Second Suns

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Second Suns Two Trailblazing Doctors And Their Quest To Cure Blindness One Pair Of Eyes At A Time

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Author : David Oliver Relin
language : en
Publisher: The Experiment, LLC
Release Date : 2016-09-20

Second Suns Two Trailblazing Doctors And Their Quest To Cure Blindness One Pair Of Eyes At A Time written by David Oliver Relin and has been published by The Experiment, LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-20 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

Now in paperback: a #1 New York Times–bestselling author’s gripping chronicle of “two doctors . . . bringing light to those in darkness” (Time) Second Suns is the unforgettable true story of two very different doctors with a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. Dr. Geoffrey Tabin was the high-achieving “bad boy” of his class at Harvard Medical School. Dr. Sanduk Ruit grew up in a remote village in the Himalayas, where cataract blindness—easily curable in modern hospitals—amounts to an epidemic. Together, they pioneered a new surgical method, by which they have restored sight to over 100,000 people—all for about $20 per operation. Master storyteller David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of their patients, from old men who can once again walk treacherous mountain trails, to children who can finally see their mothers’ faces. The Himalayan Cataract Project is changing the world—one pair of eyes at a time.

Second Suns

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Author : David Oliver Relin
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-06-18

Second Suns written by David Oliver Relin and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-18 with Biography & Autobiography categories.

From the co-author of Three Cups of Tea comes the inspiring story of two very different doctors—one from the United States, the other from Nepal—united in a common mission: to rid the world of preventable blindness. In this transporting book, David Oliver Relin shines a light on the work of Geoffrey Tabin and Sanduk Ruit, gifted ophthalmologists who have dedicated their lives to restoring sight to some of the world’s most isolated, impoverished people through the Himalayan Cataract Project, an organization they founded in 1995. Tabin was the high-achieving bad boy of Harvard Medical School, an accomplished mountain climber and adrenaline junkie as brilliant as he was unconventional. Ruit grew up in a remote Nepalese village, where he became intimately acquainted with the human costs of inadequate access to health care. Together they found their life’s calling: tending to the afflicted people of the Himalayas, a vast mountainous region with an alarmingly high incidence of cataract blindness. Second Suns takes us from improvised plywood operating tables in villages without electricity or plumbing to state-of-the-art surgical centers at major American universities where these two driven men are restoring sight—and hope—to patients from around the world. With their revolutionary, inexpensive style of surgery, Tabin and Ruit have been able to cure tens of thousands—all for about twenty dollars per operation. David Oliver Relin brings the doctors’ work to vivid life through poignant portraits of patients helped by the surgery, from old men who cannot walk treacherous mountain trails unaided to cataract-stricken children who have not seen their mothers’ faces for years. With the dexterity of a master storyteller, Relin shows the profound emotional and practical impact that these operations have had on patients’ lives. Second Suns is the moving, unforgettable story of how two men with a shared dream are changing the world, one pair of eyes at a time. Praise for Second Suns “As miracles go, it’s hard to beat making the blind see. Yet that’s exactly what the eye surgeon Dr. Geoffrey Tabin can do. He services poor people in the developing world who have developed cataracts—a clouding of the lens of the eye that is the world’s leading cause of blindness. . . . Second Suns is a hopeful work, a profile of two doctors who have dedicated their lives to bringing light to those in darkness.”—Time “A compelling and inspiring book . . . Second Suns portrays heroic health care delivered under harrowing conditions: Ruit and his teams carry their equipment on multi-day treks up steep mountain trails, sometimes hiking at night with flashlights or head lamps, to reach settlements where they typically spend several days operating on hundreds of villagers in makeshift surgical theaters.”—The Washington Post “Second Suns should be required reading for anybody with an interest in humanitarian philanthropy—or, for that matter, a desire to feel a little better about the world.”—Outside “A detailed, heartfelt account of the work of [two] dedicated pioneers.”—Kirkus Reviews From the Hardcover edition.

A Thousand Splendid Suns

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Author : Khaled Hosseini
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2008-09-18

A Thousand Splendid Suns written by Khaled Hosseini and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-18 with Fiction categories.

A riveting and powerful story of an unforgiving time, an unlikely friendship and an indestructible love

The Second Sun

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Author : Chris Stewart
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-08-04

The Second Sun written by Chris Stewart and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-04 with Political fiction categories.

Second Sun

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Author : Sara White
language : en
Publisher: Snow Publishing
Release Date : 2023-10-19

Second Sun written by Sara White and has been published by Snow Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-10-19 with History categories.

The first book in the Destroyer Chronicles, Second Sun is an Exodus story unlike you've ever heard. Both Pharaoh and his brother are in love with the same priestess and must fight to save her life and their own. It is an epic battle for good and evil as flames of passion and hatred rise higher and the world burns down.

Beneath The Second Sun

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Author : Adam W. Sweeting
language : en
Publisher: UPNE
Release Date : 2003

Beneath The Second Sun written by Adam W. Sweeting and has been published by UPNE this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Literary Criticism categories.

Indian summer, the succession of warm, fair days gracing New England in autumn, is at once a flourishing period signaling the end of fall, a meteorological event, a vernacular cultural construction, and a literary metaphor. In this appealing and elegant book, Sweeting plumbs Indian summer's use in literature as a symbol of second chance, rebirth, or reprieve before the onset of a harsher season. Well researched and charmingly written, Beneath the Second Sun is the first book to systematically treat the history and uses of Indian summer imagery in American life. The author focuses on the ways in which New Englanders have embraced the season, and he places the celebration of the season's beauty and its melancholy qualities within the context of Anglo-Native American relations. Sweeting does not try to locate the original definition of Indian summer, rather he explores the far more interesting ways in which the season has been imagined and described in American culture. Popular authors including Philip Freneau, Susan Cooper, Lydia Sigourney, John Greenleaf Whittier, Francis Parkman Oliver, Wendell Holmes, and, especially, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickinson, and William Dean Howells freely employ Indian summer imagery in their works. In the context of modern American Studies, Sweeting's study is part of a "post-modern" scholarly discussion of how tangible realities such as climate are mediated, even forged, by social needs. Sweeting further investigates the imaginative, early-nineteenth-century "invention" of New England regional identity and integrates traditional American Studies literary and historical concerns with a contemporary interest in the environment and sense of place. Sweeting's graceful, lively, and accessible style beckons not only scholars of American literature and the nineteenth century but any traveler seeking the glories of autumn in New England.

American Practical Navigator

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Author : Nathaniel Bowditch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1984

American Practical Navigator written by Nathaniel Bowditch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1984 with Nautical astronomy categories.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding

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Author : John Locke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding written by John Locke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with Knowledge, Theory of categories.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding The Seventeenth Edition

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Author : John Locke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1775

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding The Seventeenth Edition written by John Locke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1775 with categories.

Official Gazette Of The United States Patent And Trademark Office

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Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Official Gazette Of The United States Patent And Trademark Office written by United States. Patent and Trademark Office and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Patents categories.