Life On A Line

Author : Grant Achatz
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 1592406971
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life, on the Line written by Grant Achatz and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An award-winning chef describes how he lost his sense of taste to cancer, a setback that prompted him to discover alternate cooking methods and create his celebrated progressive cuisine.

Author : Ryan O'Callaghan
Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617757705
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Life on the Line: How the NFL Damn Near Killed Me and Ended Up Saving My Life written by Ryan O'Callaghan and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A riveting account of life as a closeted professional athlete from gay NFL player O’Callaghan, against the backdrop of depression, opioid addiction, and the threat of suicide. “[O’Callaghan’s] story is one of beautiful vulnerability, and it further shows the importance of knowing you aren’t alone.” —Oprah Daily, recommended by Gayle King Ryan O’Callaghan’s plan was always to play football and then, when his career was over, kill himself. Growing up in a politically conservative corner of California, the not-so-subtle messages he heard as a young man from his family and from TV and film routinely equated being gay with disease and death. Letting people in on the darkest secret he kept buried inside was not an option: better death with a secret than life as a gay man. As a kid , Ryan never envisioned just how far his football career would take him. He was recruited by the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent five seasons, playing alongside his friend Aaron Rodgers. Then it was on to the NFL for stints with the almost-undefeated New England Patriots and the often-defeated Kansas City Chiefs. Bubbling under the surface of Ryan’s entire NFL career was a collision course between his secret sexuality and his hidden drug use. When the league caught him smoking pot, he turned to NFL-sanctioned prescription painkillers that quickly sent his life into a tailspin. As injuries mounted and his daily intake of opioids reached a near-lethal level, he wrote his suicide note to his parents and plotted his death. Yet someone had been watching. A member of the Chiefs organization stepped in, recognizing the signs of drug addiction. Ryan reluctantly sought psychological help, and it was there that he revealed his lifelong secret for the very first time. Nearing the twilight of his career, Ryan faced the ultimate decision: end it all, or find out if his family and football friends could ever accept a gay man in their lives.

Author : Philip D. Chinnery
Publisher : St Martins Press
ISBN 13 : 9780312025991
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Line written by Philip D. Chinnery and published by St Martins Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pilots relate their combat experiences in Vietnam with tales of bravery and sacrifice, demonstrating that pilots were engaged in combat as often as ground troops

Author : Emma Goldberg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Line Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic written by Emma Goldberg and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-14 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The gripping account of six young doctors enlisted to fight COVID-19, an engrossing, eye-opening book in the tradition of both Sheri Fink's Five Days at Memorial and Scott Turow's One L. In March 2020, soon-to-graduate medical students in New York City were nervously awaiting "match day" when they would learn where they would begin their residencies. Only a week later, these young physicians learned that they would be sent to the front lines of the desperate battle to save lives as the coronavirus plunged the city into crisis. Taking the Hippocratic Oath via Zoom, these new doctors were sent into iconic New York hospitals including Bellevue and Montefiore, the epicenters of the epicenter. In this powerful book, New York Times journalist Emma Goldberg offers an up-close portrait of six bright yet inexperienced health professionals, each of whom defies a stereotype about who gets to don a doctor's white coat. Goldberg illuminates how the pandemic redefines what it means for them to undergo this trial by fire as caregivers, colleagues, classmates, friends, romantic partners and concerned family members. Woven together from in-depth interviews with the doctors, their notes, and Goldberg's own extensive reporting, this page-turning narrative is an unforgettable depiction of a crisis unfolding in real time and a timeless and unique chronicle of the rite of passage of young doctors.

Author : Darren Hodge
Publisher : Kerr Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0958128367
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life on the Line written by Darren Hodge and published by Kerr Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-01 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the author was a kid, a big white sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a life of extremes' in an Australian ambulance service. He does shifts at base on-call, and teaches another generation of paramedics now. Loves his job. A list of well-known events that includes Victoria's Black Saturday Fires and the 2005 Bali Bombing - he was trying to get married when that call came in - mark two dark extremes. Technical matters - trauma treatment decisions, and the limits of aviation, for example - are explained. And this book includes the little things like the time the supermarket aisle was alive with the sound of music from an ex-patient's kid's lips: 'Thanks for looking after Daddy.' Darren couldn't have put it better himself, and it made his heart sing. This book tells what is like to be Darren Hodge on the end of a line, what it is like to be a paramedic. Open, honest reports, warts and all, this memoir is an unflinching account of how it feels, say, to pluck people from imminent death. And there are some laughs on the way...

Author : John Gondeck
Publisher : Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1636308414
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life at the 50 Yard Line written by John Gondeck and published by Covenant Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-29 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does life truly begin, and where will it take us? Everyone starts somewhere. When will we reach the halfway point? Just maybe, we have passed it. Unlike those who play football, we can't see our own fifty-yard line. We know that it is out there somewhere, but where? Have we passed it, or are we approaching it? Or, just possibly, are we standing on it? These are questions that may never be answered. Our parents make plans and dream dreams for us, and we, in turn, make plans for our children. However, God has His plans for us as well. aEURoeFor I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.aEUR

Author : Barbara Lynch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476795444
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Out of Line written by Barbara Lynch and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blood, Bones, & Butter meets A Devil in the Kitchen in this funny, fierce, and poignant memoir by world-renowned chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch, recounting her rise from a hard-knocks South Boston childhood to culinary stardom.

Author : Noel C. Cullen
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780139075858
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life Beyond the Line written by Noel C. Cullen and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suitable for all Culinary Arts programs, this unique resource guide fully prepares future chefs by helping them build skills in both high quality food production and "front-of-house" training - i.e., customer satisfaction and retention - now recognized as the principal driving force behind the modern chef. KEY TOPICS: Emphasizing the necessity of training today's chef to be a "customer-driven" professional, the book establishes the importance of working together for success, discusses issues of sanitation and safety, and offers guest relations and social skill techniques. It examines the fundamentals of table service, and educates readers on the basics of wine and wine-making. All liquors, including beer, ale and stout, are covered, and the essentials of mixology are shared. It describes the legal issues surrounding alcohol, and presents a case study on the "happy hour" drinker. MARKET: For those in hospitality careers.

Author : Al Gibson
Publisher : Monarch Books
ISBN 13 : 9780825463044
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Line written by Al Gibson and published by Monarch Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over two decades Dr. Des Sinclair and his wife Ros have traveled throughout Africa, Australia, South America, and Asia. He has seen three people raised from the dead: he has been released from prison in extraordinary circumstances; he has preached the gospel in the face of fierce opposition, particularly from Muslim groups. Thrown out by his father at the age of eleven, he has since been abused, imprisoned, tortured, even sentenced to death yet in obedience to the perceived call of God he has pressed on. Life on the Lineis his amazing story.

Author : Adam Kaat
Publisher : Inspired Forever Books
ISBN 13 : 9781948903776
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life on the Grocery Line (Second Edition) written by Adam Kaat and published by Inspired Forever Books. This book was released on 2023-03-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his first day as a cashier at Dream Grocers, Daniel imagines that the worst he'll have to deal with on the job are the occasional grumpy customers and long days on his feet. But in just one week's time, reality changes entirely as the COVID-19 pandemic creates a frenzied panic throughout Daniel's home state of Colorado. Now, he's suddenly being called a hero just for showing up at his job, and he isn't sure how to feel about that. As the uncertainty and paranoia around the virus spread rapidly, Daniel tries to stay afloat and not let the irate hordes of customers bring him down. He learns more than he ever expected to about humanity's response to fear, observing most prominently the way that some people look down on the very workers they deem "essential."