was used to pushing pencils, not toting M16s. His wife Nancy was raising two children and writing from home. She was worrying about field trips and playdates, not about her husband going to war. HOME AND AWAY chronicles not just a soldier at war, but a family at war - a husband in Iraq, a wife and children at home, greeting each day with hope and fear, facing the challenge with determination, tears, and more than a little joy.

Book Military Families and War in the 21st Century

Download or read book Military Families and War in the 21st Century written by Rene Moelker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-14 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the key issues that affect military families when soldiers are deployed overseas, focusing on the support given to military personnel and families before, during and after missions. Today’s postmodern armies are expected to provide social-psychological support both to their personnel in military operations abroad and to their families at home. Since the end of the Cold War and even more so after 9/11, separations between military personnel and their families have become more frequent as there has been a multitude of missions carried out by multinational task forces all over the world. The book focuses on three central questions affecting military families. First, how do changing missions and tasks of the military affect soldiers and families? Second, what is the effect of deployments on the ones left behind? Third, what is the national structure of family support systems and its evolution? The book employs a multidisciplinary approach, with contributions from psychology, sociology, history, anthropology and others. In addition, it covers all the services, Army, Navy/Marines, Air Force, spanning a wide range of countries, including UK, USA, Belgium, Turkey, Australia and Japan. At the same time it takes a multitude of perspectives such as the theoretical, empirical, reflective, life events (narrative) approach, national and the global, and uses approaches from different disciplines and perspectives, combining them to produce a volume that enhances our knowledge and understanding of military families. This book will be of much interest to students of military studies, sociology, war and conflict studies and IR/political science in general.

Book The Everything Guide to Stepparenting

Download or read book The Everything Guide to Stepparenting written by Erin Munroe and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Starting a relationship with a new person is always an adventure, and that adventure comes with extra thrills when your significant other is also a parent. Not only do you have to incorporate one new person into your life; you have to welcome that personÆs children too. This guide will teach new and future stepparents how to: Meet and build relationships with potential stepchildren Handle situations involving the other biological parent Involve stepchildren in the wedding Be an involved stepparent without overstepping boundaries Make tough decisions about money, education, and more This comprehensive resource covers dozens of different situationsùfrom battling the wicked stepparent stereotype to mediating interactions between stepsiblings. Written by a licensed mental health counselor and experienced stepparent, this book will help future stepparents start off their new lives on the right foot.

Book Far and Away

Download or read book Far and Away written by Neil Peart and published by ECW Press. This book was released on 2011-05 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a serialized autobiography describing the author's life, including his career in the band Rush and his motorcycling adventures throughout North America and Euorpe.

Book The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics

Download or read book The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics written by Martin Heidegger and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, the text of Martin Heidegger's lecture course of 1929/30, is crucial for an understanding of Heidegger's transition from the major work of his early years, Being and Time, to his later preoccupations with language, truth, and history. First published in German in 1983 as volume 29/30 of Heidegger's collected works, The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics presents an extended treatment of the history of metaphysics and an elaboration of a philosophy of life and nature. Heidegger's concepts of organism, animal behavior, and environment are uniquely developed and defined with intensity. Of major interest is Heidegger's brilliant phenomenological description of the mood of boredome, which he describes as a "fundamental attunement" of modern times.

Book Cast Away

    Book Details:
  • Author : Naomi Shihab Nye
  • Publisher : HarperCollins
  • Release : 2020-02-11
  • ISBN : 0062907719
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Cast Away written by Naomi Shihab Nye and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Nye at her engaging, insightful best.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) Acclaimed poet and Young People’s Poet Laureate Naomi Shihab Nye shines a spotlight on the things we cast away, from plastic water bottles to those less fortunate, in this collection of more than eighty original and never-before-published poems. A deeply moving, sometimes funny, and always provocative poetry collection for all ages. “How much have you thrown away in your lifetime already? Do you ever think about it? Where does this plethora of leavings come from? How long does it take you, even one little you, to fill the can by your desk?” ?Naomi Shihab Nye National Book Award Finalist, Young People’s Poet Laureate, and devoted trash-picker-upper Naomi Shihab Nye explores these questions and more in this original collection of poetry that features more than eighty new poems. “I couldn’t save the world, but I could pick up trash,” she says in her introduction to this stunning volume. With poems about food wrappers, lost mittens, plastic straws, refugee children, trashy talk, the environment, connection, community, responsibility to the planet, politics, immigration, time, junk mail, trash collectors, garbage trucks, all that we carry and all that we discard, this is a rich, engaging, moving, and sometimes humorous collection for readers ages twelve to adult. Includes ideas for writing, recycling, and reclaiming, and an index.

Book S sh  Improving Social Skills with Children and Adolescents

Download or read book S sh Improving Social Skills with Children and Adolescents written by Ph. D. Mark Bowers and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sosh is an approach to social skills based on a decade of work with children, adolescents, and young adults who struggle with social difficulties. The Sosh framework divides social functioning into five areas essential to social skills development and success: Relate (Connect with Others), Relax (Reduce Stress), Regulate (Manage Behaviors), Reason (Think it Through) and Recognize (Understand Feelings).

Book Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 20

Download or read book Medicine Meets Virtual Reality 20 written by J.D. Westwood and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 2013-03-06 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1992, when it began as the "Medicine Meets Virtual Reality" conference, NextMed/MMVR has been a forum for researchers utilizing IT advances to improve diagnosis and therapy, medical education, and procedural training. Scientists and engineers, physicians and other care providers, educators and students, military medicine specialists, futurists, and industry: all come together with the shared goal of making healthcare more precise and effective. This book presents the proceedings of the 20th NextMed/MMVR conference, held in San Diego, California, USA, in February 2013. It covers a wide range of topics: simulation, modeling, imaging, data visualization, haptics, robotics, sensors, interfaces, plasma medicine, and more. Key applications include simulator design, information-guided therapies, learning tools, mental and physical rehabilitation, and intelligence networking. During the past two decades, healthcare has been transformed by progress in computer-enabled technology, and NextMed/MMVR has played a prominent role in this transformation.