Author: Oliver Sack
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: awakenings
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1999-10-05
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0375704051
ISBN-13: 9780375704055

It hardly seems fair that so many great doctors are also great writers. Perhaps it’s qualities like sensitivity, craft, and dedication that keep physicians like Oliver Sacks in hospitals all day and at writing desks all night; if nothing else, these qualities shine in books like Awakenings. This powerful set of case histories rises above its pathological foundation to find new literary territory, a medical-spiritual synthesis equally stimulating for the mind and the soul. It’s no wonder Hollywood producers chose to turn it into a feature film--anyone can see the universal human str

Author: Oliver Sacks
Publisher: Pan Books Ltd
Keywords: awakenings
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1998-12
List price: $37.85
ISBN-10: 0330320912
ISBN-13: 9780330320917

’The story of a disease that plunged its victims into a prison of viscous time, and the drug that catapulted them out of it’ - "Guardian". Hailed as a medical classic, and the subject of a major feature film as well as radio and stage plays, and various TV documentaries, "Awakenings" is the extraordinary account of a group of twenty patients. Rendered catatonic by the sleeping-sickness epidemic that swept the world just after the First World War, all twenty had spent forty years in hospital: motionless and speechless; aware of the world around them, but exhibiting no interest in it

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Publisher: Abrams Books
Keywords: day, wisdom, asian, awakenings
Number of Pages: 752
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0810993791
ISBN-13: 9780810993792

Awakenings is the fifth installment in the Offerings for Humanity project. Each book in this popular series reveals the spiritual wisdom of a new region of the world. This year, Olivier and Danielle Föllmi invite the reader to travel to East Asia. Each photograph by Olivier is accompanied by the thoughts of great masters, including Confucius, Lao Tzu, Dogen Zenji, Shonin Shinran, D. T. Suzuki, Gao Xingjian, and the Buddha. These words have guided generation after generation for thousands of years, and they continue in this volume to enrich our views and lives with their thoughts on nature, se

Author: J. Terry Johnson
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Keywords: awakenings
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 2010-11-16
List price: $9.99
ISBN-10: 1616634820
ISBN-13: 9781616634827

Who am I? What career path is right for me? Where do I look for a compatible mate? These are the questions that haunted a college freshman struggling with crucial decisions regarding his future, while sinking deeper into the black hole of fraternity life. He thought he was on the right track, attending the college of his dreams and being initiated into the frat brotherhood. But after an unsettling spring break trip to Mexicothe first of many Awakeningshis life course turned in an unexpected direction as he made the daring move to transfer schools, leaving the prestigious private university in

Authors:Bill Bright, Jack Cavanaugh,
Publisher: Howard Books
Keywords: series, awakenings, proof
Number of Pages: 358
Published: 2005-03-01
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 1582294372
ISBN-13: 9781582294377

When his daughter experiences a life-changing conversion to Christianity, a celebrated New York attorney takes the Holy Spirit to court in an attempt to win her back. With a hand-picked jury and a sympathetic judge, the atheistic attorney sues the church in which his daughter was saved, accusing them of teaching fictional religious concepts that will undermine America. In a dramatic courtroom thriller, a young defense attorney -- boyfriend to the daughter and former intern to the celebrated lawyer -- defends the church by attempting to prove the Holy Spirit exists, only to discover that the Ho

Author: Laurie Viera Rigler
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: addict, austen, jane, awakenings, rude
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2009-06-25
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0525950761
ISBN-13: 9780525950769

The eagerly anticipated sequel to Confessions of a Jane Austen AddictLaurie Viera Rigler’s debut novel, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict, was a hit with fans and critics, and a BookSense and Los Angeles Times bestseller. Its open-to-interpretation ending left readers begging for more-and Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict delivers. While Confessions took twenty-first-century free spirit Courtney Stone into the social confines of Jane Austen’s era, Rude Awakenings tells the parallel story of Jane Mansfield, a gentleman’s daughter from Regency England who inexplicably a

Authors:Bill Bright, Jack Cavanaugh,
Publisher: Howard Books
Keywords: series, awakenings, fire
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2005-06-01
List price: $12.99
ISBN-10: 1582294593
ISBN-13: 9781582294599

Like a deadly disease, sin has infected the American colony of Havenhill, Connecticut, and Josiah Rush seems to be the only person who sees the evil that has gripped the town. Blamed for a fire that nearly destroyed the colony seven years ago, Josiah spent seven years in exile. Now, having returned as pastor of First Church, his cries of alarm fall on deaf ears. Determined to save the town he loves, Josiah Rush endures personal attacks as he battles an insidious unseen enemy who is equally determined to use the town for its own immoral purposes.With historical appearances by Great Awakening pr