A Man Without Words
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A Man Without Words
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Author : Susan Schaller
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2014-05-15
A Man Without Words written by Susan Schaller and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-05-15 with Social Science categories.
For more than a quarter of a century, Ildefonso, a Mexican Indian, lived in total isolation, set apart from the rest of the world. He wasn't a political prisoner or a social recluse, he was simply born deaf and had never been taught even the most basic language. Susan Schaller, then a twenty-four-year-old graduate student, encountered him in a class for the deaf where she had been sent as an interpreter and where he sat isolated, since he knew no sign language. She found him obviously intelligent and sharply observant but unable to communicate, and she felt compelled to bring him to a comprehension of words. The book vividly conveys the challenge, the frustrations, and the exhilaration of opening the mind of a congenitally deaf person to the concept of language. This second edition includes a new chapter and afterword.
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales
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Author : Oliver Sacks
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 1998
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat And Other Clinical Tales written by Oliver Sacks and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Explores neurological disorders and their effects upon the minds and lives of those affected with an entertaining voice.
A Man Without A Country
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Author : Kurt Vonnegut
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2011-01-04
A Man Without A Country written by Kurt Vonnegut and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-01-04 with Literary Collections categories.
A Man Without a Country is Kurt Vonnegut’s hilariously funny and razor-sharp look at life ("If I die—God forbid—I would like to go to heaven to ask somebody in charge up there, ‘Hey, what was the good news and what was the bad news?"), art ("To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."), politics ("I asked former Yankees pitcher Jim Bouton what he thought of our great victory over Iraq and he said, ‘Mohammed Ali versus Mr. Rogers.’"), and the condition of the soul of America today ("What has happened to us?"). Based on short essays and speeches composed over the last five years and plentifully illustrated with artwork by the author throughout, A Man Without a Country gives us Vonnegut both speaking out with indignation and writing tenderly to his fellow Americans, sometimes joking, at other times hopeless, always searching.
I Who Have Never Known Men
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Author : Jacqueline Harpman
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 1997-04-08
I Who Have Never Known Men written by Jacqueline Harpman and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-04-08 with Fiction categories.
A work of fantasy, I Who Have Never Known Men is the haunting and unforgettable account of a near future on a barren earth where women are kept in underground cages guarded by uniformed groups of men. It is narrated by the youngest of the women, the only one with no memory of what the world was like before the cages, who must teach herself, without books or sexual contact, the essential human emotions of longing, loving, learning, companionship, and dying. Part thriller, part mystery, I Who Have Never Known Men shows us the power of one person without memories to reinvent herself piece by piece, emotion by emotion, in the process teaching us much about what it means to be human.
The Man Who Tasted Words
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Author : Guy Leschziner
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-03-16
The Man Who Tasted Words written by Guy Leschziner and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-03-16 with Self-Help categories.
A comprehensive and fascinating look at the senses and the role they play in how we interpret the world and what happens when things go wrong.
Flotsam
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Author : David Wiesner
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2014-11-28
Flotsam written by David Wiesner and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-28 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A highly acclaimed, wordless Caldecott Award-winning picture book from the only living three-time winner of the Caldecott Medal: David Wiesner. A bright, science-minded boy goes to the beach equipped to collect and examine flotsam-anything floating that has been washed ashore. Bottles, lost toys, small objects of every description are among his usual finds. But there's no way he could have prepared for one particular discovery: a barnacle-encrusted underwater camera, with its own secrets to share . . . and to keep. 'Beautiful child’s graphic novel... Wiesner keeps his viewpoint strictly childlike, magnifying the mundane until you see his world in a grain of sand.' EVENING STANDARD 'Beautiful' TELEGRAPH 'Wonderfully imaginative . . . The pictures are packed with details and each re-reading provides more joy' BOOKSELLER 'From arguably the most inventive and cerebral visual storyteller in children's literature comes a wordless invitation . . . not to be resisted' KIRKUS REVIEWS, starred review
No Country For Old Men
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Author : Cormac McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Release Date : 2010-12-03
No Country For Old Men written by Cormac McCarthy and has been published by Pan Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-12-03 with Fiction categories.
Savage violence and cruel morality reign in the backwater deserts of Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men, a tale of one man's dark opportunity – and the darker consequences that spiral forth. Adapted for the screen by the Coen Brothers (Fargo, True Grit), winner of four Academy Awards (including Best Picture). 'A fast, powerful read, steeped with a deep sorrow about the moral degradation of the legendary American West' – Financial Times 1980. Llewelyn Moss, a Vietnam veteran, is hunting antelope near the Rio Grande when he stumbles upon a transaction gone horribly wrong. Finding bullet-ridden bodies, several kilos of heroin, and a caseload of cash, he faces a choice – leave the scene as he found it, or cut the money and run. Choosing the latter, he knows, will change everything. And so begins a terrifying chain of events, in which each participant seems determined to answer the question that one asks another: how does a man decide in what order to abandon his life? 'It's hard to think of a contemporary writer more worth reading' – Independent Part of the Picador Collection, a series showcasing the best of modern literature. Praise for Cormac McCarthy: ‘McCarthy worked close to some religious impulse, his books were terrifying and absolute’ – Anne Enright, author of The Green Road and The Wren, The Wren 'His prose takes on an almost biblical quality, hallucinatory in its effect and evangelical in its power' – Stephen King, author of The Shining and the Dark Tower series 'In presenting the darker human impulses in his rich prose, [McCarthy] showed readers the necessity of facing up to existence' – Annie Proulx, author of Brokeback Mountain
Man S Search For Meaning
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Author : Viktor E Frankl
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-12-09
Man S Search For Meaning written by Viktor E Frankl and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12-09 with Psychology categories.
Over 16 million copies sold worldwide 'Every human being should read this book' Simon Sinek One of the outstanding classics to emerge from the Holocaust, Man's Search for Meaning is Viktor Frankl's story of his struggle for survival in Auschwitz and other Nazi concentration camps. Today, this remarkable tribute to hope offers us an avenue to finding greater meaning and purpose in our own lives.
The Man Without A Face
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Author : Masha Gessen
language : en
Publisher: Granta Books
Release Date : 2012-03-01
The Man Without A Face written by Masha Gessen and has been published by Granta Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-03-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
When Vladimir Putin, an unimportant, low-level KGB operative, was rushed to power by a group of Oligarchs in 1999, he was a man without a history. Within a few brief years, Putin had dismantled Russia's media, wrested control and wealth from the country's burgeoning business class, and decimated the fragile mechanisms of democracy. Virtually every obstacle to his unbridled control was removed and every opposing voice silenced, with political rivals and critics driven into exile or to the grave. Drawing on information and sources no other writer has tapped, Masha Gessen's fearless account charts Putin's rise from the boy who had scrapped his way through post-war Leningrad schoolyards, to the 'faceless' man who manoeuvred his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power.