Gilbert: 2100 books

In Big Magic moedigt Elizabeth Gilbert ons aan om onze verborgen talenten te ontdekken. Balancerend tussen spiritualiteit en vrolijk pragmatisme laat ze zien hoe we onze ideeën kunnen omarmen, nieuwe uitdagingen het hoofd kunnen bieden en onze dagen kunnen vullen met meer passie en mindfulness. Op weg naar het leven waar je altijd van hebt gedroomd.

Learn the Rules of the Executive Suite! If you are in middle management, to get anything done you must present your ideas to decision makers, and those presentations can be brutal. The stakes are high—one presentation can make or break a career—but the rules are utterly unclear. Tactics and techniques...

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I Never Promised You a Goodie Bag is a warm, wise, and wholly original memoir of survival, renewal, and transformation, by one of New York City’s most successful and respected special events coordinators. With her top-level events company, Save the Date, Jennifer Gilbert has worked with Fortune...

Firmin Piédagnel causait depuis deux ans au supérieur du séminaire d’incessantes inquiétudes. Fils unique d’un savetier qui avait son échoppe entre deux contreforts de Saint-Exupère, c’était, par l’éclat de son intelligence, le plus brillant...

Chicano history, from the early decades of the twentieth century up to the present, cannot be explained without reference to the determined interventions of the Mexican government, asserts Gilbert G. González. In this pathfinding study, he offers convincing evidence that Mexico aimed at nothing less...

Le 13 octobre 1066, au moment où les armées d’Harold et de Guillaume allaient en venir aux mains dans les plaines d’Hastings, un cavalier normand sortit des rangs, lança son cheval en avant du front de bataille, et, pour préparer ses compagnons à vaincre ou à mourir, entonna la chanson de...

Dès le matin, la tête encore tournée contre le mur, et avant d’avoir vu, au-dessus des grands rideaux de la fenêtre, de quelle nuance était la raie du jour, je savais déjà le temps qu’il faisait. Les premiers bruits de la rue me l’avaient appris, selon qu’ils me parvenaient amortis...

Based on Gilbert's 1st-hand interviews, these remarkable true stories of the young Polish Jewish women who actively and successfully defied the Nazis provide a new perspective on women and the Holocaust. 

A young woman with a colorful past, former athlete and magazine publisher, experiences the worst year of her life. She loses everything in the span of 12 months including her home. Faced with two options, give up or start over, she chooses the latter. An aspiring photographer and writer, she manages...

A beautifully written family memoir, Bending Toward the Sun explores an emotional legacy—forged in the terror of the Holocaust—that has shaped three generations of lives. Leslie Gilbert-Lurie tells the story of her mother, Rita, who like Anne Frank spent years hiding from the Nazis, and whose...

While the death of a parent is always painful, losing both is life-altering. When author Allison Gilbert lost both parents at age 32, she could not find any books that spoke to her with the same level of compassion and reassurance that she found in the support group she belonged to, so she decided...

Like the quest for a perfect pair of shoes, the search for the right devotional book seems endless at times. But finally, "Wake Up Laughing: Offbeat Devotions for the Unconventional Woman" has arrived. In sixty creative takes on the ordinary, author Rachel St. John-Gilbert uses quirky humor to inspire...

"The Allied landings in 1944 had all the prospects for disaster. Churchill thought he would be woken up to be told of massive casualties. Eisenhower prepared a somber broadcast announcing that the enterprise had failed. The specter of failure was always present. After a failed landing...