Cancer Doesn't Knock
Cancer Doesn't Knock

Author: Verna Acker

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2012-12-13

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 1477270221

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On April 27, 2001, at 5:50 am, cancer crashed into the near-perfect world of Ivan and Verna Acker. The doctor said the word cancer and nothing would ever be the same. It had always been a word for other people. Now it was a word for them. The diagnosis was advanced Stage IV non-small cell adenocarcinoma, lung cancer with brain metastasis. The prognosis was poor six to eight months was the expectation. The Ackers fought the cancer together. They loved and laughed. They cried and they prayed. Now perfect had a new meaning. At 76 years old, Ivan was the healthy and happy. As patriarch of a huge family of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren, he had seemed to be invincible and timeless. He met the cancer head-on. If its going to get me, its going to have to work really hard! This memoir gives the reader direct access to the harrowing struggle the Ackers lived from the day cancer crashed into their lives. Walk with them, hand in hand, through eighteen months of their life. Its a long walk. Experience the highs and the lows, the joys and the sorrows. Learn with them. There is a lot to learn. The story goes beyond their physical and emotional battles. It shows the devotion of two people and the power that love and prayer can have over even the greatest odds. Walk with them. Learn with them. Its a long walk. There is no map.

Anna Halprin
Anna Halprin

Author: Janice Ross

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2009-05-06

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 0520260058

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This comprehensive biography examines Halprin's fascinating life in the context of American culture - in particular popular culture and the West Coast as a center of artistic experimentation from the Beats through the Hippies to the present.

Don't Waste Your Cancer
Don't Waste Your Cancer

Author: John Piper

Publisher: Crossway

Published: 2011-01-27

Total Pages: 18

ISBN-13: 1433523337

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How are we as Christians called to respond when cancer invades our lives, whether our own bodies or those of our friends and family? On the eve of his own cancer surgery, John Piper writes about cancer as an opportunity to glorify God. With pastoral sensitivity, compassion, and strength, Piper gently but firmly acknowledges that we can indeed waste our cancer when we don't see how it is God's good plan for us and a hope-filled path for making much of Jesus. Don't Waste Your Cancer is for anyone touched by a life-threatening illness. It first appeared as an appendix in Suffering and the Sovereignty of God. Repackaged and republished, it will serve as a hope-giving resource for healthcare workers, pastors, counselors, and others caring for those with cancer and other serious illnesses. The booklets are also available in packs of ten.

CRISPR
CRISPR

Author: Yolanda Ridge

Publisher: Annick Press

Published: 2020-09-08

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 177321425X

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We can change the world with gene editing—but should we? CRISPR stands for clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. If it sounds complicated, it is—but it’s also one of the most powerful ways we can shape the future. And it’s poised to completely upend the way we think about science. Author Yolanda Ridge tackles this topic in a friendly and accessible tone, with two introductory chapters covering the basics of DNA and gene editing before taking readers through the ways that this ground-breaking science could affect them by potentially: • eliminating diseases like malaria and cancer, • improving the stability of our food supply, and • helping to manage conservation efforts for threatened animals and environments. But all of these possible advancements come with risks, the biggest being that the consequences are unknown. Chapters end with “Stop, Go, Yield” sections encouraging readers to consider the pros and cons of using CRISPR. “Cutting Questions” give readers the opportunity to further reflect on the ethics of the science. CRISPR is a game changer. This important book, with detailed scientific illustrations, brings much needed clarity to a topic that will affect readers for generations to come. *A Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection

Hanging Onto Faith
Hanging Onto Faith

Author: Belinda Slider-Baker

Publisher: BookRix

Published: 2012-11-24

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 3955005445

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Summer had a wonderful husband, a beautiful daughter, Faith, and a successful Interior Design Business. Her husband is killed in an explosion when her daughter was two. Her husband's twin, Braedyn, has always been a part of their lives. But, one day all of their worlds get turn upside down. Summer becomes more dependent on Braedyn and doesn't even realize it. Faith, at 4 years old now, loves having Braedyn around. Braedyn can only see Summer as his dead brother's wife, but sees Faith as his own. Will a crisis bring them all together as a family, tear them apart, or send one of them over the edge?

The Koshertarian Comedians
The Koshertarian Comedians

Author: Michael Kornbluth

Publisher: Michael Kornbluth

Published: 2024-06-22

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13:

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An unemployed comedian gives the Koshertarian diet a chance.

When God Doesn’T Heal
When God Doesn’T Heal

Author: Larry Silverman

Publisher: WestBow Press

Published: 2017-10-04

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 1973605058

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You have prayed for healing and it hasnt happened yet. Now what? Do you need more faith? Is God not happy with your life? Or perhaps its something else altogether. Larry lived by and taught a mixed message of law and grace. One of the greatest lies he taught was the more we please God, the more He will be pleased with us and answer our prayers. Many in the body of Christ today have made healing a type of law. They believe the reason God hasnt healed them is because they dont have enough faith to be healed. While many books suggest ways to be healed and stay healed, this book addresses what happens when God doesnt heal. Lets face itsickness and disease are bad enough, but to add such issues as feeling God is displeased with us, and He is punishing us because of our lack of faith makes matters that much worse. In When God Doesnt Heal, author Larry Silverman blends his understanding of grace into the practical reality of living with sickness and disease, especially detailing his battle and victory over cancer.

A Lady's Heart and Soul
A Lady's Heart and Soul

Author: Clifton A. Casteel

Publisher: AuthorHouse

Published: 2009-02

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 9781434342119

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This is not a romantic book but rather it is a book about an unconditional love and a will to succeed in life. Annie did not give up in spite of numerous heartbreaks, insurmountable tragedy, and racism. She didn't give her mind permission to use her race or gender as an excuse to fail. Annie's interracial marriage brings her a love that she could only have dreamed of which helps her to discover what truly lies deep in her soul: faith and hope, and a determination to find out who she is what she wants out of life and how to accomplish her goals.

Modern Prometheus
Modern Prometheus

Author: James Kozubek

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-10-18

Total Pages: 453

ISBN-13: 1316780988

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Would you change your genes if you could? As we confront the 'industrial revolution of the genome', the recent discoveries of Crispr-Cas9 technologies are offering, for the first time, cheap and effective methods for editing the human genome. This opens up startling new opportunities as well as significant ethical uncertainty. Tracing events across a fifty-year period, from the first gene splicing techniques to the present day, this is the story of gene editing - the science, the impact and the potential. Kozubek weaves together the fascinating stories of many of the scientists involved in the development of gene editing technology. Along the way, he demystifies how the technology really works and provides vivid and thought-provoking reflections on the continuing ethical debate. Ultimately, Kozubek places the debate in its historical and scientific context to consider both what drives scientific discovery and the implications of the 'commodification' of life.