The Last Walk

Author : Jessica Pierce
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022615100X
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Walk written by Jessica Pierce and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-04-04 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a book that draws on both personal stories and research presents an in-depth exploration of the practical, medical and moral issues that trouble pet owners confronted with the decline and death of their companion animals.

Author : Howard Jacobson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 140884530X
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Dog's Last Walk written by Howard Jacobson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-03-09 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: _______________ '[An] acutely observed collection of occasional pieces that pick at absurdist life and reveal him to be a quiz, a cultural critic gifted with precise comic timing' - The Times 'The author's prose is always a delight ... a book that manages the high-wire act of being genuinely funny while dispensing genuine wisdom' - Times Literary Supplement 'Jacobson is one of the great sentence-builders of our time. I feel I have to raise my game, even just to praise ... In short, he is one of the great guardians of language and culture - all of it. Long may he flourish' - Nicholas Lezard, Guardian _______________ Week after week, for eighteen years, the Booker Prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson wrote a weekly column for the Independent, reflecting in inimitable style on the sacred and the profane in turn, the frivolous and the serious, the deeply personal and the most universal. The shame and humiliation inherent in death is explored with frank astuteness. Matisse, darts and the power of love are celebrated; while cyclists are very much censured. And meanwhile, a beloved old Labrador walks his last walk as life elsewhere hurtles on and away... The Dog's Last Walk is a collection of wisdom and iconoclasm for our uncertain times, and one that reveals one of our greatest writers in all his humanity. _______________ 'Sharp and playful, surreal and thoughtful, and occasionally ... rather moving' - New Statesman 'Yes, Jacobson is an entertainer ... And he does indeed entertain, but in a way that stimulates rather than simply amuses' - Sunday Telegraph 'His columns were always one of the best things in [the Independent] – funny, argumentative, contrary and stuffed with ideas as well as a big, sympathetic personality' - Philip Hensher, Spectator

Author : Wayne Curtis
Publisher : Rodale Books
ISBN 13 : 1609613732
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Great Walk written by Wayne Curtis and published by Rodale Books. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1909, Edward Payson Weston walked from New York to San Francisco, covering around 40 miles a day and greeted by wildly cheering audiences in every city. The New York Times called it the "first bona-fide walk ... across the American continent," and eagerly chronicled a journey in which Weston was beset by fatigue, mosquitos, vicious headwinds, and brutal heat. He was 70 years old. In The Last Great Walk, journalist Wayne Curtis uses the framework of Weston's fascinating and surprising story, and investigates exactly what we lost when we turned away from foot travel, and what we could potentially regain with America's new embrace of pedestrianism. From how our brains and legs evolved to accommodate our ancient traveling needs to the way that American cities have been designed to cater to cars and discourage pedestrians, Curtis guides readers through an engaging, intelligent exploration of how something as simple as the way we get from one place to another continues to shape our health, our environment, and even our national identity. Not walking, he argues, may be one of the most radical things humans have ever done.

Author : Ron Baumbach
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781466473621
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Last Walk on Our Block written by Ron Baumbach and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are invited to share in a family's last walk on their block.An unexpected family reunion leads three brothers and their sister back home. Traveling from all parts of the USA, they soon find themselves once again walking the block of their Long Island upbringing. They take steps back to their past in a moving and touching journey in time that takes them from the 1950's through to the 1960's and beyond.Revisiting their roots, upbringing and past they reconnect with their long gone childhood years, recapturing moments of their Dad's missing memory due to his long lost battle with Alzheimers.Their stroll is filled with lovingly shared adventures, wholesome family values, inspiring neighborly virtues, motherly love and fatherly guidance.Set in the 50's and 60's in a most restful village in middle America, true life comes vividly back to reality in this awe-inspiring path to the past. Personal, humorous, and charming neighborhood reflections based on motivating and enlivened homespun memories line their journey.A time long gone by comes roaring back to life in this personal reflection!Join The Last Walk on Our Block and relive your own memories of life as we all knew it.

Author : Rose Zwi
Publisher : Spinifex Press
ISBN 13 : 9781875559725
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Last Walk in Naryshkin Park written by Rose Zwi and published by Spinifex Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This memoir of Jewish family history is also a documentation of atrocities inflicted by the fascist militia during the German occupation of Eastern Europe. It is a personal account of the legacy of the Holocaust.

Author : Barry Adkins
Publisher : Red Willow Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781936539055
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Kevin's Last Walk written by Barry Adkins and published by Red Willow Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspiration meets adventure in Barry's book that chronicles the tragicdeath of his teenage son, Kevin, due to alcohol poisoning, and his epic, 1,400-mile journey, from Arizona to Montana, with Kevin's ashes in his backpack. With a sense of humor that is rare among parents who have lost achild, Barry's book is a combination of faith, inspiration and adventure. Yup, his book will make you laugh, cry, and when you finish his book, you will simply smile. Everyparent that reads Barry's story will hug their precious children a littletighter. Barry wrote this book with audiences of all ages in mind. In movieterms it is rated "G."

Author : Dan Helm
Publisher : Bookbaby
ISBN 13 : 9781098312688
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.86/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Last Walk Home written by Dan Helm and published by Bookbaby. This book was released on 2020-08-22 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After my parents passed away just a few days apart several years back, I remember the stories they told about growing up in North Central Pennsylvania. There were wonderful stories about times they spent with their brothers and sisters. Attending dances at township fire halls, working on a farm and attending school together. I know its been said many times, I wished I had written down they stories they told but I didn't and no one else did either. I didn't want my children and their children to sit and wonder what was my life was like growing up as child; what the family was like, who were my friends and what were the good things and the not so good things I did. I hope this book will answer many of their questions. It is my wish that you read this book and hopefully it will spark your childhood memories and inspire you to jot down the things you did and life you lived growing up where you live and why it was special to you. Even if you don't publish you words, keep them for others to read and enjoy.

Author : Adam Hamilton
Publisher : Abingdon Press
ISBN 13 : 1501891197
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Walk written by Adam Hamilton and published by Abingdon Press. This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we walk with Christ—daily follow him, grow in him, and faithfully serve him? In the Gospels, Jesus modeled for us the Christian spiritual life. The apostles taught it in their writings. And the Church has, through the last 2,000 years, sought to pursue this Christian spiritual life. In The Walk, Adam Hamilton focuses on five essential spiritual practices that are rooted in Jesus’ own walk with God and taught throughout the New Testament. Each of these practices is intended as part of our daily walk with Christ while also being an essential part of growing together in the church. In each chapter, Hamilton explores one of these practices, its New Testament foundation, and what it looks like to pursue this practice daily in our personal life and together in the life of the church. Deepen your walk with Christ as we explore the five essential practices of worship, study, serving, giving, and bearing witness to our faith. Additional components for a six-week adult study include a comprehensive Leader Guide and a DVD featuring the engaging teachings of author and pastor Adam Hamilton. Also available are resources for children and youth.

Author : Janusz Korczak
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300097429
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ghetto Diary written by Janusz Korczak and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint. Originally published: New York: Holocaust Library, c1978.

Author : Jonathon Stalls
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
ISBN 13 : 1623176964
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book WALK written by Jonathon Stalls and published by North Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A transformative collection of essays on the power of walking to connect with ourselves, each other, and nature itself. In 2010, Jonathon Stalls and his blue-heeler husky mix began their 242-day walk across the United States, depending upon each other and the kindness of strangers along the way. In this collection of essays, Stalls explores walking as waking up: how a cross-country journey through the family farms of West Virginia, the deep freedom of Nevada’s High desert, and everywhere in between unlocked connections to his deepest aches and dreams--and opened new avenues for renewal, connection, and change. While most of us won’t walk or roll across the country, the deep wisdom and insights that Stalls receives from the people, land, and animals he meets on his pilgrimage have profound impacts for each of us. He shares how walking deepened his relationship to himself as a gay man, offering deep and clarifying emotional medicine. He confronts the systemic racism, classism, and ableism that shape and reshape the communities he walks through. And he invites readers to become awakened activists, to begin healing our culture’s profound separation from the natural world. WALK is for those who crave to feel and embody, not just know and study, their way through complex themes that live in each chapter: vulnerability, human dignity, presence, mystery, and resistance. With dedicated practices--like connecting to Earth stewardship, moving into vulnerability, and walking and rolling with intention--Stalls’ WALK is an urgent and glorious call to slow down, look around, and engage with the world in front of us. It awakens us to what we miss when we’re driving by, flying over, and rushing past what surrounds us. It’s an invitation to move, to connect, to participate deeply in the world--and to dissolve the barriers that disconnect us from each other and the living Earth.