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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451113703321

Autore

Grahl Gary A

Titolo

Skinny boy [[electronic resource] ] : a young man's battle and triumph over anorexia / / by Gary A. Grahl

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Clearfield, Utah, : American Legacy Media, 2007

ISBN

0-9761547-7-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

616.85/2620092 B

616.852620092

Soggetti

Anorexia nervosa

Eating disorders

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1. Sign of the Obsession; 2. Helpless; 3. The Ride; 4. And Your Name is...?; 5. The Iron Giant; 6. The Fifty Cent Tour; 7. Chandra; 8. Group Therapy; 9. Atalanta The Private Investigator; 10. O. T.; 11. Scrabble; 12. The Doctor is In(sane); 13. Send the Alternate; 14. The Battle of O. T., 1986; 15. What about Bob?; 16. My Free Get-Out-of-Prom Card; 17. Chandra's Discharge; 18. My Post-Prom; 19. Let's Play Hide the Tunafish--Twice; 20. D-Day; 21. Illusion Theories for All Occasions; 22. The Letter; 23. Bacon Anyone?; 24. And the Award For Best Actor Goes To...

25. Am I Ever Glad To Smell You26. One Sharp Package?; 27. Back So Soon?; 28. Dr. Buckmier's Warning; 29. Wet Dream; 30. Can't You See the "No Trespassing" Sign?; 31. The Power of YOU; 32. An Idol Visit; 33. The Warning; 34. The Infatuation Begins; 35. Busted; 36. Ariel's Lessons: Girls 101; 37. The Elevator Ride to Heaven; 38. Bad News; 39. Musical Toast; 40. The Session; 41. Courage; 42. Trash IT; Epilogue; Acknowledgement

Sommario/riassunto

Gary Grahl was both handsome and popular, a boy whose athletic abilities attracted the attention of the big leagues . . . until ""IT,"" a shaming inner-voice that convinced him to be ever thinner. His out-of-control compulsion to exercise and starve himself led to multiple



hospitalizations, and a life and death battle to win control over the pervasive and dangerous ""IT.""Skinny Boy is a powerful story showing how anyone can win the internal battle between mind and body, and triumph over the out-of-control thoughts and feelings common to many mental disorders. Sk

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790284003321

Autore

McWhiney Grady

Titolo

Cracker Culture [[electronic resource] ] : Celtic Ways in the Old South

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tuscaloosa, : University of Alabama Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8173-8452-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (336 p.)

Disciplina

305.5690975

975.03

975/.03

Soggetti

Southern States -- Civilization -- 1775-1865

Southern States -- Civilization -- Celtic influences

United States -- Southern states -- Poor white persons -- Social conditions, 1865-1970

Regions & Countries - Americas

History & Archaeology

United States Local History

Southern States Civilization Celtic influences

Southern States Civilization 1775-1865

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Illustrations; Preface; Prologue; I. Settlement; II. Heritage; III. Herding; IV. Hospitality; V. Pleasures; VI. Violence; VII. Morals; VIII. Education; IX. Progress; X. Worth; XI. Collision; Appendix; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history. Among Scotch-Irish settlers the



term "Cracker" initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an economic condition. Although all poor whites were Crackers, not all Crackers were poor whites; both, however, were Southerners. The author insists that Southerners and North