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LA REINA PROFETICA
by Mirella Sichirollo PatzerUn gran libro que te mantendra enganchado de principio a fin por su grandiosa historia,que no te dejara indiferente,un gran libro recomendado.
La Salle: La Salle and the Mississippi River (Exploring the World)
by Ann HeinrichsA biography of the seventeenth-century French explorer who was the first European to travel the entire length of the Mississippi River, claiming for France not only the river, but also all the land whose waters fed into it.
La Salle: Claiming The Mississippi River For France (The Library Of Explorers And Exploration Series)
by Simone PaymentRene-Robert Cavalier, Sieur de La Salle devoted his life to the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi River. He believed that the great river would provide him with an easier route to China, where he could find valuable silks and spices. His revised goal was to create a French empire in North America that would stretch from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico. This book follows La Salle on his tireless expeditions and teaches readers the value of persistence even when no one else believes in the cause.
La Salle
by Kristin PetrieThis biography introduces young readers to the life of Frenchman René-Robert Cavalier de La Salle. Readers learn about La Salle's childhood, education, and family life in France as well as his time in New France as a farmer and a fur trader. La Salle's exploration of the Ohio River for New France's governor Daniel de Rémy, Sieur de Courcelles is discussed. Also introduced is Jacques Marquette and Louis Jolliet's exploration of the Mississippi River during La Salle's time. Readers discover that King Louis XIV of France granted La Salle permission to explore western New France. And using a detailed map, readers follow La Salle's path through Lakes Ontario, Erie, Huron, and Michigan; his stops in present-day Green Bay, Wisconsin, and St. Joseph, Michigan; and his trips down the Kankakee, Illinois, and Arkansas rivers to the Gulf of Mexico. The book explains that La Salle was the first European to explore the length of the Mississippi River, he claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France, and that the United States bought this territory from France in an agreement called the Louisiana Purchase. Full-color photos, an index, a timeline, discussion questions, bold glossary terms, and phonetics accompany easy-to-read text.
La Salle and the Discovery of the Great West
by Francis ParkmanThis book, based on the eleventh edition of Parkman's classic study The Discovery of the Great West, reflects the author's access to new materials relating to La Salle's explorations.
La Soeur juive
by Lázaro Droznes Quentin StoumontPièce de théâtre qui présente Edith Stein et son destin incroyable, résumé des caractéristiques essentielles de la plus grande tragédie du XXe siècle : le nazisme. Edith Stein est une philosophe allemande juive qui s'est convertie au catholicisme avant de rejoindre l'ordre des Carmélites. En réponse aux plaintes du clergé néerlandais au sujet du mauvais traitement accordé aux juifs, elle est envoyée à Auschwitz, où elle est assassinée. Elle est canonisée par l'Église catholique, avant d'être proclamée sainte et copatronne de l'Europe. À Auschwitz, elle reçoit la visite d'un ancien camarade de l'université qui lui demande sa collaboration pour jeter les bases théoriques d'une nouvelle religion adaptée au régime nazi. Cette fiction présente la progression du conflit entre deux visions du monde que rien ne pourrait jamais réconcilier.
La spaccatura
by Patrick LoiseauÈ la storia personale di un naufragio, poi di una ricomposizione, grazie alla scrittura. Una lotta contro la malattia e contro uno spettro sociale: quello in cui la disaggregazione dell'individuo va di pari passo con quella della nostra società.
La Verdad: A Witness to the Salvadoran Martyrs
by Lucia Cerna Mary Jo IgnoffoA firsthand account of the El Salvador martyrdoms and the process of resettling in the United States by Lucia Cerna, a housekeeper at the UCA, through transcribed interviews; also an academic and politically adept reading of El Salvador's history and the vagaries of the American immigration system by a local scholar and professor.
La vida promesa
by Enric Larreula«Los ideales de mis antepasados persisten.» Aquesta no és una història real, però quasi, perquè la mena de persones que protagonitzen la gran aventura que és La vida promesa van existir realment a tot Europa. Encara avui, en queden rastres al mig de la selva. Un noi universitari implicat en el Procés d'independència troba, en morir el seu avi, el dietari que el seu besavi va escriure quan tot just era un nen i després un jove. Som als anys vint a la Barcelona llibertària. Un matrimoni d'obrers, tan idealista com utòpic, decideix comprar un tros de selva al Brasil amb la il·lusió de construir-hi de cap i de nou un país perfecte. Una Catalunya nova. El fill té tot just vuit anys quan comença aquella gran aventura de la qual ell anirà deixant constància al dietari. Amb una simplicitat i una tendresa que corprenen, el lector estimarà les il·lusions tan esforçades com utòpiques d'aquells perdedors. És el moment històric en què els carrers es batejaven amb noms com Llibertat, Univers, Fraternitat, Igualtat..., el gran moment dels ideals anàrquics i universalistes. Obrers que parlaven l'esperanto, que eren vegetarians, animalistes... i que creien que amb esforç i dedicació la humanitat podria ser perfecta. Enric Larreula ens diu que d'acord, la gent que vol canviar el món són sempre uns grans ingenus, uns tossuts, però també són sempre els més generosos. I ho perden tot menys l'esperança. Els seus ideals sempre tornen. Potser en aquesta dramàtica història els vells ideals reneixen a través del besnet, que descobreix astorat com les seves lluites ja eren les dels seus avantpassats?
La vita a volte fa vomitare: Come ho sconfitto il mio disturbo alimentare
by Nina FederleinPurtroppo, i disturbi psicosomatici sono molto comuni oggi. Le persone affette e l'ambiente circostante spesso sperimentano una forte sensazione di impotenza in considerazione del quadro clinico e del decorso di tali patologie. In questo libro l'autore racconta la storia della sua malattia. Le pagine del diario e il racconto rivelano al lettore in modo esplicito e indiscutibile la costellazione di pensieri e tormenti quotidiani che hanno plasmato la vita dell'autore durante i sette anni di lotta ai disturbi alimentari. Ma danno anche speranza per una vita piena: nonostante l'anoressia - in seguito bulimia, depressione e disturbo borderline - l'autore è riuscito a rompere il circolo vizioso e ora vive una vita sana e felice con il marito ei suoi due figli. Nina Federlein: “C'è una storia dietro ogni disturbo alimentare. Questo è mio."
Lab Girl
by Hope JahrenAn illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a long-time collaboration, in work and in life; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see and think about the natural world.Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she's studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book might have been a revelatory treatise on plant life. Lab Girl is that, but it is also so much more. Because in it, Jahren also shares with us her inspiring life story, in prose that takes your breath away. Lab Girl is a book about work, about love, and about the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the things she's discovered in her lab, as well as how she got there; about her childhood--hours of unfettered play in her father's laboratory; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work "with both the heart and the hands"; about a brilliant and wounded man named Bill, who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their adventurous, sometimes rogue research trips, which take them from the Midwest all across the United States and over the Atlantic, from the ever-light skies of the North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be the best she could, never allowing personal or professional obstacles to cloud her dedication to her work. Jahren's insights on nature enliven every page of this book. Lab Girl allows us to see with clear eyes the beautiful, sophisticated mechanisms within every leaf, blade of grass, and flower petal, and also the power within ourselves to face--with bravery and conviction--life's ultimate challenge: discovering who you are.From the Hardcover edition.
Lab Girl
by Hope JahrenA New York Times 2016 Notable BookNational Best SellerNamed one of TIME magazine’s "100 Most Influential People"An Amazon Top 20 Best Book of 2016A Washington Post Best Memoir of 2016A TIME and Entertainment Weekly Best Book of 2016 So Far An illuminating debut memoir of a woman in science; a moving portrait of a longtime friendship; and a stunningly fresh look at plants that will forever change how you see the natural world Acclaimed scientist Hope Jahren has built three laboratories in which she’s studied trees, flowers, seeds, and soil. Her first book is a revelatory treatise on plant life—but it is also so much more. Lab Girl is a book about work, love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren’s remarkable stories: about her childhood in rural Minnesota with an uncompromising mother and a father who encouraged hours of play in his classroom’s labs; about how she found a sanctuary in science, and learned to perform lab work done “with both the heart and the hands”; and about the inevitable disappointments, but also the triumphs and exhilarating discoveries, of scientific work.Yet at the core of this book is the story of a relationship Jahren forged with a brilliant, wounded man named Bill, who becomes her lab partner and best friend. Their sometimes rogue adventures in science take them from the Midwest across the United States and back again, over the Atlantic to the ever-light skies of the North Pole and to tropical Hawaii, where she and her lab currently make their home. Jahren’s probing look at plants, her astonishing tenacity of spirit, and her acute insights on nature enliven every page of this extraordinary book. Lab Girl opens your eyes to the beautiful, sophisticated mechanisms within every leaf, blade of grass, and flower petal. Here is an eloquent demonstration of what can happen when you find the stamina, passion, and sense of sacrifice needed to make a life out of what you truly love, as you discover along the way the person you were meant to be.
Lab Girl: A Story Of Trees, Science And Love
by Hope JahrenLab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable stories: about the discoveries she has made in her lab, as well as her struggle to get there; about her childhood playing in her father's laboratory; about how lab work became a sanctuary for both her heart and her hands; about Bill, the brilliant, wounded man who became her loyal colleague and best friend; about their field trips - sometimes authorised, sometimes very much not - that took them from the Midwest across the USA, to Norway and to Ireland, from the pale skies of North Pole to tropical Hawaii; and about her constant striving to do and be her best, and her unswerving dedication to her life's work.Visceral, intimate, gloriously candid and sometimes extremely funny, Jahren's descriptions of her work, her intense relationship with the plants, seeds and soil she studies, and her insights on nature enliven every page of this thrilling book. In Lab Girl, we see anew the complicated power of the natural world, and the power that can come from facing with bravery and conviction the challenge of discovering who you are.
A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Personal Journey Through Sexism in Science
by Rita Colwell Sharon Bertsch McGrayneA riveting memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have taken to bypass the problem, and how to fix the system. If you think sexism thrives only on Wall Street or in Hollywood, you haven&’t visited a lab, a science department, a research foundation, or a biotech firm. Rita Colwell is one of the top scientists in America: the groundbreaking microbiologist who discovered how cholera survives between epidemics and the former head of the National Science Foundation. But when she first applied for a graduate fellowship in bacteriology, she was told, &“We don&’t waste fellowships on women.&” A lack of support from some male superiors would lead her to change her area of study six times before completing her PhD. A Lab of One&’s Own documents all Colwell has seen and heard over her six decades in science, from sexual harassment in the lab to obscure systems blocking women from leading professional organizations or publishing their work. Along the way, she encounters other women pushing back against the status quo, including a group at MIT who revolt when they discover their labs are a fraction of the size of their male colleagues&’. Resistance gave female scientists special gifts: forced to change specialties so many times, they came to see things in a more interdisciplinary way, which turned out to be key to making new discoveries in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Colwell would also witness the advances that could be made when men and women worked together—often under her direction, such as when she headed a team that helped to uncover the source of the anthrax used in the 2001 letter attacks. A Lab of One&’s Own shares the sheer joy a scientist feels when moving toward a breakthrough, and the thrill of uncovering a whole new generation of female pioneers. But it is also the science book for the #MeToo era, offering an astute diagnosis of how to fix the problem of sexism in science—and a celebration of the women pushing back.
L'abisso di Camille
by Maria Paola Fortuna Enrique LasoL'abisso di Camille è un diario. Attraverso le parole cariche di colpa di Edouard Faret, direttore del manicomio di Montdevergues, ci avvicineremo alla vita di Camille Claudel, una donna eccezionale. Camille fu una scultrice senza eguali, alunna e amante di Rodin, che cercò di farsi un nome, di ottenere la fama e il prestigio che la sua opera meritava in un mondo di uomini (alla fine del XIX secolo). Non ci riuscì. Nel 1913 dopo la morte del suo adorabile padre, fu rinchiusa forzatamente dalla sua famiglia in un manicomio. Lì rimase trent'anni chiusa contro la sua volontà, fino alla sua morte, nonostante medici e alcuni parenti sapessero perfettamente che lei non era pazza. L'abisso di Camille narra in forma poetica di questa terribile tragedia di una donna unica, un'artista geniale che ebbe un'esistenza segnata dal destino. Per la prima volta un autore si avvicina agli anni dell'internamento di Camille, un periodo oscuro e a stento trattato prima d'ora con una certa profondità. È il romanzo migliore e più profondo che abbia mai visto la luce fino ad ora di Enrique Laso. In esso esprime la sua ammirazione per Camille e al tempo stesso parte della sua rabbia di fronte a un mondo che si mostra ingiusto in innumerevoli occasioni. Un mondo in cui i miserabili finiscono per vincere...
The Labor of Job: The Biblical Text as a Parable of Human Labor
by Antonio NegriIn The Labor of Job, the renowned Marxist political philosopher Antonio Negri develops an unorthodox interpretation of the Old Testament book of Job, a canonical text of Judeo-Christian thought. In the biblical narrative, the pious Job is made to suffer for no apparent reason. The story revolves around his quest to understand why he must bear, and why God would allow, such misery. Conventional readings explain the tale as an affirmation of divine transcendence. When God finally speaks to Job, it is to assert his sovereignty and establish that it is not Job's place to question what God allows. In Negri's materialist reading, Job does not recognize God's transcendence. He denies it, and in so doing becomes a co-creator of himself and the world. The Labor of Job was first published in Italy in 1990. Negri began writing it in the early 1980s, while he was a political prisoner in Italy, and it was the first book he completed during his exile in France (1983-97). As he writes in the preface, understanding suffering was for him in the early 1980s "an essential element of resistance. . . . It was the problem of liberation, in prison and in exile, from within the absoluteness of Power. " Negri presents a Marxist interpretation of Job's story. He describes it as a parable of human labor, one that illustrates the impossibility of systems of measure, whether of divine justice (in Job's case) or the value of labor (in the case of late-twentieth-century Marxism). In the foreword, Michael Hardt elaborates on this interpretation. In his commentary, Roland Boer considers Negri's reading of the book of Job in relation to the Bible and biblical exegesis. The Labor of Job provides an intriguing and accessible entry into the thought of one of today's most important political philosophers.
Labor of Love: The Story of One Man's Extraordinary Pregnancy
by Thomas BeatieThomas Beatie electrified the world in April 2008 with his announcement that he was seven months pregnant and due to give birth in July. The news made headlines across the globe, but it's only one chapter in a fascinating saga. Labor of Love reveals Beatie's unique life experiences: his less-than-idyllic childhood in Hawaii, his feelings of being a young man trapped in the body of a woman, his fight to conceive a child, and the obstacles surrounding the delivery. This astonishing narrative permits an intimate look at a family that refuses to let other people's definitions of family deter them from creating one on their own terms. Labor of Love is much more than the story of a unique pregnancy and birth - it's a beautiful and controversial love story about going against the tide, a powerful statement about the evolution of family and identity in the new millennium.
Labour of Love: A Story of Generosity, Hope and Surrogacy
by Shannon GarnerA story of generosity, hope and surrogacy Shannon Garner met and married the man of her dreams, had two gorgeous children and lived an idyllic life on the New South Wales coast. So why did she decide one day to pursue altruistic surrogacy? And what made her choose a gay male couple from Sydney? Labour of Love is Shannon's honest and engaging story - a rollercoaster of emotion set against the backdrop of a highly regulated 'industry'. This is no account of heartache and conflict but an uplifting story of 'a collective love' - one that involves a handful of people from very different walks of life who end up being so much more than family. As Shannon travels her journey of body, mind and soul, she lays bare the loving reality behind surrogacy, but also the trouble she found along the way. Finding strength in unexpected places, Shannon pushed past the negativity of others to discover the courage she needed to selflessly carry and birth a baby that will not be her own - and to bring the gift of a precious life and soul into the world, to be loved and cared for by her new adoring parents.
A Labyrinth of Kingdoms: 10,000 Miles through Islamic Africa
by Steve KemperA true story that rivals the travels of Burton or Stanley for excitement, and surpasses them in scientific achievements. In 1849 Heinrich Barth joined a small British expedition into unexplored regions of Islamic North and Central Africa. One by one his companions died, but he carried on alone, eventually reaching the fabled city of gold, Timbuktu. His five-and-a-half-year, 10,000-mile adventure ranks among the greatest journeys in the annals of exploration, and his discoveries are considered indispensable by modern scholars of Africa. Yet because of shifting politics, European preconceptions about Africa, and his own thorny personality, Barth has been almost forgotten. The general public has never heard of him, his epic journey, or his still-pertinent observations about Africa and Islam; and his monumental five-volume Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa is rare even in libraries. By delivering the first biography on Barth in English, Steve Kemper goes a long way to rescue this fascinating figure from obscurity.
Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis
by Catrine ClayA sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung’s complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement.Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the twentieth century dictated that a woman of Emma’s stature—one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland—travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to prepare for marriage to a suitable man. Engaged to the son of one of her father’s wealthy business colleagues, Emma’s conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung. The son of a penniless pastor working as an assistant physician in an insane asylum, Jung dazzled Emma with his intelligence, confidence, and good looks. More important, he offered her freedom from the confines of a traditional haute-bourgeois life. But Emma did not know that Jung’s charisma masked a dark interior—fostered by a strange, isolated childhood and the sexual abuse he’d suffered as a boy—as well as a compulsive philandering that would threaten their marriage. Using letters, family interviews, and rich, never-before-published archival material, Catrine Clay illuminates the Jungs’ unorthodox marriage and explores how it shaped—and was shaped by—the scandalous new movement of psychoanalysis. Most important, Clay reveals how Carl Jung could never have achieved what he did without Emma supporting him through his private torments. The Emma that emerges in the pages of Labyrinths is a strong, brilliant woman, who, with her husband’s encouragement, becomes a successful analyst in her own right.
Lacan
by Elisabeth RoudinescoJacques Lacan continues to be subject to the most extravagant interpretations. Angelic to some, he is demonic to others. To recall Lacan's career, now that the heroic age of psychoanalysis is over, is to remember an intellectual and literary adventure that occupies a founding place in our modernity. Lacan went against the current of many of the hopes aroused by 1968, but embraced their paradoxes, and his language games and wordplay resonate today as so many injunctions to replace rampant individualism with a heightened social consciousness. Widely recognized as the leading authority on Lacan, Élisabeth Roudinesco revisits his life and work: what it was - and what it remains.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Ladder to Leader: My Journey From Failure to Fire to Financial Freedom
by Ryan D LarsonLadder to Leader: My Journey From Failure to Fire to Financial Freedom is a memoir by Ryan D. Larson, the principal Investment Advisor Representative and Founder of FirstLine Financial, LLC. Founded in 2015, FirstLine Financial earned a Service Mark from the US Patent office for the company's intake process in 2020, only five years later. Larson credits his time in the Phoenix Fire and other Arizona Fire Departments for teaching him organization and planning skills that inspired FirstLine Financial's intake process. In the second half of the book, Larson introduces financial terms and products, describing them using terminology and giving examples that make them simple to understand. The book is interesting from a memoir perspective and shares information, including case studies, to explain the financial investing terminology clearly and concisely.Larson shares childhood struggles which lead to his failures and frustrations as a high school graduate. He tells stories about feeling like an outsider at home because of not being close to his three siblings and the impact his father's time away in the military affected him. Married young, the family always lived near his mother's parents. His father joined the army, and his mother worked part-time to help make ends meet. Larson's grandparents took care of the children often and were very important to the author, especially when his father deployed during his pivotal middle school years. Always active and very athletic, Larson became a local Pop Warner Football hero. His father, when not deployed, was an assistant coach and very involved with the author's athletics. Both father and son saw a future for Larson in professional football, which came to an end in middle school. However, Larson struggled academically and his parents wanted him to “just graduate and get a job,” especially when his dreams of a pro-football career faded. All of this affected the author's self-confidence. After graduation from high school, Larson was lost, became depressed, and floated from job to job, never feeling fulfilled or seeing a future for himself. A twist of fate, which his mother calls ‘divine inspiration,' led Larson to the Fire Department Explorer Program, which fueled his interest in becoming a firefighter. The competition is fierce for the very few fire department job openings, requiring passing a rigorous suitability/entrance exam. Larson studied several hours a day to prepare and failed the exam at least three times, but his score was better each time. This process made him realize that he is smart and, if he sets his mind to the task, he can accomplish anything. The fire department exam includes sections on reading comprehension and math, which the author was terrified of. The confidence he gained from this process carried him through the many challenges he had yet to face.Once employed as a firefighter, Larson quickly became a valued member of the department. During his days off, he began taking stock market trading classes after watching the movie Wall Street. As part of the course, students bought and sold stocks, learned how to chart them, and did things that would have once scared Larson. As he began making money, fellow firefighters took an interest in his new passion. Before long, he was discussing their finances and giving investment advice. With encouragement from his wife and friends at the station, Larson began working for financial advisors. He eventually earned his Independent Retirement Adviser credentials and opening his own Registered Investment Advisory Firm, FirstLine Financial.
The Ladies: A Novel
by Doris GrumbachA tender and imaginative retelling of the adventures of two of history&’s most compelling women In 1778 Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby left County Kilkenny for Wales to live together as a married couple. Both well born, highly educated Irish women, the Ladies of Llangollen, as they came to be known, defied all eighteenth-century social convention and spent half a century together in a loving relationship. Removed from the intrusive gaze of the world, the fictional Eleanor and Sarah retreat to their shared home to study literature and language and enjoy their solitude. In an imagined account, Doris Grumbach brings this gripping chronicle to new audiences. With a keen sense of the rhythms and routines of longtime partnership, Grumbach breathes vivid life into this fascinating story of a passion both shocking and steadfast.
Ladies and Gentlemen...
by Jeremy M. JohnstonLearn about Buffalo Bill Cody's life and how his traveling Wild West show introduced a generation of people to the American West.
Ladies First: Revelations of a Strong Woman
by Queen Latifah Karen HunterAutobiography of a rap star.