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Author
Series
Publisher
Lumen
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
Español
Description
Cómo una educación puede salvar una vida. "Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación." Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa y doblegada a las leyes que establece su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de que el final del mundo es inminente. Ni Tara ni sus hermanos van a la escuela o acuden al médico cuando enferman. Todos...
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"In 1921, a young woman arose from the poverty of the Texas cotton fields. She captured the hearts of the American Black population, teaching them to overcome not only the racial barriers of the time but also the barriers within themselves. She dared to dream, and she challenged them to do so as well. Her name was Bessie Coleman. And, for Bessie Coleman, the sky was the limit..."--Container.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
Formats
Description
"Si quieres cambiar el mundo, comienza por tender tu cama. Si tiendes tu cama al despertar, habrás cumplido con tu primera tarea. Tendrás una sensación de orgullo y te alentará a cumplir un objetivo más, después otro y otro. Esa pequeña labor se convertirá en muchas metas cumplidas. El autor, quien se sobrepuso a difíciles retos y se recuperó de un grave accidente de paracaídas, nos cuenta las profundas lecciones de vida -- valorar la compañía,...
Publisher
Fuseic Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"This docu-comedy follows Chonda as she takes the audience on an emotional roller-coaster ride descending to the depths of dark despair and rising to the heights of victory propelled by laughter, perseverance and faith."--Container insert.
9) El coach de Silicon Valley: lecciones de liderazgo del legendario coach de negocios Bill Campbell
Author
Publisher
Conecta
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Español
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
©2013
Language
English
Description
Join Executive Producer Anthony Bourdain as he takes viewers inside the mind of noted chef and restaurateur David Chang. Bourdain narrates these 16 half-hour episodes as The Mind of a Chef explores the kitchen, world, and mind of chef Chang. Named by Time Magazine as one of the world's "100 most influential people", Chang is the creative force behind New York City's wildly popular Momofuku restaurants and the New York Times best-selling cookbooks...
14) Julie & Julia
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman with her life's purpose, to her very pleasant surprise....
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
One part Southern soul, one part Asian spice, and one part New York attitude, Chef Edward Lee is a Korean-American who grew up in Brooklyn, trained in NYC kitchens, and has spent the better part of a decade honing his vision at 610 Magnolia Restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky. Edward Lee's culinary style draws inspiration from his Asian heritage, his New York training, and his embrace of the American South, coupled with the best ingredients from local...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Through his cuisine at Charleston's McCrady's and Husk, Chef Sean Brock is perhaps the best-known spokesperson for both expanding and preserving the integrity of traditional Southern food ways. His cuisine shines a spotlight on the untold varieties of rice, beans, and grains which once made America the envy of the world. Brock's obsessive and ever-growing collection of seeds and recipes, along with countless hours of research, help to ensure that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abdo Kids Junior es una subdivisión de Abdo Kids
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Español
Description
This book has it all: Bright and colorful images, historical photographs, and lots of sweet information about presidents and their pet birds. Readers will love seeing every pet owner, from the Madisons to Teddy Roosevelt. Complete with a picture glossary. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo Kids Junior is an imprint of Abdo Kids, a division of ABDO. Translated by native Spanish speakers--and immersion school educators....
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Season 4 of the Emmy and James Beard Award-winning series The Mind of a Chef takes you into the mind of Chef Gabrielle Hamilton, best-selling author of "Blood, bones, and butter", as she runs her restaurant, explores her roots in Pennsylvania, and ventures to Rome and Milan, all the while retracing the inspiration for her culinary career ad exploring what it truly means to cook, think, create, and live in today's food-obsessed world. Ever since 1999,...
Series
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
From Executive Producer Anthony Bourdain, The Mind of a Chef brings viewers into Magnus Nilsson's meticulously planned and executed kitchen at Sweden's Fäviken for an all-access look at what it takes to run what some people say is the most creative and surprising restaurant on the planet. Favoring simple cooking methods and local ingredients, Nilsson and his team reject popular contemporary cooking styles while relying on innate skills and knowledge...
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