Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most - Couverture rigide

Shriver, Timothy P.

 
9780374280918: Fully Alive: Discovering What Matters Most
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ISBN 10 : 0374280916 ISBN 13 : 9780374280918
Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 2014

Synopsis

As chairman of Special Olympics, Timothy P. Shriver has dedicated his life to the world's most forgotten minority - people with intellectual disabilities. And in a time when we are all more rudderless than ever, when we've lost our sense of what's ultimately important, when we hunger for stability but get only uncertainty, he has looked to them for guidance. Fully Alive chronicles Shriver's discovery of a radically different, and inspiring, way of life. We see straight into the lives of those who seem powerless but who have turned that into a power of their own, and through them learn that we are all totally vulnerable and totally valuable at the same time. In addition, Shriver offers a new look at his family: his parents, Sargent and Eunice Shriver, and his uncles, John, Robert, and Edward Kennedy, all of whom were resolute advocates for those on the margins. Here, for the first time, Shriver explores the tremendous impact his aunt Rosemary, born with intellectual disabilities, had on his entire family and their legacy.

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À propos de l?auteur

Timothy Shriver is an educator, a social activist, a film producer, and an entrepreneur. He has led Special Olympics, an organization that serves upward of four million athletes in 170 countries, for more than a decade. Shriver is perhaps best known for cofounding--and currently chairing--the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL), the leading research organization in the United States in the field of social and emotional learning. He lives in Maryland with his wife. They have five children.

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Éditeur
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0374280916
ISBN 13 
9780374280918
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
304
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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