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A memoir of multiple sclerosis
Hauser has lived through the major social and economic changes that followed World War 2, and he offers the reader vivid insights into medical careers in the USA before the advent of today's educationally validated programmes, as well as into academic zeitgeists and dominant personalities. In the description of his family, friends, and early life, the reader gleans information about Hauser that would be hard to guess from his scientific persona. Throughout the book, the inspiration and support of his family (particularly his wife, Elizabeth, who herself had a very successful medical career, which would no doubt make for an interesting memoir) and his friends, colleagues, and patients is made clear—as is Hauser's gratitude to them.
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Paris : the memoir
Paris rose to prominence as an heiress but cultivated her fame and fortune as the 'it girl' of the naughties, alongside a growing 24-hour news cycle and the advent of the celebrity blog. Using her celebrity brand, Paris set in motion her innovative business ventures, while being written off by tabloids as \"famous for being famous\". With tenacity and grit, she built a global empire and became beloved in the process. Now Paris Hilton is ready to share her story. This book strips away all we thought we knew about a celebrity icon, taking us back to a privileged childhood living with undiagnosed ADHD, a teenage rebellion and 'emotional growth boarding schools', as well as her perilous journey through pre-#MeToo sexual politics. Paris: The Memoir tracks the evolution of celebrity culture through the story of its leading figure and shows us Paris' path to peace while she challenges us to question our role in her story and in our own
By Foot, Transport Truck, and Bus to Pedro Juan Caballero
According to one book, the illegal drug trade was so extensive that, at the time of my visit in 1990, up to 4,000 tons of Paraguayan marijuana per year were being grown for export to Brazil and Argentina. Indeed, along the Brazilian border, a few years earlier, there had been US-funded herbicide spraying operations of Paraguayan marijuana plantations. The authors claimed that extensive drug crime was sanctioned at the highest levels of Paraguayan society. Indeed, they pointed out that former dictator Alfredo Stroessner often remarked that \"contraband is the price of peace\" ...
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Being Henry : the Fonz . . . and beyond
\"From Emmy-award winning actor, author, comedian, producer, and director Henry Winkler, a deeply thoughtful memoir of the lifelong effects of stardom and the struggle to become whole. Henry Winkler, launched into prominence as \"The Fonz\" in the beloved Happy Days, has transcended the role that made him who he is. Brilliant, funny, and widely-regarded as the nicest man in Hollywood (though he would be the first to tell you that it's simply not the case, he's really just grateful to be here), Henry shares in this achingly vulnerable memoir the disheartening truth of his childhood, the difficulties of a life with severe dyslexia, the pressures of a role that takes on a life of its own, and the path forward once your wildest dream seems behind you. Since the glorious era of Happy Days fame, Henry has endeared himself to a new generation with roles in such adored shows as Arrested Development, Parks and Recreation, and Barry, where he's been revealed as an actor with immense depth and pathos, a departure from the period of his life when he was so distinctly typecast as The Fonz, he could hardly find work. Filled with profound heart, charm, and self-deprecating humor, Being Henry is a memoir about so much more than a life in Hollywood and the curse of stardom. It is a meaningful testament to the power of sharing truth and kindness and of finding fulfillment within yourself\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Speaking of pain
First-person accounts of illness have grown widely since Woolf's 1926 essay On Being Ill, but the breakdown she describes still rings true, although it may have more to do with what we expect language to do when confronting pain or distress—and the form we assume it to take—than its functional limits. While her previous books are searching and unguarded even as Nelson's mastery of verse and form shines through, in Pathemata (from the Greek for affliction, suffering) there is something else at work. Amid scenes that many people would rather forget—COVID-19 lockdowns, physical distancing, children attending school online—Nelson's private crisis of pain meets the social and global crises shared by those around her—shared crises that were felt in wildly unequal ways.
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A manner of being : writers on their mentors
\"What do the punk singer Henry Rollins, the Guatemalan writer Rodrigo Rey Rosa, the American authors Tobias Wolff, Tayari Jones, and George Saunders, the Canadian writer Sheila Heti, and the Russian poet Polina Barskova have in common? At some point they all studied the art of writing deeply with someone. The nearly seventy short essays in A Manner of Being, by some of the best contemporary writers from around the world, pay homage to mentors--the writers, teachers, nannies, and sages--who enlighten, push, encourage, and sometimes hurt, fail, and limit their protégés. There are mentors encountered in the schoolhouse and on farms, in NYC and in MFA programs; mentors who show up exactly when needed, offering comfort, a steadying hand, a commiseration, a dose of tough love. This collection is rich with anecdotes from the heartfelt to the salacious, gems of writing advice, and guidance for how to live the writing life in a world that all too often doesn't care whether you write or not. Each contribution is intimate and distinct--yet a common theme is that mentors model a manner of being.\" -- Publisher's description
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Questioning Questions in Autobiographies of Intercultural Encounters
In this article, the author analyzes the discursive forms of the Autobiographies for Intercultural Encounters Young Version (AIEY), which has been developed by the Council of Europe (COE) to encourage young learners to become aware of their intercultural experiences. She tried to analyze both AIEY's questions and 100 ten-years-old children's answers. The aim is to understand the kind of discourse that the AIEY encourages about intercultural encounters and the extent to which it could have affected the pupils' answers.
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Witnessing girlhood : toward an intersectional tradition of life writing
\"When over 150 women testified in 2018 to the sexual abuse inflicted on them by Dr. Larry Nassar when they were young competitive gymnasts, they exposed and transformed the conditions that shielded their violation, including the testimonial disadvantages that cluster at the site of gender, youth, and race. In Witnessing Girlhood, Leigh Gilmore and Elizabeth Marshall argue that they also joined a long tradition of autobiographical writing lead by women of color in which adults use the figure and narrative of child witness to expose harm and seek justice. Witnessing Girlhood charts a history of how women use life narrative to transform conditions of suffering, silencing, and injustice into accounts that enjoin ethical response. Drawing on a deep and diverse archive of self-representational forms-slave narratives, testimonio, memoir, comics, and picture books- Gilmore and Marshall attend to how authors return to a narrative of traumatized and silenced girlhood and the figure of the child witness in order to offer public testimony. Emerging within these accounts are key scenes and figures that link a range of texts and forms from the mid nineteenth century to the contemporary period. Gilmore and Marshall offer a genealogy of the reverberations across timelines, self-representational acts, and jurisdictions of the child witness in life writing. Reconstructing these historical and theoretical trajectories restores an intersectional testimonial history of writing by women of color about sexual and racist violence to the center of life writing, and, in so doing, furthers our capacity to engage ethically with representations of vulnerability, childhood, and collective witness\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The cost of diagnosis
“A body in mysterious discomfort exposes itself to medicine hoping to meet a vocabulary with which to speak of suffering”, the poet Anne Boyer writes in her Pulitzer Prize winning memoir The Undying (2020), which chronicled her experience with breast cancer. Aviv was admitted to hospital when she suddenly lost interest in eating after observing the Jewish holiday Yom Kippur, a tradition that includes a period of fasting. “Had I stayed in the hospital longer or returned to a less welcoming school”, she ponders, “I may have followed Hava's path.”
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