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Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-09-10
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 0393083187
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDrawing on cases across a range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales makes a compelling argument about fear, courage and the adaptability of the human spirit.
Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2012-09-10
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0393089908
DOWNLOAD EBOOKYou have survived the crisis—trauma, disease, accident, or war—now how do you get your life back? A traumatic or near-death experience can change every aspect of the survivor’s being. It can erase the body’s learned adaptations, and in some cases, those who live through such a shock suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they must work hard to reinvent themselves. Combining harrowing tales of survival with lucid explanations of the science behind the body’s reactions to trauma, Surviving Survival offers a valuable and “intriguing argument about the adaptability of the human spirit” (National Geographic Traveler).
Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2009-10-05
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 0393069656
DOWNLOAD EBOOK“Well-written and fascinating . . . this is the kind of book you want everyone to read.”—Cleveland Plain Dealer “Curiosity, awareness, attention,” Laurence Gonzales writes. “Those are the tools of our everyday survival. . . . We all must be scientists at heart or be victims of forces that we don’t understand.” In this fascinating account, Gonzales turns his talent for gripping narrative, knowledge of the way our minds and bodies work, and bottomless curiosity about the world to the topic of how we can best use the blessings of evolution to overcome the hazards of everyday life. Everyday Survival will teach you to make the right choices for our complex, dangerous, and quickly changing world—whether you are climbing a mountain or the corporate ladder.
Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2004-10-17
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0393076571
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Unique among survival books... stunning... enthralling. Deep Survival makes compelling, and chilling, reading."—Penelope Purdy, Denver Post In ?Deep Survival?, Laurence Gonzalez combines hard science and powerful storytelling to illustrate the mysteries of survival, whether in the wilderness or in meeting any of life's great challenges. This gripping narrative, the first book to describe the art and science of survival, will change the way you see the world. Everyone has a mountain to climb. Everyone has a wilderness inside.
Author: Steven M. Southwick
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2023-09-07
Total Pages: 283
ISBN-13: 1009299743
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow do we become resilient? Three experts provide practical steps for overcoming stress and becoming more resilient to life's challenges.
Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 1989-01-01
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 9781557280817
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEssays deal with the Indianapolis 500, kite flying, capital punishment, aviation, drug addiction, prison, and David Carradine
Author: Jen White
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2015-06-09
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 0374300852
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSurvival Strategy #50: If You Can, Be Brave It's easy to be brave when your eight-year-old sister, Billie, looks up to you as her protector. Twelve-year-old Liberty feels it's her job to look after Billie once they are sent to live with their father, whom they haven't seen since they were very young. Dad is unpredictable on his best days, but when he abandons the girls at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, Liberty's courage is truly put to the test. As she and Billie struggle to make it home on their own, they encounter a cast of both helpful and not-so-helpful characters, including a man with caterpillar eyebrows, a lady dressed entirely in lavender, a tattooed trucker with a soft spot for cats, a kid who is a little too obsessed with Star Wars, and a woman who lives with a houseful of nontraditional pets. Along the way, they learn that sometimes you have to get a little bit lost to be found.
Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2013-10-01
Total Pages: 319
ISBN-13: 1557289999
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Author: Laurence Gonzales
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2014-07-07
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0393244148
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A richly detailed story that is equal parts heartbreaking, inspiring…and full of fascinating science…masterful." —San Francisco Chronicle As hundreds of rescue workers waited on the ground, United Airlines Flight 232 wallowed drunkenly over the bluffs northwest of Sioux City. The plane slammed onto the runway and burst into a vast fireball. The rescuers didn't move at first: nobody could possibly survive that crash. And then people began emerging from the summer corn that lined the runways. Miraculously, 184 of 296 passengers lived. No one has ever attempted the complete reconstruction of a crash of this magnitude. Drawing on interviews with hundreds of survivors, crew, and airport and rescue personnel, Laurence Gonzales, a commercial pilot himself, captures, minute by minute, the harrowing journey of pilots flying a plane with no controls and flight attendants keeping their calm in the face of certain death. He plumbs the hearts and minds of passengers as they pray, bargain with God, plot their strategies for survival, and sacrifice themselves to save others. Ultimately he takes us, step by step, through the gripping scientific detective work in super-secret labs to dive into the heart of a flaw smaller than a grain of rice that shows what brought the aircraft down. An unforgettable drama of the triumph of heroism over tragedy and human ingenuity over technological breakdown, Flight 232 is a masterpiece in the tradition of the greatest aviation stories ever told.
Author: Michaela Haas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2016-12-27
Total Pages: 400
ISBN-13: 1501115138
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The first book of its kind in the new science of posttraumatic growth: A cutting-edge look at how trauma survivors find healing and new resilience,"--Amazon.com.
