Working at the forefront of cosmetic surgery at the turn of the twentieth century, Dr Suzanne Noël was both a pioneer in her medical field and a firm believer in the advancement of women. Today her views on the benefits of aesthetic surgery to women may seem at odds with her feminist principles, but by placing Noël in the context of turn-of-the-century French culture, this book is able to demonstrate how these two worldviews were reconciled. Noël was able to combine her intense convictions for gender equality and anti-ageism in the workforce with her underlying compassion and concern for her female patients, during a time when there were no laws in place to protect women from workplace discrimination. She was also responsible for several advances in cosmetic surgery, a thriving industry, and is today best known for her development of the mini facelift. This book, therefore, sheds much valuable light on advances in aesthetic surgery, twentieth-century beauty culture, women and the public sphere, and the ’new woman’.
One of the untold stories of the Holocaust--the nail-biting drama of Suzanne Spaak, who risked and gave her life to save hundreds of Jewish children from deportation from Nazi Paris to Auschwitz "vividly dramatizes the stakes of acting morally in a time of brutality" (The Wall Street Journal).Suzanne Spaak was born into the Belgian Catholic elite and married into the country's leading political family. Her brother-in-law was the Foreign Minister and her husband Claude was a playwright and patron of the painter Ren e Magritte. In Paris in the late 1930s her friendship with a Polish Jewish refugee led her to her life's purpose. When France fell and the Nazis occupied Paris, she joined the Resistance. She used her fortune and social status to enlist allies among wealthy Parisians and church groups. Then, under the eyes of the Gestapo, Suzanne and women from the Jewish and Christian resistance groups "kidnapped" hundreds of Jewish children to save them from the gas chambers. Suzanne's Children is the "dogged...page-turning account" (Kirkus Reviews) of this incredible story of courage in the face of evil. "Anne Nelson is superb at showing the upheavals in Europe since WWI through vivid, illuminating details...and she also masterfully describes the incremental changes in the Jews' plight under the Occupation" (Booklist). It was during the final year of the Occupation when Suzanne was caught in the Gestapo dragnet that was pursuing a Soviet agent she had aided. She was executed shortly before the liberation of Paris. Suzanne Spaak is honored in Israel as one of the Righteous Among Nations. Nelson's "heartfelt story is almost a model for how popular history should be written; it will satisfy lovers of history, Jewish history in particular" (Library Journal).
Readers will learn about the life and works of Suzanne Collins. This young adult author's life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Hunger Games trilogy is discussed. Readers will also learn about the author's writing process and what inspires her to write. What's next for this author and other interesting details are also included.
Readers will learn about the life and works of Suzanne Collins. This young adult author's life leading up to her success as the best-selling author of the Hunger Games trilogy is discussed. Readers will also learn about the author's writing process and what inspires her to write. What's next for this author and other interesting details are also included.
Leaving the safety of her home with Nana in Kansas, Suzanne travels on trains to reunite with her family. She has many adventures on the way. Her long-suffering father keeps her from danger when he can. She saves cattle from rustlers and a friend from kidnapping. Once settled in a new home, she rescues an elderly woman and helps a bully become a friend.
Suzanne Normis est une roman publie en 1877. Henry Gr ville, pseudonyme de Alice Marie C leste Durand n e Fleury (1842-1902), a publi de nombreux romans, des nouvelles, des pi ces, de la po sie; elle a t son poque un crivain succ s. Le premier assaillant fut ma belle-m re. Nous avions v cu dans la plus parfaite concorde, mais je dois avouer que, pour arriver ce r sultat, j'y avais, suivant l'expression vulgaire, mis beaucoup du mien. Gr ce cette heureuse harmonie dans le pass , je vis arriver un jour madame Gauthier, s rieuse et compass e, comme de coutume, avec une grand-voile de cr pe sur son visage l g rement couperos ; elle commen a par embrasser tendrement sa petite-fille; puis s'adressant notre vieille bonne: - Emmenez cette enfant, prof ra-t-elle avec la dignit qui ne la quittait jamais.
