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By Julie Yip-Williams. 2019
As a young mother facing a terminal diagnosis, Julie Yip-Williams began to write her story, a story like no other.…
What began as the chronicle of an imminent and early death became something much more—a powerful exhortation to the living. Julie Yip-Williams survived infancy was a miracle. Born blind in Vietnam, she narrowly escaped euthanasia at the hands of her grandmother, only to flee with her family the political upheaval of her country in the late 1970s. Loaded into a rickety boat with three hundred other refugees, Julie made it to Hong Kong and, ultimately, America, where a surgeon at UCLA gave her partial sight. She would go on to become a Harvard-educated lawyer, with a husband, a family, and a life she had once assumed would be impossible. Then, at age thirty-seven, with two little girls at home, Julie was diagnosed with terminal metastatic colon cancer, and a different journey began. The Unwinding of the Miracle is the story of a vigorous life refracted through the prism of imminent death. When she was first diagnosed, Julie Yip-Williams sought clarity and guidance through the experience and, finding none, began to write her way through it—a chronicle that grew beyond her imagining. Motherhood, marriage, the immigrant experience, ambition, love, wanderlust, tennis, fortune-tellers, grief, reincarnation, jealousy, comfort, pain, the marvel of the body in full rebellion—this book is as sprawling and majestic as the life it records. It is inspiring and instructive, delightful and shattering. It is a book of indelible moments, seared deep—an incomparable guide to living vividly by facing hard truths consciously. With humor, bracing honesty, and the cleansing power of well-deployed anger, Julie Yip-Williams set the stage for her lasting legacy and one final miracle: the story of her life. A New York Times BestsellerBy Esther Newton. 2018
During her difficult childhood, Esther Newton recalls that she “became an anti-girl, a girl refusenik, caught between genders,” and that…
her “child body was a strong and capable instrument stuffed into the word ‘girl.’” Later, in early adulthood, as she was on her way to becoming a trailblazing figure in gay and lesbian studies, she “had already chosen higher education over the strongest passion in my life, my love for women, because the two seemed incompatible.” In My Butch Career Newton tells the compelling, disarming, and at times sexy story of her struggle to write, teach, and find love, all while coming to terms with her identity during a particularly intense time of homophobic persecution in the twentieth century. Newton recounts a series of traumas and conflicts, from being molested as a child to her failed attempts to live a “normal,” straight life in high school and college. She discusses being denied tenure at Queens College—despite having written the foundational Mother Camp—and nearly again so at SUNY Purchase. With humor and grace, she describes the influence her father Saul's strong masculinity had on her, her introduction to middle-class gay life, and her love affairs—including one with a well-known abstract painter and another with a French academic she met on a spur-of-the-moment trip to Mexico and with whom she traveled throughout France and Switzerland. By age forty, where Newton's narrative ends, she began to achieve personal and scholarly stability in the company of the first politicized generation of out lesbian and gay scholars with whom she helped create gender and sexuality studies. Affecting and immediate, My Butch Career is a story of a gender outlaw in the making, an invaluable account of a beloved and influential figure in LGBT history, and a powerful reminder of just how recently it has been possible to be an openly queer academic.By Gretchen Roedde. 2018
A hopeful memoir that shares the author’s voyage of discovery as a mother, wife, and physician in underserved communities in…
northern Ontario. In underserved areas of Canada, the communities themselves can be one of the strongest parts of the health care team. Dr. Gretchen Roedde shows how local communities play a major role in responding to illness, birth, and death, making each more meaningful and bearable. In Deep Water Dream, Roedde recounts stories from her long career — from working with a Cree community in developing a medical dictionary in their own language, to training community-based health workers, to delivering Amish babies in her own home. Roedde redraws the boundaries between physician and community, strengthening the capacity to care for those close by,and offers a hopeful and powerful example to the rest of the world.By Bill Nye, Corey S. Powell. 2017
In the New York Times bestseller Everything All at Once, Bill Nye shows you how thinking like a nerd is…
the key to changing yourself and the world around you. Everyone has an inner nerd just waiting to be awakened by the right passion. In Everything All at Once, Bill Nye will help you find yours. With his call to arms, he wants you to examine every detail of the most difficult problems that look unsolvable—that is, until you find the solution. Bill shows you how to develop critical thinking skills and create change, using his “everything all at once” approach that leaves no stone unturned. Whether addressing climate change, the future of our society as a whole, or personal success, or stripping away the mystery of fire walking, there are certain strategies that get results: looking at the world with relentless curiosity, being driven by a desire for a better future, and being willing to take the actions needed to make change happen. He shares how he came to create this approach—starting with his Boy Scout training (it turns out that a practical understanding of science and engineering is immensely helpful in a capsizing canoe) and moving through the lessons he learned as a full-time engineer at Boeing, a stand-up comedian, CEO of The Planetary Society, and, of course, as Bill Nye The Science Guy. This is the story of how Bill Nye became Bill Nye and how he became a champion of change and an advocate of science. It’s how he became The Science Guy. Bill teaches us that we have the power to make real change. Join him in... dare we say it... changing the world.By Adriana Hunter, Anne-Dauphine Julliand. 2015
Thaïs is almost two. Like most well-loved children, she is happy. She laughs as she runs on the beach. But…
her footprints in the sand, with toes turned out, tell a different story. Two Small Footprints in Wet Sand relates the overwhelming tragedy experienced by a family as a result of a genetic disorder.A true tale told by a mother, it’s the story of a little girl, of family, friends, and the medical community united to define life by its beauty rather than its length. On the day Thaïs turns two, her mother, the author Anne-Dauphine Julliand, learns that her child has an untreatable genetic disease, the rarest of the rare, a silent disorder that will slowly paralyze her daughter’s nervous system and kill her. Metachromatic leukodystrophy-MLD-is the diagnosis. There is no cure.While the disease may be grim, neither this book nor the people in it are. Grace, dignity, and most of all love mark the lives of all those involved in the care of Thaïs. Julliand does not play down the pain of her child or of her family, or the exhaustion, discouragement, or burden each of them carries. She promises her daughter a full life-not a life like other children have-but a happy life, a life of love. Thaïs’s family and the medical staff around her fight to provide comfort and efficient care, to conserve her dignity, to give her love, to "add life to days when we cannot add days to life.”Skyhorse Publishing, along with our Arcade, Good Books, Sports Publishing, and Yucca imprints, is proud to publish a broad range of biographies, autobiographies, and memoirs. Our list includes biographies on well-known historical figures like Benjamin Franklin, Nelson Mandela, and Alexander Graham Bell, as well as villains from history, such as Heinrich Himmler, John Wayne Gacy, and O. J. Simpson. We have also published survivor stories of World War II, memoirs about overcoming adversity, first-hand tales of adventure, and much more. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.By Eva Hagberg Fisher. 2018
A luminous memoir about how friendship saved one woman’s life, for anyone who has loved a friend who was sick,…
grieving, or lost—and for anyone who has struggled to seek or accept help Eva Hagberg Fisher spent her lonely youth looking everywhere for connection: drugs, alcohol, therapists, boyfriends, girlfriends. Sometimes she found it, but always temporarily. Then, at age thirty, an undiscovered mass in her brain ruptured. So did her life. A brain surgery marked only the beginning of a long journey, and when her illness hit a critical stage, it forced her to finally admit the long‑suppressed truth: she was vulnerable, she needed help, and she longed to grow. She needed true friendship for the first time. How to Be Loved is the story of how an isolated person’s life was ripped apart only to be gently stitched back together through friendship, and the recovery—of many stripes—that came along the way. It explores the isolation so many of us feel despite living in an age of constant connectivity; how our ambitions sometimes pull us apart more than bring us together; and how a simple doughnut, delivered by a caring soul, can become the essence of what makes a life valuable. With gorgeous prose shot through with empathy, pain, fear, and the secret truths inside all of us, Eva writes about the friends who taught her to grow up and open her heart—and how the relentlessness of suffering can give rise to the greatest joy.By Ruth Barton. 2018
In 1864, amid headline-grabbing heresy trials, members of the British Association for the Advancement of Science were asked to sign…
a declaration affirming that science and scripture were in agreement. Many criticized the new test of orthodoxy; nine decided that collaborative action was required. The X Club tells their story. These six ambitious professionals and three wealthy amateurs—J. D. Hooker, T. H. Huxley, John Tyndall, John Lubbock, William Spottiswoode, Edward Frankland, George Busk, T. A. Hirst, and Herbert Spencer—wanted to guide the development of science and public opinion on issues where science impinged on daily life, religious belief, and politics. They formed a private dining club, which they named the X Club, to discuss and further their plans. As Ruth Barton shows, they had a clear objective: they wanted to promote “scientific habits of mind,” which they sought to do through lectures, journalism, and science education. They devoted enormous effort to the expansion of science education, with real, but mixed, success. For twenty years, the X Club was the most powerful network in Victorian science—the men succeeded each other in the presidency of the Royal Society for a dozen years. Barton’s group biography traces the roots of their success and the lasting effects of their championing of science against those who attempted to limit or control it, along the way shedding light on the social organization of science, the interactions of science and the state, and the places of science and scientific men in elite culture in the Victorian era.By Caspar Baldwin. 2019
This is the story of one trans man's exploration of gender identity, set against changing cultural attitudes from the 90s…
to the present day. Caspar Baldwin grew up in a time when being trans was not widely accepted by society, and though progress has been made since then, trans men are still underrepresented and misunderstood. Grappling with the messy realities of gender expectations while giving a stark and moving account of his own experiences, Baldwin grants a nuanced understanding of what it's like to be a trans boy or man. With its unflinching portrayal of the vulnerability, confusion, dysphoria, empowerment, peace and joy that are all part of the transition process, this provides an invaluable support for trans men and is a memoir that breaks the mould.By Matt Graham, Josh Young. 2015
Matt Graham, star of the Discovery Channel's Dual Survival and Dude, You're Screwed, details the physical, mental, and emotional joys…
and harrowing struggles of his life as a modern-day hunter-gatherer.Early on in his life, Matt craved a return to nature. When he became an adult, he set aside his comfortable urban life and lived entirely off the land to learn from the smallest and grandest of all things. In this riveting narrative that brings together epic adventure and spiritual quest, he shows us what extraordinary things the human body is capable of when pushed to its limits. In Epic Survival, written with Josh Young, coauthor of five New York Times bestsellers, Matt relays captivating stories from his life to show just how terrifying--and gratifying--living off the grid can be. He learns the secrets of the Tarahumara Indians that helped him run the 1,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail in just fifty-eight days and endure temperature swings of 100 degrees. He takes us with him as he treks into the wilderness to live alone for half a year, armed with nothing but a loincloth, a pair of sandals, a stone knife, and chia seeds. He recounts near-death experiences of hiking alone through the snowdrifts at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, and tells us about the time he entered a three-day Arabian horse race on foot--and finished third. Above all, Epic Survival is a book about growing closer to the land that nurtures us. No matter how far our modern society takes us from the wilderness, the call remains. Whether you're an armchair survivalist or have taken the plunge yourself, Matt's story is both inspiration and invigoration, teaching even the most urbane among us important and breathtaking lessons.By Winifred Conkling. 2018
The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists’ groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.…
In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her husband for their work. But when she was nominated to the French Academy of Sciences, the academy denied her admission and voted to disqualify all women from membership. Four years later, Curie’s breakthrough led physicist Lise Meitner to a brilliant leap of understanding that unlocked the secret of nuclear fission. Meitner’s unique insight was critical to the revolution in science that led to nuclear energy and the race to build the atom bomb, yet her achievement was left unrecognized by the Nobel committee in favor of that of her male colleague.Radioactive! presents the story of two women breaking ground in a male-dominated field, scientists still largely unknown despite their crucial contributions to cutting-edge research, in a nonfiction narrative that reads with the suspense of a thriller. Photographs and sidebars illuminate and clarify the science in the book.By Rick Prashaw. 2019
“Coming out. Coming in. Coming home.” Adam Prashaw’s life was full of surprises from the moment he was born. Assigned…
female at birth, and with parents who had been expecting a boy, he spent years living as “Rebecca Danielle Adam Prashaw” before coming to terms with being a transgender man. Adam captured hearts with his humour, compassion, and intensity. After a tragic accident cut his life short, he left a legacy of changed lives and a trove of social media posts documenting his life, relationships, transition, and struggles with epilepsy, all with remarkable transparency and directness. In Soar, Adam, Soar, his father, a former priest, retells Adam’s story alongside his son’s own words. From early childhood, through coming out first as a lesbian and then as a man, and his battles with epilepsy and refusal to give in, it chronicles Adam’s drive to define himself, his joyful spirit, and his love of life, which continues to conquer all.By Laurel A. Rockefeller. 2018
Quando o mundo ocidental caiu na escuridão, ela ousou defender a luz. Nascida em 355 EC, após o reinado de…
Constantino, Hipátia de Alexandria viveu em um império romano em colapso, um mundo onde a obediência às autoridades religiosas superava a ciência, onde razão e lógica ameaçavam a nova ordem mundial. Era um mundo à beira da Idade das Trevas, um mundo decidindo a questão da ciência versos religião, versos liberdade ortodoxia, versos de tolerância ódio. Por mais de 40 anos, Hipátia ficou entre a idade das trevas e a luz da filosofia clássica, das artes e das ciências. Embora nenhum de seus livros tenha sobrevivido às agressivas queimadas de livros de fanáticos religiosos, seu legado continua sendo o de um dos maiores cientistas de todos os tempos. Esta é a sua história verdadeira e fascinante. Inclui bibliografia, um cronograma detalhado e coordenadas de latitude e longitude para as principais cidades do Império Romano, para que você possa explorar as maravilhas dos céus com Hypatia.By Richard Carlson, Aisha Meier-Chaouki. 2018
Über das Buch: Bei Richard Carlson Jr. wurde im Alter von einundzwanzig Jahren paranoide Schizophrenie diagnostiziert. Seine Krankheit zeigte sich…
das erste Mal in der frühen Pubertät. Die moderne Psychiatrie hat bei Richard mehr als ein Jahrzehnt lang kolossal versagt. Erst nach einem Vorfall mit der Polizei verstand er wirklich, dass seine Diagnose stimmte, und endlich begann der lange Prozess der Genesung. Mehr als zehn Jahre später hat sich sein Leben stark verbessert. Im Verlauf seiner Behandlung erholte sich Richard auch von einer Depression, einer Zwangsstörung und Lethargie. Lassen Sie nicht zu, dass Ihnen, einem geliebten Menschen oder einem schwer psychisch kranken Patienten das Gleiche passiert wie Richard. Seien Sie immer ehrlich zueinander und zu Ihrem Psychiater.By Richard Carlson, Viviane Borges Tavares Melo. 2018
Richard Carlson Jr. foi diagnosticado com esquizofrenia paranoica quando tinha vinte e um anos de idade. Sua doença manifestou-se pela…
primeira vez quando ele era um adolescente precoce. A psiquiatria moderna fracassou muito em Richard por mais de uma década. Então, após um incidente envolvendo a polícia, ele realmente entendeu que seu diagnóstico era real e finalmente iniciou o longo processo de recuperação. Mais de dez anos depois, sua vida melhorou muito. No curso de seu tratamento, Richard também se recuperou de depressão, transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo e letargia. Não deixe acontecer o que aconteceu com Richard a você, a um ente querido ou a um paciente que esteja lidando com uma doença mental grave. Seja sempre sincero um com o outro e com o seu psiquiatra.By Roberta Torrisi, Richard Carlson. 2018
Sul libro: A Richard Carlson Jr. è stata diagnosticata la schizofrenia paranoide a ventun anni. La malattia si è manifestata…
per la prima volta quando era preadolescente. Richard non si è affidato alla psichiatria moderna per più di dieci anni. Poi, dopo un incidente con la polizia, ha capito che la sua diagnosi era vera e ha finalmente iniziato il lungo processo di guarigione. Dopo più di dieci anni, la sua vita è migliorata notevolmente. Durante il trattamento, Richard è guarito da depressione, disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo e letargia. Non lasciare che quello che è successo a Richard succeda a te, ai tuoi cari o a un paziente con una grave malattia mentale. Sii sempre onesto con gli altri e con il tuo psichiatra. Sull'autore: Richard Carlson Jr. è autore di libri per bambini e romanzi di formazione. È una persona altamente sensibile, o PAS, e soffre di schizofrenia paranoide e disturbo ossessivo-compulsivo.By Richard Carlson, Berenice Arrieta Cort s. 2018
Richard Carlson Jr. diagnostiserades med paranoid schizofreni när han var tjugo år gammal. Hans sjukdom först manifesterade när han var…
en ung ungdom. Modern psykiatri misslyckades starkt Richard för över ett decennium. Därefter förstod han, efter en incident som involverade polisen, att hans diagnos var riktig och började äntligen den långa processen att återhämta sig. Över tio år senare förbättras hans liv väsentligt. Under sin behandling återhämtade sig också Richard från depression, tvångssyndrom och slöhet. Låt inte vad som hände med Richard hända dig, en nära anhörig, eller en patient som arbetar med allvarlig psykisk sjukdom. Alltid vara ärliga med varandra, och med din psykiater.By Richard Carlson. 2018
Richard Carlson Jr. was gediagnoseer met paranoïese skisofrenie toe hy een – en – twintig jaar oud was. Sy siekte…
het begin toe hy in vroeë adolessensie was. Moderne psigiatrie het Richard oor ‘n dekade misluk. Toe, na ‘n insident met die polisie het hy regtig verstaan dat sy diagnose werklik is, en het uiteindelik die lang proses om te herstel begin. Meer as tien jaar later het sy lewe geweldig verbeter. Saam met sy behandeling het Richard ook herstel van depressie, obsessiewe – kompulsiewe – versteuring, en lusteloosheid. Moenie dat dit wat met Richard gebeur het, met jou, ‘n geliefde, of ‘n pasiënt met ernstige geestes siektes gebeur nie. Wees altyd eerlik met mekaar, en met jou psigiater.By Richard Carlson, Berenice Arrieta Cort s. 2018
Richard Carlson Jr. a été diagnostiqué avec la schizophrénie paranoïde quand il avait vingt et un ans. Sa maladie s'est…
manifestée pour la première fois lorsqu'il était adolescent. La psychiatrie moderne a grandement échoué Richard pendant plus d'une décennie. Puis, après un incident impliquant la police, il a vraiment compris que son diagnostic était réel, et a finalement commencé le long processus de récupération. Plus de dix ans plus tard, sa vie est grandement améliorée. Au cours de son traitement, Richard a également guéri de la dépression, du trouble obsessionnel-compulsif et de la léthargie. Ne laissez pas ce qui est arrivé à Richard vous arriver, à un être cher ou à un patient souffrant de maladie mentale grave. Soyez toujours honnêtes les uns avec les autres et avec votre psychiatre.By Richard Carlson, Juan Luis Cortes Cervantes. 2017
En el presente libro, su autor presenta un honésto testimonio de su padecimiento. Se trata de una autobiografía donde podemos…
encontrar desde los primeros años, la vida familiar, así como la aparición y tratamiento de diversas afecciones psiquiáticas. Un texto sumamente recomendable para todo aquel interesado en conocer el lado sensible de aquello que denominamos como enfermedad mental, que no es sino otra de las manifestaciones de la condición humana.By Richard Carlson, Audrey Liauw. 2017