Riesci a essere te stesso anche se gli altri ti vorrebbero diverso? È quello che succede all'aquila del libro, che sin da piccola è stata allevata come se fosse una gallina. Ma non possono essere gli altri a decidere chi siamo, bisogna un giorno trovare il coraggio di essere se stessi e volare liberi dove vogliamo. Perché tutti noi siamo aquile, anche quando c'è qualcuno che vuole farci credere che siamo galline. Una storia sull'unicità, la libertà e la speranza illustrata dalla mano del disegnatore di 'Chi me l'ha fatta in testa?'. Età di lettura: da 3 anni.

'The Wolf Tracker'

This story takes the listener to the mountains of New Mexico in the pursuit of a giant wolf.

'Quaking-Asp Cabin'

“He looked along the brown barrels of a shotgun, into eyes that blazed murderous hate.”

Bullet holes and a bloody hand print mark the walls of a lonely cabin—where gambling turned ugly, men hid from the law, and a terrible ambush sparked years of cruel revenge.

Practitioners and researchers specializing in near-death experiences review the scientific literature in and from the perspectives of their various disciplines, mostly mental health, but also other health care fields and the social sciences. Among the topics are pleasurable western adult near-death experiences and their after effect, western children and teens, a census of non-western experiences to 2005, world religions, veridical perceptions, explanatory models, and practical applications of the research. Most of the 11 studies are based on presentations at a fall 2006 conference in Houston, Texas. Annotation ©2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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Of the three late masterpieces that crown the extraordinary literary achievement of Henry James, The Wings of the Dove (1902) is at once the most personal and the most elemental. James drew on the memory of a beloved cousin who died young to create one of the three central characters, Milly Theale, an heiress with a short time to live and a passion for experiencing life to its fullest. To the creation of the other two, Merton Densher and the magnificent, predatory Kate Croy, who conspire in an act of deceit and betrayal, he brought a lifetime's distilled wisdom about the frailty of the human soul when it is trapped in the depths of need and desire. And he brought to the drama that unites these three characters, in the drawing rooms of London and on the storm-lit piazzas of Venice, a starkness and classical purity almost unprecedented in his work. Under its brilliant, coruscating surfaces, beyond the scrim of its marvelous rhetorical and psychological devices, The Wings of the Dove offers an unfettered vision of our civilization and its discontents. It represents a culmination of James's art and, as such, of the art of the novel itself.