Биографии и Мемуары
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"When you get dealt a tough hand, you might choose to fold or you might decide to hold. If you're Valerie Graves, you reshuffle the whole damn deck…Graves's can't-stop-won't-stop energy offers a jump start toward meeting objectives and renews hope. Pressure Makes Diamonds is about more than overcoming."–Essence Magazine"This is the unflinching memoir of a Black woman’s journey from the projects of Motown-era Michigan to the skyscrapers of Madison Avenue and beyond."– ...
| Автор | Valerie Graves |
10,000-copy first printing (and we expect to sell many more) Akashic is in its 8th printing (over 20,000 copies) of «South of the Pumphouse» by Les Claypool, the lead singer of Primus. This book should sell even better, as it is much more what the average fan would be interested in. The book has a star-studded cast of interviewees: Tim Alexander, Trey Anastasio (Phish), Matthew Bellamy (Muse), Les Claypool, Stewart Copeland (The Police), Chuck D (Public Enemy), Kirk Hammet (Metallica), Larry...
| Автор | Primus |
Justine Bateman was one of the stars on the hugely popular 1980s TV sitcom, Family Ties (with Michael J. Fox, etc.)At its height, roughly 62 million people tuned in weekly to watch Family Ties. 20,000-copy hardcover print run.Bateman was nominated for two best supporting actress Emmys and a Golden Globe for her role on Family Ties. Bateman has been active in film and TV for over thirty years as an actress, director, producer, and writer.In fall 2017, Bateman directed a short film that...
| Автор | Justine Bateman |
"Hurricane Street…[is] another raw expose on the cost of war. The book, which he calls a prequel, drills deep into the 17-day drama of a 1974 sit-in and hunger strike staged by Kovic and a band of fellow wounded veterans who took the federal building on Wilshire Boulevard by storm…The book is an unflinching anti-war declaration, written in blood and the sweat of too many haunted nights by a Vietnam Marine Corps sergeant who later opposed the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan."–Los Angeles...
| Автор | Ron Kovic |
"Magnificent."—Paul Preston, author of The Spanish Holocaust Brick maker by trade, revolutionary anarchist and historian by default; this is a study of the life of José Peirats (1908–1989) and the labor union that gave him life, the CNT. It is the biography of an individual but also of a collective agent—the working class Peirats was born into—and the affective ties of kinship, friendship, and community that cemented into a movement, the...
| Автор | Chris Ealham |
This title will be listed as Already Available and will be published in November, 2019 to time the release with a string of tour dates in Eastern Europe. Akashic has carved out a niche, over the years, of publishing beautiful photo books dedicated to the influential DC punk rock scene–Keep Your Eyes Open: The Fugazi Photos of Glen E. Friedman, Frame of Mind, Hard Art, DC 1979, etc. Akashic has strong connections to the fans of the era in music history. Though they officially disbanded 30 years...
| Автор | Alexis Fleisig |
The annals of field primatology are filled with stories about charismatic animals native to some of the most challenging and remote areas on earth. There are, for example, the chimpanzees of Tanzania, whose social and family interactions Jane Goodall has studied for decades; the mountain gorillas of the Virungas, chronicled first by George Schaller and then later, more obsessively, by Dian Fossey; various species of monkeys (Indian langurs, Kenyan baboons, and Brazilian spider monkeys) studied...
| Автор | Mary Sanders Pollock |
The photos and oral history the legendary punk bands Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Fugazi, and others will immediately catch the attention of punk fans worldwide. The documentary film Salad Days, produced by Scott Crawford, inspired this book. Salad Days has been one of the most successful films about American punk music. Key photographers include Jim Saah, Cynthia Connolly, Susie J. Horgan, and Jen Thomas. The photographs and oral history are truly electrifying, capturing a vital period in American...
| Автор | Scott Crawford |
This book is fun, fun, fun. The exploits of the worldly and wise Yellow Kid make for can't-put-down reading. We hope that bookbuyers will welcome the return of the Nabat series. We have gotten numerous requests over the years to resume the series and hope stores will be excited.Like other Nabat titles, the potential audience for the book is huge. Like Jack Black's You Can't Win, you can't go wrong recommending this title.The book was published by Broadway in their Library of...
| Автор | J.R. Weil |
Scathing and hilarious takedown of a frontman for the rich and powerful. Celebrity philanthropy comes in many guises, but no single figure better encapsulates its delusions, pretensions and wrongheadedness than U2’s iconic frontman, Bono—a fact neither sunglasses nor leather pants can hide. More than a mere philanthropist—indeed, he lags behind many of his peers when it comes to parting with his own money—Bono is better described as an advocate, one who has become an unwitting symbol of a...
| Автор | Harry Browne |
The best-selling account of the life of Latin American peasant woman and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. Now a global bestseller, the remarkable life of Rigoberta Menchú, a Guatemalan peasant woman, reflects on the experiences common to many Indian communities in Latin America. Menchú suffered gross injustice and hardship in her early life: her brother, father and mother were murdered by the Guatemalan military. She learned Spanish and turned to catechistic work as an...
| Автор | Rigoberta Menchu |
An eloquent and deeply felt memoir exploring the author's complex relationship with his Jewish identity. If I Am Not For Myself is a passionate, thought-provoking exploration of what it means to be Jewish in the twenty-first century. It traces the author’s upbringing in 1960s Jewish-American suburbia, his anti-war and pro-Palestinian activism on the British left, and life as a Jew among Muslims in Pakistan, Morocco, and Britain. Interwoven with this are the experiences of his...
| Автор | Mike Marqusee |
Following the acquittal of George Zimmerman in the fatal shooting of Trayvon Martin, three women – Alicia Garza, Opal Tometi, and Patrisse Khan-Cullors – came together to form an active response to the systemic racism causing the deaths of so many African-Americans. They simply said: Black Lives Matter; and for that, they were labelled terrorists. In this empowering account of survival, strength and resilience, Patrisse Khan-Cullors and award-winning author and journalist asha bandele recount...
| Автор | Patrisse Khan-Cullors |
Definitive biography of one of the most significant journalists of the twentieth century. Reporting from such varied locations as postcolonial Africa, revolutionary Iran, the military dictatorships of Latin America and Soviet Russia, the Polish journalist and writer Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski was one of the most influential eyewitness journalists of the twentieth century. During the Cold War, he was a dauntless investigator as well as a towering literary talent, and books such as The Emperor and ...
| Автор | Artur Domosławski |
Debunking the bluster of New York Times columnist and capitalist apologist Thomas Friedman, as part of Verso’s new “Counterblasts” series. Factual errors, ham-fisted analysis, and contradictory assertions—compounded by a penchant for mixed metaphors and name-dropping—distinguish the work of Pulitzer Prize–winning New York Times columnist and author Thomas Friedman. The Imperial Messenger reveals the true value of this media darling, a risible writer whose success tells us much about the...
| Автор | B. Fernandez |
An absorbing selection of Walter Benjamin’s personal manuscripts, images, and documents. The work of the great literary and cultural critic Walter Benjamin is an audacious plotting of history, art, and thought; a reservoir of texts, commentaries, scraps, and fragments of everyday life, art, and dreams. Throughout his life, Benjamin gathered together all kinds of artifacts, assortments of images, texts, and signs, themselves representing experiences, ideas, and hopes, each of which was...
| Автор | Walter Benjamin |
China's first literary dissident's Kafkaesque journey through the prisons of the Cultural Revolution. Hu Feng, the 'counterrevolutionary' leader of a banned literary school, spent twenty-five years in the Chinese Communist Party's prison system. But back in the Party's early days, he was one of its best known literary theoreticians and critics—at least until factional infighting, and his short fuse, made him persona non grata among the establishment. His wife, Mei...
| Автор | Mei Zhi |
Comprehensive and eloquent account of Fanon’s personal, intellectual and political life. Born in Martinique, Frantz Fanon (1925–61) trained as a psychiatrist in Lyon before taking up a post in colonial Algeria. He had already experienced racism as a volunteer in the Free French Army, in which he saw combat at the end of the Second World War. In Algeria, Fanon came into contact with the Front de Libération Nationale, whose ruthless struggle for independence was met with exceptional violence from...
| Автор | David Macey |
Wien, kurz nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg: Julian Passauer ist ein «fleißiger Taugenichts». Der Sohn des Stellvertretenden Direktors des Kunsthistorischen Museums wächst im Dachgeschoss von Schloss Schönbrunn umgeben von skurrilen Typen auf. Vaters lebenslange Sehnsucht nach dem Süden setzt sich in Julian fort. Auf einer einjährigen Schiffsreise umrundet er Afrika, er beginnt ein Studium, bricht es ab und wird schließlich professioneller Pokerspieler. Erst in einer Villa am Gardasee scheint er zur...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Blistering and timely interrogation of the politics and motives of an infamous ex-leftist. Irascible and forthright, Christopher Hitchens stood out as a man determined to do just that. In his younger years, a career-minded socialist, he emerged from the smoke of 9/11 a neoconservative “Marxist,” an advocate of America’s invasion of Iraq filled with passionate intensity. Throughout his life, he played the role of universal gadfly, whose commitment to the truth transcended the party line as well...
| Автор | Richard Seymour |
Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction When the body of a missing man is discovered in the Belvedere, an apparent suicide, resident Mikita Brottman becomes obsessed with the mysterious circumstances of his death. The Belvedere used to be a hotel dating back to Baltimore’s Golden Age but is now converted into flats, and as Brottman investigates the perplexing case of the dead man, she soon becomes caught up in the strange and violent secrets of the Belvedere’s past. Her...
| Автор | Mikita Brottman |
Haunting, beautifully written and deeply moving memoir of a young Israeli soldier. “She took from me the belief that absolute evil exists in this world, and the belief that I was avenging it and fighting against it. For that girl, I embodied absolute evil … Since then I have been left without my Holocaust, and since then everything in my life has assumed a new meaning: belongingness is blurred, pride is lacking, belief is faltering, contrition is heightening, forgiveness is being born.” The...
| Автор | Noam Chayut |
Yesterday’s Man: The Case Against Joe Biden exposes the forgotten history of Joe Biden, one of the United States’ longest-serving politicians, and one of its least scrutinized. Over nearly fifty years in politics, the man called “Middle-Class Joe” served as a key architect of the Democratic Party’s rightward turn, ushering in the end of the liberal New Deal order and enabling the political takeover of the radical right. Far from being a liberal stalwart, Biden often outdid even Reagan,...
| Автор | Branko Marcetic |
A moving life story from a leading voice in America’s immigrant rights struggle. Alfredo Gutierrez’s father, a US citizen, was deported to Mexico from his Arizona hometown—the mining town where Alfredo grew up. This occurred during a wave of anti-immigrant hysteria stoked by the Great Depression, but as Gutierrez makes clear, in a book that is both a personal chronicle and a thought-provoking history, the war on Mexican immigrants has rarely abated. Barack Obama now presides over an immigration...
| Автор | Alfredo Gutierrez |