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Author Elvin Stanton traces Faulkner's personal and public life through seven decades of notable Alabama service. Beginning with his modest upbringing on a red-dirt farm, proceeding through his early days as the owner-publisher of a small daily newspaper, Faulkner is revealed in Faith and Works as a man dedicated to the public good. At age 24, he served as mayor of Bay Minette, which has been his home since the 1930s. He went on to the Alabama State Senate, and after he left elective politics has continued to work behind the scenes for industrial ad economic development. But perhaps his biggest passion has been education: Faulkner has spent a lifetime trying to improve Alabama's educational system, and now has two colleges named in his honor. The story of Jimmy Faulkner is one of courage, inspiration, and faith.
Back pain is one of the world's greatest public health challenges. It is the leading reason we visit the doctor, the leading reason we take time off work, the biggest cause of disability worldwide. Around one in 10 people will develop chronic, life-ruining back pain. And rates are growing. A multi-billion dollar industry exists that claims it can fix back pain - by shrinking discs, melting nerves, cutting spines up and putting them back together. Yet leading experts say more often than not, all this expensive medicine is making things worse. Liam Mannix is one of the many who live with back pain, and he takes his own experience as a starting point for this compelling and urgent work of investigative journalism. In the last 20 years, a new theory has emerged, born from cutting-edge neuroscience. It claims back pain often has little to do with the back or the discs or the spine. Instead, back pain is all about the brain. This new science offers new solutions - including, remarkably, evidence that just by teaching people the new theory of pain we can reduce it.
I lost my possessions, my salary, my status, my career, my country. And in that fall I gained everything. Bhutan is known as the land of Gross National Happiness, a Buddhist Shangri-la hidden in the Himalayas. But in the late 1980s Bhutan waged a brutal ethnic-cleansing campaign against its citizens of Nepali ancestry, including Om Dhungel and his family. Bhutan to Blacktown tells Om Dhungels remarkable story his journey from a remote village to a senior position in the Bhutanese Civil Service to life as a human rights activist in Nepal and, eventually to his work as a community leader in Blacktown western Sydney. Every step prepared Om for the central role he would play in settling more than 5000 Bhutanese refugees in one of the most successful refugee initiatives in Australias history. Written with Walkley Award-winning journalist James Button Bhutan to Blacktown is a story of grit and struggle humour and irrepressible optimism and how losing nearly everything shaped one mans character and fate.
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