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Vatchal: वाटचाल
by Nana Kunteही वाटचाल आहे माझ्या सार्वजनिक जीवनाचा मी स्वतः काढलेला आलेख. दर्यासारंग आंग्रे घराण्याची राजधानी, कुलाबा (रायगड) जिल्ह्याचे प्रमुख ठिकाण अशा मोठ्या बिरुदांनी आमचे अलिबाग बाह्य जगाला परिचित असले तरी प्रत्यक्षात आजही त्याची लोकसंख्या दहा हजारांपलीकडे फारशी गेलेली नाही. अशा गावात माझे मॅट्रिकपर्यंतचे आयुष्य गेले. रत्नागिरी जिल्ह्यातून सुमारे तीनशे वर्षांपूर्वी अलिबागजवळच्या नागाव या अष्टागरातील एका प्रमुख गावी आल्यापासून फक्त शेती-बागायती करणाऱ्या, पोटापुरते मिळविणाऱ्या शेतकरी कुटुंबातील नव्याने वकील झालेल्याचा मी मुलगा. एकत्र कुटुंब, प्रमुख व्यवसाय शेती-बागायत. अष्टागरातील शेतकरी कोणत्याही जातीचा असो, आपल्या शेतात, वाडीत स्वतः राबणारा आणि त्यात धन्यता मानणारा. आपले प्रौढ जीवन सार्वजनिक कामात घालवावे असे मला लहानपणापासून वाटत आलेले आहे. शिवाजीच्या मावळ्यांप्रमाणे स्वराज्याकरिता झटण्याचे आकर्षण. इतिहासात शिवाजीने आणि माझ्या बालपणी स्वातंत्र्यवीर सावरकरांनी घालून दिलेला धडा गिरवावा अशी स्वप्ने मी पाहात असे. प्रभू रामापेक्षा हनुमान किंवा शिवाजीपेक्षा तानाजीच मला जास्त आवडे. नाथमाधवांचा ‘सावळ्या तांडेल’ पुस्तकरूपाने आणि शिवरामपंत परांजप्यांची ‘गोविंदाची गोष्ट’ चित्रमयजगत् या मासिकात वाचलेली.
Vayamos adelante
by Sheryl SandbergA pesar de que las mujeres alcanzaron hace años niveles de educación similares a los de los hombres, ellos ostentan aún la gran mayoría de puestos directivos, tanto en las empresas como en los gobiernos. Por ello, las voces femeninas todavía no se escuchan por igual en las decisiones que más nos afectan en nuestras vidas.En Vayamos adelante, Sheryl Sandberg examina las razones por las cuales el avance de las mujeres hacia los puestos de responsabilidad está estancado, explica las causas profundas y ofrece soluciones prácticas y aplicables para lograr que las mujeres alcancen su máximo potencial.Sandberg, directora de operaciones de Facebook y una de las mujeres más influyentes del mundo, impartió en 2010 una inolvidable conferencia en TEDTalk, que se convirtió en un fenómeno y que ha sido vista dos millones de veces. En Vayamos adelante, Sandberg profundiza en estos temas combinando anécdotas personales y datos relevantes, y proporciona consejos prácticos para el desarrollo de una carrera profesional satisfactoria, alentando a las mujeres a establecer límites y a abandonar el mito de "haber alcanzado todo".Escrito con humor y sabiduría, el libro de Sandberg es una llamada inspiradora a la acción y un plan de crecimiento individual. Vayamos adelante está destinado a cambiar el planteamiento sobre qué pueden hacer las mujeres y qué no.
Veblen (Routledge Studies In The History Of Economics Ser. #115)
by Charles CamicA bold new biography of the thinker who demolished accepted economic theories in order to expose how people of economic and social privilege plunder their wealth from society’s productive men and women.Thorstein Veblen was one of America’s most penetrating analysts of modern capitalist society. But he was not, as is widely assumed, an outsider to the social world he acidly described. Veblen overturns the long-accepted view that Veblen’s ideas, including his insights about conspicuous consumption and the leisure class, derived from his position as a social outsider.In the hinterlands of America’s Midwest, Veblen’s schooling coincided with the late nineteenth-century revolution in higher education that occurred under the patronage of the titans of the new industrial age. The resulting educational opportunities carried Veblen from local Carleton College to centers of scholarship at Johns Hopkins, Yale, Cornell, and the University of Chicago, where he studied with leading philosophers, historians, and economists. Afterward, he joined the nation’s academic elite as a professional economist, producing his seminal books The Theory of the Leisure Class and The Theory of Business Enterprise. Until late in his career, Veblen was, Charles Camic argues, the consummate academic insider, engaged in debates about wealth distribution raging in the field of economics.Veblen demonstrates how Veblen’s education and subsequent involvement in those debates gave rise to his original ideas about the social institutions that enable wealthy Americans—a swarm of economically unproductive “parasites”—to amass vast fortunes on the backs of productive men and women. Today, when great wealth inequalities again command national attention, Camic helps us understand the historical roots and continuing reach of Veblen’s searing analysis of this “sclerosis of the American soul.”
Vedam Venkataraya Sastry
by Vedam Venkataraya SastryLife and works of Vedam Venkataraya Sastry, by his grandson Vedam Venkataraya Sastry (Junior).
Vedi: Continents of Exile: 3 (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Ved MehtaBook 3 in Ved Mehta's Continents of Exile series. Nearly 50 years in the making, Continents of Exile is one of the great works of twentieth-century autobiography: the epic chronicle of an Indian family in the twentieth century. From 1930s India to 1950s Oxford and literary New York in the 1960s-80s, this is the story of the post-colonial twentieth century, as uniquely experienced and vividly recounted by Ved Mehta.Ved continues the story of Ved Mehta's two earlier memoirs, Daddyji, a biographical portrait of his father, and Mamaji, an exploration of his mother and her history. The focus here turns toward Mehta's childhood, his education in an Indian orphanage for the blind, and the general experience of blind people in India.
Veera Shivaji
by Balu SathyaThis book is a biography of Shivaji Bhosle who led a resistance to free the Maratha nation from the Sultanate of Bijapur to establish Hindu Swarajya and founded the Maratha empire in the western part of India. He was reigning during 1642–1680 CE. and was crowned as "Chhatrapati" (means king of the Kshatriyas).
Vencer o aprender: Conor McGregor, las MMA y mi lucha como entrenador
by John KavanaghVencer o aprender es, en definitiva, un tratado sobre la ambición, la disciplina y la perseverancia. Una lectura obligatoria para cualquier fan de la lucha, pero también para quien quiera saber cómo se hacen realidad los sueños. En Vencer o aprender, John Kavanagh nos cuenta la notable historia de su vida, que transcurre en paralelo a la explosión de las MMA en Irlanda y en todo el mundo. Kavanagh es, sin lugar a dudas, el entrenador de referencia para los jóvenes aspirantes que desean dominar las artes del combate en el octágono. Asimismo, aquí encontraremos un inigualable retrato de Conor McGregor, el aguerrido fontanero que entró un día por la puerta de su gimnasio y que ha ensanchado el número de seguidores de las MMA y la UFC hasta límites insospechados. Reseñas:«John Kavanagh es un tipo fenomenal.»Conor McGregor «Kavanagh ofrece un relato sincero y noble sobre sus inicios. Su camino no ha sido fácil pero su fe y constancia lo han llevado hasta la meta soñada.»Irish Examiner «Un libro único.»Irish Times «Un libro idóneo para todo aquel que esté interesado en perseguir sus sueños hasta el final.»Tony Parsons
Vendetta: Bobby Kennedy Versus Jimmy Hoffa
by James NeffOne of America's greatest investigative reporters brings to life the gripping, no-holds-barred clash of two American titans: Robert Kennedy and his nemesis Jimmy Hoffa.From 1957 to 1964, Robert Kennedy and Jimmy Hoffa channeled nearly all of their considerable powers into destroying each other. Kennedy's battle with Hoffa burst into the public consciousness with the 1957 Senate Rackets Committee hearings and intensified when his brother named him attorney general in 1961. RFK put together a "Get Hoffa" squad within the Justice Department, devoted to destroying one man. But Hoffa, with nearly unlimited Teamster funds, was not about to roll over. Drawing upon a treasure trove of previously secret and undisclosed documents, James Neff has crafted a brilliant, heart-pounding epic of crime and punishment, a saga of venom and relentlessness and two men willing to do anything to demolish each other.
Veneno
by Roberto BrodskyAlberto Shapiro es escritor de un solo libro y vive de dar charlas en los Estados Unidos. Gruesamente, su tema es Chile y su pasado reciente. Hasta un buen día en que es invitado a dar una conferencia sobre la diáspora en su propio país de origen. Corre el año 2009, en Santiago, y el regreso a la patria es también la vuelta a las rencillas y los personajes que marcaron su salida tres años atrás: Frank ?el obsesivo editor y compañero de ruta?, Roberto Bolaño ?un amigo de la realidad y la literatura?, Fer ?el hijo de su primer matrimonio?, y la propia memoria que se abre como una tumba al tenor de los recuerdos y la escritura. Novela de la crisis terminal donde todo es calmo y sereno, el retorno de Alberto a Santiago es un viaje de ida y vuelta por las violencias, traiciones y abandonos que buscan un ajuste de cuentas en su tránsito por la ciudad.
Venetain Years, Volume 1e: Milan and Mantua
by Jacques CasanovaVenetian Years, book 1e, "Milan and Mantua"
Venetian Dreaming
by Paula WeidegerWho hasn't longed to escape to the enchanting canals and mysterious alleywaysof Venice? Globetrotting writer Paula Weideger not only dreamed the dream, she took the leap. In Venetian Dreaming, she charts the course of her love affair with one of the world's most treasured cities. Weideger's search for a place to live eventually takes her to the Palazzo Donà dalle Rose, one of the rare Venetian palaces continuously inhabited by the family that built it. She weaves the past lives of the family Donà with her own adventures as she threads her way through the labyrinthine city. Art and architecture are a constant presence. Yet even more strongly felt is the passage of time, the panorama of the seasons as reflected in special events -- Carnival, the Film Festival, September's historic regatta, midnight mass at San Marco. We follow Weideger as she explores the Ghetto, the expatriate community, and the lives of locals from noblemen to boatmen. Along the way she encounters everyone from the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim to the Merchant Ivory crowd, and experiences some high drama with the Contessa, her landlady. The resulting memoir is a wry and illuminating, intelligent and tender account of the once grand heritage and now imperiled future of Venice.
Venetian Dreaming
by Paula WeidegerWho hasn't longed to escape to the enchanting canals and mysterious alleywaysof Venice? Globetrotting writer Paula Weideger not only dreamed the dream, she took the leap. In Venetian Dreaming, she charts the course of her love affair with one of the world's most treasured cities. Weideger's search for a place to live eventually takes her to the Palazzo Donà dalle Rose, one of the rare Venetian palaces continuously inhabited by the family that built it. She weaves the past lives of the family Donà with her own adventures as she threads her way through the labyrinthine city. Art and architecture are a constant presence. Yet even more strongly felt is the passage of time, the panorama of the seasons as reflected in special events -- Carnival, the Film Festival, September's historic regatta, midnight mass at San Marco. We follow Weideger as she explores the Ghetto, the expatriate community, and the lives of locals from noblemen to boatmen. Along the way she encounters everyone from the ghost of Peggy Guggenheim to the Merchant Ivory crowd, and experiences some high drama with the Contessa, her landlady. The resulting memoir is a wry and illuminating, intelligent and tender account of the once grand heritage and now imperiled future of Venice.
Venetian Years, Volume 1c: Military Career
by Jacques CasanovaThis book is the number 1c of "Venetian Years" by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Venices
by Euan Cameron Paul Morand"It is after experiencing life that I have returned here to think about myself." Paul Morand was a diplomat, traveller, socialite and one of the most erudite and original writers of the twentieth century. Venices is his typically unconventional autobiography: an evocative account of a remarkable life lived surrounded by the remarkable. Its poised, impressionistic, poetically vivid scenes add up year-by- year to a rich meditation, full of astonish- ing portraits and memories, joy as well as melancholy. Though Morand's reputation was mar- red for years by his involvement with the collaborationist Vichy government, this book, in its effortless elegance, demonstrates why his influence has been so great. The thread that holds it taut throughout is Venice, the city to which Morand always returned.
Venom Doc: The Edgiest, Darkest, Strangest Natural History Memoir Ever
by Bryan Grieg FrySteve Irwin meets David Attenborough in this jaw-dropping account of studying the world’s most venomous creatures. Venomologist Bryan Grieg Fry has one of the most dangerous jobs on Earth: he works with its deadliest creatures. He’s been bitten by twenty-six venomous snakes, been stung by three stingrays, and survived a near-fatal scorpion sting while deep in the Amazon jungle. He’s received more than four hundred stitches and broken twenty-three bones, including breaking his back in three places, and had to learn how to walk again. But when you research only the venom you yourself have collected, the adventures—and danger—never stop. Bryan’s discoveries have radically reshaped views on venom evolution and contributed to the creation of venom-based life-saving medications. In pursuit of venom, he has traveled the world collecting samples from Indonesia to Mexico, Germany, and Brazil. He’s encountered venomous creatures of all kinds, including the Malaysian king cobra, the Komodo dragon, and the brush-footed trapdoor spider. Bryan recounts his lifelong passion for studying the world’s most venomous creatures in this outlandish, captivating memoir, where he and danger are never far apart.
Ventas de alta confiabilidad: Requisito esencial para las ventas
by Todd DuncanEste libro te dará un nuevo concepto de las "leyes" que gobiernan la profesión de las ventas. La primera sección incluye las leyes que tratan con las actitudes, las aptitudes, y las capacidades requeridas para que un vendedor tenga éxito. La segunda sección se enfoca en las leyes de la comunicación, el noviazgo, el compañerismo y los compromisos entre un vendedor éxitoso y sus clientes. Cada ley proporciona una descripción junto con una aplicación práctica. Si usted se encuentra en el área de las ventas usted sabe que ser un triunfador es más que una sonrisa, un Rolodex y una actitud de «todo lo puedo». Este libro le proveerá con esa «herramienta» que necesita para llegar a la cima y mantenerse allí.
Venture into the Stratosphere: Flying the First Jetliners
by Dominic ColvertA fascinating, one-of-a-kind memoir that takes readers on a journey to the dawn of the jet age—and reveals how technology will shape the world to come. Drawing on engineering breakthroughs achieved during World War II, aviation in the 1950s was an exciting and uplifting sequel to the most destructive conflict in history. It gave birth to the jet age and fostered remarkable social changes. Venture into the Stratosphere is a memoir about the exhilaration and challenges of flying the first jetliners—the de Havilland Comets. Former Irish Air Corpsman and aviation engineer Dominic Colvert explains technical matters in layman&’s terms, tells a fascinating love story, examines the post-war ethos, and reveals intimate details of the flight deck in both routine and emergency situations. By opening a window onto cultural developments after the turn of the century, Colvert offers key insights into how new technologies shape behavior and values. Passenger jets have become a routine part of life for most people, but have you ever wondered—how did we get here? Read Venture into the Stratosphere to find out!
Venus Envy: Power Games, Teenage Vixens, and Million-Dollar Egos on the Women's Tennis Tour
by L. Jon WertheimA behind-the-scenes look at the hugely popular and often controversial world of women's tennis featuring such household names as Venus and Serena Williams and Anna Kournikova. At a time when attendance and TV ratings for women's tennis are at an all-time high, Sports Illustrated writer L.Jon Wertheim, draws on his investigative talents and knowledge of the game to infiltrate the heretofore closed locker rooms of the women's tour and chronicle this remarkable era in the sport's history. With a narrative sweep that rockets along like a Venus Williams serve, it takes the reader from the year's first Grand Slam tournament--where a top player ignited a firestorm of controversy when she decided to come out-- to Venus' epochal victory at Wimbledon to the U.S. Open where Serena Williams defends her title and all the whistle-stop tournaments in between where the Russian vixen Anna Kournikova sent hormonally challenged teenagers, not to mention male sportswriters, into a frenzy, Venus Envy offers the reader the equivalent of a center-court seat and an all-access locker room pass. The book will contain a wealth of previously unreported, inside-the-locker room anecdotes about the marquee names in women's tennis and should engender much off-the-book-page coverage. There are more identifiable stars than ever before and the rivalries are intense and often rancorous. The book will even appeal to those readers with only a passing interest in tennis since many of the players have transcended the sport, appearing on the covers of magazine like GQ, Rolling Stone and Vogue.
Venus and Aphrodite: A Biography of Desire
by Bettany HughesA cultural history of the goddess of love, from a New York Times bestselling and award-winning historian.Aphrodite was said to have been born from the sea, rising out of a froth of white foam. But long before the Ancient Greeks conceived of this voluptuous blonde, she existed as an early spirit of fertility on the shores of Cyprus -- and thousands of years before that, as a ferocious warrior-goddess in the Middle East. Proving that this fabled figure is so much more than an avatar of commercialized romance, historian Bettany Hughes reveals the remarkable lifestory of one of antiquity's most potent myths.Venus and Aphrodite brings together ancient art, mythology, and archaeological revelations to tell the story of human desire. From Mesopotamia to modern-day London, from Botticelli to Beyoncé, Hughes explains why this immortal goddess continues to entrance us today -- and how we trivialize her power at our peril.
Venus and Serena Williams
by June SwansonIntroduces the life and accomplishments of the famous tennis-playing sisters.
Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov): Portrait of a Marriage
by Stacy SchiffWinner of the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for biography and hailed by critics as both "monumental" (The Boston Globe) and "utterly romantic" (New York magazine), Stacy Schiff's Véra (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov) brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time. Vladimir Nabokov--the émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory--wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, Véra, and third for no one at all. "Without my wife," he once noted, "I wouldn't have written a single novel." Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the century, the story of the Nabokovs' fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine--a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.
Vera Brittain: A Life
by Mark Bostridge Paul BerryVera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH.Writer, pacifist and feminist, she condemned her provincial background but remained acutely conscious of the conventional elements in her own character; she revealed a richly emotional life in her writing but was outwardly sober and reserved; she possessed a fierce desire for fame and recognition but was ready to sacrifice both on matters of principle.This biography - comprehensive, authoritative and immensely readable - confirms Vera Brittain's stature as one of the most remarkable women of our time.
Vera Brittain: A Life
by Mark Bostridge Paul BerryVera Brittain is most widely known as the woman who immortalized a lost generation in her haunting autobiography of the Great War, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH.Writer, pacifist and feminist, she condemned her provincial background but remained acutely conscious of the conventional elements in her own character; she revealed a richly emotional life in her writing but was outwardly sober and reserved; she possessed a fierce desire for fame and recognition but was ready to sacrifice both on matters of principle.This biography - comprehensive, authoritative and immensely readable - confirms Vera Brittain's stature as one of the most remarkable women of our time.
Vera Gran: The Accused
by Agata TuszyñskaThe extraordinary, controversial story of Vera Gran, beautiful, exotic prewar Polish singing star; legendary, sensual contralto, Dietrich-like in tone, favorite of the 1930s Warsaw nightclubs, celebrated before, and during, her year in the Warsaw Ghetto (spring 1941-summer 1942) . . . and her piano accompanist: W³adys³aw Szpilman, made famous by Roman Polanski's Oscar-winning film The Pianist, based on Szpilman's memoir.Following the war, singer and accompanist, each of whom had lived the same harrowing story, were met with opposing fates: Szpilman was celebrated for his uncanny ability to survive against impossible odds, escaping from a Nazi transport loading site, smuggling in weapons to the Warsaw Ghetto for the Jewish resistance. Gran was accused of collaborating with the Nazis; denounced as a traitor, a "Gestapo whore," reviled, imprisoned, ultimately exonerated yet afterward still shunned as a performer . . . in effect, sentenced to death without dying . . . until she was found by Agata Tuszyñska, acclaimed poet and biographer of, among others, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Nobel laureate ("Her book has few equals"--The Times Literary Supplement).Tuszyñska, who won the trust of the once-glamorous former singer, then living in a basement in Paris--elderly, bitter, shut away from the world--encouraged Gran to tell her story, including her seemingly inexplicable decision to return to Warsaw to be reunited with her family after she had fled Hitler's invading army, knowing she would have to live within the ghetto walls and, to survive, continue to perform at the popular Café Sztuka.At the heart of the book, Gran's complex, fraught relationship with her accompanist, performing together month after month, for the many who came from within the ghetto and outside its walls to hear her sing.Using Vera Gran's reflections and memories, as well as archives, letters, statements, and interviews with Warsaw Ghetto historians and survivors, Agata Tuszyñska has written an explosive, resonant portrait of lives lived inside a nightmare time, exploring the larger, more profound question of the nature of collaboration, of the price of survival, and of the long, treacherous shadow cast in its aftermath.
Vera Rubin: A Life
by Jacqueline Mitton Simon MittonThe first biography of a pioneering scientist who made significant contributions to our understanding of dark matter and championed the advancement of women in science. One of the great lingering mysteries of the universe is dark matter. Scientists are not sure what it is, but most believe it’s out there, and in abundance. The astronomer who finally convinced many of them was Vera Rubin. When Rubin died in 2016, she was regarded as one of the most influential astronomers of her era. Her research on the rotation of spiral galaxies was groundbreaking, and her observations contributed significantly to the confirmation of dark matter, a most notable achievement. In Vera Rubin: A Life, prolific science writers Jacqueline Mitton and Simon Mitton provide a detailed, accessible overview of Rubin’s work, showing how she leveraged immense curiosity, profound intelligence, and novel technologies to help transform our understanding of the cosmos. But Rubin’s impact was not limited to her contributions to scientific knowledge. She also helped to transform scientific practice by promoting the careers of women researchers. Not content to be an inspiration, Rubin was a mentor and a champion. She advocated for hiring women faculty, inviting women speakers to major conferences, and honoring women with awards that were historically the exclusive province of men. Rubin’s papers and correspondence yield vivid insights into her life and work, as she faced down gender discrimination and met the demands of family and research throughout a long and influential career. Deftly written, with both scientific experts and general readers in mind, Vera Rubin is a portrait of a woman with insatiable curiosity about the universe who never stopped asking questions and encouraging other women to do the same.