![]() ![]() Urn:lcp:openautobiograph00andr:epub:2813b9f5-f5ee-4449-be50-e432e345c591 Extramarc University of Toronto Foldoutcount 0 Identifier openautobiograph00andr Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t4cn8cz8v Isbn 9780307388407Ġ307388409 Lccn 2010549722 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary OL24085238M Openlibrary_edition Moehringer, From Andre Agassi, one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a. However, he got a helping hand from renowned journalist J.R. ![]() Urn:lcp:openautobiograph00andr:lcpdf:87895d7f-9fea-4f2f-878f-69db673fa07b In 2009, the autobiography of Andre Agassi, Open, made its way into bookstores and shared the iconic American tennis star’s story with the world.The autobiography went on to be a resounding success, but writing it was a challenge for Agassi. ![]() Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:10:31 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA160920 Boxid_2 CH118701 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Donorīurlingamepubliclibrary Edition 1st Vintage Books ed. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Betrayals and horrors of WW II and the Holocaust reinforced Sephardic Jews' resolve to leave the Muslim world, and Gerber incisively looks at today's Sephardic communities in Israel, France, the U.S. She examines the tensions between impoverished Ashkenazim (Jews of middle and northern Europe) and aristocratic Sephardim throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. Gerber, director of the City University of New York's Graduate Center's Institute for Sephardic Studies, charts the haunted lives of "New Christians," secret Jews who were persecuted by the Inquisition, from Mexico to Peru, and surveys Sephardic communities that flourished openly from Romania, Syria and Turkey to the U.S. ![]() Columbus, evasive about his origins, kept close company with Jews, and several Jewish converts sailed with him. During the Golden Age of Spanish Jewry, Sephardim excelled in medicine, science, philosophy, music and literature. Before the brutal expulsion of 300,000 Jews from Spain in 1492, Sephardic Jews thrived on the Iberian peninsula for more than a millennium, as Gerber relates in this stirring and riveting saga, a remarkable story of creative adaptation, minority achievement and survival. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Le Guin has researched this ancient world assiduously, and her measured, understated prose captures with equal skill the permutations of established ritual and ceremony and the sensations of the battlefield. is a moving testament to the conversations that great writers sustain through the centuries.” “Le Guin has her own modesty, and would not claim to have superseded Virgil’s achievement. asserts Lavinia as a real person in her own right, while at the same time leaving her subject to her immutable role in The Aeneid. The contrast is intriguing, and adds a surprising and interesting depth to what would in any event have been an exceedingly well-told tale.” ![]() This is a work of passion, written with cool expertise: a cracker.” “.ranging through historical, political and spiritual arenas, across centuries, through dreams and poems and geographical fact. A luminous novel that should appeal across genres and generations.” ![]() ![]() “With this characteristically graceful retelling of the final stages of Virgil’s Aeneid, one of the master fabulists of our time crowns a great career. It’s a novel that deserves to be ranked with Robert Graves’s I, Claudius.” “Le Guin is famous for creating alternative worlds (as in Left Hand of Darkness), and she approaches Lavinia’s world, from which Western civilization took its course, as unique and strange as any fantasy. ![]() ![]() ![]() In 1907, the first session of the Men's Convention was held at the First United Brethren Church, Dayton, Ohio. The Men's Movement was a lay movement within the church that functioned at the local church level. In 1908, the name was changed to the Young People's Christian Endeavor Union. The 1893 General Conference created the Young People's Christian Union to unite the young people's Christian societies of the entire church and authorized the publication of a periodical called The Young People's Watchword. ![]() In 1881, the Sunday School Association became the General Sabbath School Board, which, in 1905 became the General Sunday School Board. It provided financial support, publication of study material, the organization of local Sabbath schools, the holding of conventions, and the proper selection and training of teachers. ![]() The 1865 General Conference created the Sabbath School Association to provide a more coordinated effort. In the early years of the church, Sunday School work was conducted at the local church level. The collection is made up of records from the various educational institutions that were run or supported by the Board and administrative material from the Board of Christian Education and its predecessor organizations. The Church of the United Brethren in Christ is one of the predecessor denominations of the United Methodist Church. ![]() Records of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. Church of the United Brethren in Christ (New constitution). ![]() ![]() ![]() So Jax and his ragtag team - the few who remain of the once-mighty Texas Reckoners - must take their battle to this floating fortress of riches - and defeat the invincible. Orphaned at an early age, he's spent most of his childhood training to be a Reckoner - determined to find the Epics' weaknesses, unlock their secrets, and protect those of us who are still left.īut now, the mysterious High Epic Lifeforce has arrived with his flying city, Lux, to plunder what's left of Texas. ![]() Jax has learned all of this the hard way. ![]() They could have lifted us into harmony and prosperity. They were right.Ĭalamity created the Epics: humans with incredible powers they didn't deserve. When the great red star Calamity appeared in the sky, some believed the end had come. A new team of Reckoners must infiltrate the flying city of Lux to take down the Epic Lifeforce in this audio-exclusive novel from Brandon Sanderson. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() March 2022 is my self-appointed "Memoirs & Biographies Month"!ġ. GR friend, Cheryl, wrote a most intriguing review and,Ģ. It is illustrated by a trove of Frank Hurley’s famous Antarctic photographs, many never before published in the United States.ġ. This thrilling and almost unbelievable account establishes Mawson in his rightful place as one of the greatest polar explorers and expedition leaders. On February 8, when he staggered back to base, his features unrecognizably skeletal, the first teammate to reach him blurted out, “Which one are you?” Mawson was sometimes reduced to crawling, and one night he discovered that the soles of his feet had completely detached from the flesh beneath. A line of poetry gave him the will to haul himself back to the surface. Now Mawson himself plunged through a snow bridge, dangling over an abyss by the sledge harness. ![]() On January 17, 1913, alone and near starvation, Douglas Mawson, leader of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, was hauling a sledge to get back to base camp. “An important missing story from the heroic age of Antarctic exploration.”-Laurence Gonzales, author of Deep Survival ![]() ![]() ![]() Even the drug discovery is seriously biased towards the males. In this chapter what amazes you is that percentage of male samples that are taken for gender neutral research vis-a-vis female samples. It moves on to say that the biological risk is against the boy. Like – Females get sicker but males die quicker. Second chapter onwards is an exploration of various popular theories. Next myth Angela Saini explores is ‘Women belong to the private sphere of home and men belong to public sphere’. There is a belief that during evolution, males developed far more than females. ![]() ![]() Remember the theory that women have a smaller brain. For a long time, scientist community believed that there is a scientific basis for this belief. The first part of the book is devoted to exploring the basis of popular myth among scientists and probably the public – Women are inferior intellectually. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Waylon will need to learn that the best plan for tomorrow is living for today. Along the way, Waylon discovers that there is a lot more to running for prom court than campaign posters and plastic crowns, especially when he has to spend so much time with the very cute and infuriating prom king nominee Tucker Watson. Waylon and Hannah decide there’s only one thing to do: run-and leave high school with a bang. ![]() Clem’s girlfriend, Hannah Perez, also receives a joke nomination for prom king. As a result, Waylon is nominated for prom queen as a joke. What he doesn’t count on is the tape accidentally getting shared with the entire school. So when Clementine deviates from their master plan right after Waylon gets dumped, he throws caution to the wind and creates an audition tape for his favorite TV drag show, Fiercest of Them All. His plan is to bide his time until he can graduate, move to Austin with his twin sister, Clementine, and finally go Full Waylon, so that he can live his Julie-the-hills-are-alive-with-the-sound-of-music-Andrews truth. Waylon Russell Brewer is a fat, openly gay boy stuck in the small West Texas town of Clover City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Hunger is a deeply personal memoir from one of our finest writers, and tells a story that hasn’t yet been told but needs to be. With the bracing candor, vulnerability, and authority that have made her one of the most admired voices of her generation, Roxane explores what it means to be overweight in a time when the bigger you are, the less you are seen. In Hunger, she casts an insightful and critical eye on her childhood, teens, and twenties-including the devastating act of violence that acted as a turning point in her young life-and brings readers into the present and the realities, pains, and joys of her daily life. As a woman who describes her own body as 'œwildly undisciplined,' Roxane understands the tension between desire and denial, between self-comfort and self-care. Bestselling author Roxane Gay has written with intimacy and sensitivity about food and bodies, using her own emotional and psychological struggles as a means of exploring our shared anxieties over pleasure, consumption, appearance, and health. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the United States, there has been a recent campaign to treat pain as the fifth vital sign. Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign is a groundbreaking inquiry into the nature, treatment, and definition of modern pain. Above all, „Pain” makes an elusive subject vivid and readable. Everyone experiences it, yet we have trouble talking about it and science has only recently begun to understand how it works. ![]() In the questing and narrative manner of Oliver Sacks, Jackson takes us back into the history of pain and forward into the possibilities of pain genetics, Jackson brings us stories both of people in pain and the pain pioneers: eccentrics and artists, wrestlers and writers, psychologists and philosophers, nurses and doctors. Why is pain so poorly understood? Why do we still distinguish between mental pain and physical pain, when pain is always an emotional experience? How can it be that science is about to clone a human being but still can’t cure the pain of a bad back? If pain is the reason why most people visit the doctor, why are most doctors so bad at addressing the problem of suffering? Marni Jackson’s Pain: The Fifth Vital Sign is a witty, personal and groundbreaking inquiry into the nature, treatment and definition of human pain, one of the most misunderstood and elusive subjects to challenge humankind. A Toronto writer who has won numerous National Magazine Awards for her features, humour and social commentary, Marni Jackson is the author of three nonfiction books: The Mother Zone Pain: The Science and Culture of Why We Hurt and Home Free: The Myth of the Empty Nest. ![]() |