Resultados para "razer" en Biografías y memorias

"¿Existió el Guatón Loyola? ¿Dónde se perdió el Teniente Bello? ¿ Por qué Condorito odiaba tanto al Roto Quezada? ¿En qué playa se quedó el Capitán Araya? En "Chilenos de Raza", Francisco Mouat emprende la alucinante tarea de resolver, uno a uno, los grandes misterios de la sobremesa...

We have lost the war on cancer. We spend $150 billion each year treating it, yet - a few innovations notwithstanding - a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it as one was 50 years ago. Most new drugs add mere months to one's life at agonizing physical and financial cost. In The First Cell, Azra Raza offers a searing account of how both medicine and our society (mis)treats cancer, how we can do better, and why we must.

When Helen's partner of 15 years announced without warning that she 'needed to grow', and left in the Toyota, Helen remained in her pyjamas, ordering barbecue chicken, and crying on her cat. After disclosing her foulest thoughts on an XXX app, quitting her job, and receiving bad advice from her discount shrink, she cried again; this time on her beauty therapist, who dared her to go on 100 dates inside a year. Razor took that dare. Naked, funny, and frankly embarrassing – this is the Helen 100.

Una recopilación de ensayos, escritos a lo largo de medio siglo, que aborda el racismo y el colorismo presentes en Puerto Rico y Estados Unidos. En esta veintena de textos que recorren cinco décadas, Luis Rafael Sánchez aborda de frente «el repudio feroz a la ignominia que representan los odios raciales», desde la esclavitud y la lucha por los derechos civiles en Estados Unidos al homicidio de George Floyd, y de Nelson Mandela a Meghan Markle, en ensayos ya clásicos como «El pelo malo», «Las señas del Caribe», «Todo sobre la nariz» o «Soy negro y qué».

Quanti conoscono la parola "Porrajmos"? Porrajmos nella lingua della maggior parte dei rom e dei sinti significa "divoramento" e indica lo sterminio che il Terzo Reich attuò nei loro confronti. Una persecuzione su base razziale che portò alla morte di oltre 500.000 persone. Nell'audiolibro "Porrajmos" abbiamo raccolto l'intensa testimonianza di Otto Rosenberg, un sinto tedesco nato a Berlino nel 1927. Già nel 1936, alla vigilia dei giochi olimpici di Berlino, Otto Rosenberg fu deportato nel lager di Marzhan.

Born and Razed recounts the author's gripping and deeply personal journey. Beth's life began at Grenville, where her parents were teachers. The picturesque campus on the banks of the St. Lawrence River masked a dark reality: behind its idyllic facade lay a world of strict control, religious zealotry, and emotional abuse.

In this heartfelt audiobook, author and breast cancer survivor Cynthia E. Razo shares her raw and powerful journey through one of life’s darkest valleys, guided and covered by the power of prayer. Told in her own voice, this audiobook invites listeners into a deeply personal space filled with faith-fueled moments, divine encounters, grief, grace, and miraculous strength.

Razeen Sally was born to a Sri Lankan Muslim father and a Welsh mother. Just before his teens, a political conflict tore his family apart and he left Sri Lanka, barely going back for thirty years. When he finally returned ‘home’, he spent much of the next decade crisscrossing the island, trying to understand this paradoxical place. Blessed with nature’s bounty and an easy, pleasure-loving people, it was nevertheless scarred by ethnic conflict and the violence of civil war.

Radio Ke Din is a personal memoirs of Raza Ali Abidii, a Pakistani journalist and broadcaster who is best known for his radio documentaries on the Grand Trunk Road in Pakistan (called Sher Shah Suri Marg in India) and his travelogue along the banks of Indus River. He was born in 1936 and moved to Karachi, Pakistan, with his family in 1950. He graduated from Islamia College, Karachi, and worked for 15 years as a little-known journalist. Then he moved to London and worked for BBC from 1972 to 2008.

FROM ONE OF TODAY'S FOREMOST INNOVATION LEADERS, AN INSPIRING, PERSONAL APPROACH TO MASTERING CHANGE IN THE FACE OF UNCERTAINTY. NAMED A 2018 BEST BUSINESS BOOK PICK BY FAST COMPANY AND WIRED UK. Confronting change is incredibly hard, both organizationally and personally. People become resistant...

Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought he'd seen it all. Then he found himself chief dealmaker at the most influential technology investor in the world—SoftBank, the backer of Arm Holdings, Yahoo, Nvidia, TikTok, Uber, T-Mobile, Alibaba and WeWork. The Money Trap is Sama’s thrilling, stranger-than-fiction personal odyssey featuring his experiences alongside SoftBank’s iconic founder, Masayoshi Son, a visionary maverick who wants to be remembered as “the crazy guy who bet on the future” and whose mission is “happiness for everyone.”

Razan Haugaard blev som kun 13-årig gift med en kurdisk frihedskæmper. Hun måtte forlade sin hjemby i Irak og flytte til hans tilhørssted i bjergene. Her føder hun sit første barn. Men kort efter må den lille familie flygte, fordi Saddam Husseins tropper efterstræbte kurderne. De kommer først til fods til Iran, hvor deres andet barn bliver født, og senere ved hjælp af menneskesmuglere til Europa - til Nykøbing Falster. For Razan var en stor lykke at komme til Danmark. Hun lærte hurtigt sproget, kom i skole og begyndte at uddanne sig. Det var sværere for hendes mand.

Las memorias que Obama relata en Los sueños de mi padre comienzan en Nueva York, donde se entera de que su padre ha fallecido en un accidente automovilístico. La inesperada noticia provoca en él un viaje físico y emocional que lo lleva de Kansas a Hawái y más tarde a Kenia, en una emotiva odisea que le permitirá conocer realmente a su familia, la amarga verdad de la vida de su padre y conciliar al fin las distintas partes de su fragmentada herencia.