Author : Sharon Pritchard
Publisher : Paragon Publishing
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 50,48 MB
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1782224432
A collection of poems from a Londoner’s perspective. Some are quirky, some reflective and poignant but all share an underlying positive and humorous outlook on birth, death & the bits in between.
Author : Arlene Corwin
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 23,33 MB
Release : 2013-01-25
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1479753777
Birth, Death & InBetween came to Ms Corwin as a title when friends began to die. Her generation was ‘starting to go’. “A collection comes about at a turning point; one is grieved, one wonders at the disappearance, the invisibility, the untimeliness, what was before, what may come after. No longer a matter of death and dying, but of birth, death and the in between. The speechlessness turns into a need to speak. You don’t put together a collection of poetry overnight. There is no arbitrary subject. There are threads. A collection is a matter of emphasis, accentuation and priority. One’s generation begins to go; the whole of the sidewalk full of people coming at you will be gone in a hundred years, not a person coming at you left. If that is not a source of wonderment, what is?” Birth, Death & InBetween is a collection of 300 some odd poems written over a period of 40 years observing, examining, questioning, accepting the plain facts and the elusive nuances.
Author : Lee Eisenberg
Publisher : Twelve
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2016-02-02
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1455550477
In this engaging and provocative book, Lee Eisenberg, bestselling author of The Number, dares to tackle nothing less than what it takes to find enduring meaning and purpose in life. He explains how from a young age, each of us is compelled to take memories of events and relationships and shape them into a one-of-a-kind personal narrative. In addition to sharing his own pivotal memories (some of them moving, some just a shade embarrassing), Eisenberg presents striking research culled from psychology and neuroscience, and draws on insights from a pantheon of thinkers and great writers-Tolstoy, Freud, Joseph Campbell, Virginia Woolf, among others. We also hear from men and women of all ages who are wrestling with the demands of work and family, ever in search of fulfillment and satisfaction. It all adds up to a fascinating story, delightfully told, one that goes straight to the heart of how we explain ourselves to ourselves-in other words, who we are and why.
Author : Michelle T. King
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 17,22 MB
Release : 2014-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0804788936
Female infanticide is a social practice often closely associated with Chinese culture. Journalists, social scientists, and historians alike emphasize that it is a result of the persistence of son preference, from China's ancient past to its modern present. Yet how is it that the killing of newborn daughters has come to be so intimately associated with Chinese culture? Between Birth and Death locates a significant historical shift in the representation of female infanticide during the nineteenth century. It was during these years that the practice transformed from a moral and deeply local issue affecting communities into an emblematic cultural marker of a backwards Chinese civilization, requiring the scientific, religious, and political attention of the West. Using a wide array of Chinese, French and English primary sources, the book takes readers on an unusual historical journey, presenting the varied perspectives of those concerned with the fate of an unwanted Chinese daughter: a late imperial Chinese mother in the immediate moments following birth, a male Chinese philanthropist dedicated to rectifying moral behavior in his community, Western Sinological experts preoccupied with determining the comparative prevalence of the practice, Catholic missionaries and schoolchildren intent on saving the souls of heathen Chinese children, and turn-of-the-century reformers grappling with the problem as a challenge for an emerging nation.
Author : Ernest Becker
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,35 MB
Release : 2010-05-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1439118426
Uses the disciplines of psychology, anthropology, sociology and psychiatry to explain what makes people act the way they do.
Author : Albion M. Urdank
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 29,76 MB
Release : 2015-12-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1498523536
This study lies at the intersection of three principal areas of social history: demography, religion, and quantitative methods. It is a microanalysis of an English population at the level of the Anglican parish, during the era of the evangelical revival, which includes, unusually, Protestant dissenters from the Established church, in this case Particular Baptists, who were moderate Calvinists. It goes a step beyond previous studies by giving Anglicans and Dissenters co-equal status in a comparative demographic analysis and by demonstrating how religious values informed procreative activity. It does so through a combination of advanced statistical methodologies and an innovative treatment of data collection forms as readable texts. The study concludes that the likelihood of another birth increased following a religious conversion experience, especially among both Anglican and Baptist wives following marriage. Mortality too had a less constraining effect on procreative activity which, in conformity with the English experience, was driven largely by fertility.
Author : William Petersen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 36,9 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1351518887
From Birth to Death is a detailed analysis of how population statistics are collected in the United States, particularly by the Bureau of the Census. It describes the errors and other flaws typically found in such data.Petersen sets out the fundamentals of demography and reviews the current proposal to use sampling in the census. He then reviews examples of how ignoring age and sex structure leads to false conclusions. Petersen explores race and ethnicity and the dilemmas inherent in the necessarily ambiguous definitions of these categories. He also analyzes the problems of women who postpone having children to ages when risks of failure become significant.The author also reviews the two most prominent population theories Malthus and the fertility transition and questions why predictions of future population size are often completely wrong. The final chapter discusses the pros and cons of state intervention in the control of fertility and efforts to cut family size in less developed countries and their unclear results. A principal topic is the relative accuracy of population statistics and the degree to which one should accept data as published. The main focus is on the United States and especially on the Bureau of the Census, but general points are sometimes illustrated with examples of how data from other countries should be evaluated.
Author : J. D. Robb
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 11,65 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780399153471
When a pair of young lovers, employees of a prestigious accounting firm, are brutally murdered, mid-twenty-first-century lieutenant Eve Dallas finds the case complicated by the suspicious disappearance of a pregnant woman. By the author of Memory in Death. 500,000 first printing.
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Page : 814 pages
File Size : 43,3 MB
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Author : Madonna J. Kettler
Publisher : Balboa Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2012-09
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1452558981
In a world filled with food, booze and a gazillion other distractions, Birth, Death and the Afterlife offers innovative approaches to living fully, peacefully, and loving unconditionally. "A wonderful book. Very comfortable and very deep. It's like having both your best friend and spiritual teacher sitting next to you on your couch, teaching you, reminding you of who you are and what's important in your life." --Robert Peterson, author of Out of Body Experiences "In my work both as a lawyer and a psychic, I have met with hundreds of people struggling with fears, addictions, and blocks, many of which stem from past life issues. Birth, Death and the Afterlife brings marvelous relief by teaching you how to remember your divine self and reclaim your personal power." --Kathryn Harwig, author of The Return of Intuition and seven other books "No matter where you are on your spiritual path, Birth, Death and the Afterlife meets you there and guides you to your next level of self-discovery. Designed for spiritual seekers of all types, it includes case studies and stories that awaken, enlighten and empower." --Nancy Fischer, author of Choices: Escaping the Illusion of Being a Victim "Dr. Kettler escorts you on the journeys of others, using fine-tuned regressive hypnotherapy skills to discover unremembered memory segments in the soul's life-cycle that validate your human and spiritual existence. It illuminates hypnotherapists, potential clients, and the general readership in multiple areas of personal growth and transformation." --Allen S. Chips, PhD, DCH, president of NATH and author of Killing Your Cancer without Killing Yourself
