MY URUGUAY Vignettes from a Way of Life By Tony Beckwith “My Uruguay” is a collection of fifty short-short stories set in the 1950s and 1960s. Part coming-of-age memoir, part meditation on life in a multicultural environment, the universal themes running through these vignettes will resonate with readers as the narrative describes a way of life that at times, though lived elsewhere, seems comfortably familiar. Uruguay is a small Spanish-speaking country on the Atlantic coast of South America. The author grew up there, in the seaside city of Montevideo, where his family was part of a close-knit expat community. His reminiscences of those formative years in a seemingly magical time and place explore the whims and foibles of a community that was, in many ways, more British than the British, at a time when the sun was already setting on the former empire. Traditions brought from the old country are a vital part of the community’s identity, but so is the need to live in the present as members of a cosmopolitan Uruguayan society. “We are British at heart,” says the author’s father in one story, “but our British experience is secondhand. We are cultural hybrids, very fortunate to be enjoying the best of both worlds in a place like Uruguay.” In the fast-moving world of the twenty-first century, it often feels as though there isn’t enough time to read lengthy works of literature at a leisurely pace as people once did. This book provides the ideal solution for those with busy lives and limited time on their hands; each of these brief vignettes can be enjoyed as a complete, uninterrupted experience in just a few minutes. But the writing is so compelling and the stories so vividly told that readers will find it hard to stop at just one.

My Uruguay: Vignettes from a Way of Life

Biographies & Memoirs

BOYKIN, ANNE

Beckwith, Tony

Lindlof, Cynthia

Memoirs

My Uruguay - Vignettes from a Way of Life

Caring is an essential value in the personal and professional lives of nurses. This book is a response to the call for a theory of nursing as caring. The Nursing as Caring theory is about a unique way of living, caring in the world. This theory provides a view that can be lived in all nursing situations and can be practiced alone or in combination with other theories. Please note there is a ten copy minimum order for this title.

Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice: A Model for Transforming Practice (Pub)

Medical Books

Schoenhofer, Savina

Nursing

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Book by Boykin, Anne, Schoenhofer, Savina O., Ph.D.

Nursing As Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice

Schoenhofer, Savina O., Ph.D.

Natl League for Nursing Pr

The Christmas Chameleon is a whimsical story of little chameleon who comes to visit an elderly lady while she decorates her Christmas tree. They share experiences and become friends. The author also designed and illustrated this darling book for children of all ages.

The Christmas Chameleon: A Colorful Tail

Children's Books

Animals

Left - Write Ink

Miss Doofey Opossum is an epic poem, written, designed and illustrated by the author, Anne Boykin. The story is true and tells about the life of an orphaned baby opossum rescued by the author's brother and his best friend. The baby was given to the author's children to raise with the hopes of releasing the opossum back into the wild. The charming and colorful illustrations help to tell Miss Doofey's story, as do the photographs of Miss Doofey. Technical information on opossums and their necessary value in our ecosystem follows after the poem. This book will delight a young audience and parents, as well.

Miss Doofey Opossum

Nursing as CaringA Model for Transforming PracticeBy Anne Boykin and Savina O. SchoenhoferNursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice sets forth a different order of nursing theory. This nursing theory is personal, not abstract. In order to express nursing as caring there is a clear need to know self as caring person. The focus of the Nursing as Caring theory, then, is not toward an end product such as health or wellness. It is about a unique way of living caring in the world. It is about nurses and nursed living life and nurturing growing humanly through participation in life together.The study of human caring as a unique and essential characteristic of nursing practice has gradually expanded from early definitional, philosophical, and cultural research on the meanings of caring, to the explication of theoretical definitions of caring, conceptual models, proposed taxonomy of caring concepts, a great deal of creative experimentation with research methodologies, and the development of several theories of caring.In general, one may say that knowledge of caring has grown in two ways, first by extension and, more recently, by intension. Growth by extension consists of a relatively full explanation of a small region which is then carried over into an explanation of adjoining regions. Growth by extension can be associated with the metaphors of building a model or putting together a jigsaw puzzle (Kaplan, 1964, p. 305).In growth by intension, a partial explanation of a whole region is made more and more adequate and outlines for subsequent theory and observation are clarified. Growth by intension is associated with the metaphor of gradually illuminating a darkened room. A few persons enter the room with their individual lights and are able to slowly perceive what is in that room. As more persons enter the room, it becomes more fully illuminated, and the observed reality is clarified 

Nursing as Caring: A Model for Transforming Practice

Schoenhofer, Savina O.

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

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