Showing results for "Committed" in Biographies & Memoirs

At the end of her bestselling memoir Eat, Pray, Love, Elizabeth Gilbert fell in love with Felipe, a Brazilian-born man of Australian citizenship who'd been living in Indonesia when they met. Resettling in America, the couple swore eternal fidelity to each other, but also swore to never, ever...

Grey’s Anatomy meets One L in this psychiatrist’s charming and poignant memoir about his residency at Harvard. Adam Stern was a student at a state medical school before being selected to train as a psychiatry resident at one of the most prestigious programs in the country. His new and...

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Several bizarre and unsolved true crime cases are presented, ranging from the collar bomb bank robbery of Brian Wells to the mysterious disappearance of Emanuela Orlandi in Vatican City. The accounts also include unusual murders, such as the killing of Stephen Melkey and the actions of teen killer Daniel LaPlante. Finally, the text explores the strange behaviors of individuals like Carl Tanzler, who kept his deceased lover's body, and David Hampson, who repeatedly blocked traffic. The overall theme is a collection of true crime stories that are particularly unusual and unsettling.

Crime happens everyday, but the dumb ones often go unnoticed. This is a podcast that discusses REAL crimes committed by REAL idiots.

Mass violence committed by young people is now an epidemic. The reasons behind this escalating violence and the cultural forces that have impugned a generation is the subject of this important new book. The Spiral Notebook is full of interviews with Generation Z, a group dogged by big pharma and antidepressants and ADHD drugs, by a doomsday/apocalyptic mentality present since birth, and by an entertainment industry that has turned violence into parlor games.

Su capacidad crítica, su estatura intelectual y su peculiaridad estilística. lo convirtieron en una de las voces más reconocibles del panorama cultural hispánico. De igual modo, su omnipresencia en múltiples foros (revistas, mesas redondas, programas de radio y televisión, periódicos, coloquios, museos, películas, antologías, prólogos, etc.) lo hizo una celebridad y uno de los personajes fundamentales de la ciudad de México.

No puede perderse esta biografía. Patrona de los pobres, los ciegos, de los niños enfermos y de las ciudades de Siracusa, Venecia y de Pedro del Monte, por negarse a casarse con un hombre pagano se le sometió a un juicio indignante, durante el cual se intentó que abandonara la fe cristiana. Su resistencia la llevaría a la inmortalidad.

Influyente intelectual y activista en pro de los Derechos Humanos y las reformas en la República Popular China, el reciente ganador del Premio Nobel de la Paz 2010, es presidente del Centro Independiente Chino PEN desde 2003, pese a la detención sufrida por sus ideas en 2008, y su condena a 11 años de cárcel el 25 de diciembre.