Desmond: 370 books

Un libro único en el que dos Premios Nobel de la Paz comparten sus pensamientos, creencias y espiritualidad. «La fuente última de la felicidad reside en nosotros.» Su santidad el Dalai Lama «Nuestra bondad crece cuando se la pone a prueba.» Arzobispo Desmond Tutu El laureado...

Proceeding from the bold and provocative claim that there never has been a comprehensive and systematic theory of race, Mustafa Emirbayer and Matthew Desmond set out to reformulate how we think about this most difficult of topics in American life. In The Racial Order, they draw on Bourdieu, Durkheim,...

The human female form is the brilliant end-point of millions of years of evolution, loaded with amazing adjustments and subtle refinements. It is the most remarkable organism on the planet. At different times and in different places, human societies have tried to improve on nature, modifying and embellishing...

Following a crippling depression and institutionalization, the writer "Desmond" wanders from his native Dublin around an increasingly unrecognizable Europe, and as far as the southern United States, assembling a patchwork of small stories, conversations, love affairs, memories, regrets, and confrontations:...

With forty pounds he went back to England. Curlews cried in the bog next to Ballinasloe station. A taxi-man looked harassed - no work maybe. They kissed - slenderly. The train left. She walked away.' And so Diarmaid withdraws from his mother once more, as he returns to London just before his eighteenth...

'To seek the beginning is to go back a long time ago, when the town in which I am writing was a little different and trees hung at the end of the town, trees hung obsessively, many trees, much green at the end of the street come summer, come the arrival of leaves and sun and buttercup blaze.' It is...

Fragments of My Mind: A Ride Through Time began as touching true stories about a child, her parents, and a family’s struggle to understand the effects of spinal muscular atrophy. A grandfather wrote his feelings of the despair, happiness, fighting spirit, and love that followed. What resulted are words...

Robert Desmond was among the most prolific authors for Girodias' Travellers Companion series, writing eight books in all, the last in 1962. Little is known about him today, biographies we have about Girodias and others barely mention the man, only remarking how upset Mr. Donleavy was to be published...

With an Introduction by New York Times bestselling author James Martin, SJ, HarperOne presents The 10 Best Books to Read for Easter. This free sampler is a curated volume of excerpts from new and classic titles from leading authors in the field, including C. S. Lewis, N. T. Wright, Desmond Tutu, Ann...

En un mundo marcado por el odio y la rivalidad, y frente a las ideologías basadas en el resentimiento y la exclusión, Desmond Tutu (Premio Nobel de la Paz 1984) y Mpho Tutu reivindican la importancia del perdón. Para ellos este valor constituye uno de los instrumentos espirituales más eficaces...

This book is not a tell-all book with salacious details from behind the scenes of the NFL. Its merely an opportunity to give a voice to the many obstacles we have faced over the past eleven years in the course of dating, becoming engaged, and fi nally, being married. The...

This book provides a sociological analysis of the controversy surrounding GM crops in Telangana, India. There is much debate as to whether GM technology holds the key to improving the welfare of poor farmers globally or serves primarily to increase the profits of multinational corporations while enhancing...

For the Most Delicious-and Healthiest-Pregnancy Fuel! As a trained chef, Tara Mataraza Desmond knows how to cook-and eat. But when she became pregnant, all bets were off, and seemingly all food was suspect. Deli meat, raw milk cheese, and alcohol were out, but what is in? Lists of “verboten”...

Introduction.................................................................................3 What’s the difference between overweight and obese?.......................5 Is the problem really as bad as it appears?.......................................8 What is Losing Weight Nature’s Way all...