Resultados para "Homer" en Biografías y memorias

La delincuencia y sobre todo los crímenes violentos tienen una presencia diaria en nuestras vidas porque revelan la sociedad en la que vivimos. A través de los medios de comunicación, el ciberespacio y las redes sociales vemos las imágenes de las víctimas, la escena del crimen, el...

Her past held the answers-if she was brave enough to face it. After nearly losing her husband, Amy Smyth Miller's panic spirals out of control. Therapy reveals a diagnosis: Complex PTSD. In search of healing, Amy embarks on a harrowing excavation of her past-childhood neglect, homelessness, parental addiction, and a family history shadowed by suicide. Amid the wreckage, she discovers the people and circumstances that kept her safe and helped to shape her life: her wise great-grandmother's teachings, the watchful eyes of caring adults, and her own fierce determination.

Ecce Homo is Nietzsche's compelling autobiography, written in 1888, just weeks before he succumbed to madness. Nietzsche's last great work, a fascinating and bizarre text, traces the development of his own philosophy and the thinkers who influenced him along the way.

Like many post-9/11 combat veterans, JT Blatty struggled to regain her sense of purpose in the first years returning home from Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2018, a chance encounter brought her to Ukraine, drawn in by the familiarity of war and those who serve in wars. Over five years, JT captured the oral history and portraits of a tribe of revolutionaries, the Donbas volunteer soldiers. As she embedded with them on the front line in bunkers and forests, and in Kyiv flats, JT's story began to blend with theirs in a universal bond of combat veterans, compelling her to stay as a new war began.

Most familiar with the Wild West know Wyatt Earp, Virgil Earp, and Morgan Earp for the famous shootout on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona. But few know the later years of the close-knit Earp family, which revolved around patriarch Nicholas Earp, and their last push at a major monetary coup in Los Angeles.

No running water, no car, no electricity or any of the things it powers: the internet, phone, washing machine, radio, or light bulb. Just a wooden cabin, on a smallholding, by the edge of a stand of spruce. The Way Home is a modern-day Walden - an honest and lyrical account of a remarkable life lived in nature without modern technology. Mark Boyle, author of The Moneyless Man, explores the hard-won joys of building a home with his bare hands, learning to make fire, collecting water from the stream, foraging, and fishing.

Appalachian Zen describes a journey we all take, one that Buddhism calls "seeking our true home." Edgy, lyrical, and lovingly rendered, this book recounts how a kid from a Pennsylvania mill-town trailer park grew up—surrounded by backwoods farms and amid grief, violence, and passionate yearning—to become something improbable: a Buddhist minister teaching Zen.

A coming of age at fifty-five by New York Times bestselling author Jane Green I was fifty-five when I finally stopped pretending. What if real freedom isn’t about reinventing yourself … but about letting the woman you buried years ago grow wild again? To the world, Jane Green had everything...

Homo Exul indaga en la pregunta de por qué, en un momento preciso de la historia, los homínidos dejaron de cooperar y comenzaron a mostrar conductas violentas. Defiende, además, que la mayoría de dolencias y enfermedades crónicas que hoy nos afectan (desde la obesidad hasta el alzhéimer) son consecuencia de ese mismo proceso evolutivo que, por fuerza, conllevó importantes cambios sociales y alimenticios en adultos, niños y lactantes. Lanza, además, una importante pregunta: ¿estamos a tiempo de revertir estas marcas evolutivas y convertirnos de nuevo en una sociedad cooperativa?

From the outside, Raelyn Miranda appeared to have built a successful life. She served her country. She built a family. She carried responsibilities that demanded strength, sacrifice, and perseverance. But beneath the surface, she was fighting battles no one could see. Years of military service, trauma, anxiety, PTSD, toxic relationships, and emotional exhaustion slowly created a life built around survival rather than healing. Finding My Way Back Home is the deeply personal story of one woman's journey through pain, resilience, and ultimately, transformation.

The dramatic inside story of the Tamil refugee family which became a cause célèbre all around Australia, and the epic fight by a small rural community to set them free.? It was dawn in the small rural town of Biloela. Loud thumping on the front door signalled the start of a four-year odyssey...

Within this extraordinary memoir, Radhanath Swami weaves a colorful tapestry of adventure, mysticism, and love. Listeners follow Richard Slavin from the suburbs of Chicago to the caves of the Himalayas as he transforms from young seeker to renowned spiritual guide. The Journey Home is an intimate account of the steps to self-awareness and also a penetrating glimpse into the heart of mystic traditions and the challenges that all souls must face on the road to inner harmony and a union with the Divine.   

Fighting to Come Home is a deeply personal memoir about trauma, survival motherhood, incarceration accountability and healing. I thought I was fighting to come home to a place but I was fighting to come home to my self.

The Prodigal Nomad: The Long Way Home is the first book in The Prodigal Nomad Chronicles—an honest, humorous, and deeply personal memoir series about faith, adventure, and the long road back to grace. This is not a tidy testimony. It is a true one. The road back to grace is longer than you hoped and shorter than you feared.

Bloomsbury presents The Rest is History: A History of the World in 51 Heroes and Villains, written by Goalhanger Podcasts with Tom Holland and Dominic Sandbrook, with David Whitehouse, read by Dominic Sandbrook, Tom Holland, Ben Onwunkwe, Clare Corbett, Daniel York Loh, David Rintoul, Homer...

A Quiet Life. A Lasting Legacy. Some women stand at the center of a story. Others hold the home fires burning so someone else can. For decades, Mally Ham has done both. As the wife of Ken Ham, founder of Answers in Genesis, Mally has walked a road most people only see from the outside. In Home Fires, she opens the door and invites you in: to the joy, the sacrifice, the stretching of faith, and the quiet faithfulness that shaped a ministry and a family. This is not a book about being in the spotlight. It is a book about what it takes to keep going when no one is watching.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE What is home? It’s a question that has troubled Marchelle Farrell for her entire life. Years ago she left Trinidad and now, uprooted once again, she heads to the peaceful English countryside – the only Black woman in her village. Drawn to her new garden...

In Home Work, Julie describes her years in Hollywood - from the incredible highs to the challenging lows. Not only does she detail her work in now-classic films and her collaborations with giants of cinema and television; she also unveils her personal story of adjusting to a new and often daunting world, dealing with the demands of unimaginable success, being a new mother, moving on from her first marriage, embracing two stepchildren, adopting two more children and falling in love with the brilliant and mercurial Blake Edwards. The pair worked together in numerous films.

Journey Home, a coming of age memoir set in post-World War II in Las Vegas, New Mexico tells the story of Charlotte Bible, a precocious young girl growing up in a vibrant, small town surrounded by rich history at the edge of the Great Plains..........

Blue House: Ten Years on the Way Home tells the struggles, traumas and tragedies of a family in the former USSR during Stalin's reign, pre-WWII. Dispossessed of the happy home and wealth they built through their own sweat and labor, they were forced to withstand horrors and hardships as their daily bread...when there was any bread.