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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Gods Cold Warrior
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co One Lost Soul
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Dancing in My Dreams
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William B Eerdmans Publishing Co Strength for the Fight
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company Daughters of Palestine
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University of Nebraska Press The Blue Tattoo
Book SynopsisIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroine of frontier America.Trade Review"An important and engrossing book, which reveals as much about the appetites and formulas of emerging mass culture as it does about tribal cultures in nineteenth-century America."—Times Literary Supplement"An easy, flowing read, one you won't be able to put down."—Christian Science Monitor"The Blue Tattoo is well-researched history that reads like unbelievable fiction, telling the story of Olive Oatman, the first tattooed American white woman. . . . Mifflin weaves together Olive's story with the history of American westward expansion, the Mohave, tattooing in America, and captivity literature in the 1800s."—Elizabeth Quinn, Bust"In The Blue Tattoo, Margot Mifflin slices away the decades of mythology and puts the story in its proper historical context. What emerges is a riveting, well-researched portrait of a young woman—a survivor, but someone marked for life by the experience."—Jon Shumaker, Tucson Weekly"The Blue Tattoo is well written and well researched; it re-opens the story of white women and men going West and Native people trying to survive these travels."—June Namias, Pacific Historical Review“Mifflin’s treatment of Olive’s sojourns [provides] an excellent teaching opportunity about America’s ongoing captivation with ethnic/gender crossings.”—Western American Literature “Although Oatman’s story on its own is full of intrigue, Mifflin adeptly uses her tale as a springboard for larger issues of the time.”—Feminist Review“Mifflin engagingly describes Oatman’s ordeal and theorizes about its impact on Oatman herself as well as on popular imagination…. Her book adds nuance to Oatman’s story and also humanizes the Mohave who adopted her. Recommended for general readers as well as students and scholars.”—Library Journal"Margot Mifflin sketches out a life in fine detail in her book The Blue Tattoo: The Life of Olive Oatman . . . . It rouses strong metaphors with timeless applications: the idea of what marks us, that which comprises our stories and how they are interpreted, appropriated or manipulated."—Melissa Corliss Delorenzo, Her Circle“Margot Mifflin has written a winner. . . . The Blue Tattoo offers quite intense drama along with thorough scholarship.”—Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of Three-Ten to Yuma and Other StoriesTable of ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsPrologue: Emigrant Song1. Quicksand2. Indian Country3. "How Little We Thought What Was Before Us"4. A Year with the Yavapais5. Lorenzo's Tale6. Becoming Mohave7. Deeper8. "There Is a Happy Land, Far, Far Away"9. Journey to Yuma10. Hell's Outpost11. Rewriting History in Gassburg, Oregon12. Captive Audiences13. "We Met as Friends, Giving the Left Hand in Friendship"14. Olive Fairchild, TexanEpilogue: Oatman's Literary Half-LifeNotesBibliographyIndex
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Tuttle Publishing The Mad Kyoto Shoe Swapper and Other Short
Book SynopsisTrade Review"…an eclectic assortment of tales that are likely to entertain and intrigue readers in equal measure." -- The Japan Times"These finely crafted stories, intriguing in themselves, are remarkable for their insights into Japanese culture. These never feel 'forced' but emerge naturally from the narrative, with the reader left to ponder the implications. A true delight in every way!" -- John Dougill, author of Kyoto: a Cultural History, Zen Gardens and Temples of Kyoto and founder of Writers in Kyoto"Families and friendship, marriage and motherhood, ageing and death feature in these engaging and thought-provoking tales by a gifted story-teller and illustrator."-- Dr. Jann Williams, author and editor of Writers In Kyoto Anthology III
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Tuttle Publishing This Scheming World
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Penguin Random House Group Dear Miss Perkins
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Beacon Press In Theory Darling
Book SynopsisA love letter to queer of color theory and how it has helped the author to discover himself, reclaim identities, celebrate queer joy, and work towards liberationMarcos Gonsalez found his greatest source of joy when he encountered queer theory in college. As they put it, queers and college go together like peanut butter and jelly, and for them, this was especially true. Seeing himself reflected in the work José Esteban Muñoz was life-changing: Muñoz''s theory of disidentification empowered Gonsalez to reclaim their Latinx and queer identities--and inspired him to push back against the largely-white monolith of queer theory.In the sophisticated yet intimately disarming prose of In Theory, Darling, Gonsalez takes his copy of Disidentifications to the gay bar, to the classroom, to their childhome and beyond, inviting us to go along with him as he limns the queerness of reality TV, mourns the victims of the Pulse nightclub massacre, searches for their uncle in Paris Is Burning, looks for Muñoz''s legacy in the streets of New York, and situates themself in the lineage of the queer elders who have come before him.Conversational yet deeply analytical, intimate yet wide-ranging, youthful yet sophisticated, Gonsalez''s essays crackle with intellectual energy--and remind us just how life-giving theory can be.
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Beacon Press On Gold Hill
Book SynopsisA young South Asian American woman?s story of reconnecting with her identity, family, and heritage through sustainable farmingIn 2012, 25-year-old Jackie Moyer?the daughter of a forbidden marriage between a white American father and a Punjabi American mother?leased 10 acres of land in Gold Hill, California, and embarked on a career in organic farming. With a fractured relationship to her heritage, Moyer saw an opportunity for repair when she learned of a nearly lost heirloom wheat variety called Sonora.Sonora wasn?t just an heirloom wheat strain; it was her own cultural heirloom. Its history can be traced back to Punjab, the Indian state where Moyer?s own roots are planted. In growing the grain on her farm, she began to uncover the multigenerational story of her family?s resilience.From California to Punjab, the past to the present, Jackie maps her personal story atop the entangled histories of wheat cultivation and the rise of the organic farming movement. With a passion for dismantling the exploitative big-agriculture industry, she examines how the development of high-yielding varieties and chemical fertilizers has harmed our relationship with food, the planet, and each other.Braiding memoir with historical inquiry, On Gold Hill explores the complexities of the immigrant experience, illuminates the ways colonialism and capitalism constrain our food system, and investigates what it means to lose?and to reclaim?one?s heritage.
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Beacon Press All Souls
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Beacon Press My Name Means Fire
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Beacon Press Women Warriors
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Beacon Press Singular Intimacies Becoming a Doctor at Bellevue
Book SynopsisA “finely gifted writer” shares “fifteen brilliantly written episodes covering the years from studenthood to the end of medical residency” (Oliver Sacks, MD, author of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat)Singular Intimacies is the story of becoming a doctor by immersion at Bellevue Hospital, the oldest public hospital in the country—and perhaps the most legendary. It is both the classic inner-city hospital and a unique amalgam of history, insanity, beauty, and intellect. When Danielle Ofri enters these 250-year-old doors as a tentative medical student, she is immediately plunged into the teeming world of urban medicine: mysterious illnesses, life-and-death decisions, patients speaking any one of a dozen languages, and overworked interns devising creative strategies to cope with the feverish intensity of a big-city hospital.Yet the emphasis of Singular Intimacies is not so much on the arduous hours in medical t
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Globe Pequot Press OneMan Army
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Ohio University Press An Ordinary Life
Book SynopsisA Jew, Pole, daughter, mother, wife, Communist, migrant, Holocaust survivor, and refugee driven to fight for a better world. Ordinary or anything but? In Tonia Lechtman's life, the lofty and the quotidian intertwined, making everything she did both monumental and mundane. Who was she?Trade Review“A thoroughly researched, nuanced, and deeply moving book, rich with intimate details that do not take away from the broader relevance of Tonia Lechtman’s seemingly ordinary life.” -- Natalia Aleksiun, Harry Rich Professor of Holocaust Studies, University of Florida“An Ordinary Life? is an extraordinary story. As a historian, Anna Müller is both fearless and enormously sensitive. Her research is exhaustive; Tonia Lechtman’s story is both enthralling and wrenching. Müller’s biography discloses, with painful intimacy, the modern condition of homelessness. Tonia could be the iconic tragic heroine of the twentieth century, a century now revealed through a drama of motherhood.” -- Marci Shore, author of The Taste of Ashes: The Afterlife of Totalitarianism in Eastern Europe“In beautifully evocative prose, Anna Müller uncovers the remarkable biography of Tonia Lechtman, whose journeys through Poland, Palestine, France, and Switzerland reflect the challenges of her generation. It is a profoundly intimate portrait that explores Lechtman’s multiple identities … with delicacy, empathy, and historical perspective. Through the life story of one woman, Müller sheds new light on the universal predicament of the twentieth-century.” -- Jeffrey Veidlinger, Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan and author of In the Midst of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms of 1918-1921 and the Onset of the Holocaust“In her biography of Tonia Lechtman, Anna Müller . . . ponders the limits of individual agency in times of social upheavals and catastrophes. What happened to this Jewish woman from Poland and what did she do? What is the price one pays for being overtaken by history? An absorbing book, a heartbreaking life story.” -- Irena Grudzińska Gross, author of Czeslaw Milosz and Joseph Brodsky: Fellowship of Poets“A fascinating study…. The book is a story of one person and it is a history of the twentieth century, with all its conflicts, hopes, experiments, and persecution. It is this world that Tonia Lechtman lived through, and it is a world that she also helped shape. Anna Müller succeeds in explaining the intersections of gender, class, and ethnicity, especially for Polish Jewish women’s lives. This book will engage you and make you want to know more about the last century and about how we understand the past and the present.” -- John C. Swanson, author of Tangible Belonging: Negotiating Germanness in Twentieth-Century Hungary“A Jew, a Communist, a mother, a refugee, a political idealist, a victim of postwar Stalinism in Poland: the life of Tonia Lechman through conflicting identities and the horrors of the twentieth century, brilliantly told by an academic.” -- Ruth Fivaz-Silbermann, author of La fuite en Suisse: Les Juifs à la frontière franco-suisse durant les années de la "Solution finale"
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University of Pittsburgh Press Mal Goode Reporting
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Rizzoli International Publications Marella Agnelli The Last Swan
Book SynopsisThe exclusive world of one of the twentieth century’s most glamorous and alluring women, as seen through her private homes and gardens. Nicknamed The Swan by Richard Avedon when he photographed her iconic portrait in 1953, Marella Agnelli is not only one of the great beauties of the last century, but also the most elegant and cultured of that exclusive club. Born the Neapolitan princess Marella Caracciolo di Castagneto, she became Marella Agnelli with her marriage to Gianni Agnelli, the Fiat industrialist. However, her innate style dates back to her New York internship with photographer Erwin Blumenfeld, and she was a Vogue contributor in the 1950s and ’60s as well as appearing in its pages. One of the most photographed women of the jet-set society, she was captured by Avedon as well as Irving Penn, Henry Clarke, Horst, and Robert Doisneau, among others. Agnelli collaborated with the best artists and designers of her day, with her many residences as their palette. From ItalTrade ReviewA New York Times Best Seller!"There is good taste—and then, in a stratosphere all its own, there is Agnelli taste, as Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan proves so abundantly. This breathtaking tome, written by Agnelli and her niece Marella Caracciolo Chia, charts the life of the goddess of style...” –Vogue"Peel off the handsome paper dustjacket to reveal the gleaming crimson silk and gold embossed binding of this glorious book—and it is clear this is a lavish production and an intelligent and superbly produced and edited one. This is, however, a very personal book full of private houses, private apartments, gardens, family life, family snapshots, and some of the prettiest wedding photography. With interiors in over many decades…this is a heady delight. The key is that it was produced and edited by Marella Agnelli herself, along with her adoring niece. Beautiful.” –The Style Saloniste“The world has been waiting on this book forever, a definitive design guide on the world of Marella Agnelli and the homes she’s created for her family.” –Tabulous Design“Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan...Portraits by Irving Penn, Horst, and Richard Avedon detail the charmed life of one of the twentieth century’s true beauties.” –Elle “…explores the life of a social grand dame and the life and homes she inhabits. But this is no ordinary book. This one is written by the subject herself…we get a first person account. In Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan, the Italian aristocrat and original member of the jet set, opens up her rarefied world to readers. It is a lavish tome that is part auto-biographical, part coffee table book coupled with historical details and a smattering of boldfaced names. Reading through the book or just flipping through the photographs is like going through someone’s family album and scrapbooks. There in its pages are vivid recollections of significant moments in life, snapshots of holidays at home and abroad, and wedding photographs. The book is nostalgia in its most glorious form.” –Forbes.com “Marella Agnelli The Last Swan is one of those rare books that chronicles a life within a family legacy. What you quickly find out is that this book is not so much about “the Last Swan” as it is about how she lived and what she loved and the seemingly endless resources it took to accomplish her various missions. This book is an endless source of amazement as Ms. Agnelli has created “worlds” that are unknown to most of us. Even those who are not botanically inclined will note that the incredible world of art she created outdoors is astounding. Mind boggling. Marella Agnelli: The Last Swan is a collection of rare beauty that allows us to live within her world if only while enjoying this book.” –New York Journal of Books "...this book is perfect for any individual interested in fashion, high society and glorious homes, and it deserves a place in your library!" –PoliticalStyle.com “…impressive new monograph…” –Tory Burch Blog“This is one book where the story is just as compelling as the photos and I loved learning more about Marella Agnelli’s incredible life. It’s definitely a must read for autumn." –Habitually Chic"Style icon Marella Agnelli shares her personal memoirs with this stunning publication..." –Bal Harbour Magazine“Gaze over the exclusive world of one of the twentieth century’s most glamorous and alluring women, as seen through her private homes and garden that are full of timeless elegance.” –Society Diaries
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The Merlin Press Ltd Margaret Llewelyn Davies With Women for a New
Book SynopsisMargaret Llewelyn Davies (1861-1944), a co-operator, feminist and socialist, was well known in her time as the outstanding leader of the Women's Co-operative Guild. This first full scale biography chronicles her life and achievements, intertwining activity among working class women with her personal story.Trade Review'Margaret Llewelyn Davies was not just a great campaigning activist on behalf of working class mothers who had a much tougher life than she had, she was also a great human being and Ruth Cohen does justice to her long overdue life-story.' - Sybil Oldfield, Reader Emeritus in English and History, University of Sussex
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Inter-Varsity Press Tested by fire
Book SynopsisGreat privilege. Great pain. This is God's way: to take the privilege of faith and strengthen it with real trials so that we worship and witness with a greater passion for God. There is a certain irony to the fruit of affliction; John Bunyan's confinement taught him the pilgrim path of Christian freedom; William Cowper's mental illness yielded sweet music of the mind for troubled souls; David Brainerd's smouldering misery of isolation and disease exploded in global mission beyond all imagination. Irony and disproportion are all God's way. We think we know how to do something big, and God makes it little. We think that all we have is weak and small, and God makes it big. Barren Sarah gives birth to the child of promise. Gideon's three hundred men defeat a hundred thousand Midianites. A slingshot in the hand of a shepherd boy brings the giant down. A virgin bears the Son of God. A boy's five loaves feeds thousands. A breach of justice, grovelling political expediency, and criminal to
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Spokesman Books Bertrand Russell Public Intellectual
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Stenlake Publishing Edward Thompson of the LNER Oakwood Library of
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Quercus Publishing The Photographer at Sixteen WINNER OF THE JAMES
Book SynopsisA poet''s memoir of his mother that flows backwards through time, through a tumultuous period of European history - a tender and yet unsparing autobiographical journey.**A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**A truly remarkable book . . . fiercely compelling EDMUND DE WAAL*WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE* *SHORTLISTED FOR THE JEWISH WINGATE PRIZE*I''ve read no memoir that moved me more MIRANDA SEYMOURThe writing is always scrupulous . . . [a] compelling memoir BLAKE MORRISONBeautifully written and utterly compelling Sunday TimesAn original, probingly thoughtful memoir EVA HOFFMANNIn July 1975, Magda Szirtes died in the ambulance on the way to hospital after she had tried to take her own life. She was fifty-one years old. The Photographer at Sixteen spools into the past, through her exile in England, her flight with her husband Trade ReviewIn this extraordinary, hybrid book - part memoir, part history, part poetic journey - Szirtes re-makes the life of his mother, tracing her childhood in Europe's darkest period to her life in Britain after the Hungarian uprising. He brilliantly captures how sometimes it's those closest to us who remain the most mysterious. -- Patrick McGuinness, author of OTHER PEOPLE'S COUNTRIES: A JOURNEY INTO MEMORYA truly remarkable book about identity, image and memory. It is fiercely compelling. -- Edmund de Waal, author of THE HARE WITH THE AMBER EYESUnforgettably sad . . . Szirtes has made [his mother's] monument. It is a courageous and remarkable achievement. I've read no memoir that moved me more. -- Miranda Seymour * Financial Times *The writing is always scrupulous . . . Knowledge is partly invention, Szirtes says, memory is mostly invention, and 'the trick is to invent the truth.' It may be a trick but it's one he pulls off brilliantly in this compelling memoir. -- Blake Morrison * Guardian *Exceptional . . . There is much more to this scrupulously written memoir than I have been able to convey. There are photographs throughout the text, but those in the final pages are heartbreaking. -- Paul Bailey * Literary Review *A book full of warmth, grief, curiosity, wisdom, staggering anecdotes and a coming to terms with the vicissitudes of 20th-century history . . . [a] highly original telling of the author's mother's life and the heartrending events through which she lived. -- Charlie Connelly * New European *Szirtes uses his poet's eye to build images and details that bring his mother superbly to life . . . [this] is a beautifully written and utterly compelling narrative. -- Ian Critchley * Sunday Times *In this quest to understand the enigma of his mother 's life and death, George Szirtes travels back from personal memory to deeper history, as he reconstructs his family's tragedy-darkened past . . . An original, probingly thoughtful memoir whose restraint only increases its poignancy and impact -- Eva Hoffman, author of LOST IN TRANSLATION: A LIFE IN A NEW LANGUAGE[An] exquisitely told memoir . . . By telling the story of his mother's life backwards Szirtes has performed a sort of conjuring trick . . . Not simply a memoir but a hybrid of history and biography interspersed with photographs, poems and several standout moments -- Anne Sebba * Spectator *As isolated snapshots build into a family portrait, and a historical fresco, we grasp the wider picture . . . beautiful, devastating -- Boyd Tonkin * Arts Desk *Like a film in reverse, this narrative structure not only reclaims a time of innocence and hope but also functions as a form of healing, an undoing of her pain. -- Fiona Capp * Sydney Morning Herald *Magda Szirtes is intense, untameable, tantalising and compelling. George Szirtes is tender and astute in trying to understand her, percipient in analysing the enduring fragments of her life -- letters, tape-recordings, photographs, memories -- yet ever-aware of how little it is possible to know. The result is engrossing and profoundly moving. -- Keiron Pim, author of JUMPIN' JACK FLASHHe works, frame by frame, through a sequence of ever-older photographs, employing her own chosen medium to interrogate the mystery of her existence, and the fallibility of memory -- Ariane Banks * Tablet *Exceptional . . . An act of love. -- Paul Bailey * Literary Review. *
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Quercus Publishing Macbeth
Book SynopsisA respected historian of medieval Scotland releases the authentic historical Macbeth from a prison of literary and folkloric myth.Trade Review'A lucid picture of a Celtic warrior-king of some sophistication who was respected and loved... A fascinating read through Scotland's Middle Ages' Big Issue. * Big Issue *'The Macbeth Shakespeare discovered had already been demonised for several centuries. But, as Fiona Watson's scholarly study demonstrates, the real story is very different' Daily Telegraph. * Daily Telegraph *'A brilliantly researched and engaging study ... She's a bonny writer ... and has that rare gift of combining impressive knowledge with a lively and winning voice' Herald. * Herald *'Thrilling' The Scotsman. * Scotsman *'Gripping ... An essential corrective to generations of scholarship' BBC History Magazine. * BBC History Magazine *Table of ContentsList of illustrations. Map. House of Alba Family Tree. Acknowledgements. Introduction. Prologue. PART ONE - THE FORGING OF A KINGDOM: All the King's Men; Christendom in 1050; Light on a Dark Age; Accidental Birth of a Nation; View from the North. PART TWO - THE MAKING OF A KING: Murder as Usual; Kings in Waiting; Macbeth the King; The Testing Time; From Death to Demonisation. Sources. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
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Quercus Publishing Gandhi Naked Ambition
Book SynopsisThe pre-eminent political and spiritual leader of India''s independence movement, pioneer of non-violent resistance to tyranny through mass civil disobedience (satyagraha), honoured in India as ''father of nation'', Mohandas K. Gandhi has inspired movements for civil rights and political freedom across the world.Jad Adams offers a concise and elegant account of Gandhi''s life: from his birth and upbringing in a small princely state in Gujarat during the high noon of the British Raj, to his assassination at the hands of a Hindu extremist in 1948 only months after the birth of the independent India which he himself he had done so much to bring about. He delineates the principal events of a career that may truly be said to have changed the world: his training as a barrister in late Victorian London; his civil rights work in Boer War-era South Africa; his leadership of the Indian National Congress; his focus on obtaining self-government and control of all Indian government institutions,Trade Review'A vividly human, even funny book' Daily Mail. * Daily Mail *'Readable and provocative' Financial Times. * Financial Times *'Fascinating' Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsMaps: The Partition of India, 1947; South Africa, 1893. Introduction: Naked Ambition. Childhood and Marriage. London Lessons. Adventures in Natal. Challenge and Chastity. The Army of the Poor. Village Activist. Arousing India. The Salt March. World Icon. Quit India. Partition and Death. Legacy. Notes. Bibliography. Glossary. Index.
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Quercus Publishing Churchill
Book SynopsisWinston Churchill attracted far more criticism alive than he has since his death. He was, according to Evelyn Waugh, ''always in the wrong, surrounded by crooks, a terrible father, a radio personality''. Whatever one''s view of ''the greatest Briton'', and despite the best efforts of an army of writers who have penned portraits of him, Winston Churchill remains splendidly unreduced. In this new biography Ashley Jackson describes the contours of Winston Churchill''s remarkable life and political career, and gives a sense of the man behind the dark eyes and bulldog features. From Cabinet outcast to the greatest war leader ever, this is the eternally fascinating story of Winston Churchill''s appointment with destiny. Trade Review'A pleasure to read' Daily Express. * Daily Express *'A beautifully written account that runs efficiently and with confidence over the full course of Churchill's career ... warmly recommended' BBC History Magazine. * BBC History Magazine *'Packs a terrific punch and succeeds in keeping its mercurial subject sharply in focus' Mail on Sunday. * Mail on Sunday *'The best medium-length Churchill biography now available' Finest Hour: The Winston Churchill Journal. * Winston Churchill Journal *'succinct and and even-handed study' Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *'beautifully written ... Ashley Jackson manages to convey the drama and fun that surrounded the great man' Daily Express. * Daily Express *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Landscape for a Lifetime: Winston, Woodstock and Oxfordshire. Cadet to Frontier Soldier: Warrior and Writer. Pundit and Politician: A Rising Star. High Office: War on Land and Sea. Home and Colonial: New Nations, Strikes and Gold. Man of Kent: A Frenzied Unemployment. War Machine: The Management of Global Conflict. A Higher Vision: Post-war Government and a Changing World. Symbol of the Nation. Epilogue. Further Reading. Notes. Acknowledgements. Picture Credits. Index.
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Seagull Books All the Roads Are Open
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Crecy Publishing Fist from the Sky
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Little, Brown Book Group Nothing Sacred
Book Synopsis* A magnificent selection of Angela Carter 's journalistic and critical work, this shows her as one of the funniest and most perceptive critics of our age, a maverick who didn't miss a thing.Trade ReviewAngela Carter's journalism exists somewhere in the territory marked out by Roland Barthes of MYTHOLOGIES, middle-period Orwell, and early Tom Wolfe * Guardian *Her imagination was one of the most dazzling this century * Independent *With the rise of feminist theory, reclamation of folktale and world domination of magical realism, Carter became a canon in her own right * Guardian *Her writing occupies a unique place in twentieth century fiction, a place where myths around gender and sexuality are debunked and where not even the deepest darkest recesses of human imagination are off-limits -- Fay Godwin * British Library *
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Oneworld Publications Inheritance The tragedy of Mary Davies
Book SynopsisThe reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London‘Brilliant’ Financial Times ‘Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world’s greatest cities’ Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a woman whose tragic life tells a story of madness, forced marriages and how the super-rich came to own London June 1701, and a young widow wakes in a Paris hotel to find a man in her bed. Within hours they are married. Yet three weeks later, the bride flees to London and swears that she had never agreed to the wedding. So begins one of the most intriguing stories of madness, tragic passion and the curse of inheritance. Inheritance charts the forgotten life of Mary Davies and the fate of the land that she inherited as a baby - land that would become the sqTrade Review‘An enjoyable romp through the social history of a century from the Great Fire and the rebuilding of London to the Enlightenment, taking in discourses on midwifery, madness, child-rearing, burial practices, the birth and development of the London property market and the dangers of being a woman.’ -- The Times‘Wonderful… Leo Hollis knows the expanding city like the back of his hand, and brings a forensic eye and a deep empathy to the mystery at the heart of Mary Davies’s tragic life… Inheritance is a consistently enthralling read.’ -- Helen Castor, author of Joan of Arc‘Genuinely gripping. Hollis tells a good tale… Inheritance is also a book about property… his knowledge shows here in confident and vivid descriptions of the capital at the start of the 18th century. But he comes at his subject from a novel angle.’ -- Adrian Tinniswood, Literary Review‘A fascinating insight into a tragic backwater of London’s history, yet from which one of its most magnificent estates emerged…’ * Simon Jenkins, author of A Short History of London *‘Leo Hollis has written a thorough and readable account of the Mary Davies saga, at times almost as a thriller, set in the glamour of Restoration London. We dodge from the plague and the Glorious Revolution into matrimonial rights, lunacy acts and 99-year leases. The life of this otherwise inconsequential woman is meticulously recorded, and all for the incubus of an inheritance which she barely seemed to comprehend.’ -- Oldie‘Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world’s greatest cities. His scholarship and storytelling make the seventeenth century seem so familiar.’ * Dan Snow, Death or Victory: The Battle for Quebec and the Birth of Empire *‘Leo Hollis combines meticulous research with his trademark style once again in this perceptive and humane book on one of modern London’s most significant origin stories.’ -- Lucy Inglis, author of Georgian London: Into the Streets'Identifying an authentic seventeenth-century mystery, Leo Hollis uses the form of the classic detective story to deliver a fast-moving and forensic account of the birth and development of the London property market. Here is a valuable addition to the literature of the city in another period of cancerous growth.' -- Iain Sinclair, author of The Last London‘The story of an heiress whose patrimony lies at the root of a modern accumulation of a vast landed fortune, the Grosvenor Estate of the Dukes of Westminster… brilliant.’ -- Ian Bostridge, FT ‘A tale of lies, coercion and opium-laced strawberries… compelling.’ -- BBC History'[A] well-crafted history... Hollis unspools the story’s multiple threads with verve, and lucidly explains complex legal and historical matters. Anglophiles and urban history buffs will be delighted.' * Publishers Weekly *‘An intriguing story of scandal, betrayal, law courts and corruption. It’s a fascinating read.’ * Who Do You Think You Are? *
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Baker Publishing Group Hudson Taylor
Book SynopsisPreviously titled To China With Love, this book recounts the thrilling story of the China Inland Mission.
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City Lights Books The First Third
Book SynopsisImmortalized as Dean Moriarty by Jack Kerouac in his epic novel, On the Road, Neal Cassady was infamous for his unstoppable energy and his overwhelming charm, his savvy hustle and his devil-may-care attitude. A treasured friend and traveling companion of Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs and Ken Kesey, to name just some of his cohorts on the beatnik path, Cassady lived life to the fullest, ready for inspiration at any turn.Before he died in Mexico in 1968, just four days shy of his forty-second birthday, Cassady had written the jacket blurb for this book: “Seldom has there been a story of a man so balled up. No doubt many readers will not believe the veracity of the author, but I assure these doubting Thomases that every incident, as such, is true.As Ferlinghetti writes in his editor’s note, Cassady was “an early prototype of the urban cowboy who a hundred years ago might have been an outlaw on the range.” Here are his autobiographical writings, the rambling American saga of a truly free individual.Neal Cassady (1926-1968) was a key figure and writer during the Beat Generation and is known as the inspiration for Jack Kerouac''s immortalizing character Dean Moriarty. In 1946, Cassady traveled to New York City where he met famous Beat poets and writers such as Jack Kerouac, William S. Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg. Cassady''s works were never published during his lifetime.
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CLC Publications Gods Missionary
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After the Battle WCdr Robert Stanford Tuck Facsimile Flying Log
Book SynopsisWing Commander Stanford Tuck was one of the RAF's top-scoring aces until taken prisoner in 1942. This work offers an extract facsimile of his flying log book covering his flying career. Readers also have the opportunity to own a Battle of Britain pilot's log book, each with a numbered certificate.
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Crecy Publishing Mosquito Victory
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Feral House,U.S. Sex And Rockets
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The Dovecote Press A Kingston Lacy Childhood
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Taylor & Francis Ltd Covert Operations Unveiling Organized Crime
Book SynopsisNew York Police Department cop doc Dr. Dan Rudofossi delves into what it meant to live as a deep-cover operative through narratives with Joe Pistone, the FBI agent who spent six years living as Donnie Brasco as a member of the Bonanno crime family. When Operation Donnie Brasco abruptly closed, it was the longest and most successful infiltration of a Mafia family. Dr. Rudofossi underscores Pistone's genius to survive daily challenges of infiltration by using innovations in the ecological niches of Mafia violence. Donnie Brasco's mental toughness, resilience, and ingenuity are understood through Rudofossi's signature Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis. Mapping out why and how trauma shaped functional dissociation as unconscious adaptation, the author's experience as a police psychologistthat is, a cop dochelps decode the bigger picture of conflict, resolution, and compromise in the disparate worlds of policing and organized crime. This unique look at the costs and successesTrade Review"July 27,1981 – the FBI ended its six-year undercover operation against the American Mafia. The primary Undercover Agent was me, Special Agent Joseph D. Pistone. Seventeen trials in Federal Courts throughout the United States of America followed, with the results of the investigation: the beginning of the downfall of the American Mafia."For six years of my life, I spent each year as an Undercover Special Agent of Hoover’s Federal Bureau of investigation. To the Mafia I was Donnie Brasco: to my peers, FBI Special Agent Pistone. After many hours and interviews speaking with Doctor Dan Rudofossi, I must say that he captured my thoughts, feelings and ‘mind-set’ perfectly. I can relate to Dr. Rudofossi as a Cop and Cop Doc: For me, our work on exploring my experience and mind-set through existential analysis is key to how and why I adapted my mental toughness and resilience using an Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis. My deepest appreciation for all you do to help our Brothers and Sisters in Blue as our True Blue Cop Doc Dan Rudofossi!"Special Agent Joseph D Pistone FBI "Covert Operations Unveiling Organized Crime: Using Operation Donnie Brasco to Understand the Complex Trauma of Deep Cover is an eye opener. The thing for me, as a first-grade detective, is it's not during the rush of the ring side fight, but it's when the boxing stops that all hell is let loose. It is in the prison of our `mind-set' that gets many of us deep covers under and down for the count. Dr. Rudofossi has educated us to `addiction to trauma' when the ceiling falls in on you and crushes your soul. That `quantum psychic moment of trauma', as he calls it, is set in the ecological niche where the motivation of survival rides high in the saddle. Working on understanding this complexity, for me, is brought to life in the chapters that follow as Special Agent Pistone and Cop Dr. Rudofossi chart out their own Ecological-Ethological Existential Analysis. Unfreezing being stuck as the ability to help us who are traumatized with a difference made in some victim, witness, survivor and even as he boldly shares, some unique Wiseguy's life - redemption is possible."Former Boxer and AM/Pro Boxing Coach Ret. NYPD First Grade Detective Tommy Dades. Author of bestselling ‘Friends of the Family: The inside story of the Mafia Cops Case’.Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsForeword by Special Agent, F.B.I. Ret. Joseph Dominick Pistone Preface by 1St Grade, Detective, NYPD, Tommy DadesIntroductionChapter 1: Toward Understanding Process, Ingenuity and Stealth-Under Deep Cover. Chapter 2: Integrity and Autonomy – Basics of Becoming Donnie Brasco Chapter 3: Patronizing --Police, Mafia, and Family: Eco-Ethological TriangulationChapter 4: Boundaries in Mafia Culture: Totem and Taboos Chapter 5: Active Analysis and Adaptive Functional Dissociation: Intuitive Ingenuity.Chapter 6: Dialogue, Insight and Discovery – A Canopy of Shadows and HuesChapter 7: Disenfranchised Losses & Complex PTSD: Eco-Ethological Existential Analysis Epilogue
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