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Author | : Chu Djang |
Publisher | : iUniverse |
Total Pages | : 150 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0595182941 |
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The autobiography of a China scholar, who suffered the tragic loss of family members in an airplane accident at the end of the Sino-Japanese war in 1946. Chu Djang narrates the story of organizing an expedition to explore wreckage site in a remote area of China, his return to the United States and subsequent career in the United Nations and academia, where he retired as Associate Dean and Coordinator of Academic Affairs of the St. Johns University Center for Asian Affairs. The book also includes geneological highlights of the Djang family in China, and personal insights into the academic world of Chinese-American studies.
Author | : Francis Weller |
Publisher | : North Atlantic Books |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2015-09-15 |
Genre | : Self-Help |
ISBN | : 1583949763 |
Download The Wild Edge of Sorrow Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and be stretched large by them. As seen on All There Is with Anderson Cooper Noted psychotherapist Francis Weller provides an essential guide for navigating the deep waters of sorrow and loss in this lyrical yet practical handbook for mastering the art of grieving. Describing how Western patterns of amnesia and anesthesia affect our capacity to cope with personal and collective sorrows, Weller reveals the new vitality we may encounter when we welcome, rather than fear, the pain of loss. Through moving personal stories, poetry, and insightful reflections he leads us into the central energy of sorrow, and to the profound healing and heightened communion with each other and our planet that reside alongside it. The Wild Edge of Sorrow explains that grief has always been communal and illustrates how we need the healing touch of others, an atmosphere of compassion, and the comfort of ritual in order to fully metabolize our grief. Weller describes how we often hide our pain from the world, wrapping it in a secret mantle of shame. This causes sorrow to linger unexpressed in our bodies, weighing us down and pulling us into the territory of depression and death. We have come to fear grief and feel too alone to face an encounter with the powerful energies of sorrow. Those who work with people in grief, who have experienced the loss of a loved one, who mourn the ongoing destruction of our planet, or who suffer the accumulated traumas of a lifetime will appreciate the discussion of obstacles to successful grief work such as privatized pain, lack of communal rituals, a pervasive feeling of fear, and a culturally restrictive range of emotion. Weller highlights the intimate bond between grief and gratitude, sorrow and intimacy. In addition to showing us that the greatest gifts are often hidden in the things we avoid, he offers powerful tools and rituals and a list of resources to help us transform grief into a force that allows us to live and love more fully.
Author | : Lyz Lenz |
Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2019-07-19 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0253041546 |
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“Will resonate with any readers interested in understanding American landscapes where white, evangelical Christianity dominates both politics and culture.” —Publishers Weekly In the wake of the 2016 election, Lyz Lenz watched as her country and her marriage were torn apart by the competing forces of faith and politics. A mother of two, a Christian, and a lifelong resident of middle America, Lenz was bewildered by the pain and loss around her—the empty churches and the broken hearts. What was happening to faith in the heartland? From drugstores in Sydney, Iowa, to skeet shooting in rural Illinois, to the mega churches of Minneapolis, Lenz set out to discover the changing forces of faith and tradition in God’s country. Part journalism, part memoir, God Land is a journey into the heart of a deeply divided America. Lenz visits places of worship across the heartland and speaks to the everyday people who often struggle to keep their churches afloat and to cope in a land of instability. Through a thoughtful interrogation of the effects of faith and religion on our lives, our relationships, and our country, God Land investigates whether our divides can ever be bridged and if America can ever come together. “God Land, Lyz Lenz’s much-anticipated debut book, is a marvel. Not only is it a window into the middle America so many like to stereotype but fail to fully understand in all of its complexity, but it mixes reportage, memoir, and gorgeous prose so seamlessly I wanted to know how she did it.” —Sarah Weinman, author of The Real Lolita
Author | : Leslie Schwartz |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2018-07-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525534644 |
Download The Lost Chapters Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Leslie Schwartz's powerful, skillfully woven memoir of redemption and reading, as told through the list of books she read as she served a 90 day jail sentence In 2014, novelist Leslie Schwartz was sentenced to 90 days in Los Angeles County Jail for a DUI and battery of an officer. It was the most harrowing and holy experience of her life. Following a 414-day relapse into alcohol and drug addiction after more than a decade clean and sober, Schwartz was sentenced and served her time with only six months' sobriety. The damage she inflicted that year upon her friends, her husband, her teenage daughter, and herself was nearly impossible to fathom. Incarceration might have ruined her altogether, if not for the stories that sustained her while she was behind bars--both the artful tales in the books she read while there, and, more immediately, the stories of her fellow inmates. With classics like Edith Wharton's Ethan Frome to contemporary accounts like Laura Hillenbrand's Unbroken, Schwartz's reading list is woven together with visceral recollections of both her daily humiliations and small triumphs within the county jail system. Through the stories of others--whether rendered on the page or whispered in a jail cell--she learned powerful lessons about how to banish shame, use guilt for good, level her grief, and find the lost joy and magic of her astonishing life. Told in vivid, unforgettable prose, The Lost Chapters uncovers the nature of shame, rage, and love, and how instruments of change and redemption come from the unlikeliest of places.
Author | : Felicity Meakins |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2016-04-11 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1501501038 |
Download Loss and Renewal Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This edited volume is the first dedicated to language contact in Australia since colonisation, contributing new data to theoretical discussions on contact languages and language contact processes. It provides explanations for contemporary contact processes in Australia and much-needed descriptions of contact languages, including pidgins, creoles, mixed languages, contact varieties of English, and restructured Indigenous languages.
Author | : Mary Lynn Pulley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010-04 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780615361055 |
Download Losing Your Job- Reclaiming Your Soul Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A positive, practical, and empowering new model of career resilience for everyone who has lost, fears losing, or is thinking of leaving their job in today's downsized, restructured workplace.
Author | : Jack McAfghan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2016-12-21 |
Genre | : Dog owners |
ISBN | : 9780996260633 |
Download Jack McAfghan's Return from Rainbow Bridge Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the third book in the Jack McAfghan Series. As you join Jack on his journey to Rainbow Bridge and back, he will give you a glimpse of the world to come while sharing his deep wisdom of unconditional love and the power of healing. Our story is your story too. It is the story of life, love and renewal. What you get out of his story is limited only by your beliefs. Sometimes what seems to be the ending of something is just the beginning of everything.
Author | : Peter M. Wolf |
Publisher | : Delphinium |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2013-07-09 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781883285562 |
Download My New Orleans, Gone Away Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A memoir from the land planning and urban policy management authority, and sixth-generation member of an influential New Orleans family.
Author | : Michael Meade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012-10-30 |
Genre | : Civilization, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780982939154 |
Download Why the World Doesn't End Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
While offering an in-depth treatise on the psychology and mythology of the end of an era, Michael Meade offers timeless stories and ancient wisdom that can help each of us find creative ways of assisting with the soulful renewal of the world.
Author | : Jeanne White |
Publisher | : Harper Perennial |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 1998-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780380787883 |
Download Weeding Out the Tears Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Thirteen-year-old Ryan White contracted AIDS through tainted Factor VIII, administered for his hemophilia, and became nationally known through his family's fight against the bigotry and ignorance his illness revealed in their community. Now, Ryan's mother, Jeanne White, who helped her son discover the strength to overcome prejudice and the courage to face death, tells her inspiring story. of photos.