“A stellar collection of stories from one of our best writers. Roorbach’s wild imagination combined with his brilliance as a storyteller, his relentless humor, and his tender understanding of humanity make The Girl of the Lake compulsive and essential reading.” —Lily King, author of Euphoria
Bill Roorbach conjures vivid, complex characters whose layered interior worlds feel at once familiar and extraordinary. He first made his mark as the winner of an O. Henry Prize for one of his stories and the Flannery O’Connor Award for his first collection, Big Bend. His astounding new collection, The Girl of the Lake, captures a virtuoso in his prime.
Among the unforgettable characters Roorbach creates are an adventurous boy who learns what courage really is when an aging nobleman recounts history to him; a couple hiking through the mountains whose vacation and relationship ends catastrophically; a teenager being pursued by three sisters all at once; a tech genius who exacts revenge on his wife and best friend over a stolen kiss from years past; and many more. These stories–some being published for the first time, the rest originally from the Atlantic Monthly, Playboy, Ploughshares, the Missouri Review, Ecotone, and others–are as rich in scope, emotional, and unforgettable as Bill Roorbach’s novels. He has been called “a kinder, gentler John Irving . . . a humane and entertaining storyteller with a smooth, graceful style” (the Washington Post), and his work has been described as “hilarious and heartbreaking, wild and wise” (Parade magazine), all of which is evident in every story in this arresting new collection.
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Author: Bill Roorbach Publisher: Algonquin Books ISBN: Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release:
Celebrated as a courtesan and poet, and as a woman of great intelligence and wit, Tullia d’Aragona (1510–56) entered the debate about the morality of love that engaged the best and most famous male intellects of sixteenth-century Italy. First published in Venice in 1547, but never before published in English, Dialogue on the Infinity of Love casts a woman rather than a man as the main disputant on the ethics of love.
Sexually liberated and financially independent, Tullia d’Aragona dared to argue that the only moral form of love between woman and man is one that recognizes both the sensual and the spiritual needs of humankind. Declaring sexual drives to be fundamentally irrepressible and blameless, she challenged the Platonic and religious orthodoxy of her time, which condemned all forms of sensual experience, denied the rationality of women, and relegated femininity to the realm of physicality and sin. Human beings, she argued, consist of body and soul, sense and intellect, and honorable love must be based on this real nature.
By exposing the intrinsic misogyny of prevailing theories of love, Aragona vindicates all women, proposing a morality of love that restores them to intellectual and sexual parity with men. Through Aragona’s sharp reasoning, her sense of irony and humor, and her renowned linguistic skill, a rare picture unfolds of an intelligent and thoughtful woman fighting sixteenth-century stereotypes of women and sexuality.
Author: Tullia d’Aragona; Rinaldina Russell; Bruce Merry Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226136363 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: November 2007 124 pages
Forget fortune cookies and crystal balls—this little book alone can predict the future for you and everyone you love! Harkening back to the 1930s, the nostalgic illustrations in the Fortune-Telling Birthday Book accompany a perennial calendar for you to keep track of (and interpret) the birthdays of your friends and family. Other traditions and folklore are also included.
Author: Arliene B. Clark Publisher: Chronicle Books LLC ISBN: 9780811870740 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: April 2011 204 pages
The transition from stage to screen was not only a shift in popular entertainment, but a challenge for those working in the industry as well. This book looks at all the attempts to organize film actors into a union, starting in 1912 when the Actors' Equity Association seemed the best platform for such an effort, to the establishment of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) in 1933 as the best vehicle to represent film actors; another four years passed before SAG was formally recognized by film producers and the first contract was signed.
This is the eBook version of the printed book. If the print book includes a CD-ROM, this content is not included within the eBook version.
Microsoft Excel is the world’s most-popular spreadsheet program–used by schools, offices, and home users. In Excel 2007, Microsoft has completely redesigned the user interface, making it more intuitive and more attractive. But anyone needing to get started quickly without learning all the ins and outs of the software still needs a handy guide. And with Creating Spreadsheets and Charts in Microsoft Excel 2007: Visual QuickProject Guide they’ve got one. Excel expert Maria Langer walks readers through the new interface and teaches them the tools they will use throughout the project. From there, she helps them create their first workbook, using formulas, adding formatting, adding a visually rich chart. Readers also learn how to effectively print their spreadsheets and charts–something that’s much more confusing than it sounds! Along the way all readers will learn how to create attractive, professional, and effective Excel documents. Each book in the Visual QuickProject Guide series now has a companion website featuring sample project files–making it even easier for users to work through each project as they read through the book. Other features on the companion website may include articles on getting the most out of the topic, a database of frequently asked questions, excerpts from the book, general tips, and more.
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Author: Maria Langer Publisher: Pearson Education ISBN: 9780132797856 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: December 2006 143 pages
Jugendliche haben ihre Rechte! In diesem Ratgeber finden Jugendliche, Eltern, Lehrpersonen, Jugendarbeiter und all jene, die in Beruf oder Freizeit mit Jugendlichen Kontakt haben, umfassende Antworten.
Kann ein 17-Jähriger Schulden machen? Müssen Eltern für unbezahlte Rechnungen ihres Sohnes geradestehen? Wer haftet, wenn ihre Teenager-Tochter das Handy des Nachbarn zertrümmert? Was ist im Internet erlaubt? Wie organisiert man eine grosse Party? Was tun, wenn Jugendliche gewalttätig werden? Diese und zahlreiche weitere Fragen sind im Buch beantwortet.
Der Ratgeber bietet einen leicht verständlichen Überblick über die Rechte und Pflichten von Jugendlichen. Er erklärt das neue Jugendstrafrecht, das die Strafen und Schutzmassnahmen bei jugendlichen Straftätern neu regelt. Das Buch zeigt auch, was zu tun ist, wenn Jugendliche mit dem Gesetz in Konflikt geraten.
Dieser Ratgeber ist ein Muss für alle, die über die Rechte von Jugendlichen Bescheid wissen wollen.
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Author: Barblina Töndury; Der Schweizerische Beobachter; Käthi Zeugin; Focus Grafik Publisher: Beobachter-Edition ISBN: 9783855696673 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2013 128 pages
In the current times of more frequent crises and ever shortening innovation cycles, the management of change has become a crucial task of survival. While it is not a new topic in business research, the developments of the last decade have posed many new challenges for the change management of firms and organizations and have thus also raised many new questions for academic research in business administration, which the present book turns to deepen.Its particular focus is on disruptive change including its driving forces as well as effective and sustainable management. This publication constitutes a collection of articles that discuss change and innovation processes across different sectors of the economy (industry, banking, and retail), the role of leadership and corporate governance for the effectiveness and sustainability of organizational change.
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The role and function of the nurse is rapidly changing. Some nurses are now required to undertake clinical diagnosis of the patient, a responsibility traditionally undertaken by a doctor. Clinical Diagnosis helps prepare nurses to fulfill this role, providing them with the skills and underpinning knowledge to make clinical diagnoses of patients effectively. Each chapter follows the same layout for each symptom or sign, exploring the definition, causes, history, precipitating factors, associated signs and symptoms, important considerations, relevant clinical examination, and investigations and tests.
The first UK text to explore clinical diagnosis from a nursing perspective
In the Essential Clinical Skills for Nurses series
Written by an authority in the field
Concise, accessible, and evidence-based
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Author: Philip Jevon Publisher: Wiley ISBN: 9781444340044 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: January 2011 216 pages
The Bahams, Jamaica, Key West, Trinidad, Aruba, Belize, Bonaire, Grand Cayman, Dominican Republic, Cozumel – plus details on all the cruise ships (dining options, staterooms, itineraries – and how to tour each port of call.
Author: Larry Ludmer Publisher: Hunter Publishing ISBN: 9781588433848 Format:.pdf.ibooks.epub.mobi.djvu.fb2 Release: June 2002 340 pages
