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Coming into the End Zone

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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A New York Times Notable Book: One woman’s search for the value of a long life With the advent of her seventieth birthday, many changes have beset Doris Grumbach: the rapidly accelerating speed of the world around her, the premature deaths of her younger friends, her own increasing infirmities, and her move from cosmopolitan Washington, DC, to the calm of the Maine coast. Coming into the End Zone is an account of everything Grumbach observes over the course of a year. Astute observations and vivid memories of quotidian events pepper her story, which surprises even her with its fullness and vigor. Coming into the End Zone captures the days of a woman entering a new stage of life with humanity and abiding hope.

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Open Road Media

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1497676649

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Life in a Day

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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Life in a Day

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

A look into the daily life of one of America’s great memoirists At seventy-seven Doris Grumbach is as sharp as ever, and in Life in a Day she examines the experiences of her later years, from the dreaded writer’s block to the many hours she has spent reading to the effects of an increasingly modern and interconnected world. Imbued with Grumbach’s characteristic candor and verve, Life in a Day is a celebration of the meaning to be found in the quotidian.

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Open Road Media

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1497676665

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Fifty Days of Solitude

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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Fifty Days of Solitude

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

A New York Times Notable Book: To truly understand herself, Doris Grumbach embraces solitude With a busy career as a novelist, essayist, reviewer, and bookstore owner, Doris Grumbach has little opportunity to be alone. However, after seventy-five years on the planet, she finally has her chance: Her partner has departed for an extended book-buying trip, and Grumbach has been given fifty days to relax, think, and write about her experience. In this graceful memoir, Grumbach delicately balances the beauty of turning one’s back on everything with the hardship of complete aloneness. Even as she attends church and collects her mail, she moves like a shadow, speaking to no one. Left only to her books and music in the midst of a Maine winter, she must look within herself for solace. The result of this reflection is a powerful meditation on the meaning of aging, writing, and one’s own company—and reaffirmation of the power of friends and companionship.

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Open Road Media

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1497676657

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The Pleasure of Their Company

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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The Pleasure of Their Company

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

A literary master looks ahead to her eighties As her eightieth birthday approaches, Doris Grumbach does not feel melancholy or saddened by the upcoming event, despite the loss of friends such as Kay Boyle and Dorothy Day—instead she takes it as an opportunity both to look backward and to grow. In this, her summer of unexpected content, Grumbach weaves the elegiac and the practical into a delightful tapestry of experience. She looks deep into her own history, telling stories of her life in the hardscrabble New York of the 1940s, working as a copyeditor. She details her near encounter with a seventy-two-year-old Bertrand Russell, calling it the closest she has ever come to sleeping with a Nobel Laureate. Grumbach lets us into her life and introduces us to the characters that have peopled her nearly eight decades on Earth. As the fateful day of her celebration draws near, the main topic on Doris Grumbach’s mind is not herself; it’s her guests. The Pleasure of Their Company is a meticulously planned party that any reader would be honored to attend.

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1497607507

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Fifty Days of Solitude

By: Doris Grumbach

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Fifty Days of Solitude

By: Doris Grumbach

A New York Times Notable Book Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. The result is a beautiful meditation about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality.

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Wheeler Publishing, Incorporated

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1568951698

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The Presence of Absence

On Prayers and an Epiphany

By: Doris Grumbach

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The Presence of Absence

On Prayers and an Epiphany

By: Doris Grumbach

The story of an ecstatic spiritual moment—and the search to experience it again When she was twenty-seven years old, writer Doris Grumbach had an epiphany. It was as if God were right there beside her, and she had a “feeling of peace so intense that it seemed to expand into ineffable joy.” After this fleeting moment, Grumbach became determined to recapture what she had felt. The Presence of Absence is the story of her fifty-year search. Grumbach is an open-minded and skilled seeker, and she writes candidly of the people she has met along the way. She details how she lost her path after decades of going to her Protestant church and writes of her turn to personal spirituality. In her quest to find God, she encounters a multitude of philosophies and gives all of them their due. She reads the works of Thomas Merton and Simone Weil, seeks the advice of her seminary-attending daughter, and studies the Psalms. Despite the setbacks of disease, injury, and ego, Grumbach perseveres in her pursuit of beauty and proof in the absence.

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Open Road Media

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1497676673

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Extra Innings

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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Extra Innings

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

A New York Times Notable Book: A moving glimpse of a life shrewdly examined Extra Innings follows a year in the life of Doris Grumbach, beginning with the release of her previous memoir and journal, Coming into the End Zone, and revealing that the devoted essayist, novelist, and critic possesses as keen an eye in her seventies as she did when she wrote The Spoil of Flowers thirty years earlier. Grumbach details each passing month and the trials and tribulations therein. Age and experience have tempered her anger, allowing her to view the world in a rosier light than she has before. In this eventful period that concludes with her move from Washington, DC, to Maine, Grumbach travels between signings and speeches, describes her home life in a new state, and deals not only with her own mortality, but with that of her daughter. Grumbach’s wisdom and wit endure as she looks back on her own memories, seeing the world as only Doris Grumbach can.

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Open Road Media

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1497676630

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The Collected Memoirs Volume One

Fifty Days of Solitude, The Pleasure of Their Company, and Extra Innings

By: Doris Grumbach

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Fifty Days of Solitude, The Pleasure of Their Company, and Extra Innings

By: Doris Grumbach

Three memoirs about isolation, aging, and death from an author whose “private self is as intelligent and generous as her public persona” (Publishers Weekly). Fifty Days of Solitude: Faced with a rare opportunity to experiment with true solitude, Doris Grumbach decided to live in her coastal Maine home without speaking to anyone for fifty days. A New York Times Notable Book, the result is a “quiet, elegantly written” recollection about what it means to write, to be alone, and to come to terms with mortality (Publishers Weekly). The Pleasure of Their Company: As her eightieth birthday approaches, Doris Grumbach uses the event as an opportunity both to look backward and to grow. She weaves a delightful tapestry of “surprising and meaningful observations,” allowing readers a glimpse into her life and the characters that have peopled her nearly eight decades on Earth (Library Journal). Extra Innings: This New York Times Notable Book follows a year in Doris Grumbach’s life, beginning with the release of her memoir Coming into the End Zone, and revealing that she possesses as keen an eye in her seventies as she did when she wrote The Spoil of Flowers thirty years earlier. In this “clear, honest picture of her own old age,” Grumbach details each passing month with their trials and triumphs (Library Journal).

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332

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Open Road Media

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1504057090

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Life in a Day

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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The Pleasure of Their Company

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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The Presence of Absence

On Prayers and an Epiphany

By: Doris Grumbach

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The Presence of Absence

On Prayers and an Epiphany

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Named a "Reader's Choice" for 1998 by The Boston Globe When she was twenty-seven, Doris Grumbach was visited by what she recognized as the presence of God. For a woman with no religious education or faith, the event was as unexpected as it was joyful. It was also never repeated. In The Presence of Absence, Grumbach recollects her quest to recover the sense of God's presence through formal worship, private devotion, and the study of literary accounts of epiphany. Her account is a moving and inspiring journey through "spiritual radiance," faith, and love.

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Beacon Press

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0807070939

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9780807070932

Chamber Music

By: Doris Grumbach

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Chamber Music

By: Doris Grumbach

I believe Chamber Music will be a classic. It deserves to be." --Alice Walker

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W. W. Norton & Company

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0393309452

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9780393309454

Extra Innings

A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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A Memoir

By: Doris Grumbach

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Notes on the Elements of Behavioral Science

By: Doris Zumpe,Richard P. Michael

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Notes on the Elements of Behavioral Science

By: Doris Zumpe,Richard P. Michael

These notes are intended to help undergraduates who need to understand something of behavior both for its intrinsic interest and for their future careers in medicine, biology, psychology, anthropology, veterinary medicine, and nursing. In Emory University's Biology Department, a single-semester course called Evolutionary Perspectives on Behavior is given to undergraduates. It amounts to four, not eight months of study, so a great deal of compression is essential. There are several excellent textbooks available that deal with behavioral science from different perspectives, but we have found them too compendious for use in a short course when students are so heavily burdened; it is unsatisfactory to direct them to a chapter here and there in several different books or to this or that review article and original paper. In this volume, we have tried effectively and inexpensively to put in one place what we know is needed. The topics we have selected deal with their subjects in a simple, straightforward way without being too superficial. We could not cover everything and the gaps are not entirely idiosyncratic but reflect what students are given very well in other courses. Thus, there is no mention of the physiology of the axon and synapse; learning, memory, cognition, and basic genetics are hardly touched upon because students know about these matters from elsewhere.

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352

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Springer Science & Business Media

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1461512395

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Fifty Days of Solitude

By: Doris Grumbach

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Fifty Days of Solitude

By: Doris Grumbach

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Beacon Press

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0807070610

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9780807070611

EBOOK General Practice Nursing

By: Lynne Walker,Doris Young

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EBOOK General Practice Nursing

By: Lynne Walker,Doris Young

General Practice Nursing is the first Australian textbook developed specifically for practice nurses. The textbook provides practice nurses with information on a range of clinical and professional topics in a concise, easy to read format. This textbook offers practice nurses information on a range of clinical and professional topics in a concise, easy to read format. General Practice Nursing offers evidence based, contextual information supported by case studies to assist nurses in applying theory to practice. Clinical topics such as immunisation, triage, mental health, wound management, pharmacology and chronic disease management will be coupled with more broad, general topics such as the role of the practice nurse, the Australian health system, the scope of general practice, building research capacity, evidence based practice, continuing professional development and nurse led care. To encourage reflective practice, each chapter includes questions throughout the text, testimonials and reflection questions. General Practice Nursing uses a similar format to the highly successful textbook John Murtagh’s General Practice, with colourful, easy to read headings and photographs.

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McGraw-Hill Education Australia

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1743765428

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9781743765425

Book's by Doris Grumbach

Coming into the End Zone

Coming into the End Zone

Life in a Day

Life in a Day

Fifty Days of Solitude

Fifty Days of Solitude

The Pleasure of Their Company

The Pleasure of Their Company

Fifty Days of Solitude

Fifty Days of Solitude

The Presence of Absence

The Presence of Absence

Extra Innings

Extra Innings

The Collected Memoirs Volume One

The Collected Memoirs Volume One

Life in a Day

Life in a Day

The Pleasure of Their Company

The Pleasure of Their Company

The Presence of Absence

The Presence of Absence

Chamber Music

Chamber Music

Extra Innings

Extra Innings

Notes on the Elements of Behavioral Science

Notes on the Elements of Behavioral Science

Fifty Days of Solitude

Fifty Days of Solitude

EBOOK General Practice Nursing

EBOOK General Practice Nursing

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