Биографии и Мемуары
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A fascinating personal account of walking solo all 2,184 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Atlanta Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, which took five months and two pairs of boots
| Автор | Hazel Edwards |
In Brisbane's maximum-security prison awaiting trial, Joe Tog composed a series of short narratives for his defence-barrister. The barrister said that the notes gave him a clarity that he did not normally get from cold, hard facts and dates. Out of that comment grew this story.
| Автор | Joe Tog |
'Journey of a Lifetime, Volume Two' is the second chapter in the author's life, offering reflections of his life with a family of eight. The reader is taken across four continents until Martin and his family finally settle contentedly in Australia.
| Автор | Martin Kari |
In our ever-more-globalized world, how better to connect than with food, and who better to connect than a chowhound communications professor? Crofts concocts a multimedia feast of photos, “sketchnotes,” and vignettes, inviting us to everything from Thanksgiving in Germany to a Lunar New Year dumpling party in Seattle. The result is a truly beautiful meditation on how food nourishes community.
| Автор | A.V. Crofts |
On March 7, 1986, the seven men and one woman of the Steger International Polar Expedition set out by dogsled to reach the North Pole. Their spectacular feat of daring, courage, and commitment was deemed by National Geographic to be a "landmark in polar exploration." The melting of the polar ice cap makes it unlikely that anyone will repeat their achievement.
| Автор | Will Steger |
With the art of a practiced storyteller, Ignatia Broker recounts the life of her great-great-grandmother, Night Flying Woman, who was born in the mid-19th century and lived during a chaotic time of enormous change, uprootings, and loss for the Minnesota Ojibway. But this story also tells of her people's great strength and continuity.
| Автор | Ignatia Broker |
Joseph A. Amato follows his own poor, obscure, and truly "mongrel" family through seven generations, revealing their place in the key events of America's past. Using powerful family traditions to clarify his personal connection to the larger stories of our nation, Amato advocates for the power of the history closest at hand in building personal identity and resisting mass culture.
| Автор | Joseph Amato |
The world turned upside down for city-bred Marjorie Douglas when, in 1943, her young husband moved her and their baby, Anne, from suburban St. Paul to a western Minnesota stock ranch to help his parents stave off financial disaster. With wit and wisdom Douglas's memoir describes a Midwestern way of life of 50 years ago.
| Автор | Marjorie Myers Douglas |
The first study in English of Solzhenitsyn’s entire corpus of prose Addressed to an academic audience as well as the general reader Solzhenitsyn’s portraits of Lenin and Stalin as twin monsters of an utterly modern kind The Russian revolution as a catastrophic turning point in world history that was both terrifying and farcical Solzhenitsyn’s erotic codes His polemical relationship with Western culture, from Plato and Nietzsche to modernism and rock music
| Автор | Richard Tempest |
Describes in historic detail life as a Holocaust survivor in Soviet-occupied Hungary Describes life in post WWII Germany from the vantage of a Holocaust survivor Describes the opportunities of life in America as a new immigrant Offers a vivid first-hand account in the context of both history and society Is in the truest sense, a love story that had impossible odds
| Автор | Zsuzsanna Ozsváth |
If you have not read Heather King before, her honesty may shock you. In this remarkable memoir, you will see how a convert with a checkered past spends a year reflecting upon Saint Therese of Lisieux – and discovers the radical faith, true love, and abundant life of a cloistered 19th-century French nun. The provocative title is inspired by a portion of T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets that says we all choose to live «consumed by either fire or fire.»
| Автор | Heather King |
<li>Have exposure to and knowledge of alternative avenues to recreation and recovery</li> <li>Be entertained, while learning to relate to an uncommon human condition <li>Recognize and appreciate the small, subconscious abilities of everyday life <li>Gain insight into both the struggle and the beauty of disabling conditions <li>Provokes a different outlook in the reader on disability and trauma
| Автор | Kristin Beale |
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
| Автор | Lucy Poate Stebbins |
A memoir of community-based and collaborative medicine, from bootstrap measures to cross-cultural adaptations in Northern Ontario Author has been an physician in Ontario's remote north since 1978, serving a diverse mix of communities in trying settings Author's first book, A Doctor's Quest , about overseas medical missions in Africa, sold over 2,000 copies
| Автор | Gretchen Roedde |
