Author: Chicago School of Sanitary InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Let that Bad Air Out
Author: Stefan BergPublisher: The Porcupine's Quill
ISBN: 1123594791
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
Stefan Berg revives the wordless graphic novel in his portrait of the ‘first man of jazz’. Very little is known of Buddy Bolden. His music was never recorded and there is only one existing photograph, yet he is considered to be the first bandleader to play the improvised music that has since become known as jazz. Let That Bad Air Out tells the tragic end of a brilliant nineteenth-century jazz pioneer using traditional linocut printmaking techniques executed with a sharp and contemporary boldness.
When Breath Becomes Air
Author: Paul KalanithiPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 0812988418
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.
Prize Essays and Transactions
Author: Highland and agricultural society of Scotland, EdinburghPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 570
Book Description
Outlines of Men, Women, and Things
Author: Mary ClemmerLet's Clear the Air
Author: Publisher: Lobster Press
ISBN: 9781897073667
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
(ages 9 - 12) This collection of stories and interviews is the result of a simple question: "Why won't you start smoking?" Readers won't feel like they are being preached to, because the anti-tobacco message is being delivered by kids just like them. The stories, based on life experiences and observations, are diverse, personal, and smart – sometimes painful, sometimes funny. The ten reasons include the poor health of parents who smoke, addiction, self-image, the environment, and relationships. Our young contributors also bring up issues that kids might not consider, such as how cigarettes affect one's personal appearance, athletic performance, and bank account. The media's portrayal of smoking and the unscrupulous marketing tactics used by tobacco companies are also discussed. The stories are complemented by edgy illustrations, examples of anti-tobacco activism, quotes from nonsmoking celebrities, a foreword by Christy Turlington, important health facts, "instant history facts," and other sidebars which present the ugly truth about cigarettes.
The Complete Works of Count Tolstoy
Author: graf Leo TolstoyAir Pollution Abstracts
Author: A Course of Lectures in Natural Philosophy. By the Late Richard Helsham, M.D. Professor of Physik and Natural Philosophy in the Uniuersity of Dublin. Published by Bryan Robinson, M.D
Author: Richard HelshamSessional Papers of the Dominion of Canada
Author: Canada. ParliamentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 1574
Book Description
"Report of the Dominion fishery commission on the fisheries of the province of Ontario, 1893", issued as vol. 26, no. 7, supplement.
Report of the State Board of Health of the State of New Hampshire for the Two Years Ending ...
Author: New Hampshire. State Board of HealthPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description