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An irresistible novel that "charts a harrowing tour through the Civil War" (Connecticut Post) and chronicles the life of Tom Thumb--the tiny man who became, in his time, America's most famous entertainer."I was four years old when Barnum discovered me, and soon to turn five when I first appeared on the big stage of his American Museum." So begins the story of Tom Thumb, who at just twenty-five-inches tall, rises to global fame as America's most beloved entertainer. With his parents' blessing, Tom comes of age in Barnum's five-story gallery of oddities, exploring its mystical artifacts and exotic animals between his performances to sold-out crowds. One day in the museum's basement menagerie, Tom meets a new performer, Lavinia Warren, who stands three inches shorter than he. It's love at first sight, and Barnum quickly arranges the largest wedding reception New York City has ever seen. As cannon fire echoes across Bull Run and Antietam, both North and South are briefly united by their fascination with "General" Tom Thumb and his beautiful, petite wife. Despite the Civil War, Tom and Lavinia embark on a honeymoon tour, where they encounter cities and people ravaged by the ongoing conflict. But as the tour winds down, an unexpected danger follows Tom and Lavinia back home. Witty, lyrical, and with a colorful cast of notable figures of the period, The Remarkable Courtship of General Tom Thumb is an evocative, poignant imagining of one man's story, from a "master of elegant prose and psychological insight" (Entertainment Weekly).
Opc Ua: The Basics: An OPC UA Overview For Those Who May Not Have a Degree in Embedded Programming
John Rinaldi
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2013
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This detailed account of Rose's journey to America highlights her hopes, dreams, fears and realities. She is so grateful for all those her who helped her especially when she arrived in the United States as a young lady and showing her the beauty of living in San Francisco. In this book, Rose Rinaldi describes growing up in the small town of Verbicaro in southern Italy and her journey to the United States. She thanks her parents and family and friends for helping along the way and with their support, love and guidance to become the person she is today.
20 Great Italian Games: I Classici del Calcio
Giancarlo Rinaldi
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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I am The Alpha And The Omega: The Beginning and The End
Mario Reinaldo Reis Dos
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2014
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It's Great to Suck at Something: The Unexpected Joy of Wiping Out and What It Can Teach Us about Patience, Resilience, and the Stuff That Really Matte
Karen Rinaldi
Atria Books
2023
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Discover how the freedom of sucking at something can help you build resilience, embrace imperfection, and find joy in the pursuit rather than the goal with this "wholly original work that is destined to become a classic" (Susannah Cahalan, #1 New York Times bestselling author). When was the last time you tried something new? Something that won't make you more productive, make you more money, or check anything off your to-do list? Something you're really, really bad at, but that brought you joy? Odds are, not recently. We live in a time of aspirational psychoses. We humblebrag about how hard we work and we prioritize productivity over happiness. Even kids don't play for the sake of playing anymore: they're building blocks to build the ideal college application. We're told to be the best or nothing at all. We're trapped in an epic and farcical quest for perfection and it's all making us more anxious and depressed than ever. This book provides the antidote. (It's Great to) Suck at Something "shows how joy and growth come from risking failure and letting go of perfectionism" (The Wall Street Journal). Drawing on her personal experience sucking at surfing (a sport Karen Rinaldi's dedicated nearly two decades of her life to doing without ever coming close to getting good at it) along with philosophy, literature, and the latest science, Rinaldi explores sucking as a lost art we must reclaim for our health and our sanity and helps us find the way to our own riotous suck-ability. Sucking at something rewires our brain in positive ways, helps us cultivate grit, and inspires us to find joy in the process, without obsessing about the destination. Ultimately, it gives you freedom: the freedom to suck without caring is revelatory. Coupling honest, hilarious storytelling with unexpected insights, this "thought-provoking, engaging examination...explains how our lives are more satisfying and rich when we give ourselves the opportunity to experiment, struggle, and play" (Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project).
This study is founded on the qualitative tradition of inquiry. A special effort of comparing and sharing the opinions of the founding members, a true process of triangulation and member checking, functioned as a guarantee of the rigor and trustworthiness of the study (Moustakas 1994). The researcher was nondirective and permissive in the dialogues and interviews. The set of characteristics described in the section "A New Rogers-Freire-Goleman Paradigm" attributed to the Magister Institute's leadership style were substantiated by the research participants in their interviews and postinterviews conversations and dialogues with the researcher. It was, also, their unanimous perception that this was a "group or team of equals" or a "consensus management group." These two expressions seemed to convey in their minds that MI group reached the highest level of person-centeredness and attained an ideal form of personal and group consensus management. The method employed has shown its usefulness to study action groups in short periods. Time and cost are two factors recommending this method. The highlighted imbedded sense of mission of the founding members made their unity and common vision a viable faith-based unconventional option.
20 Great Italian Games II: I Classici del Calcio
Giancarlo Rinaldi
Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
2015
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The Double Life of Fidel Castro: My 17 Years as Personal Bodyguard to El Lider Maximo
Juan Reinaldo Sanchez; Axel Gylden
Brilliance Audio
2016
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In The Double Life of Fidel Castro, one of Castro's soldiers of 17 years breaks his silence and shares his memoir of years of service, and eventual imprisonment and torture for displeasing the notorious dictator, and his dramatic escape from Cuba. Responsible for protecting the Lider maximo for two decades, Juan Reinaldo Sanchez was party to his secret life-because everything around Castro was hidden. From the ghost town in which guerrillas from several continents were trained, to his immense personal fortune--including a huge property portfolio, a secret paradise island, and seizure of public money--as well as his relationship with his family and his nine children from five different partners. Sanchez's tell-all expos reveals countless state secrets and the many sides of the Cuban monarch: genius war leader in Nicaragua and Angola, paranoid autocrat at home, master spy, Machiavellian diplomat, and accomplice to drug traffickers. This extraordinary testimony makes us re-examine everything we thought we knew about the Cuban story and Fidel Castro Ruz.
Countless books have been published on the historical sites of the Hudson River Valley. But these books have focused over and over again on the best-known, best-preserved places. Every bit as valuable are dozens of other historical sites that haven’t fared as well. Many of these buildings are listed on the National Register of Historical Places, and a few are even National Historical Landmarks. But in spite of their significance, these structures have been allowed to decay, and in some cases, to disappear altogether. In an effort to raise awareness of their plight, Hudson Valley Ruins offers the reader a long-overdue glimpse at some of the region’s forgotten cultural treasures. In addition to great river estates, the book profiles sites more meaningful to everyday life in the Valley: churches and hotels, commercial and civic buildings, mills and train stations. Included are works by some of the most important names in American architectural history, such as Alexander Jackson Davis and Calvert Vaux. The book is divided into four parts that correspond to the upper, middle, maritime, and lower sections of the Hudson River Valley. Sites have been selected for their general historical and architectural significance, their relationship to important themes in the region’s history, their physical condition or “rustic” character, and their ability to demonstrate a particular threat still faced by historical buildings in the region. The Dutch Reformed Church at Newburgh tells the story of the Valley’s oldest religious group; the Luckey Platt department store in Poughkeepsie was for decades the “Leading Store of the Hudson Valley”; and the ruins of the West Point Foundry at Cold Spring are all that remain of what was once one of the river’s most important industries. Taken together, these places present a broad picture of the region’s past that is relevant to its present and future. This book was published with the generous support of Furthermore, a program of the J. M. Kaplan Fund.
Il romanzo parla della storia di Ivo, un adolescente siciliano che vive nell' incomprensione familiare e nei maltrattamenti. Gi da bambino Ivo cresce in un ambiente di miseria e di ignoranza, caratterizzato dalla mancanza di affetto della madre e dalla violenza del padre. Nonostante tutto, il giovane vive la sua vita con i suoi amici combinandone di tutti i colori con la spensieratezza della sua et , mentre una dolce presenza da dietro lo accompagna...Ivo si innamora follemente di una ragazza del suo quartiere, Paola, che non lo ricambia affatto. Far di tutto per farsi amare e quando finalmente sembra che abbiano un appuntamento, ella si fa vedere in compagnia di un altro, incurante dei suoi sentimenti; di fronte a quello scenario un senso di angoscia lo pervade per lo svanire di tutti i suoi sogni.In seguito all'ennesimo litigio con il padre, aiutato dal suo amico Giovanni, che sempre lo sostiene, emigra con lui in Germania. Ivo vive con disagio la sua esperienza all'estero, caratterizzata da punte di disoccupazione e fame.Il suo cuore nobile e una notte camminando per le strade di K nigswinter sul lungo Reno salva una ragazza spagnola da un attacco di tre male intenzionati e la ospita a casa sua. La aiuter in tante vicessitudini e riuscir a farla ritornare a casa sua in Spagna.Interessante la metamorfosi che nel frattempo sta avvenendo nel suo animo, nel passaggio dall'et adolescenziale a quella adulta in uno stato straniero lontano dai suoi familiari, con nuovi amori e tante avventure. Questo stato di incertezza resta tale fino a quando un giorno viene a sapere di un concorso letterario bandito da alcune case editrici italiane in cerca di nuovi autori. La notte prima del concorso sogna la donna che lo accompagna nei suoi sogni dandogli sempre buoni consigli, la quale lo invita a partecipare al concorso, rassicurandolo che tutto sarebbe andato bene.Il giovane che da sempre si diletta per passione a scrivere poesie decide di parteciparvi, vincendo cos il primo premio. Viene assunto come da concorso in un giornale a Milano, dove accolto a braccia aperte, cominciando con entusiasmo quel nuovo lavoro di giornalista in erba. Di solito Ivo attinge molte notizie su ci che avviene in citt grazie ai suoi corregionali che lo informano e i suoi articoli sono sempre nelle prime pagine con grande successo. Ormai adulto scrive un romanzo che, grazie al redattore, pubblica ad episodi settimanali, facendo cos aumentare ulteriormente la tiratura del giornale. La sua vita trover cos una nuova svolta, il suo libro sar presentato alla stampa e alle autorit cittadine con enorme plauso nella villa del redattore e l conoscer la figlia del suo capo e tra loro nascer un grande amore. Un giorno davanti al Duomo incontra un suo amico d'infanzia, Cicciuzzo, che gli rivela qualcosa di veramente importante, mostrandogli una foto di due donne insieme, la Signora Cristina, madre del suo amico ed un'altra donna. Il giovane, mezzo incredulo, sobbalza...
La storia di una donna forte che dopo un viaggio in Africa, decide di buttarsi nella vita nuovamente nonostante la sofferenza e la paura. Elisa non si arrende e prosegue il suo cammino credendoci ancora. E la vita le regaler nuove emozioni.