6/26/2023 0 Comments Chosen by D.T. Neal![]() ![]() What’s more, I realized that many of the problems with my draft reflected the conditioning that occurs during medical training. I reread my words and concluded that she was right. “I can’t really figure out what you’re trying to say here.” I stayed silent, absorbing her criticism. “They’re overwritten, with run-on sentences, filled with fancy words,” she explained. I’d felt pretty good about what I had produced. ![]() She read them, and then looked at me squarely. For two decades, I had seen my patients and their loved ones face some of life’s most uncertain moments, and I now felt driven to bear witness to their stories.Īfter writing and revising three chapters of what I envisioned as my first book, I showed a draft to my wife, an endocrinologist. But, as the years pass, the things you’ve pushed to the back of your mind start to pile up, demanding to be addressed. A doctor’s workload tends to crowd out everything but the most immediate concerns. Before that, I was busy building a career as a hematologist-oncologist: caring for patients with blood diseases, cancer, and, later, AIDS establishing a research laboratory publishing papers training junior physicians. It wasn’t until my mid-forties that I began to write about the world of medicine. ![]()
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6/26/2023 0 Comments Books by beth macy![]() ![]() Based in Roanoke, Virginia, for three decades, her reporting has won more than a dozen national awards, including a Nieman Fellowship for Journalism at Harvard and the 2013 J. Macy is also the author of the widely acclaimed and bestselling books TRUEVINE and FACTORY MAN. Macy will discuss her journey in gathering interviews with victims, family members, dealers and medical professionals from southwest Virginia and the Shenandoah Valley. DOPESICK describes how the epidemic has impacted the lives of first responders and a diverse group of Americans living in the suburbs, small farming communities and cities. The book chronicles the opioid crisis, including the role of doctors, drug companies, and the government in the crisis. ![]() ![]() Journalist and author Beth Macy will discuss her New York Times-bestselling book, DOPESICK: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America. ![]() ![]() ![]() So as to find ourselves better equipped in answering these two questions. And how has it come to be what is today?Īlthough there are perhaps millions of different ways one may attempt to answer these questions, here, we will isolate our vision through the lens of two distinct categories.įirst, we will touch on the psychology of it all.However, as a collective, we have at the very least been able to come to this agreement:Ĭonsciousness can be defined, simply, as the act of being aware. It would seem that even with all the greatest minds of this world devoutly seeking some unified understanding, there still exists a very real, and perhaps inexplicable, dissonance. With religious, scientific, philosophical, and psychological answers all being provided across a vast medium of disagreement. And t he difficulty lies in the uncertainty. ![]() Understanding the origins and history of consciousness is a task that proves itself, well, difficult. What exactly is consciousness? When did it start? And how has it come to be what it is today? ![]() ![]() ![]() This study offered a range of career possibilities, which pleased his father, and required a longer course of study that gave Kafka time to take classes in German studies and art history. Kafka first studied chemistry at the Charles-Ferdinand University of Prague but after two weeks switched to law. ![]() Later, Kafka acquired some knowledge of the French language and culture from Flaubert, one of his favorite authors. His stories include "The Metamorphosis" (1912) and " In the Penal Colony" (1914), whereas his posthumous novels include The Trial (1925), The Castle (1926) and Amerika (1927).ĭespite first language, Kafka also spoke fluent Czech. People consider his unique body of much incomplete writing, mainly published posthumously, among the most influential in European literature. Jewish middle-class family of this major fiction writer of the 20th century spoke German. Prague-born writer Franz Kafka wrote in German, and his stories, such as " The Metamorphosis" (1916), and posthumously published novels, including The Trial (1925), concern troubled individuals in a nightmarishly impersonal world. ![]() ![]() ![]() Hence the familiar fact that the more the state “plans”, the more difficult planning becomes for the individual.” ![]() If, on the other hand, the state were to direct the individual’s actions so as the achieve particular ends, its actions would have to be decided on the basis of the full circumstances of the moment and would therefore be unpredictable. But if the actions of the state are to be predictable, they must be determined by rules fixed independently of the concrete circumstances which can be neither foreseen nor taken into account beforehand and the particular effects of such actions will be unpredictable. If the individuals are able to use their knowledge effectively in making plans, they must be able to predict actions of the state which may affect these plans. ![]() “The state should confine itself to establishing rules applying to general types of situations and should allow the individuals freedom in everything which depends on the circumstances of time and place, because only the individuals concerned in each instance can fully know these circumstances and adapt their actions to them. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments A town called alice![]() ![]() ![]() She decides to use the money to repay the Malayan people who risked their lives to help her and her fellow prisoners during the war so she travels back to the village where they stayed. During this appalling ordeal she befriends Joe Harman, an Australian soldier who risks his own life to help the women.Ī few years later, and back in England, Jean receives an unexpected and substantial inheritance. She is forced on a brutal march across the country with a group of women and children. Jean Paget, a young English woman, is captured by the Japanese army in Malaya during World War Two. Bound in real cloth, printed on high quality paper, and featuring ribbon markers and gilt edges, Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love and treasure. Designed to appeal to the book lover, the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound pocket-sized gift editions of much loved classic titles. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Gabe habash stephen florida![]() ![]() ![]() Two black mats, two matches going at once. Stands 10 rows high, half empty, half the people in them other wrestlers from the three other schools waiting for their turn. I’m constantly reminded that I’m not owed anything. What will make my thoughts less ugly while I wait for my turn? I live in these little chambers of dissatisfaction like a frustrated prince. I walk into the gym faster than the rest of them, I’m the first one to the locker room and pick the one in the corner. And when you want out of your skin so you can rush somebody and just get your match started already, and when you get out of the van six hours later, the same things are still there to think about because you haven’t made any headway into finishing them off - that won’t happen until the referee lets you go with his fucking whistle. Steele looks like Sterling looks like Richardton looks like Dickinson looks like Belfield looks like Wibaux looks like Glendive looks like shut in the van for six hours with a lot to think about, looks like a big straight line with a million fence posts, looks like something stuck in your teeth. ![]() 6/25/2023 0 Comments Hard time by sara paretsky![]() ![]() The book became an instant success and Paretsky went on to continue Warshawski’s story in 20 books in a series that made her one of the best, most beloved and influential female detectives in contemporary fiction.īeyond her work with Warshawski, Paretsky has been an advocate for social justice causes, particularly those to women’s rights and violence against woman. Warshawski in her debut novel, ‘Indemnity Only’. Sara Paretsky’s writing career only began in the 1980s, when she introduced the world to V.I. in History from the University of Chicago and her MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. ![]() Her academic prowess did not stop there as she went on to earn her Ph.D. She grew up in Kansas where she attended the University of Kansas. Warshawski, a character that broke down the walls of gender stereotypes in crime novels. Sara Paretsky is a renowned American author who is best known for the iconic creation, private detective V.I. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the second stage, their descendants won freedom and became citizens of new countries. The first stage saw tens of millions enslaved and sent from their homeland. ![]() In black history, the Diaspora-or dispersal of Africans to many parts of the world-continues. They hoped that the journey to Panama would be the end of the Diaspora. West Indians saw Panama as a promised land with abundant jobs for the robust and easy money for the clever. canal), and 1940-42 (the third locks project). ![]() The high tides of migration occurred in 1850-55 (the Panama Railroad), 1880-89 (the unsuccessful French canal), 1904-14 (the U.S. Between 18, as many as 200,000 West Indian blacks traveled to Panama, the most voluminous trans-Caribbean movement of people ever. Traders, laborers, and adventurers swarmed to the Isthmus whenever new projects began. As a crossroads for world commerce, Panama has always attracted outsiders. ![]() 6/24/2023 0 Comments City of lies sam hawke![]() ![]() The feeling of being trapped was conveyed really well, and even though it’s an entire city there is a certain clausterphobic feeling that starts to come through after a while. ![]() (Who doesn’t love a trebuchet or a siege tower, or vats of hot oil being thrown over a wall? Wait, am I weird? Ahem.) Anyway, I really enjoyed all the seige aspects of this story worked. It also gives the opportunity for siege weapons to be used which, lets face it, can be pretty damn awesome. I LOVE sieges and I don’t think we get enough of them in fantasy, or they’re usually not done well, especially in regards to how long they can last, etc. One of the things I enjoyed most about City of Lies is that it takes place almost entirely during a siege. ![]() When the Chancellor succumbs to an unknown poison and an army lays siege to the city, Jovan and his sister Kalina must protect the Heir and save their city-state.īut treachery lurks in every corner, and the ancient spirits of the land are rising…and angry. In secret, he’s a master of poisons and chemicals, trained to protect the Chancellor’s family from treachery. ![]() Outwardly, Jovan is the lifelong friend of the Chancellor’s charming, irresponsible Heir. I was seven years old the first time my uncle poisoned me… ![]() |