Medicine Walk

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 157131931X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Medicine Walk by : Richard Wagamese

Download or read book Medicine Walk written by Richard Wagamese and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A First Nations man helps his estranged father find a place to die in this novel by the award-winning author of One Drum and Indian Horse. “Richard Wagamese is a born storyteller.”—Louise Erdrich When Franklin Starlight is called to visit his father, he has mixed emotions. Raised by the old man he was entrusted to soon after his birth, Frank is haunted by the brief and troubling moments he has shared with his father, Eldon. When he finally travels by horseback to town, he finds Eldon on the edge of death, decimated from years of drinking. The two undertake a difficult journey into the mountainous backcountry, in search of a place for Eldon to die and be buried in the warrior way. As they travel, Eldon tells his son the story of his own life—from an impoverished childhood to combat in the Korean War and his shell-shocked return. Through the fog of pain, Eldon relates to his son these desolate moments, as well as his life’s fleeting but nonetheless crucial moments of happiness and hope, the sacrifices made in the name of love. And in telling his story, Eldon offers his son a world the boy has never seen, a history he has never known. “Deeply felt and profoundly moving…written in the kind of sure, clear prose that brings to mind the work of the great North American masters; Steinbeck among them.”—Jane Urquhart, award-winning author of The Night Stages “A novel about the role of stories in our lives, those we tell ourselves about ourselves and those we agree to live by.”—Globe and Mail

Medicine Walk

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Publisher : Atheneum Books for Young Readers
ISBN 13 : 9781416968467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (684 download)

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Book Synopsis Medicine Walk by : Ardath Mayhar

Download or read book Medicine Walk written by Ardath Mayhar and published by Atheneum Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2007-11-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After his father dies from a heart attack after landing their small plane, a young boy is left to fend for himself as he treks through the summer desert back to civilization. As his father piloted the small plane on the short trip to Grandfather’s house, Burr couldn’t help but suggest a quick stop to his father. Why not fly over the Petrified Forest? There would be plenty of time. But after landing their plane in a desert draw, Burr’s father has a heart attack and dies, leaving him to fend for survival on his own. With little food and water and no one that knows where to look for him, Burr must travel alone through forty miles of the summer desert to escape his worst nightmare.

Medicine Walk (new Edition)

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Publisher : Nimbus Publishing (CN)
ISBN 13 : 9781551099231
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (992 download)

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Book Synopsis Medicine Walk (new Edition) by : Laurie Lacey

Download or read book Medicine Walk (new Edition) written by Laurie Lacey and published by Nimbus Publishing (CN). This book was released on 2012-04-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medicine Walk explores the benefits of "special places," and includes notes and exercises as aids to control stress, overcome fear, and foster the ability to concentrate and meditate. It opens up avenues of self-discovery and enables the reader to experience the natural, therapeutic value of the healing world of nature. Medicine Walk also includes a section on the spiritual nature of plants and their medicinal value.

Indian Horse

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319883
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Indian Horse by : Richard Wagamese

Download or read book Indian Horse written by Richard Wagamese and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A First Nations former hockey star looks back on his life as he undergoes treatment for alcoholism in this novel from the author of Dream Wheels. Saul Indian Horse is a child when his family retreats into the woods. Among the lakes and the cedars, they attempt to reconnect with half-forgotten traditions and hide from the authorities who have been kidnapping Ojibway youth. But when winter approaches, Saul loses everything: his brother, his parents, his beloved grandmother—and then his home itself. Alone in the world and placed in a horrific boarding school, Saul is surrounded by violence and cruelty. At the urging of a priest, he finds a tentative salvation in hockey. Rising at dawn to practice alone, Saul proves determined and undeniably gifted. His intuition and vision are unmatched. His speed is remarkable. Together they open doors for him: away from the school, into an all-Ojibway amateur circuit, and finally within grasp of a professional career. Yet as Saul’s victories mount, so do the indignities and the taunts, the racism and the hatred—the harshness of a world that will never welcome him, tied inexorably to the sport he loves. Spare and compact yet undeniably rich, Indian Horse is at once a heartbreaking account of a dark chapter in our history and a moving coming-of-age story. “Shocking and alien, valuable and true… A master of empathy.”—Jane Smiley, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Golden Age “A severe yet beautiful novel…. Indian Horse finds the granite solidity of Wagamese’s prose polished to a lustrous sheen; brisk, brief, sharp chapters propel the reader forward.”—Donna Bailey Nurse, National Post (Toronto)

When Walking Fails

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520937120
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Book Synopsis When Walking Fails by : Lisa Iezzoni

Download or read book When Walking Fails written by Lisa Iezzoni and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2003-06-10 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roughly one in ten adult Americans find their walking slowed by progressive chronic conditions like arthritis, back problems, heart and lung diseases, and diabetes. In this passionate and deeply informed book, Lisa I. Iezzoni describes the personal experiences of and societal responses to adults whose mobility makes it difficult for them to live as they wish—partly because of physical and emotional conditions and partly because of persisting societal and environmental barriers. Basing her conclusions on personal experience, a wealth of survey data, and extensive interviews with dozens of people from a wide social spectrum, Iezzoni explains who has mobility problems and why; how mobility difficulties affect people's physical comfort, attitudes, daily activities, and relationships with family and friends throughout their communities; strategies for improving mobility; and how the health care system addresses mobility difficulties, providing and financing services and assistive technologies. Iezzoni claims that, although strategies exist to improve mobility, many people do not know where to turn for advice. She addresses the need to inform policymakers about areas where changes will better accommodate people with difficulty walking. This straightforward and engaging narrative clearly demonstrates that improving people's ability to move freely and independently will enhance overall health and quality of life, not only for these persons, but also for society as a whole.

Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health

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Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412950236
Total Pages : 1297 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health by : James M. Rippe

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Lifestyle Medicine and Health written by James M. Rippe and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2012-02-14 with total page 1297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These three volumes sort out the science behind nightly news reports and magazine cover stories, and help define the interdisciplinary field of lifestyle medicine and health.

ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine

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Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307394638
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine by : John La Puma

Download or read book ChefMD's Big Book of Culinary Medicine written by John La Puma and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2009 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Integrating nutritional science with culinary expertise, a physician explains how to prevent disease, shed pounds, and promote overall health by using foods that tempt the palate while promoting the body's immunity.

God's Hotel

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1594486549
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (944 download)

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Book Synopsis God's Hotel by : Victoria Sweet

Download or read book God's Hotel written by Victoria Sweet and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victoria Sweet's new book, SLOW MEDICINE, is on sale now! For readers of Paul Kalanithi’s When Breath Becomes Air, a medical “page-turner” that traces one doctor’s “remarkable journey to the essence of medicine” (The San Francisco Chronicle). San Francisco’s Laguna Honda Hospital is the last almshouse in the country, a descendant of the Hôtel-Dieu (God’s hotel) that cared for the sick in the Middle Ages. Ballet dancers and rock musicians, professors and thieves—“anyone who had fallen, or, often, leapt, onto hard times” and needed extended medical care—ended up here. So did Victoria Sweet, who came for two months and stayed for twenty years. Laguna Honda, relatively low-tech but human-paced, gave Sweet the opportunity to practice a kind of attentive medicine that has almost vanished. Gradually, the place transformed the way she understood her work. Alongside the modern view of the body as a machine to be fixed, her extraordinary patients evoked an older idea, of the body as a garden to be tended. God’s Hotel tells their story and the story of the hospital itself, which, as efficiency experts, politicians, and architects descended, determined to turn it into a modern “health care facility,” revealed its own surprising truths about the essence, cost, and value of caring for the body and the soul.

The New York Times Book of Medicine

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Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 145490206X
Total Pages : 698 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (549 download)

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Book Synopsis The New York Times Book of Medicine by : Gina Kolata

Download or read book The New York Times Book of Medicine written by Gina Kolata and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today we live longer, healthier lives than ever before in history—a transformation due almost entirely to tremendous advances in medicine. This change is so profound, with many major illnesses nearly wiped out, that its hard now to imagine what the world was like in 1851, when the New York Times began publishing. Treatments for depression, blood pressure, heart disease, ulcers, and diabetes came later; antibiotics were nonexistent, viruses unheard of, and no one realized yet that DNA carried blueprints for life or the importance of stem cells. Edited by award-winning writer Gina Kolata, this eye-opening collection of 150 articles from the New York Times archive charts the developing scientific insights and breakthroughs into diagnosing and treating conditions like typhoid, tuberculosis, cancer, diabetes, Alzheimers, and AIDS, and chronicles the struggles to treat mental illness and the enormous success of vaccines. It also reveals medical mistakes, lapses in ethics, and wrong paths taken in hopes of curing disease. Every illness, every landmark has a tale, and the newspapers top reporters tell each one with perceptiveness and skill.

Cutting for Stone

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Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184001754
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Book Synopsis Cutting for Stone by : Abraham Verghese

Download or read book Cutting for Stone written by Abraham Verghese and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance and bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles—and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.

Human Walking

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Human Walking written by Jessica Rose and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Love Medicine

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Publisher : Odyssey Editions
ISBN 13 : 1623730384
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (237 download)

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Book Synopsis Love Medicine by : Louise Erdrich

Download or read book Love Medicine written by Louise Erdrich and published by Odyssey Editions. This book was released on 2010-08-15 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first of Louise Erdrich’s polysymphonic novels set in North Dakota – a fictional landscape that, in Erdrich’s hands, has become iconic – Love Medicine is the story of three generations of Ojibwe families. Set against the tumultuous politics of the reservation,the lives of the Kashpaws and the Lamartines are a testament to the endurance of a people and the sorrows of history.

For Joshua

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Publisher : Milkweed+ORM
ISBN 13 : 1571317333
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis For Joshua by : Richard Wagamese

Download or read book For Joshua written by Richard Wagamese and published by Milkweed+ORM. This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An expansive work about healing, resilience, humanity, respect, inheritance, Indigenous teachings, and most of all, love” from the author of Indian Horse (Literary Hub). “We may not relight the fires that used to burn in our villages, but we can carry the embers from those fires in our hearts and learn to light new fires in a new world.” Ojibwe tradition calls for fathers to walk their children through the world, sharing the ancient understanding “that we are all, animate and inanimate alike, living on the one pure breath with which the Creator gave life to the Universe.” In this intimate series of letters to the six-year-old son from whom he was estranged, Richard Wagamese fulfills this traditional duty with grace and humility, describing his own path through life—separation from his family as a boy, substance abuse, incarceration, and ultimately the discovery of books and writing—and braiding this extraordinary story with the teachings of his people, in which animals were the teachers of human beings, until greed and a desire to control the more-than-human world led to anger, fear, and, eventually, profound alienation. At once a deeply moving memoir and a fascinating elucidation of a rich indigenous cosmology, For Joshua is an unforgettable journey. “Told lyrically and unflinchingly, For Joshua is both a letter of apology and another attempt at self-identification for the writer. A must-read for Wagamese fans, and a good primer for his novels.” —Minneapolis StarTribune “A well-written, introspective book on fatherhood and loss that will especially interest readers and students of First Nations life and literature.” —Library Journal

Dream Wheels

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Publisher : Milkweed Editions
ISBN 13 : 1571319328
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Book Synopsis Dream Wheels by : Richard Wagamese

Download or read book Dream Wheels written by Richard Wagamese and published by Milkweed Editions. This book was released on 2016-04-12 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cowboy forced into early retirement bonds with a stubborn teenager in this novel from the award-winning author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk. Canadian champion bull-rider Joe Willie Wolfchild is poised to win the most sought-after title in rodeo when a devastating accident at the National Finals leaves his body and ambitions in tatters. Unsure of what else to do, he retires to the panoramic family ranch, Wolfcreek, to mend. Claire Hartley and her fifteen-year-old son Aiden have nearly been torn apart by abusive boyfriends and an unjust world when a friend sends them to the Wolfchild ranch. Thrown together by terrible circumstance, it appears Aiden and Joe Willie have more in common than their childhoods would suggest. After a rocky start, they strike a deal: Aiden will help Joe Willie repair his ’34 Ford V8 pickup if the former champion teaches the city kid how to ride a bull. As Wagamese reveals their story, he rewrites the history of the North American cowboy. In taut, muscular prose, Wagamese explores how independence, self-determination, and a return to cultural tradition can heal body, mind, and community. “Richard Wagamese is a born storyteller, and Dream Wheels is his finest book yet. Cover to cover, a ripping read.”—Louise Erdrich, New York Times – bestselling author of The Night Watchman “A worthy testament to the healing power of family and tradition.”—Publishers Weekly “Ojibwa author Wagamese mixes cowboy lore and Native American mysticism in this affecting novel about the healing effects of family…. His soaring descriptions of the desert landscape, action-packed rodeo scenes, and reverence for hearth and home will strike a chord with readers.”—Booklist

Starlight

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 077107087X
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (71 download)

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Book Synopsis Starlight by : Richard Wagamese

Download or read book Starlight written by Richard Wagamese and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2019-05-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER From the beloved, bestselling author of Indian Horse and Medicine Walk, Richard Wagamese's final novel is a rapturous and profoundly moving story of love, compassion, mercy, and the consolations to be found in the natural world. Frank Starlight has long settled into a quiet life working his remote farm, occasionally venturing into the unbroken country around his property to photograph the wild animals who thrive there. His contemplative existence comes to an abrupt end with the arrival of Emmy, a woman on the run who has committed a desperate act so she and her child can escape a life of abuse. Frank takes in Emmy and her daughter to help them get back on their feet, and, gradually, this accidental family grows into a real one. But Emmy's violent ex-boyfriend isn't content to just let her go. He wants revenge and is determined to hunt her down. An instant national bestseller, Starlight was unfinished at the time of Richard Wagamese's death, yet every page radiates with his masterful storytelling, intense humanism, and insights that are as hard-earned as they are beautiful. With astonishing scenes set in the rugged backcountry of the B.C. Interior, and characters whose scars cut deep even as their journey toward healing and forgiveness lifts us, Starlight is a magnificent last gift to readers from a writer who believed in the power of stories to save us.

Medicine Walk

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Publisher : Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780176266455
Total Pages : 24 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (664 download)

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Download or read book Medicine Walk written by Marie Gaudet and published by Nelson. This book was released on 2004 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Feather Medicine

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Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781535578479
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (784 download)

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Book Synopsis Feather Medicine by : Francesca Mason Boring

Download or read book Feather Medicine written by Francesca Mason Boring and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-07-28 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Feather Medicine, Walking in Shoshone Dreamtime: A Family System Constellation by Francesca Mason Boring is an invitation to ancient campfires and the warmth of contemporary family bonds. Within the pages of this journey one is invited into the wisdom of Native American traditions and humor as well as an introduction to Family Systems Constellation. Feather Medicine chronicles the journey of a contemporary, bi-cultural Shoshone woman who has inherited her maternal grandmother's gift of dream and knowing; a poignant look at the contrast of the indigenous world of visions, and the western mode of thinking. For those who wish for deeper connections in family relationship, social workers, bereavement counselors, Native American studies and literature professors, this book is an insightful companion.