Bono
1) On the Move
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"The one thing, on which we can all agree, is that God is with the vulnerable and poor. God is in the slums and in the cardboard boxes where the poor play house. God is in the debris of wasted opportunity and lives, and God is with us if we are with them. 6,500 Africans are still dying every day of a preventable, treatable disease, for lack of drugs we can buy at any drug store. This is not about charity, this is about Justice and Equality." --Bono...
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"Bono, artist, activist, and the lead singer of Irish rock band U2, has written a memoir: honest and irreverent, intimate and profound, Surrender is the story of the remarkable life he's lived, the challenges he's faced, and the friends and family who have shaped and sustained him. "When I started to write this book, I was hoping to draw in detail what I'd previously only sketched in songs. The people, places, and possibilities in my life. Surrender...
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El núcleo del presente volumen lo constituye la tesis doctoral defendida por Emérit Bono en la Universitat de Valencia en 1974, inédita hasta ahora. El cultivo del naranjo en enormes zonas del territorio valenciano cambió para siempre la economía y la sociedad valencianas. Durante toda una época enriqueció a importantes sectores sociales y desempeñó una función clave, estratégica, como fuente de divisas para el Estado español. ¿Qué papel...
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This book follows the life of David in Unwilling Birth, Daniel in Daniel's Hope, and John in Welcome Home. The book follows the lives of these characters through their struggles of violation, love, and finding in themselves the strength and courage to fight the evils in their lives and the lives of their families.
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Are you as authentically happy as your social media profiles make it seem?
When a group of researchers asked young adults around the globe what their number one priority was in life, the top answer was "happiness." Not success, fame, money, looks, or love...but happiness. For a rising generation of young adults raised as digital natives in a fast-paced, ultra-connected world, authentic happiness still seems just out of reach. While social media often...
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Los diferentes capítulos que componen el cuerpo de este libro trazan un recorrido espacio-temporal, descendente, desde una mirada cenital inicial que se deriva en frecuencias ondulantes desde la llegada del jazz a Europa, bajando en espiral hacia el surgimiento y sofisticación de las tecnologías electrónicas y digitales, asi como su impacto en la globalización de la industria musical, hasta concluir en los clubes y bares que componen la escena...
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Cuando una persona se enfrenta a un proceso de toma de decisiones, su mente comienza a contemplar una serie de razones y emociones que le llevan a optar por una alternativa. Ese extraño proceso mental en que el individuo coteja las ventajas, los inconvenientes, los hechos, los sentimientos y otra serie de informaciones relevantes resulta muy difícil de explicar o de simular. En consecuencia, lo que se da de forma natural en el cerebro humano suele...
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From humble beginnings to magnificent gains, there are few cities that can boast as much growth as Chelsea, Alabama. Where Creek Indians once hunted and roamed, successful businesses, neighborhoods, schools, recreation parks, and churches now stand. In the mid-1800s, pioneer families settled in the hills of what was first called Melrose. The railroad played a vital role in the advancement of the area by offering passenger and commercial transportation,...
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Death will not part them, nor will it silence them. It is 1880 and women are meant to be seen and not heard. When a damaged daughter is born of a vicious marital assault, Pauline Kite and her child are condemned to a life of sequestration and silence in rural Oxfordshire until Elinor Budden, a young nurse herself in need of healing, urges resilience and an audacious plan to bring about justice. When an unforeseen catastrophe strikes and they are caught...