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Enveloped Lives

Author : Rima Praspaliauskiene
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501766082
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Enveloped Lives written by Rima Praspaliauskiene and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-15 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Handing envelopes containing money or gifts to doctors in public health care is often seen as a remnant of socialism that continues as an integral part of the Lithuanian health care system. Rima Praspaliauskiene uses the envelope to explore complex doctor-patient interactions that go beyond notions of the gift or the bribe. She reshapes our definition of corruption and encourages seeing these practices as emerging forms of care that impede the neoliberal health care reforms effected in the post-Soviet era. Enveloped Lives extends the analytical categories of gift, care, money, and transparency, shifting attention away from material transactions by prioritizing relations and practices that transcend economic rationality. At a time when health care reforms and the costs of care are being widely debated, this book is a contribution to the larger discussion about the ethics and future of health care around the world.

The Yellow Envelope

Author : Kim Dinan
Publisher : Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1492635391
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book The Yellow Envelope written by Kim Dinan and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2017-04-04 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What Would You Do with a Yellow Envelope? In this captivating memoir, Kim Dinan takes readers on an extraordinary expedition that all began with a mysterious gift: a simple yellow envelope containing three life-altering rules. Fueling her with curiosity and courage, Kim and her partner set out on a soul-stirring adventure that transcends borders and redefines their sense of purpose. Join Kim as she navigates through the vibrant landscapes of diverse cultures, encounters inspiring souls, and grapples with the complexities of life's unexpected turns. This compelling narrative weaves heartfelt emotions, stunning imagery, and profound reflections that resonate with every traveler and dreamer at heart. With a perfect blend of wanderlust, personal growth, and unexpected twists, The Yellow Envelope invites you to experience the freedom of traveling the world with an open heart and mind. Kim's honest and insightful storytelling will leave you enthralled, eager to explore your own boundaries and embrace life's remarkable gifts. Discover a tale of courage, love, and the boundless potential that awaits when we dare to step beyond the familiar.

Enveloped Lives

Author : Rima Praspaliauskiene
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781339259345
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (593 download)

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Download or read book Enveloped Lives written by Rima Praspaliauskiene and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation is an ethnography of how people practice health and care by engaging in ambiguous practices that some would define as informal and corrupt. It examines the relationship between caring, things and money. It focuses on how informal payments -"little white envelopes"- that the patients or their relatives give or feel compelled to give to doctors before or after treatment, sustained and maintained public health care in the times of economic shortages during socialism and during the fundamental transformations to capitalism in post-socialist Lithuania. Based on sixteenth month of fieldwork research, this dissertation follows these envelopes as complex doctor-patient transactions, the nexus of relations, to learn about health and care at the intersection of neoliberal reforms and socialist fragmentations. The dissertation traces the genealogy of the health care reform since 1990s, exploring how patients, doctors and caretakers encounter, perceive and carry out these ambiguous practices, and how they negotiate envelopes and professional ethics, biomedicine and political economy through particular notions of care, grounded in desires, anxieties, recognitions, and imaginations. This ethnography shows how envelopes became a form of care embedded in social relations and driven by webs of obligations. These practices are productive in sustaining the lives of doctors and have affective value for patients and doctors alike. They supplement public health care while making doctors reliant on patients0́9 generosity. While the envelopes do not reduce social inequalities, they slow down significantly the transformation of public health care from the social function of the state to a business matter. Therefore, they might preclude the emergence of new inequalities that appear with the adoption of private health care and insurance regimes.

13 Little Blue Envelopes

Author : Maureen Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061973807
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book 13 Little Blue Envelopes written by Maureen Johnson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson’s funny, heartbreaking, and utterly romantic tale gets a great new cover! Ginny Blackstone never thought she’d spend her summer vacation backpacking across Europe. But that was before she received the first little blue envelope from Aunt Peg. This letter was different from Peg’s usual letters for two reasons: 1. Peg had been dead for three months. 2. The letter included $1000 cash for a passport and a plane ticket. Armed with instructions for how to retrieve twelve other letters Peg wrote—twelve letters that tell Ginny where she needs to go and what she needs to do when she gets there—Ginny quickly finds herself swept away in her first real adventure. Traveling from London to Edinburgh to Amsterdam and beyond, Ginny begins to uncover stories from her aunt’s past and discover who Peg really was. But the most surprising thing Ginny learns isn’t about Peg . . . it’s about herself. Everything about Ginny will change this summer, and it’s all because of the 13 little blue envelopes. Look for the sequel, The Last Little Blue Envelope!

Envelope Poems

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0811227405
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (112 download)

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Download or read book Envelope Poems written by Emily Dickinson and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-19 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another gorgeous copublication with the Christine Burgin Gallery, Emily Dickinson's Envelope Poems is a compact clothbound gift book, a full-color selection from The Gorgeous Nothings. Although a very prolific poet—and arguably America’s greatest—Emily Dickinson (1830–1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems. Instead, she created at home small handmade books. When, in her later years, she stopped producing these, she was still writing a great deal, and at her death she left behind many poems, drafts, and letters. It is among the makeshift and fragile manuscripts of Dickinson’s later writings that we find the envelope poems gathered here. These manuscripts on envelopes (recycled by the poet with marked New England thrift) were written with the full powers of her late, most radical period. Intensely alive, these envelope poems are charged with a special poignancy—addressed to no one and everyone at once. Full-color facsimiles are accompanied by Marta L. Werner and Jen Bervin’s pioneering transcriptions of Dickinson’s handwriting. Their transcriptions allow us to read the texts, while the facsimiles let us see exactly what Dickinson wrote (the variant words, crossings-out, dashes, directional fields, spaces, columns, and overlapping planes). This fixed-layout ebook is an exact replica of the print edition, and requires a color screen to properly display the high-resolution images it contains. For this reason, Envelope Poems is not available on devices with e-ink screens, such as Kindle Paperwhite. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The Black Envelope

Author : Norman Manea
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300188625
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book The Black Envelope written by Norman Manea and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A splendid, violent spring suddenly grips Bucharest in the 1980s after a brutal winter. Tolea, an eccentric middle-aged intellectual who has been dismissed from his job as a high school teacher on "moral grounds," is investigating his father's death forty years after the fact, and is drawn into a web of suspicion and black humor."Reading 'The Black Envelope, ' one might think of the poisonous 'black milk' of Celan's 'Death Fugue' or the claustrophobic air of mounting terror in Mr. Appelfeld's 'Badenheim 1939.' . . . Mr. Manea offers striking images and insights into the recent experience of Eastern Europe."--"New York Times Book Review"

The Last Little Blue Envelope

Author : Maureen Johnson
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061976792
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Last Little Blue Envelope written by Maureen Johnson and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-04-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ginny Blackstone thought that the biggest adventure of her life was behind her. She spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt Peg laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginny's backpack—and the last little blue envelope inside—she resigned herself to never knowing how it was supposed to end. Months later, a mysterious boy contacts Ginny from London, saying he's found her bag. Finally, Ginny can finish what she started. But instead of ending her journey, the last letter starts a new adventure—one filled with old friends, new loves, and once-in-a-lifetime experiences. Ginny finds she must hold on to her wits . . . and her heart. This time, there are no instructions.

Leaving Life's Envelope Empty

Author : Dr. Aaron L. Chapman
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1524603996
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (246 download)

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Download or read book Leaving Life's Envelope Empty written by Dr. Aaron L. Chapman and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorinda Clark-Cole A Legend of Gospel Music It never ceases to amaze me what this Man of God is Capable of. Dr. Aaron Chapman makes preachers stay at the top of their game in the world of Preaching. Just perusing thru chapters of this book Its fascinating, intriguing and appealing. You cant put this book down. If destiny is pulling and tugging and drawing you to do more in your life and or ministry, this is the book for you. It will help you rediscover who God called you to be, redefine your commitment to him and align your will to do the will of the Father. Dr. A.L. Chapman This book was written to make you seriously consider all the fulfilling possibilities that you can acquire by taking advantage of what God has given you in your envelope. There must be a conscious sense of the stewardship you exercise over each pre-selected gift that you have been entrusted with. This one concept can totally revolutionize your thinking. This ideology can make you desist from taking for granted that someone may see your gifting and promote and pull those things out of you.

The Gorgeous Nothings

Author : Emily Dickinson
Publisher : New Directions Publishing Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780811221757
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book The Gorgeous Nothings written by Emily Dickinson and published by New Directions Publishing Corporation. This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full-color facsimile publication of Emily Dickinson's manuscripts

An Unnecessary Woman

Author : Rabih Alameddine
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN 13 : 0802192874
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book An Unnecessary Woman written by Rabih Alameddine and published by Open Road + Grove/Atlantic. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A happily misanthropic Middle East divorcee finds refuge in books in a “beautiful and absorbing” novel of late-life crisis (The New York Times). Aaliya is a divorced, childless, and reclusively cranky translator in Beirut nurturing doubts about her latest project: a 900-page avant-garde, linguistically serpentine historiography by a late Chilean existentialist. Honestly, at seventy-two, should she be taking on such a project? Not that Aailiya fears dying. Women in her family live long; her mother is still going crazy. But on this lonely day, hour-by-hour, Aaliya’s musings on literature, philosophy, her career, and her aging body, are suddenly invaded by memories of her volatile past. As she tries in vain to ward off these emotional upwellings, Aaliya is faced with an unthinkable disaster that threatens to shatter the little life she has left. In this “meditation on, among other things, aging, politics, literature, loneliness, grief and resilience” (The New York Times), Alameddine conjures “a beguiling narrator . . . who is, like her city, hard to read, hard to take, hard to know and, ultimately, passionately complex” (San Francisco Chronicle). A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the National Book Award, An Unnecessary Woman is “a fun, and often funny . . . grave, powerful . . . [and] extraordinary” Washington Independent Review of Books) ode to literature and its power to define who we are. “Read it once, read it twice, read other books for a decade or so, and then pick it up and read it anew. This one’s a keeper” (The Independent)

The Interface Envelope

Author : James Ash
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1501320009
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book The Interface Envelope written by James Ash and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Interface Envelope, James Ash develops a series of concepts to understand how digital interfaces work to shape the spatial and temporal perception of players. Drawing upon examples from videogame design and work from post-phenomenology, speculative realism, new materialism and media theory, Ash argues that interfaces create envelopes, or localised foldings of space time, around which bodily and perceptual capacities are organised for the explicit production of economic profit. Modifying and developing Bernard Stiegler's account of psychopower and Warren Neidich's account of neuropower, Ash argues the aim of interface designers and publishers is the production of envelope power. Envelope power refers to the ways that interfaces in games are designed to increase users perceptual and habitual capacities to sense difference. Examining a range of examples from specific videogames, Ash identities a series of logics that are key to producing envelope power and shows how these logics have intensified over the last thirty years. In turn, Ash suggests that the logics of interface envelopes in videogames are spreading to other types of interface. In doing so life becomes enveloped as the environments people inhabit becoming increasingly loaded with digital interfaces. Rather than simply negative, Ash develops a series of responses to the potential problematics of interface envelopes and envelope power and emphasizes their pharmacological nature.

The Envelope

Author : Ḥayim Eliʼav
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Envelope written by Ḥayim Eliʼav and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Avraham Rosenbaum is an only child of elderly parents, Holocaust survivors with a secret that embitters them and mystifies him. What is it? His father dies and Avraham finds an envelope that will change his life. He is not an only child! He has a sister he has never seen, a woman who has been banished from his parents' lives - but never from their broken hearts. Her name is Rivkah. No, it used to be Rivkah - but now it is Samira, because as a young woman, Rivkah fell in love with an Arab. She and her parents disowned each other. She left their lives, but never their thoughts. Now Avraham has the envelope and he is obsessed, first with finding out what its message means and then with finding his long lost sister, and finally with bringing her back to her family and people.--

Maintainability of Building Envelope Elements

Author : Cláudia Ferreira
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031147677
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book Maintainability of Building Envelope Elements written by Cláudia Ferreira and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book introduces a maintenance model that will assist decision-makers in their choice of building maintenance policies. The model is stochastic and condition-based that analyses the impact of different maintenance strategies on the durability and performance of different buildings envelope elements (facades, windows, and roofs). As non-structural elements, the maintenance of buildings envelope can be disregarded stakeholders. However, as first barrier to the external environment, these elements are critical to buildings' overall performance and are expected to meet aesthetic, comfort, safety, and durability requirements. The methodology presented is innovative. The maintenance model is based on a Petri net formalism and includes degradation, inspection, maintenance, and renewal processes. The model provides key information, such as: i) the impact of different maintenance strategies on the service life and durability of the building components; ii) the impact of maintenance on their performance over time; iii) the life cycle costs; and iv) the impact of maintenance on the buildings' use. The book will be of use to a variety of professionals in the construction sector.

Cancer Intersections

Author : Camilo Sanz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520392884
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Cancer Intersections written by Camilo Sanz and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2024 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services, including high-cost ones. Drawing on years of fieldwork in the city of Cali, Camilo Sanz explores the deep entanglements between medical, legal, and policy practices that share a common goal of treating and curing cancer but are hindered by bureaucratic procedures, pernicious financial interests, and class politics. Cancer Intersections shows how the interplay of these hurdles dictates the rhythm at which patients access treatment and how even in resource-rich settings, patients suffer because of market imperatives that shape how cancer treatments unfold. Through careful and measured observation, Sanz unveils how a neoliberal universal health care regime delays access to care for those reliant on public assistance, which means that some patients will start expensive treatments only after it is unlikely to change the course of the disease.

Expanding the Envelope

Author : Michael H. Gorn
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081315894X
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Expanding the Envelope written by Michael H. Gorn and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expanding the Envelope is the first book to explore the full panorama of flight research history, from the earliest attempts by such nineteenth century practitioners as England's Sir George Cayley, who tested his kites and gliders by subjecting them to experimental flight, to the cutting-edge aeronautical research conducted by the NACA and NASA. Michael H. Gorn explores the vital human aspect of the history of flight research, including such well-known figures as James H. Doolittle, Chuck Yeager, and A. Scott Crossfield, as well as the less heralded engineers, pilots, and scientists who also had the "Right Stuff." While the individuals in the cockpit often receive the lion's share of the public's attention, Expanding the Envelope shows flight research to be a collaborative engineering activity, one in which the pilot participates as just one of many team members. Here is more than a century of flight research, from well before the creation of NACA to its rapid transformation under NASA. Gorn gives a behind the scenes look at the development of groundbreaking vehicles such as the X-1, the D-558, and the X-15, which demonstrated manned flight at speeds up to Mach 6.7 and as high as the edge of space.

Financial Peace Revisited

Author : Dave Ramsey
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101554444
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book Financial Peace Revisited written by Dave Ramsey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-12-30 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the help of a #1 New York Times bestselling author and finance expert, set your finances right with these updated tactics and practices Dave Ramsey knows what it's like to have it all. By age twenty-six, he had established a four-million-dollar real estate portfolio, only to lose it by age thirty. He has since rebuilt his financial life and, through his workshops and his New York Times business bestsellers Financial Peace and More than Enough, he has helped hundreds of thousands of people to understand the forces behind their financial distress and how to set things right-financially, emotionally, and spiritually. In this new edition of Financial Peace, Ramsey has updated his tactics and philosophy to show even more readers: • how to get out of debt and stay out • the KISS rule of investing—"Keep It Simple, Stupid" • how to use the principle of contentment to guide financial decision making • how the flow of money can revolutionize relationships With practical and easy to follow methods and personal anecdotes, Financial Peace is the road map to personal control, financial security, a new, vital family dynamic, and lifetime peace.

The Name on the Envelope

Author : Michael M. Dowd
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480986755
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book The Name on the Envelope written by Michael M. Dowd and published by Dorrance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-18 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Name on the Envelope By: Michael M. Dowd Everyone has a story and for Michael M. Dowd his story is one of discovery—about who he is, how his life began, and the many twists and turns that led him to a family he never knew he had. Like most people, he experienced his share of happiness, sadness, pain, and suffering. But unlike most people, part of Michael’s life remained a mystery. It wasn’t until he embarked on a journey to learn more about his birth mother that Michael began to realize that he spent most of life unaware that he had another family. The Name on the Envelope is about Michael’s journey to learn more about his family, but it is also about his reflections on his life and how our experiences shape who we are and who we become.