En 2016, a la edad de sesenta años, la escritora Cory Taylor supo que el cáncer que padecía desde hacía diez años se hallaba en fase terminal. Cuando se enteró de que su muerte era inminente, escribió este libro en tan solo dos semanas, con la urgencia y la sinceridad de quien sabe que le queda muy poco tiempo de vida. Sin sentimentalismos y con dosis de humor, Taylor repasa, en Morir, la compleja historia de sus padres, cómo vivieron y cómo murieron, hace balance de su vida y, so...

Cory Taylor was een van Australie's meest geliefde auteurs, en ze leed aan een ongeneselijke vorm van kanker. Ze woog, zoals ze ons in dit opmerkelijke boek vertelt, op een gegeven moment minder dan de retriever van haar buren. In een enorme creatieve uitbarsting, en in een periode van slechts een paar weken, schreef ze dit schitterende boek, een heldere kijk op wat het sterfproces haar leerde. Ze beschrijft de warboel van haar emoties, ze kijkt terug op haar leven en ze herinnert zich de ...

«Quando stai morendo, può capitarti di provare una sorta di tenerezza perfino per i tuoi ricordi più infelici, come se la gioia non fosse confinata solo ai momenti più belli ma fosse intrecciata ai tuoi giorni come un filo d'oro.» Nel 2005, poco prima del suo cinquantesimo compleanno, i medici le tolgono un neo dalla gamba destra. Melanoma, quarto stadio. Poi le metastasi, l'intervento al cervello, la diagnosi fatale. Cory Taylor ha sessant'anni e ormai pesa meno di un cane: sta morendo di...

2015 erfährt Cory Taylor, dass sie nicht mehr lange zu leben hat. In nur wenigen Wochen hat sie ihre Memoiren verfasst, die kurz vor ihrem Tod im Juli 2016 erschienen. Auf bemerkenswerte Weise reflektiert sie über den Sinn der Zeit, die ihr noch bleibt. Sie lässt uns teilhaben an ihrer Erfahrung, was das Sterben sie gelehrt hat. Der universellen Frage über ein Leben nach dem Tod begegnet sie als nicht-religiöser Mensch in einer für sie selbst überraschenden spirituellen Form. Ergreifend un...

When the acclaimed author Cory Taylor was diagnosed with a terminal illness, what followed was an astonishing creative surge that resulted in a memoir Barack Obama named as one of his favourite books of 2017. With honesty and unsentimental clarity Taylor confronts the swamp of anxiety and despair that traditionally surrounds death and opens the door to the bright clear-eyed vision it ultimately grants us. Learning to face death is, in the end, learning to live fully. Equally moving and hil...

Landscape as Dialogue redefines the process of understanding landscapes for students and practitioners so they can create more integrated, healthy places. Traditional site analysis sees the landscape as a series of components, evaluated individually, before being put back together. This perpetuates existing social hierarchies, maintains the need for high energy inputs and trumpets iconic designs that contribute to gentrification. This book examines the process of landscape dialogu...

Spanning over a century of global health crises, Case Studies on Pandemic and Epidemic Communication Campaigns examines 25 case studies across 12 major pandemics and epidemics that shaped public health communication and all types of organizations in both the public and private sectors.Each chapter begins with the historical context when the health crisis occurred to help readers understand the overall magnitude of the health crisis, treatments, media, and available communi...

Economic Biology and Behavioral Economics: The Prophesy of Alfred Marshall explores the prophesy of Alfred Marshall, the grand synthesizer of neoclassical economics, that the "Mecca of the economist lies in economic biology".The book presents the proof of that prophesy through examination and establishment of the fundamental biological science necessary and then applying that science to the examination of current economic theory. In doing so, the book focuses primarily on ...

Scientific literacy is an essential aspect of any undergraduate education. Recipes for Science responds to this need by providing an accessible introduction to the nature of science and scientific methods appropriate for any beginning college student. The book is adaptable to a wide variety of different courses, such as introductions to scientific reasoning, methods courses in scientific disciplines, science education, and philosophy of science.Special features of Reci...

Originally published in 1945, this book was written at a time when an increasing European influence was affecting customary law in what was Tanganyika and this volume records different aspects of customary law such as inheritance, matrimony, divorce, property and the courts. Tribal structure in Uhaya is also discussed and a list of clans provided.

The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship between ‘superhero comics’ and ‘superhero films’, the comics roots of superhero media, matters of ...

Originally published in 1953, this book records the Customary Law of the Sukuma tribe and discusses the differences in law whcih grew up in the various local federations, with the aim of unifying Customary Law for both the Tanzanians and European colonial authorities. The material is presented in short paragraphs which are connected logically to each other, but each of which can stand by itself if it should be necessary to quote it in a judgment.