Empty Hands, A Memoir
Title | Empty Hands, A Memoir PDF eBook |
Author | Sister Abegail Ntleko |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Pages | 161 |
Release | 2015-09-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1583949321 |
Empty Hands is the inspiring memoir of Zulu nurse and healthcare activist Sister Abegail Ntleko. Growing up poor in a rural village with a father who didn't believe in educating girls, against seemingly insurmountable odds Sister Abegail earned her nursing degree and began work as a community nurse and educator, dedicating her life to those in need. "Her story tells us," says Desmond Tutu, who wrote the foreword to the book, "what a single person can accomplish when heart and mind work together in the service of others." Overcoming poverty and racism within the apartheid South African system, she adopted her first child at a time when it was unheard of to do so. And then she did it again and again. In forty years she has taken in and cared for hundreds of children who had nothing, saving babies—many of them orphans whose parents died of AIDS—from hospitals that were ready to give up on them and let them die. Empty Hands describes the harshness of Ntleko's circumstances with wit and wisdom in direct, beautifully understated prose and will appeal not only to activists and aid workers, but to anyone who believes in the power of the human spirit to rise above suffering and find peace, joy, and purpose. "Ntleko's story, which she tells in simple language, is inspiring and moving. She neither dwells in nor dramatizes the hardships she has faced, preferring instead to focus on 'fill[ing] her hands with love and then spend[ing] all that love until [her] hands are empty again.' A brief, genuine, heartfelt memoir of an awe-inspiring life."—Kirkus Reviews
The Hubris of an Empty Hand
Title | The Hubris of an Empty Hand PDF eBook |
Author | Mahyar A. Amouzegar |
Publisher | University of New Orleans Press |
Pages | |
Release | 2021 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9781608012220 |
In eight ethereal stories, The Hubris of an Empty Hand encompasses the frailty and complexity of being human. When some divine gifts fall into decidedly earthly hands, the results are almost beyond reckoning for humans and gods both. Through its wide cast of characters and fascinating settings, terrestrial, divine, or somewhere in-between, Mayhar A. Amouzegar's fourth book of fiction takes on timeless questions of love and its permanence, sacrifice, and the human desire to be remembered and known.
Karate: The Art of Empty Hand Fighting
Title | Karate: The Art of Empty Hand Fighting PDF eBook |
Author | Hidetaka Nishiyama |
Publisher | Tuttle Publishing |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2019-03-12 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 146292073X |
"The first complete and most authoritative book on the technique of unarmed self-defense…A fully illustrated manual giving step-by-step explanations of all the fundamentals of karate. --Robert Klaverkamp, UPI"
The Multiversity: Guidebook (2014-) #1
Title | The Multiversity: Guidebook (2014-) #1 PDF eBook |
Author | Grant Morrison |
Publisher | DC |
Pages | 78 |
Release | |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
The guidebook to the greatest adventure in DC's history is here! With a detailed concordance featuring each of the 52 worlds in the Multiverse, a complete history of DC Comics' universe-shattering "Crisis" events, a map of all known existence, AND an action-packed dual adventure starring Kamandi of Earth-51 alongside the post-apocalyptic Atomic Knight Batman of Earth-17 and chibi Batman of Earth-42, this 80-page mountain of MULTIVERSITY madness cannot be missed! The MULTIVERSITY GUIDEBOOK contains everything you ever wanted to know about DC's parallel worlds and their super-heroic inhabitants. Meet the Agents of W.O.N.D.E.R. The Light Brigade, the Super-Americans and the Love Syndicate! Meet the Accelerated Man, Aquaflash, BiOmac and more! Overflowing with today's top artists and completely written by Grant Morrison himself, readers of the DC Universe can't afford to pass up this oversized, sixth chapter of MULTIVERSITY!
The Multiversity (2014-) #2
Title | The Multiversity (2014-) #2 PDF eBook |
Author | Grant Morrison |
Publisher | DC |
Pages | 56 |
Release | |
Genre | Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN |
Every event in the history of the DC Universe has been leading to this! The final chapter of the greatest adventure of all time is here! Who are the mystic Justice League of Earth-13 and what role does their leader Super Demon play in the crisis rising all around them? What shocking secret motivates the dark, nightmare henchmen known as The Gentry? And what is the final fate of Nix Uotan--the Super-God?!
Spirit of the Empty Hand
Title | Spirit of the Empty Hand PDF eBook |
Author | Stan Schmidt |
Publisher | Damashi Publications |
Pages | 251 |
Release | 1984 |
Genre | Sports & Recreation |
ISBN | 9780911921021 |
The Law of the Fist and the Empty Hand
Title | The Law of the Fist and the Empty Hand PDF eBook |
Author | Ed Parker |
Publisher | Literary Licensing, LLC |
Pages | 156 |
Release | 2011-10-01 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781258133900 |