Author: Éléonore Laloux
Publisher: NED Ediciones
ISBN: 8494236490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
El libro de Éleonore es un documento de una fuerza excepcional, que muestra hasta qué punto los prejuicios y estigmas, con los que demasiado a menudo convivimos sin hacernos preguntas, no son tan inexpugnables. Contando con el apoyo decidido de unos padres admirables y con un enorme deseo de vivir una vida plena, esta muchacha rebelde, alegre, ingeniosa y tenaz no sólo consigue independizarse y vivir una vida amorosa plena; sino que pasa revista con sus reflexiones a todas las grandes cuestiones de la existencia. Haciendo que a menudo, al leerla, nos olvidemos por completo de la genética y sus supuestas constricciones. Esta lectura supone un desafío para el lector y pone en aprieto muchas concepciones paternalistas sobre el Síndrome de Down. Concepciones con las que muchas veces nos consolamos cada vez que nos cruzamos en la calle con alguien “diferente”.
Tengo Síndrome de Down... ¿y qué?
Author: Éléonore Laloux
Publisher: NED Ediciones
ISBN: 8494236490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
El libro de Éleonore es un documento de una fuerza excepcional, que muestra hasta qué punto los prejuicios y estigmas, con los que demasiado a menudo convivimos sin hacernos preguntas, no son tan inexpugnables. Contando con el apoyo decidido de unos padres admirables y con un enorme deseo de vivir una vida plena, esta muchacha rebelde, alegre, ingeniosa y tenaz no sólo consigue independizarse y vivir una vida amorosa plena; sino que pasa revista con sus reflexiones a todas las grandes cuestiones de la existencia. Haciendo que a menudo, al leerla, nos olvidemos por completo de la genética y sus supuestas constricciones. Esta lectura supone un desafío para el lector y pone en aprieto muchas concepciones paternalistas sobre el Síndrome de Down. Concepciones con las que muchas veces nos consolamos cada vez que nos cruzamos en la calle con alguien “diferente”.
Publisher: NED Ediciones
ISBN: 8494236490
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 138
Book Description
El libro de Éleonore es un documento de una fuerza excepcional, que muestra hasta qué punto los prejuicios y estigmas, con los que demasiado a menudo convivimos sin hacernos preguntas, no son tan inexpugnables. Contando con el apoyo decidido de unos padres admirables y con un enorme deseo de vivir una vida plena, esta muchacha rebelde, alegre, ingeniosa y tenaz no sólo consigue independizarse y vivir una vida amorosa plena; sino que pasa revista con sus reflexiones a todas las grandes cuestiones de la existencia. Haciendo que a menudo, al leerla, nos olvidemos por completo de la genética y sus supuestas constricciones. Esta lectura supone un desafío para el lector y pone en aprieto muchas concepciones paternalistas sobre el Síndrome de Down. Concepciones con las que muchas veces nos consolamos cada vez que nos cruzamos en la calle con alguien “diferente”.
My Friend Has Down Syndrome
Author: Jennifer Moore-Mallinos
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Told from a child's point of view, explains the causes of Down syndrome and describes the things people with the condition can do, and the ways in which they, just like other people, may need help.
Publisher: B.E.S. Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Told from a child's point of view, explains the causes of Down syndrome and describes the things people with the condition can do, and the ways in which they, just like other people, may need help.
Mi amiga tiene Síndrome de Down
Author: Jennifer Moore-Mallinos
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789563392036
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 31
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789563392036
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 31
Book Description
Secretos al viento
Author: Mario de Lima Keines
Publisher: Odisea Editorial
ISBN: 8492609346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
El mismo instante en que se conocen Mario y Josep se enamoran perdidamente. Las calles de Barcelona y los pueblos pirenaicos del Valle del Bohí en Lleida son testigos de su profundo amor y del angustioso secreto que Josep calla. Secreto que pondrá entre las cuerdas la relación entre ambos y desvelará el terrible y traumático pasado de Roser, madre de Josep, lleno de sinsabores y marcado por un destino fatal Juntos, Mario y Josep, deberán hacer frente a todas las adversidades que el destino les ha guardado, pero también sabrán aprovechar los pequeños placeres y las oportunidades que la vida les ofrece hasta el último momento que compartan juntos. “Los secretos, las palabras dichas y principalmente las que jamás han sido pronunciadas, han pasado a tener un peso muchas veces demasiado difícil de soportar.” “Para evitar que se conozcan los secretos, lo mejor es contárselos al viento, él se encargará de revelarlos en el mejor momento.” Secretos al viento es una historia sumamente emotiva, narrada con extrema sencillez y cargada de un apabullante sentimiento, que nos presenta el autor brasileño Mario de Lima. Los personajes de la novela deberán afrontar duros retos por amor que les llevarán a tomar decisiones que nunca antes se habían planteado. ¿Hasta dónde serías capaz tú de llegar por amor? Mario de Lima Keines (São Bernardo do Campo, Brasil, 1960) ha encontrado en la literatura un placentero refugio, él mismo se autodefine como un ‘escritor por placer’, compartiendo sus inquietudes e intereses en su blog, Eu leio Mario de Lima. Con Secretos al viento, Mario se estrena en la literatura en castellano tras recibir excelentes críticas por Com os pés na agua, editado en 2008 en su Brasil natal.
Publisher: Odisea Editorial
ISBN: 8492609346
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 186
Book Description
El mismo instante en que se conocen Mario y Josep se enamoran perdidamente. Las calles de Barcelona y los pueblos pirenaicos del Valle del Bohí en Lleida son testigos de su profundo amor y del angustioso secreto que Josep calla. Secreto que pondrá entre las cuerdas la relación entre ambos y desvelará el terrible y traumático pasado de Roser, madre de Josep, lleno de sinsabores y marcado por un destino fatal Juntos, Mario y Josep, deberán hacer frente a todas las adversidades que el destino les ha guardado, pero también sabrán aprovechar los pequeños placeres y las oportunidades que la vida les ofrece hasta el último momento que compartan juntos. “Los secretos, las palabras dichas y principalmente las que jamás han sido pronunciadas, han pasado a tener un peso muchas veces demasiado difícil de soportar.” “Para evitar que se conozcan los secretos, lo mejor es contárselos al viento, él se encargará de revelarlos en el mejor momento.” Secretos al viento es una historia sumamente emotiva, narrada con extrema sencillez y cargada de un apabullante sentimiento, que nos presenta el autor brasileño Mario de Lima. Los personajes de la novela deberán afrontar duros retos por amor que les llevarán a tomar decisiones que nunca antes se habían planteado. ¿Hasta dónde serías capaz tú de llegar por amor? Mario de Lima Keines (São Bernardo do Campo, Brasil, 1960) ha encontrado en la literatura un placentero refugio, él mismo se autodefine como un ‘escritor por placer’, compartiendo sus inquietudes e intereses en su blog, Eu leio Mario de Lima. Con Secretos al viento, Mario se estrena en la literatura en castellano tras recibir excelentes críticas por Com os pés na agua, editado en 2008 en su Brasil natal.
Oscar decide salir del laberinto con éxito
Author: Bojudock Jouhlo
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291392432
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 120
Book Description
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1291392432
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Liver Cleansing Diet
Author: Sandra Cabot
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936609185
Category : Diet therapy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Why are there so many overweight, unhappy and unhealthy people who cannot find a solution to their poor health? Dr Cabot says It took more than 20 years of medical practice before the solution dawned on me - the liver, the supreme organ of metabolism, had to be the missing key It seemed simple and obvious.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781936609185
Category : Diet therapy
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Why are there so many overweight, unhappy and unhealthy people who cannot find a solution to their poor health? Dr Cabot says It took more than 20 years of medical practice before the solution dawned on me - the liver, the supreme organ of metabolism, had to be the missing key It seemed simple and obvious.
She and Her Cat
Author: Makoto Shinkai
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982165766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection. Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world—often in ways we could never have expected.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1982165766
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
For fans of Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts and Eggs and Murata Sayaka’s Earthlings, this Japanese bestseller from renowned anime director Makoto Shinkai features four inspirational and heartwarming vignettes following women and their cats in their quests for love and connection. Lying alone on the edge of the sidewalk in an abandoned cardboard box, a nameless narrator contemplates the indifferent world around him. With his mother long gone, his only company is the sound of the nearby train. Just as he fears that the end is near, a young woman peers down at him, this fateful encounter changing their lives forever. So begins the first story in She and Her Cat, a collection of four interrelated, stream-of-conscious short stories in which four women and their feline companions explore the frailty of life, the pain of isolation, and the limits of communication. With clever narration alternating between the cats and their owners, She and Her Cat offers a unique and sly commentary on human foibles and our desire for connection. A whimsical short story anthology unlike any other, it effortlessly demonstrates that even in our darkest, most lonesome moments, we are still united to this wonderous world—often in ways we could never have expected.
Nobility of Spirit
Author: Rob Riemen
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300136900
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Riemen insists that if we hope to move beyond the war on terror and create a life-affirming culture, we must address timeless but neglected questions: What is a good society? Why art? Why culture? What is the responsibility of intellectuals? Why anti-Americanism? Why nihilism? Why the cult of death of fundamentalists? In a series of three essays, the author identifies nobility of spirit in the life and work of Baruch Spinoza and of Thomas Mann; explores the quest for the good society in our own time; and addresses the pursuit of truth and freedom that engaged figures as disparate as Socrates and Leone Ginzburg, a Jewish Italian intellectual murdered by Nazis."--BOOK JACKET.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300136900
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"Riemen insists that if we hope to move beyond the war on terror and create a life-affirming culture, we must address timeless but neglected questions: What is a good society? Why art? Why culture? What is the responsibility of intellectuals? Why anti-Americanism? Why nihilism? Why the cult of death of fundamentalists? In a series of three essays, the author identifies nobility of spirit in the life and work of Baruch Spinoza and of Thomas Mann; explores the quest for the good society in our own time; and addresses the pursuit of truth and freedom that engaged figures as disparate as Socrates and Leone Ginzburg, a Jewish Italian intellectual murdered by Nazis."--BOOK JACKET.
Mi amiga tiene s’ndrome de Down/My Friend Has Down Syndrome
Author: Amanda Doering Tourville
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515835332
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : un
Pages : 28
Book Description
Celebrating tolerance and acceptance, each title in this constructive and accessible series focuses on the rewards and challenges of having a friend with a disability. Everyday situations are accompanied by informative sidebars that provide details about the highlighted disability.
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 1515835332
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : un
Pages : 28
Book Description
Celebrating tolerance and acceptance, each title in this constructive and accessible series focuses on the rewards and challenges of having a friend with a disability. Everyday situations are accompanied by informative sidebars that provide details about the highlighted disability.
Nine Moons
Author: Gabriela Wiener
Publisher: Restless Books
ISBN: 1632062240
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction. Women play all the time with the great power that’s been conferred upon us: it’s fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby to cuddle and spoil. When you’re fifteen, the idea is fascinating, it attracts you like a piece of chocolate cake. When you’re thirty, the possibility attracts you like an abyss. Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru’s most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak. With a scientist’s curiosity and a libertine’s unbridled imagination, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her pregnancy. She ponders how pleasure and pain always have something to do with things entering or exiting your body. She laments that manuals for pregnant women don’t prepare you for ambushes of lust or that morning sickness is like waking up with a hangover and a guilty conscience all at once. And she tries to navigate the infinity of choices and contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one amplified to a life-and-death decision. While pregnant women are still placed on pedestals, or used as political battlegrounds, or made into passive objects of study, Gabriela Wiener defies definition. With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of the species. Praise for Sexographies “No other writer in the Spanish-speaking world is as fiercely independent and thoroughly irreverent as Gabriela Wiener. Constantly testing the limits of genre and gender, Wiener´s work as a cronista (which roughly translates, but is by no means a direct synonym, of nonfiction writer) has bravely unveiled truths some may prefer remain concealed about a range of topics, from the daily life of polymorphous desire to the tiring labor of maternity.” —Cristina Rivera Garza, author of The Iliac Crest “This collection of essays [opens] on the outskirts of Lima, jumps to a swinger’s party in Barcelona, and next a squirt expert’s apartment. This book can feel psychologically hazardous to read; it pushes you to answer the questions Wiener asks herself: Would I? Could I? Will I?” —Angela Ledgerwood, Esquire Best Books of 2018 “These are essays of unabashed honesty and uncommon freedom of mind, bravely reported and beautifully composed. I hadn’t known how hungry I’d been for this book, how I’d needed it and wanted other books to be it. Sexographies is an antidote and a revelation, and Gabriela Wiener is a brilliant documenter of sex and life as they really are.” —Kristin Dombek, author of The Selfishness of Others “In her native Peru, Gabriela Wiener has a reputation as a gonzo journalist who takes an active role in whatever subject she investigates, which as often as not involves sex, and not the vanilla variety. In this collection, her first translated into English, we meet a notorious polygamous pornographer; go to 6&9, a Barcelona sex club; interview the cruel Lady Monique de Nemours, a world-class dominatrix; visit Vanessa, a member of the European community of Latin American trans sex workers; get a first-hand look at the perils of threesomes; and explore other topics a tad too risqué to even name in a family newspaper. Suffice to say, Wiener’s free-wheeling style is hugely entertaining.” —Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star "Reading Gabriela Wiener is a joy. Over the years, her work has made me cry, laugh, hurt, and most importantly, dream. Her essays are daring, intimate, and honest, containing the self-awareness of a poet and the sharp focus of a marksman. I'd follow her anywhere." —Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles “One of the most interesting writers of this generation is Gabriela Wiener, a Peruvian journalist best known for her high-spirited explorations of female sexuality.... Wiener is witty and fast-paced; many of her experiences, sexual and otherwise, are hard-won, territories explored and sometimes conquered, despite her neurotic misgivings, with courage and aplomb. Part of her appeal lies in the fact that she sometimes writes about sexual topics that have not been well explored, especially by women, and a sense of incredulity is part of the pleasure of reading her work. ‘Is she really going to do that?’ the reader wonders. ‘Is she really going to write (and so openly) about doing that?’ And then she does, and there’s a slight but perceptible shift in the world because she did.” —Lisa Fetchko, Los Angeles Review of Books “With sizzling prose and journalistic attentiveness, Wiener honors the no-clothes rule. She exposes her readers to not only her body, but also to the neuroses, fears, and fantasies that come with it. True to the first-person style of gonzo journalism, each of Wiener’s fifteen transgressive crónicas pull readers into penetrative commentaries on infidelity, abortion, and threesomes, not to mention the ever-elusory ‘Ninja Squirt.’... Sexographies strikes the delicate balance between carnal and curious…. It [expands] the meaning of what pleasure in life can be, sexual or otherwise.” —Madeline Day, The Paris Review “What Peruvian essayist and “gonzo” journalist, Wiener, does in this collection is endlessly fascinating. Whether experiencing sexual subcultures or an ayahuasca trip, she uses herself as the point of departure to delve into the infinite manifestations of being human.” — Keaton, Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX), Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 “Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian sex writer, and Sexografias is a book of her collected essays. However, she doesn’t just stay on the carnal, and uses her explorations of egg donation, swingers parties, cruising, and squirting as channels into meditations on motherhood, death, and immigration, all while staying sharp and funny and wild.” — Alejandra Oliva, Remezcla
Publisher: Restless Books
ISBN: 1632062240
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 147
Book Description
From the daring Peruvian essayist and provocateur behind Sexographies comes a fierce and funny exploration of sex, pregnancy, and motherhood that delves headlong into our fraught fascination with human reproduction. Women play all the time with the great power that’s been conferred upon us: it’s fun to think about reproducing. Or not reproducing. Or walking around in a sweet little dress with a round belly underneath that will turn into a baby to cuddle and spoil. When you’re fifteen, the idea is fascinating, it attracts you like a piece of chocolate cake. When you’re thirty, the possibility attracts you like an abyss. Gabriela Wiener is not one to shy away from unpleasant truths or to balk at a challenge. She began her writing career by infiltrating Peru’s most dangerous prison, going all in at swingers clubs, ingesting ayahuasca in the Amazon jungle. So at 30, when she gets unexpectedly pregnant, she looks forward to the experience the way a mountain climber approaches a precipitous peak. With a scientist’s curiosity and a libertine’s unbridled imagination, Wiener hungrily devours every scrap of information and misinformation she encounters during the nine months of her pregnancy. She ponders how pleasure and pain always have something to do with things entering or exiting your body. She laments that manuals for pregnant women don’t prepare you for ambushes of lust or that morning sickness is like waking up with a hangover and a guilty conscience all at once. And she tries to navigate the infinity of choices and contradictory demands a pregnant woman confronts, each one amplified to a life-and-death decision. While pregnant women are still placed on pedestals, or used as political battlegrounds, or made into passive objects of study, Gabriela Wiener defies definition. With unguarded humor and breathtaking directness, Nine Moons questions the dogmas, upends the stereotypes, and embraces all the terror, beauty, and paradoxes of the propagation of the species. Praise for Sexographies “No other writer in the Spanish-speaking world is as fiercely independent and thoroughly irreverent as Gabriela Wiener. Constantly testing the limits of genre and gender, Wiener´s work as a cronista (which roughly translates, but is by no means a direct synonym, of nonfiction writer) has bravely unveiled truths some may prefer remain concealed about a range of topics, from the daily life of polymorphous desire to the tiring labor of maternity.” —Cristina Rivera Garza, author of The Iliac Crest “This collection of essays [opens] on the outskirts of Lima, jumps to a swinger’s party in Barcelona, and next a squirt expert’s apartment. This book can feel psychologically hazardous to read; it pushes you to answer the questions Wiener asks herself: Would I? Could I? Will I?” —Angela Ledgerwood, Esquire Best Books of 2018 “These are essays of unabashed honesty and uncommon freedom of mind, bravely reported and beautifully composed. I hadn’t known how hungry I’d been for this book, how I’d needed it and wanted other books to be it. Sexographies is an antidote and a revelation, and Gabriela Wiener is a brilliant documenter of sex and life as they really are.” —Kristin Dombek, author of The Selfishness of Others “In her native Peru, Gabriela Wiener has a reputation as a gonzo journalist who takes an active role in whatever subject she investigates, which as often as not involves sex, and not the vanilla variety. In this collection, her first translated into English, we meet a notorious polygamous pornographer; go to 6&9, a Barcelona sex club; interview the cruel Lady Monique de Nemours, a world-class dominatrix; visit Vanessa, a member of the European community of Latin American trans sex workers; get a first-hand look at the perils of threesomes; and explore other topics a tad too risqué to even name in a family newspaper. Suffice to say, Wiener’s free-wheeling style is hugely entertaining.” —Sarah Murdoch, Toronto Star "Reading Gabriela Wiener is a joy. Over the years, her work has made me cry, laugh, hurt, and most importantly, dream. Her essays are daring, intimate, and honest, containing the self-awareness of a poet and the sharp focus of a marksman. I'd follow her anywhere." —Daniel Alarcón, author of At Night We Walk in Circles “One of the most interesting writers of this generation is Gabriela Wiener, a Peruvian journalist best known for her high-spirited explorations of female sexuality.... Wiener is witty and fast-paced; many of her experiences, sexual and otherwise, are hard-won, territories explored and sometimes conquered, despite her neurotic misgivings, with courage and aplomb. Part of her appeal lies in the fact that she sometimes writes about sexual topics that have not been well explored, especially by women, and a sense of incredulity is part of the pleasure of reading her work. ‘Is she really going to do that?’ the reader wonders. ‘Is she really going to write (and so openly) about doing that?’ And then she does, and there’s a slight but perceptible shift in the world because she did.” —Lisa Fetchko, Los Angeles Review of Books “With sizzling prose and journalistic attentiveness, Wiener honors the no-clothes rule. She exposes her readers to not only her body, but also to the neuroses, fears, and fantasies that come with it. True to the first-person style of gonzo journalism, each of Wiener’s fifteen transgressive crónicas pull readers into penetrative commentaries on infidelity, abortion, and threesomes, not to mention the ever-elusory ‘Ninja Squirt.’... Sexographies strikes the delicate balance between carnal and curious…. It [expands] the meaning of what pleasure in life can be, sexual or otherwise.” —Madeline Day, The Paris Review “What Peruvian essayist and “gonzo” journalist, Wiener, does in this collection is endlessly fascinating. Whether experiencing sexual subcultures or an ayahuasca trip, she uses herself as the point of departure to delve into the infinite manifestations of being human.” — Keaton, Brazos Bookstore (Houston, TX), Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 “Gabriela Wiener is a Peruvian sex writer, and Sexografias is a book of her collected essays. However, she doesn’t just stay on the carnal, and uses her explorations of egg donation, swingers parties, cruising, and squirting as channels into meditations on motherhood, death, and immigration, all while staying sharp and funny and wild.” — Alejandra Oliva, Remezcla