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Noted traveller and environmentalist Hap Wilson shares accounts of his lifelong involvement with wilderness living within the Canadian Shield. Wilson knows better than most how to live in the woods. As park ranger, canoe guide, outfitter, trail builder, and environmental activist, he learned from firsthand experience that nature can neither be beaten or tamed.This three-book bundle includes: <br/> <br/> <b><i>The Cabin: A Search for Personal...
| Автор | Hap Wilson |
This special 2-book bundle contains a number of perspectives on a man who was arguably Canada’s most famous political leader, a figure of legendary proportions in the history of Canada’s birth and development. Ged Martin’s biography tells Macdonald’s story. Shocked by Canada’s 1837 rebellions, Macdonald sought to build alliances and avoid future conflicts. Thanks to financial worries and an alcohol problem, he almost quit politics in 1864. The challenge of building Confederation harnessed his...
| Автор | Ged Martin |
Die wilde Karriere der ROLLING STONES – jetzt zum ersten Mal als Audiostory! Vor 50 Jahren standen sie zum ersten Mal auf der Bühne. Damit sind sie die dienstälteste Rock-Band der Welt. Die Audiostory erzählt, wie Mick, Keith und Co. zusammenfanden und ihr Manager sie zum bösen Gegenstück der braven Beatles machte. Wie sich die Band trotz Krisen und Drogen-Exzessen immer wieder aufraffte und neu erfand wird ebenso detailliert beschrieben wie die Mammut-Tourneen in der zweiten Hälfte ihrer...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
After twenty years of marriage, three daughters, active careers, and the ups and downs that come with any relationship, nothing could have prepared singer Nita Whitaker LaFontaine for what she would face after she lost her husband, legendary voice-over king Don LaFontaine, to complications resulting from cancer treatment. Silenced by his death and lost in a world without him, she was forced to face the looming quiet that overtook her. Finding My Voice is at once a love story and a painfully raw...
| Автор | Nita Whitaker LaFontaine |
Das erste Hörbuch zur Erfolgsgeschichte der größten Band aller Zeiten. Erleben Sie erstmals als Hörbuch in deutscher Sprache die atemberaubende Story der «Fab Four»: Vom ersten Aufeinandertreffen John Lennons mit Paul McCartney bis zur Auflösung der Band 1970 wird die Karriere des Liverpooler Quartetts detailgetreu nachgezeichnet. Historische Originaltöne der Beatles, Erinnerungen von Fans und Augenzeugen sowie ein Instrumentalsoundtrack von «Love me do» bis «Let it be» machen das Audiobuch zu...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Nelson Algren was a renowned writer, known for his penetrating and influential social novels such as The Man With the Golden Arm and A Walk on the Wild Side. Originally published in 1935, Somebody in Boots was Algren's first novel, based on his experiences living in Texas during the Great Depression. A wonderful companion to Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath, this new edition of Somebody in Boots features an introduction by Colin Asher, who is writing a forthcoming biography of Algren.
| Автор | Nelson Algren |
Fans of western place-based writers Ivan Doig, Annie Proulx, Kent Haruf, and David Gutterson will be drawn to this novel.The language and tone of the book will appeal to fans of Nicole Krauss and Louise Erdrich. The element of adventure will appeal to fans of State of Wonder by Ann Patchett and Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.Author lives in Boulder, CO. Book should have appeal in Denver and Boulder in particularBlurbs to come from:William Haywood Henderson (Augusta Locke, among others)Tracy Ross...
| Автор | Rachel Weaver |
Brian Wilson ist genialer Musiker, der uns unzählige Welthits wie «Surfin USA» oder «Good Vibrations» und das Jahrhundertalbum «Pet Sounds» geschenkt hat. Der amerikanische Rolling Stone hat ihn unter die 20 wichtigsten Künstler aller Zeiten gewählt. Brian Wilson ist auch ein labiler Mensch, der sich mit Tabletten, Drogen und Alkohol immer wieder in Zonen bewegt hat, aus der man ohne fremde Hilfe nicht heil herauskommt. Viele Jahre verschwand Brian Wilson entmündigt in Kliniken, bis seine zweite...
| Автор | Brian Wilson |
Business in North Korea: a paradoxical and fascinating situation is interpreted by a true insider. In 2002, the Swiss power company ABB appointed Felix Abt its country director for North Korea. The Swiss Entrepreneur lived and worked in North Korea for seven years, one of the few foreign businessmen there. After the experience, Abt felt compelled to write A Capitalist in North Korea to describe the multifaceted society he encountered. North Korea, at the time, was heavily sanctioned by the UN...
| Автор | Felix Abt |
Worauf kommt es an im Leben? Was ist wichtig, was weniger? 102 Jahre alt ist Elisabeth Heller, und langsam, so sagt sie in den Gesprächen, die sie mit ihrem Sohn André in den vergangenen Monaten geführt hat, geht es ans Verabschieden. «Innerlich sieht man sich noch jung und klettert auf Berge und segelt über den Wolfgangsee, freut sich auf den nächsten Tag», sagt die alte Dame, die geboren wurde, als der Erste Weltkrieg ausbrach und mit 18 den Süßwarenfabrikanten Stephan Heller heiratete. Ein...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Wer steckt wirklich hinter dem Fall der Mauer? Wie kam Papst Johannes Paul II. auf den Heiligen Stuhl? Und warum ist es pädagogisch wertvoll, bei Rot über die Straße zu gehen? Dieter Nuhr stellt unsere Geschichtsschreibung auf den Kopf und offenbart sich als heimlicher Hintermann des Weltgeschehens. Von der Entwicklung des Computers über die Eurokrise bis zur WM-Vergabe, überall hat er seine Finger im Spiel, um die Menschheit in eine glückliche Zukunft zu führen. Der Faktenlage nach geht sein...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This is a book about passion, obsession and discovery in an amazing land, but also about the voyage of a highly talented composer and writer. A House in Bali remains one of the most remarkable books ever written about the fabled island of Bali. This classic book tells the story of Balinese culture through a history of Balinese music.First published in 1947, it tells the story of the writer and composer Colin McPhee's (1900–64) obsession with a music once unknown to the West,...
| Автор | Colin McPhee |
St. Nadie in Winter is a spiritual autobiography that includes Zen poetry, memoir, and raw insight.There are no easy answers to be found, no easy prescriptions in this stunning twenty-first century Buddhist book. Keenan's world-his boyhood Catholicism, his alcoholism, his struggle to maintain honest relationships with his wife and children, his work as a poet and librarian, his Zen practice—offers a road map for any reader grappling with the dark night of the soul.
| Автор | Terrance Keenan |
**Winner of the Canada Book Award** **Winner of the Readers' Favorite Gold Award for Non-Fiction Sports** The Fighter Within is an inspirational mixed martial arts book for fans which brings insider stories, heartfelt moments, and a human element to what's perceived as a savage sport. It reveals thoughtful, encouraging, and even lighthearted insights into the minds and souls of true champions. This book provides an intimate look at the author's journey through the world of...
| Автор | Christopher Olech |
"Bruce Lee was known as an amazing martial artist, but he was also a profound thinker. He left behind seven volumes of writing on everything from quantum physics to philosophy." — John Blake, CNN Named one of TIME magazine's «100 Greatest Men of the Century,» Bruce Lee's impact and influence has only grown since his untimely death in 1973. Part of the seven-volume Bruce Lee Library, this installment of the famed martial artist's private notebooks allows his...
| Автор | Bruce Lee |
Letters of the Dragon: Correspondence, 1958-1973 is a fascinating glimpse of the private Bruce Lee behind the public image—a man with the patience and concern to dedicate as much effort to crafting a thoughtful personal answer to the letter of a young fan as to those from his old friends and associates; an extremely active man never too busy to make time for an old family friend in need of simple companionship; a man who never wrote without careful thought, and never thought from the...
| Автор | Bruce Lee |
This book of Korean history is an unofficial and exceptionally honest biography of South Korea's deposed chief executive, Syngman Rhee.Rhee's career spanned the decades between the late-nineteenth-century period of China's suzerainty in Korea and the revolt of April 1960 and reached a peak of popularity following his country's liberation at the end of World War II. Yet, twelve years later he was thrown out of office by revolution.During his lifetime, he has become almost a...
| Автор | Richard C. Allen |
Now available for the first time in English, Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters, the late Shoshin Nagamine's groundbreaking work, recounts the legacy and life histories of Okinawa's greatest martial artists.In addition to profiles of the legendary tegumi wrestlers, Nagamine-sensei features many of the world's great karate masters, including the founder of the core styles from which modern karate sprang.Tales of Okinawa's Great Masters corrects historical inaccuracies...
| Автор | Shosh Nagamine |
Farida Khalaf ist 18 Jahre alt, als der IS im August 2014 ihr Dorf im irakischen Sinjar-Gebirge überfällt. Die Terroristen treiben die Männer und Jungen des Dorfes zusammen und töten sie. Die Mädchen und Frauen nehmen sie mit. Vier Monate lebt Farida in der Hölle auf Erden: Sie wird als Sklavin von Mann zu Mann verkauft, vergewaltigt, fast totgeschlagen. Doch sie überlebt und entwickelt in der Folge den ungeheuren Mut, sich ihren Peinigern zu widersetzen. Zusammen mit sechs anderen Mädchen, die...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
”Green Card STEM Voices” is a collection of essays and digital narratives from twenty immigrants and refugees living in Minnesota and working in STEM. This multimedia project serves as a platform for first generation immigrants and refugees working in science, technology, engineering, and math to share their stories in their own words. Their essays and digital narrative will offer insight into the experiences and expertise they’ve gleaned through their work in fields that include medicine,...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
John Marion Porter (1839–1898) grew up working at his family's farm and dry goods store in Butler County, Kentucky. The oldest of Reverend Nathaniel Porter's nine children, he was studying to become a lawyer when the Civil War began. As the son of a family of slave owners, Porter identified with the Southern cause and wasted little time enlisting in the Confederate army. He and his lifelong friend Thomas Henry Hines served in the Ninth Kentucky Calvary under John Hunt Morgan, the...
| Автор | John M. Porter |
“[Norman Lock’s fiction] shimmers with glorious language, fluid rhythms, and complex insights.” — NPR In the seventh stand-alone book of The American Novels series, Ellen Finch, former stenographer to Henry James, recalls her time as an assistant to Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, heroes of America’s woman suffrage movement, and her friendship with the diminutive Margaret, one of P. T. Barnum’s circus “eccentrics.” When her infant son is kidnapped by the Klan, Ellen, Margaret, and...
| Автор | Norman Lock |
Celebrated as the “Indiana Jones of American literature,” legendary author Paul Theroux has explored the world and shared his vision of it in more than 50 books of bestselling fiction and nonfiction. In Camp Echo, his new novella for Scribd Originals, Theroux delivers a compelling coming-of-age story about racism, masculinity, morality, and leadership. Inspired by his own experiences as a Boy Scout in the early 1950s, Theroux writes with precision and vivid detail, drawing from his days as a...
| Автор | Paul Theroux |
Deutschland, 1933: Ernst Lossa stammt aus einer Familie von «Jenischen», Zigeuner, wie man damals sagte. Er gilt als schwieriges Kind, wird von Heim zu Heim geschoben, bis er schließlich in die psychiatrische Anstalt in Kaufbeuren eingewiesen wird. Hier nimmt sein Leben die letzte, schreckliche Wendung: Obgleich geistig völlig gesund, wird Ernst Lossa 1944 die Todespritze verabreicht. Der Autor berichtet aus der Perspektive des Jungen. Er macht die Denkstrukturen des NS-Regimes sichtbar und...
| Автор | Robert Domes |