Author: Gerald T Keep
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059536814X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A wrenching account of one family's five-year battle with what proved to be terminal liver disease, this story explores all aspects of the difficulty in raising a family under such conditions. Written from the point of view of the primary caregiver, the story reveals much about the possible challenges facing the 17,000 families now waiting for a liver transplant in the USA. Many more face other debilitating diseases or the ravages of age. Despite his scientific training to try to understand what is happening, the author is crushed by the medical bureaucracy, and the wild ups and downs of the course of the disease. Having adopted their children, the author struggles with his fundamental values and his conflicting responsibilities to the children and to his ailing wife. This book should help friends and family better understand what a stoic experience the caregiver of one seriously ill may be going through. More importantly, it can show such a lonely individual that what they are going through is not unique, and that they need not be alone. As events proceed through hospice, funeral, and grief, the author looks back on their time together and reflects on the nature of life and love.
Today's Stoic, Tomorrow's Hero?
Author: Gerald T Keep
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059536814X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A wrenching account of one family's five-year battle with what proved to be terminal liver disease, this story explores all aspects of the difficulty in raising a family under such conditions. Written from the point of view of the primary caregiver, the story reveals much about the possible challenges facing the 17,000 families now waiting for a liver transplant in the USA. Many more face other debilitating diseases or the ravages of age. Despite his scientific training to try to understand what is happening, the author is crushed by the medical bureaucracy, and the wild ups and downs of the course of the disease. Having adopted their children, the author struggles with his fundamental values and his conflicting responsibilities to the children and to his ailing wife. This book should help friends and family better understand what a stoic experience the caregiver of one seriously ill may be going through. More importantly, it can show such a lonely individual that what they are going through is not unique, and that they need not be alone. As events proceed through hospice, funeral, and grief, the author looks back on their time together and reflects on the nature of life and love.
Publisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 059536814X
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 221
Book Description
A wrenching account of one family's five-year battle with what proved to be terminal liver disease, this story explores all aspects of the difficulty in raising a family under such conditions. Written from the point of view of the primary caregiver, the story reveals much about the possible challenges facing the 17,000 families now waiting for a liver transplant in the USA. Many more face other debilitating diseases or the ravages of age. Despite his scientific training to try to understand what is happening, the author is crushed by the medical bureaucracy, and the wild ups and downs of the course of the disease. Having adopted their children, the author struggles with his fundamental values and his conflicting responsibilities to the children and to his ailing wife. This book should help friends and family better understand what a stoic experience the caregiver of one seriously ill may be going through. More importantly, it can show such a lonely individual that what they are going through is not unique, and that they need not be alone. As events proceed through hospice, funeral, and grief, the author looks back on their time together and reflects on the nature of life and love.
The Daily Stoic
Author: Ryan Holiday
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735211744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0735211744
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From the team that brought you The Obstacle Is the Way and Ego Is the Enemy, a daily devotional of Stoic meditations—an instant Wall Street Journal and USA Today Bestseller. Why have history's greatest minds—from George Washington to Frederick the Great to Ralph Waldo Emerson, along with today's top performers from Super Bowl-winning football coaches to CEOs and celebrities—embraced the wisdom of the ancient Stoics? Because they realize that the most valuable wisdom is timeless and that philosophy is for living a better life, not a classroom exercise. The Daily Stoic offers 366 days of Stoic insights and exercises, featuring all-new translations from the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the playwright Seneca, or slave-turned-philosopher Epictetus, as well as lesser-known luminaries like Zeno, Cleanthes, and Musonius Rufus. Every day of the year you'll find one of their pithy, powerful quotations, as well as historical anecdotes, provocative commentary, and a helpful glossary of Greek terms. By following these teachings over the course of a year (and, indeed, for years to come) you'll find the serenity, self-knowledge, and resilience you need to live well.
Deleuze, A Stoic
Author: Ryan J. Johnson
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474462189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ryan Johnson reveals that Deleuze's provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas. Including previously untranslated French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474462189
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Ryan Johnson reveals that Deleuze's provocative reading of ancient Stoicism produced many of his most singular and powerful ideas. Including previously untranslated French Stoic scholarship, Johnson unearths new possibilities for bridging contemporary and ancient philosophy.
Nippon Today and Tomorrow
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Nos. 1- include section "Books on Japan."
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Japan
Languages : en
Pages : 630
Book Description
Nos. 1- include section "Books on Japan."
Taboo Genocide
Author: Kris Dietrich
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499056087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1063
Book Description
This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis. It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your story too.
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1499056087
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1063
Book Description
This is a story of war and peace. It may have been the greatest crime of the century after the Bolshevik coup and Russian Revolution and the murder of the Russian Romanov Tsar Nicholas II, his wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five young children: four Grand Duchesses Olga, Anastasia, Tatiana, Marie and the Tsarevich, Alexis. It is our story. And I want to share it with you now because it is your story too.
Transcendence
Author: Christopher McKitterick
Publisher: Hadley Rille Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Humankind rushes toward self-destruction and must evolve or die. Our perspective: a scientist exploring an alien artifact on Triton, a teen-aged hacker in a city gone mad, three actors manipulated into igniting interplanetary war, the de-facto ruler of half the solar system, a soldier fighting in Africa to entertain his audience, an artificial intelligence facing personal crisis, and a cast of billions.--Publisher description.
Publisher: Hadley Rille Books
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Humankind rushes toward self-destruction and must evolve or die. Our perspective: a scientist exploring an alien artifact on Triton, a teen-aged hacker in a city gone mad, three actors manipulated into igniting interplanetary war, the de-facto ruler of half the solar system, a soldier fighting in Africa to entertain his audience, an artificial intelligence facing personal crisis, and a cast of billions.--Publisher description.
Live Like a Stoic
Author: MASSIMO. LOPEZ PAGLIUCCI (GREGORY.)
Publisher: Rider
ISBN: 9781846045967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The answers to our daily worries and anxieties - big or small - lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Live Like a Stoic is the essential guide to help us live the good life. It offers a year-long programme of 52 weekly exercises aimed at mastering an array of real-life troubles. Full of practical lessons and sections for journaling, it provides all the tools needed to overcome any life obstacles we might face. Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez have created a unique, personalised Stoic curriculum for a lifetime of practice, showing how relevant this ancient philosophy is to modern life.
Publisher: Rider
ISBN: 9781846045967
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
The answers to our daily worries and anxieties - big or small - lie at the heart of Stoic philosophy. Live Like a Stoic is the essential guide to help us live the good life. It offers a year-long programme of 52 weekly exercises aimed at mastering an array of real-life troubles. Full of practical lessons and sections for journaling, it provides all the tools needed to overcome any life obstacles we might face. Massimo Pigliucci and Gregory Lopez have created a unique, personalised Stoic curriculum for a lifetime of practice, showing how relevant this ancient philosophy is to modern life.
Clementine's Hero *** The Red Wolf
Author: C. L. Stewart
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Return to Amaranthia for two new stories. Clementine's Hero Like the Phoenix, Clementine found her hero when she was a silent little girl. Robert picked her up the first time and told her he would protect her. As they grow older, outside influences and misunderstandings have them growing apart, leaving them both feeling they have lost the other. Robert faces a hard lesson that brings him to his knees and feeling lost and broken. Clementine knows she must do something to get her hero back. The Red Wolf The Red Wolf takes us to the Wolf Realm of Hidden Prairie. Willow has been all but abandoned by her family, left in the hands of her stepmother and stepsister who hate and abuse her. She knows how to be invisible and spends her time writing books about the famed Red Wolf. She meets Lord Sebastian at a town meeting, and the two enjoy an evening of conversation. Sebastian is called away during the night, and Willow is blamed and punished for him leaving. A scarred Willow hides herself away from the world. Sebastian is finally able to go looking for the beautiful Willow and learns she is missing. Finding the gray-eyed beauty is all he can think about, but there are those that wish to destroy Willow and keep her from learning that she is the Red Wolf.
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 218
Book Description
Return to Amaranthia for two new stories. Clementine's Hero Like the Phoenix, Clementine found her hero when she was a silent little girl. Robert picked her up the first time and told her he would protect her. As they grow older, outside influences and misunderstandings have them growing apart, leaving them both feeling they have lost the other. Robert faces a hard lesson that brings him to his knees and feeling lost and broken. Clementine knows she must do something to get her hero back. The Red Wolf The Red Wolf takes us to the Wolf Realm of Hidden Prairie. Willow has been all but abandoned by her family, left in the hands of her stepmother and stepsister who hate and abuse her. She knows how to be invisible and spends her time writing books about the famed Red Wolf. She meets Lord Sebastian at a town meeting, and the two enjoy an evening of conversation. Sebastian is called away during the night, and Willow is blamed and punished for him leaving. A scarred Willow hides herself away from the world. Sebastian is finally able to go looking for the beautiful Willow and learns she is missing. Finding the gray-eyed beauty is all he can think about, but there are those that wish to destroy Willow and keep her from learning that she is the Red Wolf.
A Guide to Stoicism
Author: St. George Stock
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775418448
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This informative introductory volume provides an overview and brief history of the stoicism movement.
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1775418448
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 81
Book Description
One of the most influential schools of classical philosophy, stoicism emerged in the third century BCE and later grew in popularity through the work of proponents such as Seneca and Epictetus. This informative introductory volume provides an overview and brief history of the stoicism movement.
The Epictetus Club
Author: Jeff Traylor
Publisher: Drinian Press
ISBN: 9780941467094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Publisher: Drinian Press
ISBN: 9780941467094
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description