Awakenings

Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307834093
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 506

Book Description
The classic account of survivors of the sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I—and their return to the world after decades of “sleep.” • “One of the most beautifully composed and moving works of our time" (The Washington Post) from the distinguished neurologist and the national bestselling author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. Awakenings—which inspired the major motion picture starring Robert DeNiro and Robin Williams—is the remarkable story of a group of patients who contracted sleeping-sickness during the great epidemic just after World War I. Frozen for decades in a trance-like state, these men and women were given up as hopeless until 1969, when Dr. Oliver Sacks gave them the then-new drug L-DOPA, which had an astonishing, explosive, "awakening" effect. Dr. Sacks recounts the moving case histories of his patients, their lives, and the extraordinary transformations which went with their reintroduction to a changed world.

First of All and the Awakenings

Author: Billye Brim
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780974215686
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 176

Book Description
I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men; For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. (1 Timothy 2:1-2)At the admonition of the Lord to study the Awakenings in America in 2008, this unique book examines this directive, along with others. You will learn:The history of spiritual Awakenings, and the people and eventsthat founded and preserved this special nation. How they relate to the next great Awakening; including the Revival and prayer roots of President Trump.The role of the Church in government affairs. Uniting the Body of Christ in the First of All campaign.The success of this or any future administration falls primarily upon the shoulders of the Body of Christ. Dr. Billye Brim has ministered this revelation thru the various platforms available to her and has now written about it, believing the body of Christ can unite in this prayer effort and overcome the enemy's plot to destroy us through division."America can finish her God-given course. America can, will, and must reach her destiny. And that depends upon the prayers of God's people. That depends on you and me." --Billye Brim

Awakening

Author: Claudia Cangilla McAdam
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1622820029
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 161

Book Description
Age Range: 8 and up Fear drives me forward as I rush down a rocky path in Jerusalem, trying to sort things out even as dusk makes it harder to hurry. Am I really an American girl, cast back to the time of Jesus? Or a delusional Jewish teen, plagued with visions of a place called America, thousands of years in the future? I don't know anymore. But I do know that something awful is about to happen to my Jesus: they're going to arrest him tonight, and kill him. No one believes me; they think I'm crazy. So it's up to me to save him, hurrying down this dark path toward Gethsemane, toward the turning point of all history, the attempt to kill Jesus . . . toward the uncertainty of whether I can actually manage to change the future.

Awakenings

Author: Edward Lazellari
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780765366313
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 372

Book Description
A group of New Yorkers find themselves hunted by supernatural assassins. As they fight the heroes discover that they're not at all who they thought they were and they have a very important quest to fulfill.

Political Awakenings

Author: Harry Kreisler
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1458731839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 386

Book Description
As a kid, Noam Chomsky handed out the Daily Mirror at his uncle's newsstand on 72nd Street, inadvertently finding himself in a buzzing intellectual and political hub for European immigrants in New York. Iranian human rights Nobelist Shirin Ebadi and her husband signed their own legal contract, attempting to restore equality to their marriage after the Iranian Revolution effectively erased the legal rights of women. Elizabeth Warren set out to expose those frauds declaring bankruptcy and taking advantage of the system-only to discover, in her research, a very different story of hard-working middle-class families facing economic collapse in the absence of a social safety net. While studying at Oxford, a young Tariq Ali made a bet with a friend that he could work the Vietnam War into every single answer on his final exams. In this rousing, thoughtful, often funny, and always inspiring volume, a diverse and impressive group of thinkers reflect on those formative experiences that shaped their own political commitments. A fascinating new window into the revealing links between the personal and the political, Political Awakenings will engage readers across generations.

The Book of Awakening

Author: Mark Nepo
Publisher: Red Wheel
ISBN: 1633411672
Category : Self-Help
Languages : en
Pages : 458

Book Description
A new edition of the #1 NYT’s bestseller by Mark Nepo, who has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time” and “a consummate storyteller.” Philosopher-poet and cancer survivor Mark Nepo opens a new season of freedom and joy—an escape from deadening, asleep-at-the wheel sameness—that is both profound and clarifying. His spiritual daybook is a summons to reclaim aliveness, liberate the self, take each day one at a time, and savor the beauty offered by life's unfolding. Reading his poetic prose is like being given second sight, exposing the reader to life's multiple dimensions, each one drawn with awe and affection. The Book of Awakening is the result of Nepo’s journey of the soul and will inspire others to embark on their own. He speaks of spirit and friendship, urging readers to stay vital and in love with this life, no matter the hardships. Encompassing many traditions and voices, Nepo's words offer insight on pain, wonder, and love. Each entry is accompanied by an exercise that will surprise and delight the reader in its mind-waking ability.

Dark Awakenings

Author: Matt Cardin
Publisher: Mythos Books LLC
ISBN: 9780972854566
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 319

Book Description
In "Dark Awakenings," author and scholar Cardin explores the ancient intersection between religion and horror in seven stories and three academic papers.

Awake

Author: Angelo DiLullo, Jr.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781737212324
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
A user's manual for the awakening process.

Big Book Awakening

Author: Dan Sherman
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780971304000
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 100

Book Description
Written to be used in conjunction with, not instead of the "Big Book of Alcoholics anonymous." This book will help guide you through a personal experience with all "Twelve Steps" as they are outlined in the "AA Big Book." You write notes and questions from the "Big Book Awakening" into your own "Big Book" for personal consideration. After you have completed this process yourself your "Big Book" is now a powerful "working with others book" with questions and considerations that will help you work with others both one-on-one and in workshops. They them selves write the same notes into their own "Big Book" to one day do the same.

Sexual Awakenings

Author: Kate Stewart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781545561652
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280

Book Description
MadHatter: Why so blue Alice?Blue_Alice: I want to explore a part of me I've kept hidden.MadHatter: Why?Blue_Alice: Because I don't have anything to lose.MadHatter: That's dangerous.VioletAfter sacrificing years of my life on a cheating husband, I'd had enough. I set out to quench a thirst I had ignored for years. I gave myself one year to explore my sexuality-to delve into my deepest, darkest desires. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, I would have my sexual revolution. I would have my...awakening.Diving into the world of both pleasure and pain, I was sure with Rhys I had found what I'd been missing...until he took it away._________RhysI was on my way out of the life when she came barging in with her new appetite and unrealistic expectations of what a Dom should be. All I had left to do to break free was sell the club and walk away. Now I found I had something to walk toward. And for the first time in my life, I hoped I'd be enough for a woman.Caring for a woman was easy for me. I had always cared for different women for different reasons. Loving a woman had always been quite a bit harder.Doms don't have to say I love you.