Resultaten voor 'emily herring'
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Henri Bergson
Een biografieAan het begin van de twintigste eeuw was Henri Bergson (1859–1941) de beroemdste filosoof ter wereld. Zijn colleges werden drukbezocht, hij speelde in diplomatieke rol in WO I, ontving de Nobelprijs voor Literatuur, maar ging ook gebukt onder zware persoonlijke omstandigheden. Emily Herring beschrijft zijn veelbewogen leven en laat zien dat zijn denken over bewustzijn, tijd en intuïtie verrassend actueel is. Een fascinerend portret van een uniek intellect. Vier sterren in het NRC. 'Emily Herring verstaat de kunst om een biografie om te vormen tot een soort roman waar je zelf deel van gaat uitmaken.' –Katholiek Nieuwsblad 'Herring schrijft toegankelijk en geeft een fascinerende karakterschets van een uniek denker.' – Opera Nederland
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Gator the Crocodile
A curious crocodile who walks, swims, and sleeps the same as the alligators at the zoo follows a butterfly into the wrong habitat. As they get older, Gator realizes he has more things that make him different than the alligators, not the same. Should Gator be moved to be with the crocodiles who are the same as him, or will he be left with thecrocodiles where he's happy and feels like he belongs?
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Granny Bunny's Big Heart
Granny Bunny loves lots of things! She is so sweet and kind. Come along on a journey and to learn what fills her heart with love. This book is about a Grandmother who loves her family with her whole heart. As she ends her day and drifts off to sleep, her family is left with the solace that she is always with them.
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Dolly Adopts A Family
Dolly Adopts a Family is the first book published in the series Dolly's Great Adventures. Dolly lives in an animal shelter, but she always dreams of finding a family. When the animal shelter has an open house, Dolly sees a girl with the prettiest smile named Sophie. Dolly just knows they are meant to share their adventures and become best friends! As you travel with Dolly on her adventures, she has hidden one of her favorite tennis balls on each page for you to find.This book was written with love and inspired by our beautiful furbaby, Dolly, who will always be a big part of our hearts.
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Herald of a Restless World
The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought. At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a predictable universe, he asserted the transformative power of consciousness and creativity. An international celebrity, he made headlines around the world debating luminaries like Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein about free will and time. The vision of creative evolution and freedom he presented was so disruptive that the New York Times branded him "the most dangerous man in the world." In the first English-language biography of Bergson, Emily Herring traces how his celebration of the time-bending uniqueness of individual experience struck a chord with those shaken by modern technological and social change. Bergson captivated a society in flux like no other. Long after he faded from public view, his insights into memory, time, joy and creativity continue to shape our perceptions to this day. Herald of a Restless World is an electrifying portrait of a singular intellect.
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Herald of a Restless World
The first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the French philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth-century thought—a “fascinating biography and magnificent revival of this brilliant thinker” (Skye Cleary, author of How to Be Authentic) Named a Best Book of 2024 by the New Statesman At the dawn of the twentieth century, Henri Bergson (1859–1941) became the most famous philosopher on earth. Where prior thinkers sketched out a deterministic, predictable universe, he asserted the transformative power of consciousness and creativity. An international celebrity, he made headlines around the world debating luminaries like Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein about free will and time. The vision of creative evolution and freedom he presented was so disruptive that the New York Times branded him “the most dangerous man in the world.” In Herald of a Restless World, Emily Herring recovers how Bergson captivated a society in flux. She shows how his celebration of the time-bending uniqueness of individual experience struck a chord with those shaken by modern technological and social change. Long after he faded from public view, his insights into memory, time, laughter, and creativity continue to shape how we see the world around us. Herald of a Restless World is an electrifying portrait of a singular intellect. Bergson’s extraordinary insight into life’s fundamental questions remains urgent and relevant to this day.
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The Three Graces of Val-Kill
The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women-the "three graces," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them-were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family, and for New York's progressive women. Examining this network of close female friends gives readers a more comprehensive picture of the Roosevelts and Eleanor's burgeoning independence in the years that marked Franklin's rise to power in politics. Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities of the women's relationship, which blended the political with the personal. Val-Kill was not only home to Eleanor Roosevelt but also a crucial part of how she became one of the most admired American political figures of the twentieth century. In Wilson's telling, she emerges out of the shadows of monumental histories and documentaries as a woman in search of herself.
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What Did You Do With Maile?
Maile is a little girl with a big imagination. When moving from playtime to bedtime, Maile feels a lot of things: thirsty, bored, sleepy, but in the end she's perfectly Maile. With a twist of words, this imaginative book brings to life the wild world of a little girl who loves to play pretend.
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Hearing from God
"Who knew that talking to yourself could result in a moment of time that you can look back on and see that it was time to implement change in your life?I mean, this all starts from a gas gauge that, much to my husband's dismay, shows the letter "E" flashing at me wwaayyy too often."Hearing from God is a small book full of short stories that can have a large impact on your life. Terri opens up and shares some of her failures, her victories, her conversations (both humorous and serious) with God in an open and very real way that encourages you to draw closer to Him and to know He is always wanting to be a part of creating a better version of you. We are never 'stuck' in life but can continuously grow in who we are! Terri gives you humor and reality into her own challenges and how she overcomes them. This will be a book you will want to read and reread again and again!
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The Three Graces of Val-Kill
The Three Graces of Val-Kill changes the way we think about Eleanor Roosevelt. Emily Wilson examines what she calls the most formative period in Roosevelt's life, from 1922 to 1936, when she cultivated an intimate friendship with Marion Dickerman and Nancy Cook, who helped her build a cottage on the Val-Kill Creek in Hyde Park on the Roosevelt family land. In the early years, the three women--the "three graces," as Franklin Delano Roosevelt called them--were nearly inseparable and forged a female-centered community for each other, for family, and for New York's progressive women. Examining this network of close female friends gives readers a more comprehensive picture of the Roosevelts and Eleanor's burgeoning independence in the years that marked Franklin's rise to power in politics.Wilson takes care to show all the nuances and complexities of the women's relationship, which blended the political with the personal. Val-Kill was not only home to Eleanor Roosevelt but also a crucial part of how she became one of the most admired American political figures of the twentieth century. In Wilson's telling, she emerges out of the shadows of monumental histories and documentaries as a woman in search of herself.
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North Carolina Women
For generations, books on North Carolina history have included the names of only a few women. But in addition to such well-known and legendary figures as Queen Elizabeth I and Virginia Dare, a multitude of other women influenced the making of North Carolina. These women’s stories have rarely been told, in part because their contributions tended to occur in the relative privacy of their families and communities.This lively and comprehensive volume finally accords North Carolina women their long-awaited place in history. Margaret Supplee Smith and Emily Herring Wilson bring together a wealth of materials to demonstrate how North Carolina women lived, from the days of early native settlements to the end of World War II. Filled with names, places, colorful anecdotes, and more than two hundred photographs and documents that bring to life important moments in history, North Carolina Women establishes the critical influence of women in shaping the character and economy of the state and the values of its citizens.The narratives embedded in women’s history, presented chronologically, create an enormous landscape across time — broadly analyzed and meticulously detailed. By considering the particular contours of gender, race, class, religion, and geography, the authors reveal the diversity and complexity of women’s lives and experiences. Interspersed throughout the book are biographies of twenty-two North Carolina women, from Cherokee Beloved Woman Nanye'hi and frontierswoman Rebecca Bryan Boone to civil rights scholar and priest Pauli Murray and political activist Gladys Avery Tillett.
€ 46,20