検索キーワード： ナレーター "Linda" すべてのカテゴリー

The Cost of Sexism is an urgent analysis of global gender inequality and a fervently argued case for change by a pioneer in the movement for women's economic empowerment. Drawing on decades of statistical evidence, original research and global on-the-ground experience, Linda Scott outlines a revolutionary, actionable plan to remove economic barriers against women, and in the process combat humankind's most pressing problems.

“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.” And so it began. Henry David Thoreau, at 27, built a tiny, one-room cabin in the woods — on land owned by his friend, Ralph Waldo Emerson — and began his two-year experiment in frugality on the shore of Walden Pond. He wasn’t seeking isolation so much as simplicity, to “live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms.”

Join Logan on his first adventure out on his family’s Scottish Farm. As his best friend Flora, the sheep dog, has gone missing, Logan searches around the Farm to ask the animals if they know where his friend might be. Their responses are not always what Logan expects. I wonder if you can guess what’s happened to her. But be prepared for a few surprises along the way.

Una buona pratica preliminare di qualunque altra è la pratica della meraviglia. Esercitarsi a non sapere e a meravigliarsi. Guardarsi attorno e lasciar andare il concetto di albero, strada, casa, mare e guardare con sguardo che ignora il risaputo. Esercitare la meraviglia cura il cuore malato che ha potuto esercitare solo la paura. Questo è un libro disordinato. E l'autrice ha scelto di lasciarlo cosí.

To have a thriving society, we need people and communities who are actively involved in civic life. For politicians, public servants, corporations, or planners to engage with communities in any positive way, they need to learn a new way of doing things.

Winter has come to North Carolina and, with it, a drop in crime. Freed from a heavy work schedule, Tempe Brennan is content to dote on her daughter Katy, finally returned to civilian life from the army. But when mother and daughter meet at Tempe’s place one night, they find a box on the back porch. Inside: a very fresh human eyeball.

Erica Hutchinson has enough on her plate and longs for a quiet life. As an overworked barista and single mother, it’s already a daily struggle to hide the fact she’s secretly a witch and werewolf. But, things are about to get a lot more complicated. After a run-in with a killer last year, Erica has caught the attention of the nastier elements of Glasgow’s occult underworld. She’s now on the radar of the city’s newest serial killer - a masked man invading women’s dreams and hanging them in their sleep.

Linda's book of political poetry, Thoughts in Rhyme from a Contentious Time, includes poems and song parodies written over six years, from the day Donald Trump rode down the escalator to announce his candidacy in 2015 to the final poem, written for the inauguration of Joe Biden on January 20, 2021. This collection includes a variety of rhyming styles and lengths, with narration to explain the events that inspired each poem and parody.

Discover the real-life inspirations behind history’s most infamous serial killers: John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahmer, Charles Manson, and so many more.

When Linda González is 16, her father’s son from México appears at the front door of her Southern California home. Before that moment, neither Linda nor her siblings knew their father had another child.

Neu-Hamburgerin Lena steht ihr erstes Weihnachten weit ab von ihrer Familie bevor. Zum Glück hat sie in kürzester Zeit Freundinnen gefunden - und sogar einen Mann hat sie schon getroffen. Hendrik ist das totale Gegenteil von Lenas Ex. Er ist spontan, anziehend und ein bisschen verwegen. Doch als Lena ihn eines Abends zufällig beobachtet, ist sie sich nicht sicher, ob er für ihren Geschmack nicht doch zu geheimnisvoll ist. Ihre Neugier lässt ihr aber keine andere Wahl... Was steckt hinter seinem verdächtigen Verhalten? Für Lena steht fest: Sie muss ihm nach.

Achieving health and happiness doesn’t need to be a struggle. Learn why you’re stuck in your healing journey and how to break out of the never-ending cycle of ups and downs. Learn why loving yourself has been a challenge and how to confidently overcome your fears and obstacles. Learn why nothing you do to be happy and healthy seems to work for long and how to use the mind-body connection and the power of your love to manifest your healthiest and happiest life.

Shirley Jackson is one of the most important American writers of the last hundred years. Since her death in 1965, her place in the landscape of twentieth-century fiction has grown only more exalted. As we approach the centenary of her birth comes this astonishing compilation of fifty-six pieces—more than forty of which have never been published before. Two of Jackson’s children co-edited this volume, culling through the vast archives of their mother’s papers at the Library of Congress, selecting only the very best for inclusion.

Acclaimed in her own time for her short story “The Lottery” and her novel The Haunting of Hill House - classics ranking with the work of Edgar Allan Poe - Shirley Jackson blazed a path for contemporary writers with her explorations of evil, madness, and cruelty. Soon after her untimely death in 1965, Jackson’s children discovered a treasure trove of previously unpublished and uncollected stories, many of which are brought together in this remarkable collection.

In 2010, the Upper Big Branch mine explosion in West Virginia killed 29 men and tore a hole in the lives of countless others. Now you can hear the first-person accounts from survivors and family members. In this riveting, emotionally stunning new work, Jessica Blank and Erik Jensen, award-winning writers of The Exonerated, and three-time Grammy Award-winning country/folk legend Steve Earle dig deep into the repercussions of the most deadly mining disaster in recent US history.

May 1875: Mary Todd Lincoln is addicted to opiates and tried in a Chicago court on charges of insanity. Entered into evidence is Ms. Lincoln’s claim that every night a Savage Indian enters her bedroom and slashes her face and scalp. She is swiftly committed to Bellevue Place Sanitarium. Her hauntings may be a reminder that in 1862, President Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakotas in the largest mass execution in United States history. No one has ever linked the two events - until now.

Definitivamente se puede aprender de todas las situaciones que enfrentes y está en ti como aceptes y sobrelleves lo que algunos les llaman adversidades. Mientras que algunos se doblan y se rinden al primer golpe, otros en cambio se fortalecen; como lo es el vivo ejemplo de Linda. La autora no solo es una empresaria exitosa, sino también un gran ser humano que contagia hacia el progreso e inspira con su presencia.

In this transformational guide, speaking coach Linda Ugelow delivers a holistic methodology that gets to the root of what’s stopping you from sharing your voice. Through powerful exercises and real-life stories of conquering performance nerves (including her own), Ugelow tells you how to free yourself from the anxieties and psychological roadblocks that are holding you back, and actually learn to enjoy the limelight.

Sakima, New York, a sleepy, idyllic city nestled in the Hudson Valley, a place where everyone knows each other, families look after the highly prized community garden, and the crime rate is so low that Dr. Laura Powell, the police department’s medical examiner, spends most of her time tending to her own private medical practice. That changes drastically the day a local high school student is found dead, an apparent suicide. Called in to perform the autopsy, Laura uncovers a strange growth inside the body that leads to a horrifying discovery.

Vivian Wainwright is living her dream. The middle-aged widow owns the Misty Bay Tearoom, a quaint English-accented shop on the Oregon coast. But on the eve of the tearoom's second anniversary, the dream turns nightmarish when a man falls to his death from a hotel balcony. The body belongs to Dean Ramsey, ex-husband of Vivian's assistant, Jenna. Detective Tony Messina quickly zeroes in on Jenna as the prime suspect, since she was seen leaving the hotel shortly before the body was found.