5 Biographies eBooks

There Are No Goodbyes: Guidance and Comfort From Those Who Have Passed by Elizabeth Robinson
Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers by Lucy Gray
Bannon: Always the Rebel by Keith Koffler
Sheer Willpower: A Mutiny to Motherhood by Lauri M. Velotta-Rankin
Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science by Christoph Irmscher

There Are No Goodbyes: Guidance and Comfort From Those Who Have Passed by Elizabeth Robinson
English | September 5th, 2017 | ASIN: B072KLY5M9, ISBN: 1401950795 | 234 Pages | EPUB | 3.55 MB
From a young age, trained counsellor, Elizabeth Robinson, was aware of being able to sense and know beyond the five senses. Her ability to see ‘beyond the veil’ into the spiritual realm has allowed her to effectively illuminate and articulate what holds people back from expressing their true potential.
We live in a society that teaches us that contact with those who have passed does not exist; we have a medical model that, for the most part, labels these as aberrant experiences, is finite and, frequently, judgmental. In her work, Elizabeth combines conventional wisdom with knowledge gleaned from beyond the physical.
In this deeply moving account, Elizabeth shares her extraordinary path to self-awareness. Tracing her journey from practicing privately and in hospitals in Australia, to living and working in the U.S., and returning to Sydney, she outlines experiences with clients and colleagues who have passed, and the insight and comfort that those experiences provide to those still living.
There Are No Goodbyes firmly makes the case that we are spiritual beings having a human experience. The phenomenal accounts in this book help us realize that there is no need to fear death, as we are all immortal and innately spiritual beings, connected eternally by the power of unconditional love!

Balancing Acts: Three Prima Ballerinas Becoming Mothers by Lucy Gray
2015 | ISBN: 1616892544 | English | 160 pages | EPUB | 15 MB
There are few jobs more rarefied or as physically and mentally demanding as prima ballerina. And yet, despite very real professional risks, three dancers from the world-class San Francisco Ballet all decided to have children at the pinnacle of their careers. In Balancing Acts, photographer Lucy Gray takes readers on an unforgettable fourteen-year journey with these ballerinas, capturing their remarkable grit and determination.
In dramatic black-and white photography, Gray documents their struggles to balance the demands of family and work—from their tireless preparation in rehearsals and dazzling mastery of craft displayed on stage, to their time spent relaxing at home with family and even while giving birth. In extensive interviews the dancers and their husbands discuss their stories with great candor, providing remarkable insight into the life of a ballerina and the everyday challenges and joys of mothers everywhere.

Bannon: Always the Rebel by Keith Koffler
English | November 13th, 2017 | ASIN: B073K8RSJ5, ISBN: 1621577031 | 256 Pages | EPUB | 0.64 MB
"By now, everyone in America knows Steve Bannon, the force of nature who has shaped the Trump presidency more than anyone except Trump himself. If you want to know what's behind that force of nature—if you want to know Steve Bannon the man—this is the indispensable book for you." —DAVID HOROWITZ, author of Big Agenda.
He helped engineer one of the greatest upsets in political history—the election of Donald J. Trump as president of the United States.
And he's far from done.
Now he wants to restore America—its prosperity, its sense of self, and its ability to survive a perilous twenty-first century.
To do that, former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon intends to transform the Republican Party from a club for establishment flunkies into a populist political force powerful enough to take on America's military, economic, and cultural adversaries.
In Bannon: Always the Rebel, veteran White House reporter Keith Koffler—who had hours of exclusive access to Bannon, both during and immediately after his tenure at the White House—offers a penetrating portrait of the man and his ideas.
In Bannon, you'll learn:
• How Bannon's core values come from his Catholic faith, his working-class background, and his service in the Navy
• How Bannon's faith helped him stop drinking
• Why Bannon—even as a Harvard Business School grad—was always an outsider
• How he made his money in Hollywood—and then became both a maverick writer, producer, and director of conservative documentaries and the leader of a political movement at Breitbart
• How Bannon plans to remake the GOP as a workers' party that will attract minority voters and become the dominant political force of the twenty-first century
• Why Bannon believes America is a civilization in crisis

Sheer Willpower: A Mutiny to Motherhood by Lauri M. Velotta-Rankin
English | July 29th, 2017 | ASIN: B07481KQJZ, ISBN: 1545404879 | 255 Pages | EPUB/AZW3 | 1.01 MB
She never imagined the pursuit to parenthood would involve the emotional assault of an adoption agency's flexible morality-but it did. Lauri M. Velotta-Rankin and her husband were sent overseas by an unscrupulous adoption agency to chase the ghosts of children they'd never bring home.
After turning to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), a life-threatening diagnosis sent them reeling with fear and to the brink of emotional collapse. Despite an onslaught of crushing blows, a gold thread of compassion was weaved into the fabric of their story. An infinite supply of benevolent refuge was found during an unanticipated two-week stay in the home of a Moroccan grandmother. Though there was no personal history, shared culture, or even common language, an immeasurable bond developed. And when the couple decided to explore domestic adoption, a pregnant teenager's weekly emails restored an emotion that had been ravaged throughout their journey: hope.
Triumphing with revitalization, Sheer Willpower is an astonishing account of determination fortified by the resilience of maternal spirit.

Louis Agassiz: Creator of American Science by Christoph Irmscher
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1524704946 | 454 Pages | EPUB (True) | 24.16 MB
"This book is not just about a man of science but also about a scientific culture in the making—warts and all." —The New York Times Book Review
Charismatic and controversial, Louis Agassiz is our least known revolutionary—some fifty years after American independence, he became a founding father of American science. One hundred and seventy-five years ago, a Swiss immigrant took America by storm, launching American science as we know it. The irrepressible Louis Agassiz, legendary at a young age for his work on mountain glaciers, focused his prodigious energies on the fauna of the New World. Invited to deliver a series of lectures in Boston, he never left, becoming the most famous scientist of his time.
A pioneer in field research and an obsessive collector, Agassiz enlisted the American public in a vast campaign to send him natural specimens, dead or alive, for his ingeniously conceived museum of comparative zoology. As an educator of enduring impact, he trained a generation of American scientists and science teachers, men and women alike. Irmscher sheds new light on Agassiz's fascinating partnership with his brilliant wife, Elizabeth Cary Agassiz, a science writer in her own right who would go on to become the first president of Radcliffe College.
But there's a dark side to the story. Irmscher adds unflinching evidence of Agassiz's racist impulses and shows how avidly Americans looked to men of science to mediate race policy. The book's potent, original scenes include the pitched battle between Agassiz and his student Henry James Clark as well as the merciless, often amusing exchanges between Darwin and Harvard botanist Asa Gray over Agassiz's stubborn resistance to evolution. A fascinating life story, both inspiring and cautionary, for anyone interested in the history of American ideas.



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