Evening Of Life

Author : Joseph E. Davis
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026810803X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evening of Life written by Joseph E. Davis and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although philosophy, religion, and civic cultures used to help people prepare for aging and dying well, this is no longer the case. Today, aging is frequently seen as a problem to be solved and death as a harsh reality to be masked. In part, our cultural confusion is rooted in an inadequate conception of the human person, which is based on a notion of absolute individual autonomy that cannot but fail in the face of the dependency that comes with aging and decline at the end of life. To help correct the ethical impoverishment at the root of our contemporary social confusion, The Evening of Life provides an interdisciplinary examination of the challenges of aging and dying well. It calls for a re-envisioning of cultural concepts, practices, and virtues that embraces decline, dependency, and finitude rather than stigmatizes them. Bringing together the work of sociologists, anthropologists, philosophers, theologians, and medical practitioners, this collection of essays develops an interrelated set of conceptual tools to discuss the current challenges posed to aging and dying well, such as flourishing, temporality, narrative, and friendship. Above all, it proposes a positive understanding of thriving in old age that is rooted in our shared vulnerability as human beings. It also suggests how some of these tools and concepts can be deployed to create a medical system that better responds to our contemporary needs. The Evening of Life will interest bioethicists, medical practitioners, clinicians, and others involved in the care of the aging and dying. Contributors: Joseph E. Davis, Sharon R. Kaufman, Paul Scherz, Wilfred M. McClay, Kevin Aho, Charles Guignon, Bryan S. Turner, Janelle S. Taylor, Sarah L. Szanton, Janiece Taylor, and Justin Mutter

Author : Neville Buch
Publisher : Boolarong Press
ISBN 13 : 1925236463
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book No Regrets in the Evening of Life written by Neville Buch and published by Boolarong Press. This book was released on 2018-03-14 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The type of local and school history before the reader may be unfamiliar. It is a definitive and scholarly history in the style of many grammar school histories in Queensland. Although it is not unknown for Australian public and private schooling, it is unique for Queensland state schools. By saying it is a ‘definitive and scholarly history’, what is meant is not that the history is complete; only that it reaches decisive conclusions in a substantive treatment. In this particular case, the historian is someone who has been trained at the level of a higher degree.

Author : William Edward Heygate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evening of Life; Or, Meditations and Devotions for the Aged written by William Edward Heygate and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Life
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life's evening; or, Thoughts for the aged written by Life and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Susan Minot
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375700269
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Evening written by Susan Minot and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-09-07 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With two novels and one short story collection published to overwhelming critical acclaim ("Monkeys takes your breath away," said Anne Tyler; "heartbreaking, exhilarating," raved the New York Times Book Review), Susan Minot has emerged as one of the most gifted writers in America, praised for her ability to strike at powerful emotional truths in language that is sensual and commanding, mesmerizing in its vitality and intelligence. Now, with Evening, she gives us her most ambitious novel, a work of surpassing beauty. During a summer weekend on the coast of Maine, at the wedding of her best friend, Ann Grant fell in love. She was twenty-five. Forty years later--after three marriages and five children--Ann Lord finds herself in the dim claustrophobia of illness, careening between lucidity and delirium and only vaguely conscious of the friends and family parading by her bedside, when the memory of that weekend returns to her with the clarity and intensity of a fever-dream. Evening unfolds in the rushlight of that memory, as Ann relives those three vivid days on the New England coast, with motorboats buzzing and bands playing in the night, and the devastating tragedy that followed a spectacular wedding. Here, in the surge of hope and possibility that coursed through her at twenty-five--in a singular time of complete surrender--Ann discovers the highest point of her life. Superbly written and miraculously uplifting, Evening is a stirring exploration of time and memory, of love's transcendence and of its failure to transcend--a rich testament to the depths of grief and passion, and a stunning achievement.

Author : Dean Koontz
Publisher : Bantam
ISBN 13 : 0553904892
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Darkest Evening of the Year written by Dean Koontz and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2007-11-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Dean Koontz's The City. With each of his #1 New York Times bestsellers, Dean Koontz has displayed an unparalleled ability to entertain and enlighten readers with novels that capture the essence of our times even as they bring us to the edge of our seats. Now he delivers a heart-gripping tour de force he’s been waiting years to write, at once a love story, a thrilling adventure, and a masterwork of suspense that redefines the boundaries of primal fear—and of enduring devotion. Amy Redwing has dedicated her life to the southern California organization she founded to rescue abandoned and endangered golden retrievers. Among dog lovers, she’s a legend for the risks she’ll take to save an animal from abuse. Among her friends, Amy’s heedless devotion is often cause for concern. To widower Brian McCarthy, whose commitment she can’t allow herself to return, Amy’s behavior is far more puzzling and hides a shattering secret. No one is surprised when Amy risks her life to save Nickie, nor when she takes the female golden into her home. The bond between Amy and Nickie is immediate and uncanny. Even her two other goldens, Fred and Ethel, recognize Nickie as special, a natural alpha. But the instant joy Nickie brings is shadowed by a series of eerie incidents. An ominous stranger. A mysterious home invasion. And the unmistakable sense that someone is watching Amy’ s every move and that, whoever it is, he’s not alone. Someone has come back to turn Amy into the desperate, hunted creature she’s always been there to save. But now there’s no one to save Amy and those she loves. From its breathtaking opening scene to its shocking climax, The Darkest Evening of the Year is Dean Koontz at his finest, a transcendent thriller certain to have readers turning pages until dawn.

Author : Shirley Hazzard
Publisher : Picador
ISBN 13 : 1466801050
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evening of the Holiday written by Shirley Hazzard and published by Picador. This book was released on 2004-07-01 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the words of Time magazine, "A near perfect novel...a small masterpiece" by the author of The Great Fire Passionate undercurrents sweep in and out of this eloquent novel about a love affair in a summer countryside in Italy and its inevitable end. It takes place in a setting of pastoral beauty during a time of celebration--a festival. Sophie, half English, half Italian, meets Tancredi, an Italian who is separated from his wife and family. In telling the story of their love affair, Shirley Hazzard punctures the placid surface of polite Italian society to reveal the intense yearnings and surprising responses in sophisticated people caught up in emotions they do not always understand.

Author : Monsignor Baunard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781494084660
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.6X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evening of Life written by Monsignor Baunard and published by . This book was released on 2013-10 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a new release of the original 1930 edition.

Author : Jeremiah Chaplin
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3382320118
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Evening of Life written by Jeremiah Chaplin and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-04-29 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1859. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.

Author : Father Ralph Wright
Publisher : eBookIt.com
ISBN 13 : 0984011722
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Is Simpler Toward Evening written by Father Ralph Wright and published by eBookIt.com. This book was released on 2013-02-21 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life Is Simpler Toward Evening is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as the majesty of clouds, the loneliness of being apart from a loved one, and always, the glory of God. Fr. Ralph Wright, who is a poet of great distinction, pens works that reflect his knowledge of and respect for the masters. His images are both beautiful and startling; his metaphors perceptive, his use of rhyme natural. His expertise lies in the unity of word and idea that is the essence of poetry. Life is Simpler Toward Evening is one of Fr. Ralph's eight books of verse. The poetry of Life is Simpler Toward Evening is never obscure but nevertheless demands that we return, again and again, to delight in and savor both words and subtle meanings. Life Is Simpler Toward Evening offers a soothing escape from the pressures and turmoil of every day life.