Bøger af Keith Adams

Selected as a Finalist for the 2013 Eric Hoffer Book Award! Quote lovers now have in one book a collection of many of the wisest things that have ever been said on such topics as family, relationships, art, spirituality, religion, politics, and psychology. Pearls of Wisdom will stimulate your mind, touch your heart, and awaken your soul. The insightful quotations and maxims contained in Pearls of Wisdom are divided into brief chapters that address such topics as family, relationships, art, spirituality, religion, politics, and psychology. These pearls of wisdom will transform your life if you let them. Not only will they help you to make better decisions, they also will increase your level of self-awareness and spur you to make important changes that you have put off for too long. Think of this as your 'little black book' that contains many of the secrets to a more meaningful life.

Elena Shaughnessy, a forty-nine-year-old maternity nurse, never expected to be single again or engaged to Michael Marino, the man whose heart she had broken thirty years ago. Her twin dreads-marrying Michael and not marrying him-keep her awake at night. She calls off the engagement, rebuffs his attempts to reconcile, and disregards his threats to reveal her most intimate secrets, thinking he wouldn't defy the Sicilian code of silence his parents had ingrained in him. While coping with Michael's bullying, her empty nest, and being forced to leave her home and garden near Pittsburgh, Elena finds herself irresistibly drawn to Patrick Jameson, a forty-seven-year-old psychiatrist who hasn't been involved with a woman since his wife died six years ago. Patrick's fear of betraying his late wife's memory threatens to smother the fire he and Elena have set. When Michael exacts his revenge, Elena is ashamed, distraught, and intent on retaliation. She discovers that her ability to thrive in life and love hinges on whether she can find the courage to heal from the emotional wound that has haunted her for decades.

This local history of Warwickshire (now West Midlands) describes the area known as Solihull Lodge in the Victorian period. The area is part of the village of Shirley. The book includes the origin of the name, land usage, local families and industry.

Description Described as "...probably the most entertaining account of mania you'll ever read...", this raw, inspirational, story shows that a man can live a full, productive life with a serious mental illness. In 2006, Keith, in the midst of an immense undiagnosed manic episode, cut a swath through the Corridor of Dreams - the swanky swathe of the West side of LA stretching from the Hollywood Hills to the boulevards of Beverly Hills, believing he would be an epochal intellectual cum gay Hollywood superstar cum spiritual messiah. Of course, he became none of these, and crashed spectacularly.With its tale of luxury goods, spiritual discovery, thrust for glory, brilliant ideas, not so brilliant ideas, one impersonation of the Anti-Christ, fist-fights, arrest by the LAPD, and, ultimately, a diagnosis of bipolar disorder, it asks if the gleaming personality he became - now chained up by mood stabilizers - is the real self; and, if it is not, is there any such thing as a real self?About the AuthorKeith Adams perennially wonders how an abnormally tall, working-class boy from the North Sea coast of England ended up in a house in Hollywood with two dogs, and his partner, a leading medical research scientist at UCLA. Although he writes for a living (computer code), he always hoped to do "real writing", from experience. That opportunity came from being diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 2006, after a serious brush with insanity. At one point, he seriously believed he would be a combination gay superstar / epochal intellectual / latter day Messiah. Quite obviously, he became none of those things, but he did survive the inevitable crash to tell the tale, thanks to the support of friends and family.

Denne unikke bog, beskriver alle detaljer de turbolente år fra slutningen af 1950'erne og til den bitre ende i 1984, hvor den stolte og traditionsrige bilfabrik Triumph, måtte dreje nøglen om. Denne bog giver et særdeles godt indblik i de muligheder, som en inkompetent ledelse smed på gulvet i disse år. Så hvis du har interesse for klassiske biler, er dette simpelthen en bog du må eje