Martha: 1810 books

An ex-convict struggles with his addictive yearning for prison. A law-abiding citizen broods over his pleasure in violent, illegal acts. A prison warden loses his job because he is so successful in rehabilitating criminals. These are but a few of the intriguing stories Martha Grace Duncan examines...

Todas as pessoas querem deixar alguns vestígios para a posteridade. Deixar alguma marca. É a velha história do livro, do filho e da árvore, o trio que supostamente nos imortaliza. Porém filhos somem no mundo, árvores são cortadas, livros mofam em sebos. A única coisa que nos imortaliza –...

Não sei se você percebeu, mas viver é nossa única opção real. Antes de nascermos, era o nada. Depois, virá mais uma infinidade de nada. Essa merrequinha de tempo entre dois nadas é um presentaço. Não seja maluco de desperdiçar. [...] Não é preciso chegar num momento-limite para se dar...

Em "Fora de mim", Martha Medeiros, a autora best-seller que externou as ânsias e os sentimentos de mais de uma geração de mulheres, se dedica a esmiuçar uma situação única: o luto pelo fim de um relacionamento cheio de paixão visceral, fora dos conformes do bom senso, do tipo que...

Poucos săo os eleitos, aqueles que detęm a chave dos mistérios da poesia. Gęnero divino e maldito, vez por outra consagra uma voz, entre milhares que tentam. Tem sido assim desde Homero, ou bem antes dele. Causar emoçăo, reorganizar as coisas, traduzir o intraduzível, registrar o inexistente,...

Jagger rules everything. The cities from the elite districts, to the slums, and everything in between are his domain in one of three sovereigns on the planet Jaru. The only law is Jagger Law which can change at any moment. One wrong look or word can get a body part chopped off or have you killed. Since...

Hoe komt het dat sommige kranten de moord op 77 Noren toeschreven aan islamitische extremisten, totdat duidelijk werd dat een rechtse terrorist de dader was? Waarom werden in Zwitserland, een land van vier minaretten, middels een referendum deze bouwwerken verboden? Hoe kan het dat het plan voor een...

‘Woede en vergeving’ van Martha Nussbaum (o.a. hoogleraar recht en ethiek aan de universiteit van Chicago) is een pleidooi voor grootmoedigheid, rechtvaardigheid en waarheid als alternatief voor woede, wraak en, verrassend genoeg, vergeving. Nussbaum betoogt dat de invoering van het rechtssysteem...

Theorieën over recht en rechtvaardigheid zijn altijd abstract. Toch worden ze bedacht om oplossingen te zoeken voor heel concrete, dagelijkse problemen. In Grensgebieden van het recht stelt Martha Nussbaum deze paradox aan de orde. Aan de hand van drie urgente problemen de positie van mensen met...

In ‘Het koninkrijk van de angst’ merkt filosofe Martha Nussbaum op dat het politieke debat sterk is gepolariseerd en dat we niet meer in staat lijken met elkaar te communiceren. Ze is niet de enige die dat doorheeft, maar ziet wel een simpel feit dat vaak over het hoofd wordt gezien als de kern...

It has three short stories. They are Abandoned, Love Letter, and Healing Water. Abandoned a teenage girl is looking for her mother. Love Letter is First love. Healing Water has Frank Healed with his old motel where people are healed.

Deanna Jennings is planning a vacation and she bought her travel tickets from a travel agent. When they don't arrive in her mail it becomes a struggle to get the tickets and the suspicious travel agent Greg uses that as an excuse to have more time with her. Greg becomes involved in the death of Deanna's...

He was told that the color of his skin would keep him out of the big leagues, but Joe Black worked his way up through the Negro League and the Cuban League. He burst into the Majors in 1952 when he signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers. In the face of segregation, verbal harassment, and even death threats,...

Chica, a baby Sugarmouth Fairy, gets lost and separated from her family during their journey to Mexico. Rescued by a group of English Sugarmouths, they take Chica to a proper English garden inhabited by Royal Garden Fairies and a Princess cat named Chloe. Melly and Ruby, two little English garden...