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Josefa Ferrer, a famous Chilean singer and star, awakens one morning to read in the Santiago newspaper that her best friend, Violeta, has been involved in a brutal act of violence. Overwhelmed with regret and plagued with guilt for not having foreseen the tragedy, Josefa feels compelled to tell Violeta's life story--one marked by lost ideals, disillusionment, and grief--which is ultimately Josefa's story, too. Through the interwoven lives of t...

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Nadine ist gerade einmal 13 Jahre alt als ein Rückfall ihrer Leukämie ihr Leben drastisch verändert. Aus einem lebensfrohen Teenager wird ein hilfloses, von Schmerzen gepeinigtes Bündel Mensch. Nadine will sterben. Trotz allem siegt ihr Hunger auf Leben. Ungeachtet der schlimmen Nebenwirkungen ihrer Therapie lebt sie mit einer Fröhlichkeit, als gäbe es ihre geheime Angst vor dem Sterben nicht. Nadines Liebe zu den Pferden ist ihr dabei Hilfe u...

The book presents the methodology applicable to the modeling and analysis of a variety of dynamic systems, regardless of their physical origin. It includes detailed modeling of mechanical, electrical, electro-mechanical, thermal, and fluid systems. Models are developed in the form of state-variable equations, input-output differential equations, transfer functions, and block diagrams. The Laplace-transform is used for analytical solutions. Com...

In The Origins of Commercial Banking in America, the first full analysis of the origins of American commercial banking since Bray Hammond's monumental study forty-five years ago, Robert E. Wright skillfully examines the political and economic forces that contributed to the origins and rise of banks in cities such as Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, as well as in smaller towns servicing rural America.

From the author of the highly successful Maybe You Know My Kid comes a desperately needed follow-up-the first comprehensive guide for dealing with the unique challenges of raising an adolescent with ADHD. Adolescence is a tumultuous turning point for everyone, but for teens with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, it can be especially challenging, and for some of their parents, downright terrifying. Predictably, stress ensues over incons...

Write Right!" covers the essentials of good writing in a concise and easy-to-follow format. The new edition of this classic handbook takes readers through the entire writing process, with clever drawings and amusing quotations to illustrate its points.

An Anchor Books OriginalSeventy-four distinguished writers tell personal tales of books loved and lost-great books overlooked, under-read, out of print, stolen, scorned, extinct, or otherwise out of commission.Compiled by the editors of Brick: A Literary Magazine, Lost Classics is a reader's delight: an intriguing and entertaining collection of eulogies for lost books. As the editors have written in a joint introduction to the book, "being lov...

In his most enthralling novel since the acclaimed Tupelo Nights, John Ed Bradley tells a scorching story of sex and death in sultry New Orleans.After years as an "actress” in California, Juliet Beauvais is drawn back to town with the promise of a big inheritance. But she finds her "dying” mother all too healthy and making other plans. Fortunately for Juliet, Sonny LaMott has been carrying a torch for her all these years, and he's easily lured ...

Amazing . . . a gem of a book that uses only the strength of the human voice to tell an American story -- sometimes dark, always fascinating."-- "USA Today "The accounts are wonderfully revealing, with gritty and almost shockingly honest detail. For all their variety, they weave a cohesive, passion-filled story of what people bring to their work. It's an addictive read."-- Harvard Business Review's Best Business Books of 2000 "Keen, disturbing...

Peggy Orenstein's bestselling Schoolgirls is the classic study of teenage girls and self-esteem. Now Orenstein uses the same interviewing and reporting skills to examine the lives of women in their 20s, 30s and 40s. The advances of the women's movement allow women to grow up with a sense of expanded possibilities. Yet traditional expectations have hardly changed. To discover how they are navigating this double burden personally and professiona...

A myth shattering prescription for raising intellectually engaged, self-starting kids.