Author: Ira Socol
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615163696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
More than four dozen pieces of microfiction that are set in and around the northern Irish city of Derry carry the reader to places of incredible beauty and vicious nightmare, times of absolute joy and moments of complete terror. In stories which tread a blurred line between poetry and prose, a never named and not-quite described narrator reveals a story both national and personal, played out upon a canvas filled with stunning landscapes and fascinating characters. ----"I say it again, "this is pretty much the end of the earth," and she just smiles. "Well, certainly," I admit, "there are the Faroes out lost in the fog somewhere beyond and even past that Iceland sure, but that's really only for Vikings and drunk Germans who like to get naked in the hot pools," and she just laughs." But really it is just wild water until it turns to ice and ice until you're going south again and the ice turns into Siberia." - from "for Owen who did not think Donegal had proper beaches"
A Certain Place of Dreams
Author: Ira Socol
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615163696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
More than four dozen pieces of microfiction that are set in and around the northern Irish city of Derry carry the reader to places of incredible beauty and vicious nightmare, times of absolute joy and moments of complete terror. In stories which tread a blurred line between poetry and prose, a never named and not-quite described narrator reveals a story both national and personal, played out upon a canvas filled with stunning landscapes and fascinating characters. ----"I say it again, "this is pretty much the end of the earth," and she just smiles. "Well, certainly," I admit, "there are the Faroes out lost in the fog somewhere beyond and even past that Iceland sure, but that's really only for Vikings and drunk Germans who like to get naked in the hot pools," and she just laughs." But really it is just wild water until it turns to ice and ice until you're going south again and the ice turns into Siberia." - from "for Owen who did not think Donegal had proper beaches"
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0615163696
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
More than four dozen pieces of microfiction that are set in and around the northern Irish city of Derry carry the reader to places of incredible beauty and vicious nightmare, times of absolute joy and moments of complete terror. In stories which tread a blurred line between poetry and prose, a never named and not-quite described narrator reveals a story both national and personal, played out upon a canvas filled with stunning landscapes and fascinating characters. ----"I say it again, "this is pretty much the end of the earth," and she just smiles. "Well, certainly," I admit, "there are the Faroes out lost in the fog somewhere beyond and even past that Iceland sure, but that's really only for Vikings and drunk Germans who like to get naked in the hot pools," and she just laughs." But really it is just wild water until it turns to ice and ice until you're going south again and the ice turns into Siberia." - from "for Owen who did not think Donegal had proper beaches"
The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States
Author: Henry Gannett
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Names, Geographical
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States
Author: Henry Gannett
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806305448
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 9780806305448
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 338
Book Description
A Digest of Reported Cases for the Years 1895-1903
Author: Kadirvalepillai Balasingham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law reports, digests, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
“The” Uvāsagadasāo Or the Religious Profession of an Uvāsaga Expounded in Ten Lectures Being the Seventh Anga of the Jains
Author: August F. Rudolf Hoernle
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
The Johns Hopkins University Circular
Author: Johns Hopkins University
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, etc.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Includes University catalogues, President's report, Financial report, etc.
Malignant
Author: Rebecca Dresser
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199921105
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
"You have cancer." Words no one wants to hear, but heard by millions every year. Millions more hear the equally shattering news that a loved one has cancer. Both are life-changing messages. For the people writing this book, cancer was not only a personal crisis, it was also an education. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience with cancer showed them how little they understood of the real world of serious illness. Despite years of teaching and writing about treatment decision-making and patient autonomy, they were unprepared for many of the problems they faced. They discovered that the rights and wrongs of cancer care were more complicated than they had anticipated. Ethics outside the hospital walls took on unexpected significance as they discovered the astonishing generosity, and the unintentional cruelty, that cancer provokes in others. Cancer was a test of personal character, too, as patients accustomed to control became dependent on others and caregivers shouldered unfamiliar and difficult responsibilities. In chapters on cancer diagnosis, treatment choices, and research participation, the authors examine medical ethics from the personal point of view. In chapters on family caregiving, cancer interactions, and cancer support groups, they consider ethics outside the medical setting. In chapters on mortality and survivorship, they reflect on cancers personal moral teachings. Cancer is an unavoidable feature of modern life. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of what it is like to have cancer, better equipped to respond to cancer in their own lives and the lives of others. The book also offers insights to doctors and nurses seeking to improve cancer treatment and to medical ethicists seeking to make their work more relevant to patients and caregivers.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199921105
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
"You have cancer." Words no one wants to hear, but heard by millions every year. Millions more hear the equally shattering news that a loved one has cancer. Both are life-changing messages. For the people writing this book, cancer was not only a personal crisis, it was also an education. Experts on medical ethics, personal experience with cancer showed them how little they understood of the real world of serious illness. Despite years of teaching and writing about treatment decision-making and patient autonomy, they were unprepared for many of the problems they faced. They discovered that the rights and wrongs of cancer care were more complicated than they had anticipated. Ethics outside the hospital walls took on unexpected significance as they discovered the astonishing generosity, and the unintentional cruelty, that cancer provokes in others. Cancer was a test of personal character, too, as patients accustomed to control became dependent on others and caregivers shouldered unfamiliar and difficult responsibilities. In chapters on cancer diagnosis, treatment choices, and research participation, the authors examine medical ethics from the personal point of view. In chapters on family caregiving, cancer interactions, and cancer support groups, they consider ethics outside the medical setting. In chapters on mortality and survivorship, they reflect on cancers personal moral teachings. Cancer is an unavoidable feature of modern life. Readers will come away with a deeper understanding of what it is like to have cancer, better equipped to respond to cancer in their own lives and the lives of others. The book also offers insights to doctors and nurses seeking to improve cancer treatment and to medical ethicists seeking to make their work more relevant to patients and caregivers.
A Collection of Scarce and Interesting Tracts
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
The Nation
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Current events
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
The Eclectic Magazine of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 892
Book Description