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... and Wisconsin State Journal, Weekly, February 18, April 22, 29, June 10, 17,
1887. "Diary, June 8-16; and Fairchild to his wife, June 8, 13, 15, [n.d.], 1887. "
New York Daily Tribune, June 15; Diary, June 17; William C. Reddy to Fairchild, ...
Selected byChoice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 1996"[Marsh and Ronner make for] a highly successful combination in which faultless clinical detail and a broad social and cultural approach are seamlessly woven to produce a very impressive and beautifully written historical work of the first importance." -- Irvine Louden, Journal of the Social History of Medicine In The Empty Cradle, Margaret Marsh and Wanda Ronner delve into the origins of the many misconceptions surrounding infertility as they explore how medical and cultural beliefs emerged throughout its controversial history. Drawing on a wide variety of sources -- including intimate diaries and letters, patient records, memoirs, medical literature, and popular magazines -- The Empty Cradleinvestigates the social, cultural, scientific, and medical dimensions of infertility over the past three hundred years. Marsh and Ronner explore reactions -- among both physicians and husbands -- to the emerging scientific evidence that infertility was a condition for which men and women bear equal responsibility. The book concludes that infertility is still a subject affected by myth and misunderstanding. A lively and compelling history of a complex medical and cultural phenomenon, The Empty Cradlebrings a valuable perspective to current debates about how we should think about and address the experience of infertility in our own time. "Marsh and Ronner have sought to go beyond the published medical literature to disclose the voices of those most affected by the physiological and cultural condition of infertility... they have restored to the historical record the anguish and the hopes of women who experienced infertility." -- Rima D. Apple, American Historical Review "The book's lucid explanations of medical terms and procedures will allow me to recommend it to my infertility patients. I plan to do so, trusting that it will give them a new perspective on their predicament. Knowing that it provided me a new perspective on both infertility and the practice of gynecology, I will also assign it an honored place in my medical library." -- Janet E. Shepherd, M.D., Journal of the American Medical Association " The Empty Cradledemonstrates the profound impact of politics as well as culture on the development of medical practice. It is an excellent model for future scholarship on the complex relationship between science and society." -- Elaine Tyler May, Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences
Williams, Washing "the Great Unwashed," 11; Bloomer, Life and Writings, 17-18,
128-29. 66. Bloomer, Life and Writings, 299-300. 67. Ibid., 189, 241-42. 68. The
Mary Chesnut diaries that were published posthumously as A Diary from Dixie ...
Drew draws upon her own experience and the stories of others who have met the challenge to view the empty nest as a beginning rather than an end. This book addresses the uncertainties, fears, and needs of women whose children are preparing to leave or have left "the nest". Of course, it is intended for women at all stages of the empty nest.
A NATURAL PART OF LIFE Having read her diary and seen the play based on
her life, I felt prepared for my visit to Anne Frank's secret hiding place in
Amsterdam. Yet, not until I stood in Anne Frank's bedroom did the full force of her
tragic ...
A life worth living is worth recording, and what better place than this journal? These lined pages crave your scribbled notes, thoughts, ideas, experiences, and notions. Fill the lines, remember your life, don't lose your ideas, and keep reaching higher to live the best life you can. It all starts here, folks, but you'll need your own pen or pencil. Write on!
A life worth living is worth recording, and what better place than this journal?
Explores the relationship between landscape and history, literature, photography, painting, and film in the American West.
P. Howe, Coloma, California, September 16, 1849, in Clark, ed., Gold Rush Diary
, p. 162. 29. Diary of William Taylor, June 30, 1846, in Morgan, ed., Overland in
1846, Vol. 1, p. 126. 30. Diary of Nicholas Carriger, July 16, 1846, in ibid., p. 154.
The 1914-18 conflict narrated through the voices of the men whose combat was in the air. The empty chairs belonged, all too briefly, to the doomed young First World War airmen who failed to return from the terrifying daily aerial combats above the trenches of the Western Front. The edict of their commander-in-chief was the missing aviators were to be immediately replaced. Before the new faces could arrive, the departed men's vacant seats at the squadron dinner table were sometimes poignantly occupied by their caps and boots, placed there in a sad ritual by their surviving colleagues as they drank to their memory. Life for most of the pilots of the Royal Flying Corps was appallingly short. If they graduated alive and unmaimed from the flying training that killed more than half of them before they reached the front line, only a few would for very long survive the daily battles they fought over the ravaged moonscape of no-man's-land. Their average life expectancy at the height of the war was measured only in weeks. Parachutes that began to save their German enemies were denied them. Fear of incarceration, and the daily spectacle of watching close colleagues die in burning aircraft, took a devastating toll on the nerves of the world's first fighter pilots. Many became mentally ill. As they waited for death, or with luck the survivable wound that would send them back to 'Blighty', they poured their emotions into their diaries and streams of letters to their loved ones at home. Drawing on these remarkable testimonies and pilots' memoirs, Ian Mackersey has brilliantly reconstructed the First Great Air War through the lives of its participants. As they waited to die, the men shared their loneliness, their fears, triumphs - and squadron gossip - with the families who lived in daily dread of the knock on the door that would bring the War Office telegram in its fateful green envelope.
Drawing on these remarkable testimonies and pilots' memoirs, Ian Mackersey has brilliantly reconstructed the First Great Air War through the lives of its participants.
Clover Jones and Laura Dangerfield have been best friends since their children were born. Along with Clover's stylish, powerful friend, Alice, they share holidays, sleepovers, school runs and childcare. They're like one big family. But all families have their secrets. When the children leave home, Clover and Laura's lives and marriages change forever, and the old rules on love and loyalty no longer apply. And when Alice decides she wants what they've got, Clover and Laura have to find out who they really are. Without the children, can their marriages - and friendship - survive?
'And nowgoto the “Alice's Diary” slot.' Alice's Diary had a number of glamorous
photos from the skiing holiday, describing 'our greatfriend Josiah', asan '
Olympicstandard skier'.'Then home to Kent forNew Year,' she trilled'withlots ofold
friends ...
Learn to live with God instead of for God. Sometimes the only way to get a new life is by running your old one completely into the ground. Fil Anderson had accomplished more for God than most of his contemporaries, but his worn-out body housed an empty soul. His frenetic pace of ministry had earned him just one thing: greater pressure to do even more. He had fallen for the soul-killing lie that doing more for God would give his life meaning. Then the godly admonition of a spiritual director set this burned-out believer on a life-saving spiritual path. This powerful story of a reawakened soul can be the story of every person who has pursued spiritual productivity over intimacy with God and come up empty. It’s the story of reclaiming your soul and finding a home in the center of God’s relentless love. It’s the journey from self-importance to God-importance. The solution is not greater achievements for the kingdom of God. It’s time to stop living for God and start living with God. In this candid and achingly authentic book, Fil Anderson shares the healing insights that restored his spiritual compass and guided him back to God … the God who specializes in filling empty souls. “To the harried and the unharried, I pray that this book will minister to your heart in the profound way that it has blessed mine.” —Brennan Manning From the Hardcover edition.
form of books on Christian spirituality.3 One of these books, The Genesee Diary:
Report from a Trappist Monastery, consisted of excerpts from the diary of Henri
Nouwen, a Catholic priest and university professor who took a sabbatical to live ...
A dazzling cycle of short stories by one of China’s most revered contemporary writers and one of the world’s leading artist-intellectuals. An Empty Room is the first book by the celebrated Chinese writer Mu Xin to appear in English. A cycle of thirteen tenderly evocative stories written while Mu Xin was living in exile, this collection is reminiscent of the structural beauty of Hemingway’s In Our Time and the imagistic power of Kawabata’s palm-of-the-hand stories. From the ordinary (a bus accident) to the unusual (Buddhist halos) to the wise (Goethe, Lao Zi), Mu Xin’s wandering “I” interweaves plots with philosophical grace and spiritual profundity. A small blue bowl becomes a symbol of vanishing childhood; a painter in a race against fading memory scribbles notes in an underground prison during the Cultural Revolution; an abandoned temple room holds a dark mystery. An Empty Room is a soul-stirring page turner, a Sebaldian reverie of passing time, loss, and humanity regained.
The Windsor Cemetery Diary at first the cemetery was foreign and nameless, but I
've been taking leisurely walks through it once or twice a week for several years
and its seasonal changes no longer astonish me. It didn't take me long to realize
...
An Empty Bottle is a collection of short stories that would otherwise have been consigned to the realm of forgotten things. Written over many years, many published around the world and others achieving awards in Australia, they cover aspects of life and living from humour, crime, and retribution, love and hate, children and the elderly—something for just about anyone. There is even a fairy story for adults in there. This is the third collection gleaned from a busy writing life, No Time for Pity and Standfast appearing a few years ago. Barbara believes that readers still enjoy short fiction, but it is not easy to find. For the busy person, the young mum, the city girl, the elderly, and those who just don't have a long attention span, the genre still offers a happy hour or so curled up with a book. Reading is one of life's true enjoyments, whether it is done with an old-fashioned collection of bound paper or one of the new electronic gadgets. Long may it last!
When she rings, perhaps this evening, and says in her imperious way, 'James, I
think I left my sunnies and diary on the table. Could you send them on to me,
please?' I shall say, 'No, Janice—you didn't leave anything behind'. And I shall
look ...
Southern writer Madelyn Young thinks that when a woman enters her seventies, it is time to stop talking about what she is going to do and get on with it. In her collection of award-winning thirty-one stories and essays, Young shares tales of family loyalty and love, discord, and intrigue as she poignantly reflects on a life well-lived. In creating her stories, Young takes real-life experiences and transforms them into compelling accounts that sometimes take surprising twists in the end. In “Nature’s Gift,” Young highlights the rediscovery of the ivory-billed woodpecker in eastern Arkansas in 2004; in “Lost and Found,” she contemplates what it would be like to pick up litter on the roadside and then stumble across something unusual. “Good Intentions” details a moving moment when she was a student teacher and brought home a bedraggled girl who needed just one thing—love. Following each anecdote and story, Young includes interesting notes detailing what inspired the writing and the awards each piece has won to date. From her first tale to the last, Young entertains adults of all ages with the hope that her stories will encourage other writers to always look inside when gleaning story ideas.
What is in this diary will be of interest to all of you, I'm sure.” She lifted a small,
leather-bound book for all to see. “Absolutely, Ms. Wilson. What did you find?”
Sam appeared to be a bit nervous now as he frowned and took another sip of
water ...
Talks on the Stories of Chuang Tzu. OSHO revitalises the 300-year-old Taoist message of self-realization through the stories of the Chinese mystic, Chuang Tzu. He speaks about the state of egolessness, "the empty boat"; spontaneity, dreams and wholeness; living life choicelessly and meeting death with the same equanimity . Available in a beautiful new edition, this series overflows with the wisdom of one who has realized the state of egolessness himself.
... to a hotel and ate thirtytwo potato pancakes. Immediately I felt a lot of energy
coming over me. And now I am absolutely okay.” The doctor immediately noted
down in his diary that thirtytwo potato pancakes is a sure cure for serious cases ...
