Ergebnis für "Committed" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe - a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. (Both survivors of difficult divorces. Enough said.) But providence intervened one day in the form of the U.S. government.

When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the '90s, grieving the loss of her mother—feeling untethered and swimming through inarticulable pain—she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger.

At the end of her best-selling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever, under any circumstances get legally married. But providence intervened one day in the form of the United States government....

Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new and initially intimidating classmates were high achievers from the Ivy League and other elite universities. Faculty raved about the group as though the residency program had won the lottery, nicknaming them “The Golden Class”, but would Stern ever prove that he belonged? In his memoir, Stern pulls back the curtain on the intense and emotionally challenging lessons he and his fellow doctors learned.

When Suzanne Scanlon was a student at Barnard in the 90s and grieving the loss of her mother, she made a suicide attempt that landed her in the New York State Psychiatric Institute. After nearly three years and countless experimental treatments, Suzanne left the ward on shaky legs. In the decades it took her to recover from the experience, Suzanne came to understand her suffering as part of something larger: a long tradition of women whose complicated and compromised stories of self-discovery are reduced to 'madwoman' narratives.

After a decade of caring for crazy and keeping her mother’s mental illness a secret from the outside world, 20-year-old Paolina Milana longs for just one year free from the madness of her home. When she gets the chance to go to an out-of-state school, she takes it, but her family won’t leave her be. Letter after letter arrives, constantly reminding her of the insanity rooted in her family tree. Even worse, the voices in her own head whisper words she’s not sure are normal.

Cómo perder el miedo al matrimonio y llegar a ser felices...otra vez. La continuación de Come, reza, ama, una gran historia de amor. Más de 10 millones de libros vendidos. Traducido a 45 idiomas.

Several bizarre and unsolved true crime cases are presented, ranging from the collar bomb bank robbery of Brian Wells to the mysterious disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi in Vatican City. The accounts also include unusual murders, such as the killing of Stephen Melkey and the actions of teen killer Daniel LaPlante. Finally, the text explores the strange behaviors of individuals like Carl Tanzler, who kept his deceased lover's body, and David Hampson, who repeatedly blocked traffic. The overall theme is a collection of true crime stories that are particularly unusual and unsettling.

Mass violence committed by young people is now an epidemic. The reasons behind this escalating violence and the cultural forces that have impugned a generation is the subject of this important new book. The Spiral Notebook is full of interviews with Generation Z, a group dogged by big pharma and antidepressants and ADHD drugs, by a doomsday/apocalyptic mentality present since birth, and by an entertainment industry that has turned violence into parlor games.

This audiobook consists of true crime cases from the 19th and 20th centuries where partners-in-crime, working together, committed the crimes. The cases vary from serial killers to treason and from robbery to sexual predation. Some criminal stories are so shocking and heinous that they defy belief.

We want to help the poor souls like us experiencing dating in Berlin by sharing stories that people can empathize with and also laugh about!

Crime happens everyday, but the dumb ones often go unnoticed. This is a podcast that discusses REAL crimes committed by REAL idiots.

Su capacidad crítica, su estatura intelectual y su peculiaridad estilística. lo convirtieron en una de las voces más reconocibles del panorama cultural hispánico. De igual modo, su omnipresencia en múltiples foros (revistas, mesas redondas, programas de radio y televisión, periódicos, coloquios, museos, películas, antologías, prólogos, etc.) lo hizo una celebridad y uno de los personajes fundamentales de la ciudad de México.

No puede perderse esta biografía. Patrona de los pobres, los ciegos, de los niños enfermos y de las ciudades de Siracusa, Venecia y de Pedro del Monte, por negarse a casarse con un hombre pagano se le sometió a un juicio indignante, durante el cual se intentó que abandonara la fe cristiana. Su resistencia la llevaría a la inmortalidad.

Influyente intelectual y activista en pro de los Derechos Humanos y las reformas en la República Popular China, el reciente ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2010, es presidente del Centro Independiente Chino PEN desde 2003, pese a la detención sufrida por sus ideas en 2008, y su condena a 11 años de cárcel el 25 de diciembre.