Go Gently - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Go Gently write by Bonnie Wright. This book was released on 2022-04-19. Go Gently available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. An inspiring and approachable tip-filled guide to changing your habits, living more sustainably, and taking action, by Greenpeace ambassador Bonnie Wright (Ginny Weasley in the Harry Potter movies) Go Gently is a guide for sustainability at home that offers simple, tangible steps toward reducing our environmental impact by looking at what we consume and the waste we create, as well as how to take action for environmental change. The title reflects Bonnie Wright’s belief that the best way to change our planet and ourselves is through a gentle approach, rather than a judgmental one. This is a book of do’s rather than don’ts. It’s also an invitation to Wright’s followers to join her on this journey to sustainability. Going through every room in her home, Wright helps us assess which products are sustainable, and alternatives for those that are not. She shares recipes to avoid waste, homemade self-care products to avoid packaging, small space-friendly gardening ideas, and a template for creating your own compost system. Finally, to sustain yourself, there are exercises and meditation prompts to keep you energized, plus info on how to get involved in community and organizations.
Going Gently
Going Gently - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Going Gently write by David Nobbs. This book was released on 2014-11-20. Going Gently available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has been. Her six marriages have ended in suicide, a husband's adultery, another husband's deportation as a dangerous alien, a union dispute, a murder, and a natural death. But Kate's journey through the twentieth century is also a search for the truth - about life, death, and which of her three sons murdered her fifth husband. This is a novel rich in memorable characters, from Kate's narrow but loving Welsh family to the wild members of an artists' colony in Cornwall; from Midland piston manufacturers to an investigative journalist whose own life cannot bear investigation.
Going Gently
Going Gently - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Going Gently write by David Nobbs. This book was released on 2010-05-25. Going Gently available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kate Thomas was beautiful, intelligent, witty, passionate and sexy. Now, at the ripe old age of ninety-nine, she is trapped in a hospital ward of sad, mad and bad old women. She escapes by playing to herself the video of her life. What a life it has been. Her six marriages have ended in suicide, a husband's adultery, another husband's deportation as a dangerous alien, a union dispute, a murder, and a natural death. But Kate's journey through the twentieth century is also a search for the truth - about life, death, and which of her three sons murdered her fifth husband. This is a novel rich in memorable characters, from Kate's narrow but loving Welsh family to the wild members of an artists' colony in Cornwall; from Midland piston manufacturers to an investigative journalist whose own life cannot bear investigation.
Age Rage and Going Gently
Age Rage and Going Gently - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Age Rage and Going Gently write by Oliver Davis. This book was released on 2006-01-01. Age Rage and Going Gently available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This wide-ranging study looks at how the ageing process has alternately been figured in and excluded from twentieth-century French literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis. It espouses a critical interdisciplinarity and calls into question the assumptions underlying much research into ageing in the social sciences, work in which the negative aspects of growing older are almost invariably suppressed. It offers a major reappraisal of Simone de Beauvoir’s great but neglected late treatise, La Vieillesse, and presents the first substantial discussion of a lost documentary film about old age in which Beauvoir appears and which she helped to write, PROMENADE AU PAYS DE LA VIEILLESSE. Questioning Beauvoir’s own rather reductive reading of Gide’s work on old age, this study analyses the way in which his Journal and Ainsi soit-il experiment with a range of representational models for the senescent subject. The encounter between psychoanalysis and ageing is framed by a reading of Violette Leduc’s autobiographical trilogy, in which she suggests that psychoanalysis, to its detriment, simply cannot allow ageing to signify. This claim is tested in a critical survey of recent theoretical and clinical work by psychoanalysts interested in ageing in France, the UK and the US. Lastly, Hervé Guibert’s recently republished photo-novel about his elderly great-aunts, Suzanne et Louise, is examined as a work of intergenerational empathy and is found, in addition, to be an important statement of his photographic aesthetic. Navigating between the extremes of fury (‘age rage’) and serene acceptance (‘going gently’), this study aims throughout to examine the role which ageing plays in formal, as well as thematic, terms in writing the life of the subject.
Go Gently, Sandpiper... John Barwick's Story
Go Gently, Sandpiper... John Barwick's Story - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Go Gently, Sandpiper... John Barwick's Story write by B. McCarthy. This book was released on 2024-03-04. Go Gently, Sandpiper... John Barwick's Story available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. John Barwick made some questionable decisions in his life which might have caused him to miss the chances that would eventually allow him to live the life he was destined for. He was born in Yorkshire, England and was sent away to boarding school at an early age by his father to make something of himself. And he did. He studied medicine and became a general practitioner. He met Alice when she was a student nurse and loved her from afar for many years but she flew away to Australia, like a common sandpiper, and he missed his chance with her. When their paths crossed many years later, John had already become a father with a son that he didn’t meet until he was a teenager. He had also been to the Vietnam War and he came home changed. He had been married, and divorced, with a second son who was profoundly deaf, when he finally found love and contentment in his world. In his retirement he took up Alice’s legacy and vowed to assist his patients die a good death in the manner of their choosing. He was a good man, who eventually had a good life, and his fictional story is both touching and insightful.
