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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.
Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,17 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
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.
Author : Greg T. Carson
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 2018-08-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1984543288
A family of four gather for a meal as they joke with one another. A traveler at a bus stop engages in conversation. A room in a board-and-care facility gets hyped while a bus relocates from town to town. A young man gains experience in life working at a carnival and learns the rudiments of business. An adult female works for a car-rental outlet and undertakes to kill on the side. A porn star makes a living and gratifies his urges while a young man learns the lessons of life from the perspective of a mental patient.
Author : David Vaughn Mason
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 20,26 MB
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 113501244X
Brigham Young was one of the most influential—and controversial—Mormon leaders in American history. An early follower of the new religion, he led the cross-continental migration of the Mormon people from Illinois to Utah, where he built a vast religious empire that was both revolutionary and authoritarian, radically different from yet informed by the existing culture of the U.S. With his powerful personality and sometimes paradoxical convictions, Young left an enduring stamp on both his church and the region, and his legacy remains active today. In a lively, concise narrative bolstered by primary documents, and supplemented by a robust companion website, David Mason tells the dynamic story of Brigham Young, and in the process, illuminates the history of the LDS Church, religion in America, and the development of the American west. This book will be a vital resource for anyone seeking to understand the complex, uniquely American origins of a church that now counts over 15 million members worldwide.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 17,9 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Juvenile delinquency
ISBN :
Author : Casey Schwartz
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 40,93 MB
Release : 2015-08-25
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307911535
“Everywhere I looked it seemed that we were being defined by what our brains were doing . . . Everywhere, there were hucksters and geniuses, all trying to colonize the new world of the brain.” “I’d never been a science person,” Casey Schwartz declares at the beginning of her far-reaching quest to understand how we define ourselves. Nevertheless, in her early twenties, she was drawn to the possibilities and insights emerging on the frontiers of brain research. Over the next decade she set out to meet the neuroscientists and psychoanalysts engaged with such questions as, How do we perceive the world, make decisions, or remember our childhoods? Are we using the brain? Or the mind? To what extent is it both? Schwartz discovered that neuroscience and psychoanalysis are engaged in a conflict almost as old as the disciplines themselves. Many neuroscientists, if they think about psychoanalysis at all, view it as outdated, arbitrary, and subjective, while many psychoanalysts decry neuroscience as lacking the true texture of human experience. With passion and humor, Schwartz explores the surprising efforts to find common ground. Beginning among the tweedy Freudians of North London and proceeding to laboratories, consulting rooms, and hospital bedsides around the world, Schwartz introduces a cast of pioneering characters, from Mark Solms, a South African neuropsychoanalyst with an expertise in dreams, to David Silvers, a psychoanalyst practicing in New York, to Harry, a man who has lost his use of language in the wake of a stroke but who nevertheless benefits from Silvers’s analytic technique. In the Mind Fields is a riveting view of the convictions, obsessions, and struggles of those who dedicate themselves to the effort to understand the mysteries of inner life.
Author : Marta Randall
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 37,62 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1480497800
A new empire rises out of the enigmatic cosmic planet of Aerie, while in the shadows, Jason and Mish Kennerin’s destroyed world leaves them with only their love and the uncertain future of this new planet. As Jason and Mish find their sphere of love in the midst of an evolution, Aerie promises to shelter them. But it does more than that, for in time, a dynasty starts to emerge from the chaos of their ruined past.
Author : Marianne Kavanagh
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 18,44 MB
Release : 2014-06-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1476755272
"Follow [vintage clothes-obsessed stockbroker] Tess and [jazz musician] George through a decade of bad dates, chaotic dinner parties, magical birthdays, dead-end jobs, romantic misalliances, and lots of starting over"--Page 4 of cover.
Author : Sue Cowley
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 36,58 MB
Release : 2009-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 184706471X
The new edition of this successful book offers practical advice for trainee teachers, NQTs and others new to the profession. It is designed to help them survive and enjoy the diffifcult first year as a teacher. Written in Sue Cowley's honest and down-to-earth style, the book uses real situations and experiences to tell it like it is.
Author : Cathy Gillen Thacker
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,90 MB
Release : 2020-07-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1488069875
He came home…but will he stay?He might not agree with her plan… But children can change everything When Gabe Lockhart learns his friend Susannah Alexander wants to carry her late sister’s frozen embryos, he can’t find a way to support her. And his next Physicians Without Borders mission is waiting… But five years later, Gabe comes home to Texas to find Susannah is a single parent—of toddler quintuplets! And he wants to be there for all of them. Can he stay in one place long enough to fall for this big family?
Author : Edward Livermore Burlingame
Publisher :
Page : 990 pages
File Size : 21,86 MB
Release : 1914
Category : American periodicals
ISBN :