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Book Synopsis Things the Grandchildren Should Know by : Mark Oliver Everett
Download or read book Things the Grandchildren Should Know written by Mark Oliver Everett and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing upon the relentless tragedies in his life for inspiration in writing highly acclaimed music with his indie rock group, the Eels, Everett pens a memoir that is a rich and poignant narrative on coming of age, love, death, and the creative vision.
Download or read book 85a written by Kyle Thomas Smith and published by Publish Green. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a subzero Chicago morning on January 23, 1989, 15-year-old punk rocker Seamus O'Grady braves the bitter cold at the 85A bus stop, railing against his repressive environment in anticipation of his "the-minute-I-turn-18" move to London.
Book Synopsis Weird Tales 349 - 85th Anniversary Issue by : Ann VanderMeer
Download or read book Weird Tales 349 - 85th Anniversary Issue written by Ann VanderMeer and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mammoth 85th Anniversary Issue of The Unique Magazine features: FICTION: "Heart of Ice" by Tanith Lee; "Creature" by Ramsey Shehadeh; "The Yellow Dressing Gown" by Sarah Monette; "The Talion Moth" by John Kirk; "Detours on the Way to Nothing" by Rachel Swirsky; "Black Petals" (new Elric novella) by Michael Moorock. SPECIAL FEATURE: The 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years. POETRY: "A Compleynte on the Deth of Sir William Thatcher, Sumtyme Ycleped Ulrich of Lichtenstein" by Geoffrey Chaucer. NONFICTION: Interview: Jeff VanderMeer chats with weird fantasy novelist China Mieville; Weirdism: Stephen Geigen-Miller on his pulp-fiction heritage; Lost Pages: Ira Marcks presents a snapshot of modern Innsmouth...; Lost in Lovecraft: ...and Kenneth Hite explores why H.P.L.'s characters sought asylum in Arkham; Excerpt: Csilla Csori discusses the science of Dune's gholas and how to raise the dead; The Bazaar: Cherie Priest meets a steampunk Cthulhoid amulet crafter; The Cryptic: Darrell Schweitzer on the enduring power of the Blob; The Library: Book reviews.
Book Synopsis Tell Your Story by : Christopher B. Sanford
Download or read book Tell Your Story written by Christopher B. Sanford and published by . This book was released on 2005-06-01 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I became interested in Reminiscence Writing almost twenty years ago, when I had never heard of it. The dean at a North Carolina community college where I was teaching called me in, showed me a brief newspaper clipping about a reminiscence-writing class in Oregon, and asked, "Could we do something like this here?" When I foolishly said yes, he asked, "How about working up a syllabus so we can offer it next semester?" So I did (and heaven only knows what I said in that syllabus!), we offered it, and about a dozen people showed up. And we were off and running. Over the years, I have taught Reminiscence Writing at least a dozen times, as a course that ran anywhere from six weeks to a semester. I have taught the course at that same community college, in Duke University's Institute for Learning in Retirement (four times--a record in a program where classes are normally offered only once), in a similar program at North Carolina State University, and even at a local retirement community. I taught my students a lot. And they responded by teaching me even more. Everything in Tell Your Story has come out of the group experiences in these many reminiscence writing classes. The message (for you!!): You have a story to tell -- even if you don't think you have ever done anything "interesting." (The interest comes from how you tell your story, not from what you may have done or seen.) It is important for you (and your children and grandchildren and nieces and nephews) to preserve your story (and stories) in an interesting and readable form -- if you don't, something valuable has been lost. So you're not a writer? No matter. If you can write a postcard (or, today, an e-mail message), you can tell yourstories. This book will show you how. One step at a time, you can write down the interesting stories of your life (and they will be interesting, because of the way you will tell them), you can accumulate lots of stories (more than you would have imagined), you can compile them into a slim (but growing) volume, and you can have them printed (at modest cost) to share with family and even with the wider world. In this book I've included some of my favorite reminiscences. Now let's get started on yours.
Book Synopsis The Risha Levinson Story by : Risha W. Levinson
Download or read book The Risha Levinson Story written by Risha W. Levinson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2013-03-08 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a Woman Have it All? No one can have it all. But I have had a lot: to wit, a long-lasting marriage of sixty-two years, four children and six grandchildren, a highly satisfying family life, and an engaging and productive career. How did this all happen? Read my book to find out. What Guidelines Did I Follow for Such a Fulfilling Life? Here are a few. Who refreshes others will be refreshed. The Book of Proverbs Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is the present, thats why its a gift. Anonymous If I am not for myself who will be for me? And if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? Hillel
Book Synopsis I Didn't Make Admiral by : George H. Jackson
Download or read book I Didn't Make Admiral written by George H. Jackson and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pour yourself a drink and walk the gangplank into the adventures of George Jackson, a retired naval officer and master mariner. Engrossing, irreverent, and full of life, I Didn’t Make Admiral is a collection of stories told with love, self-awareness, honesty, and a great sense of humour. George comes of age on the West Coast of Canada in the 1940s, finds his English rose while serving with the British Navy, introduces their children to the freedom of the ocean and islands, and does another 27,000 nautical miles under sail in his later years. With light, lively prose, this memoir gives you a taste of the navy and family life during the twentieth century set against the backdrop of privilege, poverty, and social position. Whether he was sailing over the waves in a ship or beneath them in a submarine, George’s lifelong affair with the sea and deep appreciation of family, friends and country come through on every page. George never did make Admiral—but along the journey he learned that was never really the point.
Book Synopsis Grandparents in Cultural Context by : David W. Shwalb
Download or read book Grandparents in Cultural Context written by David W. Shwalb and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-20 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grandparents in Cultural Context gives a long overdue global view of the changing roles of grandparents. The eleven main chapters are by experts in the Americas, Europe and Russia, Asia, and Africa and the Middle East, and the editors integrate their chapters with previous writings on grandparenthood. Rather than technical or statistical research reports, each chapter provides a thought-provoking and comprehensive review of research, real-life case stories, cultural influences, and applied implications for grandparenthood across and within societies. Calling special attention to the roles of grandfathers and grandparenthood in societies previously un-represented in the literature, it provides several hundred new citations of work previously unavailable in English-language publications. Accessible to both scholars and students, it has several pedagogical features (e.g. web links, discussion questions) that make it useful as a text for upper-division undergraduate or graduate level classes in behavioral, social, and family sciences. It is relevant to psychology, gerontology, family studies, anthropology, family/comparative sociology, education, social work, gender studies, ethnic studies, psychiatry, and diversity and international studies programs. Practitioners, service providers, policymakers, and internationally minded grandparents will also enjoy this book.
Download or read book The Rotarian written by and published by . This book was released on 1984-12 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established in 1911, The Rotarian is the official magazine of Rotary International and is circulated worldwide. Each issue contains feature articles, columns, and departments about, or of interest to, Rotarians. Seventeen Nobel Prize winners and 19 Pulitzer Prize winners – from Mahatma Ghandi to Kurt Vonnegut Jr. – have written for the magazine.
Book Synopsis Family Stories and the Life Course by : Michael W. Pratt
Download or read book Family Stories and the Life Course written by Michael W. Pratt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-04-26 with total page 451 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pratt (Wilfred Laurier University) and Fiese (Syracuse University) survey recent psychological research and theory on family stories, which are first-person accounts of personal experiences that have meaning to individuals and the family as a whole. Contributors focus on the act of telling family st.
Book Synopsis The Gift of Caring by : Marcy Cottrell Houle
Download or read book The Gift of Caring written by Marcy Cottrell Houle and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-07-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The desire to help our elders navigate health issues is clear and universal—how to assure proper care and a good ending is not. Combining adroit storytelling skills with expert advice, The Gift of Caring: Saving Our Parents from the Perils of Modern Healthcare brings the reader into all-too-familiar scenarios facing our aging parents and offers answers to questions we may not know to ask until it’s too late. Author and biologist Marcy Houle shares her personal journey of caring for her father, a surgeon, who developed Alzheimer’s, and later her mother, who succumbed to other medical conditions. Like many children of aging parents, Marcy often felt powerless traveling this sad trajectory—watching them fall through the cracks of a fragmented and confusing healthcare system, where professionals often wrote off their symptoms as “just old age.” Not having the understanding of the changes that come with aging, she was led to believe there was nothing she could do to help. The tragic secret? According to coauthor and geriatrics physician Elizabeth Eckstrom, these symptoms frequently are not “just old age.” Rather, the problem is that the current healthcare delivery model for older people is ill-equipped to provide the comprehensive, person-centered care seniors need. Today, thousands of aging people face unnecessary suffering, hospitalizations, nursing home stays, and even death due to complications that could have been prevented or treated. Even more troubling, many healthcare professionals have had little or no training in the care of older adults. The Gift of Caring reveals these pitfalls and provides families with tools they can use to avoid them. Interspersed with every few chapters of Marcy’s riveting story, Dr. Eckstrom shares professional medical insights, compiled from the latest research, into what Marcy could have done to safeguard her parents. She shows us how to navigate the system, how we can become our loved one’s best advocate, and what we need to know to achieve healthy aging and meaningful, compassionate final years. Honest, at times humorous, and ultimately uplifting, The Gift of Caring sheds new light on aging from twin perspectives: a story of a daughter desperately seeking help for the parents she loves, and a geriatrician who gives us the knowledge we need to insist upon a better way.
Book Synopsis Grandad's Story by : Albert Turnbull
Download or read book Grandad's Story written by Albert Turnbull and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected diary entries and family album of Gateshead man Albert Turnbull, including engaging details of life in pre-war England.
Book Synopsis Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust by : Ewa Stańczyk
Download or read book Comic Books, Graphic Novels and the Holocaust written by Ewa Stańczyk and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-04-28 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the portrayals of the Holocaust in newspaper cartoons, educational pamphlets, short stories and graphic novels. Focusing on recognised and lesser-known illustrators from Europe and beyond, the volume looks at autobiographical and fictional accounts and seeks to paint a broader picture of Holocaust comic strips from the 1940s to the present. The book shows that the genre is a capacious one, not only dealing with the killing of millions of Jews but also with Jewish lives in war-torn Europe, the personal and transgenerational memory of the Second World War and the wider national and transnational legacies of the Shoah. The chapters in this collection point to the aesthetic diversity of the genre which uses figurative and allegorical representation, as well as applying different stylistics, from realism to fantasy. Finally, the contributions to this volume show new developments in comic books and graphic novels on the Holocaust, including the rise of alternative publications, aimed at the adult reader, and the emergence of state-funded educational comics written with young readers in mind. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Modern Jewish Studies.
Book Synopsis A Story Larger than My Own by : Janet Burroway
Download or read book A Story Larger than My Own written by Janet Burroway and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1955, Maxine Kumin submitted a poem to the Saturday Evening Post. “Lines on a Half-Painted House” made it into the magazine—but not before Kumin was asked to produce, via her husband’s employer, verification that the poem was her original work. Kumin, who went on to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry, was part of a groundbreaking generation of women writers who came of age during the midcentury feminist movement. By challenging the status quo and ultimately finding success for themselves, they paved the way for future generations of writers. In A Story Larger than My Own, Janet Burroway brings together Kumin, Julia Alvarez, Jane Smiley, Erica Jong, and fifteen other accomplished women of this generation to reflect on their writing lives. The essays and poems featured in this collection illustrate that even writers who achieve critical and commercial success experience a familiar pattern of highs and lows over the course of their careers. Along with success comes the pressure to sustain it, as well as a constant search for subject matter, all too frequent crises of confidence, the challenges of a changing publishing scene, and the difficulty of combining writing with the ordinary stuff of life—family, marriage, jobs. The contributors, all now over the age of sixty, also confront the effects of aging, with its paradoxical duality of new limitations and newfound freedom. Taken together, these stories offer advice from experience to writers at all stages of their careers and serve as a collective memoir of a truly remarkable generation of women.
Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1979-11-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.
Book Synopsis Conversations with My Grandchildren About God, Religion, and Life by : William Powell Tuck
Download or read book Conversations with My Grandchildren About God, Religion, and Life written by William Powell Tuck and published by Energion Publications. This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Passing our faith from generation to generation is difficult. It has been this way from the time that Cain killed his brother, through Israel's call for a king because Samuel's sons were not like him, up to the present day when children reject their parents' faith. Prolific author (37 books and counting ) William Powell Tuck wants to "tell to the next generation the glorious deeds of the Lord, his might, and the wonderful things he has done" (Psalm 78:4). In this book, he does so by answering serious questions from his grandchildren, many of whom are college age. He's not afraid to address the controversial questions with them, including current issues of politics, climate change, and human sexuality. But all of these questions are addressed from a foundation of informed Christian faith, honed through years of preaching, teaching and writing. At the same time, he addresses questions from the younger grandchildren in simpler terms. With an accessible, question and answer layout, the reader can find direction in addressing these topics during their own family discussions, or in teaching them in small groups, Sunday School, or even from the pulpit. Every generation can benefit from this book, but those who teach will find it especially helpful. Shouldn't that be every Christian?
Book Synopsis Waterloo, a Story of the Hundred Days by : Erckmann-Chatrian
Download or read book Waterloo, a Story of the Hundred Days written by Erckmann-Chatrian and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Nature in Story and Verse for the Kindergarten, School and Home by : Kittie Baldwin Jaques
Download or read book Nature in Story and Verse for the Kindergarten, School and Home written by Kittie Baldwin Jaques and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
