Eating Glass

Author : Annita Perez Sawyer
Publisher : Santa Fe Writer's Project
ISBN 13 : 1939650275
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Smoking Cigarettes, Eating Glass written by Annita Perez Sawyer and published by Santa Fe Writer's Project. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fiercely honest and beautifully written book." —Paul Austin, author, Beautiful Eyes and Something for the PainA cautionary tale of careless psychiatric diagnosis, treatment, and resilienceSawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved." The damage done has haunted her life. Discharged in 1966, after finally receiving proper psychiatric care, Sawyer kept her past secret and moved on to graduate from Yale University, raise two children, and become a respected psychotherapist. That is, until 2001, when she reviewed her hospital records and began to remember a broken childhood and the even more broken mental health system of the 1950s and 1960s.

Author : Mark D. Jacobsen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781736402801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eating Glass written by Mark D. Jacobsen and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as we celebrate what we have achieved, applaud ourselves for daring greatly, and shrug off failure, we are dying inside. Because, nobody has really, honestly told us what failure feels like, and the truth is, it is terrifying and it is lonely and it hurts like hell. "Fail fast, fail often, fail forward" We live in an age that acknowledges the importance of failure and resilience to success. Yet, in our rush to bounce back from setbacks, we often miss that the journey through failure and renewal can be a difficult one that plays out over months or years. In this moving memoir, Air Force officer and entrepreneur Mark D. Jacobsen tells the story of his ambitious moonshot effort to use emerging drone technology to break sieges and deliver humanitarian aid in war-torn Syria. Even as his small volunteer team achieved breakthrough successes, cascading challenges brought down the effort and took Mark past the limits of his strength. In the two years that followed, amidst a grueling PhD program and a difficult faith transition, Mark learned to walk failure's path and find new life on the other side. Eating Glass is a compassionate and profound guide that will speak to any dreamer or achiever who is navigating the aftermath of a failure experience. It provides steady assurance that we are never alone in our journeys and that our seasons of failure are fertile times in which we grow.

Author : Joe Nickell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813123585
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Sideshows written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Nickell - once a carnival pitchman, then a magician, private detective, and investigative writer - has pursued sideshow secrets for years and has worked the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition. For this book, he interviewed showmen and performers, collected carnival memorabilia, researched published accounts of sideshows and their lore, and even performed some classic sideshow feats, such as eating fire and lying on a bed of nails as a cinderblock was broken on his chest. The result of these varied efforts, Secrets of the Sideshows tells the captivating story of the magic, tricks - real or illusory - and performers of the world's midway shows."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Val Stevenson
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780760719473
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Strange Deaths written by Val Stevenson and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sarah Culberson
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1429949740
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Princess Found written by Sarah Culberson and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sarah Culberson was adopted one year after her birth by a loving, white, West Virginian couple and was raised in the United States with little knowledge of her ancestry. Though raised in a loving family, Sarah wanted to know more about the birth parents that had given her up. In 2004, she hired a private investigator to track down her biological father. When she began her search, she never imagined what she would discover or where that information would lead her: she was related to African royalty, a ruling Mende family in Sierra Leone and that she is considered a mahaloi, the child of a Paramount Chief, with the status like a princess. What followed was an unforgettably emotional journey of discovery of herself, a father she never knew, and the spirit of a war-torn nation. A Princess Found is a powerful, intimate revelation of her quest across the world to learn of the chiefdom she could one day call her own.

Author : Alex Gunn
Publisher : Booksmango
ISBN 13 : 1946765139
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Chiang Mai Food Diaries… and other tales written by Alex Gunn and published by Booksmango. This book was released on 2017-03-07 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiang Mai is the most fascinating place on earth…and so is the food. Have you eaten a termite or met a Blacking Man? Have you seen the tree top spear fisherman, or tried to chew your way through a deep fried chicken head or a plateful of live shrimps? Have you ever wondered why there is a huge, stagnant, six mile and otherwise pointless canal running around the outer reaches of the south side of the city? This is a book about food, Chiang Mai, termites, sausages, ghosts, history, cooking, Islam, markets, death, noodles, forest fires, mushrooms and fish farming. (I think I’ve covered all bases). “Definitely on par with Bill Bryson but with more of a personal touch.” Alan, goodreads.com “Easily accessible, humorous and often embarrassingly honest.” Chiang Mai City Life “Love his books. Very funny, inspiring and interesting. Highly recommend to anyone.” Valerie, amazon.co.uk “Laugh out loud funny.” Sam, goodreads.com “He’s very, very funny and quirky and easy to read.” Ashley, amazon.com For more information about food and Chiang Mai visit the blog at: www.thelifechangepeople.com

Author : Edward William Lane
Publisher : American Univ in Cairo Press
ISBN 13 : 9789774247842
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians written by Edward William Lane and published by American Univ in Cairo Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few works about the Middle East have exerted such wide and long-lasting influence as Edward William Lane's An Account of the Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians. First published in 1836, this classic book has never gone out of print, continuously providing material and inspiration for generations of scholars, writers, and travelers, who have praised its comprehensiveness, detail, and perception. Yet the editions in print during most of the twentieth century would not have met Lane's approval. Lacking parts of Lane's text and many of his original illustrations (while adding many that were not his), they were based on what should have been ephemeral editions, published long after the author's death. Meanwhile, the definitive fifth edition of 1860, the result of a quarter century of Lane's corrections, reconsiderations, and additions, long ago disappeared from bookstore shelves. Now the 1860 edition of Manners and Customs of the Modern Egyptians is available again, with a useful general introduction by Jason Thompson. Lane's greatest work enters the twenty-first century in precisely the form that he wanted.

Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0975272748
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Smile from Katie Hattan written by Leon Hale and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-10 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Natural wonders were Leon Hale’s lifetime subject matter. He looked for them wherever he went, and found them surprisingly often. In the lives of plain people and eccentrics, in the brilliant smile of a tiny 100-year-old black lady, or the hi-jinks of his cousin C.T., in what happened on a dirt farm in 1930 or why he found value in chiseling brick, he revealed truths and wonders we might not have noticed on our own. When published in 1982, A Smile from Katie Hattan was Leon Hale’s first column collection after nearly thirty years of writing for The Houston Post. It was widely celebrated for presenting the delightful daily work of this writer, at last, to a wider audience. What is remarkable, now, forty years later, is how fresh and interesting the 155 columns remain, as we roam with the author through a Texas that remains as vivid and enjoyable as the day he wrote about it.

Author : George Frederick Shrady
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 796 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medical Record written by George Frederick Shrady and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 796 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jamie Frater
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1612433359
Total Pages : 497 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Listverse.com's Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Top 10 Lists written by Jamie Frater and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-05-13 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of crazy-but-true facts, peculiar occurrences, despicable crimes, bizarre records, unbelievable creatures, and many more shocking oddities. Delving into the shocking side of pop culture, science and history, Listverse.com’s Epic Book of Mind-Boggling Top 10 Lists offers a wealth of fascinating reading with over 200 lists and more than 2,000 interesting facts, including: • Alien Artifacts • Creepy Urban Legends • Bizarre Murder Weapons • Horrific TV Accidents • Outrageous Rock Tales • Twisted Circus Acts • Terrifying Villains • Crazy-but-True Movie Plots • Dirty CIA Operations • Monstrously Evil Babysitters • Strange Hamburger Facts • Animal Freaks of Nature • Mind-Blowing Technologies