Madness marya hornbacher5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() She recounts the soaring highs and obliterating lows of her condition the savage moodswings and impossible strains it placed on her relationships the physical danger it has occasionally put her in the endless cycle of illness and recovery. In this new, equally raw and frank account, Marya Hornbacher tells the story of her ongoing battle with this most pervasive and devastating of mental illnesses how, as she puts it, 'it crept over me like a vine, sending out tentative shoots in my childhood, taking deeper root in my adolescence, growing stronger in my early adulthood, eventually covering my body and face until I was unrecognizable, trapped, immobilized'. But it was only eighteen years later that she learned the true underlying reason for her distress: bipolar disorder. ![]() From the age of six, Marya Hornbacher knew that something was terribly wrong with her, manifesting itself in anorexia and bulimia which she documented in her bestselling memoir 'Wasted'. A searing, unflinching and deeply moving account of Marya Hornbacher's personal experience of living with bipolar disorder. ![]()
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Girlology by Melisa Holmes5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() For curious kids and parents looking to talk about puberty in an inclusive way, You-ology offers fact-based, age-appropriate, and body positive information about the physical, social, and emotional changes ahead for all kids. ![]() ![]() Traditional puberty education only contributes to a sense of isolation and often does not include all kids' experience of puberty and leaves kids with questions about how puberty will affect their friends and classmates. From the most trusted name in child health, American Academy of Pediatrics, comes a new, inclusive approach to learning about puberty! Remember that awkward day in school when the boys went to one classroom and the girls to another and everyone nervously giggled, learning about taboo topics like menstruation and erections? What if your kids could learn about changing bodies in a way that isn't secretive or shameful? And what if it could even be inclusive, fun, and, well, kind of adorable? A new kind of puberty guide, You-ology embraces an inclusive approach that normalizes puberty for all kids. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hogben's academic career included stints at universities in England, Scotland, Canada, South Africa, and Guyana. The best plan Hogben could devise to return home to England was by making a 20,000-mile detour through Sweden, Russia, Siberia, Japan, and the United States-a journey he details in Author in Transit, a travelogue complete with commentary on politics, culture, science, and history. One of Hogben's most ambitious projects emerged rather accidentally in 1940, he and his daughter were trapped in Oslo, Norway, by the German invasion. Antique Vintage Hardcover Childrens Book. His many books for children include First Great Inventions (1950) and Before Science Began (1970). The Wonderful World of Mathematics, Lancelot Hogben, Andre, Keeping, Symonds 1955. The relationship of probability, credibility and error. In Mathematics for a Million (1936) and Science for a Citizen (1938), Hogben offered adult readers detailed and readable texts on difficult subjects. The Wonderful World of Mathematics ( New, revised, and, enlarged edition) (1968) Statistical theory. He is best remembered for his many books for adults and children that attempted to make math and science available to popular audiences. Hogben was educated at Cambridge as a biologist, but never limited himself to a single field of inquiry. Lancelot Hogben-a prolific British writer on topics as diverse as science, history, and politics-was born in Southsea, England, in 1895. ![]() Nutuk ataturk5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The speech covered the events between the start of the Turkish War of Independence on, and the foundation of the Republic of Turkey, in 1923. Eğer buraya haksız olarak gelmişsem, bu haksızlığı ortaya koyan neden ve etkenleri düzeltmek de benim görevimdir. Nutuk (known as A Speech or The Speech in English) was a speech delivered by Ghazi Mustafa Kemal from 15 to 20 October 1927, at the second congress of Republican People's Party. ![]() Diyecek ki, ‘Ben inanç ve kanaatimin gereğini yaptım. Yasal yollarla karşı çıkışlarda bulunmakla birlikte bana, başbakana ve meclise telgraflar yağdırıp, haklı ve suçsuz olduğu için salıverilmesine çalışılmasını, kayrılmasını istemeyecek. Yine düşünecek, ‘Demek adliyeyi ıslah etmek, rejime göre düzenlemek lazım.’ diyecek. Genç, ‘Polis henüz devrim ve cumhuriyetin polisi değildir.’ diye düşünecek, ama hiç bir zaman yalvarmayacaktır. Polis gelecek, asıl suçluları bırakıp, suçlu diye onu yakalayacaktır. Elle, taşla, sopa ve silahla nesi varsa onunla kendi yapıtını koruyacaktır. ![]() Bunları güçsüz düşürecek en küçük ya da en büyük bir kıpırtı ve bir davranış duydu mu, ‘Bu ülkenin polisi vardır, jandarması vardır, ordusu vardır, adalet örgütü vardır.’ demeyecektir. Yönetim biçimini ve devrimleri benimsemiştir. Bunların gereğine, doğruluğuna herkesten çok inanmıştır. “Türk genci, devrimlerin ve cumhuriyetin sahibi ve bekçisidir. ![]() Whistle stop cafe book5/29/2023 ![]() She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (which was produced by Universal Pictures as Fried Green Tomatoes), Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!, Standing in the Rainbow, and A Redbird Christmas. Currently-lives in Montecito, Californiaįannie Flagg began writing and producing television specials at age nineteen and went on to distinguish herself as an actress and writer in television, films, and the theater.The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon offering good barbecue and good coffee and all kinds of love and laughter, even an occasional murder.Īnd as the past unfolds, the present-for Evelyn and for us-will never be quite the same agains. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. ![]() ![]() Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafeįolksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s: of gray-headed Mrs. ![]() Heartless marissa meyer hardcover5/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() “In Heartless, the nonsense that is Wonderland gets a reverential makeover, full of heart and its own idiosyncratic character.” ―Gregory Maguire, author of Wicked and After Alice ![]() In her first stand-alone teen novel, the New York Times-bestselling author of the Lunar Chronicles dazzles us with a prequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. But in a land thriving with magic, madness, and monsters, fate has other plans. Cath is determined to define her own destiny and fall in love on her terms. At the risk of offending the king and infuriating her parents, she and Jest enter into an intense, secret courtship. ![]() For the first time, she feels the pull of true attraction. Then Cath meets Jest, the handsome and mysterious court joker. But according to her mother, such a goal is unthinkable for the young woman who could be the next queen. A talented baker, all she wants is to open a shop with her best friend. Long before she was the terror of Wonderland―the infamous Queen of Hearts―she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.Ĭatherine may be one of the most desired girls in Wonderland, and a favorite of the unmarried King of Hearts, but her interests lie elsewhere. From Marissa Meyer, the #1 New York Times–bestselling story of Wonderland's most notorious villain: the Queen of Hearts. ![]() First break all the rules5/28/2023 ![]() Clifton, The Free Press, 2001) The One Thing You Need to Know (The Free Press, 2005) and Go Put Your Strengths To Work (The Free Press, 2007). The result of his persistence, and arguably the definitive answer to the strengths question can be found in Buckingham's four best-selling books First, Break All the Rules (coauthored with Curt Coffman, Simon & Schuster, 1999) Now, Discover Your Strengths (coauthored with Donald O. Researcher at Gallup Organization to break through the preconceptions about achievements and get to the core of what drives success. ![]() It's a complex question, one that intrigued Cambridge-educated Marcus Buckingham so greatly, he set out to answer it by challenging years of social theory and utilizing his nearly two decades of research experience as a Sr. In a world where efficiency and competency rule the workplace, where do personal strengths fit in? ![]() The god of small5/28/2023 ![]() Her father and the twins’ uncle Chacko is welcoming his ex-wife Margaret and his daughter to India. However, the twins are not concerned with the Big Things, and are eagerly anticipating the arrival of their nine-year old English cousin Sophie Mol. This is a turbulent time to grow up because there is political unrest and uncertainty in the country, and financial and other hardships, as well as all kinds of injustice, are seen as just part and parcel of life. It takes a cross-generational approach to tell the story, but at the heart of the plot is a pair of twins – brother and sister – seven-year old Estha and Rahel respectively – who grow up in Ayemenem, part of Kerala, India, in the late 1960s. ![]() The notable feature of the book is that it is a debut novel which won the Booker Prize for Fiction in 1997. The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy is that book to me. ![]() Once in awhile a book comes your way which is so powerful in its message, so inexplicably poetic in its presentation and so wondrous in its understated emotion that you may wonder how come you have not read it yet. ![]() Citizens by simon schama5/28/2023 ![]() ![]() He is the prize-winning author of numerous books, including Dead Certainties (Unwarranted Speculations), Landscape and Memory, Rembrandt's Eyes and three volumes of A History of Britain. ![]() Simon Schama is University Professor in Art History and History at Columbia University in New York, and one of the best-known scholars in Britain in any field. 'Provides an unrivalled impression of the currents and contradictions which made up this terrible sequence of events' 'Dazzling - beyond praise - He has chronicled the vicissitudes of that world with matchless understanding, wisdom, pity and truth, in the pages of this marvellous book' 'The most marvellous book I have read about the French Revolution' provocative and stylish, Simon Schama's account of the first few years of the great Revolution in France, and of the decades that led up to it, is thoughtful, informed and profoundly revisionist'Įugen Weber, The New York Times Book Review ![]() One of the great landmarks of modern history publishing, Simon Schama's Citizens: A Chronicle of the French Revolution is the most authoritative social, cultural and narrative history of the French Revolution ever produced. ![]() Endless night by richard laymon5/28/2023 ![]() ![]()
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