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1000 tulosta hakusanalla Jonas Zdanys
Jonas Zdanys has published 49 books from 1970 to 2020. This is his 50th published book. The books include his own poetry, translations into English of Lithuanian poetry, and edited anthologies of poetry. He has spent much time in different countries, all of which have influenced his writing, and book reviewers in such divergent places as Ireland, Australia, and Luthuania have praised his poetic craftsmanship and genius as a poet.
A classic of Holocaust literature from "one of the great masters of the short novel."--The New Yorker In the Vilna Ghetto during World War II, Nazi Commandant Schoger demands that all children be sent to the death camp. When Abraham Lipman pleads with him to spare their lives, Schoger reconsiders, and tells Lipman there will be a chess match between himself and Lipman's only surviving son, Isaac, a chess prodigy. If Isaac wins, the children will live, but Isaac will die. If Isaac loses, the children will die, but Isaac will live. Only a draw will save the ghetto from this terrible predicament. The chess game begins: a nightmarish contest played over the course of several evenings, witnessed by an audience impotent to act, staking the lives of their children on a stalemate. This is a moving story of a father and a son who shame their cruel perpetrator with their dignity, spirit, and extraordinary courage. Stalemate speaks to the power of humor even under the direst circumstances. As a parable that gives voice to the unspeakable, Stalemate is an antidote to despair. "Gripping . . . a truly memorable work."--Booklist
In the insightful, celebratory poems of Invocations of Light, Valdas Ausra affirms the life of the spirit as the source of redemption and regeneration, for himself and for all of us, as we seek to make our way through the complexities of our lives as individuals and as members of communities. There is a mystical quality to these poems, a sense of constant revelation of God as the One who reveals Himself in all the living and growing things of the earth. Lutheran pastor of an active congregation, Rev. Ausra provides us with clear guidance to opportunities for the transcendence made possible through kinship with God. At times wry, sometimes pious, often devotional in their expressions, these are poems of hope and of welcome affirmation of what it means to be most fully human and committed to the important place of the divine in our lives. This is poetry that holds a unique position in modern Lithuanian literature and it deserves a well-lighted place in the gallery of modern European religious verse.
Jonas Marshall is done storm-chasing, plagued with the memory of a terrible accident that paralysed a fellow chaser, so the last thing he's going to do is run into more danger. Now, he's just a simple weatherman deploying dirigibles in an experiment to track weather patterns in Slovenia.As far from danger as he can get.But danger comes knocking in the form of hiker in need of rescue, and he can't deny that her companion-beautiful Sibba Kovac-is a great distraction from the guilt that haunts him...until she paraglides right out of his life.Probably for the best.But danger still won't leave him alone when a storm knocks his dirigibles out of the sky, and he happens upon one that looks tampered with...It is. And worse, it's carrying what could be radioactive waste. At least according to EOD expert Sibba...who finds herself face-to-face with the rescuer she can't forget. But she's not looking for him-her grandfather is missing, and she'll stop at nothing to find him.When her missing grandfather leads to the threat of a dirty bomb, she's the only one who can stop it. And Jonas is the only man brave enough to run into danger with her. But she doesn't have room in her heart to love him-not when she lives with death in her periphery. Can the right man, at the right time help her see beyond her fears to a future?And if they have a chance to save the world, can Jonas let go of the woman he loves?The thrilling second book in the epic romantic suspense of the Minnesota Marshalls The Minnesota MarshallsBook 1: FraserBook 2: JonasBook 3: Ned (coming soon)Book 4: Iris (coming soon)Book 5: Creed (coming soon) More Marshall family romantic adventuresThe Epic Story of RJ and YorkBook 1: Out of the NightBook 2: I Will Find YouBook 3: No Matter the Cost The Montana MarshallsBook 1: KnoxBook 2: TateBook 3: FordBook 4: WyattBook 5: Ruby Jane
Robinson Destruction1. Thatcher2. Morgan3. Houston4. Beckett5. Jonas6. DawsonJonas Robinson had his hands full but was loving every minute of it. Those four children needed him, and he had to admit he needed them as well. If no other family came out of the woodwork wanting them, he had his heart set on adopting them.Ginger Morgan, a talented photographer, worked undercover for the Government. She was good at her job, but it often put her off the radar for weeks at a time. She had just heard of her sister Sissy's recent hospital stay when she returned to town.Sissy had it in her mind that she wanted a ready-made family and wanted to take in her nieces and nephews, whom she had never met. When Ginger found out who had the kids, she called her college buddy, Dawson Robinson, to find out more. What happened next had all their heads spinning.Ginger was swept into a world of intrigue as Rogan Robinson brought her team in and hid them from the world. Those children's identities had to be kept secret at all costs. Now that Ginger and her family were involved, they would be targets as well.Ginger knew a little about shifters, but being mated to one was something she'd have to give some thought to. And being a mother was something she'd never wanted to be-until now....
Jonas Marshall is done storm-chasing plagued with the memory of a terrible accident that paralysed a fellow chaser so the last thing he's going to do is run into more danger. Now he's just a simple weatherman deploying dirigibles in an experiment to track weather patterns in Slovenia.As far from danger as he can get.But danger comes knocking in the form of hiker in need of rescue and he can't deny that her companion-beautiful Sibba Kovac-is a great distraction from the guilt that haunts him...until she paraglides right out of his life.Probably for the best.But danger still won't leave him alone when a storm knocks his dirigibles out of the sky and he happens upon one that looks tampered with...It is. And worse it's carrying what could be radioactive waste. At least according to EOD expert Sibba...who finds herself face-to-face with the rescuer she can't forget. But she's not looking for him-her grandfather is missing and she'll stop at nothing to find him.When her missing grandfather leads to the threat of a dirty bomb she's the only one who can stop it. And Jonas is the only man brave enough to run into danger with her. But she doesn't have room in her heart to love him-not when she lives with death in her periphery. Can the right man at the right time help her see beyond her fears to a future?And if they have a chance to save the world can Jonas let go of the woman he loves?The thrilling second book in the epic romantic suspense of the Minnesota Marshalls THE MARSHALL FAMILY SAGAThe Minnesota MarshallsBook 1: FraserBook 2: JonasBook 3: NedBook 4: Iris Book 5: CreedThe Epic Story of RJ and YorkBook 1: Out of the NightBook 2: I Will Find YouBook 3: No Matter the Cost The Montana MarshallsBook 1: KnoxBook 2: TateBook 3: FordBook 4: WyattBook 5: Ruby Jane
A Araran y a Rakof le hab an legado las tierras al otro lado del r o sagrado; all hab an nacido los s caros, sacados de un tajo de la rama de un roble; Rakof, valido de una espada de hoja diamantina, lo hab a herido y de la savia hab a brotado el primer hombre y la primera mujer, enlazados. All deb an volver, porque Hita le hab a arrebatado no solo la tierra de sus ancestros sino tambi n la morada de sus dioses. A Jon s en un sue o, se le hab a aparecido Raj n, el hijo de Rakof, de ojos de guila, el dios de los centinelas, de las emboscadas y de la huida, y le hab a revelado que el mes de las lluvias le ser a propicio para regresar a sus tierras y, levantando el polvo depositado en la tierra, lo hab a esparcido por el aire se al ndole el lugar exacto por donde deber a atacar. Una novela de aventuras donde se combina magia, amor, traiciones, datada en un tiempo remoto, y que tiene en vilo al lector desde el primer cap tulo.
Dette er en bok om operasanger Jonas Brunvolls liv og yrkeskarriere. Han stiftet Norsk Operaselskap, forløperen til Den Norske Opera, sammen med sin bror Gunnar. Jonas, hans far, mor og bror Gunnar arbeidet med illegal presse i Norge under 2. verdenskrig. De ble arrestert flere ganger og utsatt for uhyggelige avhør før de ble sendt til tyske konsentrasjonsleire. Gunnar greide å rømme til Sverige og senere til Canada. I Tyskland ble Jonas og faren reddet av Grev Folke Bernadottes hvite busser i sluttfasen av krigen. Mor Kirsten var med på dødsmarsjen fra Auschwitz til Ravensbrück i siste fase av krigen, derfra gikk veien hjem. Det var et under at alle fire møttes igjen.
Jonas er den ordblinde, åtte år gamle gutten som ikke forstår bokstavenes betydning og som kommer på hjelpeskolen «Iddioten». Boken er et intenst oppgjør med skolens ensrettethet og lærernes uvitenhet og maktmisbruk. Da romanen kom ut i 1955 vakte den storm. Den ble oversatt til flere språk, og i Norge er den siden kommet i utallige opplag. Ingen norsk roman har betydd mer for skolen, elever, lærere og foreldre.
Dos livros prof ticos do Antigo Testamento, Jonas o mais hist rico e menos prof tico de todos, ou seja, o livro fala mais sobre a experi ncia de Jon
When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had successfully created a vaccine to prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon-a knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards and honors; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people. And yet the one group whose adulation he craved--the scientific community--remained ominously silent. "The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success," Salk later said. "I knew right away that I was through-cast out." In the first complete biography of Jonas Salk, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs unravels Salk's story to reveal an unconventional scientist and a misunderstood and vulnerable man. Despite his incredible success in developing the polio vaccine, Salk was ostracized by his fellow scientists, who accused him of failing to give proper credit to other researchers and scorned his taste for media attention. Even before success catapulted him into the limelight, Salk was an inscrutable man disliked by many of his peers. Driven by an intense desire to aid mankind, he was initially oblivious and eventually resigned to the personal cost--as well as the costs suffered by his family and friends. And yet Salk remained, in the eyes of the public, an adored hero. Based on hundreds of personal interviews and unprecedented access to Salk's sealed archives, Jacobs' biography offers the most complete picture of this complicated figure. Salk's story has never been fully told; until now, his role in preventing polio has overshadowed his part in co-developing the first influenza vaccine, his effort to meld the sciences and humanities in the magnificent Salk Institute, and his pioneering work on AIDS. A vivid and intimate portrait, this will become the standard work on the remarkable life of Jonas Salk.
Jonas of Bobbio and the Legacy of Columbanus
Alexander O'Hara
Oxford University Press Inc
2018
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Jonas of Bobbio, writing in the mid seventh century, was not only a major Latin monastic author, but also an historical figure in his own right. Born in the ancient Roman town of Susa in the foothills of the Italian Alps, he became a monk of Bobbio, the monastery founded by the Irish exile Columbanus, soon after his death in 615. He became the archivist and personal assistant to successive Bobbio abbots, travelled to Rome to obtain the first papal privilege of immunity, and served as a missionary priest on the northern borderlands of the Frankish kingdom. He spent the rest of his life in Merovingian Gaul as abbot of the double monastic community of Marchiennes-Hamage, where he wrote his Life of Columbanus, one of the most influential works of early medieval hagiography. This book, the first major study devoted to Jonas of Bobbio, his corpus of three saints' Lives, and the Columbanian familia, explores the development of the Columbanian monastic network and its relationship to its founder. The Life of Columbanus was written following a period of crisis within the Columbanian familia and it was in response to this crisis that the Bobbio community in Lombard Italy commissioned Jonas to write the work. Alexander O'Hara presents the Life of Columbanus as a subtle and clever critique of the changes and crises that had taken place in the monastic communities since Columbanus's death. It also considers the life of Jonas as reflecting many of the changing political, cultural, and religious circumstances of the seventh century, and his writings as instrumental in shaping new concepts of sanctity and community. The result of the study is a unique perspective on the early medieval Age of Saints and the monastic and political worlds of Merovingian Gaul and Lombard Italy in the seventh century.
When a waiting world learned on April 12, 1955, that Jonas Salk had created a vaccine that could prevent poliomyelitis, he became a hero overnight. Jubilation erupted worldwide, with Salk as the focus. Born in a New York tenement, humble in manner, Salk had all the makings of a twentieth-century icon--a white knight in a white coat. In the wake of his achievement, he received a staggering number of awards, a Congressional Gold Medal, a Presidential Citation; for years his name ranked with Gandhi and Churchill on lists of the most revered people. And yet the one group whose adulation he craved--the scientific community--remained ominously silent. "The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success," Salk later said. "I knew right away that I was through--cast out." In the first complete biography of Jonas Salk, Charlotte DeCroes Jacobs unravels his complexities and nuances to reveal an unconventional scientist and a misunderstood and vulnerable man. Despite his incredible success, all but eradicating a crippling disease from the world, Salk was ostracized by the scientific community. Its esteemed members accused him of two transgressions: failing to give proper credit to other researchers, and crossing the imaginary line of academic decorum by soliciting media attention. Even before his success catapulted him into the limelight, Salk was an enigmatic man disliked by many of his peers. Driven by an intense desire to aid mankind, Jacobs writes, he was initially oblivious and eventually resigned to the personal cost--as well as the costs suffered by his family and friends. And yet Salk remained, in the eyes of the public, an adored hero. Was Jonas Salk an American saint or a self-absorbed man who connived to assure himself a place in medical history? Granted unprecedented access to Salk's sealed archives and having conducted hundreds of personal interviews, Jacobs offers a more complete picture of the complicated figure than has previously existed. Salk's full story has not yet been recounted, Jacobs shows. His historical role in preventing polio has overshadowed his part in co-developing the first influenza vaccine--for which he never fully got credit; his effort to meld the sciences and humanities in the magnificent Salk Institute; and his pioneering work on AIDS, all carried out amidst scientific back-room politics with the health of the public at stake. Jacobs crafts a vivid and intimate portrait of this almost impenetrable man, showing him to be at once far more complex and layered than the public image of America's hero and far more sensitive and caring than the stubborn, standoffish, glory-seeking scoundrel suggested by some scientists.