Some of the Dead are Still Breathing
Author | : Charles Bowden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : TRAVEL |
ISBN | : 9781477316917 |
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Author | : Charles Bowden |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : TRAVEL |
ISBN | : 9781477316917 |
Author | : Charles Bowden |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2018-09-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1477316906 |
The third book in Charles Bowden’s “accidental trilogy” that began with Blood Orchid and Blues for Cannibals, Some of the Dead Are Still Breathing attempts to resolve the overarching question: “How can a person live a moral life in a culture of death?” As humanity moves further into the twenty-first century, Bowden continues to interrogate our roles in creating the ravaged landscapes and accumulated death that still surround us, as well as his own childhood isolation, his lust for alcohol and women, and his waning hope for a future. We witness post-Katrina New Orleans and terrorist-bombed Bali; we encounter our shared actions with the animal world and the desirous need for consumption; we see the clash and erosion of our physical and figurative borders, the savagery of our own civilization. A man of his time and out of time, Bowden seeks acceptance and a will to endure what may lie ahead.
Author | : K. C. Kontraband |
Publisher | : Simms Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2021-11-11 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781949433319 |
Vices are a part of everyday life; a routine, some good and some bad, and others will get you killed. Choose wisely.
Author | : Paul Kalanithi |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 2016-02-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1473523494 |
**THE MILLION COPY BESTSELLER** 'Rattling. Heartbreaking. Beautiful,' Atul Gawande, bestselling author of Being Mortal What makes life worth living in the face of death? At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade's training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi's transformation from a medical student asking what makes a virtuous and meaningful life into a neurosurgeon working in the core of human identity - the brain - and finally into a patient and a new father. Paul Kalanithi died while working on this profoundly moving book, yet his words live on as a guide to us all. When Breath Becomes Air is a life-affirming reflection on facing our mortality and on the relationship between doctor and patient, from a gifted writer who became both. 'A vital book about dying. Awe-inspiring and exquisite. Obligatory reading for the living' Nigella Lawson
Author | : Charles Bowden |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2018-09-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 1477316841 |
Through stark observations and visceral experiences, Blood Orchid begins Charles Bowden’s dizzying excavation of the brutal, systemic violence and corruption at the roots of American society. Like a nightmarish fever dream that turns out to be our own reality, Bowden visits dying friends in skid row apartments in Los Angeles, traverses San Francisco byways lined with clubs and joints, and roams through village bars and streets in the Sierra Madre mountains. In these wanderings resides a yearning for the understanding of past and present sins, the human penchant for warfare, abuse, and oppression, and the true war between humanity, the industrialized world, and the immense tolls of our shared land. Deeply personal, hauntingly prophetic, and bracingly sharp, the start to Bowden’s harrowed quest to unearth our ugly truths remains strikingly poignant today.
Author | : Billy Jack McDaniel, Jr. |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2012-07-28 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780996050906 |
Author | : Adolf Jackson |
Publisher | : BookRix |
Total Pages | : 137 |
Release | : 2019-03-31 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 3748700849 |
These are the writings from a place of acceptance of independence, and singularity. Celebration of mistake made, greatest lessons only ourselves can teach. A bridge between letting go of our egotistical ideals and rediscovering common sense. Inspired by faults in our eyes. For whom, in a quest; a journey that is inseparable from a soul. Nothing is lost. Nothing is given. Nothing is forgotten. Nothing is absolute. ... I’m still breathing
Author | : James Nestor |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 306 |
Release | : 2020-05-26 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0735213631 |
A New York Times Bestseller A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2020 Named a Best Book of 2020 by NPR “A fascinating scientific, cultural, spiritual and evolutionary history of the way humans breathe—and how we’ve all been doing it wrong for a long, long time.” —Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Big Magic and Eat Pray Love No matter what you eat, how much you exercise, how skinny or young or wise you are, none of it matters if you’re not breathing properly. There is nothing more essential to our health and well-being than breathing: take air in, let it out, repeat twenty-five thousand times a day. Yet, as a species, humans have lost the ability to breathe correctly, with grave consequences. Journalist James Nestor travels the world to figure out what went wrong and how to fix it. The answers aren’t found in pulmonology labs, as we might expect, but in the muddy digs of ancient burial sites, secret Soviet facilities, New Jersey choir schools, and the smoggy streets of São Paulo. Nestor tracks down men and women exploring the hidden science behind ancient breathing practices like Pranayama, Sudarshan Kriya, and Tummo and teams up with pulmonary tinkerers to scientifically test long-held beliefs about how we breathe. Modern research is showing us that making even slight adjustments to the way we inhale and exhale can jump-start athletic performance; rejuvenate internal organs; halt snoring, asthma, and autoimmune disease; and even straighten scoliotic spines. None of this should be possible, and yet it is. Drawing on thousands of years of medical texts and recent cutting-edge studies in pulmonology, psychology, biochemistry, and human physiology, Breath turns the conventional wisdom of what we thought we knew about our most basic biological function on its head. You will never breathe the same again.
Author | : Charles Bowden |
Publisher | : University of Arizona Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1988-04-01 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 9780816510818 |
Contains essays that depict and decry the rapid growth and disappearing natural landscapes of the Sunbelt
Author | : Cathy Grindrod |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Fathers |
ISBN | : |