The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman, Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374533403 - UTGIVEN: 201204The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down explores the clash between a small county hospital in California and a refugee family from Laos over the care of Lia Lee, a Hmong child diagnosed with severe epilepsy. Lia's parents and her doctors both wanted what was best for Lia, but the lack of understand[...]
The New Lifetime Reading Plan: The Classical Guide to World Literature, Revised and Expanded (Häftad)
avClifton Fadiman, John S. Major
ISBN: 9780062720733 - UTGIVEN: 1999-06Now in print for the first time in almost 40 years, The New Lifetime Reading Plan provides readers with brief, informative and entertaining introductions to more than 130 classics of world literature. From Homer to Hawthorne, Plato to Pascal, and Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, the great writers of Wes[...]
Ex Libris (Pocket)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780140283709 - UTGIVEN: 2000-03Wittily recounting a lifelong obsession with books, the author moves easily, with humour and erudition, from anecdotes about Coleridge and Orwell to tales of her own pathologically literary family. Published in time for World Book Day, 10th March.[...]
Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374527228 - UTGIVEN: 200011A superbly written collection of essays discusses with humor, grace, and moving eloquence the central and joyful importance of books and reading in the author's life. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]
Rereadings: Seventeen Writers Revisit Books They Love (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374530549 - UTGIVEN: 2006-09
At Large and at Small: Familiar Essays (Häftad)
avAnne Fadiman
ISBN: 9780374531317 - UTGIVEN: 200805In "At Large and At Small," Anne Fadiman returns to one of her favorite genres, the familiar essay--a beloved and hallowed literary tradition recognized for both its intellectual breadth and its miniaturist focus on everyday experiences. With the combination of humor and erudition that has distingui[...]
World Poetry (Inbunden)
avKatharine Washburn, John S. Major, Clifton Fadiman
ISBN: 9780393041309 - UTGIVEN: 199803This volume contains more than 1600 poems drawn from dozens of languages and cultures, and spans a period of more than 4000 years from ancient Sumer and Egypt to the late twentieth century. World Poetry encompasses the many realms of poetry - poetry of all styles, of all eras, of all tongues: from t[...]
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Inbunden)
avMarina Keegan, Anne Fadiman
ISBN: 9781476753614 - UTGIVEN: 2014-04An affecting and hope-filled posthumous collection of essays and stories from the talented young Yale graduate whose title essay captured the world's attention in 2012 and turned her into an icon for her generation.
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Ya[...]
The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories (Häftad)
avMarina Keegan, Anne Fadiman
ISBN: 9781476753911 - UTGIVEN: 2015-04The instant "New York Times" bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan's posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories "sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth" ("O, The Oprah Magazine").
Marina Keegan's star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in[...]
The Psychedelic Explorer's Guide (Häftad)
avJames Fadiman
ISBN: 9781594774027 - UTGIVEN: 201105Psychedelics for spiritual, therapeutic, and problem-solving use
⢠Presents practices for safe and successful psychedelic voyages, including the benefits of having a guide and how to be a guide
⢠Reviews the value of psychedelics for healing and self-discovery as we[...]
Producing with Passion (Häftad)
avDorothy Fadiman, Tony Levelle
ISBN: 9781932907445 - UTGIVEN: 200806
