Robin ?tia c? Paul nu era perfect. Dar fiindc? el i-a spus c? sunt foarte noroco?i c? s-au ?nt?lnit, ea l-a crezut. ?n atmosfera stranie a Marocului, Paul e a?a cum a visat Robin: pasional, talentat, competent. E convins? c? aici va r?m?ne ?n sf?r?it ?ns?rcinat?. C?nd ?ns? Paul dispare brusc, iar Robin se treze?te principala suspect? ?n ancheta poli?iei, totul se schimb?. Pe m?sur? ce ?ncepe s? afle adev?rul, Robin r?t?ce?te din atmosfera decadent? ce ?nv?luie Casablanca ?n ar?i?a nemiloas? a de?ertului Sahara, prins? ?ntr-un v?rtej tot mai terifiant din care nu ?tie dac? va reu?i s? scape. Cu talentul s?u de a scrie romane care te ?in cu sufletul la gur?, dar te ?i ?ndeamn? la medita?ie, Douglas Kennedy te invit? ?ntr-o c?l?torie palpitant? ?n inima ?ntunericului, adres?ndu-?i totodat? o provocare: ce ai face dac? via?a ta ar depinde tocmai de aceast? c?l?torie? "Kennedy are o ?n?elegere profund? a personajelor feminine sofisticate, dar nefericite."?Daily Mirror "O poveste de dragoste?noir, superb scris?."?The Times "O aventur? psihologic? sub soarele arz?tor al de?ertului."?New Statesman

Lumea ?n care tr?im este tot mai schimb?toare. Tehnologia progreseaz? rapid, valorile se transform?, apar ?i dispar profesii cu o vitez? uluitoare. Cum am putea preg?ti ast?zi copilul, pentru lumea ?n care va tr?i m?ine, c?nd, poate, ceea ce pre?uim ast?zi, m?ine va fi dat uit?rii?P?rin?ii oscileaz? adesea ?ntre permisivitate ?i exigen??, ne?tiind care este strategia educa?ional? optim? pentru viitorul copiilor lor. S?-l scutim de orice efort ?i de orice responsabilitate? S?-l ?nscriem la cursuri op?ionale, ?n speran?a de a-i deschide c?t mai multe drumuri? S? insist?m pe disciplin? ?i materiile ?colare??n Calea ?nving?torului, cei doi autori recurg la numeroase exemple din via?a de zi cu zi ?i cercet?ri de ultim? or? ?i, ?ntr-un stil alert ?i atractiv, ofer? solu?ii simple. P?rin?ii nu numai c? se vor bucura mai t?rziu de roadele eforturilor lor, ci vor reu?i, prin intermediul activit??ilor desf??urate ?mpreun? cu copiii, s? creasc? coeziunea dintre ei ?i ace?tia.

Al Doilea R?zboi Mondial nu va ajunge niciodat? s?-?i dezv?luie ?ntreaga groz?vie. ?n spatele faptelor de arme, al atrocit??ilor ?i al crimelor monstruoase comise ?mpotriva civililor se ascunde o alt? realitate. Aceea a miilor de femei sovietice trimise pe front ?mpotriva inamicului nazist. Svetlana Aleksievici ?i-a dedicat ?apte ani din via?? colect?rii m?rturiilor unor femei care, multe dintre ele, la momentul acela erau abia ie?ite din copil?rie. Dup? primele sentimente de euforie, asist?m la o schimbare radical? de ton, pe m?sur? ce ajungem la ?ncercarea fatal? a luptei, ?nso?it? de partea sa de ?ntreb?ri ?i de suferin??. Abandon?nd t?cerea ?n care ?i-au g?sit refugiul, aceste femei ?ndr?znesc, ?n sf?r?it, s? prezinte r?zboiul a?a cum l-au tr?it. ?Svetlana Aleksievici este unul dintre cei mai valoro?i scriitori ai vremurilor noastre. Proza ei nu este feminin?, ci aspr? precum r?zboiul […], dar, prin expresivitatea ei, devine artistic?, palpabil?, profund emo?ionant?.” – Vladimir Voinovici

Othello, The Moor of Venice is a tragedy by William Shakespeare based on the short story "Moor of Venice" by Cinthio, believed to have been written in approximately 1603. The work revolves around four central characters: Othello, his wife Desdemona, his lieutenant Cassio, and his trusted advisor Iago. Attesting to its enduring popularity, the play appeared in 7 editions between 1622 and 1705. Because of its varied themes — racism, love, jealousy and betrayal — it remains relevant to the present day and is often performed in professional and community theatres alike. The play has also been the basis for numerous operatic, film and literary adaptations.

Cum s? dezvolt?m poten?ialul real al copiilor no?tri ?Strategii pentru a ne ajuta copiii s? interac?ioneze cu succes cu al?i copii, cu profesorii ?i cu membrii familiei.“ – Kirkus Reviews Dezvoltarea motiva?iei Construirea rela?iilor Gestionarea sensibilit??ii Gestionarea cooper?rii ?i a competi?iei Atitudinea fa?? de autoritate Copiii no?tri, de?i inteligen?i, pot avea dificult??i la ?coal? ?i ?n via?? din diverse motive: fie sunt perfec?ioni?ti, fie se tem de efort, fiind obi?nui?i cu succesele imediate, fie au dificult??i ?n a se ?n?elege cu cei de v?rsta lor. Cartea de fa?? reprezint? o solu?ie concis? ?i plin? de idei practice, pe care le putem folosi pe m?sur? ce copiii cresc ?i se dezvolt?. Strategiile descrise de autori, psihologi cu experien??, pot fi puse ?n aplicare ?n via?a de zi cu zi, ajut?ndu-i pe copii s? ??i gestioneze sentimentele, s? le plac? ?nv???tura ?i s? ??i construiasc? rela?ii armonioase, pentru o via?? ?mplinit?.

A fost odat? o fat?… care avea o umbr?. Al treilea volum al trilogiei Alb?-ca-z?pada.Trupa de teatru a unui liceu de art? pune ?n scen? o versiune modern? a basmului Alb? ca Z?pada, cu Lumikki Andersson ?n rolul principal. Repeti?iile merg bine, iar ?ntre Lumikki ?i b?iatul care-l interpreteaz? pe v?n?tor pare s? existe o chimie palpabil?. Oare Lumikki s-a ?ndr?gostit pentru prima oar??Cu pu?in ?nainte de premier?, lui Lumikki ?i parvine un ?ir de scrisori semnate de un admirator secret, a c?rui pasiune pentru ea se preschimb? rapid ?ntr-o obsesie periculoas?.?ncerc?nd s? afle adev?rata identitate a h?r?uitorului, Lumikki trebuie s? aduc? la lumin? cele mai sumbre secrete din propriul trecut. Iar cum premiera spectacolului se apropie cu repeziciune, Lumikki trebuie s?-l prind? ?n capcan? pe h?r?uitorul s?u, cu sufletul negru ca abanosul.?Motive din basme, intrig? poli?ist?, dileme ale lumii de azi – o lectur? nu tocmai u?oar?, care nu-i menajeaz? nici pe cei mai tineri dintre cititori.“ – Kirkus Reviews?Fanii lui Nesb? ?i ai lui Larsson nu vor fi dezam?gi?i.“ – Publishers WeeklyLumikki Andersson. O fat? din Riihim?ki. Care are o opinie ferm? despre fiecare lucru. Care ia note maxime ?i la fizic?, ?i la filosofie. Care a jucat rolul Ofeliei at?t de bine, ?nc?t vreo doi profesori s-au enervat, iar restul au fost emo?iona?i. Care nu ia parte la niciun eveniment al ?colii. Care mereu m?n?nc? de una singur?, dar nu pare niciodat? singuratic?. Nu e precum ceilal?i. Este exact ca ei.

It s the business of the physician to know, in the first place, things similar and things dissimilar; those connected with things most important, most easily known, and in anywise known; which are to be seen, touched, and heard; which are to be perceived in the sight, and the touch, and the hearing, and the nose, and the tongue, and the understanding; which are to be known by all the means we know other things.

We must avoid wetting all sorts of ulcers except with wine, unless the ulcer be situated in a joint. For, the dry is nearer to the sound, and the wet to the unsound, since an ulcer is wet, but a sound part is dry. And it is better to leave the part without a bandage unless a cataplasm be applied. Neither do certain ulcers admit of cataplasms, and this is the case with the recent rather than the old, and with those situated in joints.

COMPTE AMB ALL? QUE DESITGES Un misteri paranormal de les bruixes de Westwick La mort d’un multimilionari no és gaire bona per a un negoci! ?s el que diu la tieta Pearl a la Cen quan troben un cadàver a l’hostal familiar a Westwick Corners. Tanmateix, la Cen pensa que no és cosa d’ella. Viu una vida normal apartada de la màgia per alguna cosa. Està promesa amb un noi normal i té una feina normal com a periodista, sense màgia de per mig, i un inconvenient com un assassinat al poble no pertorbarà la seva còmoda existència. Encara que tot el poble acusi la tieta Pearl d’haver assassinat el seu hoste. Encara que el seu promès actu? d’una manera sospitosa i vegi fantasmes on no n’hi ha. Encara que el nou i atractiu xèrif, en Tyler Gates, la tracti com la més sexy de les bruixes. Si t’agraden els misteris lleugers amb una dosi d’humor i un toc sobrenatural, t’encantarà aquesta història de bruixes! Cada llibre de la saga conta una història diferent, i es poden llegir en qualsevol ordre. Sobre la saga Els misteris de les bruixes de Westwick: Registra’t per rebre notificacions a http://www.colleencross.com ?Una captivadora aventura màgica. Si t’agraden els misteris lleugers t’encantaran la Cendrine West i la seva peculiar família de bruixes. Westwick Corners no és el típic poblet. Ni tan sols un poble fantasma normal i corrent. ?s on la gent es perd i on les bruixes entrenen la seva màgia sense cridar massa l’atenció. Aquesta combinació el converteix en un lloc interessant on mesclar els misteris i l’humor, i les bruixes sempre són el centre d’acció. La cuina de la Ruby, les investigacions de la Cendrine i l’escola de màgia de la tieta Pearl sempre cerquen l’ingredient secret que impulsi les bruixes a la fama i la fortuna i torni a fer brillar el poble de Westwick Corners. Les bruixes sempre treballen en noves oportunitats de negoci per l’hostal Westwick Corners, el bar Embruix i, per descomptat, l’Escola d’Encanteri Pearl, on les bruixes van a desentranyar enigmes, conjurar encanteris i crear nous misteris màgics. Llàstima que sempre es distreguin perquè ocorren successos estranys a Westwick Corners, des de petits delictes fins a assassinats. La família West sempre ha estat a Westwick Corners i sempre hi estarà. Descendeixen d’una llarga estirp de bruixes que ha viscut a Westwick Corners des de la seva fundació. Bruixes que desvelen misteris, resolen crims i ajuden qui ho necessita. Són un conjunt de bruixes de tots els estils, perquè embruixar és una de les coses típiques que es fan a un poblet. Tothom ajuda. Fins i tot el fantasma de l’àvia Vi s’entremet i investiga. Però quan totes estiren, no ho fan sempre en la mateixa direcció. Si t’agraden les endevinalles, les rialles i les sagues de misteri, t’encantarà aquesta col·lecció. Disponible en format electrònic i en paper. La següent aventura de la saga ocorre la Nit de Nadal. Mentre hi hagi lectors que gaudeixin amb les meves històries, continuaré escrivint-les. Gràcies per la lectura!

The Magnificent Ambersons is a 1918 novel by Booth Tarkington which won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize. It was the second novel in the Growth trilogy, which included The Turmoil (1915) and The Midlander (1923, retitled National Avenue in 1927). In 1942 Orson Welles directed a film version, also titled The Magnificent Ambersons. The novel and trilogy traces the growth of the United States through the declining fortunes of three generations of the aristocratic Amberson family in a fictional Mid-Western town, between the end of the Civil War and the early part of the 20th century, a period of rapid industrialization and socio-economic change in America. The decline of the Ambersons is contrasted with the rising fortunes of industrial tycoons and other new-money families, which did not derive power from family names but by "doing things". As George Amberson's friend (name unspecified) says, "don't you think being things is 'rahthuh bettuh' than doing things?" "The Magnificent Ambersons is perhaps Tarkington's best novel," said Van Wyck Brooks. "[It is] a typical story of an American family and town—the great family that locally ruled the roost and vanished virtually in a day as the town spread and darkened into a city. This novel no doubt was a permanent page in the social history of the United States, so admirably conceived and written was the tale of the Ambersons, their house, their fate and the growth of the community in which they were submerged in the end." Even though the story is set in a fictitious city, it was inspired by Tarkington's hometown of Indianapolis and the neighborhood he once lived in, Woodruff Place.

There is a fertile stretch of flat lands in Indiana where unagrarian Eastern travellers, glancing from car-windows, shudder and return their eyes to interior upholstery, preferring even the swaying caparisons of a Pullman to the monotony without. The landscape lies interminably level: bleak in winter, a desolate plain of mud and snow; hot and dusty in summer, in its flat lonesomeness, miles on miles with not one cool hill slope away from the sun.

Newton Booth Tarkington (July 29, 1869 – May 19, 1946) was an American novelist and dramatist best known for his novels The Magnificent Ambersons and Alice Adams. He is one of only three novelists to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction more than once, along with William Faulkner and John Updike.

"The Beautiful Lady", is another of the short novels from Booth Tarkington's early career. It was originally published in two parts, December of 1904 and January of 1905, in "Harper's Magazine", and then as Tarkington's fifth book in May of 1905. As with many of Tarkington's other works, it is a bit too predictable, though in this case that doesn't detract too much from the story. The story appears to sets up a love triangle (or in this case it may be a love square), but it does deviate from that a bit. The story is told from the point of the Italian, Ansolini from Naples, living in Paris who due to being down on his luck is forced into a most embarrassing position of acting as a billboard by shaving his head and having an advertisement for a show placed on the back of his bald head. It is while performing this job, that he nearly meets the "beautiful lady", though he keeps his head down and sees only her feet and the hem of her skirt and hears her lovely voice as it has sympathy for his plight. In fact, Ansolini's feelings are appreciative of her beautiful soul, and not that of romance.

New adaptation of 'Hamlet' for a modern black theatrical production. Remember me… Denmark, a Black Empire of modern England, where an intelligent young student discovers the world he once knew has crumbled. Implored to defend what is left of his father’s decaying legacy, Hamlet now faces the greatest moral challenge – to kill or not to kill. Directed by Jeffery Kissoon (RSC, National Theatre, Robert Lepage, Peter Hall and in Peter Brook’s seminal production of The Mahabharata) and adapted with Shakespeare’s text by award-winning playwright Mark Norfolk, this fast-moving version gets straight to the heart of a young man’s dilemma. This first all-black production of Hamlet in Britain makes a striking contribution to the Shakespeare 400 anniversary celebration. For ages 12+

A life of fascination, obsession and deep scientific curiosity. William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck is an eccentric Nottinghamshire aristocrat whose imagination and curiosity know no bounds. This deceptively simple man struggles to come to terms with a world that is teeming with new knowledge, ill-founded opinion and?gossip. Why does he hide himself away? What is his fascination with tunnels? Will he ever unearth the secrets hidden in his memory? In a sequence of events that are often curious and frequently hilarious he reveals moments of surprising perception and wisdom. Nottingham Playhouse and ajtc have combined their talents to co-produce Nick Wood’s stage adaptation of Mick Jackson’s Booker Prize shortlisted novel. The result is a free-flowing, innovative performance which features live music and a specially commissioned score. The Underground Man is a delectable blend of fact and fiction in which the intriguing details of a complex life are richly explored through the vibrant imagination of a gentle soul.

A young newspaperman who has just moved to a new town overhears the wealthy politician in the house next door talking aloud to nonexistent figures. Has David Beasley gone mad, or is his imagination simply greater than his friends and ex-fiancée believe?

Smollett describes in great detail the natural phenomena, history, social life, economics, diet and morals of the places he visited. Smollett had a lively and pertinacious curiosity, and, as his novels prove, a very quick eye. He foresaw the merits of Cannes, then a small village, as a health-resort, and the possibilities of the Corniche road.

Youth and the Bright Medusa is a collection of short stories by Willa Cather, published in 1920. Several were published in an earlier collection, The Troll Garden. This collection contains the following stories: "Coming, Aphrodite!" a.k.a. "Coming, Eden Bower!" "The Diamond Mine" "A Gold Slipper" "Scandal" "Paul's Case" "A Wagner Matinee" "The Sculptor's Funeral" "A Death in the Desert"

The first of her renowned prairie novels--a story that expresses Cather's conviction that "the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman." When Alexandra Bergson takes over the family farm after her father's death, she falls under the spell of the rich, forbidding Nebraska prairie.

"Medusa's Coil" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop. It was first published in Weird Tales magazine in January 1939, two years after Lovecraft's death. The story concerns the son of an American plantation owner who brings back from Paris a new wife. It mixes elements of Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos with the ancient Greek myth of Medusa, but it has also been noted for its racist aspects.

Today the women at the festival are going to kill me for insulting them!' This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an opportunity to debate a suitable choice of revenge.