Sig: 7 books

NOW A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! In the tradition of Sebastian Junger and Linda Greenlaw comes Captain Sig Hansen's rags-to-riches epic of his immigrant family's struggle against deadly Alaskan seas, freezing shipwrecks, and dangerously brutal conditions to achieve the American Dream Sig Hansen...

Hay en esta narración un importante precursor de la novela mexicana. Aquí se cuentan los pormenores e insólitos infortunios de un viaje alrededor del mundo en el siglo XVII, cruzado por peligros y acechanzas inimaginables. El protagonista de este viaje, un pobre aventurero de nombre Alonso Ramírez,...

Ningún otro libro de don Carlos de Sigüenza y Góngora ha tenido la fortuna y repercusión que la relación conocida indebidamente como Infortunios de Alonso Ramírez. La amenidad de su lectura, los indudables artificios literarios que presenta y la práctica inexistencia de novelas en la América...

This important book helps families address the necessary legal hurdles and emotional difficulties that arise with aging parents. Addressing the areas of relationships, emotions, and dignity with practical and scriptural insights, this book will help to ensure that the aging parent is protected along...

Nam-Sig bedeutet "männlicher Baum". Doch diesen Namen trägt eine Frau, die uns in diesem Buch ihre Geschichte erzählt: Ihre Wurzeln entspringen zwar in Südkorea, im Laufe ihres Lebens erstreckten sich die Zweige jedoch weit über die Kontinente. Mit 19 Jahren kam sie als examinierte...

Edited by Tim Ashwell, Masuko Miyahara, Steven Paydon and Alison Stewart, Collaborative Learning in Learner Development (“CLiLD”) presents 12 chapters, comprising reviews of the field, dialogue, action research and reflections, which together offer a multifaceted and critical new look at the widely...

This book examines the roles that public space plays in gentrification. Considering both cultural norms of public behavior and the municipal regulation of behavior in public, it shows how commonplace acts in everyday public spaces like sidewalks, streets, and parks work to establish neighborhood legitimacy...