The book is about twin sisters named after Greek goddesses. Athena and Diana Bravo are both exceptionally intelligent, beautiful, and popular, but have nothing in common. They never got along with each other since birth, to the chagrin of their parents. The story, set in San Francisco, weaves around the separate lives of the fraternal twins, who are as different as night and day. It touches on the challenges they encounter in their respective jobs, their successes, and their relationships. From the very start, their individual lives are colored by betrayal, intrigue, and exciting connections. Their dialogues are replete with innuendoes and repartees. Athena falls in love with Jonathan Prentiss, a dynamic lawyer who is also a main protagonist in the story, and Diana with Paolo Romano, a well-known chef. The animosity that exists between the twins results in countless conflicts, which lead to crime. Their paths cross unavoidably, and their lives become unbearably entangled till the end.
The book is about an out-of-the-ordinary romance between two individuals of different races. The story is set in New York City. The hero, Daniel Devereaux, is the citys most eligible bachelor and anchors an award-winning talk show in one of the big networks. The heroine, Cara Marino, is a Eurasian who comes to work with the United Nations. Their paths crossed providentially, and they find themselves drawn to each other through common interests. In the twists and turns, conflicts erupt when other characters blend into the situations. The book honors the great love between two people created differently but destined to be together.
The book tells about the late onset of love in a utopian environment. When King Franco V of the island kingdom of Marvella visits the Philippines, he falls instantly in love with a beautiful and accomplished Filipina, Marianne Diez, who had earlier planned to remain single all her life. He pursues her endlessly in a whirlwind courtship until he captures her heart. The blending together of their separate worlds lends color to the story as they discover the depth of each other’s character. The book is punctuated with meaningful and thought-provoking dialogues and innuendoes between the two lovers in the second prime of their life. Marianne gets thrust into the life of royalty, which is entirely new to her, as she becomes queen, a title she never wanted or dreamt of. Most of all, it is about finding love in one’s senior years and the unimaginable joy that comes with it.
The book is about twin sisters named after Greek goddesses. Athena and Diana Bravo are both exceptionally intelligent, beautiful, and popular, but have nothing in common. They never got along with each other since birth, to the chagrin of their parents. The story, set in San Francisco, weaves around the separate lives of the fraternal twins, who are as different as night and day. It touches on the challenges they encounter in their respective jobs, their successes, and their relationships. From the very start, their individual lives are colored by betrayal, intrigue, and exciting connections. Their dialogues are replete with innuendoes and repartees. Athena falls in love with Jonathan Prentiss, a dynamic lawyer who is also a main protagonist in the story, and Diana with Paolo Romano, a well-known chef. The animosity that exists between the twins results in countless conflicts, which lead to crime. Their paths cross unavoidably, and their lives become unbearably entangled till the end.
The book tells about the late onset of love in a utopian environment. When King Franco V of the island kingdom of Marvella visits the Philippines, he falls instantly in love with a beautiful and accomplished Filipina, Marianne Diez, who had earlier planned to remain single all her life. He pursues her endlessly in a whirlwind courtship until he captures her heart. The blending together of their separate worlds lends color to the story as they discover the depth of each other’s character. The book is punctuated with meaningful and thought-provoking dialogues and innuendoes between the two lovers in the second prime of their life. Marianne gets thrust into the life of royalty, which is entirely new to her, as she becomes queen, a title she never wanted or dreamt of. Most of all, it is about finding love in one’s senior years and the unimaginable joy that comes with it.
The book is about an out-of-the-ordinary romance between two individuals of different races. The story is set in New York City. The hero, Daniel Devereaux, is the citys most eligible bachelor and anchors an award-winning talk show in one of the big networks. The heroine, Cara Marino, is a Eurasian who comes to work with the United Nations. Their paths crossed providentially, and they find themselves drawn to each other through common interests. In the twists and turns, conflicts erupt when other characters blend into the situations. The book honors the great love between two people created differently but destined to be together.
This work offers a new perspective on the study of the sources of S. T. Coleridge's poetics. The author argues that the philosophical system endorsed by the Cambridge Platonist Ralph Cudworth significantly contributed to the genesis of Coleridge's concept of the symbol and its related symbolic knowledge. After an initial view on the different articulations the symbol acquired in Coleridge's theorizations over his career, the book reverts to the poet's formative years from 1795 to 1798, in order to reveal the roots of the concept. Apart from discussing Coleridge's direct readings of Cudworth's The True Intellectual System of the Universe in the years 1795 and 1796, the author explores the reception of Cudworth's ideas in a number of philosophers', scientists', poets' and literary theorists' works of the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries which were, in turn, read by the Romantic author. The study also provides new insights into Coleridge's lectures and poems in which the Coleridgean notion of symbol was born: Lectures on Revealed Religion, «The Destiny of Nations», «Religious Musings» and the Conversation Poems in the light of Cudworth's philosophical tenets.
The novel aim of this book is to illustrate the MR imaging features of the fetal and the neonatal brain by matching prenatal and postnatal images for a wide range of neurological abnormalities. The focus is on both conventional and advanced MR imaging techniques, including high-resolution MR autopsy of the fetal brain. During the past ten years, neuroradiological evaluation of the neonatal and the prenatal brain has advanced tremendously. However, even though they are intrinsically related, these two critical stages in brain development are usually studied and presented separately. In order to have a sound understanding of neonatal brain diseases, detailed knowledge of prenatal brain pathology is immensely helpful; conversely, knowledge of neonatal brain disease is a prerequisite for understanding many fetal brain lesions. Written by experts in the field, Perinatal Neuroradiology will be of value for neuroradiologists and pediatric radiologists, as well as obstetricians and neonatologists.
Arguing that the early Royal Society moved science toward racialization by giving skin color a new prominence as an object of experiment and observation, Cristina Malcolmson provides the first book-length examination of studies of skin color in the Society. She also brings new light to the relationship between early modern literature, science, and the establishment of scientific racism in the nineteenth century. Malcolmson demonstrates how unstable the idea of race remained in England at the end of the seventeenth century, and yet how extensively the intertwined institutions of government, colonialism, the slave trade, and science were collaborating to usher it into public view. Malcolmson places the genre of the voyage to the moon in the context of early modern discourses about human difference, and argues that Cavendish’s Blazing World and Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels satirize the Society’s emphasis on skin color.
Cristina Saralegui, hailed as the queen of Latin media, is a beloved television personality, the former host and executive producer of the Emmy-Award winning talk show The Cristina Show, a savvy businesswoman, one of the most influential Hispanics in America, and a loving wife and mother. But "having it all" hasn't always come easy for Cristina. In Rise Up and Shine!, Cristina doesn't just reveal the secrets behind her success. She also shares personal, hard-won lessons that have helped her through life's most difficult moments, like the cancellation of her Univision talk show after twenty-one years of dedicated work and her son's life-threatening battle with bipolar disorder. Cristina knows what true struggle feels like and the tremendous willpower it takes to get through challenges, persevere and triumph. With Cristina's straight-shooting, tell-it-like-it-is approach and the wisdom that comes from life's highs and lows, Rise Up and Shine! is an empowering guide to finding your passions and achieving your dreams.
Functional foods (foods with known bioactive properties) have shown potential for preventive and therapeutic treatments. However, this potential must be safely determined before they enter the commercial market. At the same time, nutrition research is transforming into a data driven field with reference to the identification and development of functional food products due to the large number of variables affecting food biochemistry in the human body. This volume presents reviews of recent advances in food chemistry, food technology and nutraceutical research (for diet therapy and cosmetics). Chapters in this volume cover a broad spectrum of topics: - drug discovery and development in the modern nutraceutical industry, - recent developments in the extraction, identification and quantification of bioactive peptides in foods, - concepts of bioavailability, bioaccessibility, bioactivity, bioefficiency and bioconversion of bioactive foods, - synthetic routes for obtaining bioactive compounds, - the role of nutrigenomics to identify key cellular functions by specific genetic and epigenetic interactions with a nutrient, - anti-cancer properties of important bioactive components of medicinal plants, - the effect of a diet based on different bioactive foods on prevention and treatment of diabetes, - antioxidant effects on cardiovascular disease, - beneficial effects of bioactive foods on metabolic syndrome, - the potential of tauroursodeoxycholic acid on prevention and recovery of neurodegenerative diseases, - the effects of natural phytochemicals in prostate cancer, - the effects of methylxanthines (caffeine and others), and culinary methods on physiological and toxicological effects of the bioactive food constituents. The volume is an ideal reference for pharmacy students, nutritionists, healthcare providers and nutraceutical R&D specialists interested in functional foods. [Series Intro] Frontiers in Bioactive Compounds brings edited reviews on the analysis and characterization of natural compounds of medicinal interest. Each volume covers useful information on a variety of natural sources as well as analytical techniques. This series is essential reading for analytical and medicinal chemists as well as professionals involved in natural and pharmaceutical product research and development.
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