At one time, Corrie ten Boom would have laughed at the idea that she had a story to tell. For the first fifty years of her life, nothing out of the ordinary ever happened to her. She was an old-maid watchmaker living contentedly with her sister and their elderly father in the tiny Dutch house over their shop. Their uneventful days, as regulated as their own watches, revolved around their abiding love for one another.But with the Nazi invasion and occupation of Holland, everything c...

Sullo sfondo dell’America lacerata dalla guerra di Secessione si snodano le storie delle protagoniste, tutte femminili, di questo romanzo divenuto da subito un classico amatissimo dal pubblico dei giovani lettori (e non solo). Le “piccole donne” del titolo sono le sorelle March. Quattro ragazze con caratteri molto diversi tra loro: Margaret, per tutti Meg, la maggiore, sedici anni, ha una passione inveterata per l’eleganza del bel mondo; Josephine, la scarmigliata, ribelle e anticonformist...

Dorothea Brooke is a thoughtful and idealistic young woman determined to make a difference with her life. Enamored of a man whom she believes is setting this example, she unwittingly traps herself into a loveless marriage.Her parallel is Tertius Lydgate, a visionary young doctor from the city, whose passionate ambition to spread the new science of medicine is complicated by his love for the wrong woman.Featuring a panoply of complex, brilliantly drawn chara...

Rund 200 namhafte AutorInnen stellen den Stand der Sozialen Arbeit in ihrer theoretischen Diskussion, Forschung und Praxis dar. Die Beiträge fassen die zentralen wissenschaftlichen Erkenntnisse zusammen, machen Probleme und neue Aufgaben deutlich und geben Impulse für notwendige Entwicklungsaufgaben der Sozialen Arbeit. Für die 6. Auflage wurden aktuelle Themen aufgegriffen und über die Hälfte der Beiträge aktualisiert und teilweise umfassend überarbeitet. Das Herausgeberteam wurde um Rain...

“‘Detesto le ragazze maleducate e poco eleganti.’‘ E invece io odio le mocciose tutte lezi e smancerie.’” Sullo sfondo dell’America lacerata dalla Guerra di secessione si snodano le storie di quattro sorelle con caratteri molto diversi tra loro: Meg, con la passione per l’eleganza; Jo, ribelle e anticonformista che adora scrivere racconti; Beth, dolce e con uno spiccato talento per la musica; Amy, l’artista del gruppo, piccola e capricciosa. Basta leggere la prima pagina per immergersi nel...

The management of cutaneous findings in genodermatoses is challenging to the practicing clinician, especially when all hues of skin and skin types are contemplated, and first-line therapies often inadequate. This carefully crafted Atlas includes all sorts of different ethnic skin types, while featuring a wealth of over 1000 commented images collected in more than a decade, including 200 rare genodermatoses, and providing the reader with key points for correct dermatological diagnosis. The ...

Michelangelo was recognized during his lifetime as the greatest living artist, creator of a number of masterpieces in sculpture, fresco painting, and architecture. He impressed his contemporaries as a forceful personality, a divine genius endowed with intense emotional power. Often portrayed as a solitary and austere figure, he in fact enjoyed a remarkable range of friendships, and those he loved and hated, served or resisted are presented here, from his family and fellow artists to the po...

Just after World War I, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money.With a shortage of job opportunities, they form a partnership, hiring themselves out as “young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere.” In their first dangerous assignment, they must use all their ingenuity to save not only their own lives but also the life of a mysterious girl.The girl in the photograph has been missing for five years. Neither her body nor ...

Examining the relationships between architecture, home and community in the Claremont Court housing scheme in Edinburgh, Home and Community provides a novel perspective on the enabling potential of architecture that encompasses physical, spatial, relational and temporal phenomena.Based on the AHRC funded project "Place and Belonging", the chapters draw on innovative spatial layouts amid Scottish policymakers' concerns of social change in the 1960s, to develop theoretical u...

Alexander the Great, the king of Macedonia, was trained by Aristotle in every branch of human learning, conquered much of Asia, and was one of the greatest leaders in the history of the world. Conqueror of the Persian Empire, this military genius greatly influenced the spread of Hellenism and is responsible for profound changes in the course of world development. His actions and achievements would go on to inspire later conquerors such as Hannibal the Carthaginian and Napoleon. Agnes Savil...

Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era.Just as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel’s protagonist and a battered wife, must assume an alias in order to gain freedom from her suffering. With her young child, Helen takes up residence at Wildfel...

This book is a must read for anyone who may have been, or knows someone who is heartbroken and wants to heal and doesnt know how to heal. The complexity of pain has no name, no boundaries and has no respect for any person. Emotional pain doesnt and for permission or care about your background or economic standing. Pain invites itself in all of our lives at one point or another. Yet, by holding this book, you have made the first crucial step towards self-healing. You have decided to look be...