Bald In The Land Of Big Hair

Author : Joni Rodgers
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0060955260
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bald in the Land of Big Hair written by Joni Rodgers and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bald in the Land of Big Hair is the hilarious-and often heartbreaking-tale of Joni Rodgers's journey through the badlands of cancer told with humor, occasional anger, and unflinching honesty. More than just a cancer book, this is a deeply affecting memoir of one woman's struggle to come to terms with everything that life throws her way. Ultimately, this is a moving celebration of the true meaning of human triumph and courage, the importance of community and the imperative of living everyday with joy.

Author : Joni Rodgers
Publisher : Headline Review
ISBN 13 : 9780747251552
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.5X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bald in the Land of Big Hair written by Joni Rodgers and published by Headline Review. This book was released on 2002 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's no fun being a bald girl in Houston, the big hair capital of America. That's what Joni Rodgers found when she got cancer. Luckily, Joni's humour never fails her, and this rollercoster ride through her illness is unlike other cancer memoirs. Bald in the Land of Big Hair is written with courage, wit, honesty, and snappy oneliners. A testament to the triumph of the human spirit and the importance of a darn good wig.

Author : Margo Maine
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476647976
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hair Tells a Story written by Margo Maine and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2023-01-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The body is the canvas upon which women paint their secrets, their hopes and dreams, pain and disappointments. Hair has long played a role in the struggles for power, self-determination and autonomy--serving as a nonverbal language that represents women's lives. However, pain, anxiety, racism, sexism and rigid beauty standards can too often underlie these stories. Modern events like the Black Lives Matter movement and the COVID-19 pandemic have exposed societal barriers that prevent the free and equitable expression of hair. Although countless books and articles address body image, the personal psychology and the meaning of hair have been missing. This work empowers women to understand complex hair-head-heart connections, and pressures. Above all, the text emphasizes that hair is never just hair.

Author : Susan Gubar
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039324699X
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reading and Writing Cancer: How Words Heal written by Susan Gubar and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-05-17 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important addition to the literature of cancer by an award-winning scholar and memoirist. Elaborating upon her “Living with Cancer” column in the New York Times, Susan Gubar helps patients, caregivers, and the specialists who seek to serve them. In a book both enlightening and practical, she describes how the activities of reading and writing can right some of cancer’s wrongs. To stimulate the writing process, she proposes specific exercises, prompts, and models. In discussions of the diary of Fanny Burney, the stories of Leo Tolstoy and Alice Munro, numerous memoirs, novels, paintings, photographs, and blogs, Gubar shows how readers can learn from art that deepens our comprehension of what it means to live or die with the disease. From a writer whose own memoir, Memoir of a Debulked Woman: Enduring Ovarian Cancer, was described by the New York Times Book Review as “moving and instructive…and incredibly brave,” this volume opens a path to healing.

Author : Chapple Langemack
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313053448
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Booktalker's Bible written by Chapple Langemack and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-03-30 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether you're preparing for your first booktalk or you're a seasoned booktalking pro, this lively and light-hearted guide provides all the information you need to create a smashing booktalking program—from finding your audience and choosing the books to performing the booktalk and evaluating the program. Filled with insightful, humorous, and inspiring stories from some of today's best booktalkers, this practical guide includes hundreds of sample booktalks, reproducible forms, and booktalk booklists for a wide variety of audiences. A must purchase for anyone who booktalks or wants to get started. Topics include: • Why Booktalk? • The Golden Rules of Booktalking • Choosing Your Books • Building a No-Fail Booktalk • Delivering a Dazzling Booktalk • Booktalking to Adults • Booktalking to Children and Teens • Booktalking in Schools • Taking It on the Road • Booktalking Variations • Evaluation and All That Jazz

Author : Kathy Patrick
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0446511188
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pulpwood Queen's Tiara-Wearing, Book-Sharing Guide to Life written by Kathy Patrick and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-02 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When licensed cosmetologist turned publisher's rep Kathy Patrick lost her job due to industry cutbacks, she wasn't deterred. One year later, she opened Beauty and the Book, the world's only combination beauty salon/bookstore. Soon after, she founded The Pulpwood Queens of East Texas -- a reading group that dared to ask the question, "Does a book club have to be snobby to be serious?" The idea spread like wildfire. Now there are about 70 chapters nationwide. The overriding rule -- aside from wearing the club's official tiara, hot pink, and leopard print outfits -- is that the groups must have fun. The club's mission: To get America reading. THE PULPWOOD QUEENS' TIARA-WEARING, BOOK- SHARING GUIDE TO LIFE celebrates female friendship, sisterhood, and the transformative power of reading. It includes life principles and motivational anecdotes, hilarious and heart-warming stories of friendships among the Queens, and stories from Kathy about the books that have inspired her throughout her life, complete with personalized suggested book lists.

Author : Christopher Johns
Publisher : SAGE Publications
ISBN 13 : 1544355343
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reflexive Narrative written by Christopher Johns and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflexive Narrative: Self-Inquiry Toward Self-Realization and Its Performance is latest addition to the Qualitative Research Methods series. Author Christopher Johns describes this unique method and its developmental approach to research to enable researchers’ self-realization however that might be expressed. This method focuses on systematizing the reflective process and providing structure while still remaining flexible to the needs of individual researchers and projects. Researchers collect data through reflections on everyday experiences and then selectively use the evidence of researcher’s insights. The text starts out with a brief introduction to narrative research and reflexivity, situating the method within the larger context of organizational practices. The next chapters introduce the steps for reflexive narrative research and walk readers through the movements of the reflexive narrative process, writing, reflection, dialogue, guidance, weaving, and audiencing. Additional coverage of ethics and research examples provide a foundation for application of the method to individual research. A chapter on structuring the method for a doctoral thesis furthers the applied nature of this method. Three extracts from studies provide research examples across several social science disciplines, including nursing and education. For students and researchers alike looking for new approaches to reflexive methods and looking to expand their ideas about self-research in a qualitative context, Reflexive Narrative provides a starting place for their own examination of self in the context of research.

Author : Carolyn Weber
Publisher : Thomas Nelson Inc
ISBN 13 : 0849946115
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surprised by Oxford written by Carolyn Weber and published by Thomas Nelson Inc. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A "girl-meets-God" style memoir of an agnostic who, through her surprising opportunity to study at Oxford, comes to a dynamic personal faith in God. Carolyn Weber arrives for graduate study at Oxford University a feminist from a loving but broken family, suspicious of men and intellectually hostile to all things religious. As she grapples with her God-shaped void alongside the friends, classmates, and professors she meets, she tackles big questions in search of love and a life that matters. This savvy, beautifully written, credible account of Christian conversion follows the calendar and events of the school year as it entertains, informs, and promises to engage even the most skeptical and unlikely reader.

Author : Nancy G. Brinker
Publisher : Harmony
ISBN 13 : 0307718131
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Promise Me written by Nancy G. Brinker and published by Harmony. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suzy and Nancy Goodman were more than sisters. They were best friends, confidantes, and partners in the grand adventure of life. For three decades, nothing could separate them. Not college, not marriage, not miles. Then Suzy got sick. She was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1977; three agonizing years later, at thirty-six, she died. It wasn’t supposed to be this way. The Goodman girls were raised in postwar Peoria, Illinois, by parents who believed that small acts of charity could change the world. Suzy was the big sister—the homecoming queen with an infectious enthusiasm and a generous heart. Nancy was the little sister—the tomboy with an outsized sense of justice who wanted to right all wrongs. The sisters shared makeup tips, dating secrets, plans for glamorous fantasy careers. They spent one memorable summer in Europe discovering a big world far from Peoria. They imagined a long life together—one in which they’d grow old together surrounded by children and grandchildren. Suzy’s diagnosis shattered that dream. In 1977, breast cancer was still shrouded in stigma and shame. Nobody talked about early detection and mammograms. Nobody could even say the words “breast” and “cancer” together in polite company, let alone on television news broadcasts. With Nancy at her side, Suzy endured the many indignities of cancer treatment, from the grim, soul-killing waiting rooms to the mistakes of well-meaning but misinformed doctors. That’s when Suzy began to ask Nancy to promise. To promise to end the silence. To promise to raise money for scientific research. To promise to one day cure breast cancer for good. Big, shoot-for-the-moon promises that Nancy never dreamed she could fulfill. But she promised because this was her beloved sister. I promise, Suzy. . . . Even if it takes the rest of my life. Suzy’s death—both shocking and senseless—created a deep pain in Nancy that never fully went away. But she soon found a useful outlet for her grief and outrage. Armed only with a shoebox filled with the names of potential donors, Nancy put her formidable fund-raising talents to work and quickly discovered a groundswell of grassroots support. She was aided in her mission by the loving tutelage of her husband, restaurant magnate Norman Brinker, whose dynamic approach to entrepreneurship became Nancy’s model for running her foundation. Her account of how she and Norman met, fell in love, and managed to achieve the elusive “true marriage of equals” is one of the great grown-up love stories among recent memoirs. Nancy’s mission to change the way the world talked about and treated breast cancer took on added urgency when she was herself diagnosed with the disease in 1984, a terrifying chapter in her life that she had long feared. Unlike her sister, Nancy survived and went on to make Susan G. Komen for the Cure into the most influential health charity in the country and arguably the world. A pioneering force in cause-related marketing, SGK turned the pink ribbon into a symbol of hope everywhere. Each year, millions of people worldwide take part in SGK Race for the Cure events. And thanks to the more than $1.5 billion spent by SGK for cutting-edge research and community programs, a breast cancer diagnosis today is no longer a death sentence. In fact, in the time since Suzy’s death, the five-year survival rate for breast cancer has risen from 74 percent to 98 percent. Promise Me is a deeply moving story of family and sisterhood, the dramatic “30,000-foot view” of the democratization of a disease, and a soaring affirmative to the question: Can one person truly make a difference?

Author : Jack Canfield
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 145327913X
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul written by Jack Canfield and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-08-07 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with the shock, fear and loss many women face upon a breast cancer diagnosis comes unexpected strength, wisdom, and strong networks of sharing, support and healing. In Chicken Soup for the Breast Cancer Survivor's Soul, survivors and their family members talk openly about how difficult their fight with breast cancer has been and how they made it through the dark times with a belief in a higher power and the support of those closest to them.