Биографии и Мемуары
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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 |
Margaretha (Maggie) Jooste was net 13 jaar oud toe die Anglo-Boereoorlog uitbreek en haar lewe ingrypend verander. Ná maande in huisarres word sy en haar gesin na ’n konsentrasiekamp in Natal gestuur. Hier ervaar hulle honger, onsekerheid en verlies, maar ook soms – op ’n verrassende wyse – die goedhartigheid van Britse soldate. Hierdie baie persoonlike vertelling, in haar eie woorde, is ’n verhaal van swaarkry en erge ontbering, maar ook van medemenslikheid en vriendskap oor vyandsgrense heen.
| Автор | Maggie Jooste |
The biography of Carlos Slim, one of the richest people of all time, is not just the tale of the first man from a developing country to ever reach the top of the Forbes list of billionaires. It is the story of a character who represents the neoliberal mentality of our times, who mistrusts politicians, believes that the market is the most efficient mechanism for everything (even to combat corruption), and sees philanthropy as a social investment with businesses as the exclusive form of collective...
| Автор | Diego Osorno |
Die einzigartige Karriere des Mannes mit dem Hut – UDO LINDENBERG – jetzt erstmals als Audiostory. Ein lebendig erzähltes Feature mit exklusiven Interviews, in denen Zeitzeugen verraten, wie aus dem Nachwuchs-Trommler aus Gronau einer der erfolgreichsten Sänger Deutschlands wurde. Mit Mitte 20 spielt Lindenberg noch als Drummer bei Klaus Doldingers Jazz-Projekt Passport – wenige Jahre später hat er sein eigenes Genre manifestiert: Panik-Rock. Autor und Herausgeber Michael Herden (Audiostorys...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Maggie was only 13 years old when the Anglo-Boer War broke out and irrevocably changed her life. After months of house arrest in the family’s home in Heidelberg in the Transvaal, Maggie, her mother and younger siblings are sent to a concentration camp in Natal. In the camp, they experience hunger, deprivation and loss, but also surprising acts of kindness from some British soldiers. This very personal account tells a story of hardship, but also one of humanity and friendship across enemy lines.
| Автор | Maggie Jooste |
Osobiste świadectwo kobiety, żony alkoholika. W bardzo prosty, bezpośredni, komunikatywny, a zarazem mądry i pogłębiony sposób autorka, Daphne K., dzieli się swoim doświadczeniem zmagań z nałogiem męża, odkrywania drogi Al-Anon, korzeni swojego współuzależnienia, a także swoich wątpliwości związanych z połączeniem tego wszystkiego z wiarą (jest zaangażowana w ruch Odnowy w Duchu Świętym, posługuje modlitwą wstawienniczą). Książkę czyta się „jednym tchem”. Autorka ma dar przekazu, a i nie...
| Автор | Daphne K. |
A brave, moving account of a soldier who refused to return to Afghanistan. When the War on Terror began, Joe Glenton signed up to serve his nation. He passed through basic training and deployed to Afghanistan in 2006. What he saw overseas left him disillusioned, and he returned manifesting symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. Refusing a second tour, he went AWOL and left the country, but returned voluntarily to fight his case, with the military accusing him of desertion. Despite being...
| Автор | Joe Glenton |
Riveting memoir of revolution in South America by Che Guevara’s Argentine lieutenant. Ciro Bustos was Che Guevara’s Argentinian lieutenant, fighting beside El Comandante in Bolivia. Here, for the first time, Bustos tells his story. As a young man, with plans for a career as an artist, he was inspired by the Cuban example, and in particular by the bravery and revolutionary zeal of his compatriot Che Guevara. Bustos went to Havana, was recruited to the cause, and returned to Argentina determined...
| Автор | Ciro Bustos |
Born in China, Benedict Anderson spent his childhood in California and Ireland, was educated in England and finally found a home at Cornell University, where he immersed himself in the growing field of Southeast Asian studies. He was expelled from Suharto’s Indonesia after revealing the military to be behind the attempted coup of 1965, an event which prompted reprisals that killed up to a million communists and their supporters. Banned from the country for thirty-five years, he continued his...
| Автор | Benedict Anderson |
In this compelling memoir, Nokia's legendary CEO Jorma Ollila presents a riveting account of the inner workings of the company that created the global mobile revolution. CEO from 1992 to 2006, Ollila led Nokia from near catastrophe to become the world's leading mobile phone manufacturer. He built a company where visionary thinking and courageous decisions were combined with exceptional creativity and first-rate engineering, leading to phenomenal growth.Follow Ollila's personal and...
| Автор | Jorma Ollila |
Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much a player in the international art world of the 1970s right up until his death in 1997, commissioning work from artists such as Jeff Koons and Mike Kelley, and acting as unofficial ringleader to a generation of German artists. Written by the...
| Автор | Susanne Kippenberger |
A (Former) Skeptic’s Guide to the 12-Step Program Knowledge from a personal journey. Experiences with addiction vastly differ, but something can be learned from everyone’s journey—especially those who achieve sobriety. Author Bucky Sinister penned this book because he had something to share from his own journey, a realization that completely changed his outlook on recovery. This smart and snide book is his testament to the effectiveness of the 12-Step Program, a path to recovery that...
| Автор | Bucky Sinister |
Highlights the actions and interpersonal relations of Muhammad in Makkah and Madinah before Islam took root, when it was a minority faith. By focusing upon the period when Islam was a minority faith in Makkah, he draws out the most pertinent messages in the revelations received, and how they can be applied to Muslim minorities.Extremely useful book to establish a historical perspective of Islam as a 'state religion', focusing on the early history of Islam when, during rapid expansion,...
| Автор | Muhammad Yasin Mazhar Siddiqi |
Nelson Mandela brought the poetry of Ingrid Jonker to the attention of South Africa and the wider world when he read her poem “Die kind” (The Child) at the opening of South Africa’s first democratic parliament on May 24, 1994. Though Jonker was already a significant figure in South African literary circles, Mandela’s reference contributed to a revival of interest in Jonker and her work that continues to this day. Viljoen’s biography illuminates the brief and dramatic life of Jonker, who created...
| Автор | Louise Viljoen |
Govan Mbeki (1910–2001) was a core leader of the African National Congress, the Communist Party, and the armed wing of the ANC during the struggle against apartheid. Known as a hard-liner, Mbeki was a prolific writer and combined in a rare way the attributes of intellectual and activist, political theorist and practitioner. Sentenced to life in prison in 1964 along with Nelson Mandela and others, he was sent to the notorious Robben Island prison, where he continued to write even as tension grew...
| Автор | Colin Bundy |
"Dr. Seddon has contributed an important and fascinating chapter to the modern history of Britain."—David Waines, emeritus professor of Islamic Studies, Lancaster University, UK Originally arriving as imperial oriental sailors and later as postcolonial labor migrants, Yemeni Muslims have lived in British ports and industrial cities from the mid-nineteenth century. They married local British wives, established a network of «Arab-only» boarding houses and cafes, and built...
| Автор | Mohammed Siddique Seddon |
The Prophet Muhammad initiated one of the most significant religious and cultural developments in human history, bringing the religion of Islam to the world. Adil Salahi's compelling biography traces the life of the Prophet Muhammad from his birth and childhood to the triumph of Islam and its hold on Arabia. The author sets this against a fascinating historical backdrop. His careful analysis of the Prophet's life is written with today's Muslim and non-Muslim readers in mind:...
| Автор | Adil Salahi |