"I learned that it is faith that decides whether something will happen or not." At the age of eight, Kaka already knew what he wanted in life: to play soccer and only soccer. He started playing in front of his friends and family, but after a crippling injury, doctors told him he would never play aga[...]
A book from Cengage Learning on "Design of Fluid Thermal Systems - SI Version".
Integrated Business Projects is project-based learning within a business scenario setting. Projects emphasize one of the main software applications (word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database), but with integration throughout. This text can be positioned to supplement any software tuto[...]
INTEGRATED BUSINESS PROJECTS, 3E is project-based learning within a business scenario setting. Projects emphasize one of the main software applications (word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and databases), but with integration throughout. The 3rd edition is updated for Office 2007.[...]
In this philosophical investigation, Janna Thompson examines the problems raised by reparative demands and puts forward a theory of reparation for historical injustices. It covers the claims of indigenous people to land stolen from their ancestors and the movement for reparations for slavery.[...]
Her name is undoubtedly less familiar than that of her grandmother, Eleanor of Aquitaine, or that of her famous conqueror son, Fernando III, yet during her lifetime, Berenguela of Castile (1180-1246) was one of the most powerful women in Europe. As queen-consort of Alfonso IX of Leon, she acquired t[...]
In a popular introduction to the mysteries of the universe, a physicist describes what we know about the shape, extent, origins, and evolution of the universe, the vast complexities of space and time, the efforts of science to explain the universe, and the secrets of black holes, time warps, and oth[...]
The humorous true story of a woman who abandons her tidy life to honeymoon across the Pacific on a leaky, old boat--only to find that sailing 17,000 miles is easier than keeping her relationship off the rocks.
"Somewhere fifty miles off the coast of oregon i realize the skipper of this very smal[...]
Of the many energy therapies in use today, one stands out as the choice of hospitals and health care centers worldwide: Healing Touch. Now, from the founding organization that trains and certifies Healing Touch Practitioners comes the first self-guided program for self-healing and energetic self-dev[...]
This book shows how each person's puzzle piece is just as vital and necessary as any other. All aspects of living the fullest expression of your individuality.[...]
"Alone and Together" accompanies two retrospective exhibitions on Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) curated by her personal assistant and friend, Jerry Gorovoy. As the title of this publication--taken from Bourgeois' gouache diptych of the same name--indicates, the artist's lifelong creative and personal[...]
Ett monster bebor mitt sinne
ett mulet och sorgligt och trött
och allting som lever där inne
blir visset och sorgesamt skött.
De löv som setts spirande gröna
faller bruna mot golvets parkett
och det hopp som förenats med fröna
dör ut när monstret är mätt.
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Föreningen Nationalmusei Vänner grundad 1911 är den avslutande delen i Nationalmuseums Årsboksserie. 2011 firar Nationalmusei Vänner hundra år och den sista årsboken handlar därför om föreningens verksamhet och förvärv under dess första sekel. Bokens huvudförfattare är Jan af Burén, [...]
Känslor har skildrats i den västerländska konsten alltsedan antikens dagar. Med mimik, gestik och kroppsspråk till sin hjälp har konstnärer tolkat och förmedlat känslor som sorg, lidande, vemod och ömhet i sina verk. I en vilja att kommunicera och begripliggöra känslolivet skapade den fra[...]
Nationalmuseum is Sweden?s leading art gallery and this volume presents a selection of its best-known masterpieces - paintings, sculptures and works of applied art - from the Renaissance to our own era. Nationalmuseum?s collections also contain numerous works of art that for different reasons have [...]
Dimman försvinner och solen tittar fram bakom molnen. - Jag ser något vitt där framme,säger Ellie och pekar. - Det är säkert en sådan där val igen,säger Percy. - I så fall har den har valen ett hus på ryggen. Percy staller sig upp och tittar dit Ellies snabel pekar.Han gnuggar sig i �[...]
?Janna ? Ett liv i två världar? är berättelsen om en könskorrigering. I starka bilder skildrar fotograf Eva Lie sin väns mödosamma väg från att vara Jan till att bli Janna. Identitet, kampen att få vara sig själv och längtan efter kärlek är ämnen som belyses i boken. De första bilder[...]