19 Results for : manifestly
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Being Mortal (eBook, ePUB)
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER 'GAWANDE'S MOST POWERFUL, AND MOVING, BOOK' MALCOLM GLADWELL 'BEING MORTAL IS NOT ONLY WISE AND DEEPLY MOVING; IT IS AN ESSENTIAL AND INSIGHTFUL BOOK FOR OUR TIMES' OLIVER SACKS For most of human history, death was a common, ever-present possibility. It didn't matter whether you were five or fifty - every day was a roll of the dice. But now, as medical advances push the boundaries of survival further each year, we have become increasingly detached from the reality of being mortal. So here is a book about the modern experience of mortality - about what it's like to get old and die, how medicine has changed this and how it hasn't, where our ideas about death have gone wrong. With his trademark mix of perceptiveness and sensitivity, Atul Gawande outlines a story that crosses the globe, as he examines his experiences as a surgeon and those of his patients and family, and learns to accept the limits of what he can do.Never before has aging been such an important topic. The systems that we have put in place to manage our mortality are manifestly failing; but, as Gawande reveals, it doesn't have to be this way. The ultimate goal, after all, is not a good death, but a good life - all the way to the very end.- Shop: buecher
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Dreaming the Eagle: A Novel of Boudica, the Warrior Queen , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 1328min
Dreaming the Eagle is the first part of the gloriously imagined epic trilogy of the life of Boudica.Boudica means "Bringer of Victory" (from the early Celtic word “boudeg”). She is the last defender of the Celtic culture in Britain; the only woman openly to lead her warriors into battle and to stand successfully against the might of Imperial Rome - and triumph.It is 33 AD, and 11-year-old Breaca (later named Boudica), the red-haired daughter of one of the leaders of the Eceni tribe, is on the cusp between girl and womanhood. She longs to be a Dreamer, a mystical leader who can foretell the future, but having killed the man who has attacked and killed her mother, she has proven herself a warrior. Dreaming the Eagle is also the story of the two men Boudica loves most: Caradoc, outstanding warrior and inspirational leader; and Bàn, her half-brother, who longs to be a warrior, though he is manifestly a Dreamer, possibly the finest in his tribe’s history. Bàn becomes the Druid whose eventual return to the Celts is Boudica’s salvation.Dreaming the Eagle is full of brilliantly realized, luminous scenes, as the narrative sweeps effortlessly from the epic - where battle scenes are huge, bloody, and action-packed - to the intimate. Manda Scott plunges us into the unforgettable world of tribal Britain in the years before the Roman invasion: a world of druids and dreamers and the magic of the gods, where the natural world is as much a character as any of the people who live within it; a world of warriors who fight for honor as much as victory; a world of passion, courage, and spectacular heroism pitched against overwhelming odds.Dreaming the Eagle stunningly recreates the roots of a story so powerful its impact has lasted through the ages. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josephine Bailey. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/bkot/000253/bk_bkot_000253_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Twilight of American Sanity: A Psychiatrist Analyzes the Age of Trump , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 758min
A landmark book from "one of the world's most prominent psychiatrists" (The Atlantic, June 2017): Eminent psychiatrist Allen Frances analyzes the national psyche, viewing the rise of Donald J. Trump as darkly symptomatic of a deeper societal distress. Equally challenging and profound, Twilight of American Sanity makes sense of our time and charts the way forward. It is comforting to see President Donald Trump as a crazy man, a one-off, an exception - not a reflection on us or our democracy. But in ways I never anticipated, his rise was absolutely predictable and a mirror on our soul.... What does it say about us, that we elected someone so manifestly unfit and unprepared to determine mankind's future? Trump is a symptom of a world in distress, not its sole cause. Blaming him for all our troubles misses the deeper, underlying societal sickness that made possible his unlikely ascent. Calling Trump crazy allows us to avoid confronting the craziness in our society - if we want to get sane, we must first gain insight about ourselves. Simply put: Trump isn't crazy, but our society is. (from Twilight of American Sanity) More than three years in the making: the world's leading expert on psychiatric diagnosis, past leader of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM ("the bible of psychology"), and author of the influential international best seller on the medicalization of ordinary life, Saving Normal, draws upon his vast experience to deliver a powerful critique of modern American society's collective slide away from sanity and offers an urgently needed prescription for reclaiming our bearings. Widely cited in recent months as the man who quite literally wrote the diagnostic criteria for narcissism, Allen Frances, MD, has been at the center of the debate surrounding President Trump's mental state - quoted in Evan Osnos' May 2017 New Yorker article ("How Trump Could Get Fired") and p ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Christopher Grove. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/harp/006272/bk_harp_006272_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Anita Gets Bail: What Are Our Courts Doing? What Should We Do About Them? , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 648min
The judiciary has been the one sturdy dyke that has saved us from the excesses of rulers. But recent events remind us of the cracks that have formed: the quality of individuals apart, even the institutional arrangements that had been put in place to preserve the purity and independence of the institution the collegium, conventions governing the way cases are to be assigned among judges have frayed. These cracks provide a dangerous opportunity to political rulers to suborn this institution also. Through actual cases and judgments of subordinate courts, High Courts and the Supreme Court, Arun Shourie enables us to see how frail and vulnerable this last pillar standing has become. A judge who, by a brazen manipulation of facts, lets a prominent politician off... Events and a judgment that let the convicted choose the prosecutor who is to conduct the case against them... Courts that turn a blind eye to life-and-death reforms even as they preoccupy themselves with trivia... Courts that deliver ringing judgments and then do not care to look if their directions are being implemented... Courts that disregard their own judgments on penalizing persons for perjury, for dragging out cases... Courts that do not think through the consequences, even the predictable consequences of their judgments... Judges who prevaricate, who look the other way when some of their own fraternity come under a cloud... A judge who is manifestly unbalanced, judges whose knowledge of the most elementary facts of science is laughable, a judge whose prose even the Supreme Court is unable to comprehend, all of them continue to hand down rulings that affect the fortunes and lives of thousands... Judges who disregard well-settled principles to such an extent that their colleagues are compelled to make their grave misgivings public... And the non-bailable warrants that are issued for the arrest of Anita, Arun Shourie's ailing wife, for evading summons that were never served, summons that were oste ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Zia Ahmed. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/050774/bk_adbl_050774_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.- Shop: Audible
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Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters (eBook, ePUB)
The following pages represent in the main a discussion of certain celebrated mysteries, as viewed in the light of the discoveries set forth in the writer's earlier work "The Riddle of Personality." That dealt, it may briefly be recalled, with the achievements of those scientists whose special endeavor it is to illumine the nature of human personality. On the one hand, it reviewed the work of the psychopathologists, or investigators of abnormal mental life; and, on the other hand, the labors of the psychical researchers, those enthusiastic and patient explorers of the seemingly supernormal in human experience. Emphasis was laid on the fact that the two lines of inquiry are more closely interrelated than is commonly supposed, and that the discoveries made in each aid in the solution of problems apparently belonging exclusively in the other. To this phase of the subject the writer now returns. The problems under examination are, all of them, problems in psychical research: yet, as will be found, the majority in no small measure depend for elucidation on facts brought to light by the psychopathologists. Of course, it is not claimed that the last word has here been said with respect to any one of these human enigmas. But it is believed that, thanks to the knowledge gained by the investigations of the past quarter of a century, approximately correct solutions have been reached; and that, in any event, it is by no means imperative to regard the phenomena in question as inexplicable, or as explicable only on a spiritistic basis. Before attempting to solve the problems, it manifestly was necessary to state them. In doing this the writer has sought to present them in a readable and attractive form, but without any distortion or omission of material facts.- Shop: buecher
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There is no good reason to treat people as equals because they are manifestly unequal Discuss
There is no good reason to treat people as equals because they are manifestly unequal Discuss: ab 2.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders
International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders - Auflage 2009: ab 160.49 €- Shop: ebook.de
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International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders
International Human Right to Conscientious Objection to Military Service and Individual Duties to Disobey Manifestly Illegal Orders: ab 149.99 €- Shop: ebook.de
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Motetti a Voce sola-Libro Terzo (1666)
Of those composers who held the highest positions at St Mark's Basilica in Venice, Natale Monferrato is manifestly one of the most thoroughly forgotten nowadays. After working with the leading musicians of this prestigious institution, he succeeded Francesco Cavalli as maestro di cappella in 1676. His output, consisting exclusively of sacred music, includes some twenty collections published between 1647 and 1681.- Shop: odax
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