Fighting to the Death - My Life in the World's Deadliest Fight Game
Author: Carl Merritt
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Published: 2009-01-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 184454690X
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In Search of Gentle Death
Author: Richard N. Côté
Publisher:
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781929175369
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeath is inevitable. But bad deaths-- accompanied by unnecessarily prolonged pain and suffering, often aggravated by immensely costly and frequently futile medical treatments-- can be avoided. This book offers clear and valuable examples of how, through frank communication with caregivers and loved ones and the use of Advance Medical Directives such as living wills, those who are facing the possibility of death in the foreseeable future, and those who help them cope, can greatly minimize or eliminate end-of-life turmoil, family dissension, and pain.
Fight to the Death
Author: Stephen Richards
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2007-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781844544721
DOWNLOAD EBOOKViv Graham and Lee Duffy led parallel lives as pub and club enforcesm raging gangland turf wars with a fierce frenzy of brutality and unremitting cruelty. This is a riveting double portrait of two of the North East's most feared men whose bloody rivalry was cut short when they each met horrifically violent ends. With a frightening capacity for extreme violence, Tyneside hardman Viv Graham struck fear into the hearts of his enemies, yet his benevolence tolocal charities was well known. A legend in his own lifetime, he never forgot the deprived community he came from, who, in times of need, considered him the forth emergency service. Teeside drugs enforcer Lee Duffy was proud to be known as Viv's arch enemy. He was feared and respected in equal measure, but was desperate to get out of the game for the sake of his family. However, Lee was so deeply involved that there was only one way he would ever leave ... With unprecedented access to friends, family members and associates, Stephen Richards dispels many of the myths surrounding these legendary figures to create the ultimate biography of Britain's deadliest rivals.
A Fight to the Death
Author: Wayne A. Mack
Publisher: P & R Publishing
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781596380042
DOWNLOAD EBOOKToo few Christians are aware that they are in a fight to the death! Mack explores the seriousness of sin and where it will lead us. He also shows the necessity of fighting against it and presents a biblical method of killing the sin within us.
The Heart of Addiction
Author: Mark E. Shaw
Publisher: Focus Publishing (MN)
Published: 2008-09-01
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781885904683
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSubstance abusers, addicts with a physical dependency, and those who cannot stop some type of pleasurable activity can gain insights and practical help from the hopeful message from the Bible regarding addictive thoughts and behavior.
This Republic of Suffering
Author: Drew Gilpin Faust
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2009-01-06
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 0375703837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNATIONAL BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST • An "extraordinary ... profoundly moving" history (The New York Times Book Review) of the American Civil War that reveals the ways that death on such a scale changed not only individual lives but the life of the nation. An estiated 750,000 soldiers lost their lives in the American Civil War. An equivalent proportion of today's population would be seven and a half million. In This Republic of Suffering, Drew Gilpin Faust describes how the survivors managed on a practical level and how a deeply religious culture struggled to reconcile the unprecedented carnage with its belief in a benevolent God. Throughout, the voices of soldiers and their families, of statesmen, generals, preachers, poets, surgeons, nurses, northerners and southerners come together to give us a vivid understanding of the Civil War's most fundamental and widely shared reality. With a new introduction by the author, and a new foreword by Mike Mullen, 17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Refusing Death
Author: Nadia Y. Kim
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2021-06-01
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 1503628183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe industrial-port belt of Los Angeles is home to eleven of the top twenty oil refineries in California, the largest ports in the country, and those "racist monuments" we call freeways. In this uncelebrated corner of "La La Land" through which most of America's goods transit, pollution is literally killing the residents. In response, a grassroots movement for environmental justice has grown, predominated by Asian and undocumented Latin@ immigrant women who are transforming our political landscape—yet we know very little about these change makers. In Refusing Death, Nadia Y. Kim tells their stories, finding that the women are influential because of their ability to remap politics, community, and citizenship in the face of the country's nativist racism and system of class injustice, defined not just by disproportionate environmental pollution but also by neglected schools, surveillance and deportation, and political marginalization. The women are highly conscious of how these harms are an assault on their bodies and emotions, and of their resulting reliance on a state they prefer to avoid and ignore. In spite of such challenges and contradictions, however, they have developed creative, unconventional, and loving ways to support and protect one another. They challenge the state's betrayal, demand respect, and, ultimately, refuse death.
The Warriors
Author: Sol Yurick
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 224
ISBN-13: 1555848893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe basis for the cult-classic film and the inspiration for a concept album written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, executive produced by Nas, releasing from Atlantic Records on October 18 Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed, and chaos prevails over attempts at order. The Warriors follows the Dominators as they make their nocturnal journey to their home territory without being killed. The police are prowling the city in search of anyone involved in the mayhem. An exhilarating novel that examines New York City teenagers left behind by society, who form identity and personal strength through their affiliation with their "family," The Warriors weaves together social commentary with ancient legends for a classic coming-of-age tale. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.
How to Fight Presidents
Author: Daniel O'Brien
Publisher: Crown
Published: 2014-03-18
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 038534757X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMake no mistake: Our founding fathers were more bandanas-and-muscles than powdered-wigs-and-tea. As a prisoner of war, Andrew Jackson walked several miles barefoot across state lines while suffering from smallpox and a serious head wound received when he refused to polish the boots of the soldiers who had taken him captive. He was thirteen years old. A few decades later, he became the first popularly elected president and served the nation, pausing briefly only to beat a would-be assassin with a cane to within an inch of his life. Theodore Roosevelt had asthma, was blind in one eye, survived multiple gunshot wounds, had only one regret (that there were no wars to fight under his presidency), and was the first U.S. president to win the Medal of Honor, which he did after he died. Faced with the choice, George Washington actually preferred the sound of bullets whizzing by his head in battle over the sound of silence. And now these men—these hallowed leaders of the free world—want to kick your ass. Plenty of historians can tell you which president had the most effective economic strategies, and which president helped shape our current political parties, but can any of them tell you what to do if you encounter Chester A. Arthur in a bare-knuckled boxing fight? This book will teach you how to be better, stronger, faster, and more deadly than the most powerful (and craziest) men in history. You’re welcome.
A Matter of Life and Death
Author: Kelly Critcher
Publisher: John Blake
Published: 2021-04-29
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1789464498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIt was a low-level panic at first, but very quickly there were big changes taking place. Day by day, wards were being cleared to make way for Covid-positive patients. Things were getting worse by the day. For the first time in my nursing career, I felt scared. As a palliative care nurse, it is Kelly Critcher's job to look death in the eye - to save a patient while the fight can still be won, and confront life's end with grace and kindness when it can't. In early 2020, everything changed for nurses on the NHS front line. Working on Covid wards and the High Dependency Unit, Kelly spent the height of the coronavirus crisis at Northwick Park hospital - perhaps the UK hospital most deeply ravaged by the illness. She, and many others like her, battled tirelessly in a critical care unit pushed to breaking point, delivering the bad news and fighting the good fight, day-in, day-out, throughout the gravest test our health service has faced since its inception. Kelly's story weaves together her raw, emotional diaries from the COVID frontline with a broader reflection on the truths about a life spent caught between battling for her patients' lives and helping them face down death with courage and compassion. Bringing together the enormity of the last twelve months - and the scars it will leave - this is a book for our times.
