Author: Grant Achatz Publisher: Avery ISBN: 1592406971 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 434
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An award-winning chef describes how he lost his sense of taste to cancer, a setback that prompted him to discover alternate cooking methods and create his celebrated progressive cuisine.
Author: Darren Hodge Publisher: Kerr Publishing ISBN: 0958128367 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 172
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When the author was a kid, a big white sleek ambulance squatted like a lion in the driveway next door, always ready to go, and sometimes it did, roaring down the street. Today he is a MICA Flight Paramedic with decades of varied experience in 'a life of extremes' in an Australian ambulance service. He does shifts at base on-call, and teaches another generation of paramedics now. Loves his job. A list of well-known events that includes Victoria's Black Saturday Fires and the 2005 Bali Bombing - he was trying to get married when that call came in - mark two dark extremes. Technical matters - trauma treatment decisions, and the limits of aviation, for example - are explained. And this book includes the little things like the time the supermarket aisle was alive with the sound of music from an ex-patient's kid's lips: 'Thanks for looking after Daddy.' Darren couldn't have put it better himself, and it made his heart sing. This book tells what is like to be Darren Hodge on the end of a line, what it is like to be a paramedic. Open, honest reports, warts and all, this memoir is an unflinching account of how it feels, say, to pluck people from imminent death. And there are some laughs on the way...
Author: Ryan O'Callaghan Publisher: Akashic Books ISBN: 1617757705 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 161
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A riveting account of life as a closeted professional athlete from gay NFL player O’Callaghan, against the backdrop of depression, opioid addiction, and the threat of suicide. “[O’Callaghan’s] story is one of beautiful vulnerability, and it further shows the importance of knowing you aren’t alone.” —Oprah Daily, recommended by Gayle King Ryan O’Callaghan’s plan was always to play football and then, when his career was over, kill himself. Growing up in a politically conservative corner of California, the not-so-subtle messages he heard as a young man from his family and from TV and film routinely equated being gay with disease and death. Letting people in on the darkest secret he kept buried inside was not an option: better death with a secret than life as a gay man. As a kid , Ryan never envisioned just how far his football career would take him. He was recruited by the University of California, Berkeley, where he spent five seasons, playing alongside his friend Aaron Rodgers. Then it was on to the NFL for stints with the almost-undefeated New England Patriots and the often-defeated Kansas City Chiefs. Bubbling under the surface of Ryan’s entire NFL career was a collision course between his secret sexuality and his hidden drug use. When the league caught him smoking pot, he turned to NFL-sanctioned prescription painkillers that quickly sent his life into a tailspin. As injuries mounted and his daily intake of opioids reached a near-lethal level, he wrote his suicide note to his parents and plotted his death. Yet someone had been watching. A member of the Chiefs organization stepped in, recognizing the signs of drug addiction. Ryan reluctantly sought psychological help, and it was there that he revealed his lifelong secret for the very first time. Nearing the twilight of his career, Ryan faced the ultimate decision: end it all, or find out if his family and football friends could ever accept a gay man in their lives.
Author: Grant Patterson Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 264
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"I would soon learn that showing up at the border with a can of liquid karate and a less-than-Ron-Jeremy-sized whacky stick was like arriving at the Battle of Hastings with a spork.""The border attracts a fundamentally different clientele from the airport. Going to an airport is a big deal for most people. They put on pants. They bring a passport. They know where they are going. They expect a bit of scrutiny. If they arrive at the airport in, say, Seoul with an AK-47 or buck-assed naked, someone is likely to notice and say, "Er, come with me, sir.""Officers who believe their clients are innocent children will never allow child rapists into a home with Canadian children. And that's as important as semantics ever get.""So much cocaine was coming up the US-5 from Mexico that BC, 10,000 kilometres from the nearest coca plant, was becoming a net EXPORTER of cocaine.""You can't fix people's attitudes. If people are stupid and ignorant, they've probably been that way for a long time. They think it's okay, and they don't want to change. If anyone's going to change that, it might be a spouse or a minister; it sure as shit won't be you." "People were coming through the lane with fucking pianos strapped to the roofs of their vans, insisting they had "Nothing to declare." Chutzpah doesn't begin to cover it.""He is now the Vice-Chair of the Board of Governors for the University of Ottawa, a perfect settling perch for members of the Laurentian Elite who have fucked things up in the civil service too much to be of use to even a Liberal government. On his University of Ottawa bio-page, the word "border" is misspelled.""Bosses hated arming, not because they had analyzed it dispassionately and found it made no sense, but because they were cloistered academics who did not like things that made loud noises.""Taking a dime was taking a dollar was taking a million. Lying about whether or not a guy had booze on his breath when you pulled him in for an ASD was the same as lying about a confession to murder. Breaking the laws you were sworn to protect was shit behaviour, any way you cut it.""Drug traffickers do not threaten unreceptive people who have done nothing to suggest a willingness to compromise their integrity, or an opening for blackmail. They know those people will go to the police.""First, we completed the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory. This was a multiple-choice exam which, luckily, had an interpretation guide available on Amazon. I bought one, and it helped me understand certain valuable things. Like, when they ask about flowers, that's code for "gay." And when they ask about "enjoying fire," that's not hot cocoa by the fireplace, that's setting fire to your own house and jerking off till the bucketheads get there.""Andy was searching an old country music star's bus one time, when the star asked him, 'Whatcha all looking for, anyway?' 'Contraband.' 'Why, we's a country band.'" "People who show up at the border often have classical DSM-IV symptoms. They are disoriented. They are delusional. They are panicked. They engage in risky behaviour. Ask any officer who has spent six or more months at a border crossing, and they'll tell you: there isn't enough Prozac in the world for these people."
Author: Gregory Howard Williams Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1440673330 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 314
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“Heartbreaking and uplifting… a searing book about race and prejudice in America… brims with insights that only someone who has lived on both sides of the racial divide could gain.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “A triumph of storytelling as well as a triumph of spirit.”—Alex Kotlowitz, award-winning author of There Are No Children Here As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the family business failed and his parents’ marriage fell apart, Williams discovered that his dark-skinned father, who had been passing as Italian-American, was half black. The family split up, and Greg, his younger brother, and their father moved to Muncie, Indiana, where the young boys learned the truth about their heritage. Overnight, Greg Williams became black. In this extraordinary and powerful memoir, Williams recounts his remarkable journey along the color line and illuminates the contrasts between the black and white worlds: one of privilege, opportunity and comfort, the other of deprivation, repression, and struggle. He tells of the hostility and prejudice he encountered all too often, from both blacks and whites, and the surprising moments of encouragement and acceptance he found from each. Life on the Color Line is a uniquely important book. It is a wonderfully inspiring testament of purpose, perseverance, and human triumph. Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize
Author: Barbara Lynch Publisher: Simon and Schuster ISBN: 1476795460 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 277
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“If you have an appetite for culinary adventure, you’ll devour the feisty and fun memoir” (Elle magazine) by James Beard award-winning chef, restaurateur, and Top Chef judge Barbara Lynch as she recounts her rise from her rough “Southie” childhood to culinary stardom. Celebrated chef Barbara Lynch—named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in 2017—credits the defiant spirit of her upbringing in tough, poor “Southie,” a neighborhood ruled by the notorious Whitey Bulger gang, with helping her bluff her way into her first professional cooking jobs; develop a distinct culinary style through instinct and sheer moxie; then dare to found an empire of restaurants ranging from a casual but elegant “clam shack” to Boston’s epitome of modern haute cuisine. As award-winning chef Ana Sortun raves, “Her heroic story inspires us to remain true to who we are and honor our dreams with conviction.” One of seven children born to an overworked single mother, Lynch was raised in a housing project. She earned a daredevil reputation for boosting vehicles (even a city bus), petty theft, drinking and doing drugs, and narrowly escaping arrest—haunted all the while by a painful buried trauma. Out of Line describes Lynch’s remarkable process of self-invention, including her encounters with colorful characters of the food world, and vividly evokes the magic of creation in the kitchen. It is also a love letter to South Boston and its vanishing culture, governed by Irish Catholic mothers and its own code of honor. “Foodies will enjoy the vivid language used to describe Lynch’s food exploits, and old neighbors will be treated to a trip around south Boston through the eyes of a local” (Library Journal). Through her story, Lynch explores how the past—both what we strive to escape from and what we remain true to—can strengthen and expand who we are.
Author: Nik Wallenda Publisher: FaithWords ISBN: 1455545503 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 201
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Nik Wallenda, "King of the High Wire," doesn't know fear. As a seventh generation of the legendary Wallenda family, he grew up performing, entertaining, and pushing the boundaries of gravity and balance. When Nik was four years old, he watched a video from 1978 of his great grandfather, Karl Wallenda, walking between the towers of the Condado Plaza Hotel in Puerto Rico, stumbling, and falling to his death because of improper rigging. When Nik heard his father quote his great-grandfather-"Life is on the wire, everything else is just waiting"-the words resonated deep within his soul and he vowed to be a hero like Karl Wallenda. Balance is the theme of Nik's life: between his work and family, his faith in God and artistry, his body and soul. It resonates from him when performing and when no one is looking. When walking across Niagara Falls, he prayed aloud the entire time, and to keep his lust for glory and fame in check, Nik returned to the site of his performance the next day and spent three hours cleaning up trash left by the crowd. Nik Wallenda is an entertainer who wants to not only thrill hearts, but to change hearts for Christ. Christ is the balance pole that keeps him from falling. Nik Wallenda is an entertainer who wants to not only thrill hearts, but to change hearts for Christ. Christ is the balance pole that keeps him from falling.
Author: Clayton M. Christensen Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press ISBN: 1633692574 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 26
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In the spring of 2010, Harvard Business School’s graduating class asked HBS professor Clay Christensen to address them—but not on how to apply his principles and thinking to their post-HBS careers. The students wanted to know how to apply his wisdom to their personal lives. He shared with them a set of guidelines that have helped him find meaning in his own life, which led to this now-classic article. Although Christensen’s thinking is rooted in his deep religious faith, these are strategies anyone can use. Since 1922, Harvard Business Review has been a leading source of breakthrough ideas in management practice. The Harvard Business Review Classics series now offers you the opportunity to make these seminal pieces a part of your permanent management library. Each highly readable volume contains a groundbreaking idea that continues to shape best practices and inspire countless managers around the world.
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