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Author: Lewis Wolpert
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039329272X
Size: 15.72 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2011-01-24
Category: Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Live And Why We Die The Secret Lives Of Cells eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Acclaimed biologist Lewis Wolpert eloquently narrates the basics of human life through the lens of its smallest component: the cell. Everything about our existence-movement and memory, imagination and reproduction, birth, and ultimately death-is governed by our cells. They are the basis of all life in the universe, from bacteria to the most complex animals. In the tradition of the classic Lives of a Cell, but with the benefit of the latest research, Lewis Wolpert demonstrates how human life grows from a single cell into a body, an incredibly complex society of billions of cells. Wolpert goes on to examine the science behind topics that are much discussed but rarely understood—stem-cell research, cloning, DNA, cancer—and explains how all life on earth evolved from just one cell. Lively and passionate, this is an accessible guide to understanding the human body and life itself.

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Author: Lawrence N. Blum
Publisher: Lantern Books
ISBN: 1590563360
Size: 68.70 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2001-08-01
Category: Police
Language: en
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Download PDF Force Under Pressure eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In Force Under Pressure, Dr. Lawrence Blum, who has devoted his life's work to the survival and wellness of "those who serve," describes the sources of danger, injuries, and victory to police officers in a down-to-earth, readable style. Blum argues that there are missing ingredients in the training and socialization of police officers. These ingredients include techniques and tools to condition the officer s decision-making and concentration during conditions of emergency; internal controls necessary to maintain the will to survive; and aids that will prevent officers being defeated by any threat. Distressing and/or disturbing physical and psychological reactions are common in a police officer's workday, and the officer must be prepared for them. Blum's work has uncovered many of the casues of compromise to officer safety and wellness, and he contends that police officers will be well prepared to cope with unanticipated or rapidly changing encounters if they possess the right tools and the know-how to command and control field encounters and life's pressures. Here Blum provides practical tools for survival in law enforcement, by combining his clinical knowledge with true stories of police officers for an attention-grabbing and informative book."

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Silvera
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062457810
Size: 54.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2017-09-05
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF They Both Die At The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day. #1 New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice * A Bustle Best YA Novel * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book * A Book Riot Best Queer Book * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day. In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.” Plus don't miss The First to Die at the End: #1 New York Times bestselling author Adam Silvera returns to the universe of international phenomenon They Both Die at the End in this prequel. New star-crossed lovers are put to the test on the first day of Death-Cast’s fateful calls.

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Author: Serhiy Zhadan
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300223366
Size: 52.49 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2019-04-16
Category: Literary Criticism
Language: en
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Download PDF What We Live For What We Die For eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An introduction to an original poetic voice from eastern Ukraine with deep roots in the unique cultural landscape of post-Soviet devastation "Everyone can find something, if they only look carefully," reads one of the memorable lines from this first collection of poems in English by the world-renowned Ukrainian author Serhiy Zhadan. These robust and accessible narrative poems feature gutsy portraits of life on wartorn and poverty-ravaged streets, where children tally the number of local deaths, where mothers live with low expectations, and where romance lives like a remote memory. In the tradition of Tom Waits, Charles Bukowski, and William S. Burroughs, Zhadan creates a new poetics of loss, a daily crusade of testimonial, a final witness of abandoned lives in a claustrophobic universe where "every year there's less and less air." Yet despite the grimness of these portraits, Zhadan's poems are familiar and enchanting, lit by the magic of everyday detail, leaving readers with a sense of hope, knowing that the will of a people "will never let it be / like it was before."

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Book Detail:
Author: Steve Gordon
Publisher: Prometheus Books
ISBN: 1633881121
Size: 76.37 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2015
Category: Family & Relationships
Language: en
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Download PDF Let S Talk About Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Experts in end-of-life care tell us that we should talk about death and dying with relatives and friends, but how do we get such conversations off the ground in a society that historically has avoided the topic? This book provides one example of such a conversation. The coauthors take up challenging questions about pain, caregiving, grief, and what comes after death. Their unlikely collaboration is itself connected to death: the murders of two of Irene's closest friends and Steve's support in perpetuating memories of those friends' lives and not just their violent ends. The authors share the results of a no-holds-barred discussion they conducted for several years over email. Readers can consider a range of views on complicated issues to which there are no right answers. Letting ourselves pose certain questions has the potential to profoundly change the way we think about death, how we choose to die, and, just as importantly, the way we live. Honest, probing, sensitive, and even humorous at times, the completely open discussions in this book will help readers deal with a topic that most of us try to avoid but that everyone will face eventually.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ryan North
Publisher: Machines of Death LLC
ISBN: 0982167121
Size: 15.88 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2010
Category: FICTION
Language: en
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Download PDF Machine Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. MACHINE OF DEATH tells thirty-four different stories about people who know how they will die. Prepare to have your tears jerked, your spine tingled, your funny bone tickled, your mind blown, your pulse quickened, or your heart warmed. Or better yet, simply prepare to be surprised. Because even when people do have perfect knowledge of the future, there's no telling exactly how things will turn out.

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Book Detail:
Author: Thomas G. Long
Publisher: Church Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0898692334
Size: 16.41 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2017-08-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF What Happens When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A straightforward treatment of the only existential issue that matters from the Christian perspective. In What Happens When We Die? Tom Long provides information about the promises and convictions of the Christian gospel concerning death and life after death. He surveys in simple terms the major themes surrounding death, dying, and hope for an afterlife.

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Book Detail:
Author: Adam Silvera
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0063240823
Size: 71.43 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2022-10-04
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF The First To Die At The End eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. In this prequel to the bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. #1 New York Times bestseller! It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die. He has a serious heart condition, and he signed up for Death-Cast so he could know what’s coming. Valentino Prince is restarting his life in New York. He has a long and promising future ahead and he only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident. Orion and Valentino cross paths in Times Square and immediately feel a deep connection. But when the first round of End Day calls goes out, their lives are changed forever—one of them receives a call, and the other doesn’t. Though neither boy is certain how the day will end, they know they want to spend it together…even if that means their goodbye will be heartbreaking. Told with acclaimed author Adam Silvera’s signature bittersweet touch, this story celebrates the lasting impact that people have on each other and proves that life is always worth living to the fullest. * A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year *

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Book Detail:
Author: Fran Smith
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1936740605
Size: 20.50 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2013-10-28
Category: Health & Fitness
Language: en
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Download PDF Changing The Way We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. There’s a quiet revolution happening in the way we die. More than 1.5 million Americans a year die in hospice care—nearly 44 percent of all deaths—and a vast industry has sprung up to meet the growing demand. Once viewed as a New Age indulgence, hospice is now a $14 billion business and one of the most successful segments in health care. Changing the Way We Die, by award-winning journalists Fran Smith and Sheila Himmel, is the first book to take a broad, penetrating look at the hospice landscape, through gripping stories of real patients, families, and doctors, as well as the corporate giants that increasingly own the market. Changing the Way We Die is a vital resource for anyone who wants to be prepared to face life’s most challenging and universal event. You will learn: — Hospice use is soaring, yet most people come too late to get the full benefits. — With the age tsunami, it becomes even more critical for families and patients to choose end-of-life care wisely. — Hospice at its best is much more than a way to relieve the suffering of dying. It is a way to live.

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Book Detail:
Author: Keith Payne
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 069840937X
Size: 78.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2017-05-02
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Broken Ladder eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A timely examination by a leading scientist of the physical, psychological, and moral effects of inequality. Today’s inequality is on a scale that none of us has seen in our lifetimes, yet this disparity between rich and poor has ramifications that extend far beyond mere financial means. In The Broken Ladder psychologist Keith Payne examines how inequality divides us not just economically, but has profound consequences for how we think, how our cardiovascular systems respond to stress, how our immune systems function, and how we view moral ideas like justice and fairness. Experiments in psychology, neuroscience, and behavioral economics have not only revealed important new insights on how inequality changes people in predictable ways, but have provided a corrective to our flawed way of viewing poverty as the result of individual character failings. Among modern, developed societies, economic inequality is not primarily about money, but rather about relative status: where we stand in relation to other people. Regardless of their average income, countries or states with greater levels of income inequality have much higher rates of all the social problems we associate with poverty, including lower average life expectancies, serious health issues, mental illness, and crime. The Broken Ladder explores such issues as why women in poor societies often have more children, and have them younger; why there is little trust among the working class that investing for the future will pay off; why people’s perception of their relative social status affects their political beliefs, and why growing inequality leads to greater political divisions; how poverty raises stress levels in the same way as a physical threat; inequality in the workplace, and how it affects performance; why unequal societies become more religious; and finally offers measures people can take to lessen the harm done by inequality in their own lives and the lives of their children.

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Book Detail:
Author: Karla Erickson
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 9781439908242
Size: 49.85 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2013-09-27
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. As we live longer and die slower and differently than our ancestors, we have come to rely more and more on end-of-life caregivers. These workers navigate a changing landscape of old age and death that many of us have little preparation to encounter. How We Die Now is an absorbing and sensitive investigation of end-of-life issues from the perspectives of patients, relatives, medical professionals, and support staff. Karla Erickson immersed herself in the daily life of workers and elders in a Midwestern community for over two years to explore important questions around the theme of “how we die now.” She moves readers through and beyond the many fears that attend the social condition of old age and reveals the pleasures of living longer and the costs of slower, sometimes senseless ways of dying. For all of us who are grappling with the “elder boom,” How We Die Now offers new ways of thinking about our longer lives.

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Book Detail:
Author: Ray Robertson
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771960957
Size: 62.54 MB
Format: PDF, Mobi
Release Date: 2020-01-28
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF How To Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary society avoids the subject and often values the mere continuation of existence over its quality, Robertson argues that the active and intentional consideration of death is neither morbid nor frivolous, but instead essential to our ability to fully value life. How to Die is both an absorbing excursion through some of Western literature’s most compelling works on the subject of death as well as an anecdote-driven argument for cultivating a better understanding of death in the belief that, if we do, we’ll know more about what it means to live a meaningful life.

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Book Detail:
Author: Mick Herron
Publisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1569475687
Size: 42.21 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2009-04
Category: Burglary investigation
Language: en
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Download PDF Why We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Death is the ultimate stalker, confident and inevitable; the rest are inadequate voyeurs...

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Book Detail:
Author: Prof. Cedric Mims
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 1466883855
Size: 29.93 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2014-10-21
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF When We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. An unusually comprehensive study of death as both a social and scientific phenomenon, When We Die is as frank as it is informed. This far-reaching discussion considers mortality from the personal and the universal perspective, generously citing past and present poets and physicians from a diverse and telling range of traditions. Mims, who for two decades served as Professor of Microbiology at London's Guys Hospital, brings a humane, inquisitive, and learned sensibility to his topic. "This book is a light-hearted but wide-ranging survey of death, the causes of death, and the disposal of corpses," writes Mims. "It tells why we die and how we die, and what happens to the dead body and its bits and pieces. It describes the ways corpses are dealt with in different religions and in different parts of the world; the methods for preserving bodies; and the ways—fascinating in their diversity—in which corpses or parts of corpses are used and abused." The volume also explores such crucial death-based notions as the afterlife, the soul, and the prospect of immortality. By way of the book's main focus, Mims continues: "We should take a more matter-of-fact view of death (and) accept it and talk about it more than we do—as we have done with the once taboo subject of sex." This is a work that any student of social anthropology will find equally enlightening and essential.

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Book Detail:
Author: Kathryn Mannix
Publisher: William Collins
ISBN: 9780008210915
Size: 21.56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Mobi
Release Date: 2019-02-05
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Language: en
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Download PDF With The End In Mind eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "What colour is cancer?Why do some people appear to have made miraculous recoveries?How can you tell when someone is in the final hours of their life?How can we ensure our most vulnerable are treated with the dignity they deserve? In this unprecedented book, palliative medicine pioneer Kathryn Mannix explores the biggest taboo in our society and only certainty we all share: death. Told through a series of powerful stories, taken from her clinical practice, her book sends an urgent message to the living which answers the most intimate and fascinating questions about the end-of-life process with touching honesty and humanity.With the End in Mind is a book for all of us: the grieving and bereaved, ill, and healthy. Mannix rationalizes and explains what happens at the end of our lives, and argues that with planning, honesty and information death doesn't have to be either painful or terrifying. With at-times funny, poignant and always wise storytelling about how people die, Mannix has written a book of immense power and importance."--Publisher's description.

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Book Detail:
Author: Steven Nadler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691233950
Size: 33.56 MB
Format: PDF, ePub, Docs
Release Date: 2022-05-10
Category: Philosophy
Language: en
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Download PDF Think Least Of Death eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. "The seventeenth-century Dutch-Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza has long been known - and vilified - for his heretical view of God and for the radical determinism he sees governing the cosmos and human freedom. Only recently, however, has he begun to be considered seriously as a moral philosopher. In his philosophical masterpiece, the Ethics, after establishing some metaphysical and epistemological foundations, he turns to the "big questions" that so often move one to reflect on, and even change, the values that inform their life: What is truly good? What is happiness? What is the relationship between being a good or virtuous person and enjoying happiness and human flourishing? The guiding thread of the book, and the source of its title, is a claim that comes late in the Ethics: "The free person thinks least of all of death, and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life." The life of the free person, according to Spinoza, is one of joy, not sadness. He does what is "most important" in life and is not troubled by such harmful passions as hate, greed and envy. He treats others with benevolence, justice and charity. And, with his attention focused on the rewards of goodness, he enjoys the pleasures of this world, but in moderation. Nadler makes clear that these ethical precepts are not unrelated to Spinoza's metaphysical views. Rather, as Nadler shows, Spinoza's views on how to live are intimately connected to and require an understanding of his conception of human nature and its place in the cosmos, his account of values, and his conception of human happiness and flourishing. Written in an engaging style this book makes Spinoza's often forbiddingly technical philosophy accessible to contemporary readers interested in knowing more about Spinoza's views on morality, and who may even be looking to this famous "atheist", who so scandalized his early modern contemporaries, as a guide to the right way of living today"--

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Book Detail:
Author: Shaun David Hutchinson
Publisher: Simon Pulse
ISBN: 1481449648
Size: 41.81 MB
Format: PDF
Release Date: 2017-05-16
Category: Young Adult Fiction
Language: en
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Download PDF We Are The Ants eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. From the “author to watch” (Kirkus Reviews) of The Five Stages of Andrew Brawley comes an “equal parts sarcastic and profound” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) novel about a teenage boy who must decide whether or not the world is worth saving. Henry Denton has spent years being periodically abducted by aliens. Then the aliens give him an ultimatum: The world will end in 144 days, and all Henry has to do to stop it is push a big red button. Only he isn’t sure he wants to. After all, life hasn’t been great for Henry. His mom is a struggling waitress held together by a thin layer of cigarette smoke. His brother is a jobless dropout who just knocked someone up. His grandmother is slowly losing herself to Alzheimer’s. And Henry is still dealing with the grief of his boyfriend’s suicide last year. Wiping the slate clean sounds like a pretty good choice to him. But Henry is a scientist first, and facing the question thoroughly and logically, he begins to look for pros and cons: in the bully who is his perpetual one-night stand, in the best friend who betrayed him, in the brilliant and mysterious boy who walked into the wrong class. Weighing the pain and the joy that surrounds him, Henry is left with the ultimate choice: push the button and save the planet and everyone on it…or let the world—and his pain—be destroyed forever.

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Book Detail:
Author: Seamus O'Mahony
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 125011280X
Size: 42.26 MB
Format: PDF, Docs
Release Date: 2017-07-25
Category: Social Science
Language: en
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Download PDF The Way We Die Now eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. We have lost the ability to deal with death. Most of our friends and beloved relations will die in a busy hospital in the care of strangers, doctors, and nurses they have known at best for a couple of weeks. They may not even know they are dying, victims of the kindly lie that there is still hope. They are unlikely to see even their family doctor in their final hours, robbed of their dignity and fed through a tube after a long series of excessive and hopeless medical interventions. This is the starting point of Seamus O’Mahony’s The Way We Die Now, a thoughtful, moving and unforgettable book on the western way of death. Dying has never been more public, with celebrities writing detailed memoirs of their illness, but in private we have done our best to banish all thought of dying and made a good death increasingly difficult to achieve.

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Book Detail:
Author: James Papandrea
Publisher: Sophia Institute Press
ISBN: 1622826396
Size: 31.38 MB
Format: PDF, Kindle
Release Date: 2019-10-17
Category: Religion
Language: en
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Download PDF What Really Happens After We Die eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Here professor of Church history Dr. James Papandrea gathers in one place all that is known about the afterlife — drawn from the teachings of Jesus, the Apostles, the Church Fathers, and the Church’s Magisterium — affording, for the first time ever, a complete, authoritative, detailed portrait of the state of souls after death and the realms we enter. The following are among the many questions he answers: --If, as St. Paul says, “flesh and blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God,” how can our bodies enter Heaven? --After death but before the final resurrection, are we simply unconscious? --What is our resurrection like? (And does it differ from Jesus’ Resurrection?) --Are ghosts real? (You’ll be surprised at what the Church Fathers have to say.) --What is the difference between Heaven and Paradise? --Which of our parts will accompany us to Heaven (and which must be left behind)? --In Heaven, do we still eat and drink? --If, as Jesus says, there’s no marrying in heaven, are we still male and female there? --After our resurrection, will we, like Jesus, be able to pass through matter? --And many more fascinating questions answered!

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Book Detail:
Author: Bronnie Ware
Publisher: Hay House, Inc
ISBN: 1401956017
Size: 61.48 MB
Format: PDF, ePub
Release Date: 2019-08-13
Category: Self-Help
Language: en
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Download PDF Top Five Regrets Of The Dying eBook. You can read online on your kindle, Android, iPhone, iPad. Revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide with translations in 29 languages. After too many years of unfulfilling work, Bronnie Ware began searching for a job with heart. Despite having no formal qualifications or previous experience in the field, she found herself working in palliative care. During the time she spent tending to those who were dying, Bronnie's life was transformed. Later, she wrote an Internet blog post, outlining the most common regrets that the people she had cared for had expressed. The post gained so much momentum that it was viewed by more than three million readers worldwide in its first year. At the request of many, Bronnie subsequently wrote a book, The Top Five Regrets of the Dying, to share her story. Bronnie has had a colourful and diverse life. By applying the lessons of those nearing their death to her own life, she developed an understanding that it is possible for everyone, if we make the right choices, to die with peace of mind. In this revised edition of the best-selling memoir that has been read by over a million people worldwide, with translations in 29 languages, Bronnie expresses how significant these regrets are and how we can positively address these issues while we still have the time. The Top Five Regrets of the Dying gives hope for a better world. It is a courageous, life-changing book that will leave you feeling more compassionate and inspired to live the life you are truly here to live.

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