Author: Patrick Radden Keefe Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 038554569X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 574
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR • A grand, devastating portrait of three generations of the Sackler family, famed for their philanthropy, whose fortune was built by Valium and whose reputation was destroyed by OxyContin. From the prize-winning and bestselling author of Say Nothing. "A real-life version of the HBO series Succession with a lethal sting in its tail…a masterful work of narrative reportage.” – Laura Miller, Slate The history of the Sackler dynasty is rife with drama—baroque personal lives; bitter disputes over estates; fistfights in boardrooms; glittering art collections; Machiavellian courtroom maneuvers; and the calculated use of money to burnish reputations and crush the less powerful. The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions—Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, but the source of the family fortune was vague—until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller that was the catalyst for the opioid crisis. Empire of Pain is the saga of three generations of a single family and the mark they would leave on the world, a tale that moves from the bustling streets of early twentieth-century Brooklyn to the seaside palaces of Greenwich, Connecticut, and Cap d’Antibes to the corridors of power in Washington, D.C. It follows the family’s early success with Valium to the much more potent OxyContin, marketed with a ruthless technique of co-opting doctors, influencing the FDA, downplaying the drug’s addictiveness. Empire of Pain chronicles the multiple investigations of the Sacklers and their company, and the scorched-earth legal tactics that the family has used to evade accountability. A masterpiece of narrative reporting, Empire of Pain is a ferociously compelling portrait of America’s second Gilded Age, a study of impunity among the super-elite and a relentless investigation of the naked greed that built one of the world’s great fortunes.
Author: Elaine Scarry Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA ISBN: 0195036018 Category : Medical Languages : en Pages : 402
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Part philosophical meditation, part cultural critique, The Body in Pain is a profoundly original study that has already stirred excitement in a wide range of intellectual circles. The book is an analysis of physical suffering and its relation to the numerous vocabularies and cultural forces--literary, political, philosophical, medical, religious--that confront it. Elaine Scarry bases her study on a wide range of sources: literature and art, medical case histories, documents on torture compiled by Amnesty International, legal transcripts of personal injury trials, and military and strategic writings by such figures as Clausewitz, Churchill, Liddell Hart, and Kissinger, She weaves these into her discussion with an eloquence, humanity, and insight that recall the writings of Hannah Arendt and Jean-Paul Sartre. Scarry begins with the fact of pain's inexpressibility. Not only is physical pain enormously difficult to describe in words--confronted with it, Virginia Woolf once noted, "language runs dry"--it also actively destroys language, reducing sufferers in the most extreme instances to an inarticulate state of cries and moans. Scarry analyzes the political ramifications of deliberately inflicted pain, specifically in the cases of torture and warfare, and shows how to be fictive. From these actions of "unmaking" Scarry turns finally to the actions of "making"--the examples of artistic and cultural creation that work against pain and the debased uses that are made of it. Challenging and inventive, The Body in Pain is landmark work that promises to spark widespread debate.
Author: Daniel Hazelwood Publisher: AuthorHouse ISBN: 1546236295 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 353
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In The Sermon on the Mount, the Twelve Steps, and the Royal Road, Dan Hazelwood presents a unique blend of early church Christianity and the twelve-step recovering program that explains how the Christian experience changed over the last four hundred years and how the twelve-step process reconnects a spiritually seeking person to a deeper Christ experience that many mainstream churches cannot duplicate. In preparation for this journey into studying the sermon, he takes the reader on a historical church odyssey and highlights significant philosophical, church, and secular events that not only affected Christian thought but also were significant in altering how current Christians view Christ. He also demonstrates why early Christians viewed Christ differently. By providing this background, he prepares the reader to study the sermon in a manner the early church did while simultaneously demonstrating why the twelve steps represent a reconnection to an almost lost and forgotten Christ experience. Complementing this journey is an exhaustive examination of biblical Greek so that the reader may gain a deeper understanding of the sermon in its original, majestic splendor. This challenging and thought-provoking book unlocks the deeper meanings of many biblical passages and greatly enhances a spiritual seekers walk.
Author: Jackie Gardner-Nix Publisher: New Harbinger Publications ISBN: 1572245816 Category : Health & Fitness Languages : en Pages : 226
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In The Mindfulness Solution to Pain, pain specialist and mindfulness based stress reduction (MBSR) teacher Jackie Gardner-Nix offers techniques proven to reduce chronic pain and suffering using mindfulness meditation exercises based on the pioneering work of Jon Kabat-Zinn.
Author: Andy Rothwell Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd ISBN: 1800462352 Category : Poetry Languages : en Pages : 152
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Against all the odds, Minty escaped from the castle of lost souls having achieved the impossible. Juhee’s wheel has been retrieved and the demon, Scobberlotcher and its castle destroyed forever, along with the mountain it sat upon. Alice and all the children are now free to escape their torment and the pharaoh’s curse cast upon Kira, is finally broken, allowing her to finally die and crossover to the lands beyond death. But, Minty is changed. The events in Scobberlotcher castle reveal that Minty is bound to an age long, long ago and she has no choice but to do as was foretold; Minty must accept the truth of who she really is and face her destiny. Minty will need all of her courage and cunning, because what now lay ahead is a terrifying, perilous rollercoaster of events, darker and more dangerous than she could ever possibly imagine. Minty’s resolve, bravery and even her sanity will be pushed to the very brink of capitulation, as she searches for a way to achieve her destiny. Minty’s odyssey continues.
Author: W. Eugene March Publisher: Geneva Press ISBN: 1611649528 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 87
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TheSix Themes Everyone Should Knowseries introduces biblical books and their main themes. Each volume consists of six chapters that present major biblical themes; each chapter contains an introduction and three major sections: An explanation of the theme The significance of the biblical theme for the life of faith An exploration of implications this biblical theme offers the church for its ministry The biblicalJeremiahisseen as a prophet of judgementand doom. He believed the hard times befalling Judah werethe resultofpeople breaking the covenant with God. But Jeremiah was alsoa prophetof hope for those who believed God had not forsaken them, evenwhen they were forcedinto exile. Jeremiah believed that the relationship with Godcould be restored. Gene March introduces us to six themesthat explorethe difficult times and the critical messageof thismessengerfor God. This volume includes material for participants and guides for leading all six sessions.
Author: Lhundub Sopa Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 0861714814 Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 514
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This second volume of the five-volume commentary focuses on karma, or cause and effect, and is the most comprehensive treatment of this key Buddhist concept yet published.
Author: Patrick Radden Keefe
Author: Elaine Scarry
Author: Daniel Hazelwood
Author: Jackie Gardner-Nix
Author: Andy Rothwell 
Author: Humphrey HEDGEHOG (pseud. [i.e. John Agg.])
Author: W. Eugene March
Author: Lhundub Sopa
Author: John Agg
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