Author: Beamish Bel-Esprit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Brain Healthy exercises has many known benefits, and it appears that regular intellectual activity benefits the brain. Multiple research studies show that people who are intellectually active are less likely to experience a decline in their mental function and have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, so keeping your brain healthy is just as important as taking care of your body. Otherwise, Brain fog is a term used for certain symptoms that can affect your ability to think. You may feel confused or disorganized or find it hard to focus or put your thoughts into words, etc. For your current age, you needa improve memory, cultivate creative thinking, and hone observational and deductive skills to protect yourself from short-term memory. Feeling younger than your actual age may be indicative of your overall brain health. By testing brain activity, you'll fell perceive themselves as younger because your brain has more grey matter in critical brain regions - a sign of a healthy brain. This my rewarding way to relieve stress and flex those mental muscles. This fantastic choice in puzzle books for adults offers hours of puzzling fun while keeping your brain happy and healthy. Unlike other puzzle books for adults, start with the easy puzzles and work your way to more difficult brain teasers. ✓ Work it out ✓ Pick your level brain ✓ Solve the puzzle ✓ Explore the many brain health benefits of puzzling, such as building vocabulary, strengthening reasoning skills, or honing your attention to detail. ✓ The progression from easy to medium to difficult puzzles allows you to build your abilities and develop your own solving techniques. Go beyond other puzzle books for adults with clear step by step solving sudoku, without you get stuck. Take your pen and put your brain to the test with this fun puzzle book!
Big Book Of Sudoku Brain Health Puzzle Book For Adults, Clean The Brain Fog
Author: Beamish Bel-Esprit
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Brain Healthy exercises has many known benefits, and it appears that regular intellectual activity benefits the brain. Multiple research studies show that people who are intellectually active are less likely to experience a decline in their mental function and have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, so keeping your brain healthy is just as important as taking care of your body. Otherwise, Brain fog is a term used for certain symptoms that can affect your ability to think. You may feel confused or disorganized or find it hard to focus or put your thoughts into words, etc. For your current age, you needa improve memory, cultivate creative thinking, and hone observational and deductive skills to protect yourself from short-term memory. Feeling younger than your actual age may be indicative of your overall brain health. By testing brain activity, you'll fell perceive themselves as younger because your brain has more grey matter in critical brain regions - a sign of a healthy brain. This my rewarding way to relieve stress and flex those mental muscles. This fantastic choice in puzzle books for adults offers hours of puzzling fun while keeping your brain happy and healthy. Unlike other puzzle books for adults, start with the easy puzzles and work your way to more difficult brain teasers. ✓ Work it out ✓ Pick your level brain ✓ Solve the puzzle ✓ Explore the many brain health benefits of puzzling, such as building vocabulary, strengthening reasoning skills, or honing your attention to detail. ✓ The progression from easy to medium to difficult puzzles allows you to build your abilities and develop your own solving techniques. Go beyond other puzzle books for adults with clear step by step solving sudoku, without you get stuck. Take your pen and put your brain to the test with this fun puzzle book!
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
Brain Healthy exercises has many known benefits, and it appears that regular intellectual activity benefits the brain. Multiple research studies show that people who are intellectually active are less likely to experience a decline in their mental function and have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, so keeping your brain healthy is just as important as taking care of your body. Otherwise, Brain fog is a term used for certain symptoms that can affect your ability to think. You may feel confused or disorganized or find it hard to focus or put your thoughts into words, etc. For your current age, you needa improve memory, cultivate creative thinking, and hone observational and deductive skills to protect yourself from short-term memory. Feeling younger than your actual age may be indicative of your overall brain health. By testing brain activity, you'll fell perceive themselves as younger because your brain has more grey matter in critical brain regions - a sign of a healthy brain. This my rewarding way to relieve stress and flex those mental muscles. This fantastic choice in puzzle books for adults offers hours of puzzling fun while keeping your brain happy and healthy. Unlike other puzzle books for adults, start with the easy puzzles and work your way to more difficult brain teasers. ✓ Work it out ✓ Pick your level brain ✓ Solve the puzzle ✓ Explore the many brain health benefits of puzzling, such as building vocabulary, strengthening reasoning skills, or honing your attention to detail. ✓ The progression from easy to medium to difficult puzzles allows you to build your abilities and develop your own solving techniques. Go beyond other puzzle books for adults with clear step by step solving sudoku, without you get stuck. Take your pen and put your brain to the test with this fun puzzle book!
Big Book Of Sudoku Brain Health Puzzle Book For Adults, Clean The Brain Fog
Author: Beamish Bel-Esprit
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Brain Healthy exercises has many known benefits, and it appears that regular intellectual activity benefits the brain. Multiple research studies show that people who are intellectually active are less likely to experience a decline in their mental function and have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, so keeping your brain healthy is just as important as taking care of your body. Otherwise, Brain fog is a term used for certain symptoms that can affect your ability to think. You may feel confused or disorganized or find it hard to focus or put your thoughts into words, etc. For your current age, you needa improve memory, cultivate creative thinking, and hone observational and deductive skills to protect yourself from short-term memory. Feeling younger than your actual age may be indicative of your overall brain health. By testing brain activity, you'll fell perceive themselves as younger because your brain has more grey matter in critical brain regions - a sign of a healthy brain. This my rewarding way to relieve stress and flex those mental muscles. This fantastic choice in puzzle books for adults offers hours of puzzling fun while keeping your brain happy and healthy. Unlike other puzzle books for adults, start with the easy puzzles and work your way to more difficult brain teasers. Work it out Pick your level brain Solve the puzzle Explore the many brain health benefits of puzzling, such as building vocabulary, strengthening reasoning skills, or honing your attention to detail. The progression from easy to medium to difficult puzzles allows you to build your abilities and develop your own solving techniques. ⚠ According to a recent study published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the more people over 50 engage in games such as sudoku and crosswords, the better their brains function Sometimes the 9x9 classic sudoku puzzle just isn't enough. The Sujiken puzzle is a logic puzzle based on numbers placement from 1 to 9. Each of the three outlined 3x3 square sub-grids known as "boxes" or "regions" and each of the three outlined six-cell triangular sub-grids known as "triangular regions" also about the classic sudoku and sujiken sudoku has same rules. Sujiken, also known as Sujikai, is a variation of Sudoku, this puzzle is constructed from 45 cells placed in a triangle. Some cells already contain a digit from 1 to 9 and Sujiken differs from other Sudoku variations because there are regions that contain fewer than nine digits, such as the triangular regions and partial rows, columns and diagonals. Go beyond other puzzle books for adults with clear step by step solving sudoku, without you get stuck. Take your pen and put your brain to the test with this fun puzzle book!
Publisher: Independently Published
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 90
Book Description
Brain Healthy exercises has many known benefits, and it appears that regular intellectual activity benefits the brain. Multiple research studies show that people who are intellectually active are less likely to experience a decline in their mental function and have a lower risk of developing Alzheimer's disease, so keeping your brain healthy is just as important as taking care of your body. Otherwise, Brain fog is a term used for certain symptoms that can affect your ability to think. You may feel confused or disorganized or find it hard to focus or put your thoughts into words, etc. For your current age, you needa improve memory, cultivate creative thinking, and hone observational and deductive skills to protect yourself from short-term memory. Feeling younger than your actual age may be indicative of your overall brain health. By testing brain activity, you'll fell perceive themselves as younger because your brain has more grey matter in critical brain regions - a sign of a healthy brain. This my rewarding way to relieve stress and flex those mental muscles. This fantastic choice in puzzle books for adults offers hours of puzzling fun while keeping your brain happy and healthy. Unlike other puzzle books for adults, start with the easy puzzles and work your way to more difficult brain teasers. Work it out Pick your level brain Solve the puzzle Explore the many brain health benefits of puzzling, such as building vocabulary, strengthening reasoning skills, or honing your attention to detail. The progression from easy to medium to difficult puzzles allows you to build your abilities and develop your own solving techniques. ⚠ According to a recent study published in the International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, the more people over 50 engage in games such as sudoku and crosswords, the better their brains function Sometimes the 9x9 classic sudoku puzzle just isn't enough. The Sujiken puzzle is a logic puzzle based on numbers placement from 1 to 9. Each of the three outlined 3x3 square sub-grids known as "boxes" or "regions" and each of the three outlined six-cell triangular sub-grids known as "triangular regions" also about the classic sudoku and sujiken sudoku has same rules. Sujiken, also known as Sujikai, is a variation of Sudoku, this puzzle is constructed from 45 cells placed in a triangle. Some cells already contain a digit from 1 to 9 and Sujiken differs from other Sudoku variations because there are regions that contain fewer than nine digits, such as the triangular regions and partial rows, columns and diagonals. Go beyond other puzzle books for adults with clear step by step solving sudoku, without you get stuck. Take your pen and put your brain to the test with this fun puzzle book!
The Buried Giant
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0385353227
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 283
Book Description
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
The Invisible Kingdom
Author: Meghan O'Rourke
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594633797
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue “Remarkable.” –Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review "At once a rigorous work of scholarship and a radical act of empathy.”—Esquire "A ray of light into those isolated cocoons of darkness that, at one time or another, may afflict us all.” —The Wall Street Journal "Essential."—The Boston Globe A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O’Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of “invisible” illness that encompasses autoimmune diseases, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, and now long COVID, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier. Drawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, O’Rourke traces the history of Western definitions of illness, and reveals how inherited ideas of cause, diagnosis, and treatment have led us to ignore a host of hard-to-understand medical conditions, ones that resist easy description or simple cures. And as America faces this health crisis of extraordinary proportions, the populations most likely to be neglected by our institutions include women, the working class, and people of color. Blending lyricism and erudition, candor and empathy, O’Rourke brings together her deep and disparate talents and roles as critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient, synthesizing the personal and universal into one monumental project arguing for a seismic shift in our approach to disease. The Invisible Kingdom offers hope for the sick, solace and insight for their loved ones, and a radical new understanding of our bodies and our health.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1594633797
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER FINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION Named one of the BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by NPR, The New Yorker, Time, and Vogue “Remarkable.” –Andrew Solomon, The New York Times Book Review "At once a rigorous work of scholarship and a radical act of empathy.”—Esquire "A ray of light into those isolated cocoons of darkness that, at one time or another, may afflict us all.” —The Wall Street Journal "Essential."—The Boston Globe A landmark exploration of one of the most consequential and mysterious issues of our time: the rise of chronic illness and autoimmune diseases A silent epidemic of chronic illnesses afflicts tens of millions of Americans: these are diseases that are poorly understood, frequently marginalized, and can go undiagnosed and unrecognized altogether. Renowned writer Meghan O’Rourke delivers a revelatory investigation into this elusive category of “invisible” illness that encompasses autoimmune diseases, post-treatment Lyme disease syndrome, and now long COVID, synthesizing the personal and the universal to help all of us through this new frontier. Drawing on her own medical experiences as well as a decade of interviews with doctors, patients, researchers, and public health experts, O’Rourke traces the history of Western definitions of illness, and reveals how inherited ideas of cause, diagnosis, and treatment have led us to ignore a host of hard-to-understand medical conditions, ones that resist easy description or simple cures. And as America faces this health crisis of extraordinary proportions, the populations most likely to be neglected by our institutions include women, the working class, and people of color. Blending lyricism and erudition, candor and empathy, O’Rourke brings together her deep and disparate talents and roles as critic, journalist, poet, teacher, and patient, synthesizing the personal and universal into one monumental project arguing for a seismic shift in our approach to disease. The Invisible Kingdom offers hope for the sick, solace and insight for their loved ones, and a radical new understanding of our bodies and our health.
Submission
Author: Michel Houellebecq
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473523613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National’s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for our narrator François – misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated – life is set on a new course. Submission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society.
Publisher: Random House
ISBN: 1473523613
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
As the 2022 French Presidential election looms, two candidates emerge as favourites: Marine Le Pen of the Front National, and the charismatic Muhammed Ben Abbes of the growing Muslim Fraternity. Forming a controversial alliance with the political left to block the Front National’s alarming ascendency, Ben Abbes sweeps to power, and overnight the country is transformed. This proves to be the death knell of French secularism, as Islamic law comes into force: women are veiled, polygamy is encouraged and, for our narrator François – misanthropic, middle-aged and alienated – life is set on a new course. Submission is a devastating satire, comic and melancholy by turns, and a profound meditation on faith and meaning in Western society.
Finding Dora Maar
Author: Brigitte Benkemoun
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“[A] spirited and deeply researched project.... [Benkemoun’s] affection for her subject is infectious. This book gives a satisfying treatment to a woman who has been confined for decades to a Cubist’s limited interpretation.” — Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. This work received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.
Publisher: Getty Publications
ISBN: 1606066595
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
“[A] spirited and deeply researched project.... [Benkemoun’s] affection for her subject is infectious. This book gives a satisfying treatment to a woman who has been confined for decades to a Cubist’s limited interpretation.” — Joumana Khatib, The New York Times Merging biography, memoir, and cultural history, this compelling book, a bestseller in France, traces the life of Dora Maar through a serendipitous encounter with the artist’s address book. In search of a replacement for his lost Hermès agenda, Brigitte Benkemoun’s husband buys a vintage diary on eBay. When it arrives, she opens it and finds inside private notes dating back to 1951—twenty pages of phone numbers and addresses for Balthus, Brassaï, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Paul Éluard, Leonor Fini, Jacqueline Lamba, and other artistic luminaries of the European avant-garde. After realizing that the address book belonged to Dora Maar—Picasso’s famous “Weeping Woman” and a brilliant artist in her own right—Benkemoun embarks on a two-year voyage of discovery to learn more about this provocative, passionate, and enigmatic woman, and the role that each of these figures played in her life. Longlisted for the prestigious literary award Prix Renaudot, Finding Dora Maar is a fascinating and breathtaking portrait of the artist. This work received support from the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy in the United States through their publishing assistance program.
Your Brain After Chemo
Author: Dan Silverman
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738212598
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A ground-breaking guide to "post-chemo brain," the cognitive impairment that often follows chemotherapy
Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
ISBN: 0738212598
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
A ground-breaking guide to "post-chemo brain," the cognitive impairment that often follows chemotherapy
Still Alice
Author: Lisa Genova
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849833710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever. Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice. 'Remarkable … illuminating … highly relevant today' Daily Mail 'The most accurate account of what it feels like to be inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient I've ever read. Beautifully written and very illuminating' Rosie Boycot 'Utterly brilliant' Chrissy Iley
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1849833710
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 376
Book Description
A moving story of a woman with early onset Alzheimer's disease, now a major Academy Award-winning film starring Julianne Moore and Kristen Stewart. Alice Howland is proud of the life she worked so hard to build. At fifty, she's a cognitive psychology professor at Harvard and a renowned expert in linguistics, with a successful husband and three grown children. When she begins to grow forgetful and disoriented, she dismisses it for as long as she can until a tragic diagnosis changes her life - and her relationship with her family and the world around her - for ever. Unable to care for herself, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose as her concept of self gradually slips away. But Alice is a remarkable woman, and her family learn more about her and each other in their quest to hold on to the Alice they know. Her memory hanging by a frayed thread, she is living in the moment, living for each day. But she is still Alice. 'Remarkable … illuminating … highly relevant today' Daily Mail 'The most accurate account of what it feels like to be inside the mind of an Alzheimer's patient I've ever read. Beautifully written and very illuminating' Rosie Boycot 'Utterly brilliant' Chrissy Iley
The Deep Places
Author: Ross Douthat
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593237366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. “A powerful memoir about our fragile hopes in the face of chronic illness.”—Kate Bowler, bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain--a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC definitions does not actually exist: the chronic form of Lyme disease, a hotly contested condition that devastates the lives of tens of thousands of people but has no official recognition--and no medically approved cure. From a rural dream house that now felt like a prison, Douthat's search for help takes him off the map of official medicine, into territory where cranks and conspiracies abound and patients are forced to take control of their own treatment and experiment on themselves. Slowly, against his instincts and assumptions, he realizes that many of the cranks and weirdos are right, that many supposed "hypochondriacs" are victims of an indifferent medical establishment, and that all kinds of unexpected experiences and revelations lurk beneath the surface of normal existence, in the places underneath. The Deep Places is a story about what happens when you are terribly sick and realize that even the doctors who are willing to treat you can only do so much. Along the way, Douthat describes his struggle back toward health with wit and candor, portraying sickness as the most terrible of gifts. It teaches you to appreciate the grace of ordinary life by taking that life away from you. It reveals the deep strangeness of the world, the possibility that the reasonable people might be wrong, and the necessity of figuring out things for yourself. And it proves, day by dreadful day, that you are stronger than you ever imagined, and that even in the depths there is always hope.
Publisher: Convergent Books
ISBN: 0593237366
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • In this vulnerable, insightful memoir, the New York Times columnist tells the story of his five-year struggle with a disease that officially doesn’t exist, exploring the limits of modern medicine, the stories that we unexpectedly fall into, and the secrets that only suffering reveals. “A powerful memoir about our fragile hopes in the face of chronic illness.”—Kate Bowler, bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason In the summer of 2015, Ross Douthat was moving his family, with two young daughters and a pregnant wife, from Washington, D.C., to a sprawling farmhouse in a picturesque Connecticut town when he acquired a mysterious and devastating sickness. It left him sleepless, crippled, wracked with pain--a shell of himself. After months of seeing doctors and descending deeper into a physical inferno, he discovered that he had a disease which according to CDC definitions does not actually exist: the chronic form of Lyme disease, a hotly contested condition that devastates the lives of tens of thousands of people but has no official recognition--and no medically approved cure. From a rural dream house that now felt like a prison, Douthat's search for help takes him off the map of official medicine, into territory where cranks and conspiracies abound and patients are forced to take control of their own treatment and experiment on themselves. Slowly, against his instincts and assumptions, he realizes that many of the cranks and weirdos are right, that many supposed "hypochondriacs" are victims of an indifferent medical establishment, and that all kinds of unexpected experiences and revelations lurk beneath the surface of normal existence, in the places underneath. The Deep Places is a story about what happens when you are terribly sick and realize that even the doctors who are willing to treat you can only do so much. Along the way, Douthat describes his struggle back toward health with wit and candor, portraying sickness as the most terrible of gifts. It teaches you to appreciate the grace of ordinary life by taking that life away from you. It reveals the deep strangeness of the world, the possibility that the reasonable people might be wrong, and the necessity of figuring out things for yourself. And it proves, day by dreadful day, that you are stronger than you ever imagined, and that even in the depths there is always hope.
The Improv Handbook
Author: Tom Salinsky
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350026174
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance. First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350026174
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance. First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.