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Zustand: New. Mann, William A (illustrator).

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Zustand: New. Rabon, Elaine Hearn (illustrator).

Zustand: New. Rabon, Elaine Hearn (illustrator).

Zustand: New. Rabon, Elaine Hearn (illustrator).

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Miglior Press presents a collection of award-winning essays from its 2015 essay contest. This anthology includes essays by first-place winner Matthew Chabin as well as finalists Sara Amis, Sara T. Baker, Cecilia Walker, and Ben B. Walton.

Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - With her first solo Christmas trip to Paris, Sherrie Ford-at the time, head of one of the ten largest woman-owned businesses in the United States and prominent consultant in the field of work-culture change and lean manufacturing, mother of three, grandmother of four, sister, friend-surprised family and friends and, actually, finally, herself. Going away at Christmas So far away Alone Yes, she left her deeply embedded, high-octane routine and life full of responsibilities to a company, a career, employees, family, and friends for no real objective other than to see what unfolded. At home in Athens, Georgia, her life was busy, her schedule full. She was early to bed and very early to rise and busy all day and into the evening, whether in the plant or traveling to speak and consult all over the U. S. and in South Africa, Australia, the Netherlands, and Canada. When home on weekends, she spent time with family and friends and went to the office. On the two solo trips to Paris recorded here, she steps right through the looking glass and enters another way of being: sleeping as long as she wants whenever she wants, exploring Paris on foot, indulging in bubble baths twice a day, and reading, reading, reading. She steps into the past-her own through memory and dreams and the past we call history through her reading and thinking and touring. Napoleon and Josephine, Marie Antoinette, Jacques Derrida, and others are part of her reverie and her searching, and they become part of ours as we accompany her when she tears herself from her room and her reading and sallies forth to find sustenance and adventure on this intelligent, emotional journey. …

Gebunden. Zustand: New.

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While Anthony Mann was living in his dying body, he spent a lot of time in cyberspace. There he was flying free of his increasingly less-useful limbs and from the other limitations ALS imposed on him, participating in the world available to him there, working on computer-related projects and issues, enjoying his freedom and exercising his strengths. He continued his lifelong habit of thinking about his life and actions, analyzing and ordering his experiences, remembering and reliving. When he was ready to seize the opportunity to write a memoir of what he knew would be a not-nearly-long-enough life, he did so with pride and dedication, determined to make sure that he would finish getting his story told before his time ran out. And he did get his story told, a story that includes superheroes both fictional and real: his greatest hero, Randy Couture of mixed martial arts (MMA) fame, plays a starring role as he goes from inspiring Anthony from afar to giving him an up-close and personal experience of the world of MMA that was one of the highlights of Anthony's life. Anthony's story is about the ordinary events of growing up as well as events that, in retrospect, can seem extraordinary: going to school, making friends, finding a place in the day-to-day world, falling in love, celebrating holidays, traveling, working, playing. Resting on the structure of the chronology of his life and enlivened by the drama found in events both great and small, Anthony's story lays out the pieces of the puzzle formed when life presents a stark pathway with no easy exit. Gifted, intelligent, loving parents and a strong network of loving family, friends, and colleagues provide light near the darkness of a terrible diagnosis; the harsh reality of diminishing mobility stands next to the pleasures of the trip of a lifetime and vast technological resources that bring entertainment and the world into a home modified to accommodate Anthony's changed circumstances. Hope and despair, love and anxiety, peace and pain. The story of how this young man lived in his dying body and of what happened along the way and how he fared on his journey offers a look into a kaleidoscope of fate, family, and personal history, the theme of the hero played out on a twenty-first-century stage.…