Ergebnis für "Sounds of Silence" in Biografien & Erinnerungen

Julie Andrews—an icon whose voice defined a generation and whose grace continues to inspire millions. Her journey is a tapestry of triumphs and trials, soaring heights and devastating setbacks. In The Sound of Silence: Julie Andrews’ Voice, Loss, and Legacy, we delve into the extraordinary life of a woman who captivated the world with her music, only to lose her defining gift—and discover an entirely new way to shine.

This book is a memoir of an unlikely relationship between the author, Karen Hall — a television writer and producer of hit shows like M*A*S*H, Hillstreet Blues, Moonlighting and The Good Wife — and conservative Jesuit biblical scholar Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ, who died in September 2020. It exposes the silencing of Fr. Mankowski by his religious order for airing its dirty laundry and for upholding the two-thousand-year magisterium of the Catholic Church.

A cancer surgeon and acclaimed academic turns the scalpel inward — exploring the systems that guide, limit, and often distance us from what truly matters. Beginning with stories from his childhood in a mountain village near the Black Sea, he traces the growing gap between ideals and reality — in healthcare, and in life. In this powerful debut, personal memoir meets social reflection and existential questioning. With clarity and compassion, the author reveals what’s at risk when efficiency overrides human connection, and when authenticity is quietly replaced by conformity.

In her late 40s, after a noisy upbringing as one of six children and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland found herself living alone in the country and, to her surprise, falling in love with silence. In this fascinating, intelligent, and beautifully written book, Maitland describes how she began to explore this new love, spending periods of silence in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye.

On June 6, 1924, two men set out from a camp perched at 23,000 feet on an ice ledge just below the lip of Mount Everest’s North Col. George Mallory, thirty-seven, was Britain’s finest climber. Sandy Irvine was a young Oxford scholar of twenty-two with little previous mountaineering...

The first biography to explore his life and work, Speak, Silence pursues the true Sebald through the memories of those who knew him and through the work he left behind. This quest takes Carole Angier from Sebald’s birth as a second-generation German at the end of the Second World War, through his rejection of the poisoned inheritance of the Third Reich, to his emigration to England. It digs deep into a creative mind on the edge, finding profound empathy and paradoxical coldness, saving humour and an elusive mix of fact and fiction in his life as well as work.

Il caso della morte di Simona Cinà, trovata morta nella piscina di una villa di Bagheria durante una festa di laurea, sottoposto al vaglio della Procura di Termini Imerese è solo l’ultimo esempio, in ordine di tempo, a dimostrarcelo. Una ragazza di 21 anni muore in una piscina, dunque. Il suo cadavere resta in acqua per diversi minuti prima che qualcuno si accorga dell’accaduto.