Author : Alain Corbin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 13,20 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780231118408
Corbin recreates the life and world of a man about whom nothing is known except for his entries in the civil registries and historical knowledge about the times in which he lived: Louis-Francois Pinagot, a forester and clog maker who lived during the heart of the nineteenth century--the age of Romanticism, of Hugo and Berlioz--from the Napoleonic Wars to the Third Republic.
Author : The Editors of TIME-LIFE
Publisher : Time Inc. Books
Page : 647 pages
File Size : 46,38 MB
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1618933000
Could the strange actually be true? This book takes readers on a tour of the eerie and unexplained - from the search for vanished civilizations to the science of real-life zombies, from famous UFO sightings to encounters with ghosts and otherworldly creatures, and much more.
Author : Andreï Makine
Publisher : Graywolf Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2012-06-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1555970540
A deeply moving meditation on memory, history, love, and art by the author of Dreams of My Russian Summers In The Life of an Unknown Man, Andreï Makine explores what truly matters in life through the prism of Russia's past and present. Shutov, a disenchanted writer, revisits St. Petersburg after twenty years of exile in Paris, hoping to recapture his youth. Instead, he meets Volsky, an old man who tells him his extraordinary story: of surviving the siege of Leningrad, the march on Berlin, and Stalin's purges, and of a transcendent love affair. Volsky's life is an inspiration to Shutov -- because for all that he suffered, he knew great happiness. This depth of feeling stands in sharp contrast to the empty lives Shutov encounters in the new Russia, and to his own life, that of just another unknown man . . .
Author : Cristina Henríquez
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,55 MB
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0385350856
A stunning novel of hopes and dreams, guilt and love—a book that offers a resonant new definition of what it means to be American and "illuminates the lives behind the current debates about Latino immigration" (The New York Times Book Review). When fifteen-year-old Maribel Rivera sustains a terrible injury, the Riveras leave behind a comfortable life in Mexico and risk everything to come to the United States so that Maribel can have the care she needs. Once they arrive, it’s not long before Maribel attracts the attention of Mayor Toro, the son of one of their new neighbors, who sees a kindred spirit in this beautiful, damaged outsider. Their love story sets in motion events that will have profound repercussions for everyone involved. Here Henríquez seamlessly interweaves the story of these star-crossed lovers, and of the Rivera and Toro families, with the testimonials of men and women who have come to the United States from all over Latin America.
Author : Patrick P. Phancao
Publisher : Word Association Publishers
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 21,40 MB
Release : 2010
Category :
ISBN : 1595717625
After reading countless books on estate planning and asset protection, I quickly realized that the information out there was dry, impractical and too theoretical. None of it provided the reader with a ¿practical¿ look at the whole legal practice. I wanted to change that.After years of running a successful estate planning practice together, I started talking to my partner, Patrick Phancao, about writing this book. I wanted to give practical tips to clients in need, but more importantly, I wanted to write a book that would be interesting enough to make the reader understand the applications of estate planning in everyday life. Considering my partner¿s unique introduction to the law, I always thought his stories to be captivating and on-point with our practice. So, I decided to summarize in an easy, user-friendly approach the layers that make up the world of estate planning and asset protection by sharing my partner¿s ¿one-of-a-kind¿ stories about some of the clients he has had along the way. I love being an estate planning attorney. Patrick and I hope this book will give you a fun look into the world of estate planning and show you how important it is that we all plan properly. We want to dedicate this book to our families and friends, and to the amazing clients we have had the opportunity to represent through the years¿it has been a joy working with you. So without further delay, come on in¿ ¿Shadi Ala¿i Shaffer
Author : Kartikeya Ladha
Publisher : Anecdote Publishing House
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 37,9 MB
Release : 2022-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9389160170
"Having lived through an age of darkness, humanity is surfacing to witness the light of our existence." .... In Life Unknown - A Passage through India, the author returns to his motherland, India, and sets out to as he continues the adventure begun in his previous bestselling book, Dream Beyond Shadows. His heartfelt desire to find a way to live Beyond The Shadows of Existence takes him to Ladakh, Dharamsala, and remote regions of India's far north, deep within the powerful energy of the Himalayan Mountains. It takes him to the sacred waters of, and ultimately on a 1000 km pilgrimage by foot across South India, following the echoes of a cryptic message. This story speaks directly from the author's heart to an audience considering the idea of leaving everything they know behind to embrace life in its raw and untamed magnitude and search for understanding and meaning.
Author : Bertram A. Burrell
Publisher : Author House
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 37,94 MB
Release : 2013-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1491809116
About the Book The book is titled: Life in the Unknown, and sub-titled; Let the free thinkers speak. The title is taken from one of my favorite poems in the book; it should be an interesting read. This title wasn't the initial plan however, but it should call for interesting conversation in book signing. A part from the being a poetry book, there is no one classification or category that can be placed on the materials, which might come across as; controversial, edgy, insensitive, polarizing, funny, gritty, but yet it should come across as honest, and possibly witty. This book is aimed at challenging life and its imperfection, since we ourselves are imperfect, then judgment is therefore minimal; one to another respectively.
Author : Nicolas Notovitch
Publisher :
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,11 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Apocryphal books (New Testament)
ISBN :
Author : Jacob Needleman
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 19,39 MB
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1101601310
What is the purpose of life on Earth? Philosopher Jacob Needleman frames man's role on the planet in a completely new and fresh way, moving beyond the usual environmental concerns to reveal how the care and maintenance of a world is something vital and basic to our existence as authentic human beings. In some of his most deeply affecting writing, Needleman draws on his childhood experiences with a terminally ill friend whose impending death forces the young boys to face questions of the meaning of existence at an early age—questions that Needleman carried with him in his explorations of science and philosophy throughout his career as a scholar of religions. The conclusions that he reaches will give all of us a new sense of the purpose of our lives and the planet we live on.
Author : Majvor Sabine Aksoy
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1412028701
Living by the stream of thought, memory, feeling emotion, fear, hope and pain, The Unknown will help the readers examine the meaning of these destinies. There is a dialogue, a lot of it but much of it is an exchange with a person entirely named "Angel", Jemila exchanges views and perspectives on life, love and the universe with this Angel. The dialogue lasts throughout the book. Angel speaks from the very first page and the very last and everywhere in between. Whoever this Angel ends up being, the is very important in the scheme of the novel. The story, the events of the novel are not related in the straightforward manner. Events, what little there are, are explained through the consciousness of the protagonist and almost never described physically as the mental and emotional world of Jemila's own mind. It is very much an interior narrative of Jemila's own mind and soul, a logbook, diary of the conscious mind of the protagonist. With a flair for poetry and inspirational stories, this novel is laced with poetic interludes and epigraphs. It flows like a river, in fact a river of consciousness. Through the novel, there is a lot of interior strength of character. I paint portraits of strong people who have a sense of interior, self worth and self esteem who seek to make the world over into images of themselves. Jemila may not be a strong person in the usual sense, but she tends to make the world over in her image. The world is the contents of her mind, and vice versa. Her mind is the outside world, in a sense. It is mostly about Jemila remembering events in the lives of a family, that lead to the central flaw or strength of character(s) and understanding how a character will act in the story. Through the dialogue with Angel, Jemila finds true strength from Angel's words and from that she decides that we are most alike in our feelings and least alike in our thinking. Angel's visit to Jemila through dream, brings about a new beginning to Jemila's stream of thought, memory, feelings, emotions, fears and pains and replaces it all with a new chance to live.
