Surviving Alex

Author : Patricia A. Roos
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 1978837046
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving Alex written by Patricia A. Roos and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2024-05-17 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 2015, Patricia Roos’s twenty-five-year-old son Alex died of a heroin overdose. Turning her grief into action, Roos, a professor of sociology at Rutgers University, began to research the social factors and institutional failures that contributed to his death. Surving Alex tells her moving story—and outlines the possibilities of a more compassionate and effective approach to addiction treatment. Weaving together a personal narrative and a sociological perspective, Surviving Alex movingly describes how even children from “good families” fall prey to addiction, and recounts the hellish toll it takes on families. Drawing from interviews with Alex’s friends, family members, therapists, teachers, and police officers—as well as files from his stays in hospitals, rehab facilities, and jails—Roos paints a compelling portrait of a young man whose life veered between happiness, anxiety, success, and despair. And as she explores how a punitive system failed her son, she calls for a community of action that would improve care for substance users and reduce addiction, realigning public health policy to address the overdose crisis.

Author : Alex Morel
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101575395
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Survive written by Alex Morel and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-08-02 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hatchet meets Lost in this modern-day adventure tale of one girl's reawakening Jane is on a plane on her way home to Montclair, New Jersey, from a mental hospital. She is about to kill herself. Just before she can swallow a lethal dose of pills, the plane hits turbulence and everything goes black. Jane wakes up amidst piles of wreckage and charred bodies on a snowy mountaintop. There is only one other survivor: a boy named Paul, who inspires Jane to want to fight for her life for the first time. Jane and Paul scale icy slopes and huddle together for warmth at night, forging an intense emotional bond. But the wilderness is a vast and lethal force, and only one of them will survive.

Author : Alex Messenger
Publisher : Blackstone Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Twenty-Ninth Day written by Alex Messenger and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A six-hundred-mile canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness is a seventeen-year-old's dream adventure, but after he is mauled by a grizzly bear, it's all about staying alive. This true-life wilderness survival epic recounts seventeen-year-old Alex Messenger's near-lethal encounter with a grizzly bear during a canoe trip in the Canadian tundra. The story follows Alex and his five companions as they paddle north through harrowing rapids and stunning terrain. Twenty-nine days into the trip, while out hiking alone, Alex is attacked by a barren-ground grizzly. Left for dead, he wakes to find that his summer adventure has become a struggle to stay alive. Over the next hours and days, Alex and his companions tend his wounds and use their resilience, ingenuity, and dogged perseverance to reach help at a remote village a thousand miles north of the US-Canadian border. The Twenty-Ninth Day is a coming-of-age story like no other, filled with inspiring subarctic landscapes, thrilling riverine paddling, and a trial by fire of the human spirit.

Author : Alex Cooper
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062374621
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Saving Alex written by Alex Cooper and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Alex Cooper was fifteen years old, life was pretty ordinary in her sleepy suburban town and nice Mormon family. At church and at home, Alex was taught that God had a plan for everyone. But something was gnawing at her that made her feel different. These feelings exploded when she met Yvette, a girl who made Alex feel alive in a new way, and with whom Alex would quickly fall in love. Alex knew she was holding a secret that could shatter her family, her church community, and her life. Yet when this secret couldn’t be hidden any longer, she told her parents that she was gay, and the nightmare began. She was driven from her home in Southern California to Utah, where, against her will, her parents handed her over to fellow Mormons who promised to save Alex from her homosexuality. For eight harrowing months, Alex was held captive in an unlicensed “residential treatment program” modeled on the many “therapeutic” boot camps scattered across Utah. Alex was physically and verbally abused, and many days she was forced to stand facing a wall wearing a heavy backpack full of rocks. Her captors used faith to punish and terrorize her. With the help of a dedicated legal team in Salt Lake City, Alex eventually escaped and made legal history in Utah by winning the right to live under the law’s protection as an openly gay teenager. Alex is not alone; the headlines continue to splash stories about gay conversion therapy and rehabilitation centers that promise to “save” teenagers from their sexuality. Saving Alex is a courageous memoir that tells Alex’s story in the hopes that it will bring awareness and justice to this important issue. A bold, inspiring story of one girl’s fight for freedom, acceptance, and truth.

Author : Harold A. Skaarup
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 146204753X
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Colorado Warbird Survivors 2003 written by Harold A. Skaarup and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-12-16 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many examples of aircraft that saw service in the various armed forces of the United States are currently being restored to flying status or preserved in museums in the state of Colorado. Some of them have significant war records, and a few are currently standing as gate guardians outside their former airbases. These Warbirds are a permanent part of our modern history, and they deserve to be remarked upon and remembered. This handbook provides a simple checklist of where the surviving military aircraft in Colorado are located now, along with a few photographs and a brief history of their service in the US military. This book should spark your interest in some of the military aviation history that can be found in the air museums and airports of this front range state. Colorado Warbird Survivors is specifically intended to provide a where are they guide for residents and visitors to Colorado who are interested in its rich resources of historical military aircraft. Contact numbers are provided for the museums, should you be interested in learning more about each aircraft. Perhaps you will then choose to visit these museums in order to appreciate the rich resources of aviation heritage preserved on your behalf.

Author : Duncan Palamourdas
Publisher : D&B Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1912862220
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Alex Beats Bobbie at Poker written by Duncan Palamourdas and published by D&B Publishing. This book was released on 2020-12-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Alex and Bobbie, who both like to play poker. Alex is a professional poker player who plays for a living and is a solid long-term winner. Bobbie is a recreational player who plays a decent enough game but mainly wants to have a good time. If you play poker regularly you will meet thousands of players like Bobbie in your games and very few like Alex. Of course one would expect that, in the long run, Alex will perform better than Bobbie. But have you ever wondered EXACTLY what it is that Alex understands better and does differently to Bobbie? This is a rather complex question that does not have a simple answer. In this book, UCLA maths professor Duncan Palamourdas addresses this question via a journey through human psychology, game theory, easy-to-understand mathematics and even philosophy. Topics include: * Understanding the instinctive but unprofitable tendencies of inexperienced players. * How to identify what a mistake actually is in poker – and how to exploit it. * Why poker does not revolve around bluffing. * The great impact of variance in poker and how to account for it. * How to develop a consistent approach that allows you to play like Alex and not Bobbie.

Author : Pavel I. Yutsis
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1591203473
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving the Unsurvivable written by Pavel I. Yutsis and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-12-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr. Yutsis' theory posits that cancer is a well-connected whole-body disease linked to lifestyle, diet, age and how the different body systems function. He has identified 10 specific factors, including genetics, sugar, obesity, stress and toxins, that make it easier for cancer to get a foothold and become more aggressive and tougher to combat.

Author : George J. Rynecki
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1412209102
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Surviving Hitler in Poland written by George J. Rynecki and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2006-12-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the late 1930s Warsaw, Poland, was a vibrant city. It was home to a bustling business community and its historic promenade and outdoor cafs catered to the city's community of artists, writers, and intellectuals. It was a magnificent place to live and visit. On 1 September 1939, the day the Nazis invaded Poland, that all changed--particularly for the Jewish population. Before the outbreak of the Second World War, Poland was home to the largest Jewish population in Europe. It is believed that prior to the war that more than three million Jews lived in Poland. It is thought that perhaps fewer than four hundred thousand survived the war. In September 1939, George Rynecki was a Jew living in Poland. He was a new father and just starting his business. The life he had planned was suddenly and radically altered. Instead of focusing on his family and nascent business, he found himself scrambling to outsmart the Nazis and provide for his family. With a combination of courage, wits, luck, and bribery he survived the Holocaust. Unfortunately, George's father, Moshe Rynecki, was not so lucky. Moshe, an artist who lived in Warsaw, refused to leave the city. While George was unable to save his father from deportation to the Majdanek concentration camp, at the end of the Holocaust he was able to retrieve many of his father's paintings. Moshe's paintings, which are realistic depictions of Eastern European Jewry, were obviously personally important to George, but are also of historic importance; they portray a people, a culture, and a community that was almost completely annihilated by the Nazis. This memoir, read in tandem with viewing Moshe Rynecki's paintings, provides a more complete picture of the Eastern European Jewish community, and the Rynecki family in particular. If you are interested in this book, you might also be interested in Jewish Life in Poland: The Art of Moshe Rynecki (1881-1943).

Author : Mark L. Eastburn
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1469113929
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Survivors written by Mark L. Eastburn and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2008-04-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alex Hidalgos life has been rough, even though he has always tried to do whats right. When he bravely saves an injured lizard in the woods one day, his act of kindness leads the boy, his sister Katherine, and three other children on a journey across four continents in an epic battle against evil alien forces that are intent on conquering Earth. His allies in this struggle are a small group of intelligent reptiles known as the Survivors. Their greatest secret is that they have seen this extraterrestrial menace before. Chances of resisting the invasion are slim.

Author : Alex Newton
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781475011173
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Plan and Prep written by Alex Newton and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plan and Prep: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse is an introductory guide to emergency and disaster planning and preparation. Focusing on teaching the basic concepts of emergency and disaster preparedness that author utilizes amazing artwork and several short storylines that follow the fictional Bill Jones and his family as they navigate their way through a series of emergency and disaster events, culminating in the outbreak of a Zombie Apocalypse. Plan and Prep: Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse walks the reader through basic planning and preparation techniques and attempts to answer most of the more basic questions before they are asked. Areas that are often overlooked by beginners are explored, and some of the more common misconceptions are discussed. Although not a "Survival Handbook," this guide will provide real world plan and prep ideas and solutions that anyone can add to their prepper toolkit.