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Histories is about what brings people to the medical profession?a field as challenging and complex as ever. Recent studies report that only half of physicians would choose medicine again as a career, and physician well-being has garnered attention as a national healthcare concern. The voices of medical students, who only recently committed to the profession, at times go unheard. Students at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York City share their motivations for pursuing a career in medicine, together with their doubts, fears and hoped-for lives. Sue Li graduated magna cum laude from Yale University, where she majored in English literature and completed the Writing Concentration in nonfiction. She has lived in five states and two countries, but feels most at home in a caf?, book in hand. A resident of New York City, she dreams of cheap rent, subways without rats, and making a snow angel in Central Park without being trampled. She is a medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she spends her days tending to patients, practicing her suturing skills and collecting st

Elles són la meva sort és una història basada en fets reals.Ja no sé com consolar el meu pare, ensorrat per la mort de la meva mare. ¿Com aconseguir que ho superi i deixi de dir "jo no vull viure"? Una nit està sol a casa escoltant un programa de ràdio on els oients expliquen les seves vides i li vénen ganes de parlar: «¿Truco o no truco?» Ho acabarà fent, i així comença una espiral de fets inesperats i sorprenents que canviaran la seva vida per sempre.Josep M. Cervera ens presenta amb humor, naturalitat i proximitat un pare original i tendre que redescobreix el plaer de viure sedu¯t per «elles», les dones, tan diverses i tan vitals.

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Lauren had it all together. An awesome husband, a flourishing career as a doctor, all the sleep she ever wanted, and socks that always matched. Then Lauren had a baby, and from that point forward, having it all together felt like a distant memory. The perpetual pile of laundry at home was just as tall as the perpetual pile of unfinished charts at the office. Four hours of uninterrupted sleep during an overnight call shift felt like a holiday. Mystery splotches, not cute earrings, accessorized every outfit. Shehad previously managed to commit 310 clinical practice guidelines to memory, yet she would now forget her four-item grocery list. And her son?s first birthday. When she began repeatedly showing up to work with maple syrup in her hair and only one sock on (if she was lucky), she realized that life would never be the same. She would probably never find that second sock, and it was now acceptable that eczema lotion coated everything she owned thanks to her toddler?s curiosity. In a series of bright and witty paintings, Life as a Doctor Mom depicts the day-to-day happenings that occur while juggling motherh

En Michel volia ser miner com el seu germà gran, fins que el 27 de desembre de 1974 en Jojo va morir a l'explosió del pou de Saint-Amé, a la mina de Liévin-Lens, una catàstrofe provocada per les negligències en la seguretat en la qual quaranta-dos miners van perdre la vida. Quaranta anys més tard, en Michel sent el desig més fervent que mai de venjar la mort del seu germà, tal com li havia demanat el pare, i de fer justícia a tots el homes a qui el carbó ha pres la vida al llarg del temps. Amb una prosa carnal i cisellada i l'emoció a flor de pell, Sorj Chalandon s'endinsa en el món d'aquells quaranta-dos miners morts a les profunditats de la terra i en els tèrbols interessos dels que els van abocar a la tragèdia. Una història d'identitat i fraternitat que ret homenatge a aquells homes i a les seves famílies humiliades. Sorj Chalandon, nascut el 1952, va ser durant trenta-quatre anys periodista al diari Libération abans d'incorporar-se a Le Canard enchaîné. Amb els seus reportatges sobre Irlanda del Nord, el 1988 va guanyar el Premi Albert Londres. Ha publicat diverses novel·les, entre les quals destaquen Une promesse (2006, Premi Médicis), Mon traîte (2008), Retorn a Killybegs (2011, Gran Premi de Novella de l'Acadèmia Francesa), La quarta paret (2013, Premi Goncourt dels Instituts) i Professió del pare (2015, Premi Style).







La segona entrega de les aventures del capità Will Laurence i el seu drac Temeraire. Els antics amos de la bèstia la reclamen i Laurence es veu obligat a acompanyar Temeraire a l'extrem Orient, un llarg viatge ple de perills i intrigues. Perills ocults els esperen.

Set primarily in 1983 in rural???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Mississippi, this historical novel isabout a white 17-year old boy, AeamonLee Mistral, and his African-Americanfriend, Jo-Nathan Markum, who arebrash, daring, and determined. Theygrow up together in caring familieswithout the material symbols of aclass-conscious era. After a summerof adventure in Memphis and a tripdown the Mississippi River on a riverboat,their indomitable spirit causesthem to make bold decisions abouttheir future in an uncertain andcompetitive world. They are encouragedby an equally strong, and mysteriouswoman who befriends them. To increasetheir life chances, one attempts to makethe football team at the University ofMississippi, and the other joins theUnited States Marine Corps. Dealingwith both triumph and tragedy is theirongoing challenge.



Antonio Cánovas del Castillo es la figura más emblemática de la derecha española. Ministro isabelino, refractario a la monarquía democrática, conspirador contra la República, a partir de 1875 domina el escenario político de la Restauración, en la que fue Presidente del gobierno en seis ocasiones. La admiración de los suyos le atribuyó la fundación de un régimen capaz de aunar autoridad y ciertas libertades, mientras era aborrecido por las oposiciones y un número creciente de correligionarios. A raíz de su asesinato en 1897, Cánovas se convierte en referencia obligada de las derechas del siglo XX, que lo recuperan y de paso se reivindican -las fracciones constitucionales y las que aspiran a serlo-, o repudian su parlamentarismo como origen de todos los «males».El presente libro ofrece una magistral disección del personaje -precisa, amena y documentada«, analizando la conflictiva relación de las derechas con su figura, práctica y pensamiento: desde el silvelismo, que le sucedió, al Partido Popular de José Mª Aznar, quien presidió el centenario de la desaparición del «Monstruo» mientras volvía a reivindicarse el liberal-conservadurismo, trufado ahora de propuestas neocon. Por sus páginas desfilan políticos con afición a cimentar proyectos en una suerte de legitimidad histórica, e historiadores con agenda política. A propósito del olvido y la recuperación periódica de Cánovas, el autor indaga en el uso selectivo del pasado y la construcción intencional de la memoria con finalidad partidista y en ocasiones nacionalizadora, una debilidad crónica que desde la restauración de la democracia en 1977, se tornaría obsesiva.