!Levante la cabeza, mama!El dia en que Angela Thomas vendio lo unico que tenia, el diamante de su anillo de compromiso, para cuidar de sus hijos fue el dia en que empezo a creer que iban a salir adelante. En esa decision, la fe de la cual siempre habia hablado se convirtio en la fe que iba a aprender a vivir. En los anos que siguieron, Dios le habia dado a Angela un deseo apasionado de vivir una vida asombrosa, aun mientras criaba a sus cuatro hijos como madre soltera. En este libro ella compart...
Cor Blimey! Where 'ave You Come From?
by Winifred Tovey and Frank Tovey
Winifred Tovey's autobiography is packed with stories and historic photos of India after Independence. In 1951 she travelled to India with her medical missionary husband, Frank, and two small daughters, to start life as medical missionary's wife in the southern city of Mysore. When they first arrived, the 'old India missionaries' instructed them to, 'listen, learn and on no account express an opinion'. But they found too much need around them, and in no time at all they were extending Frank's wo...
The Passionate Mind of Maxine Greene
Maxine Greene is the most important philosopher of education in the United States today. The author of Teacher as Stranger (1973), Landscapes of Learning (1978), Dialectic of Freedom (1988), and Releasing the Imagination (1995), Greene has influenced tens of thousands of teachers in North America as well as her colleagues in philosophy of education, teacher education, and curriculum studies. While widely cited, Greene has not - until now - been the subject of sustained scholarly analysis and inv...
Behind every great man, there's a great woman; no other adage more aptly describes the relationship between Charles Babbage, the man credited with thinking up the concept of the programmable computer, and mathematician Ada Lovelace, whose contributions, according to Essinger, proved indispensable to Babbage's invention. The Analytical Engine was a series of cogwheels, gear-shafts, camshafts, and power transmission rods controlled by a punch-card system based on the Jacquard loom. Lovelace, the o...
It's a Kimberly Thing You Wouldn't Understand
by Real Joy Publications
The Bearer of Family Secrets (The Tales of Yovi, #1)
by Yovinda Larraz
From her idyllic childhood in the American midwest, to her Oscar-nominated performance in Sunset Boulevard (1950) and the social circles of New York and Los Angeles, actress Nancy Olson Livingston has lived abundantly. In her memoir, A Front Row Seat, Livingston treats readers to an intimate, charming chronicle of her life as an actress, wife, and mother, and her memories of many of the most notable figures and moments of her time. Livingston shares reminiscences of her marriages to lyricist an...
When the 15-year-old Henrietta Maria, daughter of Henri IV of France and Marie de Medici, arrived in England in June 1625 to marry Charles I, she could not speak English. She discovered her future husband to be short, puny, stiff in manner, who spoke with a stammer. Within months, Henrietta was at odds with both her new husband and his country, because of her Frenchness, Catholicism, extravagance and her refusal to be crowned at the Protestant coronation ceremony. However, Charles turned to his...
A Welsh Childhood (Mermaid Books) (Cascades S.)
by Alice Thomas Ellis
A Rope - in Case (Lillian Beckwith's Hebridean Tales)
by Lillian Beckwith
'When I had first come to the Hebrides Morag, my landlady, had advised me always to "take a rope - in case," . . . Over and over I had proved its usefulness. I might need it to catch a calf or a sheep; to carry a bundle of hay to the cow or a can of paraffin from the grocer; to tie a bundle of driftwood I had collected, or a sack of peat; to secure a boat; make a temporary repair to a sagging fence or a halter for a horse . . . Excepting when they were going on holiday or to church, the Bruach c...
**DAILY MAIL'S 'BEST NON-FICTION BOOKS TO HELP YOU THROUGH LOCKDOWN'**'Beautifully written . . . very entertaining, very funny' RICHARD & JUDY'It's an astonishing story and narrated with a deceptive simplicity. There isn't a boring sentence in the entire book'DAILY MAIL'Remarkable . . . If your jaw doesn't drop at least three times every chapter, you've not been paying proper attention'THE SUNDAY TIMES'Gentle, wise, unpretentious, but above all inspiring'THE TIMES'A candid, witty and stylish mem...
The Lonely Hunter is widely accepted as the standard biography of Carson McCullers. Author of such works of American fiction as ""Reflections in a Golden Eye"" and ""The Ballad of the Sad Cafe"", Carson McCullers was the enfant terrible of the literary world of the 1940s and 1950s. Gifted but tormented, vulnerable but exploitative, McCullers led a life that had all the elements of a tragic novel. From McCullers' birth in Columbus, Georgia in 1917 to her death in upstate New York in 1967, this bo...
Readers of Cheaper by the Dozen remember Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972) as the working mom who endures the antics of not only twelve children but also an engineer husband eager to experiment with the principles of efficiency -- especially on his own household. What readers today might not know is that Lillian Gilbreth was herself a high-profile engineer, and the only woman to win the coveted Hoover Medal for engineers. She traveled the world, served as an advisor on women's issues to five...