Recovering Untold Stories
Author: University of Kansas Libraries
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Published: 2019-02-13
Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 9781611950229
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Bringing Columbia Home
Author: Michael D. Leinbach
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2018-01-23
Total Pages: 454
ISBN-13: 1628728523
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVoted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space Hipsters The dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle disaster. On February 1, 2003, Columbia disintegrated on reentry before the nation’s eyes, and all seven astronauts aboard were lost. Author Mike Leinbach, Launch Director of the space shuttle program at NASA’s John F. Kennedy Space Center was a key leader in the search and recovery effort as NASA, FEMA, the FBI, the US Forest Service, and dozens more federal, state, and local agencies combed an area of rural east Texas the size of Rhode Island for every piece of the shuttle and her crew they could find. Assisted by hundreds of volunteers, it would become the largest ground search operation in US history. This comprehensive account is told in four parts: Parallel Confusion Courage, Compassion, and Commitment Picking Up the Pieces A Bittersweet Victory For the first time, here is the definitive inside story of the Columbia disaster and recovery and the inspiring message it ultimately holds. In the aftermath of tragedy, people and communities came together to help bring home the remains of the crew and nearly 40 percent of shuttle, an effort that was instrumental in piecing together what happened so the shuttle program could return to flight and complete the International Space Station. Bringing Columbia Home shares the deeply personal stories that emerged as NASA employees looked for lost colleagues and searchers overcame immense physical, logistical, and emotional challenges and worked together to accomplish the impossible. Featuring a foreword and epilogue by astronauts Robert Crippen and Eileen Collins, and dedicated to the astronauts and recovery search persons who lost their lives, this is an incredible, compelling narrative about the best of humanity in the darkest of times and about how a failure at the pinnacle of human achievement became a story of cooperation and hope.
American Default
Author: Sebastian Edwards
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2019-09-10
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0691196044
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe untold story of how FDR did the unthinkable to save the American economy.
Closure
Author: William Keegan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2006-09-11
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 1416540962
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first book to chronicle the cleanup of the World Trade Center site from 9/11 through its closing ceremony, told by Lieutenant William Keegan of the Port Authority Police Department—one of the four operations commanders at the site—as he comes to his own closure with the tragedy. On the morning of 9/11, the Port Authority Police Department was the first uniformed service to respond to the attack on the World Trade Center. When the towers collapsed, thirty-seven of its officers were killed—the largest loss of law enforcement officers in U.S. history. That afternoon, Lieutenant William Keegan began the work of recovery. The FDNY and NYPD had the territory, but Keegan had the map. PAPD cops could stand on top of six stories of debris and point to where a stairwell had been; they used PATH tunnels to enter "the pile" from underneath. Closure shares many never-before-told stories, including how Keegan and his officers recovered one-thousand tons of gold and silver from a secret vault to keep the Commodities Exchange from crashing; discovered what appeared to be one of the plane's black boxes; and helped raise the inspirational steel beam cross that has become the site's icon. For nine brutal months, the men at Ground Zero wrestled with 1.8 million tons of shattered concrete, twisted steel, body parts, political pressure, and their own grief. Closure tells the unforgettable story of their sacrifice and valor, and how Keegan led the smallest of all the uniformed services at the site to become the most valuable.
Coming Clean
Author: Robert Granfield
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 1999-11
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 0814715818
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing from interviews with 46 former addicts who overcame their addictions without treatment or the support of self-help groups, Granfield (sociology, U. of Denver) and Cloud (social work, U. of Denver) examine the process of "natural recovery," and consider its implications for social work, the treatment of addiction, and national drug policy. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Undoing Drugs
Author: Maia Szalavitz
Publisher: Hachette Go
Published: 2021-07-27
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 0738285757
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom “one of the bravest, smartest writers about addiction anywhere” (Johann Hari, New York Times bestselling author)—the untold story of harm reduction, a surprisingly simple idea with enormous power Drug overdoses now kill more Americans annually than guns, cars or breast cancer. But we have tried to solve this national crisis with policies that only made matters worse. In the name of “sending the right message,” we have maximized the spread of infectious disease, torn families apart, incarcerated millions of mostly Black and Brown people—and utterly failed to either prevent addiction or make effective treatment for it widely available. There is another way, one that is proven to work. However, it runs counter to much of the received wisdom of our criminal and medical industrial complexes. It is called harm reduction. Developed and championed by an outcast group of people who use drugs and by former users and public health geeks, harm reduction offers guidance on how to save lives and improve health. And it provides a way of understanding behavior and culture that has relevance far beyond drugs. In a spellbinding narrative rooted in an urgent call to action, Undoing Drugs tells the story of how a small group of committed people changed the world, illuminating the power of a great idea. It illustrates how hard it can be to take on widely accepted conventional wisdom—and what is necessary to overcome this resistance. It is also about how personal, direct human connection and kindness can inspire profound transformation. Ultimately, Undoing Drugs offers a path forward—revolutionizing not only the treatment of addiction, but also our treatment of behavioral and societal issues.
Untold Stories
Author: Alan Bennett
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 2008-09-04
Total Pages: 820
ISBN-13: 0571246893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlan Bennett's first collection of prose since Writing Home takes in all his major writings over the last ten years. The title piece is a poignant family memoir with an account of the marriage of his parents, the lives and deaths of his aunts and the uncovering of a long-held family secret. Bennett, as always, is both amusing and poignant, whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with the likes of Maggie Smith, Thora Hird and John Gielgud. Also included are his much celebrated diaries for the years 1996 to 2004. At times heartrending and at others extremely funny, Untold Stories is a matchless and unforgettable anthology. Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour and wry observations about life. His many works include Forty Years On, The Lady in the Van, Talking Heads, A Question of Attribution and The Madness of King George. The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004, and is winner of the Evening Standard Award, the South Bank Award and the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play. 'Perhaps the best loved of English writers alive today.' Sunday Telegraph Untold Stories is published jointly with Profile Books.
Beyond Courage
Author: Doreen Rappaport
Publisher: Candlewick Press
Published: 2012-09-11
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 0763629766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRecounts the efforts of Jews who organized others and sabotaged the Nazis during the Holocaust, including Georges Loinger who smuggled children from occupied France into Switzerland and four brothers who led refugees into the forest to build a village and an army.
Gaining a Life
Author: Emily Formea
Publisher:
Published: 2020-03-28
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMy eating disorder began when I was only 12 years old. For over a decade, I struggled with my food, body, self-confidence, or better yet, lack thereof! As a girl who finally rewrote her self-love story and escaped the chains of her own eating disorder, I want to share with you my journey, my ups and downs, tips and tricks, and unwavering love and support for you and your recovery to help you gain a life of food freedom!As an eating disorder survivor, blogger, online coach, and influencer, I've learned a thing or two about eating disorder recovery, but I think the ultimate testament to my tale is that I'm just like you. I lived it. I fought it. I cried my way through it and nearly signed my life away to it, but I never stopped fighting for my recovery and you won't either. I promise you that. Take my hand and let's gain a life together.Find me on my blog www.sincerelyxoemily.comBusiness Email: [email protected]: @sincerely.xo.emily
Britain's Gulag
Author: Caroline Elkins
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2023-09-21
Total Pages: 437
ISBN-13: 1448162734
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnly a few years after Britain defeated fascism came the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya - a mass armed rebellion by the Kikuyu people, demanding the return of their land and freedom. The draconian response of Britain's colonial government was to detain nearly the entire Kikuyu population of 1.5 million and to portray them as sub-human savages. Detainees in their thousands - possibly a hundred thousand or more - died from exhaustion, disease, starvation and systemic physical brutality. For decades these events remained untold. Caroline Elkins conducted years of research to piece together this story, unearthing reams of documents and interviewing several hundred Kikuyu survivors. Britain's Gulag reveals, for the first time, the full savagery of the Mau Mau war and the ruthless determination with which Britain sought to control its empire.
