Author: John Leifer File Type: pdf In 2014, an estimated 1.66 million people will receive a diagnosis of cancer. They will join a pool of 13.7 million Americans already living with a history of cancer. Almost 600,000 Americans will die from cancer. For some, cancer will be only a short divergence. For others, however, it will be a dramatic fork in the road. And for still others, the beginning of the end of the line. This book guides cancer patients along their journey where no one knows the duration or the destination. Divided into the three parts of being a cancer patient the diagnosis, initial treatment, and on to survivorship the book will help the newly diagnosed cancer patient navigate a complex health care system, make astute decisions at difficult junctures, and manage the emotional turbulence that can rock his or her world. Lastly, it shares the story of how the author and his wife, as well as other cancer patients, have confronted their disease. In 2014, an estimated 1.66 million people will receive a diagnosis of cancer. They will join a pool of 13.7 million Americans already living with a history of cancer. Almost 600,000 Americans will die from cancer. For some, cancer will be only a short divergence. For others, however, it will be a dramatic fork in the road. And for still others, the beginning of the end of the line. This book guides cancer patients along their journey where no one knows the duration or the destination. Divided into the three parts of being a cancer patientthe diagnosis, initial treatment, and on to survivorshipthe book will help the newly diagnosed cancer patient navigate a complex health care system, make astute decisions at difficult junctures, and manage the emotional turbulence that can rock his or her world. Lastly, it shares the story of how the author and his wife, as well as other cancer patients, have confronted their disease. **

Author: Emma Goldman File Type: pdf Emma Goldman A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These volumes collect personal letters, lecture notes, newspaper articles, court transcripts, government surveillance reports, and numerous other documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Supplemented with thorough annotations, multiple appendixes, and detailed chronologies, the texts bring to life the memory of this singular, pivotal figure in American and European radical history. Volume 1 Made for America, 1890-1901 introduces readers to the young Emma Goldman as she begins her association with the international anarchist movement and especially with the German, Jewish, and Italian immigrant radicals in New York City. From early on, Goldmans movement through political and intellectual circles is marked by violence, from the attempted murder of industrialist Henry Clay Frick by Goldmans lover, Alexander Berkman, to the assassination of President William McKinley, in which Goldman was falsely implicated. The documents surrounding these events illuminate Goldmans struggle to balance anarchisms positive gains and its destructive costs. This volume introduces many of the themes that would pervade much of Goldmans later writings and speeches the untold possibilities of anarchism the transformative power of literature the interplay of human relationships and the importance of free speech, education, labor, womens freedom, and radical social reform. **Review The book definitely shows better than any work previously published, including Goldmans own autobiography, her splendid achievement during this early decade as an emerging anarchist.--Dennis G. Dalton, Forward This books real achievement is that alongside the rich and detailed picture of Goldmans life and ideas we are given a much clearer view of her comrades and the movement they built.--John Patten, Anarchist Studies A vast sourcebook of fascinating newspaper articles, letters, trial transcripts, and speeches . . . especially instructive in todays climate of constricted civil liberties.--Chris Dodge, Utne Reader Book Description Emma Goldman A Documentary History of the American Years reconstructs the life of Emma Goldman through significant texts and documents. These volumes collect personal letters, lecture notes, newspaper articles, court transcripts, government surveillance reports, and numerous other documents, many of which appear here in English for the first time. Supplemented with thorough annotations, multiple appendixes, and detailed chronologies, the texts bring to life the memory of this singular, pivotal figure in American and European radical history. Volume 1 Made for America, 1890-1901 introduces readers to the young Emma Goldman as she begins her association with the international anarchist movement and especially with the German, Jewish, and Italian immigrant radicals in New York City. From early on, Goldmans movement through political and intellectual circles is marked by violence, from the attempted murder of industrialist Henry Clay Frick by Goldmans lover, Alexander Berkman, to the assassination of President William McKinley, in which Goldman was falsely implicated. The documents surrounding these events illuminate Goldmans struggle to balance anarchisms positive gains and its destructive costs. This volume introduces many of the themes that would pervade much of Goldmans later writings and speeches the untold possibilities of anarchism the transformative power of literature the interplay of human relationships and the importance of free speech, education, labor, womens freedom, and radical social reform.

Author: Susan Sontag File Type: pdf Rare and difficult-to-find essays provide fascinating reading in this third anthology in the Looking Closer series, a matchless resource tracing the continuum of critical thought from graphic designs earliest days as a viable art and craft. Looking Closer 3 brings back into discourse more than thirty seminal essays by such distinguished figures as William Morris, Aldous Huxley, Alvin Lustig, and Paul Rand, reviving ideas of form and content as well as arguments over manner and style that have been lost for decades. For professionals, teachers, and students alike, this pivotal collection is an invaluable compliment to any design library.

Author: Laura Knight-Jadczyk File Type: pdf The Wave is an exquisitely written first-person account of Laura Knight-Jadczyk s initiation at the hands of the Cassiopaeans and demonstrates the unique nature of the Cassiopaean Experiment. Having laid the foundations in Riding the Wave, the experiment progresses far beyond original expectations.Soul Hackers takes an in depth view at life here on the big blue marble , including the enormous body of historical evidence of Fortean phenomena that persistently refuses to conform to our modern materialistic world view.How are we to interpret the relentless atrocities of this world - the suffering and denial? Why is it that these topics are ignored? Why are people unable to study and evaluate them scientifically?Knight-Jadczyk explores the evidence for a thought-vectoring counter-intelligence program, proposing that the mystic Georges Gurdjieff was right we are in a prison from which we cannot escape without suffering and super-human effort.The Cassiopaeans suggest an escape from this enclosure of our minds and a means of not falling into confluence with entropic forces the powerful idea of networking with others. These opposing forces soon manifest in response to this concept put into action. Book Two chronicles a gradual realisation of a hidden and multifaceted, all pervasive control system, including the subjects of mind programming, human engineering, and the infamous Dr. Greenbaum.The concept of The Wave is vital for anyone wishing to understand the deeper meaning and reality of the human experience, and what our very near future may have in store for us. We all have a responsibility to equip ourselves with the necessary knowledge to weather the approaching storm The Wave will provide you with that knowledge.