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Book Synopsis Lifelines for the Isolated by : John Weeks
Download or read book Lifelines for the Isolated written by John Weeks and published by Commonwealth Secretariat. This book was released on 1994 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores strategies for giving professional support to teachers and administrators working in isolated communities.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Christl Verduyn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before her death in 1985 at the age of fifty-one, Marian Engel had published seven novels, two collections of short stories, and numerous essays and articles. Despite this impressive output and various literary honours, including a Governor General's Award for her novel Bear, Engel's writing has not received the critical attention it deserves. A comprehensive study of Engel's body of work, Lifelines fills a major gap in Canadian literary criticism.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Steven Rose and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-09 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A distinct voice in the nature/nurture debate, Rose's series of essays are a response to the biological reductionism of Richard Dawkins's book, The Selfish Gene (OUP, 1990), which insists that all aspects of human life are in our genes, and everything arises as a consequence of natural selection. Rose argues that life depends on the elaborate web of interactions that occur within cells, organisms, and ecosystems, and in which DNA has but one part to play.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Tim Palmer and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2004-01-29 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The health of our nation is reflected in the health of our rivers. These flowing streams supply our drinking water and they sustain the biological wealth of the continent. Central to our past and vital to our future, rivers are the lifelines, yet they are constantly under siege. In Lifelines, Tim Palmer addresses the fate of our waterways. While proposals for destructive federal dams are no longer common, and some of the worst pollution has been brought under control, myriad other concerns have appeared-many of them more complex than threats of the past. Now we face increased diversion of flows, loss of riparian habitat, and pollution from toxic waste, feedlots, farms, and clearcuts. Palmer examines the alarming condition of rivers in today's world and reports on what people are doing to solve the challenging problems. In many stories of hope, he chronicles the success of citizens and government agencies working for better stewardship and pioneering new ways of caring for our waters and land. Finally, he considers what the future will hold for these critical lifelines. According to Palmer, caring for rivers as centerpieces of local ecosystems marks a hopeful starting point toward better care for the planet.
Book Synopsis MS and Your Feelings by : Allison Shadday
Download or read book MS and Your Feelings written by Allison Shadday and published by Hunter House. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multiple Sclerosis is a devastating, incurable disease that afflicts about one in a thousand North Americans. Striking in the prime of life, it is the most common debilitating neurological disorder of people between the ages of 20 and 40. Eighty percent of patients suffer from cognitive impairments, seventy percent from sexual dysfunction, and fifty percent from depression. Few people are prepared for the emotional impact of this unpredictable, disabling chronic condition.
Download or read book Isolation written by Shelley G. Trebesh and published by Vistagroup Consulting. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost every leaders at one time or another will face being set aside from ministry. This booklet shows what leaders face when set aside from ministry for various reasons like sickeness, persecution, discipline, crises, self-choice, etc. The manual gives patterns and proper attitudes to face these experiences as leaders develop toward maturity in their leadership. Isolation is one of the deep processing items which all leaders should life schedule for.
Book Synopsis Lifelines from Our Past by : L. S. Stavrianos
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 264 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 Lifelines written by Mike Pilavachi and published by David C Cook. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if, during a battle with fear, we could take some tips from David? Or in wrestling with a relationship, we could learn from Ruth? Or when we’ve got questions about the future, we could sit down with Joseph? Through their successes, struggles, and failures, these men and women of faith have blazed a trail for us to follow. We can walk beside them and discover God with them. Their stories took place thousands of years ago, but what their lives teach us has never mattered more. Much of what we learn comes from the people we live with. We see and share their worlds and, without realizing it, are shaped by them. What would it be like if we could share in the lives of the great heroes of the faith? In Lifelines, Mike Pilavachi and Andy Croft help us understand what the stories of these biblical characters have to teach us about how to live lives full of faith and integrity today.
Book Synopsis Lifelines of Our Society by : Dirk Van Laak
Download or read book Lifelines of Our Society written by Dirk Van Laak and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history and examination of global infrastructures and the outsized role they play in our lives. Infrastructure is essential to defining how the public functions, yet there is little public knowledge regarding why and how it became today’s strongest global force over government and individual lives. Who should build and maintain infrastructures? How are they to be protected? And why are they all in such bad shape? In Lifelines of Our Society, Dirk van Laak offers broad audiences a history of global infrastructures—focused on Western societies, over the past two hundred years—that considers all their many paradoxes. He illustrates three aspects of infrastructure: their development, their influence on nation building and colonialism, and finally, how individuals internalize infrastructure and increasingly become not only its user but regulator. Beginning with public works, infrastructure in the nineteenth century carried the hope that it would facilitate world peace. Van Laak shows how, instead, it transformed to promote consumerism’s individual freedoms and our notions of work, leisure, and fulfillment. Lifelines of Our Society reveals how today’s infrastructure is both a source and a reflection of concentrated power and economic growth, which takes the form of cities under permanent construction. Symbols of power, van Laak describes, come with vulnerability, and this book illustrates the dual nature of infrastructure’s potential to hold nostalgia and inspire fear, to ease movement and govern ideas, and to bring independence to the nuclear family and control governments of the Global South.
Book Synopsis Lifelines of Love by : Dr. Peter M. Kurowski
Download or read book Lifelines of Love written by Dr. Peter M. Kurowski and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2015-12-24 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is your marriage suffering or in trouble? Or maybe it just hasn’t reached the heights of fulfillment that you hoped it would. In Lifelines of Love, “Pastor Pete” Kurowski has provided an unique and indispensable tool to help Christian couples utilize the means of grace Christ has provided—Word and Sacrament—and advance their union to become a “piece of heaven on earth.” Dr. Kurowski’s engaging writing style and literary devices help readers remember the material, while discussion questions at the end of each chapter will allow couples to interact with the content and apply it to their own relationship. Pastor Pete moves from the foundation of marriage and family to the topics of forgiveness, faith, fidelity, freedom, finances, and finally-- where to go from here. Within these seven chapters the reader will see an emphasis on a high-octane gospel--the power of God for salvation, restoration, and celebration. This book will provide humor, pathos, and the most practical advice possible for Christian couples to discover and put into practice real love today. “Chapter Two on Forgiveness is worth the ‘price of admission’ on its own.” --- Dr. Kevin Moeller, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Book Synopsis Hell Is a Very Small Place by : Jean Casella
Download or read book Hell Is a Very Small Place written by Jean Casella and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2014-11-11 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An unforgettable look at the peculiar horrors and humiliations involved in solitary confinement” from the prisoners who have survived it (New York Review of Books). On any given day, the United States holds more than eighty-thousand people in solitary confinement, a punishment that—beyond fifteen days—has been denounced as a form of cruel and degrading treatment by the UN Special Rapporteur on Torture. Now, in a book that will add a startling new dimension to the debates around human rights and prison reform, former and current prisoners describe the devastating effects of isolation on their minds and bodies, the solidarity expressed between individuals who live side by side for years without ever meeting one another face to face, the ever-present specters of madness and suicide, and the struggle to maintain hope and humanity. As Chelsea Manning wrote from her own solitary confinement cell, “The personal accounts by prisoners are some of the most disturbing that I have ever read.” These firsthand accounts are supplemented by the writing of noted experts, exploring the psychological, legal, ethical, and political dimensions of solitary confinement. “Do we really think it makes sense to lock so many people alone in tiny cells for twenty-three hours a day, for months, sometimes for years at a time? That is not going to make us safer. That’s not going to make us stronger.” —President Barack Obama “Elegant but harrowing.” —San Francisco Chronicle “A potent cry of anguish from men and women buried way down in the hole.” —Kirkus Reviews
Book Synopsis Connected in Isolation by : Eszter Hargittai
Download or read book Connected in Isolation written by Eszter Hargittai and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2022-12-20 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What life during lockdown reveals about digital inequality. The vast majority of people in wealthy, highly connected, or digitally privileged societies may have crossed the digital divide, but being online does not mean that everyone is equally connected—and digital inequality reflects experience both online and off. In Connected in Isolation Eszter Hargittai looks at how this digital disparity played out during the unprecedented isolation imposed in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. During initial COVID-19 lockdowns the Internet, for many, became a lifeline, as everything from family get-togethers to doctor’s visits moved online. Using survey data collected in April and May of 2020 in the United States, Italy, and Switzerland, Hargittai explores how people from varied backgrounds and differing skill levels were able to take advantage of digital media to find the crucial information they needed—to help loved ones, procure necessities, understand rules and risks. Her study reveals the extent to which long-standing social and digital inequalities played a critical role in this move toward computer-mediated communication—and were often exacerbated in the process. However, Hargittai notes, context matters: her findings reveal that some populations traditionally disadvantaged with technology, such as older people, actually did better than others, in part because of the continuing importance of traditional media, television in particular. The pandemic has permanently shifted how reliant we are upon online information, and the implications of Hargittai’s groundbreaking comparative research go far beyond the pandemic. Connected in Isolation informs and expands our understanding of digital media, including how they might mitigate or worsen existing social disparities; whom they empower or disenfranchise; and how we can identify and expand the skills people bring to them.
Book Synopsis 400 Friends and No One to Call by : Val Walker
Download or read book 400 Friends and No One to Call written by Val Walker and published by Central Recovery Press. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A friendly, candid, and comforting guide for isolating times when we have no one to count on. Despite the inclusive promise of social media, loneliness is a growing epidemic in the United States. Social isolation can shatter our confidence. In isolating times, we’re not only lonely, we’re also ashamed because our society stigmatizes people who appear to be without support. As a single, fifty-eight-year-old woman, Val Walker found herself stranded and alone after major surgery when her friends didn’t show up. As a professional rehabilitation counselor, she was too embarrassed to reveal how utterly isolated she was by asking for someone to help, and it felt agonizingly awkward calling colleagues out of the blue. As she recovered, Val found her voice and developed a plan of action for people who lack social support, not only to heal from the pain of isolation, but to create a solid strategy for rebuilding a sense of community. 400 Friends and No One to Call spells out the how-tos for befriending our wider community, building a social safety net, and fostering our sense of belonging. On a deeper level, we are invited to befriend our loneliness, rather than feel ashamed of it, and open our hearts and minds to others trapped in isolation.
Download or read book Lifelines written by Muriel R. Gillick and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A specialist in elder care, Dr. Muriel Gillick examines the complications of lives lived far longer than ever before. This book aims to help the frail elderly and their families cope with the often unforeseen dilemmas of aging: the most common chronic ailments, the acute problems, and their impact on living options. Tracing the stories of four people, Dr. Gillick highlights the various challenges and decisions that arise when frailty develops and discusses the importance of prevention and social responsibility in assessing, treating, and living with frailty. " G]ives me hope that if the worst should come, there is help to be found and meaning to be derived." John Kotre, author of "Make It Count""
Download or read book Life Lines written by Vic Davies and published by Paragon Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book of many stories, several of them themed on the author's experiences in Africa and/or as a private pilot. Most of them are told in free-flowing verse: but they end rather more conventionally in prose with a real-life African flying adventure. Vic's themes are varied, and his narrative poetry is written in a genuinely fresh poetic style, largely uninterrupted by punctuation, relying on almost anarchic line changes and a very unstructured use of rhyme to achieve its rhythms and emotional power.In complete contrast, his final short story surely stands as a vivid cautionary tale for any novice pilot. It gives a fast-moving first-person account of one near-death experience he had over Africa as an inexperienced pilot in the 1970s, when a basic error of judgement - together with a sudden change in the weather - conspired to leave him lost in an electric storm and confronted by the imminent approach of darkness.
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Book Synopsis Life of a Suicidal American by : Landon Mitchell
Download or read book Life of a Suicidal American written by Landon Mitchell and published by Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency. This book was released on 2019-07-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the gripping novel Life of a Suicidal American, a young man tries to find peace in life as he struggles to take care of his family. Landon returns home from college to find his grandfather has dementia. His mother can’t walk and is suffering from multiple sclerosis and cancer. Following the sudden death of his father, his life is spinning out of control. As Landon becomes reacquainted with his family, he starts to see one common thread: They are all losing the will to live. Join the author as he takes readers into the minds of what could be considered suicidal America. From young to old, the greatest country on the planet is facing a crisis! Americans are losing the will to live at a staggering and increasing rate. What is happening?
Book Synopsis Seize Life - While You Can by : Gitte Svanholm
Download or read book Seize Life - While You Can written by Gitte Svanholm and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
