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My Bert Has Alzheimer’s is an intimate, detailed account of a wife’s experience with her husband’s dementia. As Paula de Ronde quickly learned, life for two people — patient and caregiver - is thrown into disarray with a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. Ambushed by the disease, it is a journey into the unknown, but one that features an abundance of love, hope, and support. There is no shying away from the horror of the disease, but its awfulness doesn’t strip from the experience of the powerful companions that accompany those enduring it — namely, love, laughter, and community. Thrust into the caregiver role for her other half who used to be her equal and best buddy, making all kinds ...
The inspiring story of a proud Black woman, a devoted wife and mother, and an ambitious immigrant who is determined to see possibilities where others see challenges. Always striving to achieve success even where failure might seem difficult to overcome, Mary Anne is guided by her belief in herself and her respect for humanity.
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O gün hayatın cömert olabileceğinin ilk kez bilincine vamıştım. Yokluğu bir nimet, cimriliği bir erdem olarak gören büyükbabamla ya da ailenin öteki üyelerinden biriyle böyle deneyimi asla yaşayamazdım. Paula, Isabel Allende’nin diğer kitaplarından farklı; daha duygusal, daha kişisel bir kitap. Şilili yazar Sonsuz Düzen adlı romanının tanıtımı için İspanya’da bulunduğu sırada, orada yaşamakta olan yeni evli kızı Paula ağır bir hastalıkla hastaneye kaldırılır ve bitkisel hayata girer. Isabel Allende, biricik kızının başucunda hastalık sürecini kaygıyla izlerken, bir gün iyileşeceğini umduğu kızına okutmak amacıyla ailesinin ve kendi ...
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The unique experience of the Toronto Public Library, 1974-1981, when reform politics at the municipal level initiated major changes in the library system. Newly appointed Board members enlisted the aid of citizens in identifying unmet needs and exposing basic iniquities in the provision of library service. Participation grew dramatically as citizens became involved at area and neighborhood levels. The result: a major turn-around in the library's priorities. This book analyzes the experience from the points of view of 15 participants and close observers of the process --academics, politicians, library workers, and citizens of diverse backgrounds, approaches, and concerns.
The Netherlands housed a number of widely-known, envied, and emulated centers of accumulation during the early-modern period. Raw and manufactured goods passed through Dutch port cities, linking the country to global cycles of accumulation and exchange. Its institutions of learning and culture similarly served as internationally famous centers of accumulation that furthered knowledge and cultural production, embodied in the form of books, maps, prints, exhibits, and the like. This collection of essays brings together the Dutch histories of manufacture, commerce, and global exchange along with the histories of knowledge and cultural circulation during the 17th and 18th centuries by anatomizin...
De auteur beschrijft de periode waarin haar dochter langdurig in coma ligt, welke eindigt met de dood van het meisje.