"Fascinating' Nigella Lawson 'Awe-inspiring' Funmi Fetto 'A treat to read' Kassia St Clair A Sunday Times Style Barometer and New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice Pick For centuries, humans have been drawn to lining our eyes. The aesthetic tr
From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in fullTo the wider world, Al Pacino exploded onto the scene like a supernova. He landed his first leading role, in The Panic in Needle Park, in 1971, and by 1975, he had starred in four movies-The Godfather and The Godfather Part II, Serpico, and Dog Day Afternoon-that were not just successes but landmarks in the history of film. Those performances became legendary and changed his life forever. Not since Marlon Brando and James Dean in the late 1950s had an actor landed in the culture with such force.But Pacino was in his mid thirties by then, and had already lived several lives. A fixture of avant-garde theater in New York, he had led a bohemian existence, working odd jobs to support his craft. He was raised by a fiercely loving but mentally unwell mother and her parents after his father left them when he was young, but in a real sense he was raised by the streets of the South Bronx, and by the troop of buccaneering young friends he ran with, whose spirits never left him. After a teacher recognized his acting promise and pushed him toward New York's fabled High School of Performing Arts, the die was cast. In good times and bad, in poverty and in wealth and in poverty again, through pain and joy, acting was his lifeline, its community his tribe.Sonny Boy is the memoir of a man who has nothing left to fear and nothing left to hide. All the great roles, the essential collaborations, and the important relationships are given their full due, as is the vexed marriage between creativity and commerce at the highest levels. The book's golden thread, however, is the spirit of love and purpose. Love can fail you, and you can be defeated in your ambitions-the same lights that shine bright can also dim. But Al Pacino was lucky enough to fall deeply in love with a craft before he had the foggiest idea of any of its earthly rewards, and he never fell out of love. That has made all the difference._________________________________________________________________________Praise for Al Pacino:'Al Pacino is magical' Martin Scorsese'A legend' Francis Ford Coppola'So unique and special' Robert De Niro'A singular, special talent, whose work stands the test of time' Robin Williams'A wicked sense of humour' Oliver Stone'Charming, hilarious, a nonstop talker. There is an aspect of him that is like a lost orphan, like this kind of crazy idiot savant' Diane Keaton'As Michael in The Godfather, Pacino was everything I wanted that character to be on screen. I couldn't believe it. It was, in my eyes, a perfect performance, a work of art' Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather 'Comedic, talented, and certifiably insane' Johnny Depp'Al is money, the man in charge, making it happen. I got to act with Al Pacino and it was worth more to me than anything' Samuel L Jackson'A marvellous actor and man' Sean Connery'The depth of Al Pacino's artistry is only more overwhelmed by the generosity of his spirit and his warmth. Al Pacino is Van Gogh. Modigliani' Andy Garcia'The greatest actor in the world' Jamie Foxx
Now a major motion picture, written and directed by Aaron Sorkin and starring Jessica Chastain, Idris Elba, Kevin Costner, and Michael Cera--the true story of "Hollywood's poker princess" who gambled everything, won big, then lost it all.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 136, Publishers: Luminare Press, Author: Jones Brooke Jones, ISBN-13: 9781643884646, Date of issue: 2021
Charles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management - including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management - have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends - such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve - has changed the way we view society.In his new book, Handy, looking back over a rich and varied life, shares the lessons he has learned along the way.What things really matter? What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant? How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us? How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? Clear-eyed and optimistic by turns, he sets out the questions that everyone needs to ask themselves in the course of their lives, and points us in the direction of the answers.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 176, Publishers: The New York Review of Books, Inc, ISBN-13: 9781681375434, Date of issue: 2021
A sometimes hilarious, occasionally heartbreaking, and always entertaining joint memoir by Joseph Fink, cocreator of Welcome to Night Vale, and his wife, writer and performer Meg Bashwiner, chronicling the first ten years of their relationship from both sides.There are two sides to every love story.In 2009, 22-year-old Joseph Fink, newly arrived to New York City from the West Coast, was juggling odd jobs to pay the rent and volunteering with a theater company in the East Village so he could snag free tickets to their shows.Meg Bashwiner, a 22-year-old aspiring performer and playwright, was living with her parents in New Jersey, working a desk job and commuting to her internship with that same East Village theater company.Joseph and Meg's stories meet when they both find themselves selling tickets in a cramped box office. They quickly became friends. Within a year, they were a couple. Within five years they were touring the world, performing on some of the world's greatest and not so great stages.In this candid, soul-baring memoir, Joseph and Meg recount their first ten years together, each telling their story as they remember it, without having consulted the other. We hear both sides of their first kiss, first breakup, first getting back together, the death of a father, marriage, international fame, world tours, mental illness, and discussions about having children. Sometimes, they recall things differently-neither agrees on who paid for the morning after pill on their first date. Sometimes they remember the exact same details in the same way-but still have their own narrative on just what those details mean.Poignant, funny, and real, alternately told in Joseph and Meg's remarkably different, yet equally compelling voices, The First Ten Years is the story of two individuals finding their way in the world and becoming "adults" as they learn to become a couple.
20 nuevos capítulos, con una nueva sección sobre urgencias psiquiátricas. Actualización de la sección sobre intoxicaciones y envenenamientos, con una introducción a los conceptos fundamentales de la sumisión química. Incorporación de las recomendaciones más recientes sobre reanimación cardiopulmonar. Ampliación del capítulo sobre ecografía en medicina de urgencias y emergencias con todas las indicaciones actuales para esta técnica de imagen. Medicina de urgencias y emergencias es una obra escrita por médicos de urgencias para médicos de urgencias y médicos residentes. Asimismo, resultará de utilidad para estudiantes de Medicina, Enfermería y otras ramas sanitarias, así como para médicos de diferentes especialidades que pueden tener que afrontar una situación urgente y/o de emergencia. Medicina de urgencias y emergencias. Guía diagnóstica y protocolos de actuación, dirigida por los doctores F. Javier Montero Pérez y Luis Jiménez Murillo, facilita un ágil acceso a la información esencial necesaria para abordar las principales urgencias y emergencias, y constituye una hoja de ruta esencial para los profesionales que trabajan en esta área. La obra consta de 218 capítulos, que abordan procesos urgentes y emergentes, incluidos los obstétrico-ginecológicos y pediátricos, y ofrecen una guía minuciosa para interpretar las principales exploraciones complementarias utilizadas en urgencias (radiología simple, electrocardiograma, analítica sanguínea, ecografía, etc.), así como para realizar una gran variedad de técnicas diagnóstico-terapéuticas (canalización de vías venosas, paracentesis, toracocentesis, punción lumbar, y sondajes vesical y nasogástrico, entre otras). Además, se describen pormenorizadamente las dosis y las diluciones farmacológicas, y los protocolos de actuación en urgencias, de ingreso y de alta a domicilio.
Pour la réussite à l'Examen National Classant, il est essentiel d'allier la théorie, la pratique et l'entraînement sous forme de Questions isolées et de QCM. Ces ouvrages couvrent l'ensemble du programme via des questions correspondant au mieux aux nouvelles modalités de l'ECN à partir de 2016.
Description détaillée : iKB Cardiologie vasculaire EDN / R2C- Conforme au nouveau programme des EDN (rangs A et B)- Introduction et synopsis en début de chapitre- Dernières conférences de consensus, HAS- Nombreuses photos couleurs, arbres diagnostiques et thérapeutiques intégrés au texte- Fiches Flash et Pour en savoir + en fin de chapitre- Interactif : une équipe pédagogique online à vos côtés (blog, conférence d'interne EDN)- Situations cliniques de départ en fin de chapitre
Principios de Medicina Interna de Harrison (HPIM, Harrison"s Principles of Internal Medicine), el principal libro de texto médico para estudiantes y médicos, proporciona un recurso integral para comprender los aspectos biológicos y clínicos de la atención de calidad al paciente. El Manual de Medicina de Harrison tiene como objetivo satisfacer una necesidad diferente: como un recurso conciso y rico en hechos para el punto de atención, el Manual presenta información clínica extraída de la 20a. edición de HPIM, que cubre las características clave del diagnóstico, las manifestaciones clínicas y el tratamiento de las principales enfermedades que probablemente se encuentren en un servicio médico para pacientes hospitalizados y en la clínica.
Language: English, Binding: Hardback, Number of pages: 240, Publishers: Elsevier - Health Sciences Division, Author: HARPREET PALL, ISBN-13: 9780323920049, Date of issue: 2021
Vom Bestseller-Autor von "Die wundersame Leber- und Gallenblasenreinigung"Sie ist vermutlich das stärkste natürliche Breitbandmedikament, das es gibt. Dazu völlig kostenlos: die Sonne. Ihre Energie ist für die meisten Lebensorganismen auf der Erde unverzichtbar. Doch seit vielen Jahren kursieren Gerüchte, die Sonne sei schädlich. Sie begünstige Hautkrebs und man müsse sich vor ihr schützen. Komisch, dass besonders die Menschen in Äquatornähe nahezu frei von Krebserkrankungen sind. Und dass wir über Jahrtausende ohne Sonnenschutzmittel auskommen konnten! Andreas Moritz, der Bestseller-Autor von "DIE WUNDERSAME LEBER- UND GALLENBLASENREINIGUNG", geht hartnäckigen Glaubenssätzen nach, prüft sie auf Herz und Nieren und entlarvtdas meiste als Ammenmärchen der Werbe- und Pharmaindustrie. Diese empfehlen Produkte, die dem Körper überhaupt erst schaden. So enthält chemischer Sonnenschutz potenziell krebserregende Stoffe und unterdrückt wichtige Eigenschutzfunktionen des Körpers. Nach Andreas Moritz hilft Sonnenlicht dabei, Krebs, Multiple Sklerose, Herzerkrankungen, Arthritis, Diabetes und andere Zivilisationskrankheiten vorzubeugen.Er erklärt, welche Wirkung ultraviolettes Licht auf den menschlichen Organismus tatsächlich hat. In diesem Zusammenhang geht er auf den chronischen Vitamin-D-Mangel ein, der entsteht, wenn der Körper zu wenig Sonnenlicht bekommt. Er behandelt auch das missverstandene Thema der Transfette.Natürliches UV-Licht - richtig dosiert - wirkt sich positiv auf das Herz-Kreislaufsystem aus, es stärkt die Widerstandskraft und hat einen positiven Einfluss auf das Wohlbefinden. In Kombination mit Bewegung ist es das Geheimrezept für Gesundheit überhaupt. Der eigentliche Mythos ist, dass Sonnenschutzmittel Krebs vorbeugen könnten, doch das Gegenteil ist der Fall. "HEILE DICH SELBST MIT SONNENLICHT" ist ein erhellendes Buch, das die richtigen Fragen stellt, fundierte Antworten liefert und neue Perspektiven eröffnet.
Practical and pocket sized, The Hospital for Sick Children Handbook of Pediatrics has been a trusted clinical reference for more than 50 years. The fully revised 12th Edition continues this tradition of excellence with succinct, easily accessible, and evidence-based answers for the diagnosis and management of pediatric patients. Get the reliable information you need from staff pediatricians, specialists, residents, and fellows at one of the top pediatric hospitals in the world.
Millions of people worldwide suffer needlessly with the symptoms of systemic lupus erythematosus. Standard medical treatment for this mysterious disease is limited to symptom management and doesn't address the underlying reasons for why the person devel
Written by carefully selected global experts, practicing physicians, and educators in the various sub-disciplines of biochemistry, Medical Biochemistry, 6th Edition, offers a unique combination of research and clinical practice tailored to today's integrated courses. Covering clinically relevant topics in greater detail than other texts, this outstanding resource provides a strong overview of traditional areas in medical biochemistry along with state-of-the-art coverage of today’s latest developments. You’ll learn basic science concepts alongside clinical cases that describe patients likely to be encountered in clinical training, as well as how to use laboratory tests to diagnose and monitor the most important conditions. Thorough yet accessible, this clinically focused text is useful from medical school to clinical practice.
A book for the USMLE Step 2 CK that helps you ace the board. It includes 450 cases, and more than 100 clinical images, diagrams, and tables, and active recall Q&As.
"As a doctor the number one question I get from patients when they are faced with a scary choice in medicine today, 'Doc, what would you do?' This is the story of what happened when my 71-year-old mother was dying of cancer. Tim Ferriss saved her life.
UE 7. Inflammation - Immunopathologie - Poumon - Sang n° 190. Lupus érythémateux disséminé. Syndrome des anti-phospholipides n° 197. Transplantation d’organes : Aspects épidémiologiques et immunologiques ; principes de traitement et surveillance ; complications et pronostic ; aspects éthiques et légaux UE 8. Circulation - Métabolismes n° 221. Hypertension artérielle de l’adulte n° 245. Diabète sucré de types 1 et 2 de l’enfant et de l’adulte. Complications n° 254. OEdèmes des membres inférieurs localisés ou généralisés n° 255. Élévation de la créatininémie n° 256. Protéinurie et syndrome néphrotique de l’adulte et de l’enfant n° 257. Hématurie n° 258. Néphropathie glomérulaire n° 260. Néphropathie vasculaire n° 261. Insuffisance rénale chronique chez l’adulte et l’enfant n° 262. Lithiase urinaire n° 263. Polykystose rénale n° 264. Prescription et surveillance des diurétiques (voir item 326) n° 265. Troubles de l’équilibre acido-basique et désordres hydro-électrolytiques UE 9. Cancérologie - Onco-hématologie n° 317. Myélome multiple des os UE 10. Le bon usage du médicament et des thérapeutiques non médicamenteuses n° 322. Identification et gestion des risques liés aux médicaments et aux biomatériaux, risque iatrogène, erreur médicamenteuse (voir item 4 et item 5) UE 11. Urgences et défaillances viscérales aiguës n° 343. Insuffisance rénale aiguë - Anurie
Als Tsukasa den schwer verletzten Augenzeugen Oryo ins Krankenhaus begleitet, wird sie von 07 entführt. Doch statt in Panik zu verfallen, nutzt sie die Chance, um dem Hass auf den Grund zu gehen, den die Scharfschützin gegen die Vampire hegt. Eigentlich scheint sie nämlich gar keine schlechte Person zu sein. Unterschätzt Tsukasa die Gefahr? Denn wenn nicht alle Bösen wirklich böse sind, gilt das dann auch für die Guten? Wem kann man überhaupt noch vertrauen?
A Study Guide for Laura Esquivel's "Like Water for Chocolate," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for fu
Traditional marriage and Christian marriage rites presently exist as two distinct ceremonies in some parts of Africa. Is there no way of bringing the two together to avoid any form of duplication or multiplication of rite? More so because the Church has always implicitly recognised matrimonial institution as a cultural product. The answer to the above question is located in the whole issue of inculturation. A process that successfully flourished in the Western civilisation and consequently influenced the teaching of the Church on marriage. The answer to our question seeks to establish a marriage rite where couples will genuinely experience the happy marriage between culture and Church. A marriage rite that will fulfil both the traditional and Christian demands.
The Second Vatican Council aims to make the Christian life to command greater appeal and to deepen the faith in the Paschal Mystery among Christians everywhere through very lively celebrations. It therefore gives special attention to the renewal of the liturgy in consideration of the plurality of cultures, languages and customs of particular Churches within Christendom. This study belongs to the area of possible liturgical adaptations and renewals of the Roman rite to accommodate the multicultural reality in the Church. Directives in this regard are given in the Council's constitution on the Liturgy, Sacro-sanctum Concilium 37-40. Today, the different contextual engagement with these directives are designated with the word inculturation. For the sake of precision and thorough treatment, this work is geographically restricted to the Igbo land Nigeria which belongs to the English speaking part of West Africa. It makes an extensive investigation into the traditional forms of initiation rites in the pre-Christian Igbo society. Holding to the fundaments of the Christian rites of initiation as well as the true principle for liturgical renewals, it distributes responsibility for the tension between the traditional pre-Christian practice of initiation and the Christian practice as the missionaries of the 19th century introduced it, to crises of cultural identity and the missionaries' inattention to the cultural grammar of the people they wanted to evangelize at all costs. Apart from the problems associated with mass religious ignorance of many Igbos as it is evident in the mushrooming of religious movements in the area, it exposes the biased attitude in the way the traditional and cultural rites of the Igbos were eliminated by 19th century missionaries, and in the light of the theological intimacy between the Church and her liturgy, it asks for possible ways out as it makes recommendations.
In this classic work, Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, one of the leading and most influential cultural theorists working today, analyzes the relationship between language, women and culture in both Western and non-Western contexts.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 321, Publishers: Universitätsverlag Winter, Author: Beatrice La Farge,John Tucker, ISBN-13: 9783825345402, Date of issue: 1991
Transkulturalität als wesentlicher Bestandteil der gegenwärtigen Prozesse der Globalisierung und Lokalisierung, der Verwischung der Grenzen des Subjekts und der Suche nach den Determinanten eigener Identität, bildet den Kern dieser Publikation. Die polnischen Literaturwissenschaftler*innen setzen sich mit dieser Thematik kritisch auseinander, indem sie verschiedene Aspekte transkultureller Durchdringungen in der Literatur Mitteleuropas exemplarisch darstellen mit dem Fokus auf Grenzerfahrungen, der Problematik der Desintegration des Subjekts, der Diskriminierung von Minderheiten innerhalb der Gesellschaften sowie der Probleme multikultureller Regionen.
'Thames & Hudson’s new, affordable, covetable 'Pocket Perspectives’: beautifully illustrated essays by canonical writers’ Financial TimesA highly acclaimed exploration of the way in which the landscape has both influenced and been represented in British Romantic literature.Margaret Drabble on the Romantics presents an image of Britain as seen through the eyes of some of its most celebrated authors. Many of the Romantics, as well as their successors, are closely associated with particular landscapes – the Wordsworths with the Lake District, Walter Scott with the Scottish Borders, the Brontë sisters with West Yorkshire. Margaret Drabble deepens our understanding of this connection, unpacking the Romantics' fascination with all varieties of rural landscape, from roaring seas to tranquil villages, while also exploring their writing's subtler associations.Herself a star in the literary firmament, Drabble illuminates how this love of place fashioned some of the Romantics' greatest works. She considers the resonances of myth and legend, art and earlier literature that the Romantics found in places such as North Wales and Cornwall and investigates how their writing has, in turn, shaped our visual attitudes, taste in landscape and relation to nature.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 120, Publishers: Blank Classic, Author: Blank Classic, ISBN-13: 9781774379684, Date of issue: 2020
What is the book in a digital age? Is it a physical object containing pages encased in covers? Is it a portable device that gives us access to entire libraries? The codex, the book as bound paper sheets, emerged around 150 CE. It was preceded by clay tablets and papyrus scrolls. Are those books? In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Amaranth Borsuk considers the history of the book, the future of the book, and the idea of the book. Tracing the interrelationship of form and content in the book's development, she bridges book history, book arts, and electronic literature to expand our definition of an object we thought we knew intimately.
Was tun, wenn man eine Klausur, einen Essay oder eine Hausarbeit über einen literarischen Text schreiben soll? Friedmann Harzer antwortet auf diese Frage nicht mit einer Gebrauchsanweisung. Doch er lädt Studierende ein, auch mit schwierigen Gedicht-, Prosa- oder Dramen-Texten ins Gespräch zu kommen: indem sie lernen, systematisch Fragen zu stellen und aus ihren Beobachtungen eine stimmige Deutung zu entwickeln.
Seoul National University Korean, written by the nation's top Korean language education instructors, is a new textbook for regular courses planned by the Seoul National University Language Education Center and published by the Seoul National University Press to improve Korean language learners' Korean language skills in an efficient and step-by-step manner. Seoul National University Korean consists of 1 to 6 levels to cover from beginners to advanced users of the Korean language. Each level consists of an A and B sublevel with a Student's Book and a supplementary Workbook.
Seoul National University Korean, written by the nation's top Korean language education instructors, is a new textbook for regular courses planned by the Seoul National University Language Education Center and published by the Seoul National University Press to improve Korean language learners' Korean language skills in an efficient and step-by-step manner. Seoul National University Korean consists of 1 to 6 levels to cover from beginners to advanced users of the Korean language. Each level consists of an A and B sublevel with a Student's Book and a supplementary Workbook.
Leemos sin prestar atención, pendientes de mil cosas. A menudo nosquedamos únicamente con el argumento y dejamos de lado la forma, elmodo como se explica ese argumento, que es lo que ?sostiene Eagleton?confi ere a un texto su carácter literario, su naturaleza de creaciónretórica. Víctimas de esa lectura superficial, ?cómo aprender adistinguir el grano de la paja, cómo saber si un texto es bueno, maloo solo intrascendente?En este manual de literatura para principiantesEagleton ense?a que la clave está en conocer las herramientas básicasde la crítica literaria, en fijarse en el tono, el ritmo, la textura,la sintaxis, las alusiones, la ambigüedad y otros aspectos formales de las obras literarias. A partir de un amplio espectro de autores?desde Shakespeare y Jane Austen a Samuel Beckett y J. K. Rowling?,examina la narratividad, la imaginación creativa, el significado de la ficcionalidad y la tensión entre lo que la obra literaria dice y loque muestra. En resumidas cuentas, ilustra, con frecuencia de manerahilarante, sobre las líneas básicas del oficio de crítico literario ycontradice letra a letra el mito de que el análisis es enemigo delplacer de la lectura.
Language: English, Binding: Paperback, Number of pages: 414, Publishers: Hippocampus Press, Author: S T Joshi, ISBN-13: 9781614981350, Date of issue: 2015
"The most enjoyable work on Tolkien I have read in many years" Christina ScullAragorn. Strider. King. Ranger. He is one of the most famous and celebrated characters in the history of popular literature. But how much do you really know ab
Since the earliest scholarship on The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion, critics have discussed how the works of J. R. R. Tolkien seem either to ignore women or to place them on unattainable pedestals. To remedy such claims that Tolkien's fiction has
"Behind the Looking-Glass" offers a fresh perspective in the ongoing, contemporary deconstruction of the Carroll Myth. Through rigorous examination of numerous myths that have been hitherto unquestioned, Ackerman skilfully positions Lewis Carroll in the theological and philosophical contexts of his time. She uncovers a Carroll whose radical religio-philosophical counter-response to patriarchal materialism moved his intellectual journey, intentionally or otherwise, deep into the waters of mysticism. The image of Carroll as a dreary Victorian conservative gives way to that of a man with wide intellectual parameters, an inquiring mind and bold, far-sighted vision. "Behind the Looking-Glass" demonstrates how nineteenth century currents of spiritualism, theosophy and occult philosophy co-mingled with Carroll's interest in revived Platonism and Neoplatonism, showcasing the "Alice" and "Sylvie and Bruno" books as unique points of conjunction between Carroll's intellect and spirituality. The scholarship in this work, while rigorous, is softly mixed with the kind of academic frivolity that Carroll himself might have enjoyed. Ackerman exposes a Carroll who, having lost belief in the theological and mythological master plots of earlier eras, turned toward the imaginative fiction of wonderlands rife with philosophical content in response to his instinctive hunger for cosmic coherence and existential order.
Generously illustrated with original drawings, fan letters (including one from President Roosevelt) and archival material, this book explores the mysteries surrounding one of the most successful works of children's literature ever published.
This chilling anthology, first published in 1898, features classic gothic authors Edgar Allan Poe, Mary Shelley, Thomas de Quincey and Hans Christian Andersen alongside well-known and influential fairy tales and folklore. All of the macabre stories and extracts from longer works have hints of the supernatural and many include malevolent spirits and grotesque murders. But this varied selection also features melancholy hauntings and poignant memoir in a fascinating mix of gothic horror and disturbing legend.Each story is illustrated with a striking engraving by art nouveau artist William Macdougall. Beautifully produced, carefully curated and timeless, this book is the perfect gift for anyone who likes to be haunted by ghost stories. Read it if you dare.
