The Seven Gates A Memoir Of A Descent

Author : Elaine Amyot
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0978051041
Total Pages : 118 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Gates: A Memoir of a Descent written by Elaine Amyot and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-06-02 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diagnosis of cancer sets the author on a journey of self-discovery and healing. The book is structured on the myth of Inanna and her descent into the underworld. 36 color illustrations by the author.

Author : Dorothy Height
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 0786739754
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Open Wide The Freedom Gates written by Dorothy Height and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2009-04-28 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dorothy Height marched at civil rights rallies, sat through tense White House meetings, and witnessed every major victory in the struggle for racial equality. Yet as the sole woman among powerful, charismatic men, someone whose personal ambition was secondary to her passion for her cause, she has received little mainstream recognition -- until now. In her memoir, Dr. Height, now ninety-one, reflects on a life of service and leadership. We witness her childhood encounters with racism and the thrill of New York college life during the Harlem Renaissance. We see her protest against lynchings. We sit with her onstage as Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I Have a Dream" speech. We meet people she knew intimately throughout the decades: W.E.B. DuBois, Marcus Garvey, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod Bethune, Adam Clayton Powell Sr., Langston Hughes, and many others. And we watch as she leads the National Council of Negro Women for forty-one years, her diplomatic counsel sought by U.S. Presidents from Eisenhower to Clinton. After the fierce battles of the 1960s, Dr. Height concentrates on troubled black communities, on issues like rural poverty, teen pregnancy and black family values. In 1994, her efforts are officially recognized. Along with Rosa Parks, she receives the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor.

Author : Ayla Hesperia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Gates to Freedom written by Ayla Hesperia and published by . This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The integrity of the art on the front cover must not be compromised. It is in pure form and free of any written words or distractions. Experience the message in the illustration. The book title will assist. And, if the approach intrigues you, there is good reason. Meet the challenge offered by the illustration and the book. Their message is simple and direct, encouraging youthfulness while aging.

Author : Paul Kalanithi
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0812988418
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book When Breath Becomes Air written by Paul Kalanithi and published by Random House. This book was released on 2016-01-12 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living? NAMED ONE OF PASTE’S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • People • NPR • The Washington Post • Slate • Harper’s Bazaar • Time Out New York • Publishers Weekly • BookPage Finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Books for a Better Life Award in Inspirational Memoir At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi’s transformation from a naïve medical student “possessed,” as he wrote, “by the question of what, given that all organisms die, makes a virtuous and meaningful life” into a neurosurgeon at Stanford working in the brain, the most critical place for human identity, and finally into a patient and new father confronting his own mortality. What makes life worth living in the face of death? What do you do when the future, no longer a ladder toward your goals in life, flattens out into a perpetual present? What does it mean to have a child, to nurture a new life as another fades away? These are some of the questions Kalanithi wrestles with in this profoundly moving, exquisitely observed memoir. Paul Kalanithi died in March 2015, while working on this book, yet his words live on as a guide and a gift to us all. “I began to realize that coming face to face with my own mortality, in a sense, had changed nothing and everything,” he wrote. “Seven words from Samuel Beckett began to repeat in my head: ‘I can’t go on. I’ll go on.’” When Breath Becomes Air is an unforgettable, life-affirming reflection on the challenge of facing death and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a brilliant writer who became both.

Author : Edward Lemond
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0978051084
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Breach House Anthology Volume II written by Edward Lemond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A second anthology of prose and poetry by members of the Breach House Writers' Group. Volume One was published in 2010.

Author : Edward Lemond
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1312525444
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Breach House Anthology Volume III written by Edward Lemond and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-10-31 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A third volume of poetry and prose from the Breach House Gang of writers, based in southeast New Brunswick, Canada.

Author : Bill Gates
Publisher : Penguin Group
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Road Ahead written by Bill Gates and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 1996 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this clear-eyed, candid, and ultimately reassuring

Author : Peter Greave
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seventh Gate written by Peter Greave and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiography of Peter Greave, born in Calcutta in the time of the Raj. He relates the tragic-comic collapse of his family's fortunes, the sufferings endured of his youth, and then heads towards the ultimate degradation as he contracts leprosy. He enters the ranks of the most outcaste of all and by the time of independence has almost entirely lost his eyesight as well as his reason to live.

Author : Vinu Julius
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781696285322
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seven Gates written by Vinu Julius and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-28 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True Life. True Death. True Love.Vinu Julius... a young man trapped between two worlds.One is comprised of tradition, adherence to rules, and stability. But the price is unquestioning obedience to his elders.The other world beckons with the lure of individuality, freedom of expression, and social mobility. But it carries the risk of isolation and excommunication from everything and everyone Vinu has ever known.For his entire life, Vinu has had to navigate the razor's edge between the two.Until one night when an unspeakable revelation culminates in an unforgivable act.And Vinu is thrust into an entirely new universe, where violence is only ever a breath away, and death is a way of life.Follow Vinu's journey as he struggles make peace with his past, figure out his identity, and at the same time, not lose his soul.This is a true story of loss, redemption, and love.

Author : James L [From Old Catalog] Meagher
Publisher : Franklin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780343368906
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Seven Gates of Heaven written by James L [From Old Catalog] Meagher and published by Franklin Classics. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.