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Book Synopsis The Last Happy Occasion by : Alan Shapiro
Download or read book The Last Happy Occasion written by Alan Shapiro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1997-10-27 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A coming-of-age story of an American Jew and aspiring writer in the '60s and '70s. In this memoir in six movements, Alan Shapiro recalls how poetry helped him make sense of his own and other people's lives.
Book Synopsis The Last Happy Occasion by : Alan Shapiro
Download or read book The Last Happy Occasion written by Alan Shapiro and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Series of six essays that move back and forth between poetry and the author's personal experience, examining how certain poems taught him to read his own and other people's lives, and how those lives, in turn, shaped his understanding of certain poems.
Book Synopsis The Tsar's Happy Occasion by : Russell E. Martin
Download or read book The Tsar's Happy Occasion written by Russell E. Martin and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful images of monarchy and dynasty. Processions and speeches emphasized dynastic continuity and legitimacy. Fertility rites blended Christian and pre-Christian symbols to assure the birth of heirs. Gift exchanges created and affirmed social solidarity among the elite. The bride performed rituals that integrated herself and her family into the inner circle of the court. Using an array of archival sources, Russell E. Martin demonstrates how royal weddings reflected and shaped court politics during a time of dramatic cultural and dynastic change. As Martin shows, the rites of passage in these ceremonies were dazzling displays of monarchical power unlike any other ritual at the Muscovite court. And as dynasties came and went and the political culture evolved, so too did wedding rituals. Martin relates how Peter the Great first mocked, then remade wedding rituals to symbolize and empower his efforts to westernize Russia. After Peter, the two branches of the Romanov dynasty used weddings to solidify their claims to the throne. The Tsar's Happy Occasion offers a sweeping, yet penetrating cultural history of the power of rituals and the rituals of power in early modern Russia.
Download or read book The Last Lecture written by Randy Pausch and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Book Synopsis Living in Death’s Shadow by : Emily K. Abel
Download or read book Living in Death’s Shadow written by Emily K. Abel and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Challenging assumptions about caregiving for those dying of chronic illness. What is it like to live with—and love—someone whose death, while delayed, is nevertheless foretold? In Living in Death’s Shadow, Emily K. Abel, an expert on the history of death and dying, examines memoirs written between 1965 and 2014 by family members of people who died from chronic disease. In earlier eras, death generally occurred quickly from acute illnesses, but as chronic disease became the major cause of mortality, many people continued to live with terminal diagnoses for months and even years. Illuminating the excruciatingly painful experience of coping with a family member’s extended fatal illness, Abel analyzes the political, personal, cultural, and medical dimensions of these struggles. The book focuses on three significant developments that transformed the experiences of those dying and their intimates: the passage of Medicare and Medicaid, the growing use of high-tech treatments at the end of life, and the rise of a movement to humanize the care of dying people. It questions the exalted value placed on acceptance of mortality as well as the notion that it is always better to die at home than in an institution. Ultimately, Living in Death’s Shadow emphasizes the need to shift attention from the drama of death to the entire course of a serious chronic disease. The chapters follow a common narrative of life-threatening disease: learning the diagnosis; deciding whether to enroll in a clinical trial; acknowledging or struggling against the limits of medicine; receiving care at home and in a hospital or nursing home; and obtaining palliative and hospice care. Living in Death’s Shadow is essential reading for everyone seeking to understand what it means to live with someone suffering from a chronic, fatal condition, including cancer, AIDS, Alzheimer’s, and heart disease.
Book Synopsis The Chaplain of the Fleet by : Walter Besant
Download or read book The Chaplain of the Fleet written by Walter Besant and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1882 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My life has been (above any merits of my own) so blessed by Providence, that methinks its history should be begun with the ringing of bells, the singing of psalms, the sound of cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and all kinds of music. For surely the contemplation of a happy course should, even towards its close, be accompanied by a heart full of cheerful piety and gratitude. And though, as often happens to us in the Lord's wisdom, ill fortune, disappointment, troubles of the flesh, and pain of disease may perhaps afflict me in these latter years of fleeting life, they ought not to lessen the glad song of praise for blessings formerly vouchsafed (and still dwelling in my memory) of love, of joy, and of happiness. Truly, the earth is a delightful place; a fair garden, which yields pleasant fruit; and, if it may be so said with becoming reverence, there are yet, outside the gates of Eden, places here and there which for beauty and delight, to those who thither win their way, are comparable with Paradise itself. In such a place it has been my happy lot to dwell.
Book Synopsis Proceedings ... by : New York State Bar Association
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Book Synopsis Beyond the Last Dragon by : James McGonigal
Download or read book Beyond the Last Dragon written by James McGonigal and published by Sandstone Press Ltd. This book was released on 2011-12-09 with total page 597 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin Morgan's restless imagination moved easily between multiple worlds, voices and identities. His own life story, told here for the first time, also reveals a range of identities - as academic, cultural activist, radical writer, international traveller, gay man and national poet. These identities were sometimes in conflict, or kept hidden and apart. Beyond the Last Dragon, written with his full support, explores hitherto unknown archive resources and creative work. It recounts an amazing and sometimes troubled career, using the poet's own letters, poems and plays from the 1930s to the present day to uncover the origins of his remarkable - and life-long - inventiveness and flair. All this is set against Edwin Morgan's moving struggle against 'the last dragon' of cancer, and to remain creatively alive in the face of suffering in the final years of his life. This prize-winning biography was published just days after the poet's death. James McGonigal now adds a new chapter to describe subsequent events.
Book Synopsis Twenty-fifth Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the City of Washington, 1871-'72 by :
Download or read book Twenty-fifth Report of the Board of Trustees of Public Schools of the City of Washington, 1871-'72 written by and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis The Book of Games and Parties for All Occasions by : Theresa Hunt Wolcott
Download or read book The Book of Games and Parties for All Occasions written by Theresa Hunt Wolcott and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The "official" Grad Book by : Martha Bolton
Download or read book The "official" Grad Book written by Martha Bolton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2003 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Author Martha Bolton, popular humorist and longtime staff writer for Bob Hope, shares her wit and warmth in these charming books. Whimsical art, carefully chosen quotes, lighthearted messages, humorous lists, and gift coupons for the grateful recipient make these fun books a joy to give and receive.
Book Synopsis Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i. e. 1878 by : Robert Charles Winthrop
Download or read book Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1869-1879 [i. e. 1878 written by Robert Charles Winthrop and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Happiness: A Memoir by : Heather Harpham
Download or read book Happiness: A Memoir written by Heather Harpham and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2017-08-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reese’s Book Club x Hello Sunshine’s April 2018 book pick A shirt-grabbing, page-turning love story that follows a one-of-a-kind family through twists of fate that require nearly unimaginable choices. Happiness begins with a charming courtship between hopelessly attracted opposites: Heather, a world-roaming California girl, and Brian, an intellectual, homebody writer, kind and slyly funny, but loath to leave his Upper West Side studio. Their magical interlude ends, full stop, when Heather becomes pregnant—Brian is sure he loves her, only he doesn't want kids. Heather returns to California to deliver their daughter alone, buoyed by family and friends. Mere hours after Gracie's arrival, Heather's bliss is interrupted when a nurse wakes her, "Get dressed, your baby is in trouble." This is not how Heather had imagined new motherhood – alone, heartsick, an unexpectedly solo caretaker of a baby who smelled "like sliced apples and salted pretzels" but might be perilously ill. Brian reappears as Gracie's condition grows dire; together Heather and Brian have to decide what they are willing to risk to ensure their girl sees adulthood. The grace and humor that ripple through Harpham's writing transform the dross of heartbreak and parental fears into a clear-eyed, warm-hearted view of the world. Profoundly moving and subtly written, Happiness radiates in many directions--new, romantic love; gratitude for a beautiful, inscrutable world; deep, abiding friendship; the passion a parent has for a child; and the many unlikely ways to build a family. Ultimately it's a story about love and happiness, in their many crooked configurations.
Book Synopsis Proceedings of the Improved Live Stock Breeders' Association by : A. W. Orr
Download or read book Proceedings of the Improved Live Stock Breeders' Association written by A. W. Orr and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
