Author: Michi Ancheta
Publisher: Ukiyoto Publishing
ISBN: 9814989614
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 203
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Three years after his best friend Patrick was found hanging in his bedroom, Adam still can’t let go. Believing there’s a hidden message behind Patrick’s cryptic suicide note, he writes to ease his guilt and finally reveal what he knows. In his book, A World Alone, Adam attempts to solve the mystery of his best friend’s death by revealing the secrets of the people from his past, including his own. Born to a middle-class family in a country like the Philippines, Adam knows there’s no greater shame than admitting you’re depressed. After spending six months in a psychiatric ward, he attends public school for the first time. But just when Adam believed things were finally looking up for him, fate makes other plans. What happens after is an unpredictable ride down the rabbit hole, filled with humor, mystery, and like most teenage love stories, heartbreak.
Author: Helen H. Wulf
Publisher: Wayne State University Press
ISBN: 9780814318232
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
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From the Introduction: Sudden and unexpected loss of communication is a terrifying, dehumanizing experience that tears away at the essence of life itself. For decades, speech and language pathologists have sought to better understand it. The term aphasia is used to generally describe a condition whereby speech and language skills are partially or totally lost. Aphasia is the result of damage to or disturbance of those areas in the brain responsible for speech and language functions. A tremendous variety of specific impairments can occur to plague the individual with aphasia. Impairments of comprehension, reading disturbances, writing difficulties, and confusion with numerical processes can accompany oral language problems such as word loss, loss of sentence structure, and confusion in utilizing word forms. . . To understand aphasia at this level alone is to miss the full nature of this terribly debilitating condition. For the effect that aphasia has on the person who must bear its consequences is a profound area of interest that is not always understood and. . . seldom considered. Aphasia, My World Alone has been written to help open this often closed door. . . Helen Wulf has put down on paper a depth of feeling, thought, and analysis concerning the aphasic experience that personalizes the disorder in a gripping, readable manner. She delves so deeply into her aphasia that the reader is actually drawn up into the agony and frustration that is the daily burden of the aphasic individual. Speech pathologists who actively work with aphasic patients will immediately recognize the value of Helen Wulf's analysis of her aphasia. Her reactions to various forms of treatment will also be beneficial, especially to those who are allowing certain aphasics to determine which speech and language deficits are most debilitating and, consequently, which area should be emphasized in the initial stages of treatment. Family and friends of the aphasic will be warmly introduced to those inner thoughts so long hidden from their ears. . . This book. . . should be extremely useful in family counseling. . . As many speech pathologists have indicated, the need for "family treatment" is immediate, real, and often of critical importance. . . As the field of aphasia rehabilitation continues its growth ... our ability to help the aphasic and his family will expand. It is felt that in its small way, this book will help make aphasia less of a world alone. A new chapter has been added to this revised edition in which Helen Wulf assesses her feelings and the progress she has made six to eight years post-stroke.
Author: Robin Lee Graham
Publisher: Goldencraft
ISBN: 9780307665102
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 144
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Recounts the voyage of a California sixteen-year-old who spent nearly five years sailing alone around the world.
Author: Nell Bernstein
Publisher: The New Press
ISBN: 1595585559
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. “An urgent invitation to care for all children as our own.” —Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, author of Random Family In this “moving condemnation of the U.S. penal system and its effect on families”, award-winning journalist Nell Bernstein takes an intimate look at parents and children—over two million of them—torn apart by our current incarceration policy (Parents’ Press). Described as “meticulously reported and sensitively written” by Salon, the book is “brimming with compelling case studies . . . and recommendations for change” (Orlando Sentinel). Our Weekly Los Angeles calls it “a must-read for lawmakers as well as for lawbreakers.” “In terms of elegance, breadth and persuasiveness, All Alone in the World deserves to be placed alongside other classics of the genre such as Jonathan Kozol’s Savage Inequalities, Alex Kotlowitz’s There Are No Children Here and Adrian Nicole LeBlanc’s Random Family. But to praise the book’s considerable literary or sociological merit seems beside the point. This book belongs not only on shelves but also in the hands of judges and lawmakers.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Well researched and smoothly written, Bernstein’s book pumps up awareness of the problems, provides a checklist for what needs to be done and also cites organizations like the Osborne Society that provide parenting and literacy classes, counseling and support. The message is clear: taking family connections into account ‘holds particular promise for restoring a social fabric rent by both crime and punishment.’” —Publishers Weekly, starred review
Author: Michael Oakeshott
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110711358X
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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This book is Michael Oakeshott's discussion of the relationships between the most important perspectives from which we experience the world.
Author: Ismael Casiano, Jr
Publisher: Ismael Casiano Jr
ISBN: 1432791680
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 97
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The Muse, Or How I Fall in Love represents a young poets effort to describe the creative impulse as the source of his love for a woman. Profoundly spiritual and deeply torn this poetic prose explores everything from the nature of beauty to feminine spirituality.
Author: David Lewis Professor of Philosophy Princeton University
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198020422
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 301
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The first volume of this series presents fifteen selected papers dealing with a variety of topics in ontology, philosophy of mind, and philosophy of language.
Author: Adam Graves
Publisher: Æ Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 81
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An explication on the mechanics of the sunyata meditation. Considered a grand master, Adam Graves researched his own experiences to cultivate this technical analysis as his own self case study. The first half of the book is devoted to a scientific analysis on the sunyata meditation, which is renamed Compass. The second half is a first-person narrative of how the Compass study came to be.
Author: Federico Bonaddio
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1855663546
Category : Conscience de soi dans la littérature
Languages : en
Pages : 214
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Feted by his contemporaries, Federico García Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 1936. This book shows just why his fame has endured, through an exploration of his most popular works: Romancero Gitano, Poeta en Nueva York and the trilogy of tragic plays - Blood Wedding, Yerma and The House of Bernarda Alba.Feted by his contemporaries, Federico García Lorca's status has only grown since his death in 1936: poet, playwright, political martyr, gay icon, champion of women, defender of the oppressed. This book guides readers through the key themes and concerns in Lorca's work. It demonstrates how Lorca applied his poetic sensibilities and lyrical craft to what were, in essence, tangible, real-life issues: the plight of Andalusia's Romani people, the idea of modernity and the condition of women in Spain. What becomes evident is that, even though he was writing at a time when many writers and artists were less inclined to deal directly with the things of the world, Lorca maintained a profound interest in the human subject and in the world around him. It is this interest, the book argues, in tandem with his poetic vision and craft, that ensured his most popular works' enduring, universal appeal.in the human subject and in the world around him. It is this interest, the book argues, in tandem with his poetic vision and craft, that ensured his most popular works' enduring, universal appeal.in the human subject and in the world around him. It is this interest, the book argues, in tandem with his poetic vision and craft, that ensured his most popular works' enduring, universal appeal.in the human subject and in the world around him. It is this interest, the book argues, in tandem with his poetic vision and craft, that ensured his most popular works' enduring, universal appeal.
Author: Stephanie Kuduk Weiner
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191511897
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 225
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This book considers the lyric poems written by John Clare and three twentieth-century poets—Arthur Symons, Edmund Blunden, and John Ashbery—who turned to him at pivotal moments in their own development. These writers crafted a distinctive mode of lyric, 'Clare's lyric', that emphatically grounds its truth claims in mimetic accuracy. For these writers, accurate representation involves not only words that name objects, describe scenes, and create images pointing to a shared reality but also patterns of sound, the syntactic organization of lines, and the shapes of whole poems and collections of poems. Their works masterfully investigate how poetic language and form can refer to the world, word by word, line by line, and poem by poem. Written in a lively and accessible style, Clare's Lyric sheds light on a richly diverse body of poems and on enduring questions about how literature represents reality. Weiner's attentive close readings bring the writings of Clare, Symons, Blunden, and Ashbery to life by revealing precisely how they captured a vital, arresting, and complex world in their poems. Their unique approach to lyric is traced from Clare's poems about birdsong, his sonnets, and his later poems of loss and absence to Symons's efforts to make 'amends to nature' Blunden's vivid depictions of a European and English countryside scarred by the First World War, and Ashbery's unbounded and bountiful landscapes. This inventive study refines our understanding of the aesthetic of Romanticism, the genre of lyric, and the practice of literary representation, and it makes a compelling case for the ongoing importance of poems about nature and social life.
