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Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an
Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with
Alzheimer's, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for
twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now
affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect
he had Alzheimer's several years before any official diagnosis
could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried
alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he
noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests
would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs
documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains
his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer's.
Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia
patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an
optimistic tale of one man's journey with early-stage Alzheimer's
disease. Soon to be a documentary film on MTV/Paramount +.
Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A. J. Bolinger offers the
twenty-first-century reader delightful and revealing insights on
life during an era of dramatic change in American history. Bolinger
describes those years as 'bursting with energy, wild with
ambition.' The Kansas of his childhood and young adulthood was a
place where life was lived at a rapid pace: investors pursued
fortunes as town developers, settlers sought to establish
prosperous farms and ranches, and reformers tried to create an
ideal society. A. J. opens his account with a vividly detailed
description of the prairie itself, including how the frontier
settlements of Kansas were in the process of becoming established
communities. Born and raised in Elk County, Kansas, he tells
stories of ranching and cattle drives. Retelling some of the
legends of early Kansas, he debunks more than a few frontier myths.
As he moves toward adulthood his accounts of farming and small-town
life grow increasingly aware of the agricultural crisis of the
1880s and 1890s faced by farmers and small-town businesses as they
struggled with the growing power of corporations, in particular the
railroads. In doing so he offers ground-level insights into the
appeal of the Populist movement and the rise of the People' Party.
The challenges result in the Bolinger family's move to the city of
Topeka where A. J. attends Washburn College. As a college student
he helps temperance activist Carry Nation wage her antisaloon
campaign and goes to Washburn's new law school. His first step in
pursuing what would be a lifelong career in the law is to replicate
his family's and his era's pattern of moving to where new
opportunities lay: the Oklahoma territory. A. J. Bolinger
(1881-1977) offers today's reader a deeply felt memoir with keen
insights and thoughtful commentary that is by turns startlingly
progressive and deeply conservative. He offers us a richer
understanding of life on the prairies and plains of the last
decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the
twentieth century.
Through their scientific research and clinical practice, husband
and wife team Gene D. Cohen and Wendy L. Miller uncovered new clues
about how the aging mind can build resilience and continue growth,
even during times of grave illness, thus setting aside the
traditional paradigm of aging as a time of decline. Cohen,
considered one of the founding fathers of geriatric psychiatry,
describes what happens to the brain as it ages and the potential
that is often overlooked. Miller, an expressive arts therapist and
educator, highlights stories of creative growth in the midst of
illness and loss encountered through her clinical practice.
Together, Cohen and Miller show that with the right tools, the
uncharted territory of aging and illness can, in fact, be
navigated. In this book, the reader finds the real story of not
only Cohen's belief in potential, but also how he and his family
creatively used it in facing his own serous health challenges. With
Miller's insights and expressive psychological writing, Sky Above
Clouds tells the inside story of how attitude, community,
creativity, and love shape a life, with or without health, even to
our dying. Cohen and Miller draw deeply on their own lessons
learned as they struggle through aging, illness, and loss within
their own family and eventually Cohen's own untimely death. What
happens when the expert on aging begins to age? And what happens
when the therapist who helps others cope with illness and loss is
forced to confront her own responses to these experiences? The
result is a richly informative and emotional journey of growth.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy
Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive
selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to
reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional
imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor
pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues
beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving and promoting the world's literature.
Dr Daniel Gibbs is one of 50 million people worldwide with an
Alzheimer's disease diagnosis. Unlike most patients with
Alzheimer's, however, Dr Gibbs worked as a neurologist for
twenty-five years, caring for patients with the very disease now
affecting him. Also unusual is that Dr Gibbs had begun to suspect
he had Alzheimer's several years before any official diagnosis
could be made. Forewarned by genetic testing showing he carried
alleles that increased the risk of developing the disease, he
noticed symptoms of mild cognitive impairment long before any tests
would have alerted him. In this highly personal account, Dr Gibbs
documents the effect his diagnosis has had on his life and explains
his advocacy for improving early recognition of Alzheimer's.
Weaving clinical knowledge from decades caring for dementia
patients with his personal experience of the disease, this is an
optimistic tale of one man's journey with early-stage Alzheimer's
disease.
Kansas Boy: The Memoir of A. J. Bolinger offers the
twenty-first-century reader delightful and revealing insights on
life during an era of dramatic change in American history. Bolinger
describes those years as 'bursting with energy, wild with
ambition.' The Kansas of his childhood and young adulthood was a
place where life was lived at a rapid pace: investors pursued
fortunes as town developers, settlers sought to establish
prosperous farms and ranches, and reformers tried to create an
ideal society. A. J. opens his account with a vividly detailed
description of the prairie itself, including how the frontier
settlements of Kansas were in the process of becoming established
communities. Born and raised in Elk County, Kansas, he tells
stories of ranching and cattle drives. Retelling some of the
legends of early Kansas, he debunks more than a few frontier myths.
As he moves toward adulthood his accounts of farming and small-town
life grow increasingly aware of the agricultural crisis of the
1880s and 1890s faced by farmers and small-town businesses as they
struggled with the growing power of corporations, in particular the
railroads. In doing so he offers ground-level insights into the
appeal of the Populist movement and the rise of the People's Party.
The challenges result in the Bolinger family's move to the city of
Topeka where A. J. attends Washburn College. As a college student
he helps temperance activist Carry Nation wage her antisaloon
campaign and goes to Washburn's new law school. His first step in
pursuing what would be a lifelong career in the law is to replicate
his family's and his era's pattern of moving to where new
opportunities lay: the Oklahoma territory. A. J. Bolinger
(1881-1977) offers today's reader a deeply felt memoir with keen
insights and thoughtful commentary that is by turns startlingly
progressive and deeply conservative. He offers us a richer
understanding of life on the prairies and plains of the last
decades of the nineteenth century and the first decade of the
twentieth century.
Far more than just a dance, the dynamic choreography of the
Yup'ik provides an illuminating window into the morality, social
organization, and colonial history of this indigenous people. In
"Yupiit Yurayarait," anthropologist Ann Fienup-Riordan begins with
a brief historical overview of the colonization and development of
Alaska from the Yup'ik point of view. Then, armed with oral history
testimony spanning thirty years, she shows how singing and dancing
are interconnected and imbued with meaning in this complex ritual.
Accompanied by one hundred and fifty original photographs, this
volume marks the first in-depth look at the Yup'ik people through
the lens of interpretive dance.
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