Download or read book Vita written by João Biehl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the "dictionary" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. An instant classic, Vita has been widely acclaimed for its bold fieldwork, theoretical innovation, and literary force. Reflecting on how Catarina’s life story continues, this updated edition offers the reader a powerful new afterword and gripping new photographs following Biehl and Eskerod’s return to Vita. Anthropology at its finest, Vita is essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought, and ethics in the contemporary world.
Download or read book Vita written by João Biehl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2013-10-12 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "João Biehl's Vita is a greatly arresting work. The tale of Catarina is one that haunts the reader. This book's central character is sure to become an anthropological classic, her humanity reaffirmed by the author."—Arthur Kleinman, author of Writing at the Margin: Discourse between Anthropology and Medicine
Download or read book Vita written by João Biehl and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-06-27 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vita, Brazil, is a place where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick and the homeless are left to die. This text is for anyone attempting to understand the conditions of life, thought and ethics in the contemporary world.
Download or read book Vita written by Melania G. Mazzucco and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2005-09-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1903, the steamship Republic spills more than two thousand immigrants onto Ellis Island. Among them are Diamante, age twelve, and Vita, nine, sent by their poor families in southern Italy to make their way in America. Amid the chaos and splendor of New York, the misery and criminality of Little Italy, and the shady tenants of Vita's father's decrepit Prince Street boarding house, Diamante and Vita struggle to survive, to create a new life, and to become American. From journeys west in search of work to journeys back to Italy in search of their roots, to Vita's son's encounter with his mother's home town while serving as an army captain in World War II, Vita touches on every aspect of the heartbreaking and inspiring immigrant story. The award-winning Italian author Melania G. Mazzucco weaves her own family history into a great American novel of the immigrant experience. A sweeping tale of discovery, love, and loss, Vita is a passionate blend of biography and autobiography, of fantasy and fiction.
Download or read book Vita s Will written by Debbie Gisonni and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-11 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At age twenty-three, Debbie Gisonni had everything. She was on her way to becoming one of the top paid and youngest executives in Silicon Valley. She had found true love?and she could make a mean cannoli! Then in 1984, her mother Vita developed a brain tumor that left her permanently disabled. A few years later, her younger sister suddenly committed suicide. Within months her father was diagnosed with bone cancer and breast cancer struck her favorite aunt. Between 1990 and 1994, all of them died. Vita?s Will: Real Life Lessons About Life, Death & Moving On is a chronicle of Gisonni?s unimaginable experiences. One day she was on the corporate fast track; the next she left it all so that she could stop and smell the red sauce.
Download or read book Vita coaetanea A Contemporary Life Vida coet nea Vida coet nia written by Ramon Llull and published by John Benjamins Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-04-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Vita coaetanea (A Contemporary Life) is an autobiographical account of Ramon Llull’s life dictated by himself to a friend in 1311 when he was seventy-nine years old. In it Llull reviews his works in the context of a life dedicated to God and motivated by the desire to disseminate the message of the Christian faith among the infidels. Llull, the self-labeled troubadour of books, wrote this account in part as a self-justification of his life and work, in part as self-consolation for his unending toils and travails. It is very likely that he also had in mind the Council of Vienne (1311) which he was about to attend and where he submitted petitions dealing with the establishment of adequate places to study languages for the preaching of the Gospel to every creature and the founding of a Christian military religious order that waged permanent war against the Saracens until the Holy Land is reconquered. Llull wanted to frame these petitions within a well thought-out justificatory account of his life and works that exudes passion, commitment and love for his fellow man. This volume contains the Latin original, as well as translations into Catalan, Spanish, and English.
Download or read book The New Life written by Dante Alighieri and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Essence of Life written by Garrett Vita and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-16 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Time is a precious commodity. We are each given only so much of it. How we choose to spend those precious moments is part of a continuing string of fundamental decisions that makes us who we are. For some, it is the quest to discover our true purpose that drives us, makes us better and gives us a sense of accomplishment necessary to tackle the next challenge. With so many aspects of life beyond our control, it is important to remember that each of our journeys is unique. The Essence of Life: Discover the Keys to Significance is a thorough examination of what makes us who we are and how we arrived here. By understanding our purpose in this grand experiment of life we develop core systems that sustain us through the decades. These are comprised of many factors, from diets to social status, and combined with our sense of self. Every day is a gift. Having the clarity to understand what we are meant to accomplish only enhances it and makes every day one of discovery, awareness, and unparalleled joy. The Essence of Life is a must read that will reshape your life and point you in the direction you were meant to travel.
Download or read book Behind the Mask written by Matthew Dennison and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling new biography of Vita Sackville-West, the 20th century aristocrat, literary celebrity, devoted wife, famous lover of Virginia Woolf, recluse, and iconoclast who defied categorization. In this stunning new biography of Vita Sackville-West, Matthew Dennison's Behind the Mask traces the triumph and contradictions of Vita's extraordinary life. His narrative charts a fascinating course from Vita's lonely childhood at Knole, through her affectionate but ‘open' marriage to Harold Nicolson (during which both husband and wife energetically pursued homosexual affairs, Vita most famously with Virginia Woolf), and through Vita's literary successes and disappointments, to the famous gardens the couple created at Sissinghurst. The book tells how, from her privileged world of the aristocracy, Sackville-West brought her penchant for costume, play-acting and rebellion to the artistic vanguard of modern Britain. Dennison is the acclaimed author of many books including a biography of Queen Victoria. Here, in the first biography to be written of Vita for thirty years, he reveals the whole story and gets behind ‘the beautiful mask' of Vita's public achievements to reveal an often troubled persona which heroically resisted compromise on every level. Drawing on wideranging sources and the extensive letters that sustained her marriage, this is a compelling story of love, loss and jealousy, of high-life and low points, of binding affection and illicit passion – a portrait of an extraordinary, 20th-century life.
Download or read book Book prices Current written by and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life is Beautiful La Vita E Bella written by Roberto Benigni and published by Miramax. This book was released on 1998 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This romantic, hilarious, and astonishingly moving story, winner of the Grand Jury prize at the 1998 Cannes Film Festival, explores the power of the imagination, set against the stark reality of World War II Europe. The companion screenplay to the Miramax film presents the profound yet tender story that has touched the hearts of so many.
Download or read book The Book of My Life written by Girolamo Cardano and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2002-10-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A bright star of the Italian Renaissance, Girolamo Cardano was an internationally-sought-after astrologer, physician, and natural philosopher, a creator of modern algebra, and the inventor of the universal joint. Condemned by the Inquisition to house arrest in his old age, Cardano wrote The Book of My Life, an unvarnished and often outrageous account of his character and conduct. Whether discussing his sex life or his diet, the plots of academic rivals or meetings with supernatural beings, or his deep sorrow when his beloved son was executed for murder, Cardano displays the same unbounded curiosity that made him a scientific pioneer. At once picaresque adventure and campus comedy, curriculum vitae, and last will, The Book of My Life is an extraordinary Renaissance self-portrait—a book to set beside Montaigne's Essays and Benvenuto Cellini's Autobiography.
Download or read book On the Happy Life written by Seneca and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-02-24 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the Happy Life is a dialogue written by Seneca the Younger around the year 58 AD, intended for his older brother Gallio. It is divided into 28 chapters that present the moral thoughts of Seneca at their most mature. Seneca explains that the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reason - reason meant not only using logic, but also understanding the processes of nature.
Download or read book The Bioscope written by and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 1792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Illness and Authority written by Donna Trembinski and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2020 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illness and Authority is the first monograph-length study to examine a well-known medieval saint from the perspective of disability studies.
Download or read book Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century book IV England book V Philosophy and science written by Henry Osborn Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book book IV England book V Philosophy and science written by Henry Osborn Taylor and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
