Resultados para "Hades" en Biografías y memorias

"En rejse af usædvanlig menneskelighed, skrevet med lidenskab, engagement og ydmyghed, på baggrund af ufattelige forhold, der overvælder en for hvert skridt." - Michael Mansfield, Queen’s Counsel Kun tre måneder efter deres mor døde af leukæmi, blev lægen Izzeldin Abuelaish’ tre ældste døtre og hans niece dræbt den 16. januar 2009, da deres værelse i famili- ens hjem i Gaza blev sprængt i stumper og stykker af israelske granater.

Kathryn Janeway reveals her career in Starfleet, from her first command to her epic journey through the Delta Quadrant leading to her rise to the top as vice-admiral in Starfleet Command. Discover the story of the woman who travelled further than any human ever had before, stranded decades from home, encountering new worlds and species.

Architect of "Operation Flood", the largest dairy development program in the world, Dr. Verghese Kurien has enabled India to become the largest milk producer in the world. A man with a rare vision, Dr. Kurien has devoted a lifetime to realizing his dream - empowering the farmers of India. He has engineered the milk cooperative movement in India. It was a sheer quirk of fate that landed him in Anand, where a small group of farmers were forming a cooperative, Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union Limited (better known as Amul), to sell their milk.

In the disco days and nights of New York City in the 1970s and 1980s, the place to be was Studio 54. Andy Warhol, Liza Minnelli, and Bianca Jagger were among the nightly assortment of A-list celebrity regulars consorting with New York's young, wild, and beautiful.

In 2001, a community of people in the Appalachian foothills had come to the edge of all they had ever been. Across the South, padlocks and chains bound the doors of silent mills, and it seemed a miracle to blue-collar people in Jacksonville, Alabama, that their mill still bit, shook, and roared. The mill had become almost a living thing, and they served it even as it filled their lungs with lint and shortened their lives. In return, it let them live in stiff-necked dignity in the hills of their fathers.

You probably know Roxie and Velma, the good-time gals of the 1926 satirical play Chicago and its wildly successful musical and movie adaptations. You might not know that Roxie, Velma, and the rest of the colorful characters of the play were inspired by real prisoners held in "Murderess Row" in 1920s Chicago - or that the reporter who covered their trials for the Chicago Tribune went on to write the play Chicago. Now, more than 90 years later, the Chicago Tribune tells the story of the four women who inspired the timeless characters of Chicago.

In a market in Buenos Aires, a spirited young Australian woman meets a Peruvian artisan who crafts traditional jewelry. The year is 1995, and she has left home for the first time, determined to travel for as long as it takes for her bones to bend her into a new shape. Leigh has a desperate need for love, second only to her desire for escape. She is spellbound by the artisan, Gabriel. But she’s about to travel Brazil, Bolivia, and Peru with her friend Emily and leaves Buenos Aires, vowing to return.

Året er 1940 og Gerda er 14 år gammel og netop konfirmeret. Det er en tid, hvor uddannelse for piger ikke er i højsædet, og Gerda afslutter derfor sin skolegang efter 7. klasse. Hun får arbejde i et gartneri og på en fabrik, mens hun om aftenen lærer bogholderi i håb om at skabe en bedre tilværelse for sig selv. "Jeg hader støvletramp" er en beretning fra besættelsestiden, som den så ud for langt de fleste danskere.

En dag var han bara borta. Den 51-årige engelsmannen John Darwin bestämde sig för att ge sig ut på sjön, en kort tur med sin kanot, för att sedan komma hem igen innan middagen. Men John Darwin kom aldrig tillbaka. Han försvann spårlöst och alla antar att han har drunknat. Vänner och familj sörjer. Vad de inte vet är att John i själva verket har iscensatt sin egen död.

In a social-media saturated world, it's all too easy to see the shiny lives of others and find your own less than lustrous. And while most women won't admit they're unhappy, they will tell you they just wish. "I love my life! I just wish ____." After ten-plus years of professional life online, Kate Strickler, founder of Naptime Kitchen, has experienced the many ways we see a life on the other side of the screen—and wish it were our own.

In this powerful, incisive work of social and self-exploration, Melnick blends personal essay with cultural criticism to explore Parton’s dual identities as a feminist icon and objectified sex symbol, identities that reflect the author’s own fraught history with rape culture and the arduous work of reclaiming her voice.

"'The Next Level: A Game I Had To Play!' is the autobiography of the 'Improbable' journey of Vernon Turner.

From the self-proclaimed Queen of the Stunted Late Bloomers and one of the most exciting emerging voices in comedy comes an honestly funny memoir about the awkward, cringeworthy, hilarious, and longest possible journey of coming of age and into her own.

ביצוע מיוחד ע'י נכדתו של מחבר הספר, הדס קלדרון. קיץ 1944: לאחר שהטיסו השלטונות הסובייטיים, במבצע יוצא דופן, את המשורר אברהם סוצקבר ואת אשתו מן השטחים שבשליטת הנאצים אל...

My Gay Church Days is the true story of a profoundly insecure evangelical pastor who eventually decided enough was enough. After failed relationships, crippling anxiety, and cult-like codependency, George broke away from rigid Christianity to pursue the thing he once found most dreadful and fearful about himself. This book is a crusade of revealing, an exploration of conformity, oppression, awakening, and self-discovery unlike any other.

From an acclaimed classicist comes a witty, unusual, and fascinating "biography" of Homer's fictional Bronze Age hero, Odysseus. In this entertaining book, Charles Beye fills out the story of this extraordinary figure while at the same time portraying Odysseus' evolution through the course of a strange and adventuresome life, at times so remote, at times so immediate in the contemporary perspective.

The Great Polar Fraud explores the history of the three men who claimed the pole, their claims, and the subsequent doubts of those claims, effectively rewriting the history of polar exploration and putting Amundsen center stage as the rightful conqueror of both poles.

In "Torna a casa, Lessico!" si parla di parole, in brevi episodi. Emergono in racconti, sfilano per temi. Etimologie, storie, significati, sfumature di significati, narrazioni. Un intrattenimento di parole utili al pensiero e alla vita, che non avete mai sentito così. Possiamo dirlo? Qualcosa di nuovo. Dall'autore del sito "Una parola al giorno". Il mito classico pullula di mostri. Mostri che abbiamo addomesticato e che richiamiamo nei nostri discorsi di ogni giorno. Una mostra di mostri, con le loro mitiche biografie.

Andy Warhol's work and personality changed American visual culture forever, making him an international superstar. His rise to global fame, his entanglement with the seedy New York sexual underground, and the shocking assassination attempt that almost ended his life are chronicled in Stephen Koch's indispensible classic, Stargazer.

Ed Durden brought a baby golden eagle home to his ranch in California, where she would stay for the next sixteen years. As her bond with Ed and the Durden family grew, the eagle, named Lady, displayed a fierce intelligence and strong personality. She learned quickly, had a strong mothering instinct (even for other species), and never stopped surprising those who cared for her.