Resultados para "Ida" en Biografías y memorias

La Biblioteca Elena Poniatowska reúne la obra narrativa, ensayística y periodística de una escritora inmersa en la escena cultural iberoamericana. En Ida y vuelta se encuentran algunas de las entrevistas más icónicas de quien convirtió la virtud de escuchar en un arte. Protagonistas de la...

Ida stamped her foot. Her friends were wrong. "I will not be a missionary to India like my parents!" she retorted. "Don't any of you say I will be, because I won't -- never, ever, ever." Ida had never forgotten the faces of starving Indian children. She hated India -- it was full of horrible...

MED TRO PÅ DET ØNSKER IDA AUKEN AT VENDE ANGST TIL HÅB OG HANDLING. Ida Auken var i 20’erne, da en klimadepression sendte hende ned i et sort hul – hvordan skulle verden overleve? Og kunne man være bekendt at sætte børn i den? I dag tænker mange unge det samme. De er bange for...

Though her acting career is well known, Ida Lupino was, until very recently, either unknown or overlooked as an influential director. One of the few female directors in Classical Hollywood, Lupino was the only woman with membership in the Directors Guild of America between 1948 and 1971. Her films were about women without power in society and engaged with highly controversial topics despite Hollywood's strict production code. Filmmaker Alexandra Seros retells the story of Ida Lupino's career, from actor to director, first in film, then in television.

In 2007, Simonetta and her husband made the quixotic decision to open a restaurant. Without any relevant experience IT engineer Avi and novelist Simonetta put aside their careers to throw themselves (and their three young children) into their dream. This is the story of Ida, a tiny resilient...

Mehr Mut als Kleider im Koffer: Ida Pfeiffer war die erste Welt- und Forschungsreisende des 19. Jahrhunderts. Sie bereiste vier Kontinente und legte 240.000 Kilometer auf See zurück.

Meet Ida LeClair. She lives in the small town of Mahoosuc Mills, Maine, with her husband, Charlie. Stories? She's got a double-wide mobile home full of them! Find out what happens when the husbands go off hunting for the weekend! Hear about the amazing adventures Ida and her friends, Celeste, Rite, Betty, Dot, and Shirley, have in "the Bonneville". You've heard of Maine humor Down East? Here's Maine humor from in-state, the heart of the North Country, where the women run with the moose!

Fem unge politikere fortæller åbenhjertigt om deres opvækst, hvad der vækkede dem politisk og om deres vej til Folketinget. Hver især har de fem allerede gjort sig eftertrykkeligt bemærket i det politiske spil: Ida Auken, Morten Messerschmidt, Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen, Simon Emil Ammitzbøll, Sophie Løhde. Portrætterne er skrevet af journalisterne Lea Klæstrup Andersen, Anders Wendt Jensen, Poul Bonke Justesen og Annika Yderstræde.

Abraham Lincoln was born into poverty in a log cabin and was raised on the frontier primarily in Indiana. He was self-educated and became a lawyer, Whig Party leader, Illinois state legislator, and U.S. Congressman from Illinois. In 1849, he returned to his law practice but became vexed by the opening of additional lands to slavery. He reentered politics in 1854, becoming a leader in the Republican Party, and reached a national audience in the 1858 debates against Stephen Douglas.

A memoir of a child's forced relocation to Siberia under Stalin's Gulag system reveals the potential for true human kindness in the face of extraordinary hardship. In April of 1940, six-year-old Ida woke to the sound of pounding on her door. Soviet soldiers forcibly packed her and her mother onto a train with thousands of their neighbors and deported them to remote Siberia, leaving them stranded to survive the brutal winter in subhuman conditions.

Sie war selbst eine elegante Frau - und tat viel dafür, dass ihre Geschlechtsgenossinnen in aller Welt sich sehen lassen konnten: Ida Rosenthal war davon überzeugt, Emanzipation und ein sichtlich voller Busen müssten zu vereinbaren sein. In den 1920ern entwickelte sie die Vorform des Büstenhalters: ein Modell mit zwei "cups" = Körbchen, die durch einen Steg verbunden und in das Vorderteil eines Kleides einzuarbeiten waren. Es sollte dreierlei leisten: formen, stützen und - teilen.

Ida B. Wells is an American icon of truth telling. Born to slaves, she was a pioneer of investigative journalism, a crusader against lynching, and a tireless advocate for suffrage, both for women and for African Americans. She cofounded the NAACP, started the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, and was a leader in the early civil rights movement. This engaging memoir relates Wells’ private life as a mother as well as her public activities as a teacher, lecturer, and journalist in her fight for equality and justice.

Un niño sale de una cirugía, que le salvó la vida, contando asombrosas historias acerca de su visita al cielo. El cielo es real es la verdadera historia del hijo de cuatro años del pastor de un pequeño pueblo de Nebraska que durante una operación de emergencia visitó el cielo. El niño...

Born into the brutal reality of slavery, Ida B. Wells rose to become an audacious journalist, teacher, and activist for racial and gender justice. In Radical Advocate, Mary E. Triece examines the rhetorical strategies employed by Wells to challenge deeply rooted systems of oppression, strategies that remain powerful and relevant today.

WHEN ANNE HANSON'S DAD FIRST ASKED her to investigate the secret past of his parents, little did she know what she was getting into. For two decades, despite all her digging, she failed to unearth even the tiniest speck of evidence that the families of her grandparents, Frank and Ida Hanson, had ever existed. If her quest were a detective novel, its title would have been, "The Case of the Missing Ancestors."

Ida Copeland's life was full of drama; her father's mysterious death by shotgun, an escape from Italy to Britain at the end of the 19th century, nursing in the first world war, fighting Britain's would-be dictator, Sir Oswald Mosley and becoming one of the first female Members of Parliament. It's a story worth listening to.

Trippelmordet i Härnösand, och fem andra mordfall är en samling som kastar ljus på några av de mest omskakande och gåtfulla mordfallen i Nordens historia. Samlingen består av sex olika mordfall, tidigare publicerade som enskilda titlar, och erbjuder en unik inblick i de polisutredningar som följde på dessa mörka brott. En mörk skugga kastades över den annars så fridfulla sommaren i Härnösand 2010 när en pappa och hans två barn hittas brutalt mördade. Morden på Pernilla och Engla, som fångade den svenska nationens hjärtan våren 2008.

There’s an African proverb that says “It takes a village to raise a child”. Hollywood producer and best-selling author DeVon Franklin offers a personal twist: It Takes a Woman. In this riveting and soul-stirring Audible Original, Franklin introduces us to the women who raised him—a “village of love” that selflessly came together to shape him into the man he is today.

Fem unge politikere fortæller åbenhjertigt om deres opvækst, hvad der vækkede dem politisk og om deres vej til Folketinget. Hver især har de fem allerede gjort sig eftertrykkeligt bemærket i det politiske spil: Ida Auken Morten Messerschmidt Johanne Schmidt-Nielsen Simon Emil Ammitzbøll Sophie Løhde Portrætterne er skrevet af journalisterne Lea Klæstrup Andersen, Anders Wendt Jensen, Poul Bonke Justesen og Annika Yderstræde.

Ida B. Wells was a powerful churchwoman and witness for justice and equity from 1878 to 1931. Born enslaved, her witness flowed through the struggles for justice in her lifetime, especially in the intersections of African Americans, women, and those who were poor. Her life is a profound witness for faith-based work of visionary power, resistance, and resilience for today’s world, when the forces of injustice stand in opposition to progress.