The New York Times bestseller from prizewinning author David Michaelis presents a “stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) breakthrough portrait of Eleanor Roosevelt, America’s longest-serving First Lady, an avatar of democracy whose ever-expanding agency as diplomat, activist, and humanitarian made her one of the world’s most widely admired and influential women.In the first single-volume cradle-to-grave portrait in six decades, acclaimed biographer ...

Tocalivros Apresenta a segunda parte da biografia SCHULZ & PEANUTS - A BIOGRAFIA DO CRIADOR DO SNOOPY de David Michaels Editora Seoman, grupo Pensamento. Vamos acompanhar mais uma parte da história do pai de amendoim e seu cachorro excêntrico. Suas primeiras ideias para turma mais amada das tirinhas. Seus primeiros amores, seu trabalho no ramo das tiras e o momento em que o personagem Charlie Brown se tornou um símbolo um homem comum que ganha força ao admitir em suas confrontações consigo...

Acompanhe agora a terceira parte da biografia de Charles M. Schulz.Seguimos a vida do Pai do Snoopy e sua turma. A passagem dos anos, frustrações e conquistas. Divorcio da primeira esposa e causos conturbados com a familia. O Segundo Casamento com Jean. A Saude debilidata.Como todas essas passagens influenciou diretamente suas tiras.O fim da trajetoria do artista que influenciou toda uma geração, como Jim Davis(Garfield), Bill Watterson (Calvin e Haroldo). Além de A...

Charles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us an in-depth biography of the brilliant, unseen man behind Peanuts.It is the most American of stories: How a barber's son grew up from modest beginnings to realize his dream of creating a newspaper comic strip. How he daringly chose themes never before attempted in mainstream cartoons—lone...

When I first read Bishop Marsh’s Translation of the Introduction to the New Testament by Michaelis, I regretted that so much learning and such genuine criticism should not be more accessible to the generality of readers; and remembering what Pascal says in his Provincial Letters, that his first object was to make them easy and popular, reserving the more abstruse parts for the end of his works, I have endeavoured to give to a subject, in which every one is equally and eternally interested,...

What defines Boston? Its history? Its landmarks? Its sports teams and shrines?Perhaps the question should be, who defines Boston? From Henry David Thoreau to Dennis Lehane, Boston has been beloved by many of America's greatest writers, and there is no better group of men and women to capture the heart and soul of the Hub. In Our Boston, editor Andrew Blauner has collected both original and reprinted essays from Boston-area writers past and present, all celebrating the city...

Klassischerweise bezeichnet Öffentlichkeit eine Sphäre, in der Menschen Argumente austauschen. Dieser Band hingegen denkt Öffentlichkeiten performativ als gleichermaßen politisch und ästhetisch. Er versammelt historische Fallstudien und theoretische Konzeptionen vom 18. bis zum 21. Jahrhundert. Die Fallstudien reichen von ästhetischen Simulationen von Öffentlichkeit über Rhetorikdebatten um 1800 bis zu Zensur in der Gegenwartsliteratur oder Internetaktivismus.

Do our lives have meaning? Should we create more people? Is death bad? Should we commit suicide? Would it be better to be immortal? Should we be optimistic or pessimistic? Since Life, Death, and Meaning: Key Philosophical Readings on the Big Questions first appeared, David Benatar's distinctive anthology designed to introduce students to the key existential questions of philosophy has won a devoted following among users in a variety of upper-level and even introductory courses.

Sind die sogenannten sächsischen Verhältnisse mit der Pegida-Bewegung und den vielen rechten Gewalttaten ein auf den Freistaat begrenztes Phänomen? Oder muss die zunehmende Radikalisierung der gesellschaftlichen Mitte als Vorbote künftiger politischer Veränderungen in ganz Deutschland verstanden werden?Die Frage »Warum Sachsen?« wird von vielen gestellt. In diesem Buch begeben sich über 40 Autorinnen und Autoren auf die Suche nach Antworten. In Analysen, Interviews, literarischen Te...

Das Metaverse ist eine virtuelle Welt, in der Menschen zusammenkommen und miteinander interagieren können. Teilweise wird auch von einer neuen Generation des Internets gesprochen, die sowohl die Arbeitswelt als auch viele Bereiche der Freizeit verändern wird und immer mehr an wirtschaftlicher Bedeutung gewinnt.Im Metaverse stellen sich rechtliche Fragen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen, wie insbesondere IPR und allgemeines Zivilrecht, Zivilprozessrecht, Arbeitsrecht, Gesellschaftsrec...

Presents theoretical, computational, and practical aspects of collision-induced phenomena with emphasis on the treatment of physical and chemical kinetics using quantum molecular dynamicsQuantum Molecular Dynamics provides a state-of-the-art overview of molecular collisions for energy-transfer and reactivity phenomena in gases. Grounded in the quantal theory of scattering and its semiclassical limits, this comprehensive volume covers key concepts and theor...

A modern, comprehensive text and reference describing intermolecular forces, this book begins with coverage of the concepts and methods for simpler systems, then moves on to more advanced subjects for complex systems – emphasizing concepts and methods used in calculations with realistic models and compared with empirical data.Contains applications to many physical systems and worked examplesProceeds from introductory material to advanced modern treatmentsH...