Memoirs

Although I had prayed to receive Christ as a young boy, as a teenager, and into my early twenties, I was far from God and wanted to live life my way.

"e;Truth in the Streets: A Love Betrayed"e; is a compelling exploration of heartbreak, resilience, and the transformative power of truth.

In this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescriptions into practice-from how to rant effectively as an essayist and novelist ("e;The Piano Has Been Drinking"e;), how to achieve your own style, naming characters (and creating them), how one manages one's own identity with being "e;a writer"e; in time and space, to the use of reference and allusion in one's work.

This is what it is to survive.

Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolinas most beloved exports, capturing Americas heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor.

In the late 1970s, Robert Brunk discovered the world of auctioneering.

Over the last twenty years, type 2 diabetes skyrocketed to the forefront of global public health concern.

Discovered as a typewritten manuscript only after her death in 2006, Family of Earth allows us to see into the young mind of author and Appalachian native Wilma Dykeman (19202006), who would become one of the American Souths most prolific and storied writers.

From 1950 to 2001, Lovie Beard Shelton practiced midwifery in eastern North Carolina homes, delivering some 4,000 babies to black, white, Mennonite, and hippie women; to those too poor to afford a hospital birth; and to a few rich enough to have any kind of delivery they pleased.

Fieldnotes from Celtic Palestine embodies a new type of sociological writing that weaves ethnography with memoir as well as fusing other convention-breaking literary forms, styles and devices.

Lifestyle Society offers a compelling exploration of how lifestyles have become the central organizing principle of contemporary social life, reshaping traditional understandings of class, identity, and social differentiation.

One of medicines most remarkable therapeutic triumphs was the discovery of insulin in 1921.

In this collection of essays, Lawrence O.

A compelling and beautifully-illustrated prison journal of a priest and climate activist and the beauty and humanity he encountered while navigating the harsh realities of prison life Written by a priest in his seventies with an unwavering commitment to climate activism, imprisoned for engaging in non-violent environmental protestThrows light on the climate emergency, why activists take the actions they do, and how we can each harness our own potential to act on behalf of humanity and the natural world The compelling journal of a passionate climate activist imprisoned for engaging in peaceful, non-violent climate protests.

In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy.

This book explores how Black-produced films, hip hop songs, and magazines shape the way we think about the African American high school experience.

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The Hidden Battle is the true story of John Schultz, a man who has spent more than five decades living with the aftermath of one of the largest brain tumors ever recorded at the University of Michigan Hospital.

This is your essential guide to standards and ethics in the counselling professions.

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Scanning millions of faces each year, facial recognition technology (FRT) has become one of today's fastest growing and most controversial AI-driven surveillance technologies.

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El cambio del siglo XX al XXI se hallará ya para siempre vinculado al desciframiento definitivo del mapa genético humano, hecho que abre un nuevo mundo en el campo de la ciencia y, muy especialmente, en el de la medicina.

To mark the 20th anniversary of Kenneth Williams' death, a beautiful coffee table book celebrating his life, including never-before-seen photographs, sketches and personal testimony from Williams' closest friends, for the very first time.

A Daughter of the Samurai tells the true story of a samurai's daughter, brought up in the strict traditions of feudal Japan, who was sent to America to meet her future husband.

Few places in the world carry as heavy a burden of history as Auschwitz.

This book explores how Black-produced films, hip hop songs, and magazines shape the way we think about the African American high school experience.

Central Asia has long stood at the crossroads of history.

When Deborah Gold and her husband signed up to foster parent in their rural mountain community, they did not foresee that it would lead to a roller-coaster fifteen years of involvement with a traumatized yet resilient birth family.

A Belén, cuando era adolescente, su familia la llevó al médico porque tenía ansiedad con facilidad, porque era diferente, porque tenía una manera distinta de afrontar la realidad, porque se hacía preguntas que no parecían normales para su edad, porque tal vez se agobiaba demasiado.

Firsthand is an exploration-both suspenseful and comic-of the creative process in research writing.

In this funny and perceptive collection, novelist and essayist Robert Cohen shares his thoughts on the writing process and then puts these prescriptions into practice-from how to rant effectively as an essayist and novelist ("e;The Piano Has Been Drinking"e;), how to achieve your own style, naming characters (and creating them), how one manages one's own identity with being "e;a writer"e; in time and space, to the use of reference and allusion in one's work.

"e;After saying our good-byes to friends and neighbors, we all got in the cars and headed up the hill and down the road toward a future in Ohio that we hoped would be brighter,"e; Otis Trotter writes in his affecting memoir, Keeping Heart: A Memoir of Family Struggle, Race, and Medicine.

In the decades since the Vietnam War, veteran memoirs have influenced Americans' understanding of the conflict.

Seen as a land of sunshine and opportunity, the Golden State was a mecca for the postWorld War II generation, and dreams of the California good life came to dominate the imagination of many Americans in the 1950s and 1960s.

Samba is Brazils national rhythm, the foremost symbol of its culture and nationhood.

In Monsoon Postcards, journalist David H.

Lifestyle Society offers a compelling exploration of how lifestyles have become the central organizing principle of contemporary social life, reshaping traditional understandings of class, identity, and social differentiation.

No matter how ambitious they may be, most novice journalists dont get their start at the New York Times.

Tom Carlson tells the story of Ernal Foster and the Foster family of Hatteras Village, who gave birth to what would become the multi-million dollar charter fishing industry on the Outer Banks.

From the Gibson Girl to the flapper, from the vamp to the New Woman, Carolyn Kitch traces mass media images of women to their historical roots on magazine covers, unveiling the origins of gender stereotypes in early-twentieth-century American culture.

Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolinas most beloved exports, capturing Americas heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor.

Michael Winner, the legendary film director, writer and food critic, is a colourful figure who has led a remarkable life.

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This is what it is to survive.

In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy.

The explosive sequel to #1 Sunday Times bestseller Bad Blood.