A Good Life to the End : Taking control of our inevitable journey through ageing and death. by Hillman, Ken

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- About the author -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 The last six months of my mother's life -- 2 Ageing is not for the weak -- 3 Because we can, we do -- 4 Falls at the end of life -- 5 Apoptosis -- 6 Groundhog Day -- 7 Cognitive decline -- 8 Denise's manifesto -- 9 Intensive care sans frontières -- 10 Diagnostic dilemmas -- 11 Frailty -- 12 It is hard to die -- 13 The living will -- 14 Giving up the ghost -- 15 Futility -- 16 Intensive care: the beginning of the end -- 17 Knockin' on heaven's door -- 18 How to choose a good doctor and a good hospital -- 19 The medicalisation of grieving -- 20 The taboos of ageing, death and dying -- 21 Where to next? …”
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Death, dying & bereavement

Table of Contents: “…When a Baby Dies -- A Father's View / Gavin Fairbairn. 58. …”


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Death, dying & bereavement

Table of Contents: “…When a Baby Dies -- A Father's View / Gavin Fairbairn. 58. …”
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The good, the bad, and the Godawful : 21st-century movie reviews by Loder, Kurt

Table of Contents: “…: -- (500) days of summer -- D.E.B.S. -- Savage grace -- Before sunset -- In search of a midnight kiss -- 2 days in paris -- (Untitled) -- Hard candy -- Interview -- World's greatest dad -- Solitary man -- Foreign parts: some worthy imports that didn't get lost in translation: -- Elegy -- Terribly happy -- Broken embraces -- Dogtooth -- Let the right one in -- Dead snow -- The girl with the dragon tattoo -- The girl who played with fire -- The girl who kicked the hornet's nest -- The reader -- A woman in berlin -- Sophie Scholl -- The baader meinhof complex -- The comic-book conquest: an avalanche that never ends: graphic-novel escapees and blue-chip superheroes (some not so super): -- Spider-man 3 -- Kick-ass -- Fantastic four -- Fantastic four: rise of the silver surfer -- Catwoman -- Elektra -- Sin city -- The spirit -- The losers -- The incredible hulk -- 300 -- Surrogates -- Wanted -- Stardust -- Coraline -- Jonah hex -- 20 days of night -- The green hornet -- Looking for love: movies that deserved a lot more attention, and still do: -- The fountain -- Zodiac -- In bruges -- The brothers bloom -- Lemony Snicket's a series of unfortunate events -- Sunshire -- Duplicity -- Gone baby gone -- Please shoot me: some movies that no one should ever have to sit through" Death race -- Hannibal rising -- The lake house -- The tourist -- Lady in the water -- The happening -- Rocknrolla -- Flawless -- Filth and wisdom -- The hottie and the nottie -- Charlie St. …”


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Battle to do good : inside McDonalds sustainability journey by Langert, Bob

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Stonewall strong : gay men's heroic fight for resilience, good health, and a strong community by Andriote, John-Manuel

Table of Contents: “…: A Medical Diagnosis Upturns My Life and Launches a Journey of Self-Discovery; Chapter 2. …”
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You've got to read this : contemporary American writers introduce stories that held them in awe

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A popular play : new and selected poems by Rattan, Cleatus, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…-- Elegy for a former teacher -- Equality -- Genesis -- Good days -- Hard times -- Second tour -- How are you so glad to see you -- Requiescat in pace -- Incalculable -- Keeping up -- Kissing her -- Lines composed at thirty thousand feet -- Love song -- The Miss Mellowtones -- Motorcycle delights -- October song -- On a pedestal -- Posturing -- Quiz -- Redact: hail and farewell -- Repose -- Robert E Lee -- Rural track meet -- Sliding down -- Stunning -- The border -- The difference between good and bad -- The mayor -- The nerve of some people -- The overture -- The ring of Kappa Alpha Order -- To a dead fat comedian -- Grace -- Unplanned obsolescing -- Variations on a theme by Frank O'Hara -- Vineyards -- When pressed -- Whispers -- Why we divorce -- Windswept -- Will -- A Lot you'd care -- After Miriam -- All at sea -- Allure -- An annual solution -- An empty stadium -- Black as the pit -- Burning -- Clarity -- Connie -- Cynthia's reflection -- Dry -- Empty nest -- Entranced -- Family get together -- Family ties -- Future perfect -- Generations -- Glaring -- Good news -- Impressionable -- Incorporeal -- Longevity -- Maelstrom after surgery -- Me morning -- Mentsh -- Mother swinging by the house -- Neolithic -- No hunting -- Not so much -- Of course -- On Walden tank -- One wife -- Only thoughts return to the same true places -- Oration -- Outlaw stories -- Pap -- Playing the game -- Prospectors -- Childish -- Quintessence -- Quotidian -- Reasons to live in Cisco -- Reflections -- Revisited -- Screen saver -- Seeking shade -- Sirens -- Sudden light -- The Gulliver family curse -- The making of one more lawyer -- The perfect mate -- The price of perfection -- Traces -- What did it mean? …”
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Never coming to a theater near you : a celebration of a certain kind of movie by Turan, Kenneth

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Blade runner by Vangelis

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Eagles and empire : the United States, Mexico, and the struggle for a continent by Clary, David A.

Table of Contents: “…-- Mexicans, I congratulate myself and you -- Screaming women ran back and forth like furies -- If we still had munitions, you would not be here -- We are in a strange situation -- 20. The havoc among the Mexicans was now horrible in the extreme (September 1847) -- If I had followed my plans, all would have gone well -- Mexicans, these are the men that call us barbarians -- I am certain that tomorrow we will die -- Treason aided them in obtaining a victory -- 'Twas a day of bloodshed and brutality -- Every night our pickets are fired on and our stragglers murdered -- 21. …”


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Abraham Lincoln : a life by Burlingame, Michael, 1941-

Table of Contents: “…v. 2 "The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am, but it may be necessary to put the foot down firmly": from Springfield to Washington (February 11-22, 1861) -- "I am now going to be master": inauguration (February 23- March 4, 1861) -- "A man so busy letting rooms in one end of his house, that he can't stop to put out the fire that is burning in the other": distributing patronage (March-April 1861) -- "You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors": the Fort Sumter crisis (March-April 1861) -- "I intend to give blows": the hundred days (April-July 1861) -- Sitzkrieg: the phony war (August 1861-January 1862) -- "This damned old house": the Lincoln family in the executive mansion -- "I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me": from the slough of despond to the gates of Richmond (January-July 1862) -- "The hour comes for dealing with slavery": playing the last trump card (January-July 1862) -- "Would you prosecute the war with Elder-Stalk Squirts, charged with rose water?"…”


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The Negro caravan : writings by American Negroes

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The collected poems of Audre Lorde by Lorde, Audre

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The folk songs of North America : in the English language by Lomax, Alan, 1915-2002

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Reinventing the enemy's language : contemporary native women's writing of North America

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Folk song America : a 20th century revival.

Table of Contents: “…Banana boat song / Tarriers (2:57) -- Johnny I hardly knew you / Martha Schlamme (3:19) -- I was born about ten thousand years ago / Oscar Brand (2:41) -- Jamaica farewell / Harry Belafonte (3:04) -- I wonder when I'll be called a man / Bill Broonzy (2:19) -- A wanton trick / Ed McCurdy (2:23) -- Coplas / Cynthia Gooding and Theodore Bikel (3:23) -- Willie Moore / Kossoy Sisters (3:04) -- Another man done gone / Odetta (2:10) -- This little light of mine / Gateway Singers (2:08) -- The day is past and gone / Jean Ritchie (1:42) -- Sweet bye and bye / Harry and Jeanie West (2:54) -- Si me quieres escribir / The Weavers (2:57).…”

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Folk song America a 20th century revival.

Table of Contents: “…Banana boat song / Tarriers (2:57) -- Johnny I hardly knew you / Martha Schlamme (3:19) -- I was born about ten thousand years ago / Oscar Brand (2:41) -- Jamaica farewell / Harry Belafonte (3:04) -- I wonder when I'll be called a man / Bill Broonzy (2:19) -- A wanton trick / Ed McCurdy (2:23) -- Coplas / Cynthia Gooding and Theodore Bikel (3:23) -- Willie Moore / Kossoy Sisters (3:04) -- Another man done gone / Odetta (2:10) -- This little light of mine / Gateway Singers (2:08) -- The day is past and gone / Jean Ritchie (1:42) -- Sweet bye and bye / Harry and Jeanie West (2:54) -- Si me quieres escribir / The Weavers (2:57).…”

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Violent screen : a critic's 13 years on the front lines of movie mayhem by Hunter, Stephen, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Action-adventure: the myth of masculine force -- Die hard -- The terminator -- Terminator 2 -- First blood -- Rambo: first blood II -- Rambo III -- True lies -- Article: "Guns are gold on today's silver screen" -- Article: "All fired up over big guns: Hollywood's still promoting myths" -- Pt. 9. …”


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Imperfect Union : a Father's Search for His Son in the Aftermath of the Battle of Gettysburg by Raasch, Charles

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