Mirrored Lives

Author : Lois Quinn
Publisher : Author House
ISBN 13 : 1456792709
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrored Lives written by Lois Quinn and published by Author House. This book was released on 2005-04-20 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In alternating chapters, until they meet, follow both Rachel and Philipa. Philipas life was dictated by her Victorian parents distaste at their childs physical disability: a childhood of cruelty and abuse at the hands of a cruel Nanny. World War II was her porthole to escape into a world of adventure and courage. Rachels young life is abruptly shattered by an accident which leaves her grotesquely disfigured. During her enforced excursion into therapy, Rachel is exposed to the sleazy underworld of respectable Edinburgh. Beneath the stunning skyline of Scotlands capital city, Rachel is drawn into a web of drugs, violence and death. Forced to share the intimacy of a hospital ward, the two women find they share a great deal more.

Author : Lib Lander
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974414904
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrored Lives written by Lib Lander and published by . This book was released on 2003-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A first-hand account from one charismatic man's two ex-wives, who triumph over their betrayals and learn and gain strength from one another.

Author : Tom Koch
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 : 9780275936716
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrored Lives written by Tom Koch and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1990 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Beautifully written, this is one of the best first-person accounts of family caregiving. Highly recommended for both children and parents." Library Journal (starred review)

Author : Rabisankar Bal
Publisher : Random House India
ISBN 13 : 8184006780
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Mirrored Life written by Rabisankar Bal and published by Random House India. This book was released on 2015-01-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his way from Tangiers to China, the medieval Moorish traveller Ibn Battuta arrives in Konya, Turkey where the legendary dervish Rumi had lived, danced and died. More than half a century may have passed since his death, but his poetry remains alive, inscribed in every stone and tree and pathway. Rumi’s followers entrust Ibn Battuta with a manuscript of his life stories to spread word of the mystic on his travels. As Battuta reads and recites these tales, his listeners discover their own lives reflected in these stories—fate has bound them, and perhaps you, to Rumi. A Mirrored Life reaffirms the magical powers of storytelling, making us find Rumi in each of our hearts.

Author : Jia Tolentino
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0525510559
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trick Mirror written by Jia Tolentino and published by Random House. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “From The New Yorker’s beloved cultural critic comes a bold, unflinching collection of essays about self-deception, examining everything from scammer culture to reality television.”—Esquire Book Club Pick for Now Read This, from PBS NewsHour and The New York Times • “A whip-smart, challenging book.”—Zadie Smith • “Jia Tolentino could be the Joan Didion of our time.”—Vulture FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE’S JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FOR BEST FIRST BOOK • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY AND HARVARD CRIMSON AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Chicago Tribune • The Washington Post • NPR • Variety • Esquire • Vox • Elle • Glamour • GQ • Good Housekeeping • The Paris Review • Paste • Town & Country • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • BookRiot • Shelf Awareness Jia Tolentino is a peerless voice of her generation, tackling the conflicts, contradictions, and sea changes that define us and our time. Now, in this dazzling collection of nine entirely original essays, written with a rare combination of give and sharpness, wit and fearlessness, she delves into the forces that warp our vision, demonstrating an unparalleled stylistic potency and critical dexterity. Trick Mirror is an enlightening, unforgettable trip through the river of self-delusion that surges just beneath the surface of our lives. This is a book about the incentives that shape us, and about how hard it is to see ourselves clearly through a culture that revolves around the self. In each essay, Tolentino writes about a cultural prism: the rise of the nightmare social internet; the advent of scamming as the definitive millennial ethos; the literary heroine’s journey from brave to blank to bitter; the punitive dream of optimization, which insists that everything, including our bodies, should become more efficient and beautiful until we die. Gleaming with Tolentino’s sense of humor and capacity to elucidate the impossibly complex in an instant, and marked by her desire to treat the reader with profound honesty, Trick Mirror is an instant classic of the worst decade yet. FINALIST FOR THE PEN/DIAMONSTEIN-SPIELVOGEL AWARD FOR THE ART OF THE ESSAY

Author : Marco Iacoboni
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429990759
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirroring People written by Marco Iacoboni and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2009-06-23 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What accounts for the remarkable ability to get inside another person's head—to know what they're thinking and feeling? "Mind reading" is the very heart of what it means to be human, creating a bridge between self and others that is fundamental to the development of culture and society. But until recently, scientists didn't understand what in the brain makes it possible. This has all changed in the last decade. Marco Iacoboni, a leading neuroscientist whose work has been covered in The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and The Wall Street Journal, explains the groundbreaking research into mirror neurons, the "smart cells" in our brain that allow us to understand others. From imitation to morality, from learning to addiction, from political affiliations to consumer choices, mirror neurons seem to have properties that are relevant to all these aspects of social cognition. As The New York Times reports: "The discovery is shaking up numerous scientific disciplines, shifting the understanding of culture, empathy, philosophy, language, imitation, autism and psychotherapy." Mirroring People is the first book for the general reader on this revolutionary new science.

Author : Alex Flinn
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 006213454X
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrored written by Alex Flinn and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2015-09-15 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In #1 New York Times bestselling author Alex Flinn's modern and mysterious retelling of Snow White, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and true love doesn't necessarily mean Prince Charming. Celine's life is the stuff fairy tales are made of. She's beautiful, talented, and brave. Unfortunately, her tale comes complete with a wicked stepmother! When Violet steps into Celine's life, everything changes and weird things begin to happen to her—bizarre accidents, strange illnesses, and rabid animal attacks. Celine doesn't feel safe anywhere. It's almost as if some hateful witch is out to get her. And there is. Violet has been waiting all her life to have Celine's father to herself. Getting rid of his gorgeous daughter is child's play for a witch as powerful as she is. Happy-ever-after isn't enough for Violet. She wants to be the fairest of them all, and Celine is in the way . . . but not for long. Forced to take refuge with her friend Goose and his family, Celine gives up everything she loves and goes deep undercover. But will it be enough to fool Violet, or will Celine's fate be decided by a reflection in a magic mirror? And where do you find Prince Charming in Miami anyway? Mirrored is a modern retelling of Snow White—told from the points of view of Violet, Celine, and Goose—with all the magic and mystery readers will love.

Author : Tom Koch
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262037211
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics in Everyday Places written by Tom Koch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2017-12-22 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of moral stress, distress, and injuries inherent in modern society through the maps that pervade academic and public communications worlds. In Ethics in Everyday Places, ethicist and geographer Tom Koch considers what happens when, as he puts it, “you do everything right but know you've done something wrong." The resulting moral stress and injury, he argues, are pervasive in modern Western society. Koch makes his argument "from the ground up," from the perspective of average persons, and through a revealing series of maps in which issues of ethics and morality are embedded. The book begins with a general grounding in both moral stress and mapping as a means of investigation. The author then examines the ethical dilemmas of mapmakers and others in the popular media and the sciences, including graphic artists, journalists, researchers, and social scientists. Koch expands from the particular to the general, from mapmaker and journalist to the readers of maps and news. He explores the moral stress and injury in educational funding, poverty, and income inequality ("Why aren't we angry that one in eight fellow citizens lives in federally certified poverty?"), transportation modeling (seen in the iconic map of the London transit system and the hidden realities of exclusion), and U.S. graft organ transplantation. This uniquely interdisciplinary work rewrites our understanding of the nature of moral stress, distress and injury, and ethics in modern life. Written accessibly and engagingly, it transforms how we think of ethics—personal and professional—amid the often conflicting moral injunctions across modern society. Copublished with Esri Press

Author : Gabriele vom Bruck
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190057920
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrored Loss written by Gabriele vom Bruck and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mirrored Loss tells the story of Amat al-Latif al Wazir, only daughter of 'Abdullah al-Wazir, the leader of Yemen's constitutional movement of the mid-twentieth century for democratisation of the autocratic imamate. Her relationship with her adored father, who was accused of treason, takes centre stage in this biographical narrative. Amat al-Latif, enjoyed a privileged childhood in a high-ranking family at the heart of Yemeni politics; yet the failed revolt of 1948 was the family's downfall, leaving her and other close relatives exposed to social indignities and privation. She then spent many years in exile, where she suffered a personal calamity that compounded the earlier catastrophe. Through one family's story, Gabriele vom Bruck explores how violence translates into tragedy in the personal realm, and how individual lives and larger cultural and political worlds intersect in Yemen. Her narrative makes these tragic events compellingly tangible, especially at the level of gendered subjectivity--female Yemenis have been either unknown to or deemed insignificant by most male historians of this period. Mirrored Loss is a significant step in righting that omission.

Author : Annie Graves
Publisher : Darby Creek Pub
ISBN 13 : 1467743496
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mirrored written by Annie Graves and published by Darby Creek Pub. This book was released on 2015 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abbey's best friend is her reflection--the mysterious girl who looks just like her and lives on the other side of her mirror. But can she really trust Bee--enough to switch places with her?"--