Menneskets historie har alltid blitt skrevet med mannen i sentrum, men i EVA får vi endelig historien sett gjennom kvinnen, og kvinnekroppen. Hvorfor lever kvinner lenger enn menn? Hvorfor er det mer sannsynlig at kvinner får Alzheimers? Hvorfor skårer jenter bedre i alle akademiske fag enn gutter frem til puberteten, når poengsummen deres plutselig faller? Er sexisme nyttig for evolusjon? Og hvorfor, seriøst hvorfor, må kvinner svette gjennom sengetøyet hver natt når vi kommer i overgangsalderen? Dette er bare noen av spørsmålene forsker Cat Bohannon, med grenseløs nysgjerrighet og skarpt vidd, går løs på i denne spennende, informative og sprudlende boken. EVA er ikke bare en omfattende revisjon av menneskets historie, den er et presserende og nødvendig korrektiv for en verden som har fokusert først og fremst på den mannlige kroppen altfor lenge. Ved å fortsette der Sapiens slapp, vil Eva fullstendig endre det du tror du vet om evolusjon og hvorfor Homo sapiens er blitt en så vellykket og dominerende art.
Menneskets historie har alltid blitt skrevet med mannen i sentrum, men i EVA får vi endelig historien sett gjennom kvinnen, og kvinnekroppen. Hvorfor lever kvinner lenger enn menn? Hvorfor er det mer sannsynlig at kvinner får Alzheimers? Hvorfor skårer jenter bedre i alle akademiske fag enn gutter frem til puberteten, når poengsummen deres plutselig faller? Er sexisme nyttig for evolusjon? Og hvorfor, seriøst hvorfor, må kvinner svette gjennom sengetøyet hver natt når vi kommer i overgangsalderen?Dette er bare noen av spørsmålene forsker Cat Bohannon, med grenseløs nysgjerrighet og skarpt vidd, går løs på i denne spennende, informative og sprudlende boken.EVA er ikke bare en omfattende revisjon av menneskets historie, den er et presserende og nødvendig korrektiv for en verden som har fokusert først og fremst på den mannlige kroppen altfor lenge. Ved å fortsette der Sapiens slapp, vil Eva fullstendig endre det du tror du vet om evolusjon og hvorfor Homo sapiens er blitt en så vellykket og dominerende art.
Haldor er ein eksentrikar i førtiåra, busett på heimplassen i Purkvika på Innherred. Eit mobbeoffer som lengtar tilbake til den trygge gamle tida da mora og faren levde og dreiv småbruket han framleis eig. Så, ein dag i 2004 dukkar ein bykar opp og snakkar frampå om hytteutbygging i 'paradiset' ved fjorden og lakseelva. Ikkje lenge etter kjem òg ei vakker ung kvinne, Eva, til Purkvika, og gjer Haldor yr og kjær. Med eit skarpt blikk for situasjonar og lagnader, i eit fargerikt, dialektprega nynorsk, teiknar den prisløna forfattaren Torvald Sund eit kulturbilete av ei omskifteleg samtid på den norske landsbygda, der pengar og grådigheit øydelegg verdiar og tradisjonar, og til slutt førar ut i elendet. Men som alltid hos forfattaren: Sjølv midt i alvoret er ikke skratten langt unna.
En ung kvinna får motorstopp på en ödslig väg. Hon söker hjälp i ett ensligt hus, där hon möter två tvillingsyskon. Snart inser hon att huset bär på dunkla hemligheter ... ”Eva” är en mörk ”psykothriller” i Hitchcocks anda. Comès, med sitt enkla och raffinerade bildberättande, är en belgisk serieskapare som mutat in ett eget område i serievärlden. Hans romaner förenar poesi med krypande spänning, och hans svartvita teckningar skapar en laddad, skräckbetonad stämning. Han har vunnit flera av de stora seriepriserna.
Historiallinen romaani KouvolastaOrpo Eva on kokenut suuren elämänmuutoksen. Isä on kuollut ja elämä Pietarissa on vaihtunut pieneen asemakylään ja sen elämänmenoon. Eva asuu yhdessä lempeän tätinsä kanssa, tutustuu Schwartzin perheeseen ja ystävystyy perheen nuorten Marian ja Christianin kanssa. Eva ikävöi Pietariin ystävänsä Matiaksen luo. Maria rakastuu venäläiseen sotilaaseen. Elämä kuitenkin on arvaamaton ystävyksille. Sen saa kokea Eva ja sen saa kokea Maria...
In Eva neemt Mia Graf je mee naar een wereld waar verlangen en gevaar elkaar kruisen, en waar iedere aanraking, ieder moment van nabijheid geladen is met spanning en intensiteit. Haar verhalen zijn sensueel en modern, verteld met een intieme, vrouwelijke stem die het subtiele spel van lust, emotie en psychologische diepgang blootlegt. Geen kitsch, geen vulgariteit, maar pure lichamelijkheid en oprechte hartstocht, gevangen in woorden die zowel verleiden als beroeren. Het titelverhaal volgt Eva, een jonge vrouw op zoek naar vrijheid in een stad die haar hart evenveel uitdaagt als het haar aantrekt. Tussen de neonlichten, de gevaren van de nacht en de verborgen verlangens van de mensen om haar heen, zoekt ze naar een manier om haar leven in eigen handen te nemen - en ontdekt onderweg de dunne lijn tussen overleven en volledig leven. Eva slalomde tussen de kraampjes en afgesloten cabines, haar lange, donkere haar glanzend in het schemerige licht van de markt. Elke stap, elk ontwijken van een patrouille of een hovercraft, voelde als een klein spel van gevaar en opwinding. Terwijl ze de spiraalvormige trap van de lanceertoren beklom, voelde ze haar spieren branden en haar hart wild bonken van inspanning n anticipatie. De dunne, frisse lucht op de top sloeg haar in het gezicht, bracht haar bijna in duizeling, maar ook in een staat van intense alertheid. Ze wist dat alles wat ze deed geladen was met risico's, en juist dat risico vulde haar met een elektrische spanning die ze nooit eerder had gevoeld. Elke ademhaling was een mengeling van angst, kracht en een hunkering naar iets dat groter was dan haar huidige bestaan. En terwijl ze daar stond, op het randje tussen hemel en aarde, tussen gevaar en vrijheid, voelde ze een diepe, onverzettelijke drang die fluisterde dat sommige verlangens alleen bestaan om gevolgd te worden.
In Eva neemt Mia Graf je mee naar een wereld waar verlangen en gevaar elkaar kruisen, en waar iedere aanraking, ieder moment van nabijheid geladen is met spanning en intensiteit. Haar verhalen zijn sensueel en modern, verteld met een intieme, vrouwelijke stem die het subtiele spel van lust, emotie en psychologische diepgang blootlegt. Geen kitsch, geen vulgariteit, maar pure lichamelijkheid en oprechte hartstocht, gevangen in woorden die zowel verleiden als beroeren. Het titelverhaal volgt Eva, een jonge vrouw op zoek naar vrijheid in een stad die haar hart evenveel uitdaagt als het haar aantrekt. Tussen de neonlichten, de gevaren van de nacht en de verborgen verlangens van de mensen om haar heen, zoekt ze naar een manier om haar leven in eigen handen te nemen - en ontdekt onderweg de dunne lijn tussen overleven en volledig leven. Eva slalomde tussen de kraampjes en afgesloten cabines, haar lange, donkere haar glanzend in het schemerige licht van de markt. Elke stap, elk ontwijken van een patrouille of een hovercraft, voelde als een klein spel van gevaar en opwinding. Terwijl ze de spiraalvormige trap van de lanceertoren beklom, voelde ze haar spieren branden en haar hart wild bonken van inspanning n anticipatie. De dunne, frisse lucht op de top sloeg haar in het gezicht, bracht haar bijna in duizeling, maar ook in een staat van intense alertheid. Ze wist dat alles wat ze deed geladen was met risico's, en juist dat risico vulde haar met een elektrische spanning die ze nooit eerder had gevoeld. Elke ademhaling was een mengeling van angst, kracht en een hunkering naar iets dat groter was dan haar huidige bestaan. En terwijl ze daar stond, op het randje tussen hemel en aarde, tussen gevaar en vrijheid, voelde ze een diepe, onverzettelijke drang die fluisterde dat sommige verlangens alleen bestaan om gevolgd te worden.
From Eva Moskowitz, the outspoken founder and CEO of the charter school Success Academy, comes a frank, feisty memoir about the rough-and-tumble battles to reform America's education system.Eva Moskowitz is a fighter with a reputation for having "sharp elbows"-- if that's a synonym for getting the job done, she'll take it. A born and bred New Yorker, former City Councilmember, and "charter czarina," Moskowitz has taken on powerful unions and politicians to establish and grow her astonishingly effective and popular charter school program in four of the city's five boroughs.In this unabashedly candid memoir, Moskowitz tells of how she became a forward-thinking education entrepreneur and her fight to establish nearly four dozen schools--activism that has made her into one of the most polarizing figures in New York City and beyond. Now, having established a remarkable, even unprecedented, track record for guiding the city's most disadvantaged children to high academic performance, Moskowitz addresses the battles she has won and lost, writing candidly about the people who seek to undermine her work--most notably New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio--and celebrating the powerful allies who have aided her cause, including former Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Governor Andrew Cuomo.Moskowitz's insightful memoir is a deeply felt personal story and an impassioned call to action that bluntly identifies failing policies and the alarmingly powerful forces arrayed against improving an education system that is both deeply dysfunctional and prejudiced. The Education of Eva Moskowitz is sure to galvanize supporters, enrage her opponents, generate headlines, and urgently impact the national conversation on education.
This book provides real-world guidelines for implementing EVA. Today's most comprehensive and unbiased evaluation of Value-Based Management and EVA Economic Value Added (EVA) and Value Based Management (VBM), despite persistent claims to the contrary, are not magic wands, guaranteeing instant success. Instead, they are a set of management tools - powerful tools, to be sure, proven to work in case after case - for creating and augmenting shareholder value. And as with any tools, users will achieve the greatest success only by learning and understanding both their strengths and weaknesses."EVA and Value Based Management" is the first book to fully explain all sides of EVA and VBM, and cover the critical factors in harnessing EVA and VBM to build shareholder value. It provides in-depth coverage of the key steps in implementing EVA, including: determining your cost of capital; using accounting adjustments to make EVA a better measure of performance; identifying value drivers to guide performance improvement; and, tying management compensation to EVA.The sustained creation of shareholder value doesn't happen by accident - it happens because companies plan for it. Let "EVA and Value Based Management" give you the clear, concise, and up-to-date information you need on EVA and VBM - what they are, why they work, and how they can work for you - and then show you how to use that information to reach your own informed conclusions. Managers - even those from just a quarter century ago - would have a difficult time recognizing today's business climate.In the new world order, companies must prove their worth in both commercial markets (making and selling the best products and ideas) and capital markets (creating value through optimal use of all available resources, all the time). Those that fall behind in either pursuit will find the climb to market leadership difficult if not impossible. "EVA and Value Based Management" is the first book to frankly and comprehensively discuss the pros and cons of Economic Value Added (EVA) and Value Based Management (VBM) - proven in numerous cases to increase shareholder value while strengthening organizations in which they are successfully implemented. Written by award-winning INSEAD professor S. David Young and leading management expert Stephen F.O ' Byrne, it covers both conceptual and implementation issues, placing a strong emphasis on performance measurement, value drivers, and management compensation.Look to "EVA and Value Based Management" for: a clear explanation of the concepts behind EVA and VBM; a highly practical guide to implementing EVA for performance measurement and incentive compensation, with dozens of real world examples; an honest assessment of the pros and cons of EVA and competing value-based approaches; and, a frank discussion of the company characteristics that help or hinder successful EVA implementation, helping you to decide whether EVA and VBM are right for your organization.Many prominent corporate leaders have long proclaimed - and, even more significant, put to the real-world test - the benefits of EVA. In "EVA and Value Based Management", management experts S. David Young and Stephen F. O'Byrne define and discuss EVA, then present a simple, easy-to-understand approach for determining how it will succeed in your organization. The result is an all-inclusive, no-holds-barred overview of value-based management and EVA - and today's most valuable, practical guidebook for implementing a highly effective, performance driven management program.
Eva Trout has a 'capacity for making trouble, attracting trouble, strewing trouble around her' that is endless. Eva Trout was Elizabeth Bowen's last completed novel, and in it her elegant style, her gift for social comedy and her intense sensibility combine to create one of her most formidable - and moving - heroines.
Eva Per n, one of the most powerful women in the world at the time of her death in 1952, rose from humble origins to international renown as First Lady of Argentina and the force behind the throne of her husband Juan Per n. Despite her immense popularity, she was inaccessible to the people of Argentina, and so images were constructed around her to fill that void. According to Julie M. Taylor, these "myths" around Eva Per n reflect Argentine culture and political history at the time of her seven-year reign. With a brief biography of Eva Per n serving as a backdrop, Taylor offers a detailed analysis of the principle myths that grew around this enigmatic woman. "Taylor shows that she is remembered by different classes and political factions as saint, a revolutionary, or a whore, depending on whether she was interpreted as an embodiment or as a violation of the Argentine feminine ideal."-Booklist "Highly commendable . . . it deliberately eschews the sensationalism that characterizes earlier biographies]. . . . Taylor instead concentrates on the myths that have lingered since her death. . . . This book] transcends biography."-Gentlemen's Quarterly " A] concise and brilliant examination of the legends that arose in Argentina during the lifetime . . . of a woman who broke with Argentine tradition and became a political figure in her own right."-New Yorker
"My name is Eva, which means "life", according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the jungle in my memory." Isabel Allende tells the sweet and sinister story of an orphan who beguiles the world with her astonishing visions, triumphing over the worst of adversity and bringing light to a dark place.
DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOKS OF THE YEAR and BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK CLUB title'I want to be a beautiful corpse, I will take poison' Eva Braun, 1945Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler were together for fourteen years, a relationship that ended only with their marriage and double suicide in Berlin. So who was Eva Braun? Heike Görtemaker's highly praised book is the first to take Braun's role in the Nazi hierarchy seriously. It uses her to throw fascinating light on a regime that prided itself on its harsh, coherent and unsentimental ideology, but which was in practice a chaos of competing individuals fighting for space around the overwhelmingly dominant figure of Hitler.'Finally gives Braun her place in the dark history of the Third Reich' Wall Street Journal
A critical primer on the work of artist Eva Hesse.Eva Hesse's distinctive process-based art exerted a powerful influence on minimalist artists of the 1960s and continues to inspire artists today. Using industrial materials such as latex and fiberglass, she exploited their flexibility to produce works with an unsettling psychic and corporeal resonance. Hesse, who was born in Germany in 1936 and raised in New York City, died of cancer in New York in 1970. Eva Hesse focuses on the body of criticism that has developed since the last major retrospective of Hesse's work, at the Yale University Art Gallery in 1992. The book's publication coincides with a major exhibition organized jointly by the San Francisco Museum of Art and the Wiesbaden Museum. Eva Hesse contains a 1970 interview by Cindy Nemser, a discussion between Mel Bochner and Joan Simon, and essays by Briony Fer, Rosalind Krauss, Mignon Nixon, and Anne M. Wagner.
Throughout her career, Eva Hesse (1936-1970) produced a significant number of small, experimental works alongside her large-scale sculpture. These so-called 'test-pieces' were made in a wide range of materials, including latex, wire-mesh, sculp-metal, wax, and cheesecloth. Rather than considering them simply technical explorations, the art historian Briony Fer renames these small objects studiowork and argues that they put in question conventional notions of what sculpture is. The book contains a comprehensive catalogue of the studiowork, including many new works that have never before been seen in public. Although previously these small works were considered peripheral to the major sculptures, this fascinating new study argues that they force us to ask fundamental questions, not just about what an artwork is, but about the work that art does in our culture.
A new examination of a fascinating group of paintings from a pioneering mid-century artist In 1960 Eva Hesse (1936–1970) created an unusual group of oil paintings that, when considered in contrast to her sculptural assemblages from 1965 to 1970, foretell her desire to embody emotional states in abstract form. Contrary to existing scholarship, which suggests that these works represent a form of self-deprecation, this book seeks to consider these “spectre” paintings as manifestations of a private, haunted interiority in the context of the artist’s burgeoning maturity.The paintings in the spectre campaign comprise two distinct categories. The first, a selection of small-scale oil on Masonite paintings, depicts two or three loosely rendered figures positioned in vacant pictorial spaces. These gaunt forms portray an apparent disconnection between one body and another; and yet, the pictorial drama of the works would be incomplete without the presence of each figure. The second group of paintings imbues a more perplexing psychological state, as characters alternately take on the forms of alien-like creatures or as close resemblances to the artist herself. Through an enlightening assessment of these underappreciated works, readers will gain new insight into their pivotal role in Hesse’s oeuvre.Published in association with the University of New Mexico Art Museum, AlbuquerqueExhibition Schedule:Hammer Museum, Los Angeles09/25/10-01/03/11University of New Mexico Art Museum(03/25/11-07/24/11)Brooklyn Museum of Art(09/16/11-01/08/12)
From one of Germany's leading young historians, the first comprehensive biography of Eva Braun, Hitler's devoted mistress, finally wife, and the hidden First Lady of the Third Reich. In this groundbreaking biography of Eva Braun, German historian Heike G rtemaker reveals Hitler's mistress as more than just a vapid blonde whose concerns never extended beyond her vanity table. Twenty-three years his junior, Braun first met Hitler when she took a position as an assistant to his personal photographer. Capricious, but uncompromising and fiercely loyal--she married Hitler two days before committing suicide with him in Berlin in 1945--her identity was kept secret by the Third Reich until the final days of the war. Through exhaustive research, newly discovered documentation, and anecdotal accounts, G rtemaker turns preconceptions about Eva Braun and Hitler on their head, and builds a portrait of the little-known Hitler far from the public eye.
On the morning of Eva McEwen's birth, six magpies congregate in the apple tree outside the window--a bad omen, according to Scottish legend. That night, Eva's mother dies, leaving her to be raised by her aunt and heartsick father in their small Scottish town. As a child, Eva is often visited by two companions--a woman and a girl--invisible to everyone else save her. As she grows, their intentions become increasingly unclear: Do they wish to protect or harm her? A magical novel about loneliness, love, and the profound connection between mother and daughter, "Eva Moves the Furniture "fuses the simplicity of a fairy tale with the complexity of adult passions.
