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Marilyn

Autor: María Hesse

Número de Páginas: 179

TRAS EL ÉXITO DE SUS BIOGRAFÍAS FRIDA KAHLO Y BOWIE, MARÍA HESSE, CON MÁS DE 200.000 LECTORES, NOS DESCUBRE A UNA MARILYN COMO NUNCA ANTES LA HABÍAMOS VISTO UNA DE LAS 30 MEJORES BIOGRAFÍAS SEGÚN ELLE «El trazo de la ilustradora María Hesse es tan reconocible como la melena rubia más famosa de Hollywood. Éxito superventas a los 30 con sus biografías, [...] elegida como una de las 100 mejores ilustradoras del mundo por Taschen [...] y tras más de un año de investigación y múltiples lecturas, [...] nos presenta un mito que rompe con los tópicos.» Marta de la Calzada, Telva Fue uno de los grandes iconos del siglo XX, el rostro más popular de todos los tiempos. De ella se enamoró el gran público, además de cineastas, escritores o el mismísimo presidente de Estados Unidos. Sin embargo, murió sola e incomprendida a los treinta y seis años. ¿Quién era verdaderamente Norma Jeane Baker? La actriz más conocida de la historia cinematográfica, el símbolo sexual de toda una época, el prototipo por excelencia de la rubia tonta ocultaban a una persona que sigue siendo una gran desconocida. Tras hacer florecer los corazones de Frida Kahlo y de David Bowie,...

Frida Kahlo

Autor: María Hesse

Número de Páginas: 0

Inspirado en las vivencias de la icónica pintora mexicana, Frida Kahlo, este libro ofrece un hermoso paseo ilustrado por su vida y su obra. Frida fue algo más que dolor y angustia. Quiso ser fiel a su arrolladora personalidad y se convirtió en una artista llena de vida. Su pintura es fiesta, color, sangre y vida. Fue una luchadora que decidió ponerse el mundo por montera y una mujer apasionada que no se conformó con estar a la sombra de su gran amor, el pintor Diego Rivera. Frida decidió vivir con intensidad, tanto las desgracias como las alegrías que le deparó la existencia. "Pies, para qué los quiero si tengo alas para volar."

Malas mujeres / Bad Women

Autor: María Hesse

Número de Páginas: 0

Una historia de las mujeres que han encarnado el mal, llena de humor e inteligencia, por la autora de Frida Kahlo y El placer, con más de 200.000 lectores TODAS #MALASMUJERES UNO DE LOS DIEZ LIBROS MÁS ESPERADOS DE 2022 SEGÚN ESQUIRE NI LOCAS, NI TONTAS, NI PROVOCADORAS, NI FATALES: ¡MUJERES, BIENVENIDAS AL AQUELARRE! Desde la aparición de los primeros mitos, lo universal ha sido la narración de los hombres, esa visión masculina que dibujó a unos y a otras, nos dijo cómo debíamos ser -puras, dóciles, amorosas- y previno al mundo de las malas mujeres, ya fueran vengativas gorgonas, crueles madrastras, problemáticas Pandoras o Evas incautas que cargaron con la culpa de nuestro destino. En su personalísima versión, María Hesse da una vuelta de tuerca a esas princesas pasivas, brujas perversas, malas madres, femmes fatales, locas pasionales y secundarias perfectas, y, de Madame Bovary a Sarah Connor, de Juana «la Loca» a Yoko Ono, de Helena de Troya a Monica Lewinsky, de Medusa a Zahara o a Nevenka, reivindica la necesidad de encontrar otros referentes, nuevas lecturas de la Historia e inspiración para ser simplemente mujeres en el mundo en que vivimos. «Ahora...

Malas mujeres

Autor: María Hesse

Número de Páginas: 213

Una historia de las mujeres que han encarnado el mal, llena de humor e inteligencia, por la autora de Frida Kahlo y El placer, con más de 200.000 lectores. TODAS #MALASMUJERES UNO DE LOS DIEZ LIBROS MÁS ESPERADOS DE 2022 SEGÚN ESQUIRE Y DE LOS MEJORES DEL AÑO SEGÚN TRENDENCIAS NI LOCAS, NI TONTAS, NI PROVOCADORAS, NI FATALES: ¡MUJERES, BIENVENIDAS AL AQUELARRE! Desde la aparición de los primeros mitos, lo universal ha sido la narración de los hombres, esa visión masculina que dibujó a unos y a otras, nos dijo cómo debíamos ser —puras, dóciles, amorosas— y previno al mundo de las malas mujeres, ya fueran vengativas gorgonas, crueles madrastras, problemáticas Pandoras o Evas incautas que cargaron con la culpa de nuestro destino. En su personalísimaversión, María Hesse da una vuelta de tuerca a esas princesas pasivas, brujas perversas, malas madres, femmes fatales, locas pasionales y secundarias perfectas, y, de Madame Bovary a Sarah Connor, de Juana la Loca a Yoko Ono o de Helena de Troya a Monica Lewinsky, reivindica la necesidad de encontrar otros referentes, nuevas lecturas de la Historia e inspiración para ser simplemente mujeres en el mundo en que vivimos. ...

Frida Kahlo

Autor: María Hesse

Número de Páginas: 167

70.o ANIVERSARIO DE FRIDA KAHLO Edición de lujo con material inédito del fenómeno editorial que dio a conocer a una autora con más de 400.000 lectores en 18 idiomas. Incluye el apéndice «Las recetas de Frida» «Pies para qué os quiero si tengo alas para volar ». Frida fue algo más que dolor y angustia. No se conformó con estar a la sombra de Diego Rivera y su arrolladora personalidad, y se convirtió en una artista llena de vida. Su pintura es fiesta, color, sangre y vitalidad. Fue una luchadora que decidió ponerse el mundo por montera. Una mujer apasionada que quiso vivir con intensidad tanto las desgracias como las alegrías que le deparó la existencia. Inspirado en las vivencias de la pintora mexicana, este libro es un paseo ilustrado por la emocionante biografía de Frida Kahlo. La crítica ha dicho... «Un libro delicioso, profusamente ilustrado. Tanto el imaginario onírico, femenino y organicista de la pintora mexicana como su leve ingenuismo y su visceral romanticismo [...] [son] asimilados por Hesse en ese estilo inconfundible que busca fusionar lo sintético con lo orgánico pero que rechaza todo el barroquismo de Kahlo». Javier Rubio Nomblot, ABC...

La pequeña princesa

Autor: Elena Medel

Número de Páginas: 121

Una novela de crecimiento hacia el mundo adulto con una mirada inteligente, dulce y empoderada. Todas las princesas tienen su cuento: pero son ellas mismas las que tienen que escribirlo. La pequeña princesa debe abandonar su palacio para encontrar un príncipe y un reino para ella. Ese es el cuento que siempre le han contado. Pero en los cuentos muchas veces se mezclan mentiras y realidad. Y hay que saber mirar con el corazón para distinguirlas. En el viaje aprende a dudar, a elegir, a ver el mundo con nuevos ojos. Y, al final del camino, ¿podrá escribir su propio cuento la pequeña princesa?

Ana de las Tejas Verdes (Colección Alfaguara Clásicos)

Autor: Lucy Maud Montgomery

Número de Páginas: 125

Las grandes obras de la literatura infantil y juvenil que no pueden faltar en ninguna biblioteca. Ilustrado por María Hesse. Ana Shirley es una niña risueña y soñadora con la imaginación más desbordante que puede existir. Cuando, por error, acaba viviendo con los hermanos Cuthbert -que, en realidad, querían adoptar un niño-, su vida da un giro inesperado... y comienzan sus aventuras en Tejas Verdes. Una nueva y cuidada edición del clásico de Lucy Maud Montgomery, ilustrado por María Hesse, que traerá de vuelta los recuerdos de toda una generación de lectores y abrirá las puertas de Avonlea a los más jóvenes. Clásicos inolvidables para disfrutar, compartir y dejar volar la imaginación.

El Bosque Tenebroso de Mi Mente / the Dark Forest in My Mind

Autor: María Hesse

Número de Páginas: 0

María Hesse, traducida en 18 países y con más de 400.000 lectores, lleva su arte a la cumbre de su esplendor para plantarle cara al miedo «Una de las ilustradoras con más personalidad que hay ahora mismo en España». Más de uno (Onda Cero) ¿Cuál es el origen de nuestros miedos y cómo podemos exorcizarlos? En este libro, visceral y hermosísimo, María Hesse le planta cara a sus propios temores: los que la han acompañado a lo largo de su vida, como a tantas otras mujeres. Así, con un lenguaje íncreíblemente visual y alegórico, van desfilando por estas páginas la ansiedad, la manipulación, la precariedad, el cambio, la soledad, la locura, la maternidad, la vejez o la muerte en un libro que mezcla la autoficción, elementos de cómic y referencias literarias, poéticas y musicales. En El miedo , María Hesse renueva su estilo narrativo y artístico para confeccionar su obra más madura. La crítica ha dicho: «Un estilo inconfundible que busca fusionar lo sintético con lo orgánico». Javier Rubio Nomblot, ABC Cultural «María Hesse es uno de esos nuevos diamantes en bruto de la ilustración». Harper's Bazaar «El dibujo no como horizonte escapista y mero...

El placer

Autor: María Hesse

Número de Páginas: 0

«María Hesse es uno de esos nuevos diamantes en bruto de la ilustración.» Harper ́s Bazaar Por la autora de Frida Kahlo, Una biografía. Delicado y visceral, como el placer que exalta: así es este libro,el más íntimo y personal de María Hesse. En él nos cuenta cómo fue su camino hacia el despertar sexual, una senda tortuosa sembrada de culpa, vergüenza y desconocimiento, que sorteó gracias a una insaciable curiosidad y al sabio ejemplo de mujeres que supieron explorar el misterio y el poder de la sensualidad, enfrentarse a los prejuicios de su época, dar un nombre a lo que carecía de él, y allanar e iluminar esa ruta para que otras la recorrieran más ligeras. Mujeres de carne y hueso o de ficción, como Lilith, María Magdalena, Safo, Eve Ensler, Colette, Anaïs Nin, Simone de Beauvoir, Anne Sexton, Mata Hari, Betty Dodson, Marilyn Monroe, Erika Lust e incluso Daenerys Targaryen: gracias a ellas Hesse ha trazadoun mapa del placer femenino para que ahora lo exploremos todas.

Ciencia y metáfora: Una perspectiva desde la filosofía de la ciencia

Autor: Rubén Sampieri Cábal

Número de Páginas: 268

A través de la revisión de las propuestas teóricas que sobre la naturaleza de la metáfora han construido diversos filósofos, el autor discute -especialmente desde la filosofía de la ciencia- problemas centrales de la metáfora y su relación con el conocimiento y la construcción de la ciencia. El espectro de tales problemas incluye cuestiones sobre su referencia, significado, contenido cognitivo y la función que desempeña en la dinámica de las teorías científicas.

Obsession and Culture

Autor: Andrew Brink

Número de Páginas: 258

Many twentieth-century novelists speak for a male psycho-class needing imaginative externalization of obsessive sexual fantasies of control of women. Attraction, avoidance, and guilt are powerful motivators for writers and readers alike, and the moral ambiguity of serial monogamy, as well as other forms of exploitative sexuality, prompt certain writers to construct symbolic expiation and repair in fiction.

Ecos artísticos, literarios y educativos en las identidades de género

Autor: Laura Luque Rodrigo , Yolanda Caballero Aceituno

Número de Páginas: 230

Este libro recoge parte de los resultados obtenidos en el proyecto I+D+i Literatura y arte como elementos conformadores de la identidad desde el siglo XVIII a la actualidad: fronteras, simbiosis y cambio cultural (FEDER Andalucía). Este estudio, abordado desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar e internacional, ha pretendido ahondar en la construcción de la identidad de género a través de las producciones culturales (artes plásticas, música, literatura, cine, etc.), educativas (legislación, material educativo, etc.) y nuevos medios (redes sociales y materiales audiovisuales) que se han generado desde la Antigüedad y que han perpetuado hasta nuestros días ciertos roles y estereotipos asociados al sexo y al género. También se han incluido cuestiones relacionadas con el patrimonio inmaterial, la expresión de género, etc. El trabajo, que se ha elaborado no solo con una visión feminista, sino desde la interseccionalidad, tiene su centro en Europa, pero también trata aspectos vinculados al continente americano, Asia y África. Confiamos en que estas páginas estimulen a quien las lea a reflexionar sobre cómo el mundo en el que vivimos es fruto de conceptos que nacieron...

DIY Couture

Autor: Rosie Martin

Número de Páginas: 492

The DIY Couture collection is 10 stylish, easy to make pieces of clothing that can be endlessly reinvented in different fabrics, textures and colours. Anyone who enjoys sewing and creating something unique will love using this book to make their own couture wardrobe. The book begins with a Useful Techniques section, followed by Collections: inspirational photographs of the pieces styled different ways. Next, each of the 10 garments, from a Goddess dress to a cool romper suit and hoody, is clearly explained, including a spread showing all the variations (e.g. fastenings, necklines and hems) possible for each garment. Finally, clear step by step illustrations and photographs show you how each piece is made. With no complex sewing patterns, even beginners at sewing can make their own beautiful clothes. With simple, visual instructions and cool styling, DIY Couture will inspire people to join the handmade revolution. Where eco-fashion meets street style, this is the antithesis of fast-fashion. Absolutely no patterns required!

The Integration of the Humanities and Arts with Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine in Higher Education

Autor: National Academies Of Sciences, Engineering, And Medicine , Policy And Global Affairs , Board On Higher Education And Workforce , Committee On Integrating Higher Education In The Arts, Humanities, Sciences, Engineering, And Medicine

Número de Páginas: 283

In the United States, broad study in an array of different disciplines â€"arts, humanities, science, mathematics, engineeringâ€" as well as an in-depth study within a special area of interest, have been defining characteristics of a higher education. But over time, in-depth study in a major discipline has come to dominate the curricula at many institutions. This evolution of the curriculum has been driven, in part, by increasing specialization in the academic disciplines. There is little doubt that disciplinary specialization has helped produce many of the achievement of the past century. Researchers in all academic disciplines have been able to delve more deeply into their areas of expertise, grappling with ever more specialized and fundamental problems. Yet today, many leaders, scholars, parents, and students are asking whether higher education has moved too far from its integrative tradition towards an approach heavily rooted in disciplinary "silos". These "silos" represent what many see as an artificial separation of academic disciplines. This study reflects a growing concern that the approach to higher education that favors disciplinary specialization is poorly...

Redesigning America’s Community Colleges

Autor: Thomas R. Bailey , Shanna Smith Jaggars , Davis Jenkins

Número de Páginas: 301

In the United States, 1,200 community colleges enroll over ten million students each year—nearly half of the nation’s undergraduates. Yet fewer than 40 percent of entrants complete an undergraduate degree within six years. This fact has put pressure on community colleges to improve academic outcomes for their students. Redesigning America’s Community Colleges is a concise, evidence-based guide for educational leaders whose institutions typically receive short shrift in academic and policy discussions. It makes a compelling case that two-year colleges can substantially increase their rates of student success, if they are willing to rethink the ways in which they organize programs of study, support services, and instruction. Community colleges were originally designed to expand college enrollments at low cost, not to maximize completion of high-quality programs of study. The result was a cafeteria-style model in which students pick courses from a bewildering array of choices, with little guidance. The authors urge administrators and faculty to reject this traditional model in favor of “guided pathways”—clearer, more educationally coherent programs of study that simplify...

The Transfer Experience

Autor: John N. Gardner , Michael J. Rosenberg , Andrew K. Koch

Número de Páginas: 348

Co-published with At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach to the transfer experience. The book brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration, and is supplemented by an online compendium for continual updates of resources, case studies, and new developments in the world of transfer.Based on a totally different way of thinking about, understanding, and acting to increase transfer student success, The Transfer Experience goes far beyond the traditional, limited view of transfer as a technical process simply about articulating credits, a stage of student development, or a novel enrollment management strategy. Rather, the book introduces a stimulating array of new perspectives, resources, options, models, and recommendations for addressing the many needs of this huge cohort – making the academic, civic, and social justice cases for improving transfer at both transfer-sending and transfer-receiving institutions.

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology

Autor: Sune Holm , Maria Serban

Número de Páginas: 217

Philosophical Perspectives on the Engineering Approach in Biology provides a philosophical examination of what has been called the most powerful metaphor in biology: The machine metaphor. The chapters collected in this volume discuss the idea that living systems can be understood through the lens of engineering methods and machine metaphors from both historical, theoretical, and practical perspectives. In their contributions the authors examine questions about scientific explanation and methodology, the interrelationship between science and engineering, and the impact that the use of engineering metaphors in science may have for bioethics and science communication, such as the worry that its wide application reinforces public misconceptions of the nature of new biotechnology and biological life. The book also contains an introduction that describes the rise of the machine analogy and the many ways in which it plays a central role in fundamental debates about e.g. design, adaptation, and reductionism in the philosophy of biology. The book will be useful as a core reading for professionals as well as graduate and undergraduate students in courses of philosophy of science and for...

The Frey Sander Connections Germans from Russia

Autor: Albert Frey

Número de Páginas: 809

This book provides the genealogical connection of the Frey, Sander and extended families. The genealogical record is traced from the late 1500’s of central Europe to the Russian Steppes near what is now Odessa Ukraine and finally to the Prairies of North America. Brief historical descriptions are included to provide some insight into the reasons why the families relocated. The major part of the book traces the ancestral lines through the years and includes church and civil records as genealogical prime sources.

Gilbert

Autor: Dale Hallock, Kayla Kolar, And Ann Norbut On Behalf Of The Gilbert Historical Society

Número de Páginas: 128

Gilbert is one of the fastest growing communities in the country. There were only 500 residents when the town was incorporated in 1920. Since 1980, the population has doubled every five years. But how did this small desert community come to have such explosive growth in just over 30 years? Early pioneers began arriving in 1890, and in 1902, the Arizona Eastern Railway decided to build a rail line from Phoenix that went through Florence to the mining town of Kelvin. After purchasing land from Bobby Gilbert, a depot was built in 1905, and the town began to grow. Because of the creation of canals and Roosevelt Dam, Gilbert became a thriving agricultural community. In 1971, Gilbert had less than 2,000 residents, and in 1975, the town council approved a land annexation that added over 53 square miles to Gilbert. In 2014, that population number approached 250,000. By 2040, Gilbert is expected to be the fourth largest community in Arizona with approximately 330,000 residents.

Boston Musical Year-book and Musical Year in the United States

Número de Páginas: 582

The Musical Year-book of the United States

Número de Páginas: 296

George Eliot U.S.

Autor: Monika Mueller

Número de Páginas: 308

George Eliot U.S. demonstrates the complex and reciprocal relationship between George Eliot's fiction and the writings of her major American contemporaries, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The book also traces Eliot's influence on subsequent American fiction. The introductory section raises methodological questions concerning influence and intertextuality and addresses the mutual reception of European and American social and cultural discourses in order to illuminate culturally motivated divergences and convergences in the authors' presentation of gender, race, and national and ethnic alterity. The book's main body discusses Eliot's and the American writers' depiction of domestic social discourses on gender, religion, and community, and analyzes their depiction of the cultural alterity of Italy. It also focuses on Eliot's and Stowe's different attitudes toward race (and nation building), and discusses the parallels between the kabbalistic passages of Daniel Deronda and American transcendentalist thought. and social life in works by later writers such as Cynthia Ozick and John Irving. Monika Mueller teaches American and English...

The Musical Yearbook of the United States ...

Número de Páginas: 858

Conocimiento, Realidad Y Relativismo

Autor: Maria Cristina Di Gregori , Maria Aurelia Di Berardino

Número de Páginas: 236

Identity in Education

Autor: S. Sánchez-casal

Número de Páginas: 285

This volume explores the impact of social identity on teaching and learning. The contributors argue, from the perspective of diverse disciplinary and educational contexts, that mobilizing identities in the classroom is a necessary part of progressive educators' efforts to transform knowledge-making and to create a more just and democratic society.

Les Jumelles

Autor: Tessa De Loo

Número de Páginas: 398

Dans les années 1990, deux soeurs jumelles que la vie a précocement séparées se retrouvent par hasard. Parvenues au soir de leur existence, les deux vieilles dames vont revisiter leur passé... Les destins d'Anna et de Lotte basculent avec la mort de leurs parents, alors qu'elles ne sont encore que des enfants. Toutes deux sont envoyées à des kilomètres l'une de l'autre, dans des milieux très différents. Et, quand la Seconde Guerre mondiale éclate, l'histoire se charge de placer les deux jeunes Allemandes dans des camps opposés, cristallisant des rancoeurs que même le temps ne parviendra pas à apaiser... Construit autour de flash-back qui permettent de suivre pas à pas l'histoire des deux héroïnes et d'assister à la difficile confrontation de leurs points de vue sur des questions telles que le devoir de mémoire, la responsabilité collective ou le libre arbitre, Les Jumelles est une saga historique bouleversante sur le lien fraternel. " A-t-on jamais lu récit plus imaginatif, émouvant, de ce qu'ont coûté à l'humanité les divisions et les destructions causées par la folie de Hitler ? Probablement pas. " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Religion, Society, And Psychoanalysis

Autor: Janet L Jacobs

Número de Páginas: 289

Distinguished contributors provide an overview of three generations of psychoanalytic theory, including the work of Freud, Horney, Winnicott, and Kristeva, and discuss the evolution of psychoanalytic thought as it relates to the role that religion plays in modern culture. }Religion clearly remains a powerful social and political force in Western society. Freudian-based theory continues to inform psychoanalytic investigations into personality development, gender relations, and traumatic disorders. Using a historical framework, this collection of new essays brings together contemporary scholarship on religion and psychoanalysis. These various yet related psychoanalytic interpretations of religious symbolism and commitment offer a unique social analysis on the meaning of religion.Beginning with Freuds views on religion and mystical experience and continuing with those of Horney, Winnicott, Kristeva, Miller, and others, this volume surveys the work of three generations of psychoanalytic theorists. Special attention is given to objects relations theory and ego psychology, as well as to the recent work from the European tradition. Distinguished contributors provide a basic overview of a ...

Community Colleges as Incubators of Innovation

Autor: Rebecca A. Corbin , Ron Thomas

Número de Páginas: 171

While community colleges have traditionally focused on providing students with opportunities to gain credentials for employment, the increasingly important question is: Are they preparing students for the looming dynamic, disruptive, and entrepreneurial environments ahead? This book addresses the urgent need for community colleges to prioritize entrepreneurship education both to remain relevant in a changing economy and to give graduate students the flexible and interdisciplinary mindsets needed for the future of society. It argues that entrepreneurial education should be offered broadly to a wide range of students, and across all disciplines; defines the key constructs for achieving this objective; and describes how to create entrepreneurial learning environments.The expert contributors, with the support of the National Association for Community College Entrepreneurship (NACCE), start from the premise that community colleges are uniquely positioned to lead entrepreneurial initiatives through both internally-generated curriculum design and through collaboration with the local entrepreneurial community to build bridges between the classroom to the community which in turn can offer...

Literature and Religion in Mid-Victorian England

Autor: C. Oulton

Número de Páginas: 232

This book places Dickens and Wilkie Collins against such important figures as John Henry Newman and George Eliot in seeking to recover their response to the religious controversies of mid-nineteenth century England. While much recent criticism has tended to overlook or dismiss their religious pronouncements, this book foregrounds the religious aspect of their writing and relocates their most important work in the context of contemporary debate. The response of both writers is seen to be complex and fraught with tension.

The Scientific 100

Autor: John Simmons , Lynda Simmons

Número de Páginas: 528

Who are the great scientists throughout the ages, and what exactly did they do to earn their importance? From Archimedes to Newton to Einstein to Hawking, The Scientific 100 provides the fascinating answers. Vivid biographical sketches chronicle the lives and accomplishments of the world's preeminent scientists. And in the tradition of the Citadel Press 100 Series, they are ranked provocatively in order of influence--an inspiration for lively discussion. This unique volume is a browser's treasure trove and a handy reference for the general reader. John Simmons has been associated with Current Biography for more than fifteen years. He has written frequently about Nobel laureates in science. A member of the New York Academy of Sciences, he divides his time between New York City and Paris.

Unveiling the Legends:

Autor: L.d. George Angus , Taleah R. Angus

Número de Páginas: 388

Describes the history of medicine form antiquity to present. It describes the legends who have made significant contribution to the field of medicine and surgery, their accomplishments; their life stories; their unique characteristics; their conflicts and controversies when available; their cause of death; and lastly their final sacred burial grounds with pictures. It is one of a kind given no similar books available

The Twins

Autor: Tessa De Loo

Número de Páginas: 443

"Completely original. A fiction whose poise, compassion and breadth take the reader's breath away"JOAN SMITH "Gripping and touching" Independent "Memorable and moving" The Times Bound by blood, separated by love... Twin sisters, Lotte and Anna, share a bond that is far stronger than anyone except they alone can understand. But when war comes between them, the two discover that even the deepest bonds have their limits. Having been cruelly separated as children, Lotte and Anna are at last reunited. Neither lost hope to see each other again. However, with Europe on the verge of war, much has changed between them. While Lotte has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in liberal Holland, Anna has endured a life of poverty in a Germany under the spell of Hitler. With Lotte now engaged to a Jewish musician, and Anna brainwashed by Third Reich ideas, cracks in their relationship soon appear. With the war on, the twins decide to part again. Back in Germany, Anna marries Martin, an Austrian soldier, who hates the war but joins the SS for the sake of his wife only to be killed a few days later. Anna is devastated and longs for her sister. At the same time, Lotte's own life is in danger. The Nazis...

Dr Rudolph Virchow, the Father of Pathology

Autor: Robert A. Norman

Número de Páginas: 176

This book highlights the life of Rudolf Virchow (1821-1902), a 19th-century Renaissance man, physician, academic, writer, biologist, scientist, anthropologist, politician, and public health advocate and leading figure in the medical, political and intellectual life of Germany. It provides details of his personal letters, his many innovations and discoveries, and his life in politics, all set in the context of his extraordinary time. What is perhaps most characteristic of Virchow is that he looked at life in the most microscopic detail (he was called the “Father of Pathology”) and simultaneously from a much larger cultural and public health perspective. A particular fascination of this book is the role Virchow played in studying morphology and race during the time of an emergent socialist movement, rising anti-Semitism, and cultural superiority in German. The book will appeal to a global readership, including physicians, scientists, anthropologists and historians and anyone interested in 19th century medical life and racial and health equality.

A Brief History of Disability

Autor: Molly Seymour

Número de Páginas: 249

A hidden history of human evolution has been written, but very few people know about the history of disabled people who have been walking side by side able bodied people since the beginning of time. In this book we shall discover the two true elements which cause our bodies to change, biological and environmental changes that we all face before and during life. History has often regarded disabled people as ‘imperfect’, but what if they were special people who are unique, and a valuable part of the broader rainbow of human diversity? This book shall unlock the padlock into human history that has rarely been talked about before. There is more to us than originally thought.

The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner

Autor: Nahem Yousaf , Andrew Maunder

Número de Páginas: 243

This New Casebook explores the enduring significance of George Eliot's novels The Mill on the Floss (1860) and Silas Marner (1861). Eliot's radical cultural politics and the arrestingly original fictional strategies that characterise two of her most popular novels are explored from a variety of perspectives - feminist, historicist, structuralist and psychoanalytic.

The Navigator

Número de Páginas: 800

The Transnational Vol. 5

Autor: René Kanzler

Número de Páginas: 146

The Transnational ist ein bilinguales Literaturmagazin (Englisch-Deutsch), welches Essays, Kurzgeschichten, Dramen, Lyrik und Experimentelles sammelt. Alle Texte beschäftigen sich mit politischen, sozialen und philosophischen Themen. An The Transnational beteiligen sich Autorinnen und Autoren aus der ganzen Welt. Als besondere Autoren begrüßen wir in Ausgabe 5 den Mathematiker und Kosmologen Josef M. Gaßner und die Hamburger Band HGich.T.

The American Community College

Autor: Carrie B. Kisker , Arthur M. Cohen , Florence B. Brawer

Número de Páginas: 679

A comprehensive analysis of community colleges in the United States—updated with the latest research The revised seventh edition of The American Community College is an essential resource for practitioners and graduate students in the field of higher education. This book has been providing up-to-date information and statistics about community colleges for four decades and is a trusted and revered reference. Covering community college students, faculty, curriculum, assessment, finance, governance, and more, this book provide a thorough understanding of the role community colleges play in the American educational system. For educators, policymakers, and philanthropists alike, community colleges are important as the nexus of national efforts to prepare a highly skilled workforce and as the lynchpin of the K-20 education pipeline. This book delivers the facts and context readers need to make informed decisions in the community college space. Written by leading researchers in the field, The American Community College has been thoroughly revised with a greater focus on equity. Further, this edition includes access to online supplemental materials, including end-of-chapter guiding...

Stroke

Autor: Jan Van Gijn

Número de Páginas: 455

Stroke, as known today, is caused by occlusion or rupture of one or more blood vessels in the brain. Its manifestations were reported as long as medical records exist; sudden collapse, loss of movement and sensation, with preserved respiration and heart action. The book chronicles how ideas about events in the brain or its blood vessels evolved over 400 years. Starting with the revival of ancient medicine in the middle of the 16th century, the narrative ends in the 20th century, when techniques for brain scanning heralded the possibility of treatment for cerebrovascular disease. The narrative is exclusively based on primary sources and shows how this part of medical knowledge evolved, including byways and blind alleys. Frequent accounts from original sources assist the reader in following how clashes of opinions led to improved understanding, making this an indispensable reference for the history of stroke research.