Resultados para "The Raven" en Biografías y memorias

En estas memorias, Rav Berg expone el profundo vínculo entre maestro y estudiante, ilustrando un hermoso retrato de uno de los más grandes Kabbalistas de nuestra era: Rav Yehuda Tzvi Brandwein. Ambientado en Israel durante los turbulentos días anteriores y posteriores a la Guerra de los Seis Días, este libro recuenta el desarrollo de la relación especial entre Rav Berg y Rav Brandwein, y comparte las enseñanzas provenientes de dicha relación. En estas páginas percibimos la pasión de estos Kabbalistas por llevar la sabiduría ancestral de la Kabbalah al mundo contemporáneo.

Growing up on the towpaths, Young Froggy learned the rules of survival long before he learned the rules of childhood. While other kids collected toys, he collected street cred — the kind earned from storms no child should ever have to weather. This is the story of a boy who became tough because the world gave him no other choice. A boy who learned to stay small, stay quiet, stay unseen… until the day he realised he didn’t have to.

The life story of Ishi, the last Yahi Indian, lone survivor of an exterminated tribe, is unique in the annals of North American anthropology. Ishi stumbled into the 20th century on the morning of August 29, 1911, when, desperate with hunger and terrified of the white murderers of his family, he was found in the corral of a slaughterhouse near Oroville, California.

In Raven's Witness, Lentfer tells Nelson's story - from his midwestern childhood to his first experiences with Native culture in Alaska through his own lifelong passion for the land where he so belonged. Nelson was the author of the best-selling The Island Within and Heart and Blood. The recipient of multiple honorary degrees and numerous literary awards, he regularly packed auditoriums when he spoke. His depth of experience allowed him to become an intermediary between worlds. This is his story.

Using the story of Raven and the Box of Daylight (and relating it to Sun Tzu’s equally timeless Art of War) to deepen her narration and reflection, Hayes expresses an ongoing frustration and anger at the obstacles and prejudices still facing Alaska Natives in their own land, but also recounts her own story of attending and completing college in her 50s and becoming a professor and a writer.

When Catherine Raven finished her PhD in biology, she built herself a tiny cottage on an isolated plot of land in Montana. She was as emotionally isolated as she was physically, but she viewed the house as a way station, a temporary rest stop where she could gather her nerves and fill out applications for what she hoped would be a real job that would help her fit into society. In the meantime, she taught remotely and led field classes in nearby Yellowstone National Park. Then one day she realized that a mangy-looking fox was showing up on her property every afternoon at 4:15 p.m.

Peer through the windows of Raven Day McShane’s life as she leaves her army life for the civilian world—not an easy task for any military veteran. With undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder, Raven and her son, Aaron, encounter tremendous hardships as they journey through life, not always together, ultimately to learn that life is not how we plan. But together or apart, they realize that they can put life back together with faith in each other and with love.

The basis for the upcoming HBO miniseries and the "definitive account of the Jonestown massacre" (Rolling Stone) -- now available for the first time in paperback. Tim Reiterman’s Raven provides the seminal history of the Rev. Jim Jones, the Peoples Temple, and the murderous ordeal at Jonestown...

The Legacy of Innocence is the true story of Phillip—a gentle, vulnerable young man whose world was small, fragile, and shaped entirely by routine, trust, and innocence. Through your eyes, the listener witnesses the quiet beauty of his life, the challenges he faced, and the profound impact he had on the people around him—especially you. Phillip lived with a purity that the world often overlooked. He didn’t judge, didn’t hate, didn’t pretend. He moved through life with a soft smile, a humble pride, and a deep reliance on the kindness of others.

Empire of Dirt is a true story, more thrilling than fiction. Andrew Pritchard emerged from the fractured streets of post-Windrush London, navigating life as a mixed-race young man in an era marked by racial tension, police hostility, and Thatcherism. Some would say it was wit, charm, ingenuity, and a razor-sharp business instinct inherited from his oracle-like Jamaican mother that propelled him.

« Je m'imaginais arracher mon voile, le piétiner, le déchirer, le brûler. Tandis que les pièces s'entrechoquaient, je me disais que le moment était venu de gagner ma liberté. » Ce jour-là de l'année 2019, lors du championnat du monde de Moscou, Mitra Héjazipour a eu le courage inouï...

Lucie Azema livre un témoignage rare et précieux sur le quotidien en Iran, ses luttes, espoirs et traditions – loin des clichés et des regards occidentaux. Grâce à son expérience de vie à Téhéran, elle éclaire la richesse, la complexité et les paradoxes d’un pays souvent...

How do I give myself to God completely? What happens when I do? I Dared to Call Him Father is the fascinating true story of Bilquis Sheikh, a prominent Muslim woman in Pakistan who faced these questions at the crossroads of her life and found the astonishing answers. Her unusual journey to a personal relationship with God turned her world upside down - and put her life in danger - as a series of strange dreams launched her on a quest that would forever consume her heart, mind, and soul.

The fate of Brooke Astor, the endearing philanthropist with the storied name, has generated worldwide headlines since her grandson Philip sued his father in 2006, alleging mistreatment of Brooke. And shortly after her death in 2007, Anthony Marshall, Mrs. Astor's only child, was indicted on charges of looting her estate. Rarely has there been a story with such an appealing heroine, conjuring up a world so nearly forgotten.

Written by his wife of twenty years, The Magnificent Elmer is the first book about Elmer Bernstein, a seminal figure of movie music. In this book, Elmer's former wife Pearl tells in vivid anecdotes of their move from a fifth-floor Manhattan walk-up to the red carpets of Hollywood. Pearl participated in the ups and downs of McCarthy, Will Hays, and Otto Preminger. She presents an array of Hollywood's leading men, warts and all, from Sinatra to Odets, from DeMille to Elmer's eponymous rival, Leonard Bernstein.

Beginning in June, 1962, the Boston area was terrorized for 18 months by an elusive serial killer who sexually assaulted and then strangled a succession of women. Boasting that he was the killer and that he had raped an additional 2,000 victims, Albert DeSalvo's horrific story became the subject of a best-selling book and a major Hollywood movie. But it was all a monstrous hoax: DeSalvo was not the Boston Strangler.

Weaving between heartbreaking memories of her marriage and the pressing needs of her new day-to-day routine, Roiphe constructs an elegant literary pastiche, not of grief but of renewal. She begins her memoir just as the shock of her husband's death has begun to wear off and writes her way into the then unknown world of life after love. In beautifully wrought vignettes, Roiphe captures the infinite number of "firsts" that lie ahead.

When Susan Richards adopted an abused horse rescued by the local SPCA, she didn't know that the memoir she would write about the experience would become a best seller - or that she would fall in love.

The horse Susan Richards chose for rescue wouldn't be corralled into her waiting trailer. Instead, Lay Me Down, a former racehorse with a foal close on her heels, walked right up that ramp and into Susan's life. This gentle creature, malnourished, plagued by pneumonia and an eye infection, had endured a rough road, but somehow her heart was still open and generous.

This is an exuberant group portrait of four extraordinary writers, Zelda Fitzgerald, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Dorothy Parker, and Edna Ferber, whose loves, lives, and literary endeavors captured the spirit of the 1920s.