Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands of other orphans on their long, long walk to Ethiopia, where they find safety - for a time. This title tells the tale of tragedy and triumph.
Valentino Achak Deng is just a boy when conflict separates him from his family and forces him to leave his small Sudanese village, joining thousands o...
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy & Abdulrahman Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind & water. Abdulrahman has stayed on in the city, traversing its deeply flooded streets by canoe, feeding trapped dogs & rescuing survivors. But nothing could prepare him for the nightmare that followed.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans residents Kathy & Abdulrahman Zeitoun are cast into unthinkable struggle with forces beyond wind & water...
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclosure, pay his daughter's college fees and finally do something great.
In a rising Saudi Arabian city, far from weary, recession scarred America, a struggling businessman pursues a last-ditch attempt to stave off foreclos...
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime. The Circle, run out of a sprawling California campus, links users' personal emails, social media, banking, and purchasing with their universal operating system, resulting in one online identity and a new age of civility and transparency. Mae can't believe her luck, her great fortune to work for the most influential company in the world - even as life beyond the campus grows distant, even as a strange encounter with a colleague leaves her...
When Mae Holland is hired to work for the Circle, the world's most powerful internet company, she feels she's been given the opportunity of a lifetime...
Německá inspirace v díle Gérarda de Nerval identifikuje intertextové zdroje vrcholných próz tohoto francouzského prozaika, básníka a překladatele druhé romantické generace. Analýza se soustřeďuje především na dvě povídky ze souboru Dcery ohně, Sylvii a Oktavii, na dva příběhy vložené do Cesty do Orientu a na Nervalovy poslední prózy, Aurelii a Pandoru. Monografie odhlíží od psychobiografického klíče a naopak se soustřeďuje na kulturní vklad německých textů, které Nerval znal - především díky knize O Německu od paní de Staël - a částečně...
Německá inspirace v díle Gérarda de Nerval identifikuje intertextové zdroje vrcholných próz tohoto francouzského prozaika, básníka a překla...