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Miracles of Spiritual Healing: Experiences of Visitors in Famous Casa de Dom Inacio
by Merja SankeloCasa de Dom Inacio is an internationally famous spiritual healing centre in Brazil. It was opened by Joao Teixeira de Farias about 40 years ago. Millions of people around the world have been visiting the place and got help for health problems and for other issues in their lives. The author of this book has also visited Casa three times and carried out a research on experiences of the visitors there, which are published in this book. Dr Sankelo tells also about her own experiences in Casa very openly in this excellent new book.
La mirada del historiador
by José Álvarez JuncoSantos Juliá ocupa un lugar central en la historiografía española contemporánea. Es autor de varios libros fundamentales, ha animado y coordinado trabajos colectivos y se ha convertido en uno de los historiadores más respetados dentro y fuera de nuestro país. Es un riguroso divulgador, crítico y polemista y, además, un creador de opinión. A lo largo de su carrera ha abordado los grandes temas de nuestra historia contemporánea. Y lo ha hecho de una manera personal y valiente. Un claro ejemplo, en definitiva, de coraje cívico. El resultado es una obra sólida, original e independiente, capaz de abrir nuevos caminos en el ámbito de la investigación y de generar un abundante caudal de reflexiones. En este libro, coordinado por José Álvarez Junco y Mercedes Cabrera y deliberadamente plural, convergen autores procedentes del ámbito de las ciencias sociales, la historia y el periodismo que han realizado un personal homenaje trazando una serie de semblanzas y analizando los temas centrales de la obra de uno de nuestros grandes intelectuales.
La mirada quieta: (de Pérez Galdós)
by Mario Vargas LlosaBENITO PÉREZ GALDÓS POR MARIO VARGAS LLOSA El autor de los Episodios Nacionales, su obra y su tiempo a través de los ojos del Premio Nobel de Literatura «¿Fue un gran escritor? Lo fue. En el siglo xix y comienzos del xx, no hay ninguno de sus compatriotas que tenga semejante dedicación, inventiva, empeño y la soltura literaria de Pérez Galdós». Benito Pérez Galdós es un autor esencial en la literatura española contemporánea. En este ensayo, a partir del análisis de sus novelas, de sus obras teatrales y de los Episodios nacionales, Mario Vargas Llosa crea un perfil completo, personal y sugerente del escritor español. Nadie como el Nobel peruano es capaz de leer de manera tan sagaz y con tanta libertad y pasión la obra de un creador. Como el propio autor afirma en la introducción a La mirada quieta, «Galdós hizo lo que Balzac, Dickens y Zola hicieron en sus respectivas naciones: contar la historia y la realidad social de su país. Con sus Episodios estuvo en la línea de aquéllos, convirtiendo en materia literaria el pasado vivido, poniendo al alcance del gran público una versión quieta pero amena, bien escrita, con personajes vivos y documentación solvente, de un siglo decisivo en la historia española». La crítica ha dicho:«La escritura de Mario Vargas Llosa ha dado forma a nuestra imagen de Sudamérica y tiene su propio capítulo en la historia de la literatura contemporánea. En sus primeros años, fue un renovador de la novela, hoy, un poeta épico.»Per Wästberg, presidente del Comité Nobel «Entre nuestros contemporáneos, nadie mejor que el Premio Nobel de 2010 ha sido capaz de seducir amablemente a una gran masa de lectores contándoles historias llenas de sentido con una prosa tan bella como eficaz. Y con un dominio de las estrategias narrativas que la evolución de la literatura del siglo XX instrumentó para superar la manera de hacer novela en el siglo anterior.»Darío Villanueva «Sus libros contienen la más compleja, apasionada y persuasiva visión de la novela y del oficio de novelista de la que tengo noticia; también contienen el mejor estímulo que un novelista puede encontrar para escribir, un estímulo solo inferior al que contienen las propias novelas de Vargas Llosa.»Javier Cercas, El País
Mirage: Napoleon's Scientists and the Unveiling of Egypt
by Nina BurleighTwo hundred years ago, only the most reckless or eccentric Europeans had dared to traverse the unmapped territory of the modern-day Middle East. But in 1798, more than 150 French engineers, artists, doctors, and scientists—even a poet and a musicologist—traveled to the Nile Valley under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte and his invading army. Hazarding hunger, hardship, uncertainty, and disease, Napoleon's "savants" risked their lives in pursuit of discovery. The first large-scale interaction between Europeans and Muslims in the modern era, the audacious expedition was both a triumph and a disaster, resulting in finds of immense historical and scientific importance (including the ruins of the colossal pyramids and the Rosetta Stone) and in countless tragic deaths through plague, privation, madness, or violence.Acclaimed journalist Nina Burleigh brings readers back to the landmark adventure at the dawn of the modern era that ultimately revealed the deepest secrets of ancient Egypt to a curious continent.
The Mirage: A Modern Arabic Novel
by Naguib Mahfouz Nancy RobertsA psychological study of the first order with a subtly Freudian flavor, The Mirage is the autobiographical account of Kamil Ruâ ba, a tortured soul who finds himself struggling unduly to cope with life's challenges. The internal torment and angst that dog him throughout his life and the tragic, ironic turns of events that overtake him as a young man are, to a great extent, the outworkings of his faulty upbringing. At the same time, they work together to drive home the novel's underlying theme: the illusory, undependable nature of the world in which we live and the call to seek, beyond the outward and the ephemeral, that which is inward and enduring. The narrative, full of pathos, draws the reader unwittingly into a vicarious experience of Kamil's agonies and ecstasies. As such, it is a specimen of Mahfou's prose at its finest.
The Mirage Factory: Illusion, Imagination, and the Invention of Los Angeles
by Gary KristFrom bestselling author Gary Krist, the story of the metropolis that never should have been and the visionaries who dreamed it into reality Little more than a century ago, the southern coast of California—bone-dry, harbor-less, isolated by deserts and mountain ranges—seemed destined to remain scrappy farmland. Then, as if overnight, one of the world’s iconic cities emerged. At the heart of Los Angeles’ meteoric rise were three flawed visionaries: William Mulholland, an immigrant ditch-digger turned self-taught engineer, designed the massive aqueduct that would make urban life here possible. D.W. Griffith, who transformed the motion picture from a vaudeville-house novelty into a cornerstone of American culture, gave L.A. its signature industry. And Aimee Semple McPherson, a charismatic evangelist who founded a religion, cemented the city’s identity as a center for spiritual exploration. All were masters of their craft, but also illusionists, of a kind. The images they conjured up—of a blossoming city in the desert, of a factory of celluloid dreamworks, of a community of seekers finding personal salvation under the California sun—were like mirages liable to evaporate on closer inspection. All three would pay a steep price to realize these dreams, in a crescendo of hubris, scandal, and catastrophic failure of design that threatened to topple each of their personal empires. Yet when the dust settled, the mirage that was LA remained. Spanning the years from 1900 to 1930, The Mirage Factory is the enthralling tale of an improbable city and the people who willed it into existence by pushing the limits of human engineering and imagination.
Mira'm als ulls: No és tan difícil entendre'ns
by Míriam Hatibi«Vull per als meus fills un món que aposti per la convivència, la diversitat, la pluralitat i el diàleg, sense que ningú hagi de donar explicacions pels seus cognoms o les seves creences.» <P><P>Míriam Hatibi a La Vanguardia Què li passa al món? Què ens passa a nosaltres? A partir de la seva pròpia experiència, Míriam Hatibi relata, en primera persona, el descobriment de «ser diferent» i la construcció d'una identitat plural. En un to proper, amb enorme intel·ligència i agudesa, desmunta tòpics i estereotips sobre la diversitat, i reflexiona sobre els conceptes d'integració, assimilació, tolerància i convivència. En un moment en què les identitats han estat sacsejades per una profunda crisi, la crida de l'autora a obrir els ulls i a descobrir a l'altre -i alhora a nosaltres mateixos- és més necessària que mai. Perquè és urgent començar el diàleg que permetrà que tots ens entenguem. Davant el discurs del racisme i de l'odi, Míriam Hatibi deconstrueix el prejudici que pot arribar a fracturar innecessàriament la societat i alça barreres que són únicament mentals. I Mira'm als ulls constitueix, sobretot, la ferma defensa d'una societat oberta, presidida per l'intercanvi cultural i el respecte, que aposti per la convivència.
Mírame a los ojos: No es tan difícil entendernos
by Míriam Hatibi«Quiero para mis hijos un mundo que apueste por la convivencia, la diversidad, la pluralidad y el diálogo, sin que nadie tenga que dar explicaciones por sus apellidos o creencias.»Míriam Hatibi en La Vanguardia ¿Qué le pasa al mundo? ¿Qué nos pasa a nosotros? <P><P>A partir de su propia experiencia, Míriam Hatibi relata en primera persona el descubrimiento de «ser diferente» y la construcción de una identidad plural. En un tono cercano, con inteligencia y agudeza, Hatibi desmonta tópicos y estereotipos sobre la diversidad, y reflexiona sobre los conceptos de integración y asimilación, tolerancia y convivencia. En un momento en que las identidades se ven sacudidas por una profunda crisis, este llamamiento a abrir los ojos y a descubrir al otro -y a la vez a nosotros mismos- es más necesario que nunca. Urge iniciar el diálogo que nos permitirá entendernos. Frente al discurso del racismo y del odio, Míriam Hatibi deconstruye el prejuicio que fractura a la sociedad alzando barreras mentales. <P><P>Mírame a los ojos es, sobre todo, la firme defensa de una sociedad abierta, basada en el intercambio cultural y el respeto, y que apueste por la convivencia. «Solo cuando sabes quién eres y cómo te defines, puedes decidir hacia dónde vas, diferenciar lo que está bien de lo que está mal, e incluso lo que te gusta y lo que no, lo que aceptas y lo que rechazas. »Se dice que los demás son el espejo en el que nos reflejamos. <P><P>Si yo me miro en mi propio espejo, soy MíriamHatibi, de Barcelona, ilerdense, española, catalana, marroquí y musulmana. Si me miro en el espejo de los demás, soy Míriam, inmigrante de segunda generación, como si la condición de inmigrante se pudiera heredar. Nuestros padres vinieron aquí a ganarse la vida sin hacer ruido. En cambio los hijos de los inmigrantes somos activos y reivindicativos. »Suelo decir que si fuera un hombre blanco disfrutaría de mucho más tiempo libre porque no tendría que estar justificándome constantemente. Pero también sé que si no hablo, hablarán por mí, y cuando hablan por mí, ya he visto cómo va la cosa. Por eso decido tomar la palabra.»
Mirame a los ojos
by Alberto Vega SalgadoAlberto Vega, el testimonio de su accidente y su vida posterior En 2006, el reconocido actor y profesor de teatro Alberto Vega sufrió un accidente en bicicleta que conmovió al país entero. El diagnóstico fue severo: la caída le provocó una lesión cerebral que lo llevó a perder la capacidad de movimiento y de habla, lo que se conoce como «síndrome de cautiverio». Sin embargo, Alberto Vega decidió continuar con su vida. Con My Tobii, un equipo computacional que le ayuda a escribir en una pantalla a través del movimiento de sus ojos, pudo comunicarse.Tuvo que superarse a sí mismo, con dificultad y una paciencia infinita, pero logró trabajar de nuevo en teatro, en cine y ahora en las letras. Mírame a los ojos es un verdadero canto a la esperanza y una enseñanza de que todo es posible.
Mírame bien: Memorias de Anjelica Huston
by Anjelica HustonLas memorias de Anjelica Huston, uno de los iconos cinematográficos del siglo XX. Es la hija de John Huston, conoció de cerca a Carson McCullers, John Steibeck y Marlon Brando, posó para Richard Avedon y fue compañera sentimental de Jack Nicholson; interpreta papeles difíciles pisando fuerte y sin miedo al lado de directores como Woody Allen y Francis Ford Coppola... Eso es tanto como decir que Anjelica Huston ha vivido más de un chaparrón, pero su temperamento ha podido con todo y aquí está, dispuesta a contar su historia con talento y sentido del humor. Tenía veintinueve años e intentaba hacerse un hueco como actriz cuando el director Tony Richardson se compadeció de ella. Era una pena que tener tanto talento le sirviera de tan poco: nunca llegaría a nada. Fiel a su carácter, Anjelica se tomó las palabras de Richardson como un verdadero reto. Mientras le contestaba con un «quizás tengas razón», pensaba para sus adentros «mírame bien». Y eso es lo que no ha dejado de hacer durante toda su vida: ser una criatura que reclama la mirada ajena. Con una escritura franca, perspicaz y traviesa, la ex modelo y actriz se revela en estas memorias como una gran narradora dispuesta a revelar lo que ha descubierto de sí misma a lo largo de los años y a mostrar el lado más humano de una mujer apasionada. El escritor irlandés Colm Tóibín ha dicho...«Mírame bien son unas memorias brillantes, escritas con pasión y ganas de contar la verdad. Los recuerdos de su infancia en Irlanda y su juventud en Londres y Nueva York en los años sesenta son una auténtica joya.»
Miranda Mania: An Unauthorized Biography
by Lexi RyalsMiranda Cosgrove is impossible to resist--she has two hit shows on Nickelodeon, iCarly and Drake & Josh, and her first single "Leave It All to Me" is a Hot 100 hit.<P><P> She's starred in movies like School of Rock and Yours, Mine & Ours and guest starred on some of the coolest shows on television.
MIA Rescue: LRRPs in Cambodia
by Kregg P. Jorgenson"This is an inspiring story of courage and sacrifice--one hell of an exciting true war story!"--Kenn Miller Author of Tiger the Lurp DogOn 17 June 1970, in Mondol Kiri Province, Cambodia, the five men of Long-Range Reconnaissance Patrol (LRRP) Team 5-2 were about to halt for the day. Night was coming, the skies were dark, and so were the men's thoughts--they'd just found freshly dug NVA bunkers inside a scrub-brush tree line and their position was not secure. As they carefully searched for better night lager, they learned the hard way that they had walked into an ambush kill zone: NVA fire quickly downed two men and wounded two others. In minutes, Team 5-2 had been transformed from the hunters to the hunted. They had no radio comms with their headquarters and had just two rifles and fifteen magazines of ammunition.Two men were down, but the team was not out. MIA RESCUE is the story of Team 5-2 and the heroic and ultimately successful attempts to rescue them despite extraordinarily bad weather and an angry and aware enemy. "Seldom can an author stimulate emotions, from the taste of fear to sweaty palms to the feeling of relief when the mission is over, but Jorgenson does and much more. If the reader was never in combat, he will feel like a Nam vet when he finishes this book."--Jerry Boyle Author of Apache SunriseFrom the Paperback edition.
Miriam: A Novel
by Lois T. HendersonMiriam retells the profoundly moving story of Moses' older sister, whose instrumental role in the Exodus is only part of her destiny. Miriam's greatest struggle is within her own heart; her ultimate victory is a hard-won faith--strengthened in the crucible of the desert, tested by her own pride and arrogance, and ultimately affirmed by God's mercy and grace. Retaining biblical authenticity while resourcefully filling in historical, cultural, and narrative details, Lois Henderson skillfully mingles historical events--the devastation of the plagues, the miracle of the manna, the receiving of the Ten Commandments--with brilliantly realized portraits of some of the Old Testament's most famous figures, bringing alive the excitement and epic drama of Moses' return to Egypt and the deliverance of the children of Israel. Watching history unfold through Miriam's eyes, sharing in the joy, pain, doubt, and ultimate faith at the heart of her story, the reader is caught up in the destinies of Miriam, Moses, their brother Aaron, the Israelite people, and the world. Watch for Lydia and more books about women of the bible by Lois T. Henderson.
Miriam Hearing Sister: A Memoir
by Miriam ZadekMiriam Zadek shares her story in this memoir that documents her experiences growing up in a New York Jewish family with both deaf and hearing members from the 1930s through World War II and beyond. Her story is personal and reflective, revealing the sometimes complex and heart-rending dynamics within her family and her community. Through brief and evocative vignettes, Zadek relates her memories of family life, capturing the innocence of childhood, the confusion of adolescence, and then progressing through adulthood. Her recollections evolve from a childlike observance to awareness, pain, and understanding as she matures. Throughout this journey, the author presents a narrative of historical and cultural importance centered on her personal account of the lives of deaf and hearing Jewish people in the mid-twentieth century. The prevailing ideological movements of the time permeate her family life. Zadek reveals the traumatic impact of eugenics and the fears surrounding the genetic transmission of deafness. She considers the effects of adhering to the oral method of communication in her home when sign language could have given her family the ability to interact with each other more fully. In this environment, Zadek became an astute communicator and learned to adapt to both the hearing and the deaf world, where she was known as “Miriam Hearing Sister.” Her memoir is an elegant literary work that offers an understanding of how biases and stigmas resonate and evolve, and it showcases her loving family of strong women who pushed against stereotypes and have thrived across generations.
Miriam's Kitchen
by Elizabeth EhrlichLike many American Jews, Elizabeth Ehrlich was ambivalent about her background. She identified with Jewish cultural attitudes, but not with Jewish institutions; she had sentimental memories of her ritually observant grandmothers, but formal religious practice was largely irrelevant to her life. In this warm, funny, moving, and immensely appetizing memoir, she describes how her attitudes evolved, and how she began to bring observance and tradition into her own home. The agent of change was Ehrlich's mother-in-law, Miriam. A Holocaust survivor, Miriam passionately carried out the traditions she had learned as a girl. Inspired to preserve a lost way of life'and also to ?build a floor? of values, connection, and history beneath her children's feet?Ehrlich begins cooking lessons with the indomitable Miriam. As Miriam cooks, she speaks of the past and wakes dormant memories and appetites in her skeptical daughter-in-law. With trepidation and a certain amount of backsliding, Ehrlich begins observing Sabbath and moves toward making her kitchen kosher. In the process, she gains a new appreciation of life's possibilities, choices, and limitations.
The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, And Resilience: Five Hundred Years Of Women's Self Portraits
by Jennifer HiggieA dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today's most well-respected art critics.Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She's Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher-Gil en route to Mexico City, Paris or Bombay. She's Suzanne Valadon and Gwen John, craving city lights, the sea and solitude; she's Artemisia Gentileschi striding through the streets of Naples and Paula Modersohn-Becker in Worpswede. She's haunting museums in her paint-stained dress, scrutinising how El Greco or Titian or Van Dyck or Cézanne solved the problems that she too is facing. She's railing against her corsets, her chaperones, her husband and her brothers; she's hammering on doors, dreaming in her bedroom, working day and night in her studio. Despite the immense hurdles that have been placed in her way, she sits at her easel, picks up a mirror and paints a self-portrait because, as a subject, she is always available. Until the twentieth century, art history was, in the main, written by white men who tended to write about other white men. The idea that women in the West have always made art was rarely cited as a possibility. Yet they have - and, of course, continue to do so - often against tremendous odds, from laws and religion to the pressures of family and public disapproval. In The Mirror and the Palette, Jennifer Higgie introduces us to a cross-section of women artists who embody the fact that there is more than one way to understand our planet, more than one way to live in it and more than one way to make art about it. Spanning 500 years, biography and cultural history intertwine in a narrative packed with tales of rebellion, adventure, revolution, travel and tragedy enacted by women who turned their back on convention and lived lives of great resilience, creativity and bravery.
A Mirror Garden: A Memoir
by Zara Houshmand Monir FarmanfarmaianIn Persia in 1924, when a child still had to worry about hostile camels in the bazaar and a nanny might spin stories at her pillow until her eyes fell shut, the extraordinary and irresistible Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian was born. From the enchanted basement storeroom where she played as a girl to the penthouse high above New York City where she would someday live, this is the delightful and inspiring story of her life as an artist, a wife and mother, a collector, and an Iranian. Here we see a mischievous girl become a spirited woman who defies tradition. Both a love story and a celebration of the warmth and elegance of Iranian culture, A Mirror Garden is a genuine fairy tale of an exuberant heroine who has never needed rescuing.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Mirror, Mirror Off the Wall
by Kjerstin GruysA scholar, fashionista, and bride-to-be spends a year without mirrors to get a better view of herself, her life, and what's really important. When Kjerstin Gruys became engaged to the love of her life, she was thrilled--until it came time to shop for a wedding dress. Having overcome an eating disorder years before, Gruys found herself struggling to maintain a positive self-image as her pending nuptials imposed a new set of impossible beauty standards. She decided to embark on a bold plan for boosting her self-esteem while refocusing her attention on the beautiful world around her. A memoir of discovery, Mirror Mirror Off the Wall charts Gruys' awakening as she vows to give up mirrors and other reflective surfaces, relying instead on her friends and her fiancé to help her gauge both her appearance and her outlook on life. The result? A renewed focus on what truly matters, regardless of smeared makeup, crooked eyebrows, or messy hair. In the honest, witty, self-aware voice that has made her blog so popular, Gruys explores what it means to be a feminist in a society where femininity is subject to destructive ideals of beauty and sex appeal. Having worked in the fashion industry before becoming a sociologist, Gruys draws on her frontline expertise to explore the gender inequities created by society's obsession with a flawless female body image. Putting a human face on an important issue with humorous and poignant scenes from Gruys' life, Mirror Mirror off the Wall sparks important conversations about body image and reclaiming the power to redefine beauty.
The Mirror of Information in Early Modern England
by James Dougal FlemingThis book examines the seventeenth-century project for a "real" or "universal" character: a scientific and objective code. Focusing on the Essay towards a real character, and a philosophical language (1668) of the polymath John Wilkins, Fleming provides a detailed explanation of how a real character actually was supposed to work. He argues that the period movement should not be understood as a curious episode in the history of language, but as an illuminating avatar of information technology. A non-oral code, supposedly amounting to a script of things, the character was to support scientific discourse through a universal database, in alignment with cosmic truths. In all these ways, J. D. Fleming argues, the world of the character bears phenomenological comparison to the world of modern digital information--what has been called the infosphere.
Mirror to America: The Autobiography of John Hope Franklin
by John Hope FranklinJohn Hope Franklin lived through America's most defining 20th Century transformation -- the dismantling of legally-protected racial segregation. He was and remains, an active participant. Born in 1915, he, like every other African American, could not but participate: he was evicted from whites-only train cars, confined to segregated schools, threatened-once with lynching-and consistently met with racism's denigration of his humanity. He has reshaped the way African American history is understood and taught and become one of the world's most celebrated historians, garnering over 130 honorary degrees. But Franklin's participation was much more fundamental than that. From his effort in 1934 to hand President Franklin Roosevelt a petition calling for action in response to the Cordie Cheek lynching, to his 1997 appointment by President Clinton to head the President's Initiative on Race, and continuing to the present, Franklin has influenced with determination and dignity the nation's racial conscience. Whether aiding Thurgood Marshall's preparation for arguing Brown v. Board in 1954, marching to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965, or testifying against Robert Bork's nomination to the Supreme Court in 1987, Franklin has pushed the national conversation on race towards humanity and equality, a life-long effort that earned him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation's highest civilian honor, in 1995.
Mirror Touch: Notes from a Doctor Who Can Feel Your Pain
by Joel SalinasChallenging our understanding of what it means to be human, Joel Salinas, a Harvard-trained researcher and neurologist at Massachusetts General, shares his experiences with mirror-touch synesthesia, a rare and only recently identified neurological trait that causes him to feel the emotional and physical experiences of other people. Performing a spinal tap, he feels the needle slowly enter his lower back. If a disoriented patient flies into a confused rage, Salinas slips into a similarly agitated physical state, and when a patient dies, he experiences an involuntary ruin—his body starts to feel vacant and lifeless, like a limp balloon. Susceptible to the pain and discomfort of his patients, most of whom suffer from a host of disorders and extreme injuries, Salinas uses his trait to treat their symptoms, almost as if they were his own. At the same time, in his personal life, his mirror touch blurs the boundaries between himself and those close to him until he ends up inextricably entangled, no longer able to differentiate where he ends and someone else begins. Salinas refers to his condition as a kind of compulsory mindfulness, a heightened empathic ability that offers him invaluable clues about how to see and live the world through other people’s perspectives. This heightened sense of awareness is at the center of Mirror Touch. Through his experiences, both in his neurological practice and his personal life, Salinas offers readers insights about mirror-touch synesthesia and how the brain, in its endless wonder, can sometimes perform in a nearly superhuman, extrasensory way. In the process, Salinas reveals the full power and potential of his trait, as well as its thorny complications and often debilitating limitations. Beautifully written with intelligence and compassion and anchored by the latest developments in neurology, psychology, and psychiatry, Mirror Touch is an enthralling and wholly original investigation into the unexplored corners of the brain, where the foundation of human experience and relationships take root—everything it means to think, to feel, and to be.
Mirrors of Greatness: Churchill and the Leaders Who Shaped Him
by David ReynoldsA new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as a leader Winston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the Churchill we know today is a mixture of history and myth, authored by the man himself. In Mirrors of Greatness, prizewinning historian David Reynolds reevaluates Churchill&’s life by viewing it through the eyes of his allies and adversaries, even his own family, revealing Churchill&’s lifelong struggle to overcome his political failures and his evolving grasp of what &“greatness&” truly entailed. Through his dealings with Adolf Hitler and Neville Chamberlain, we follow Churchill&’s triumphant campaign against Nazi Germany. But we also see a Churchill whose misjudgments of allies and rivals like Roosevelt, Stalin, Gandhi, and Clement Attlee blinded him to the British Empire&’s waning dominance on the world stage and to the rising popularity of a postimperial, socialist vision of Great Britain at home. Magisterial and incisive, Mirrors of Greatness affords Churchill his due as a figure of world-historical importance and deepens our understanding of his legend by uncovering the ways his greatest contemporaries helped make him the man he was, for good and for ill.
The Mirrors of Washington
by Clinton W. Gilbert John KirbyThis classic text features audacious disclosures concerning fourteen American political leaders in Washington.
Mis amigos
by Álvaro Castaño CastilloAlvaro Castaño es uno de las personalidades intelectuales más queridasen el país, y aquí nos habla de sus grandes amigos del mundo cultural A los 94 años, Álvaro Castaño Castillo tiene todavía muchas cosas quecontar. En este, el último libro de su vida, seamanguala con la memoria lúcida que a su edadno lo traiciona ni por un instante, para escribirlas anécdotas de las que fue testigo, y que fueronel resultado de eternas amistades con los pensadores, escritores,periodistas y políticos más in?uyentes del Siglo XX de Colombia y deAmérica. Estos son sus amigos. Alvaro Castaño es uno de las personalidades intelectuales más queridasen el país, y aquí nos habla de sus grandes amigos del mundo cultural A los 94 años, Álvaro Castaño Castillo tiene todavía muchas cosas quecontar. En este, el último libro de su vida, seamanguala con la memoria lúcida que a su edadno lo traiciona ni por un instante, para escribirlas anécdotas de las que fue testigo, y que fueronel resultado de eternas amistades con los pensadores, escritores,periodistas y políticos más in?uyentes del Siglo XX de Colombia y deAmérica. Estos son sus amigos.
Mis años con los Yankees
by Joe Torre Tom VerducciLa historia definitiva de una de las grandes dinastías en la historia del béisbol, los New York Yankees de Joe Torre Cuando Joe Torre tomó posesión como manager de los Yankees en 1996, no habían ganado una Serie Mundial en dieciocho años. Durante ese tiempo, diecisiete managers habían intentado hacerse con las riendas del equipo de béisbol más famoso de América. Todos fueron despedidos por George Steinbrenner, el dueño del equipo. Después de doce exitosas temporadas --con doce apariciones consecutivas en los playoffs, seis títulos de la Liga Americana y cuatro Series Mundiales-- Torre dejó los Yankees como el más querido manager del béisbol. Su mayor cualidad fue saber tratar a jugadores como Alex Rodríguez, Mariano Rivera, Jason Giambi, Derek Jeter, Roger Clemens o Randy Johnson. Aquí, por primera vez, Joe Torre y Tom Verducci llevan a los lectores dentro de los propios Yankees, mostrando lo que de verdad hizo falta para mantener al equipo en lo más alto del béisbol mundial.From the Trade Paperback edition.