Author: James Lange Amundson
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426963726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
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By the end of the day on February 11, 2001, forty-five-year-old James Lange Amundson was fighting for his life. While on a snowmobiling excursion in his home state of Wisconsin, Amundson’s sled was broadsided by another snowmobile traveling almost 100 miles per hour. Married with three children, Amundson suffered a variety of life-threatening injuries, including a closed traumatic brain injury. His battle to survive would be long and arduous. In this memoir, Amundson describes traumatic brain injuries and recounts his journey to recovery. Weaving in stories from his childhood as a member of the drum corps and a speed skating team, as well as a practitioner of Tae Kwon Do, Unplug Him narrates how Amundson believes these competitive and demanding experiences contributed to his determination to heal. Unplug Him provides insight into one man’s fight to overcome a brain injury and communicates the power of a positive attitude when confronted with seemingly insurmountable obstacles.
Author: Chris Dancy
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1250154189
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 230
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Chris Dancy, the world's most connected person, inspires readers with practical advice to live a happier and healthier life using technology In 2002, Chris Dancy was overweight, unemployed, and addicted to technology. He chain-smoked cigarettes, popped pills, and was angry and depressed. But when he discovered that his mother kept a record of almost every detail of his childhood, an idea began to form. Could knowing the status of every aspect of his body and how his lifestyle affected his health help him learn to take care of himself? By harnessing the story of his life, could he learn to harness his own bad habits? With a little tech know-how combined with a healthy dose of reality, every app, sensor, and data point in Dancy's life was turned upside down and examined. Now he's sharing what he knows. That knowledge includes the fact that changing the color of his credit card helps him to use it less often, and that nostalgia is a trigger for gratitude for him. A modern-day story of rebirth and redemption, Chris' wisdom and insight will show readers how to improve their lives by paying attention to the relationship between how we move, what we eat, who we spend time with, and how it all makes us feel. But Chris has done all the hard work: Don't Unplug shows us how we too can transform our lives.
Author: Benjamin A. Donley
Publisher: Xulon Press
ISBN: 1591600243
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 142
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Author: Terrell L. Clima
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 146911500X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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This is an amazing story of a woman whose husband has had a horrific accident. The resultant voyage begins in a situation similar to a Stygian hell; yet her faith transforms the situation, day by day, into a journey of hope and redemption. Terrells courage and love, along with her undying faith in God, allow her and her husband to heal and begin the long journey back to life and love. This account should be read by everyone who has had to deal with trauma, disappointment, and roadblocks in the journey of life. All those who have had to cope with addiction or have a loved one who has been an addict will also find hope and redemption in this wonderful account of overcoming unbeatable odds Patti Weiss, PhD, psychologist specializing in troubled teens Terrell has written a book that takes you from the depths of uncontrollable addiction and a near-death experience to the long road to recovery and the Lord. Anyone that knows a person going through brain-injury recovery must read this book! A story of faith, prayers, and true lovethe love of God! Kim Allgrezza, freelance editor For more information on traumatic brain injuries, please go to http://TBI.com, http://TBINET.org, and http://www.braininjury.com
Author: Lori Church
Publisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 1512716707
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Our Struggle details the overwhelming fear and anxiety we faced as we dealt with the debilitating disease my husband contracted. We were an average retired couple enjoying our retirement days and good health when, out of nowhere, my husband was struck with chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy, which could put him in a wheelchair for life.
Author: Dan Yaccarino
Publisher: Dragonfly Books
ISBN: 0375859217
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 41
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**Check out the Doug Unplugs animated series on Apple TV!** It's easy being a robot, if you play by all the rules—but when Doug gets curious, he decides to unplug and forge his own path. And he discovers a whole world of what's possible. Doug is a robot. His parents want him to be smart, so each morning they plug him in and start the information download. After a morning spent learning facts about the city, Doug suspects he could learn even more about the city by going outside and exploring it. And so Doug . . . unplugs. What follows is an exciting day of adventure and discovery. Doug learns amazing things by doing and seeing and touching and listening—and above all, by interacting with a new friend. Dan Yaccarino's funny story of robot rebellion is a great reminder that sometimes the best way to learn about the world is to go out and be in it. Praise for Doug Unplugged: "A gentle robotic rebellion." —USA Today A sweet tale . . . Yaccarino [is] especially good at slipping in the small, nourishing details that are savored upon repeated readings." —The New York Times
Author: Donna Freitas
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062118625
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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In the tradition of M. T. Anderson’s Feed and Scott Westerfeld’s Uglies, Unplugged is the first in a provocative and compelling new series from acclaimed author Donna Freitas. Humanity is split into a dying physical world for the poor and an extravagant virtual world for the wealthy. Years ago, Skylar Cruz crossed over to the App World for a chance at a better life, and her family stayed behind in the Real World. Now Skye is a virtual teenager, surrounded by glamorous apps and expensive downloads—yet she’s never felt like she fits in, and all she wants is to see her mother and sister again. Skye is desperate and ready to risk everything to unplug from the App World. But she soon learns that the only person she can trust—in either world, including friends and family—is herself.
Author: Peter Cave
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1780741162
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Philosophy, the “love of wisdom”, is the product of our endless fascination and curiosity about the world – the child of wonder. Through it, we seek to answer the most fundamental of questions: How do we know what we know? Does God exist? What is beauty? How should we live our lives? What am I? In this exhilarating tour, Peter Cave navigates all the main topics of philosophy with verve and clarity. Using witty and whimsical examples, including stoical sofas and Reg, the “regular” human, who just happens to carry his brain in a rucksack, Cave provides a welcome antidote to the dry textbook while covering everything from political philosophy to points of logic. Interspersed with helpful textboxes and underlining the enduring relevance of philosophy to us all, there is no better introduction for the aspiring sage.
Author: Raven Rose
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 147977619X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Brooklyn born singer Egypt, sets out to make her dreams of owning a production company a reality. She realizes her ethnicity and being a woman was working against her. Egypt runs into a handsome, debonair Italian, named Baron Gianelli, who becomes enchanted with Egypt’s beauty and spicy no nonsense personality. Finally, the two get together and create her dream “Egyptian Labels”. Still, there was something missing in her life. Between his families meddling especially Barons father Nunzio who is a well-known Don in the Mafia. Nunzios’ true reason is Egypt is the only one of his sons’ women he couldn’t seduce. This enraged him, if he couldn’t have her, even for one evening, Baron was never going to marry her. Nunzio’s escapades in his youth produced a son whom his brother, Dominic, unknowingly is raising as his own. Egypt leaves Baron to pursue her singing career, trying to make it on her own. During all of this, she has several torrid love affairs. Her promiscuous behavior reaches Nunzio. Nunzio found a woman who, due to her own jilted affair with Egypt’s lover, who had recorded Egypt and Carlos’ one night stand and sells it to Nunzio as an act of revenge, Nunzio then makes an attempt to have Baron hear it. Meanwhile Nunzio’s adversaries plot their revenge on him. Throughout this there are affairs, jealousy, family disputes, lust, mystery, suspense and murder. There are many twists and turns , but in the end can love prevail through all of this?
Author: Zena Barrie
Publisher: Unbound Publishing
ISBN: 1789651085
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 362
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Preston, 1981. Maud, who is twelve and lives with her dysfunctional parents and her elder brother, spends a lot of her time in her bedroom writing letters to her favourite popstar, Tom Harding, the lead singer of a punk band called Horsefly. No one really understands her or tries to – and she thinks Tom just might have some answers to her many, many questions...
