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| 5516e14 | Far from being irreplaceable, we should be replaced. Fantasies of staying the hand of mortality are incompatible with the best interests of our species and the continuity of humankind's progress. More directly, they are incompatible with the best interests of our very own children. Tennyson says it clearly: "Old men must die; or the world would grow moldy, would only breed the past again." | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 01542e9 | if peace and dignity are what we delude ourselves to expect, most of us will die wondering what we, or our doctors, have done wrong. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| a5e1c25 | The originator of the literary form we call the essay, the sixteenth-century Frenchman Michel de Montaigne, was a social philosopher who viewed mankind through the scrutinizing lens of unadorned and unforgiving reality and heard its self-deceits with the ear of the skeptic. In his fifty-nine years, he gave much thought to death, and wrote of the necessity to accept each of its various forms as being equally natural: "Your death is a part of.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 8c23826 | the last hours. In fact, they are abandoned, to the good intentions of highly skilled professional personnel who barely know them. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 461b535 | Although it is not always admitted, the hospital has offered families a place where they can hide the unseemly invalid whom neither the world nor they can endure. ... The hospital has become the place of solitary death. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 929911d | bioengineers but by those who know who we are. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 774ba71 | It is also the recognition that the real event taking place at the end of our life is our death, not the attempts to prevent it. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| ca61271 | All along the way, family members have been experiencing feelings of ambivalence, helplessness, and crisis. They fear what they are seeing, as well as what they have yet to see. No matter how often they are reminded, many people persist in believing they are permitting conscious suffering. And yet, it is always so hard to let go. Such legal instruments as living wills and durable power of attorney may function as so-called advance directive.. | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 1d741cf | The virus has robbed them of their youth, and it is about to rob them of the rest of their | Sherwin B. Nuland | ||
| 6ab9805 | When each generation listens to different music instead of music that keeps a culture and society together, it can end up dividing us. | Ruth Westheimer | ||
| 87a4a7f | 13 "The Skylark of Space," Edward Elmer Smith, with Lee Hawkins Garby (uncredited) (The Buffalo Book Co., 1946); first serialized in Amazing Stories, 1928. 15 "this theory predicted results that were nonsensical": Quantum Physics of Atoms, Molecules, Solids, Nuclei, and Particles, Robert Eisberg and Robert Resnick (John Wiley and Sons, 1974). 16" -- | James Kakalios | ||
| febd4be | stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| dc65504 | stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them. And wrote us letters (maybe not millions of them, but lots). They thanked us for teaching them how to use their computer, their operating | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| ce88051 | Our reach also expanded beyond the U.S., and even the English-speaking world. Before the decade was over For Dummies books had been published in over 30 languages, from Albanian to Turkish. In the early years, many publishers questioned whether the series would work in their language market. The answer today is a global phenomenon. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 5684d2a | Setting up Windows 7 to connect to a wireless network | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| c6357d1 | Electromagnetism: Contrary to what you may believe, a flash drive (which a memory | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| dfcee9b | dSLR, | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| d217027 | For those ten minutes you set aside, I want you to talk about your feelings for each other, a hobby that you share, or an article that you read. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 4b77112 | Every time you feel depressed about something, try to identify a corresponding negative thought you had just prior to and during the depression. Because these thoughts have actually created your bad mood, by learning to restructure them, you can change your mood. | David D. Burns | ||
| df1eea0 | Fundamental analysis seeks to detect shares that have a probability of increasing or decreasing in value based on announcements, company balance sheets and profit/loss details. If you are used to reviewing figures, ratios and interpreting data, then this type of analysis may suit you. Considered | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 89ed2a6 | misfortune | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| d6d138c | Kashmir goats, | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 112d443 | Technical analysis involves reviewing actual price and volume action on share price charts to reach conclusions about the likely future direction of the price. In | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 8561510 | France, the Netherlands, Spain, | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| ad6dc14 | All these workers, faced with these new machines, people who thought they were reasonably intelligent, suddenly started feeling threatened and intimidated and, we dared to say it, dumb. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 02bb822 | Sex and sleep alone make me conscious that I am mortal. | Alexander the Great | ||
| 3d62e74 | Such is life's irony. | Alexandra Kollontai | ||
| b6d3b06 | Realize that every minute you spend putting in extra hours at work or in front of an electronic gizmo is a minute you're not spending with your partner. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 9a3b8ce | Our first response in 1994 was Personal Finance For Dummies, another | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 66d373b | celebrates | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| ca1f181 | vuh-tew sohr-teer?) (Do you want to go out?) | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 4b7c04d | Part I, Dummies Classics, | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 35d9789 | wrote us letters (maybe not millions of them, but lots). They thanked us for teaching them how to use their computer, their operating system, their applications. And they asked For Dummies books to apply those technologies to their lives. Our first response in 1994 was Personal Finance For Dummies, another bestseller. This coincided with another | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 0f83d38 | if you're not personally responsible for a negative event, you can still take responsibility for your emotional and behavioural responses to the event. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 31910a1 | computers on everybody's desk. The PC, which previously could have been dismissed as a technophile's tinker-toy, was now becoming the essential business productivity tool. All these workers, faced with these new machines, people who thought they were reasonably | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 7c3f856 | World War I (1914-18), or the Great War as it was known, was a heartbreaking and pointless conflict. | John Wiley & Sons | ||
| 6e002fe | Emerging Real Estate Markets, published by John Wiley & Sons. | David Lindahl | ||
| 72424c8 | using the mouse, you must first press the Ctrl (Control) key. If you forget to do it, the file is moved and the original file is deleted. To copy a file in the DOS 5 shell, you must hold down the Ctrl key before you click the file. In DOS 6, you don't have to. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 4a69af4 | files are displayed by using the horrid -- and I hesitate to mention this subject -- hex dump format. If this topic pleases you (or impresses your friends), cool. Otherwise, press Esc and hunt down more readable files. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| a7045c7 | Dummies | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 9348201 | some accounts initially refused to stock into a word-of-mouth bestseller. And for the next three years they bought For Dummies books, millions of them. And wrote us letters (maybe not millions of them, but lots). They thanked us for teaching them how to use their computer, their operating system, their applications. And they asked For Dummies books to apply those technologies to their lives. Our first response in 1994 was Personal Finance F.. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 8733dfe | decade was over For Dummies books had been published in over 30 languages, from Albanian to Turkish. In the early years, many publishers questioned whether the series would work in their language market. The answer today is a global phenomenon. Our reach also expanded beyond books. In 1996 a license agreement with EMI brought Classical Music For Dummies enhanced CDs to market. Critically and commercially successful, the series initiated the.. | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 1159052 | published in 1991 led to more than 1,800 further titles, with more than 250 million copies in print, translations in more than 30 languages, distribution in more than 100 countries -- all enriching peoples' lives while making knowledge accessible. Marc Jeffrey Mikulich Vice President, Brand Management, John Wiley & Sons | John Wiley and Sons | ||
| 3dc23db | The 3rd edition of the book that started it all, DOS For Dummies (print ISBN: 978-07645-03610), by Dan Gookin. Windows 7 For Dummies (print ISBN: 978-0-470-49743-2; ePub ISBN: 9780470555255; eMobi ISBN: 9780470555811), by Andy Rathbone. The 2nd edition of French For Dummies (print ISBN: 978-1-118-00464-7; ePub ISBN: 9781118138663; eMobi ISBN: 9781118138656), by Zoe Erotopoulos, Dodi-Katrin Schmidt, Michelle M. Williams, and Dominique Wenzel.. | John Wiley and Sons |