Matokeo ya Utafutaji
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Ticker: The Quest to Create an Artificial Heart
by Mimi SwartzIt wasn’t supposed to be this hard. If America could send a man to the moon, shouldn’t the best surgeons in the world be able to build an artificial heart? In Ticker, Texas Monthly executive editor and two time National Magazine Award winner Mimi Swartz shows just how complex and difficult it can be... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
When History Is Personal
When History Is Personal contains the stories of twenty-five moments in Mimi Schwartz’s life, each heightened by its connection to historical, political, and social issues. These essays look both inward and outward so that these individualized tales tell a larger story—of assimilation, the women’s m... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2018 -
Good Neighbors, Bad Times Revisited: New Echoes of My Father's German Village
Mimi Schwartz&’s father was born Jewish in a tiny German village thirty years before the advent of Hitler when, as he&’d tell her, &“We all got along.&” In her original memoir, Good Neighbors, Bad Times, Schwartz explored how human decency fared among Christian and Jewish neighbors before, during, a... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2021 -
Power Failure: The Inside Story Of The Collapse Of Enron
"They're still trying to hide the weenie," thought Sherron Watkins as she read a newspaper clipping about Enron two weeks before Christmas, 2001. . . It quoted [CFO] Jeff McMahon addressing the company's creditors and cautioning them against a rash judgment. "Don't assume that there is a smoking... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2003 -
Widows' Words: Women Write on the Experience of Grief, the First Year, the Long Haul, and Everything in Between
by Ellen Schrecker • Anne Bernays • Kelli Dunham • Lise Menn • Kathryn Temple • Merle Froschl • Mimi Schwartz • Alice Goode-Elman • Penelope Dugan • Melanie K Finney • Raquel Ramkhelawan • Maxine Marshall • Lauren Vanett • Alice Derry • Michele Neff Hernandez • Elisa Clark Wadham • Deborah E Kaplan • P. C. Moorehead • Edie Butler • Debby Mayer • Sonia Jaffe Robbins • Barbara Marwell • Maggie Madagame • Roni Sherman Ramos • Doris Friedensohn • Nancy H Womack • Joan Michelson • Tracy Milcendeau • Andrea Hirshman • Molly A McEneny • Heather Slawecki • Kathleen Fordyce • Patricia Life • Nancy Shamban • Susanne Braham • Alice Radosh • Parvin Hajizadeh • Jean Y Leung • Joan Gussow • Carrie L West • Christine Silverstein • Tara SabharwalBecoming a widow is one of the most traumatic life events that a woman can experience. Yet, as this remarkable new collection reveals, each woman responds to that trauma differently. Here, forty-three widows tell their stories, in their own words. Some were widowed young, while others were married... More
Language: ENGHakimiliki: 2019