Louise Brown Bücher

Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern versucht die Journalistin Louise Brown der Endlichkeit des Lebens etwas Sinnstiftendes abzugewinnen. Sie wird Trauerrednerin und Zeugin dessen, was von uns bleibt. Dies verändert nicht nur ihre Einstellung zum Tod, sondern auch ihre Haltung zum Leben. Louise Brown schenkt uns unvergessliche Bilder, die daran erinnern, was uns als Menschen ausmacht. Ein tröstendes und befreiendes Buch, das Mut macht, das Leben auf die Dinge auszurichten, die von Bedeutung sind.Mehr zum InhaltAls Trauerrednerin hat Louise Brown zwei wichtige Zuhören und Erzählen. Zuhören darf sie den Hinterbliebenen, die im Trauergespräch vom Leben der Verstorbenen berichten. An der Trauerfeier erzählt sie dann deren Geschichte und verleiht damit diesem schwierigen Moment des Abschiednehmens menschliche Wärme und Trost. Louise Brown erkennt, dass man durch die Beschäftigung mit dem Tod viel fürs Leben lernen kann und es nicht die großen Errungenschaften sind, sondern Wesenszüge wie Humor, Mut, Zärtlichkeit und Widerstandsfähigkeit, die bleiben, wenn ein Mensch geht. Ein Buch voller Wärme und Menschlichkeit, das Raum schafft, über die eigene Endlichkeit nachzudenken und mit ihr Frieden zu schließen.

Als Beobachterin ist die englische Wissenschaftlerin Louise Brown ins Rotlichtviertel von Lahore gekommen: Sie will die alte Kunst der Kurtisanen kennen lernen. Doch das moderne Leben im '"Königsviertel" hat seine eigenen Gesetze - und duldet keine bloßen Zuschauer.

Nach dem Tod ihrer Eltern versucht die Journalistin Louise Brown der Endlichkeit des Lebens etwas Sinnstiftendes abzugewinnen. Sie wird Trauerrednerin und Zeugin dessen, was von uns bleibt. Dies verändert nicht nur ihre Einstellung zum Tod, sondern auch ihre Haltung zum Leben. Louise Brown schenkt uns unvergessliche Bilder, die daran erinnern, was uns als Menschen ausmacht. Ein tröstendes und befreiendes Buch, das Mut macht, das Leben auf die Dinge auszurichten, die von Bedeutung sind. [Diogenes.ch].

Die Kraft des Schreibens kann uns helfen, mit der Trauer weiterzugehen. Mit großem Einfühlungsvermögen, Gedanken aus ihrem Buch ›Was bleibt, wenn wir sterben‹, neuesten Erkenntnissen zur Trauer, vorsichtigen Fragen und kleinen Aufgaben ermutigt die Journalistin und Trauerrednerin Louise Brown Hinterbliebene, ihre Gedanken zum Verlust und ihre Erinnerungen an das gemeinsame Leben zu notieren. Denn sie weiß: Trauer erzählt eine wichtige Geschichte über Liebe und Verbundenheit.

At 11.47pm on July 25, 1978 Louise Brown was the first person ever to be born through science rather than as the result of two people having sex. The birth was hailed as a miracle by the world s media making her instantly famous. Her birth created shockwaves for the church, politicians and the medical profession. Louise grew up at the centre of the debate about the morality of In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) while also being a beacon of hope to millions of childless couples throughout the world. For the first time Louise tells the story of her world-changing birth and its impact on her life. 'There aren't many people that can say they were world famous within hours of being born' Louise Brown This book is a special 40th anniversary edition of My Life As The World's First Test-Tube Baby.

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A luscious, enthralling and colourful novel of India, sure to appeal to readers of Dinah Jefferies' THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE. 'Beautifully written, you can smell the spices, feel the heat, and your heart will break, you will laugh at some of the things Mam says, and cry at others, you will want a sequel' Lovereading Shortlisted for the HWA Goldsboro Debut Crown Eden Gardens, Calcutta, the 1940s. In a ramshackle house, streets away from the grand colonial mansions of the British, live Maisy, her Mam and their ayah, Pushpa. Whiskey-fuelled and poverty-stricken, Mam entertains officers in the night - a disgrace to British India. All hopes are on beautiful Maisy to restore their good fortune. But Maisy's more at home in the city's forbidden alleyways, eating bazaar food and speaking Bengali with Pushpa, than dancing in glittering ballrooms with potential husbands. Then one day Maisy's tutor falls ill. His son stands in. Poetic, handsome and ambitious for an independent India, Sunil Banerjee promises Maisy the world. So begins a love affair that will cast her future, for better and for worse. Just as the Second World War strikes and the empire begins to crumble... This is the other side of British India. A dizzying, scandalous, dangerous world, where race, class and gender divide and rule.

From the author of EDEN GARDENS, an Indian story of love, obsession and the quest to find a child - for all fans of THE TEA PLANTER'S WIFE.

The Asian sex trade is often assumed to cater predominantly to foreigners.  Sex Slaves  turns that belief on its head to show that while western sex tourists have played a vital part in the growth of the industry, the primary customers of Asia’s indentured sex workers and of its child prostitutes are overwhelmingly Asian men. Here are the voices of some of the world’s most silent and abused women—women who have been forced into prostitution by the men they trust. This is their story, including the journey from home to captivity, the horrors of "seasoning" for prostitution, and the hidden life within the brothel.

Barnes & Noble Discover Great New WritersA great journalist takes readers places they've never been before, while a great writer makes them feel as though they're really there. Brown qualifies on both counts, as evidenced by her groundbreaking foray into the lives of the women of Heera Mandi, a red-light district in Lahore, Pakistan.An academic researcher who has studied prostitution globally, Brown spent four years gathering materials for The Dancing Girls of Lahore, and informs readers that this red-light district dates from ancient times, when courtesans would vie for the hearts of sultans and emperors. The older women like to remember themselves as artists. "Their skills had nothing to do with sex -- except, perhaps, sometimes." But today Heera Mandi is a run-down, congested, dangerous ghetto where women are born into the profession with scant hope of escaping.Brown's depiction of these "dancing girls" is as gripping as it is devastating. She describes the influence of the local drug trade and the filthy conditions in which the women live, and readers sense her struggle with her role as an observer when she desperately wishes to save one young girl from a dismal future. The Dancing Girls of Lahore is essential reading, because it forces its readers to see that regardless of how much women have achieved in many parts of the world, there's still much progress to be made.(Fall 2005 Selection)