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Apologia Pro Vita Sua (A Defence Of His Life) by Cardinal Newman offers a marvellous insight into the mind of a devout Christian, a colossal figure of the nineteenth century. It is, moreover, one of the greatest spiritual autobiographies ever written in the English language, laying out the development of John Henry Newman's religious opinions up to the year 1845 when he finally converted to Roman Catholicism. It was Charles Kingsley's withering and defamatory attack which prompted its...
| Автор | John Henry Newman |
Quincy Troupe's account of his friendship with Miles Davis is a revealing portrait of a great musician and an intimate study of a unique relationship. It is also an engrossing chronicle of the author's own development, both artistically and personally. As Davis's collaborator on Miles: The Autobiography, Troupe-one of the major poets to emerge from the 1960s-had exceptional access to the musician. This memoir goes beyond the life portrayed in the autobiography to describe...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Messners Schicksalsberg. Der Nanga Parbat liegt im Himalaja-Massiv. Er ist der neunthöchste Berg der Erde, seine Steilwand an der Südseite mit 4500 Metern die höchste Fels- und Eiswand der Welt. Reinhold Messner bezeichnet ihn als seinen Schicksalsberg, da er an ihm 1970 seinen Bruder Günther bei einer gemeinsamen Tour verlor. Er berichtet von seiner vergeblichen Suche nach dem Bruder, von den grauenvollen Stunden der Verzweiflung und zunehmender physischer Erschöpfung. Messner erzählt aber auch...
| Автор | Reinhold Messner |
Texas girl Babe Didrikson never tried a sport too tough and never met a hurdle too high. Despite attempts to keep women from competing, Babe achieved All-American status in basketball and won gold medals in track and field at the 1932 Olympics. Then Babe attempted to conquer golf. One of the founders of the LPGA, Babe won more consecutive tournaments than any golfer in history. At the height of her fame, she was diagnosed with cancer. Babe would then take her most daring step of all: go public...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Während in Paris die Revolution tobt, die Menschenrechte ausgerufen werden und der Sturm auf Versailles stattfindet, reisen der zwanzigjährige Alexander von Humboldt und sein Freund Steven Jan van Geuns (22) im Herbst 1789 sechs Wochen lang durch Deutschland. Während der letzte große Universalgelehrte Europas naturhistorische Interessen verfolgte, war sein Freund, der junge Arzt van Geuns, neben der Wissenschaft an Land und Leuten, kuriosen Persönlichkeiten und Städten interessiert. Er...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Most of us think of bowling as a 'sport' in quotation marks, and bowling alleys are places with disco balls, matching shirts, and funny shoes. But in the 1960s, New York City was the center of 'action bowling,' a form of high-stakes gambling in which bowlers – often teenagers – faced off for thousands of dollars every night. When money like that is changing hands, you can bet the pressure is on (and the balls are rigged), and losses come with dire consequences. But for a few...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
This ultimate biography of National Lampoon and its cofounder Doug Kenney offers the first complete history of the immensely popular magazine and its brilliant and eccentric characters. Relying on wonderful stories about the comedy scene in New York City in the 1970s and National Lampoon's place at the center of it, author Josh Karp chronicles how the magazine spawned a popular radio show and two long-running theatrical productions that helped launch the careers of John Belushi, Bill...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Noted political commentator Michael Reagan, the son of Ronald Reagan and first wife Jane Wyman, has traveled across America, giving speeches and meeting the public. Time and time again, people tell him how much they love and miss his father, and what his presidency meant to them. In a world where role models are few and far between, Ronald Reagan's legacy stands strong. When Michael was growing up, his father would drive him out to his ranch. There Ronald Reagan taught Michael how to ride a...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
A Personal Record is a «fragment of biography», an autobiographical work by Joseph Conrad, published in 1912. It is also a masterpiece of atmospheric writing and the main contemporary source to detail his early life. Conrad, Polish by birth, who goes on to become one of the greatest novelists of the English language, describes his childhood and adolescence, discusses his forebears, one of whom fought on the side of Napoleon and ate a Lithuanian dog, the exile of his parents, the death of his...
| Автор | Джозеф Конрад |
In addition to her romance with Kennedy, Arvad married four times – including to an Egyptian prince, the brilliant filmmaker Paul Fejos, and the famed cowboy movie star Tim McCoy. She had affairs with Wall Street financier Bernard Baruch, the noted surgeon Dr. William Cahan, and Winston Churchill's right hand man, Baron Robert Boothby. But by all accounts her admirers among the European and American elite loved Inga not for her physical beauty, but for her joie de vivre. She was a genius...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Die Abstürze und Triumphe, die Niederlagen und Siege: Udo erzählt seine Geschichte "Stell Dir einmal vor, Du gibst eine Party, und das Ganze dauert ein bisschen länger. Nicht bis zum Morgengrauen. Nicht zwei oder drei Tage. Eher vierzig Jahre. So genau weißt Du es nicht mehr. Es ist schließlich eine Party, und da kann es schon mal passieren, dass man den Überblick verliert. Du konntest Dir das leisten, weil es Dein Beruf ist, das Leben zu feiern und Dich dabei gehen zu lassen, denn Du bist...
| Автор | Udo Lindenberg |
* Chicago Tribune «Fall literary preview: books you need to read now»* Vulture "The Best and Biggest Books to Read This Fall" * The Guardian «A best book of 2019» After moving with his wife and two children to a smallholding in Ireland, Paul Kingsnorth expects to find contentment. It is the goal he has sought – to nest, to find home – after years of rootlessness as an environmental activist and author. Instead he finds that his tools as a writer are failing him, calling into question...
| Автор | Paul Kingsnorth |
"An urgently needed, unyielding book of theoretical and intimate strength." — Kirkus Reviews , starred The youngest ever winner of the Griffin Prize mines his personal history in a brilliant new essay collection seeking to reconcile the world he was born into with the world that could be. For readers of Ocean Vuong and Maggie Nelson and fans of Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot, A History of My Brief Body is a brave, raw, and fiercely intelligent collection of essays and vignettes...
| Автор | Billy-Ray Belcourt |
In this beautifully written novel of historical fiction, bestselling author Susan Holloway Scott tells the story of Alexander Hamilton’s wife, Eliza—a fascinating, strong-willed heroine in her own right and a key figure in one of the most gripping periods in American history.   “Love is not easy with a man chosen by Fate for greatness . . .”   As the daughter of a respected general, Elizabeth Schuyler is accustomed to socializing with...
| Автор | Susan Holloway Scott |
Victor von Bülow (alias LORIOT) und Gregor von Rezzori – bei allen Unterschieden in Herkunft und Lebenslauf erweisen sich diese zwei Großmeister des Humors als verwandte Geister: beide arbeiteten erfolgreich als Zeichner, Schauspieler und Autoren; ihre Werke besitzen feinsinnige Komik und geschliffene Eloquenz. Sprachliche Eleganz gilt geradezu als ihr Markenzeichen. Dies zeigt sich auch wieder in den Gesprächen, die Hellmuth Karasek in der Fernsehsendung SPIEGEL TV Thema in den 90er Jahren mit...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"Was ich an Bob von Anfang an so besonders fand, ist die selbst für eine Katze ungewöhnliche Weisheit, die er ausstrahlt. Und in den zehn Jahren, die wir uns nun schon kennen, ist er – zumindest in meinen Augen – immer noch klüger und weiser geworden. Dieses Buch versammelt alles, was ich von Bob in dieser Zeit gelernt habe: Was macht wahre Freundschaft aus? Was brauchen wir eigentlich, um glücklich zu sein? Und wie holt man das Beste aus dem Leben? All das machen uns Katzen vor, und ganz...
| Автор | Джеймс Боуэн |
Niemand, der bisher über Trump geschrieben hat, war ihm so nah wie Anonymus. Der hochrangige Regierungsmitarbeiter berichtet aus dem innersten Kreis von schockierenden Verfehlungen des US-Präsidenten und erschreckenden Zuständen im Weißen Haus: Donald Trump führt sein Amt herrisch, unkonzentriert, inkompetent, unmoralisch und unberechenbar. Anonymus' Plan, Trump zusammen mit anderen Eingeweihten unter den Regierungsmitarbeitern zu bändigen, ist gescheitert. Es ist offenkundig: Der...
| Автор | Anonymus |
War es Fernweh, war es Liebesleichtsinn, der die 17-jährige Pauline 1899 aus ihrem fränkischen Dorf ins ferne New York ausbüxen ließ? Was hat damals den welterfahrenen Max dazu getrieben, ihr die enorme Summe von 2000 Goldmark zu geben und sie für gut zwei Jahre ganz allein in so weite Ferne zu schicken? Woher nahm er die Gewissheit, dass Pauline nach ihrer Rückkehr genau die richtige Gefährtin für seine ausgedehnten Reisen sein würde, die beide dann tatsächlich um die halbe Welt unternahmen –...
| Автор | Hanns Zischler |
Hanged by the Nigerian government on November 10, 1995, Ken Saro-Wiwa became a martyr for the Ogoni people and human rights activists, and a symbol of modern Africans’ struggle against military dictatorship, corporate power, and environmental exploitation. Though he is rightly known for his human rights and environmental activism, he wore many hats: writer, television producer, businessman, and civil servant, among others. While the book sheds light on his many legacies, it is above all about...
| Автор | Toyin Falola |
This book, My Life as Elvis, came about while I was in Key West, Florida. I never considered myself a writer. I wrote this and ran into a woman in Key West that could help me get things going. That’s where I realized that I could write. She liked it and agreed with the title. I feel that the title tells the whole story in it. I have had so many nice experiences because of imitating Elvis, and I would not trade it for anything. I have met many nice people and been to many places I never would...
| Автор | Bobby Sypniewski |
This is a brief description of my life, which in the beginning I just tried to live a life like everyone tries to do. However, being locked out of my home for so many years, it made me do things just to survive; and with that, it made me into the person I had become in the waste-management industry, and throughout the rest of life, I had always tried to make it work even without all the family interference. I kept it together most of my life with the help of my mother, my wife, and my Lord and...
| Автор | John Samoles |
In a kind of Catherine Millet meets Roland Barthes baring of life with hints of the work of Chris Kraus, Sludge Utopia by Catherine Fatima is an auto-fictional novel about sex, depression, family, shaky ethics, ideal forms of life, girlhood, and coaching oneself into adulthood under capitalism. Using her compulsive reading as a lens through which to bring coherence to her life, twenty-five-year-old Catherine engages in a series of sexual relationships, thinking that desire is the key to a...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
"Boertjie" («kleiner Bauer», ausgesprochen «Burki») ist die nicht gerade schmeichelhafte «Benennung» eines weißen Afrikaans sprechenden Südafrikaners / Südwestafrikaners / Namibiers. Als Hermann 6 Jahre alt war, starben seine Eltern. Als Vollwaise wuchs er in Windhoek in einer sehr kalten und unfreundlichen Welt als «Boertjie» auf: Arm, ungeliebt, verachtet, verlacht und verstoßen. Als überzeugter Calvinist führte er jedoch später eine seltsame, aber doch sehr glückliche und lebenslange...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Jörg Böckem ist Journalist, schreibt seit den Neunzigern für die renommiertesten deutschen Zeitungen und Magazine. Und er ist ein Junkie. Schon im Alter von 14 Jahren hat er sich in den Drogenrausch verliebt. In Haschisch, LSD, Kokain – und Heroin. Mit 19 bringt ihn seine Heroinsucht zum ersten Mal ins Gefängnis, mit 33 versucht der Journalist im Drogenrausch seine Freundin zu erwürgen.
| Автор | Jörg Böckem |