books about: forgetting     books:       The Story of Forgetting: A Novel14 reviews Stefan Merrill Block Random House, 2008 A marvelous and compelling read, filled with tragedy, humor and hope Author Stefan Merrill Block's first novel is a tour de force of interconnecting lives, complete with the history of a family curse, fables about a land of no remembrance and scientific studies on Alzheimer's disease. Abel Haggard is an elderly hermit who lives in what was once his family's Texas farmhouse but is now a shack surrounded by McMansions, filled with owners who want to get rid of him. ...             Memory, History, Forgetting1 review Paul Ricoeur University Of Chicago Press, 2006 Best book on history so far this century This, the last book written by the great French philosopher Paul Ricoeur, is an amazing achievement. Readers be warned: this is no easy romp through historiography or memory studies. It is a deeply philosophical meditation on the meaning of history and historicism as an act of remembering, an act of inscribing time, a way of participating in Being, and a way of negotiating competing claims for ...             Past Forgetting: My Love Affair with Dwight D. Eisenhower10 reviews Kay Summersby Morgan, Barbara Wyden Simon & Schuster, 1977 WHAT A DELIGHTFUL SURPRISE! First, I must admit to not caring much for books by people who "hung around" famous people. In fact I, for the most part, despise them. They, the writers, either have an axe to grind, want money or crave attention. I did not find this to be so with this particular work. Due to the circumstances in which it was written, time lines, the author's impending death, etc. I found it to be none of ...             Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition Lawrence Weschler University of California Press, 2009 When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist "who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it." Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees chronicles three decades of conversation between Lawrence Weschler and light and space master Irwin. It surveys many of Irwin's ...             Forgetting: When to Worry, What to Do Joan Carson Breitung Prometheus Books, 2008             The Forgetting: Alzheimer's: Portrait of an Epidemic35 reviews David Shenk Anchor, 2003 This book is tops! I have read a lot about Alzheimer's but this is definitely one of the best. It is easy to read with good illustrations of Alzheimer's onset in persons such as Ronald Reagan. Shenk's comparison of a baby's growth with Alzheimer's decline illustrates the heartbreak for those caring for someone with this disease. I highly recommend this book to professionals as well as laypeople.             The Book of Learning and Forgetting10 reviews Frank Smith Teachers College Press, 1998 A book must remembering! This book is a must read. The book offers a more philosophical, theoretical perspective on learning, contrary to mainstream, contemporary educational thought and practice.             Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin12 reviews Lawrence Weschler University of California Press, 1982 still forgetting I picked up this book in 1984 because it was on a reading list for an Art History class I was taking at Oberlin College. I stayed up all night in the library that night. I couldn't put it down. My mind has never been the same. I still often think of it,tell stories from it and give it as a gift. I always say "skip the first chapter-it gets much better." If I remember right, the book begins ...             Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness8 reviews W. W. Norton & Company, 1993 "I stand as witness ... to the common lot, / survivor of that time, that place." Anna Akhmatova, one of the poets included in this anthology, wrote those words in the years before WWII as she struggled to survive, and express, life under Stalin. Carolyn Forche has assembled this collection of poems, each of which expresses, in their own time and place, witness. This is not an idle witness, a standing by, a cool, ...             The Book of Laughter and Forgetting55 reviews Milan Kundera Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999 Classic, devastating THE BOOK OF LAUGHTER AND FORGETTING is a sophisticated work of art. An amalgam of experimental fiction, straightforward storytelling, magical realism and metafiction, it successfully grapples with bigger than big themes, portraying the crucible that was Czechoslovakia after the Russian invasion in 1968 and before the dissolution of the Soviet empire. Kundera makes this tall order work in prose ...             Betrayal Trauma: The Logic of Forgetting Childhood Abuse9 reviews Jennifer J. Freyd Harvard University Press, 1998 Uncommon Objectivity Because of her parents attacks on Dr. Freyd, I'd expected to find some of her justifible anger in the pages of this book. I did not. Dr. Freyd is logical, objective, and professional in her handling of this sensitive subject. She adds a somewhat new perspective to the old story of sexual abuse and betrayal. An excellent addition to any therapist's or survivor's library.             Waikiki: A History of Forgetting & Remembering Gaye Chan University of Hawaii Press, 2006 "Waikiki: A History of Forgetting and Remembering" presents a compelling cultural and environmental history of the area, exploring its place not only in the popular imagination, but also through the experiences of those who lived there. Employing a wide range of primary and secondary sources - including historical texts and photographs, government documents, newspaper accounts, posters, advertisements, and personal interviews - an artist and a ...             Forgetting Lot's Wife: On Destructive Spectatorship Martin Harries Fordham University Press, 2007 Can looking at disaster and mass death destroy us? Forgetting Lot?s Wife provides a theory and a fragmentary history of destructive spectatorship in the twentieth century. Its subject is the notion that the sight of historical catastrophe can destroy the spectator. The fragments of this history all lead back to the story of Lot?s wife: looking back at the destruction of the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah, she turns into a pillar of salt. This ...             Silence on the Mountain: Stories of Terror, Betrayal, and Forgetting in Guatemala (American Encounters/Global ...19 reviews Daniel Wilkinson Duke University Press, 2004 you must read this book time and again i let myself be surprised by the atrocious acts committed or supported by my government. the hypocricy of the CIA and of US foreign policy in general is nothing new, but this book tells guatemala's story from a very personal angle. the repressive practices of the post-50's guatemalan government are shocking and important to understand in and of themselves, along with the US ...             101 Really Important Things You Already Know, But Keep Forgetting3 reviews Ernie J. Zelinski Ten Speed Press, 2007 The best book I have ever read............ 101 Important Things You Already Knew But Keep Forgetting is one of the best inspirational books I have ever read. I bought 4 copies of these books as presents for the people in my life. The stories are short(two pages) and tell life like it is. This book is better than therapy! There is not one page of this book that doesn't have meaning to everyone's personal life experiences.             Forgetting Ourselves on Purpose: Vocation and the Ethics of Ambition5 reviews Brian J. Mahan, Robert Coles Jossey-Bass, 2002 More Than Five Stars! This is a fantastic book, not so much because it tells you how to resolve the tension between ambition and vocation, but because it accompanies you on the journey of working through these preoccupations yourself. You will not find any "5 Easy Steps to Success" here nor will find any "How to Find God's Will For Your Life." Rather you will find a philosopher who walks with us the razor's edge ...             Forgetting the Hurt, Remember the Hope: A Memoir of Endurance1 review Sandee Carlisle Outskirts Press, 2008 A Path to Follow This is the story of the path that my family and I have been following for the past 28 years. It begins with the loss of a special man and continues to the happiness we have been able to find in the face of tragedy. It shows that the spirit is indomitable and cannot be destroyed if we refuse to allow it. It may bring tears, but the overriding message is one of hope.             Stop Forgetting to Remember: The Autobiography of Walter Kurtz3 reviews Peter Kuper Crown, 2007 Hilarious and poignant With wonderful art and terrific writing, Kuper's memoir speaks to everyone who grew up in the age of sex, drugs and rock-and-roll who now finds themselves dealing with parenthood, love, and career. 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