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The Trauma Cleaner

One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

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The Trauma Cleaner

One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

Winner of the Victorian Prize for Literature, Sarah Krasnostein’s The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman’s Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster is the fascinating biography of one of the people responsible for tidying up homes in the wake of natural—and unnatural—catastrophes and fatalities. Homicides and suicides, fires and floods, hoarders and addicts. When properties are damaged or neglected, it falls to Sandra Pankhurst, founder of Specialized Trauma Cleaning (STC) Services Pty. Ltd. to sift through the ashes or sweep up the mess of a person’s life or death. Her clients include law enforcement, real estate agents, executors of deceased estates, and charitable organizations representing victimized, mentally ill, elderly, and physically disabled people. In houses and buildings that have fallen into disrepair, Sandra airs out residents’ smells, throws out their weird porn, their photos, their letters, the last traces of their DNA entombed in soaps and toothbrushes. The remnants and mementoes of these people’s lives resonate with Sandra. Before she began professionally cleaning up their traumas, she experienced her own. First, as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home. Then as a husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, and trophy wife. In each role she played, all Sandra wanted to do was belong. The Trauma Cleaner is the extraordinary true story of an extraordinary person dedicated to making order out of chaos with compassion, revealing the common ground Sandra Pankhurst—and everyone—shares with those struck by tragedy.

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1250101212

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9781250101211

The Believer

Encounters with Love, Death & Faith

By: Sarah Krasnostein

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The Believer

Encounters with Love, Death & Faith

By: Sarah Krasnostein

This book is about ghosts and gods and flying saucers and certainty in the absence of knowledge. From award-winning author Sarah Krasnostein comes an exploration of the power of belief. Weaving together the stories of six extraordinary ordinary people, The Believer looks at the stories we tell ourselves to deal with the distance between the world as it is, and the world as we’d like it to be. How they can stunt us – or save us. Some of the people you will meet believe in things most people don’t. Ghosts. UFOs. Heaven and the Devil. The literal creation of the universe in six days. Others believe in things most people would like to. Dying with autonomy. Facing one’s own transgressions with an open heart. In this intensely personal and gorgeously written new book, Krasnostein talks with her characteristic compassion and empathy to these believers – and finds out what happens when their beliefs crash into her own.

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1922458570

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The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

By: Sarah Krasnostein

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The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

By: Sarah Krasnostein

A Best Book of the Month at The Philadelphia Inquirer “Deeply beautiful, and never simple.” —James Gleick, author of Time Travel: A History An unforgettable tour of the human condition that explores our universal need for belief to help us make sense of life, death, and everything in between. For Sarah Krasnostein it begins with a Mennonite choir performing on a subway platform, a fleeting moment of witness that sets her on a fascinating journey to discover why people need to believe in absolute truths and what happens when their beliefs crash into her own. Some of the people Krasnostein interviews believe in things many people do not: ghosts, UFOs, the literal creation of the universe in six days. Some believe in things most people would like to: dying with dignity and autonomy; facing up to our transgressions with truthfulness; living with integrity and compassion. By turns devastating and uplifting, and captured in snapshot-vivid detail, these six profiles of a death doula, a geologist who believes the world is six thousand years old, a lecturer in neurobiology who spends his weekends ghost hunting, the fiancée of a disappeared pilot and UFO enthusiasts, a woman incarcerated for killing her husband after suffering years of domestic violence, and Mennonite families in New York will leave you convinced that the most ordinary-seeming people are often the most remarkable and that deep and abiding commonalities can be found within the greatest differences. Vivid, unconventional, entertaining, and full of wonder, The Believer interweaves these stories with compassion and empathy, culminating in an unforgettable tour of the human condition that cuts to the core of who we are as people, and what we’re doing on this earth.

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Tin House Books

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1953534074

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The Trauma Cleaner

One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

By: Sarah Krasnostein

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The Trauma Cleaner

One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

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A woman who sleeps among garbage she has not put out for forty years. A man who bled quietly to death in his living room. A woman who lives with rats, random debris, and terrified delusion. The still life of a home vacated by accidental overdose. Sarah Krasnostein has watched ... Sandra Pankhurst bring order and care to these, the living and the dead"--Dust jacket flap.

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The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

By: Sarah Krasnostein

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Sentencing and Human Rights

The Limits on Punishment

By: Sarah J Summers

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Sentencing and Human Rights

The Limits on Punishment

By: Sarah J Summers

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read at Oxford Scholarship Online and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations. There has been little sustained consideration of the ways in which human rights act to safeguard the individual from substantive unfairness or injustice in the imposition of punishment. Human rights might be expected to play a pivotal role at the sentencing stage, regulating the process and substance of sentencing, mapping out the state's role, and affording it legitimacy in the imposition of punishment. The traditional view that sentencing theory is best understood as a branch of moral philosophy has obscured the importance of consideration of the special nature of state punishment as mediated by and through law and the significance of human rights principles, notably legality, proportionality, equality, and judicial responsibility for the determination of the sentence. Sarah J Summers focusses on sentencing practices which are widespread across Europe and indeed further afield and their compatibility with constitutional or human rights principles. Sentencing and Human Rights develops a systematic account of the importance of human rights principles at sentencing stage. Consideration of these principles provides the basis for an examination of the way in which they might be expected to limit important sentencing practices, such as the imposition of aggravated sentences for previous convictions, the treatment of confessions and mandatory minimum sentences. It is not just that punishment follows a multitude of aims but rather that the balance of these aims may, and in the context of lengthy prison sentences almost certainly will, change during the sentence. This examination of the human rights limits on the sentence suggests that it might be necessary to reconsider the way in which state punishment is conceptualised in sentencing theory.

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0192697617

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Not Waving, Drowning

Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia: Quarterly Essay 85

By: Sarah Krasnostein

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Not Waving, Drowning

Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia: Quarterly Essay 85

By: Sarah Krasnostein

How can we mend Australia’s broken mental health system? Mental illness is the great isolator - and the great unifier. Almost half of us will suffer from it at some point in our lives; it affects everybody in one way or another. Yet today Australia's mental health system is under stress and not fit for purpose, and the pandemic is only making things worse. What is to be done? In this brilliant mix of portraiture and analysis, Sarah Krasnostein tells the stories of three women and their treatment by the state while at their most unwell. What do their experiences tell us about the likelihood of institutional and cultural change? Krasnostein argues that we live in a society that often punishes vulnerability, but shows we have the resources to mend a broken system. But do we have the will to do so, or must the patterns of the past persist into the future? "In our conception of government, and our willingness to fund it, we are closer to the Nordic countries than to America. However, we're trending towards the latter with a new story of Australia. The moral of this new story is freedom over equality, and one freedom above all - the freedom to be unbothered by others' needs. However, as we continue to saw ourselves off our perch, mental health might be the great unifier that climate change and the pandemic aren't." Sarah Krasnostein, Not Waving, Drowning This issue also contains correspondence discussing Quarterly Essay 84, The Reckoning, from Gina Rushton & Hannah Ryan, Amber Schultz, Malcolm Knox, Janet Albrechtsen, Kieran Pender, Sara Dowse, Nareen Young, and Jess Hill

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174382209X

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Making Peace with Depression

A warm, supportive little book to lift low mood and ease despair

By: Sarah Rayner,Kate Harrison,Dr Patrick Fitzgerald

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Making Peace with Depression

A warm, supportive little book to lift low mood and ease despair

By: Sarah Rayner,Kate Harrison,Dr Patrick Fitzgerald

Is depression or low mood stopping you from living life to its fullest? Are you feeling alone, struggling to find a way through? Making Peace with Depression is here to help. In this comforting and supportive little book, bestselling authors Sarah Rayner and Kate Harrison, with Dr Patrick Fitzgerald, draw on their own experiences of living with depression and share their life-changing coping techniques that have helped them manage low mood and depressive episodes. They explain that actively trying to fight your depression can actually prolong your suffering – instead, making peace with difficult emotions and compassionately accepting them can restore mental health and happiness. Packed with simple and effective tips, this must-have handbook explores: - The psychological and physical symptoms of depression and tips to cope. - How to stop the spiral of negative thinking and boost your self-esteem. - What to do when you suffer from suicidal thoughts. - How to seek help and get a diagnosis. - Different therapies and medications to help you recover. - Evidence-based tips to avoid relapse. Uplifting, hopeful and compassionate, Making Peace with Depression will help you on your path to recovery, and shows you how to rediscover joy and contentment every day. Read what everyone is saying about Making Peace with Depression: ‘I ABSOLUTELY loved this… so practical, so down to earth, so non-preachy and so relatable.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars ‘Amazing read!!!!!... I laughed and I cried as I can relate to almost something in every page.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars ‘A gem. Full of compassion, understanding, humour and practical advice… Read this book and you feel you've found a friend. A real lifeline for those living with depression.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars ‘Perfect book… a superbly structured and well thought-out guide… offers just the right amount of information to help you… extremely helpful and thought-provoking… possibly the best guide I've ever read.’ Amazing reviewer, 5 stars ‘Brilliant… wish I had had this book years ago.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars ‘Brilliant little book, helped me immensely.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars ‘Absolutely fantastic… amazing.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars ‘Helped so much. I read this book in 2 days... I felt the most relaxed I have in a long time. It feels like a supportive friend giving you the best advice.’ Amazon reviewer, 5 stars

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Not Waving, Drowning

Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia: Quarterly Essay 85

By: Sarah Krasnostein

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Mental Illness and Vulnerability in Australia: Quarterly Essay 85

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The Sarah Pekkanen Reader's Companion

A Collection of Excerpts

By: Sarah Pekkanen

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The Sarah Pekkanen Reader's Companion

A Collection of Excerpts

By: Sarah Pekkanen

In this collection of excerpts, enjoy a taste of Sarah Pekkanen’s captivating novels, including The Opposite of Me, Skipping a Beat, These Girls, and The Best of Us.

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Simon and Schuster

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1476727880

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9781476727882

Sarah Palin Uncut

By: Sarah Palin

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Sarah Palin Uncut

By: Sarah Palin

Take away the liberal media bias and manipulating sound bites, and what you're left with is Sarah Palin Uncut, a collection of rallies, speeches, and calls to action. The powerful yet heartfelt words, in context, leave the reader with the purest impression of the nation's trailblazer and inspiration behind the emergence of the powerful and influential Tea Party movement, Sarah Palin.

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Book's by Sarah Krasnostein

The Trauma Cleaner

The Trauma Cleaner

The Believer

The Believer

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

The Trauma Cleaner

The Trauma Cleaner

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

The Believer: Encounters with the Beginning, the End, and our Place in the Middle

Sentencing and Human Rights

Sentencing and Human Rights

Not Waving, Drowning

Not Waving, Drowning

Making Peace with Depression

Making Peace with Depression

Not Waving, Drowning

Not Waving, Drowning

The Sarah Pekkanen Reader's Companion

The Sarah Pekkanen Reader's Companion

Sarah Palin Uncut

Sarah Palin Uncut

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