Authors:Melissa Mueller, Reinhard Piechocki, Alice Herz-Somm
Publisher: St. Martin’s Press
Keywords: alice, sommer, herz, life, piano
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2012-03-13
List price: $26.99
ISBN-10: 1250007410
ISBN-13: 9781250007414
How music provided hope in one of the world’s darkest timestheinspirationallife storyof Alice Herz-Sommer,the oldest living Holocaust survivorAlice Herz-Sommerwas bornin Prague in 1903.A talented pianist from a very early age,she became famous throughout Europe; but, as the Nazisrose to power, herworldcrumbled. In 1942,hermotherwas deported to the Theresienstadt concentration camp and vanished.In 1943,Alice,her husband and their six-year-old son weresent there, too. In the midst ofhorror,music, especiallyChopin’s Etudes,wasAlice’s salvation. Theresien
Authors:Alice D. Domar, Alice Lesch Kelly,
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: infertility, enhancing, fertility, coping, guide, mind, alice, domar, conquering
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2004-02-24
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0142002011
ISBN-13: 9780142002018
Infertility is a heartbreaking condition that affects nine million American couples each year. It causes tremendous stress, can trigger debilitating sadness and depression, and can tear a marriage to shreds. In Conquering Infertility, Harvard psychologist Alice Domar?whom Vogue calls the "Fertility Goddess"?provides infertile couples with what they need most: stress relief, support, and hope. Using the innovative mind/body techniques she has perfected at her clinic, Domar helps infertile women not only regain control over their lives but also boost their chances of becoming pregnant. With Con
Author: Alice Steinbach
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperback
Keywords: woman, curious, adventures, alice, educating
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2005-04-12
List price: $14.95
ISBN-10: 0812973607
ISBN-13: 9780812973600
This funny and tender book combines three of Alice Steinbachs greatest passions: learning, traveling, and writing. After chronicling her European journey of self-discovery in Without Reservations, this Pulitzer Prizewinning columnist for the Baltimore Sun quit her job and left home again. This time she roamed the world, taking lessons and courses in such things as French cooking in Paris, Border collie training in Scotland, traditional Japanese arts in Kyoto, and architecture and art in Havana. With warmth and wit, Steinbach guides us through the pleasures and perils of discovering how to be
Author: Carol Felsenthal
Publisher: St. Martin’s Griffi
Keywords: alice, longworth, roosevelt, life, princess, times
Number of Pages: 340
Published: 2003-12-31
List price: $21.99
ISBN-10: 0312302223
ISBN-13: 9780312302221
Known as the "other Washington monument, " Alice Roosevelt Longworth knew personally every president from Benjamin Harrison to Jimmy Carter, and for over 70 years reigned as Washington’s grandest grande dame. Here is both the delightful and the dark sides of her life.
Author: Susan E. Gunter
Publisher: University Of Nebraska Press
Keywords: alice, james, gibbens, story, jamesland, howe
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2009-03-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 080321569X
ISBN-13: 9780803215696
Alice in Jamesland, the first biography of Alice Howe Gibbens Jameswife of the psychologist and philosopher William James, and sister-in-law of novelist Henry Jameswas made possible by the rediscovery of hundreds of her letters and papers thought to be destroyed in the 1960s. Encompassing European travel, Civil War profiteering, suicide, a stormy courtship, sances, psychedelic mushrooms, the death of a child, and an enduring love story, Alice in Jamesland is a portrait of a nineteenth-century upper-middle-class marriage, told often through Alices own letters and made all the more dynamic b
Author: Alice Schwarzer
Publisher: Knaur TB
Keywords: zwischenbilanz, eine, mnnerland, alice
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2004-06-01
List price: $8.90
ISBN-10: 3426776812
ISBN-13: 9783426776810
Author: Stacy A. Cordery
Publisher: Viking Adult
Keywords: alice, power, broker, washington, house, roosevelt, longworth, princess
Number of Pages: 608
Published: 2007-10-18
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 0670018333
ISBN-13: 9780670018338
An intimate and revealing portrait of America?s most memorable first daughter Alice Roosevelt Longworth lived her entire life on the political stage and in the public eye, earning her the nickname ?the other Washington monument.? In this new biography?the first in twenty years?Stacy A. Cordery presents a detailed and richly entertaining portrait of the witty and whip- smart daughter of Teddy Roosevelt. ?Princess Alice? was a tempestuous teenager. Smoking, gambling, and dressing flamboyantly, she flouted social conventions and opened the door for other women to do the same. Her husband was Sp
