Download or read book Mother Teresa written by Kathryn Spink and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother Teresa of Calcutta was the founder of the Missionaries ofCharity and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize, but her story is so much moreremarkable. From her childhood in the Balkans to her work in India, from attendingthe victims of war-torn Beirut to pleading with George Bush and Saddam Husseinto choose peace over war, Mother Teresa was driven by a mighty faith. Newly revised and updated, this edition includes a personal insight into thebeatification and continuing process of canonization for Mother Teresa, theongoing work of the Missionaries of Charity, and her “dark night of the soul.” Mother Teresa consistently claimed that she was simply responding to Christ’sboundless love for her and for all of humanity, bringing to the world a great lessonin joyful and selfless love. This book is a glimpse into her extraordinary faith,work, and life.
Download or read book Biographical Review of Calhoun County Michigan written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Open Road written by Jean Giono and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A nomad and a swindler embark on an eccentric road trip in this picaresque, philosophical novel by the author of The Man Who Planted Trees. The south of France, 1950: A solitary vagabond walks through the villages, towns, valleys, and foothills of the region between northern Provence and the Alps. He picks up work along the way and spends the winter as the custodian of a walnut-oil mill. He also picks up a problematic companion: a cardsharp and con man, whom he calls “the Artist.” The action moves from place to place, and episode to episode, in truly picaresque fashion. Everything is told in the first person, present tense, by the vagabond narrator, who goes unnamed. He himself is a curious combination of qualities—poetic, resentful, cynical, compassionate, flirtatious, and self-absorbed. While The Open Road can be read as loosely strung entertainment, interspersed with caustic reflections, it can also be interpreted as a projection of the relationship of author, art, and audience. But it is ultimately an exploration of the tensions and boundaries between affection and commitment, and of the competing needs for solitude, independence, and human bonds. As always in Jean Giono, the language is rich in natural imagery and as ruggedly idiomatic as it is lyrical.
Download or read book James Madison written by Lynne Cheney and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2015-05-05 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new biography of the fourth U.S. president, from New York Times–bestselling author Lynne Cheney James Madison was a true genius of the early republic, the leader who did more than any other to create the nation we know today. This majestic new biography tells his story. Outwardly reserved, Madison was the intellectual driving force behind the Constitution. His visionary political philosophy—eloquently presented in the Federalist Papers—was a crucial factor behind the Constitution’s ratification, and his political savvy was of major importance in getting the new government underway. As secretary of state under Thomas Jefferson, he managed the Louisiana Purchase, doubling the size of the United States. As president, Madison led the country in its first war under the Constitution, the War of 1812. Without precedent to guide him, he would demonstrate that a republic could defend its honor and independence while remaining true to its young constitution.
Download or read book The Biographical Review of Prominent Men Women of the Day written by Thomas William Herringshaw and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings Or Biographical Review Containing written by and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings Or Biographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Biographical Review of Johnson Massac Pope and Hardin Counties Illinois written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 626 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings Or Biographical Review Containing a Brief Account of the Lives of the Most Celebrated Men in Every Age and Country Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1808 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Review Containing Life Sketches of Leading Citizens of Somerset and Bedford Counties Pennsylvania written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Begin Again written by Kenneth Silverman and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-11 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A man of extraordinary and seemingly limitless talents—musician, inventor, composer, poet, and even amateur mycologist—John Cage became a central figure of the avant-garde early in his life and remained at that pinnacle until his death in 1992 at the age of eighty. Award-winning biographer Kenneth Silverman gives us the first comprehensive life of this remarkable artist. Silverman begins with Cage’s childhood in interwar Los Angeles and his stay in Paris from 1930 to 1931, where immersion in the burgeoning new musical and artistic movements triggered an explosion of his creativity. Cage continued his studies in the United States with the seminal modern composer Arnold Schoenberg, and he soon began the experiments with sound and percussion instruments that would develop into his signature work with prepared piano, radio static, random noise, and silence. Cage’s unorthodox methods still influence artists in a wide range of genres and media. Silverman concurrently follows Cage’s rich personal life, from his early marriage to his lifelong personal and professional partnership with choreographer Merce Cunningham, as well as his friendships over the years with other composers, artists, philosophers, and writers. Drawing on interviews with Cage’s contemporaries and friends and on the enormous archive of his letters and writings, and including photographs, facsimiles of musical scores, and Web links to illustrative sections of his compositions, Silverman gives us a biography of major significance: a revelatory portrait of one of the most important cultural figures of the twentieth century. !--?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /--
Download or read book Life As Art written by Della Rowley and Lynn Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 2022-10-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My books are all, in their different ways, voyages of discovery. I write books to learn, to stretch my horizons. These voyages of mine are full of risk and passion.' Hazel Rowley Hazel Rowley was an award-winning biographer who was committed to telling the stories of people's lives. This collection of short pieces - journal articles, essays, talks, diary entries - provides a wonderful insight into her craft. In these pages she talks honestly about the joys, the challenges, the highs and the lows of writing biography. Much of the material is previously unpublished and reveals Rowley's lively ideas on a range of topics. Before her untimely death in 2011, Rowley wrote four acclaimed biographies: about Christina Stead, Richard Wright, Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt. This new collection gives a rich store of reflections on biography and draws the reader into Rowley's passionate pursuit of stories and her search for new biographical subjects. Della and Lynn, along with Hazel's friend Irene Tomaszewski, established the Hazel Rowley Literary Fellowship in her memory.
Download or read book Biographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 746 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 1162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Biographical Review of Dane County Wisconsin written by and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
