Resultados para "Ein Stein" en Biografías y memorias

Ficción dramática que presenta a Edith Stein en su tremenda trayectoria de vida que resume las características esenciales de la máxima tragedia del Siglo XX: el nazismo.

Julia Stein acepta el trabajo de asistente que le ofrece el agente Hans Freeman. Su nueva misión es cazar al asesino del hacha, quien ya ha decapitado a tres hombres en el bosque de Green Bank, un pueblo que, además, está justo en el medio de «la zona silenciosa», un lugar en el que los teléfonos móviles son inútiles.

Funny Boy: The Richard Hunt Biography tells the life story of a gifted performer whose gleeful irreverence, sharp wit, and generous spirit inspired millions. Richard Hunt was one of the original main five performers in the Muppet troupe. He brought to life an impressive range of characters on The Muppet Show, Sesame Street, Fraggle Rock, and various Muppet movies, everyone from eager gofer Scooter to elderly heckler Statler, groovy girl Janice to freaked-out lab helper Beaker, even early versions of Miss Piggy and Elmo.

To say Edith Stein lived a remarkable life would be a dramatic understatement. Born in Breslau (then part of Germany) at the end of the 19th century, Edith was raised as an observant jew, only to turn her back on religion right around the time World War I devastated the continent. In the wake of the war, during which she earned a doctorate and began working as an assistant at the University of Freiburg, she began reading the works of the legendary St. Teresa of Ávila, one of the most influential Catholic saints in history.

Rudolf Steiner pubblicò sulla sua rivista i vari capitoli della sua autobiografia. Nella storia della sua vita si pone particolare attenzione a come il suo percorso di persona che già vedeva il mondo spirituale lo portò a interfacciarsi con la realtà fisica, finché poi cercò di introdurre, con l'edificio dell'Antroposofia, coloro che vedevano solo attraverso i sensi ad una strada che li portasse alla visione spirituale.

Renowned music manager Rikki Stein has spent nearly six decades moving musicians around the world, and this book recounts a lifetime of adventure on the road. Always in the right place at the right time, Rikki was part of the great countercultural moments of the last century, from Woodstock and the Vietnam War Moratorium March to the launch of Glastonbury Festival.

Gertrude Stein, scrittrice e poetessa statunitense, ha vissuto gran parte della sua vita in Francia, e ha conosciuto e sostenuto molti pittori e scrittori, quando erano agli esordi. Sua l'amicizia pluriennale con Matisse e Picasso, che le fece un famoso ritratto. Non ha mai fatto mistero della sua omosessualità, e della sua relazione con Alice Toklas.

Labor Day, 1969: Two recent college graduates move to New York to edit a new magazine called the National Lampoon. Over the next decade, Henry Beard and Doug Kenney, along with a loose amalgamation of fellow satirists such as Michael O’Donoghue and P. J. O’Rourke, popularized a smart, caustic, ironic brand of humor that has become the dominant voice of American comedy. Ranging from sophisticated political satire to broad raunchy jokes, the National Lampoon introduced iconoclasm to the mainstream, selling millions of copies to an audience both large and devoted.

Ecoutez ce livre audio, c'est cheminer auprès de Rudolf Steiner pendant ses 35 premières années. Vous allez y découvrir son enfance et son adolescence en famille puis ses hautes études qui le conduiront à de multiples rencontres qui forgeront en lui sa pensée et ses investigations. Très tôt Rudolf Steiner est en contact avec des réalités spirituelles qui échappent à ses congénères.

Quarantined in a southwestern desert city in the midst of her high-risk pregnancy, Margo Steines felt her life narrow around her growing body, compelling her to reckon with the violence entangled in its history. She was a professional dominatrix in New York City, a homestead farmer in a brutal relationship, a welder on a high-rise building crew, and a Mixed Martial Arts enthusiast; each of her many lives brought a new vantage point from which to see how power and masculinity coalesce—and how her body paid the price.

Die Entwicklungstheorie Ernst Haeckels und insbesondere dessen "biogenetisches Grundgesetz" übten einen kaum zu überschätzenden Einfluss auf das steinersche Denken aus. Der kurze Text "Haeckel und seine Gegner" von 1900 bildet, neben seinen anderen intellektuellen Biographien über Goethe und Nietzsche, eine aufschlussreiche Quelle zum Verständnis der Entwicklung Rudolf Steiners, sowohl was sein vortheosophisches Werk angeht als auch im Hinblick auf seine spätere Esoterik.

In der Monographie "Friedrich Nietzsche. Ein Kämpfer gegen seine Zeit" zeigt sich Rudolf Steiner als einer der ersten, der dem Schaffen des damals...

Martin T. Manton was a corrupt federal appeals court judge in New York who was convicted in 1939 and sent to prison. At the time, this was a hugely important story: Manton was considered the highest-ranking judge in the United States after the nine Justices of the Supreme Court, and was nearly appointed to that august body in 1922. Yet his story has never been told in book-length form before, and never with the benefit of such exhaustive research.

This offbeat slice of American history places the story of our great republic beneath an unexpected lens: that of fringe candidates for president of the United States. Mark Stein explores how their quest for our nation’s highest office helped to amplify voices otherwise quashed during their day. His careening tour through elections past includes the efforts of true pioneers in the quest for social equality in our country.

Fra il 24 e il marzo 1925, momento della sua morte, Steiner scrisse una serie di lettere pubblicate settimanalmente nel notiziario della Società Antroposofica Universale. Nelle lettere viene in particolare trattato il ruolo dell'Arcangelo Michele in questo periodo dell'evoluzione.

In Fantasies of Nina Simone, Jordan Alexander Stein examines the space between our collective and individual fantasies about Simone the performer, civil rights activist, and icon, and her own fantasies about herself. Stein outlines how Simone gave voice to personal fantasies through releasing dozens of covers of her white male contemporaries.

Leslie Morgan Steiner met the love of her life at age 22, soon after graduating from Harvard and starting her first job at Seventeen magazine in New York. She fell for his self-deprecating wit and street smarts - and especially his unabashed worship of her. They married and spent four years together. At first Leslie felt like the woman of his dreams. Then she discovered her husband had been beaten as a child, taught by his parents that intimacy and rage danced together.

Jes Stein Pedersen fortæller om sin barndom i et årti, der er præget af optimisme, materiel fremgang - og oprør. Det er forandringernes tid, hvor blandt andet fænomener som kvindebevægelse, p-piller, kollektiver og månelanding opstår. Jes Stein Pedersen (f. 1959) er uddannet cand.phil. i samfundsfag og har arbejdet som journalist for dagblade som Det Fri Aktuelt og Politiken. Fra 2004-2012 var Jes Stein Pedersen vært på Deadline 2. sektion på DR2 og blev efterfølgende ansat som litteraturredaktør ved Politiken.

Christwerden und Christsein mit Edith Stein. Edith Stein (1891-1942) gehört ohne Zweifel zu den beeindruckendsten Persönlichkeiten des zurückliegenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Die Philosophin und Frauenrechtlerin konvertierte 1922 vom Judentum zum Christentum und trat elf Jahre später, 1933, in den Karmelitenorden ein. Am 09. Aug. 1942 wurde sie im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz-Birkenau ermordet. Die katholische Kirche verehrt Edith Stein als Heilige. Sie ist Patronin Europas.

William Henry "Chick" Webb (1905-39) was one of the first virtuoso drummers in jazz and an innovative bandleader dubbed the "Savoy King," who reigned at Harlem's world-famous Savoy Ballroom. Along with the likes of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, and Cab Calloway, Webb helped create the popular dance and music culture, known as Swing, that swept the United States during and after the Great Depression and left an indelible impact on American culture.