Биографии и Мемуары
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The life of Charles Bukowski, laureate of lowlife Los Angeles, written by close friend and collaborator, Neeli Cherkovski. This year marks Charles Bukowski's centennial year and this one-of-a-kind biography is the closest readers will come to meeting the man himself—an unforgettable encounter no one should miss. Cherkovski shares intimate stories from his decades of personal experiences with Bukowski and brings the life—and complexities—of a great American writer into focus. As an...
| Автор | Neeli Cherkovski |
Recent data from the U.S. Census Bureau reveals that more women in America have chosen the childless route since record-taking began in the 1970s; a May 2018 Washington Post article cited a new report by the National Center for Health Statistics that announced the American birthrate was 3.8 million in 2017—the lowest in three decades Numerous statistics and news articles cite an increase in women who choose not to be mothers is an international phenomenon; a UK Independent article from 2017...
| Автор | Jackie Shannon Hollis |
American Disruptor is the untold story of Leland Stanford – from his birth in a backwoods bar to the founding of the world-class university that became and remains the nucleus of Silicon Valley. The life of this robber baron, politician, and historic influencer is the astonishing tale of how one supremely ambitious man became this country's original "disruptor" – reshaping industry and engineering one of the greatest raids...
| Автор | Roland De Wolk |
Religious thinkers, political leaders, lawmakers, writers, and philosophers have shaped the 1,400-year-long development of the world's second-largest religion. But who were these people? What do we know of their lives and the ways in which they influenced their societies?<BR />  <BR /> In <I>Islamic Civilization in Thirty Lives</I>, the distinguished historian of Islam Chase F. Robinson draws on the long tradition in Muslim scholarship of...
| Автор | Chase F. Robinson |
Destiny brought together two individuals of different ethnicity, culture, background, age, and education during a house-bound snowstorm. Abdulai and Hans had only a short and direct personal contact that ended with the blizzard, but their genuine friendship outlasted even death. “The Somber Side of a Scientific Mind is a fascinating story that will have you hooked from the start. Tyoder convincingly provides the reader with touching insights into a legacy.” —Leni Schooll, Esq.,...
| Автор | Christian Tyoder |
More Than a Miracle is one woman’s journey through life challenges such as being a divorced single working mother of three young boys; surviving and coping with violent rape; and facing life/death struggles with major illnesses. Susan Smith experienced a true miracle that would shape her determination to survive chemotherapy, radiation, a stem cell transplant for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, major heart failure, kidney failure, and complicated back surgery. This book is her story of survival and...
| Автор | Susan Smith |
Youth Gone Wild is a story about a young boy born in 1962 on the Northwest Side of Chicago to parents ill prepared to raise a son. His premature birth prevented him from bonding with his mother at an early age. His older sister paved the way for how Robert would be raised as her “little sister.” Many years of pain and suffering at the hands of his bullies ensued. It wasn’t until his discovery of heavy metal rock music that Robert found a way out of his chains. Rock music became his religion. It...
| Автор | Robert "Bob" Sorensen |
“No Excuses” is the true story of a boy traveling across America with his family and their fifty-foot-long trailer full of adventures in the 1950’s. Going to fifteen schools, in ten states, and twenty-four moves, Larry ventured his life from adventure to adventure. From the ‘Muscadine highway,’ to ‘the runaway tractor’ the trailer boy lived thrilling escapades. You will become a part of this soul stirring journey from Gallatin to the Mojave Desert or dancing at the Black...
| Автор | J. Larry Simpson I |
Twenty-three-year-old Elizabeth Sprague has recently graduated from her botany studies at Wellesley College and now wants to leave her secure life with her parents in Boston to go to the Florida Everglades to study the plants there—something that in 1893 no woman has ever done. Her domineering father has other plans for her, namely, marrying her to a young man Beth detests in order to join his business with that of a prominent family. Her solution is to go off to St. Augustine with her...
| Автор | Donald R. Wilson |
In this fascinating autobiography, Dawnmarie Deshaies gives you an in-depth look at her life from childhood to the present day. This book entails her life experiences, from tragedy and heartbreak to uplifting highs and celebrations. Since her diagnosis in 2012 with the autoimmune disease known as multiple sclerosis, Dawnmarie has continued to make it her life’s mission to spread awareness on this all-too-phantomesque disease. Every day, Dawnmarie lives to fight for all who have been afflicted by...
| Автор | Dawnmarie Deshaies |
Our journey began the first day I preached a sermon in front of people. Morgan told me after that sermon, «You must free yourself from the manuscript.» I couldn't imagine doing that, and asked Morgan for help. Our journey continued for fifteen years. I shared my sermons (written and video) with Morgan and we engaged in conversations about preaching, congregations, struggles, God, and life. Join us and watch as I learn to preach, Morgan shares a lifetime of wisdom with me, and we both...
| Автор | Karen Schlack |
This is the self-portrait of a missionary, minister, and teacher, at age 100, sharing the adventures of his childhood in Korea, exhilarating academic career at Princeton University, and then a lifetime of purposeful dedication to the ministry and to teaching. The author, a poet and gifted prose writer, engages the reader in beautiful landscapes of rural Korea, a trans-Siberian journey in the 1930s, his pioneering ministry in the desert of northern Chile, and the throes and conscientious...
| Автор | Donald R. Fletcher |
On 6 May 2014, two reports condemning the conduct of Alan Shatter, Minister for Justice, Equality and Defence, were delivered to government buildings in Dublin. Shatter resigned from cabinet the next day under pressure from Taoiseach Enda Kenny, his reputation destroyed and his political career in tatters. The GSOC bugging scandal had precipitated an avalanche of Garda corruption allegations and Shatter was in the eye of the storm. He was savaged by the media, and accusations of his covering up...
| Автор | Alan Shatter |
In this memoir, replete with Jewish humor and sardonic Russian irony, exiled Russian journalist and human rights advocate Arkady Polishchuk (b. 1930) colorfully narrates his evolution as a dissenter and his work on behalf of persecuted Christians in 1970s Soviet Russia. Told primarily through dialog, this thrilling account puts the reader in the middle of a critical time in history, when thousands of people who had been denied emigration drew international attention while suffering human rights...
| Автор | Arkady Polishchuk |
FOR TRUE BELIEVERS IN THE POWER OF ART & LITERATURE: Aseroë expects much from its readers but returns their attention with revelatory insights into the power of art, poetry, and language. As it traipses through the great tropes of experimental literature, including an unforgettable section on the symbolist poet, Arthur Rimbaud, it awakens the mind and the senses. Aseroë is a delicious extravagance for the literate Francophile and fans of authors such as Paul Auster and William S....
| Автор | François Dominique |
• 2020 is the 150th anniversary of Adolf Loos’ birth and his name will be in the public eye through press and events. <br ><br > • Accessibly priced paperback of a Loosian love story is more than an architecture biography – it’s a story about the private life and bizarre mores of a genius as seen through the eyes of his wife, who was 34 years his junior. <br ><br > • Famous personalities from the 1920s and 1930s are peppered throughout the...
| Автор | Claire Beck Loos |
Even though I did not commit the offences for which I am accused, I am not innocent. I committed the one offense that includes all others. I am an anarchist. In the class war, I chose the side of the excluded and the underprivileged, the prosecuted and the accursed, the poor, the weak, and the oppressed. Writings from a Greek Prison is a literary work of biting realism. Tasos Theofilou gives testimony on the brutality of prison life, and its centrality in contemporary capitalism, through a...
| Автор | Tasos Theofilou |
Inquisitive and expansive, <i>Like a Boy but Not a Boy<i> explores author andrea bennett’s experiences with gender expectations, being a non-binary parent, and the sometimes funny and sometimes difficult task of living in a body. The book's fourteen essays also delve incisively into the interconnected themes of mental illness, mortality, creative work, class, and bike mechanics (apparently you can learn a lot about yourself through truing a wheel). <br><br> In...
| Автор | Andrea Bennett |
This is the story of a young boy growing up in a small village located on the German border in southern Holland. He witnessed the start of WWII and all its cruelty. He was there when the Allied offensive came through his village. He also saw the horror of a defeated retreating German Army. When he met the first American soldiers, he made himself a promise that when he grew up, he would go to America. After some very troublesome young years while working in the coal mines and the loss of...
| Автор | William Walraven |
Many Canadians will remember Reg Sherren as host of the popular CBC TV program Country Canada , when he criss-crossed the nation sniffing out amazing but little-known stories of life in small towns and rural areas. Others will recall his many years as feature reporter for CBC’s flagship news program, The National , collecting stories like that of Montreal inventor Catalin Alexandru Duru magically soaring above the earth on his home-made hoverboard to set a new Guinness World Record. In the...
| Автор | Reg Sherren |
What started out as a youthful life of innocence in South Central Los Angeles turned into a fight of the fittest, fueled by a life of addictions and wrong decisions. I called all the shots. I was in control of everything. I was the one who caused people to break themselves apart until in the end, I broke apart from the inside out. My second wife and daughters, I always considered my saints; they were the ones who, for years, held me together! (This is my story. Laugh with a Sinner or Cry with...
| Автор | Robert Ford |
Rear Book Cover An incredible true story of one man’s rise from poverty to feed the hungry. After overcoming severe medical complications, and fighting to walk again, a promise was made to help mankind. After selling his home for funding, sixty-seven-year-old veteran Michael Beattie embarked on a life-changing mission to feed hungry veterans and their families, never realizing that his promise would change his way of thinking forever. And maybe, this incredible story will also change...
| Автор | Michael Beattie |
Who was Jacques Derrida, and why does he have such a towering, and foreboding reputation across modern philosophy? For some he is the source of the crisis of alternative facts. For far right terrorist Anders Brievik, 'Derridian deconstruction' was the cause for the end of truth. In 1992, 18 philosophers wrote an open letter to the Times to complain when he was awarded an honorary degree by Cambridge University. For others, he is a film star thinker who covered every possible subject...
| Автор | Peter Salmon |
Putco Mafani has become a household name in South Africa. He overcame not only poverty, but solitary confinement by a brutal government, tribalism, being doubted, a traumatic divorce, and unemployment. Had he not risen above, he would not have come to know, as he writes, ‘the price and prize of greatness’. Putco, a former deputy principal, went on to Umhlobo Wenene FM, where he anchored the biggest breakfast show in the country. He was Kaizer Chiefs PRO. An inspirational South African story.
| Автор | Putco Mafani |