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Author: George Willig
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 166
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutobiography of the "human fly" who climbed the sheer wall of the World Trade Center in New York City, covering his life before and after the climb and describing the hours he spent on the wall.
Author: Eric Klinenberg
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2013-01-29
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 0143122770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience. Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Drawing on more than three hundred in-depth interviews, Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom and offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change.
Author: Clare Dowling
Publisher: Review
Published: 2009-05-03
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 0755354117
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMillie's biological clock has been ticking for some time, and on the eve of her fortieth birthday the alarm bell starts ringing. She needs to have a baby and fast, but after months of fruitless trying, her husband Andrew is feeling like a walking sperm bank and their marriage is in crisis. Matters come to a head when Andrew's job relocates to London and Millie decides that if he won't stick around to get her pregnant, then she'll do it without him. Setting her sights on Spain, Millie embarks on a voyage of discovery ...
Author: Martina Klett-Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 131712619X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with 70 unmarried lone mothers living on state benefits in inner city areas to examine the complexity and diversity of their lives, the ways in which they try to manage choices and constraints, and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers. Going it Alone? assesses the extent to which individualization can explain the experience of state-dependent lone mothers, further develops the concept and provides a better understanding of lone mothers. Suggestions with regard to paid employment, education and state benefits are provided as well as policy recommendations for increasing the options available to lone mothers.
Author: Tim Hauserman
Publisher: University of Nevada Press
Published: 2022-08-02
Total Pages: 210
ISBN-13: 1647790662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKJoin author Tim Hauserman on his solo journeys through the Sierra Nevada and the forests of Minnesota. Hauserman shares his experiences hiking by himself through some of the most spectacular landscapes in the United States. Along the way, he confronts his conflicting desires to be alone in the wilderness, then facing profound loneliness and fear once he is there. In a single instant, he goes from enjoying a shimmering mountain lake to being petrified by the sound of a bear crunching through sticks right next to his tent. Hauserman hikes the John Muir Trail through rainstorms and challenging climbs, explores the Tahoe Rim Trail on a fourteen-day excursion, and travels to Minnesota to conquer the Superior Hiking Trail, where he is inundated with bugs, faces drought, and is eerily alone on the trail with not a single other hiker in sight for days. Going It Alone combines his self-deprecating humor, what he identifies as “Stupid Tim Tricks,” and delightful descriptions of the natural surroundings. Some might describe the wilderness as the middle of nowhere or as nothingness, but for Hauserman, it is everything. While his love for nature remains undaunted through these experiences, he also discovers that he has overly high expectations for his capabilities and that he cannot just wish his loneliness away. He eventually discovers that his long walks in the woods are less about hiking and more about learning how he wants to live his life.
Author: Michael Innes
Publisher: House of Stratus
Published: 2010-02-20
Total Pages: 171
ISBN-13: 075511809X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGilbert Averell avoids some of the rigours of taxation by living for part of each year in France. His look-alike friend, Georges, suggests that they swap passports for a short spell, and Gilbert seizes the opportunity. However, a number of incidents, suggest the offer was not made out of simple friendship.
Author: Martina Klett-Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1317126181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre lone mothers 'going it alone' in late modernity? In this fascinating work, Martina Klett-Davies examines how women negotiate lone motherhood in Britain and Germany. She draws on interviews with 70 unmarried lone mothers living on state benefits in inner city areas to examine the complexity and diversity of their lives, the ways in which they try to manage choices and constraints, and how they position themselves as carers, dependants or as paid workers. Going it Alone? assesses the extent to which individualization can explain the experience of state-dependent lone mothers, further develops the concept and provides a better understanding of lone mothers. Suggestions with regard to paid employment, education and state benefits are provided as well as policy recommendations for increasing the options available to lone mothers.
Author: Robert Tonkinson
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Published: 1990-11
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 0855755660
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of essays in honour of leading anthropologists Ronald and Catherine Berndt has as its central theme Aboriginal autonomy, and includes biographical information about the Berndts and a select bibliography of their work.
Author: Megan E. Freeman
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2022-05-03
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1534467572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOriginally published in hardcover in 2021 by Aladdin.
Author: Kurt Bell
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12-19
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781973267140
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is for those who, when they were young, preferred gazing out the school bus window rather than socializing; looking past the landscape sliding by, to an unseen horizon where thoughts moved quietly from one disconnected moment to the next. This book is for those who would go alone to such a place in the mind, to walk peacefully through an unmarked landscape as real as thought, and as distant as imagination. It's been forty years since my mind began to wander alone in this way, and I've been there and back now many times. This book is the result of my effort, and a catalog of the useful things I've found while far away where relevance hardly matters. I'd like to show you the way, and share what's not out there, and talk about alternatives which make sense given the facts of the world. This book is for those who would go alone, who will step where there are no trails or footprints, who will risk everything to gain very little of real or apparent value, and who will at last reckon peace through the development, satisfaction and livelihood of a well-lived life.
