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My Heart Is Africa

Author : Scott Griffin
Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1770891609
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book My Heart Is Africa written by Scott Griffin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2006-07-01 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1996, Scott Griffin left the comfortable routine of his life as a successful businessman to fly solo to Africa in his single-engine Cessna 180 to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors and nurses to remote areas to administer medical assistance. My Heart is Africa is an engaging personal story of his two-year adventure but it is also the story of Africa -- its problems and people, its landscape and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin's intrepid flying odyssey takes the reader on a journey across Africa and into the lives of the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way. All royalties from the sale of this book will be donated to the AMREF Flying Doctors Service.

My Heart Is Africa

Author : Scott Griffin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771023887
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (238 download)

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Download or read book My Heart Is Africa written by Scott Griffin and published by . This book was released on 2006-03-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and gripping account of one man's solo flying adventure to Africa and back.

Daktari

Author : Thomas D. Rees
Publisher : Sunstone Press
ISBN 13 : 0865343896
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (653 download)

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Download or read book Daktari written by Thomas D. Rees and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2004-11 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Rees tells of the Flying Doctors of East Africa, the largest indigenous international health development and non-governmental organization in sub-Sahara Africa operating in nine African countries with a full-time staff of over 600, which was started in 1957 by three plastic surgeons.

Strike Anywhere

Author : Michael Lista
Publisher : The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN 13 : 0889848351
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (898 download)

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Download or read book Strike Anywhere written by Michael Lista and published by The Porcupine's Quill. This book was released on 2016-07-08 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I’d like to think that I’m polarizing the way a battery is," explains Michael Lista in his introduction to Strike Anywhere, "energizing the flashlight by which you read in the dark only because it has a negative and a positive side. Collected here, under one cover, are my cathodes and my anodes." In his self-described ‘arsons’, Lista assesses with equal fire our literary darlings (Anne Carson, Don McKay), talented veterans (Steven Heighton, David McGimpsey) and promising newcomers (Stevie Howell, Aisha Sasha John) of the poetic genre. He depicts a literary institution pathologically averse to the sustenance of a traditional repertoire and addicted to the empty calories of poetic experiments. Television, too, falls prey to his jaundiced eye, from the militant sincerity of The Bachelorette to the receptacle of American anxieties that is The Walking Dead. But beyond passing judgment on the contemporary Literary Industrial Complex, Strike Anywhere acknowledges the inherent contradiction of poetic expression—that its power lies in its uselessness—and recognizes that poets are, nonetheless, the happy few, the unacknowledged legislators of the world. With thoughtfulness, wit and considerable humor, Michael Lista offers a refreshingly candid take on the moral and aesthetic implications of storytelling in all its forms, from boob-tube blockbusters to the latest volume of verse.

With Hope in My Heart

Author : Francois Mai
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039149286
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book With Hope in My Heart written by Francois Mai and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rarely do we see inside the life and mind of a psychiatrist, but that’s exactly what we get in With Hope in My Heart: Musings of a Spirited Psychiatrist. With candor and openness, author François Mai shares how and why he ventured into psychiatry, the lure of academia, and his professional triumphs and troubles along the way. Educated in Apartheid-era South Africa, Mai takes his clinical practice across five countries: South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, the US, and Canada. Inspired by his time and adventures in these places, as well as his greatest influences, psychiatrists William Sargant and George Engel, this memoir is for a diverse audience. Readers eager to learn more about the history of psychiatry and its contemporary problems will enjoy Mai’s commentary and professional anecdotes. Lovers of religion and spirituality contextualized in a secular society will appreciate the ways these intersect with Mai’s professional and personal lives. With Hope in My Heart is more than a psychiatrist’s memoir. It’s a deeply intimate look into the life of a man who endures the death of a brother who had life-long schizophrenia, and himself had two life-threatening medical diagnoses. With themes of hope, Mai navigates readers through tumultuous terrain of spirituality, morality, politics, life, and death.

How Midsummer Night

Author : Janet Somerville
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504089340
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book How Midsummer Night written by Janet Somerville and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2024-04-02 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author chronicles the final months of the life of her close friend and fellow teacher, in this unique and unforgettable memoir. When fifty-six-year-old Richard is diagnosed with glioblastoma, a rare and inoperable brain cancer, his colleague and friend Janet Somerville begins to document his life in a personal, months-long letter to him, to one day share with his wife and daughters. Teaching together at a Toronto boys’ school, Janet and Richard bonded over their love of musical theater and literature. And now that Richard is nearing his end, it is these memories that comfort both of them through the good days and the bad. Peppered with theatrical references and inside jokes—from Shakespeare to Rodgers and Hammerstein, Monty Python to Avenue Q—the letter offers a touching glimpse into Richard’s life. During his treatment, Janet shares with him the day-to-day activities of the school, including the unfiltered witticisms that fall from the mouths of teenage boys. Together they recollect stories of school choir trips, plays directed, and books read. Richard’s positive attitude—his playfulness and graciousness—shines through the pages. How Midsummer Night is a beautiful tribute to a man who made his mark on his family and the community around him—a man who was so much more than just another teacher, so much more than just another friend.

War Tourist

Author : Hilary Brown
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039104169
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book War Tourist written by Hilary Brown and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilary Brown has filed television reports from every continent except Antarctica. She was once profiled on TVO’s ‘The Agenda’ as ‘Canada’s best-ever female foreign correspondent.’ This embarrasses her. She was one of the last journalists to be lifted by helicopter from the roof of the American Embassy in Saigon in 1975, during the Communist takeover of South Vietnam. One of her ABC reports later appeared in the motion picture ‘The Deer Hunter’ in what Brown calls her ‘fifteen seconds of fame.’ During the 1980’s she was an Anchor for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Toronto, an experience she describes as ‘death by hairspray.’ She later returned to ABC News for another 18 years to do the work she loved best: foreign news reporting. She was married to the British biographer and BBC correspondent John Bierman, who she met in Pakistan during the Indo-Pak war of 1971. He became her mentor, best friend, and father of her only child. Their life together, in half a dozen countries over three decades, is a great love story that only ended with his death in 2006. As a widow, Brown continued to work at what she calls ‘the best job in the world’ before she finally hung up her trench coat. Two years later she fell in love with a Canadian businessman who, until the global pandemic, flew her around the world in the relentless pursuit of pseudo-extreme sports for which she was totally unqualified. She says he keeps her in a constant state of excitement and fear, which is just like being a foreign correspondent, all over again. Foreign correspondents are like war tourists in flak jackets,’ she writes. ‘They document human misery, and then move on.’ But many are left with the emotional baggage of guilt, and a search for atonement. This is one of the many themes in Brown’s lively memoir, and it’s quite a ride. To readers of all ages, but especially her own, her message is that life is never over... until it’s over.

No Turning Back

Author : Michael Wood
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789966007407
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book No Turning Back written by Michael Wood and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transform Your Soul

Author : Irene Fulmer RN
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 1491716681
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)

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Download or read book Transform Your Soul written by Irene Fulmer RN and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2014-03-23 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transform Your Soul: Reflections of a Nurse on Compassion, Healing, and Divine Power offers reflections for anyone who wants to minister to the sick and needy. Writing from a deep longing to honor nurses, Irene Fulmer, a practicing nurse herself, has collected her reflections on nursing into a single volume to inspire others by the richness of this sacred calling of nursing and the transformational power it holds. Nurses are the hands that touch and the voices that bring the message of caring to the sick and dying. They are the key to every kind of healing, for compassion is the true healer within each of us. The daily labors of love, patience, and hard work have offered precious seeds for healing to the sick. In these essays, Fulmer addresses the need to recover the soul of nursing and to reclaim and reintegrate the tenets of Florence Nightingaletimeless and noble ideals acknowledging that nursing is a calling and a spiritual practice. Fulmer suggests that this is the right direction for nursing to take in order to move forward. She also considers the idea that nursing is a reflection of the divine; its calling brings caring and compassion to the sick. Today, Nursing and America are at a crossroads. It must now clarify its destiny and redefine itself or be in danger of losing its soul, its meaning, and its relevance in today's world. There is hope for the future of Nursing and America. As its' soul becomes transformed, all society will experience healing and rebirth. http://www.transformyoursoul.org/

Mobil 98: Mid-Atlantic

Author : Fodor's
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780679035015
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Mobil 98: Mid-Atlantic written by Fodor's and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In 1996, successful businessman and certified pilot, Scott Griffin, decided to break from the comfortable routine of his life to go to work for the Flying Doctors Service, an African organization that flies doctors and nurses to remote areas to administer medical assistance. Griffin also made the daring decision to fly his small, single-engine Cessna 180 solo from Canada to Africa and back again." "My Heart is Africa is the engaging, personal story of his two-year aviation adventure throughout Africa. It is also the story of Africa - its problems and people, its landscapes and limitations, its culture and courage. Griffin's intrepid flying odyssey not only takes the reader on a journey across Africa but into the lives of the doctors, nurses, aid workers and eccentric characters that crossed his path along the way."--BOOK JACKET.

In Full Flight

Author : John Heminway
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1524732982
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book In Full Flight written by John Heminway and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II Europe to Africa was a past marked by rebellion, submission, and personal decisions that earned her another nickname—this one sinister—while working as a “doctor” in a Nazi concentration camp. In Full Flight explores the question of whether it is possible to rewrite one’s past by doing good in the present, and takes readers on an extraordinary journey into a dramatic life punctuated by both courage and weakness and driven by a powerful need to atone.

Riding in Africa

Author : Ian Williams
Publisher : Ian Williams
ISBN 13 : 0595373011
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Riding in Africa written by Ian Williams and published by Ian Williams. This book was released on 2005 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Riding in Africa captures the escapades of more than twelve journeys to Africa. Author Ian Williams offers sage-if somewhat tongue-in-cheek-advice on how to get from one end of an African horse safari to the other without killing yourself. Read about African flora and fauna, evolution, history, language, the eccentricities of human character, and above all, the perspectives of a scientist-adventurer who puts himself on life's edge. Williams tells of succumbing to pneumonia in the foothills of Mount Kenya, his experiences in a small African cottage hospital and later in the Nairobi Hospital, part of which he spends in morphine-induced delirium and part in the hospital room reserved for former Kenyan strong man, Daniel arap Moi. Williams also shares stories of adventures with horses and people while riding through the savannahs of Kenya, the mountains of Malawi, the swamps of Botswana, the deserts of Namibia, and the Lapalala Wilderness, home to the fearsome black rhino. Riding in Africa is about middle passages: the leap from one side of fifty to the other and the fine line between life and death.

In Full Flight

Author : John Hylan Heminway
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 1524732974
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book In Full Flight written by John Hylan Heminway and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2018 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The revelatory account of a woman's quest for a new life in Africa in the wake of World War II--a heroic career that hid a dark wartime past"--

Documentary Superstars

Author : Marsha McCreadie
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1581157207
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (811 download)

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Download or read book Documentary Superstars written by Marsha McCreadie and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-02-23 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to trace the rise of documentaries as mainstream entertainment. When did documentaries get glamorous? Documentary Superstars looks at the history of documentaries and traces their transition from hands-off to in your face. Exclusive interviews with Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, Errol Morris, George Clooney, Sacha Baron Cohen, Morgan Freeman, Al Gore, and more of the biggest names in the field show the impact of the documentary style on mainstream movies and on our society. From cinema verite to the inserted narrator, from the “balanced” point of view to the charismatic commentator (a la Fahrenheit 9/11), to the documentarian starring in his own narrative (as in Supersize Me) to filmmakers’ innovative use of cameos, pseudocameos, and archival footage, and much more, Documentary Superstars examines the way in which this evolving art form has changed—and changed us. • Newfound box-office clout makes documentaries big business • Interviews with Michael Moore, Morgan Spurlock, Al Gore, Sacha Baron Cohen, more • Includes career advice for new documentary filmmakers Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers.

The Book Review Digest

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1940 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 1940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Flying Doctor

Author : Michael Noonan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780856860706
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Flying Doctor written by Michael Noonan and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Magazine

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1993-08-02 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York magazine was born in 1968 after a run as an insert of the New York Herald Tribune and quickly made a place for itself as the trusted resource for readers across the country. With award-winning writing and photography covering everything from politics and food to theater and fashion, the magazine's consistent mission has been to reflect back to its audience the energy and excitement of the city itself, while celebrating New York as both a place and an idea.