Conquering the Life-Balance Hoax: One Woman`s Journey from Despair to Millionaire, Cornell Donna
Автор: Merwick Donna Название: Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York ISBN: 0801436087 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801436086 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 8065.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she introduces us to Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam and the long-forgotten world he inhabited in Holland's North American colony. Her powerful narrative will make readers care for this quiet and studious man, an "ordinary" settler for whom the clash of empires brought tragedy.Like so many of his fellow countrymen, Janse left his Dutch homeland as a young adult to try his luck in New Netherland. After spending a few years on Manhattan Island, he moved on to the fur trading settlement today known as Albany. Merwick traces his journey to a new continent and re-creates the satisfying existence this respected burgher enjoyed with his wife in the bustling town. As a notary Janse was, in the author's words, "surrounded by stories, those he listened to and recorded, the hundreds he archived in a chest or trunk." His familiar life was turned upside down by the British conquest of the colony. Merwick recounts the changes brought about by the new rulers and imagines the despair Janse must have felt when English, a language he had never learned, replaced his native tongue in official transactions. In any military adventure, truth is alleged to be the first casualty. Merwick offers a poignant reminder that the first casualties are in fact people. As much a musing on what history obscures as what it reveals, her book is a superior work by a master practitioner of her craft.
Автор: Merwick Donna Название: Death of a Notary: Conquest and Change in Colonial New York ISBN: 0801487889 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780801487880 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 4117.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание:
"He was the only one. He was the only man to have committed suicide in the town's seventeenth-century history." So begins Donna Merwick's fascinating tale of a Dutch notary who ended his life in his adopted community of Albany. In a major feat of historical reconstruction, she introduces us to Adriaen Janse van Ilpendam and the long-forgotten world he inhabited in Holland's North American colony. Her powerful narrative will make readers care for this quiet and studious man, an "ordinary" settler for whom the clash of empires brought tragedy.Like so many of his fellow countrymen, Janse left his Dutch homeland as a young adult to try his luck in New Netherland. After spending a few years on Manhattan Island, he moved on to the fur trading settlement today known as Albany. Merwick traces his journey to a new continent and re-creates the satisfying existence this respected burgher enjoyed with his wife in the bustling town. As a notary Janse was, in the author's words, "surrounded by stories, those he listened to and recorded, the hundreds he archived in a chest or trunk." His familiar life was turned upside down by the British conquest of the colony. Merwick recounts the changes brought about by the new rulers and imagines the despair Janse must have felt when English, a language he had never learned, replaced his native tongue in official transactions. In any military adventure, truth is alleged to be the first casualty. Merwick offers a poignant reminder that the first casualties are in fact people. As much a musing on what history obscures as what it reveals, her book is a superior work by a master practitioner of her craft.
This book aims to help you create the life that is best for You by no longer following someone else's agenda and creating your life of peace and happiness. You will learn about the steps I took to become a millionaire, but this is not simply a book about how to make more money. Becoming a millionaire was certainly a goal for me that I achieved several times over, but living happily, peacefully, surrounded by love was my ultimate goal. I did it and I will help you identify the path that will bring you happiness.
You will learn how to gain confidence, make wise life choices and stop impulsive actions. You also will learn how to grasp hold of your life and how you respond to everyday issues and the critical challenges that explode into our lives. I'll help with climbing the ladder to job success, recognition, and with the most important topics of relationships, love, and choosing who belongs in your life. I will help you learn how to live the gift of life in happiness, joy, peace, and success.
I created my most remarkable life when I stopped believing in society's messages of perfection, "The Life-Balance Hoax." Discarding this "Hoax" though, is not enough, so this book will give you the tools to take charge of your life even when it is so far out of balance you experience a tinge of panic. I most sincerely believe you can achieve your goals, change your life, realize your dreams and transform your world because I did it and I am an ordinary woman.
After failed marriages, I finally found happiness in marriage because I took control and refused to allow the unbalanced days to ruin treasured moments. I lived a life of despair as a single mother of three kids, fighting daily to put food on the table and then step by step journeyed to become CEO of a multi-million-dollar organization. There was a lengthy period in my life when I had days when I struggled to get out of bed... or even to want to live. I am not over-dramatizing. My struggles drove me to live in an atmosphere of hopelessness.
Yet I was able to fix it. I achieved success, enjoyed accolades and recognition from my state Senate and the U.S Congress. My image has been on the cover of magazines, and I've been featured in articles by well-known publications. I've even been on TV. All of this came to pass because I found the secrets to living my life to its fullest. I found answers and I am sharing many with you.
In 1812, Napoleon launched his fateful invasion of Russia. Five decades later, Leo Tolstoy published War and Peace, a fictional representation of the era that is one of the most celebrated novels in world literature. The novel contains a coherent (though much disputed) philosophy of history and portrays the history and military strategy of its time in a manner that offers lessons for the soldiers of today. To mark the two hundredth anniversary of the French invasion of Russia and acknowledge the importance of Tolstoy’s novel for our historical memory of its central events, Rick McPeak and Donna Tussing Orwin have assembled a distinguished group of scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds—literary criticism, history, social science, and philosophy—to provide fresh readings of the novel.
The essays in Tolstoy On War focus primarily on the novel’s depictions of war and history, and the range of responses suggests that these remain inexhaustible topics of debate. The result is a volume that opens fruitful new avenues of understanding War and Peace while providing a range of perspectives and interpretations without parallel in the vast literature on the novel.
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