Smoking Memoir

When boxing was bold, bright, and glamorous and the fights were the hottest sporting events of the year, Joe Frazier was king as the Heavyweight Champion of the World. From 1970 to 1973 he reigned. With a career record of 32-4-1 with twenty-seven knockouts and an Olympic gold medal, Frazier leaves little question that he was one of the greatest fighters of all time.

When he turned 65, the playwright Simon Gray began to keep a diary: not a careful honing of the days' events with a view to posterity but an account of his thoughts as he had them, honestly, turbulently, digressively expressed. One of Britain's most amusing and original writers reflects on a life filled with cigarettes (continuing), alcohol (stopped), several triumphs and many more disasters - a record of shame, adultery, friendship and love. Few diarists have ever been so frank about themselves and even fewer so entertaining.

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A great many writers use their own lives as the raw material for their work, but few have done it with the wit and courage of Simon Gray. Like his previous best seller, The Smoking Diaries, The Year of the Jouncer has the rare ability to make you laugh aloud one moment and ponder the sad mysteries of mortality the next - and sometimes to do both at the same time.

Chronicling his own life and times, William B. Davis, the actor who played the notorious villain Cancerman on The X-Files, discusses his loves, losses, hopes, fears, and accomplishments in this unique and engaging autobiography. An all-access look into the life of a versatile actor, this life story includes anecdotes, recollections, and gossip from roles with such greats as Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Martin Sheen, Brian Dennehy, and Donald Sutherland. From theater school in Britain to Hollywood and appearances on Smallville and Stargate SG-1, this memoir recalls one actor’s journey.

Simon Gray is determined to give up smoking. Really. At last. Can he kick the habit of 60 years? Will he, sometime soon, be able to leave his house without nervously feeling for his two packets of 20 and his two lighters, and add no more singes to his cardigan? As this wonderful, wayward record of Gray's life progresses, these questions are overtaken by much larger ones. What is that lady on the plane to Athens doing with her nose? What was sex like before 1963? Will his name be in lights on Broadway? Why did he leave the bedside of his dying mother?

Annita Sawyer's memoir is a harrowing, heroic, and redeeming story of her battle with mental illness, and her triumph in overcoming it. In 1960, as a suicidal teenager, Sawyer was institutionalized, misdiagnosed, and suffered through 89 electroshock treatments before being transferred, labeled as "unimproved". The damage done has haunted her life.

This audiobook offers practical tips to help you break your nicotine addiction and kick the cigarette habit for good. Many experts believe smoking is only about 10 percent physical addiction and a whopping 90 percent psychological addiction. That's why you have to be committed to a program that will help you stick to your commitment to leave cigarettes behind you and become a nonsmoker. Probably the best way to start is to work on those psychological barriers that will keep your from succeeding.

¿Recuerdan la época en que Lauren Bacall pedía fuego, Marlene Dietrich lucía una larga boquilla y Marlon Brando escupía una colilla? El cigarrillo era un ritual, una forma de conquistar la edad adulta, y, para las mujeres, tener los mismos vicios que los hombres. A través de su relación con el cigarrillo, la autora describe y narra el placer de fumar y el duelo de tener que hacerlo.

An Invented Life shares the story of Alan Amron, a visionary inventor. Even as a child, Alan found it fascinating to create new things, always exploring and trying to understand how everything worked. In the book, Alan tells his story and shares snippets from his childhood and youth in Brooklyn, how he always looked at things differently with deeper insight. This is his journey. Even though he is the inventor of the Post-it sticky notes, he was ripped off of his invention due to an unfortunate set of events. But accepting defeat is not in his nature, so he kept fighting.

Paul Khan is a strong advocate for smoke-free environments. With a background in computer graphics at Alias Research Inc., Khan has asked the design illustrators to let the listener realize how toxic smoking really is. Paul also worked as a news reporter so he believes he can deliver this message. Khan thinks a smoker in Canada has very few rights. Although this is in no way, shape, or form to discriminate against smokers, especially since Paul Khan himself is a reformed smoker.

A través de este libro el lector podrá conocer algunas curiosidades, actores, errores, secretos y otras singularidades que rodean al más famoso agente, al Servicio Secreto de Su Majestad, James Bond; como el mundo de su creador el, a menudo, desconocido Ian Fleming ya que su personaje es mucho más famoso queél. Todo esto visto desde la perspectiva de un gran fan.