Surviving Survival The Art and Science of Resilience

Name: Surviving Survival The Art and Science of Resilience
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ISBN: 9780393346633

ISBN-10: 0393346633

ISBN-13: 9780393346633

Edition: 2013

Authors: Laurence Gonzales

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The shark attacked while she was snorkeling, tearing through Micki Glenn’s breast and shredding her right arm. Her husband, a surgeon, saved her life on the spot, but when she was safely home she couldn’t just go on with her life. She had entered an even more profound survival journey: the aftermath.The survival experience changes everything because it invalidates all your previous adaptations, and the old rules don’t apply. In some cases survivors suffer more in the aftermath than they did during the actual crisis. In all cases, they have to work hard to reinvent themselves. Drawing on gripping cases across a wide range of life-threatening experiences, Laurence Gonzales fashions a…

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List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/14/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.19" long x 1.18" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Laurence Gonzales is the author of Surviving Survival and the bestseller Deep Survival: Who Lives, Who Dies, and Why. He has won two National Magazine Awards and is a fellow of the Santa Fe Institute. His essays are collected in the book House of Pain. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.



Prologue: No Way Home



Be Here Now: From Victim to Rescuer



The Crocodile Within: The Burden of Invisible Memory



The Way of Survival: Rage in the Realm of the Spirits



The Gift of Adversity: A Survivor's Attitude and the Personal Scum Line



The Tyranny of Reason: Blindsight, Gut Feelings, and the Sixth Sense



Want It, Need It, Have It: Of Phantom Limbs and Children



See One, Do One, Teach One: The Secret of Seeking



"Please, God, Let Me Kill Her": Dismantling the Self



Searching for Frankenstein: Knitting with Words



Lessons from Ishmael: The Neurophysiology of Travel



The Bear: One Flew East, One Flew West



The Bricklayer: The Long Way Home



The Courage to Suffer: If He Can Do It, You Can, Too



The Science of Adaptation: There's No Revenge Like Success



The Rules of Life


Author's Note


Notes


References


Acknowledgments


Credits


Index