What We Have
Title | What We Have PDF eBook |
Author | Amy Boesky |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 253 |
Release | 2010-08-05 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1101458933 |
Read Amy Boesky's blogs and view other content on the Penguin Community. The stirring true story of a woman who chose fearlessness in the face of a fatal family legacy and discovered the pleasure of living each moment to its fullest At thirty-two, Amy Boesky thought she had it all figured out: a wonderful new man in her life, a great job, and the (nearly) perfect home. For once, she was almost able to shake the terrible fear that had gripped her for as long as she could remember. Women in her family had always died young-from cancer-and she and her sisters had grown up in time's shadow. It colored every choice they made and was beginning to come to a head now that each of them approached thirty-five-the deadline their doctors prescribed for having preventive surgery with the hope they could thwart their family's medical curse. But Amy didn't want to dwell on that now. She wanted to plan for a new baby, live her life. And with the appreciation for life's smallest pleasures, she did just that. In What We Have, Amy shares a deeply transformative year in her family's life and invites readers to join in their joy, laughter, and grief. In a true story as compelling as the best in women's fiction, written with the sagacity of Joan Didion and the elegance of Amy Bloom, Amy Boesky's journey celebrates the promise of a full life, even in the face of uncertainty.
We Have No Idea
Title | We Have No Idea PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge Cham |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 369 |
Release | 2018-05-08 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 0735211523 |
Prepare to learn everything we still don’t know about our strange and mysterious universe Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore —there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. PHD Comics creator Jorge Cham and particle physicist Daniel Whiteson have teamed up to explore everything we don't know about the universe: the enormous holes in our knowledge of the cosmos. Armed with their popular infographics, cartoons, and unusually entertaining and lucid explanations of science, they give us the best answers currently available for a lot of questions that are still perplexing scientists, including: * Why does the universe have a speed limit? * Why aren't we all made of antimatter? * What (or who) is attacking Earth with tiny, superfast particles? * What is dark matter, and why does it keep ignoring us? It turns out the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense. But Cham and Whiteson make a compelling case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can. This fully illustrated introduction to the biggest mysteries in physics also helpfully demystifies many complicated things we do know about, from quarks and neutrinos to gravitational waves and exploding black holes. With equal doses of humor and delight, Cham and Whiteson invite us to see the universe as a possibly boundless expanse of uncharted territory that's still ours to explore.
What We Have Done
Title | What We Have Done PDF eBook |
Author | Fred Pelka |
Publisher | Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | 658 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1558499199 |
Compelling first-person accounts of the struggle to secure equal rights for Americans with disabilities
What We Have Lost
Title | What We Have Lost PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Lee |
Publisher | Robert Lee |
Total Pages | 333 |
Release | 2015-04-19 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1507603312 |
When the hen lays her eggs, the shells are soft and pliable, forming their durable armour as they experience the outside world. Each of us enters the world, with similar flawed and weak shells. Our shells are not broken and cracked by life, but are formed of the fragments that we encounter, piece by piece, growing more complete with each experience. What We Have Lost is a series of disconnected anecdotes in the lives of a family shaped by extreme poverty. These individual narratives chronicle the slow sculpting of the characters, as they fuse with their world, enveloped in mental illness. Molded by their mother’s paranoia, social isolation and obsessive drive to instill the hunger for learning and sense of duty to others, the four siblings evolve in unique and often pathological ways. Not knowing or understanding the bonds of familial love, Garry, Judy, Rob and Roger need to discover their own path to personal peace. None may make it. What We Have Lost exposes the cruelty of poverty. It opens up the heart of that world, in surprising and convoluted ways. The pathos is clear, the hidden pleasures need unearthing. What We Have Lost is a collection of anecdotes, but, as you read, you will find that they are far from disconnected, after all.
If You Want What We Have
Title | If You Want What We Have PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Larkin |
Publisher | Hazelden Publishing |
Total Pages | 418 |
Release | 1998-03-11 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 9781568381923 |
If You Want What We Have
"Will we have an economic recovery without a strong U.S. manufacturing base?"
Title | "Will we have an economic recovery without a strong U.S. manufacturing base?" PDF eBook |
Author | United States. Congress. House. Committee on Small Business |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 140 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Economic development |
ISBN |
How We Have Changed
Title | How We Have Changed PDF eBook |
Author | Phalen, Rick |
Publisher | Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | 240 |
Release | |
Genre | Celebrities |
ISBN | 9781455606085 |
From the beginning of the Cold War to the present day resurgence of patriotism, this book traces the journey of the nation and its struggle to redefine itself in the midst of monumental flux.