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Far From The Tree
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Author : Andrew Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Random House
Release Date : 2013-02-07
Far From The Tree written by Andrew Solomon and has been published by Random House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-02-07 with Family & Relationships categories.
**WINNER OF THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2014** A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Sometimes your child - the most familiar person of all - is radically different from you. The saying goes that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree. But what happens when it does? Drawing on interviews with over three hundred families, covering subjects including deafness, dwarfs, Down's Syndrome, Autism, Schizophrenia, disability, prodigies, children born of rape, children convicted of crime and transgender people, Andrew Solomon documents ordinary people making courageous choices. Difference is potentially isolating, but Far from the Tree celebrates repeated triumphs of human love and compassion to show that the shared experience of difference is what unites us. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for General Non-fiction and eleven other national awards. Winner of the Green Carnation Prize.
Longe Da Rvore
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Author : Andrew Solomon
language : pt-BR
Publisher: Editora Companhia das Letras
Release Date : 2013-09-25
Longe Da Rvore written by Andrew Solomon and has been published by Editora Companhia das Letras this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with Family & Relationships categories.
Resultado de uma ampla investigação sobre as tensões entre identidade e diferença em famílias com filhos portadores de deficiências físicas, mentais e sociais, Longe da árvore é um ensaio monumental sobre a tolerância e a valorização da diversidade. Diagnosticado com dislexia na infância, Andrew Solomon conta que a superação dessa deficiência só foi possível porque ele pôde contar com a paciente dedicação dos pais num lar estruturado. Criado num ambiente privilegiado, Solomon sempre teve acesso a todo afeto e atenção terapêutica necessários ao tratamento. Entretanto, quando sua homossexualidade latente transpareceu na adolescência, os mesmos pais que sempre o haviam cercado de carinho e compreensão reagiram com intolerância e vergonha. Muitos anos depois, para tentar entender as relações entre essas duas identidades divergentes das expectativas dos pais, e como elas puderam provocar sentimentos tão antagônicos, o autor realizou uma abrangente pesquisa sobre o universo da diversidade em famílias com filhos marcados pela excepcionalidade. Surdos, anões, portadores de síndrome de Down, autistas, esquizofrênicos, portadores de deficiências múltiplas, crianças prodígios, filhos concebidos por estupro, transgêneros e menores infratores: dez "identidades horizontais" (isto é, divergentes dos padrões familiares, linguísticos e sociais predeterminados), sujeitas em graus distintos a influências genéticas e ambientais, compõem a constelação de temas deste magnífico tour de force sobre os sentidos de ser diferente e, principalmente, de aprender a amar e respeitar as diferenças.
The Noonday Demon
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Author : Andrew Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2014-09-16
The Noonday Demon written by Andrew Solomon and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-09-16 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
The author offers a look at depression in which he draws on his own battle with the illness and interviews with fellow sufferers, researchers, doctors, and others to assess the complexities of the disease, its causes and symptoms, and available therapies. This book examines depression in personal, cultural, and scientific terms. He confronts the challenge of defining the illness and describes the vast range of available medications, the efficacy of alternative treatments, and the impact the malady has on various demographic populations, around the world and throughout history. He also explores the thorny patch of moral and ethical questions posed by emerging biological explanations for mental illness. He takes readers on a journey into the most pervasive of family secrets and contributes to our understanding not only of mental illness but also of the human condition.
Longe Da Rvore
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Author : Andrew Solomon
language : pt-BR
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013-09-25
Longe Da Rvore written by Andrew Solomon and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-25 with Family & Relationships categories.
Diagnosticado com dislexia na infância, Andrew Solomon conta que a superação dessa deficiência só foi possível porque ele pôde contar com a paciente dedicação dos pais, em especial de sua mãe, num lar estruturado. Criado num ambiente privilegiado - a culta classe média judaica de Nova York -, Solomon sempre teve acesso a todo afeto e atenção terapêutica necessários ao tratamento. Entretanto, quando sua homossexualidade latente transpareceu na adolescência, os mesmos pais que sempre o haviam cercado de carinho e compreensão reagiram com intolerância e vergonha. Ele teve de se afastar traumaticamente da família para conseguir vivenciar a plenitude de sua identidade sexual. Muitos anos depois, para tentar entender as relações entre essas duas identidades divergentes das expectativas dos pais, e como elas puderam provocar sentimentos tão antagônicos, o autor realizou uma abrangente pesquisa sobre o universo da diversidade em famílias com filhos marcados pela excepcionalidade. Surdos, anões, portadores de síndrome de Down, autistas, esquizofrênicos, portadores de deficiências múltiplas, crianças prodígios, filhos concebidos por estupro, transgêneros e menores infratores: dez “identidades horizontais” (isto é, divergentes dos padrões familiares, linguísticos e sociais predeterminados), sujeitas em graus distintos a influências genéticas e ambientais, compõem a constelação de temas deste magnífico tour de force sobre os sentidos de ser diferente e, principalmente, de aprender a amar e respeitar as diferenças. “Longe da árvore começa como um estudo sobre pais tentando educar crianças ‘complicadas’, e acaba como uma afirmação do que é ser humano.” - The Guardian “Muitos livros nos ajudam a pensar em temas morais... Mas poucos me fizeram sentir questões morais tão intensamente quanto este.” - New York Magazine “Fazendo uma matéria sobre o Google, descobri que uma das dez perguntas mais feitas no mecanismo de busca é ‘O que é o amor?’. No futuro, o Google fará bem se indicar o extraordinário livro de Andrew Solomon àqueles que digitarem essa recorrente questão.” - Tim Adams, The Observer “Andrew Solomon nos faz lembrar que nada é tão poderoso no desenvolvimento de uma criança quanto o amor dos pais.” - Bill Clinton “Este é um dos livros mais extraordinários que li nos últimos tempos - corajoso, sensível e assombrosamente humano.” - Siddhartha Mukherjee, autor de O imperador de todos os males “Longe da árvore é um marco, um livro revolucionário. Andrew Solomon encara seu tema a fundo, humanamente, com um estilo que torna a leitura compulsiva, tão aliciante quanto esclarecedora.” - Jennifer Egan, autora de A visita cruel do tempo
Perfect Days
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Author : Raphael Montes
language : en
Publisher: Penguin Group
Release Date : 2017-02-14
Perfect Days written by Raphael Montes and has been published by Penguin Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-02-14 with Fiction categories.
A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer. Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver—that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his exact opposite: exotic, spontaneous, unafraid to speak her mind. An aspiring screenwriter, she's working on a screenplay called Perfect Days about three friends who go on a road trip across Brazil in search of romance. Teo is obsessed. He begins to stalk her, first following her to her university, then to her home, and when she ultimately rejects him, he kidnaps her and they embark upon their very own twisted odyssey across Brazil, tracing the same route outlined in her screenplay. Through it all, Teo is certain that time is all he needs to prove to Clarice that they are made for each other, that time is all he needs to make her fall in love with him. But as the journey progresses, he digs himself deeper and deeper into a pit that he can't get out of, stopping at nothing to ensure that no one gets in the way of their life together. Both tense and lurid, and brimming with suspense from the very first page, Perfect Days is a psychological thriller in the vein of Patricia Highsmith's The Talented Mr. Ripley—a chilling journey in the passenger seat with a psychopath, and the English language debut of one of Brazil's most deliciously dark young writers.
My Sweet Orange Tree
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Author : José Mauro de Vasconcelos
language : en
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Release Date : 2018-01-04
My Sweet Orange Tree written by José Mauro de Vasconcelos and has been published by Pushkin Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-04 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
A worldwide classic of children's literature - a moving, life-affirming childhood story, finally available in English again Meet Zezé - Brazil's naughtiest and most loveable boy, his talent for mischief matched only by his great kindness. When he grows up he wants to be a 'poet with a bow-tie' but for now he entertains himself playing pranks on the residents of his family's poor Rio de Janeiro neighbourhood and inventing friends to play with. That is, until he meets a real friend, and his life begins to change... My Sweet Orange Tree is a worldwide classic of children's literature – never out of print in Brazil since it was first published in 1968, it has also been translated into an astonishing number of languages and won the hearts of millions of young readers from Korea to turkey, Poland to Thailand and in many other countries too. José Mauro de Vasconcelos (1920-84) was a Brazilian writer who worked as a sparring partner for boxers, a labourer on a banana farm, and a fisherman before he started writing at the age of 22. He is most famous for his autobiographical novel My Sweet Orange Tree, which tells the story of his own childhood in Rio de Janeiro.
Far And Away
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Author : Andrew Solomon
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2016-04-19
Far And Away written by Andrew Solomon and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with Social Science categories.
From the winner of the National Book Award and the National Books Critics’ Circle Award—and one of the most original thinkers of our time—“Andrew Solomon’s magisterial Far and Away collects a quarter-century of soul-shaking essays” (Vanity Fair). Far and Away chronicles Andrew Solomon’s writings about places undergoing seismic shifts—political, cultural, and spiritual. From his stint on the barricades in Moscow in 1991, when he joined artists in resisting the coup whose failure ended the Soviet Union, his 2002 account of the rebirth of culture in Afghanistan following the fall of the Taliban, his insightful appraisal of a Myanmar seeped in contradictions as it slowly, fitfully pushes toward freedom, and many other stories of profound upheaval, this book provides a unique window onto the very idea of social change. With his signature brilliance and compassion, Solomon demonstrates both how history is altered by individuals, and how personal identities are altered when governments alter. A journalist and essayist of remarkable perception and prescience, Solomon captures the essence of these cultures. Ranging across seven continents and twenty-five years, these “meaty dispatches…are brilliant geopolitical travelogues that also comprise a very personal and reflective resume of the National Book Award winner’s globe-trotting adventures” (Elle). Far and Away takes a magnificent journey into the heart of extraordinarily diverse experiences: “You will not only know the world better after having seen it through Solomon’s eyes, you will also care about it more” (Elizabeth Gilbert).
The Hidden Life Of Trees What They Feel How They Communicate
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Author : Peter Wohlleben
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
Release Date : 2017-08-24
The Hidden Life Of Trees What They Feel How They Communicate written by Peter Wohlleben and has been published by HarperCollins UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-24 with Nature categories.
Sunday Times Bestseller ‘A paradigm-smashing chronicle of joyous entanglement’ Charles Foster Waterstones Non-Fiction Book of the Month (September) Are trees social beings? How do trees live? Do they feel pain or have awareness of their surroundings?
The Magic Bojabi Tree
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Author : Dianne Hofmeyr
language : en
Publisher: Lincoln Children's Books
Release Date : 2014-04-09
The Magic Bojabi Tree written by Dianne Hofmeyr and has been published by Lincoln Children's Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-04-09 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
Python has wrapped himself around the melon/mango/pomegranate tree with its delicious fruit, and he won't share the fruit unless the animals can tell him the correct name of the tree. Elephant, Monkey and Zebra each in turn visit Lion, who alone knows the name of the tree. But every time, the animals forget the name on the journey back to the tree. Then Tortoise, the slowest, smallest animal goes to Lion - and sings a special song to remind him of the name. It is the Bojabi Tree! Python unwraps himself from the trunk, and all the animals share a feast.
Slightly Tempted
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Author : Mary Balogh
language : en
Publisher: Dell
Release Date : 2003-12-30
Slightly Tempted written by Mary Balogh and has been published by Dell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-12-30 with Fiction categories.
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress. Meet the Bedwyns—six brothers and sisters—men and women of passion and privilege, daring and sensuality. Enter their dazzling world of high society and breathtaking seduction…where each will seek love, fight temptation, and court scandal…and where Morgan Bedwyn, the willful youngest daughter, discovers that true love is a temptation no woman can—or should—resist. Young. Ravishing. Exquisitely marriageable. From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the glittering ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge. But wedlock is not on the mind of the continent’s most notorious rake. Nor is it of interest to the fiercely independent Lady Morgan herself…until one night of shocking intimacy erupts in a scandal that could make Gervase’s vengeance all the sweeter. There is only one thing standing in his way: Morgan, who has achieved the impossible—she’s melted his coolly guarded heart. For Gervase, only the marriage bed will do, but Morgan simply will not have him. Thus begins a sizzling courtship where two wary hearts are about to be undone by the most scandalous passion of all: glorious, all-consuming love.