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Download or read book The Stone Elephant written by Buck Rish and published by Buck Rish. This book was released on 2000-10-20 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author's naval career included staff assignments at four major hospitals; a hospital ship, the USS Repose off VietNam '68-'69; and the National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Maryland. He then returned to Norfolk, Virginia and continued his neurosurgical career in private practice and as Professor of Clinical Neurosurgery at the Eastern Virginia Medical School. From his challenging and extensive experience he transcends the too often impersonal world of medicine with honed skill, mixing poignancy and humor, to tell the story of a marine intelligence officer surviving a serious head injury, entering the political arena, and progressing to the White House. The author concludes the story by addressing America's healthcare problem in his graphic and verisimilar style.
Book Synopsis The Stone Elephant by : Liliana Stafford
Download or read book The Stone Elephant written by Liliana Stafford and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving story that explores the relationship between us and the natural world through the powerful imagery of elephants.
Book Synopsis The Riddle of the Stone Elephant by : Sam Epstein
Download or read book The Riddle of the Stone Elephant written by Sam Epstein and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While handling reporting assignments for his father's newspaper, become involved in a world of mystery and intrigue.
Book Synopsis The Elephants in My Backyard by : Rajiv Surendra
Download or read book The Elephants in My Backyard written by Rajiv Surendra and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-11-08 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel's Life of Pi. So begins his "lovely and human" (Jenny Lawson, author of Furiously Happy) tale of obsessively pursuing a dream, overcoming failure, and finding meaning in life. “This was a once-in-a-lifetime chance. I found myself standing dangerously close to the edge of a cliff. Far below me was an incredible abyss with no end in sight. I could turn back and safely return to where I had come from, or I could throw caution to the wind, lift my arms up into the air . . . and jump.” —From The Elephants in My Backyard What happens when you spend ten years obsessively pursuing a dream, and then, in the blink of an eye, you learn that you have failed, that the dream will not come true? In 2003, Rajiv Surendra was filming Mean Girls, playing the beloved rapping mathlete Kevin Gnapoor, when a cameraman insisted he read Yann Martel’s Life of Pi. Mesmerized by all the similarities between Pi and himself—both are five-foot-five with coffee-colored complexions, both share a South Indian culture, both lived by a zoo—when Rajiv learns that Life of Pi will be made into a major motion picture he is convinced that playing the title role is his destiny. In a great leap of faith Rajiv embarks on a quest to embody the sixteen-year-old Tamil schoolboy. He quits university and buys a one-way ticket from Toronto to South India. He visits the sacred stone temples of Pondicherry, he travels to the frigid waters off the coast of rural Maine, and explores the cobbled streets of Munich. He befriends Yann Martel, a priest, a castaway, an eccentric old woman, and a pack of Tamil schoolboys. He learns how to swim, to spin wool, to keep bees, and to look a tiger in the eye. All the while he is really learning how to dream big, to fail, to survive, to love, and to become who he truly is. Rajiv Surendra captures the uncertainty, heartache, and joy of finding ones place in the world with sly humor and refreshing honesty. The Elephants in My Backyard is not a journey of goals and victories, but a story of process and determination. It is a spellbinding and profound book for anyone who has ever failed at something and had to find a new path through life.
Book Synopsis The Elephant in the Room by : Tommy Tomlinson
Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Tommy Tomlinson and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019 A “warm and funny and honest…genuinely unputdownable” (Curtis Sittenfeld) memoir chronicling what it’s like to live in today’s world as a fat man, from acclaimed journalist Tommy Tomlinson, who, as he neared the age of fifty, weighed 460 pounds and decided he had to change his life. When he was almost fifty years old, Tommy Tomlinson weighed an astonishing—and dangerous—460 pounds, at risk for heart disease, diabetes, and stroke, unable to climb a flight of stairs without having to catch his breath, or travel on an airplane without buying two seats. Raised in a family that loved food, he had been aware of the problem for years, seeing doctors and trying diets from the time he was a preteen. But nothing worked, and every time he tried to make a change, it didn’t go the way he planned—in fact, he wasn’t sure that he really wanted to change. In The Elephant in the Room, Tomlinson chronicles his lifelong battle with weight in a voice that combines the urgency of Roxane Gay’s Hunger with the intimacy of Rick Bragg’s All Over but the Shoutin’. He also hits the road to meet other members of the plus-sized tribe in an attempt to understand how, as a nation, we got to this point. From buying a Fitbit and setting exercise goals to contemplating the Heart Attack Grill in Las Vegas, America’s “capital of food porn,” and modifying his own diet, Tomlinson brings us along on a candid and sometimes brutal look at the everyday experience of being constantly aware of your size. Over the course of the book, he confronts these issues head-on and chronicles the practical steps he has to take to lose weight by the end. “What could have been a wallow in memoir self-pity is raised to art by Tomlinson’s wit and prose” (Rolling Stone). Affecting and searingly honest, The Elephant in the Room is an “inspirational” (The New York Times) memoir that will resonate with anyone who has grappled with addiction, shame, or self-consciousness. “Add this to your reading list ASAP” (Charlotte Magazine).
Book Synopsis The Magician's Elephant by : Kate DiCamillo
Download or read book The Magician's Elephant written by Kate DiCamillo and published by Candlewick Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Book Synopsis Elephant's Story by : Tracey Campbell Pearson
Download or read book Elephant's Story written by Tracey Campbell Pearson and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2013-10-22 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elephant finds a book and then sneezes, mixing up all the letters.
Book Synopsis The Riddle of the Stone Elephant by : Bruce Campbell
Download or read book The Riddle of the Stone Elephant written by Bruce Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While handling reporting assignments for his father's newspaper, become involved in a world of mystery and intrigue.
Book Synopsis The Elephant in the Room by : Holly Goldberg Sloan
Download or read book The Elephant in the Room written by Holly Goldberg Sloan and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times bestselling author of Counting by 7s comes a heartfelt story about "the importance of compassion and bravery when facing life’s challenges” (Kirkus) for fans of The One and Only Ivan and Front Desk. It's been almost a year since Sila's mother traveled halfway around the world to Turkey, hoping to secure the immigration paperwork that would allow her to return to her family in the United States. The long separation is almost impossible for Sila to withstand. But things change when Sila accompanies her father (who is a mechanic) outside their Oregon town to fix a truck. There, behind an enormous stone wall, she meets a grandfatherly man who only months before won the state lottery. Their new alliance leads to the rescue of a circus elephant named Veda, and then to a friendship with an unusual boy named Mateo, proving that comfort and hope come in the most unlikely of places. A moving story of family separation and the importance of the connection between animals and humans, this novel has the enormous heart and uplifting humor that readers have come to expect from the beloved author of Counting by 7s. “I couldn’t stop reading—I had to find out what would happen. An unusual and lovely real-life fairy tale.” —Linda Sue Park, New York Times Bestselling author of A Long Walk to Water “A gorgeous and emotional novel. I loved every page.” —Cynthia Kadohata, Newbery Medal-winning author of Kira-Kira
Book Synopsis The Elephant and the Stone by : John Petsco Jr
Download or read book The Elephant and the Stone written by John Petsco Jr and published by . This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After everything that was has been burned away an elephant guides an orphaned boy on the path into what will be. The boy learns many lessons along the path to his future. I have never written a book before. This book chose me. The elephant in the story came to me in a reoccurring dream. In my dreams, we would walk together on a path. Sometimes the path took me back into my past as a boy, and sometimes it took me into my future as a man. I began seeing news reports on how elephants were being poisoned at their watering holes simply to get a few tusks. A whole herd, forty elephants, killed. It broke my heart. Every night when I went to bed, the thoughts would turn into dreams, and in the morning dreams would turn into words and pictures. It is estimated at the current rate of these mass killings that in TWELVE YEARS, there will be NO African elephants left in the wild. A portion of the proceeds of this book will be donated to www.biglife.org Please visit there site to learn about the wonderful things they are doing to help save the elephants and other animals. John L Petsco Jr. Namaste
Download or read book Stone written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stone; an Illustrated Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Elephant Stone by : John Alfred Jordan
Download or read book The Elephant Stone written by John Alfred Jordan and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal by : Uttar Pradesh Historical Society
Download or read book Journal written by Uttar Pradesh Historical Society and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Appropriated Pasts by : Ian J. McNiven
Download or read book Appropriated Pasts written by Ian J. McNiven and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2005 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: : Archaeology has been complicit in the appropriation of indigenous peoples' pasts worldwide. While tales of blatant archaeological colonialism abound from the era of empire, the process also took more subtle and insidious forms. Ian McNiven and Lynette Russell outline archaeology's "colonial culture" and how it has shaped archaeological practice over the past century. Using examples from their native Australia-- and comparative material from North America, Africa, and elsewhere-- the authors show how colonized peoples were objectified by research, had their needs subordinated to those of science, were disassociated from their accomplishments by theories of diffusion, watched their histories reshaped by western concepts of social evolution, and had their cultures appropriated toward nationalist ends. The authors conclude by offering a decolonized archaeological practice through collaborative partnership with native peoples in understanding their past.
Book Synopsis Why Do Elephants Need the Sun? by : Robert E. Wells
Download or read book Why Do Elephants Need the Sun? written by Robert E. Wells and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are trillions of stars in the universe, but we rely on our sun to provide (or contribute to) most of what we need to survive and thrive: heat, light, plants, animals, wind, and water. Complete with fun, cartoon illustrations, this book give kids plenty of information about our sun in an easy-to-read and digest format. By focusing on the needs of an elephant, Wells makes clear just how important the sun is to life on Earth.
Book Synopsis That's Not My Elephant... by : Fiona Watt
Download or read book That's Not My Elephant... written by Fiona Watt and published by Usborne Books. This book was released on 2023-06-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet five friendly elephants in this adorable addition to the much-loved That's not my... series. Babies love the best-selling That's not my... books with their bold illustrations, patches to stroke, and a mouse to spot on every page, all designed to develop sensory and language awareness.
