A Time To Dance A Time To Die
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A Time To Dance A Time To Die
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Author : John Waller
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2009-05-07
A Time To Dance A Time To Die written by John Waller and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-05-07 with History categories.
'A compelling 'whatdunnit'' The Times 'Waller's book should interest both historians and scientists, while the general reader will enjoy his colourful depictions of medieval life.' BBC Focus Magazine This is the true story of a wild dancing epidemic that brought death and fear to a 16th-century city, and the terrifying supernatural beliefs from which it arose. In July 1518 a terrifying and mysterious plague struck the medieval city of Strasbourg. Hundreds of men and women danced wildly, day after day, in the punishing summer heat. They did not want to dance, but could not stop. Throughout August and early September more and more were seized by the same terrible compulsion. By the time the epidemic subsided, heat and exhaustion had claimed an unfold number of lives, leaving thousands bewildered and bereaved, and an enduring enigma for future generations. Drawing on fresh evidence, John Waller's account of the bizarre events of 1518 explains why Strasbourg's dancing plague took place. In doing so it leads us into a largely vanished world, evoking the sights, sounds, aromas, diseases and hardships, the fervent supernaturalism, and the desperate hedonism of the late medieval world. At the same time, the extraordinary story this book tells offers rich insights into how people behave when driven beyond the limits of endurance. Above all, A Time to Dance, a Time to Die: The Extraordinary Story of the Dancing Plague of 1518 is an exploration into the strangest capabilities of the human mind and the extremes to which fear and irrationality can lead us.
A Time To Mourn A Time To Dance
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Author : Margaret Metzgar
language : en
Publisher: AAL Qualitylife Resources
Release Date : 2000
A Time To Mourn A Time To Dance written by Margaret Metzgar and has been published by AAL Qualitylife Resources this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Consolation categories.
Help for the losses in life.
Holy Bible Niv
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Author : Various Authors,
language : en
Publisher: Zondervan
Release Date : 2008-09-02
Holy Bible Niv written by Various Authors, and has been published by Zondervan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-02 with Bibles categories.
The NIV is the world's best-selling modern translation, with over 150 million copies in print since its first full publication in 1978. This highly accurate and smooth-reading version of the Bible in modern English has the largest library of printed and electronic support material of any modern translation.
A Time To Die
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Author : Nicolas Diat
language : en
Publisher: Ignatius Press
Release Date : 2019-06-13
A Time To Die written by Nicolas Diat and has been published by Ignatius Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-13 with Religion categories.
Behind monastery walls, men of God spend their lives preparing for the passage of death. Best-selling French author Nicolas Diat set out to find what their deaths can reveal about the greatest mystery faced by everyone—the end of life. How to die? How to respond to our fear of death? To answer these and other questions, Diat travelled to eight European monasteries including Solesmes Abbey and the Grande Chartreuse. Through extraordinary interviews with monks, he learned that their death experiences are varied and unique, with elements of peace, pain, humility, sorrow, and joy. These monks have the same fears, torments, and sorrows as everyone else, Diat discovered. What is exemplary about them is their humility and simplicity. When death approaches, and its hand reveals its strength, they are like happy and naïve children who wait with impatience to open a gift. They have complete confidence in the mercy of God.
And A Time To Die
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Author : Sharon Kaufman
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2005-04-19
And A Time To Die written by Sharon Kaufman 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 2005-04-19 with Health & Fitness categories.
A reassuring and illuminating examination on our conflicting wishes about the end of life, how the politics and routines of the American hospital have formed our understanding and experience of death, and ultimately why what we consider a "good death" is so hard to attain. In a penetrating and revelatory study, medical anthropologist Dr. Sharon Kaufman uses two years of intensive observations and interviews with scores of patients, family members, physicians, nurses, social workers, and other staff at several community hospitals in California to explore the heart of a science-driven yet fractured and often irrational world of health care delivery, where empathetic yet frustrated, hard-working yet constrained professionals both respond to and create the anxieties and often inchoate expectations of patients and families, who must make "decisions" they are ill-prepared to make. She sought out the critically ill, the dying and their friends and relatives. She followed patients from admission to death—days, weeks, or sometimes months later—through, what is often for them and their families, a Kafka-esque journey. She asked hospital staff what they were doing and why and stood beside doctors and nurses, observing their work, cynicism, compassion and frustration. And she paid close attention to the most important player of allthe hospital beauracracy and how it impacts the manner and timing of patient death. Her investigative research links together the emotional experiences of patients and families, the dedicated work of hospital staff and the ramifications of institutional bureaucracy to show the invisible power of the hospital system itself—its rules, mandates and daily activity—in organizing death and individual experience of it. The book is the story of real patients and their families, an account of what drives the American hospital today, and a report on the complex sources and implications of doing something about death.
A Time To Die
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Author : Nadine Brandes
language : en
Publisher: Out of Time
Release Date : 2014-10
A Time To Die written by Nadine Brandes and has been published by Out of Time this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-10 with FICTION categories.
How would you live if you knew the day you'd die? Parvin Blackwater believes she has wasted her life. At only seventeen, she has one year left according to the Clock by her bedside. In a last-ditch effort to make a difference, she tries to rescue Radicals from the government's crooked justice system. But when the authorities find out about her illegal activity, they cast her through the Wall -- her people's death sentence. What she finds on the other side about the world, about eternity, and about herself changes Parvin forever and might just save her people. But her clock is running out.
Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song Of Solomon
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Author : J. Robert Wright
language : en
Publisher: InterVarsity Press
Release Date : 2005-04-08
Proverbs Ecclesiastes Song Of Solomon written by J. Robert Wright and has been published by InterVarsity Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-04-08 with Religion categories.
Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, and the Song of Solomon were all thought by the early church fathers to have derived from the hand of Solomon. To their minds the finest wisdom about the deeper issues of life was to be found in these books. This ACCS volume offers a rich trove of wisdom on Wisdom literature for the enrichment of the church today.
Living To Die Dying To Live
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Author : Michael W. Shirey
language : en
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Release Date : 2019-10-03
Living To Die Dying To Live written by Michael W. Shirey and has been published by Wipf and Stock Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-10-03 with Religion categories.
Christianity is dying—in parts of the world it is already dead. Yet there is hope, but it will require radical surgery that many are unprepared to accept as necessary. The vast behemoth that calls itself institutional Christianity must die if the Jesus Movement upon which it was founded is to live. The essential message of the Christian gospel is that death leads to new life. Is Christianity ready to embrace this truth and die so that it can live?
Not My Time To Die
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Author : Mukagasana, Yolande
language : en
Publisher: Huza Press
Release Date : 2019-06-28
Not My Time To Die written by Mukagasana, Yolande and has been published by Huza Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-06-28 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Yolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes. Targeted because she’s a successful woman and a Tutsi, she flees for her life. This gripping memoir describes the betrayal of friends and help that comes from surprising places. Quick-witted and courageous, Yolande never loses hope she will find her children alive. "This book was one of the first literary testimonies that I read in French about Rwanda. I found it profoundly moving — both realistic and introspective. Thanks to this beautiful translation, it is at long last available to the English-speaking public." Véronique Tadjo "Reading Yolande Mukagasana’s book in French at the age of fifteen changed my life. I realized that genocide is not a mass crime but a single murder repeated hundreds of thousands of times. With this testimony the genocide is no longer just a historical event, it is instead the story of a woman, a mother, a Tutsi. And this is what makes Yolande’s account universal." Gaël Faye
The Real Oliver Twist
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Author : John Waller
language : en
Publisher: Icon Books
Release Date : 2005-10-06
The Real Oliver Twist written by John Waller and has been published by Icon Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-10-06 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From a parish workhouse to the heart of the industrial revolution, from debtors' jail to Cambridge University and a prestigious London church, Robert Blincoe's political, personal and turbulent story illuminates the Dickensian age like never before. In 1792 as revolution, riot and sedition spread across Europe, Robert Blincoe was born in the calm of rural St Pancras parish. At four he was abandoned to a workhouse, never to see his family again. At seven, he was sent 200 miles north to work in one of the cotton mills of the dawning industrial age. He suffered years of unrelenting abuse, a life dictated by the inhuman rhythm of machines. Like Dickens' most famous character, Blincoe rebelled after years of servitude. He fought back against the mill owners, earning beatings but gaining self-respect. He joined the campaign to protect children, gave evidence to a Royal Commission into factory conditions and worked with extraordinary tenacity to keep his own children from the factories. His life was immortalised in one of the most remarkable biographies ever written, A Memoir of Robert Blincoe. Renowned popular historian John Waller tells the true story of a parish boy's progress with passion and in enthralling detail.