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Book SynopsisExplores the forms of vision Parks employed across various artistic media

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Book SynopsisPresents full repertoires of five storytellers along with extensive archival materialTrade Review"A fascinating, cohesive, and timely book. After a full, informative introduction, Tanghlerini gives us generous selections from five of Tang Kristensen’s most productive informants…in tales rendered into fluent, vigorous, sometimes salty American-English." -- Paul Binding * Times Literary Supplement *"An exceptional addition to the “New Directions in Scandinavian Studies” series, this collection consists of two complementary components: a printed book that stands alone as an introduction to and exploration of Danish folklore, and comprehensive digital content stored on an accompanying DVD. . .This useful two-faceted work should generate much interest in multiple disciples, particularly Scandinavian and/or folklore. Recommended." * Choice *"A seminal work of truly impressive scholarship throughout. Erudite, extraordinarily well written, and very strongly recommended for academic library Folktale & Folklore collections." -- Jack Mason * Midwest Book Review *"…to the credit of Tangherlini, we now know that there is even more to be uncovered from the nineteenth century that might provide us with greater cultural and historical understanding of how common people reacted to social change and forged traditions of storytelling that we continue to shape, although we may be unaware of the role we are playing." -- Jack Zipes * Folklore *Table of ContentsPreface Key to Story References, Abbreviations, and Measurements Introduction 1. "Bitte Jens" Kristensen: Cobbled Together 2. Kirsten Marie Pedersdatter: Between Farm and Smallholding 3. Jens Peter Pedersen: Day Laborer and Turner 4. (Ane) Margrete Jensdatter: Old Age and Rural Poverty 5. Peder Johansen: Miller, Fiddler, Bachelor Storyteller How to Use the Digital Content Works Cited Evald Tang Kristensen's Published Works Topic Index General Index

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Book SynopsisHuman rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien's (1913-1989) ethnic Chinese roots spurred him to become a courageous defender of the rights of all oppressed Indonesians. This title presents Yap's story that brings modern Indonesian history to life.Trade Review". . . masterly biography . . ." -- Gerry Van Klinken * Bijdragen tot de Taal- *"This book provides important insights into the history of political repression, racism and discrimination in Indonesia through the life of one man. It also makes a valuable contribution to our understanding of Indonesian legal history. This book will inform and inspire a new generation . . ." -- Melissa Crouch * Australian Journal of Asian Law *Table of ContentsIntroduction | Primary Players / Benedict Anderson 1. Aceh 2. Java 3. Batavia 4. From Sukabumi to Leiden 5. Jakarta 6. Hazardous Waters 7. At Sea in Peranakan Politics 8. The Baperki Wars 9. Out of the Ethnic Cage 10. Into New Order Indonesia 11. Early New Order Battlefields 12. Reform Frontiers 13. Law as Politics: A Sidetrip to Detention Epilogue | A Steady Course / Arlene O. Lev Postscript | New Order Landmark Case / Sebastiaan Pompe and Ibrahim Assegaf Appendix | Defense Summation in Asep Suryaman Trial / Yap Thiam Hien Glossary Notes Acknowledgments Selected Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisHoward Zahniser (1906-1964), executive secretary of The Wilderness Society and editor of The Living Wilderness from 1945 to 1964, is arguably the person most responsible for drafting and promoting the Wilderness Act in 1964. This book deals with these works.Trade Review"These carefully selected writings . . . allow environmental historians to see the evolution of an idea that was formative to our field, and demonstrates that wilderness remains a compelling concept to explore relationships between humans and nonhuman beings." -- Sarah Mittlefehldt * H-Net Reviews *"Howard Zahniser (1906–1964) lived and worked in a world of words, and Harvey (North Dakota State Univ.) has done an exemplary job of arranging Zahniser's own words to reveal his heart and soul, from his spiritual foundations as a child to his eight-year battle to secure passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Makings of a Nature Writer 2. Transition to the Wilderness Society 3. Campaigning for Wilderness 4. Threats to Wild Lands 5. The Campaign for the Wilderness Bill 6. The Last Hurdle 7. Testimonies Excerpts Selected Bibliography Permissions Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These transcribed journals of a journey from Daghestan to Georgia to Russia have preserved a number of priceless snapshots of communities and customs now disappeared. . . . This is an impressively researched and intelligent book." -- Peter Nasmyth * Times Literary Supplement *Table of ContentsPreface Editorial Note Acknowledgments Introduction Chronology of Kennan's 1870 Travels The Caucasus Writings of George Kennan Journey to the Caucasus Across the Main Caucasus Ridge, with Prince Jorjadze Through the Lands of Chechnya to the Dagestan Highlands Appendix Afterword References Index

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Book SynopsisTrade Review"These carefully selected writings . . . allow environmental historians to see the evolution of an idea that was formative to our field, and demonstrates that wilderness remains a compelling concept to explore relationships between humans and nonhuman beings." -- Sarah Mittlefehldt * H-Net Reviews *"Howard Zahniser (1906–1964) lived and worked in a world of words, and Harvey (North Dakota State Univ.) has done an exemplary job of arranging Zahniser's own words to reveal his heart and soul, from his spiritual foundations as a child to his eight-year battle to secure passage of the Wilderness Act of 1964." * Choice *Table of ContentsForeword by William Cronon Preface Acknowledgments Introduction 1. The Makings of a Nature Writer 2. Transition to the Wilderness Society 3. Campaigning for Wilderness 4. Threats to Wild Lands 5. The Campaign for the Wilderness Bill 6. The Last Hurdle 7. Testimonies Excerpts Selected Bibliography Permissions Index

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Book SynopsisFranz Boas, the founding figure of anthropology in America, came to the United States from Germany in 1886. This volume in the History of Anthropology series explores the extent and significance of Boas' roots in the German intellectual tradition and late-19th century German anthropology.

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Book SynopsisSpanning a quarter century of work, the essays in Helen Barolini's Chiaroscuro explore her personal search; literature as a formative influence; and the turning of the personal into the political.

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Book SynopsisBlending poetry, prose and autobiographical details, "Development" and "Two Selves" together constitute a compelling bildungsroman that follows a young woman's process of coming out. Through the fictionalized character Nancy, the novels trace Bryher's life through her childhood and young adulthood.

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Book SynopsisIsaac Bashevis Singer brought the vibrant milieu of pre-Holocaust Polish Jewry to the English-speaking world through his subtle psychological insight, deep sympathy for the eccentricities of Jewish folk custom and unerring feel for the heroism of everyday life.Trade Review"Hadda [gives] us unique, exciting insights into Singer's creative process." - Leonard Nimoy; "The iridescent charm of Isaac Bashevis Singer is such as to give the slip to the very letters of the alphabet, but Janet Hadda has out-tricked the Yiddish trickster in this brief but wonderfully alive-and-kicking biography. The story she tells will entertain, appall, and fascinate." - Jack Miles, MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of God: A Biography

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Book SynopsisA classic of world literature back in print in a Spanish-language edition.Wisconsin edition is for sale only in North America.Trade Review""At two in the morning of April 15, 1977, twenty armed men in civilian clothes arrested Jacobo Timerman, editor and publisher of a leading Buenos Aires newspaper. Thus began thirty months of imprisonment, torture, and anti-Semitic abuse. . . . Unlike 15,000 other Argentines, ‘the disappeared,’ Timerman was eventually released into exile. His testimony [is] gripping in its human stories, not only of brutality but of courage and love; important because it reminds us how, in our world, the most terrible fantasies may become fact.”—New York Times, Books of the Century|“It ranks with Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem in its examination of the totalitarian mind, the role of anti-Semitism, the silence.”—Eliot Fremont-Smith, Village Voice|“It is impossible to read this proud and piercing account of [Timerman’s] suffering and his battles without wanting to be counted as one of Timerman’s friends.”—Michael Walzer, New York Review of Books|“Timerman was a living reminder that real prophets are irritants and not messengers of reassurance. He told it like it is, whether in Argentina, Israel, Europe, or the United States.”—Arthur Miller|""One of the most poignant testimonies ever written by a political prisoner. . . . A classic of world literature.""—Molly Ivins, Texas Observer

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Book SynopsisSurveys the full range of gay men's autobiographical writing from Walt Whitman onwards. This title guides the reader chronologically through selected writings that give voice to every generation of gay writers since the nineteenth century, including a diverse array of American men of African, European, Jewish, Asian, and Latino heritage.Trade ReviewIntimacy as history! I adored these glimpses into gay men's lives, and thank David Bergman for having uncovered them. I only wish I'd had this book decades sooner. - Michael Lowenthal, author of Charity Girl ""Bergman has brought together an impressive, diverse cache of source materials in a field which has been written on, but has always lacked a generic anthology. There have been subject- and period-based anthologies, but nothing spanning the 150 years or so of available material in this way."" - Richard Canning, University of Sheffield

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Book SynopsisOne bitterly cold winter afternoon, a nine-month-old colt—extremely weak, starving, left to die—was frozen to the rock-hard white landscape of a northern Wisconsin pasture. His whinny for help barely carried through thirty-mile-an-hour winds lashing snow and ice against his thin coat. But somewhere inside him a light refused to go out.

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Book SynopsisPresents the memoir of a man hungry for the logistics of travel: getting there, staying there, and feeling at home on any continent. Woven into Geoffrey Weill’s entertaining anecdotes is an informative account of a lost era in travel.Trade Review“Like a telegram from a long-lost and infinitely more glamorous era, All Abroad evokes the thrill and mystery of travel without an ounce of nostalgia. Yes, there are the grandest of hotels, ocean liners and Swiss trains in this book, but also incidents of cruel discrimination and heartbreaking family secrets- all from one of the godfathers of the modern travel business, Geoffrey Weill. Absolutely brilliant.”- Luke Barr, New York Times bestselling author of Provence, 1970;“If like me, you adhere to the adage that it's the journey and not the destination that matters, then this utterly fascinating tale of a man's obsessive travel and obsession with every detail of traveling is the book for you! But this is so much more than just a glamorous travelogue. It's a tender memoir of an eccentric family scattered across the globe, a searing commentary on institutionalized antisemitism and a celebration of the life of a joyous nomad named Geoffrey Weill.”- Alan Cumming

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Book SynopsisBittersweet and empowering, The Only Way Through Is Out is both a coming-out and coming-of-age story, as well as a call to action for every human who is longing to live authentically but is afraid of the cost.Trade ReviewAn honest and insightful delve into coming out later in life, The Only Way Through Is Out is filled with tears, laughter, and, above all, hope." - Lara Lillibridge, author of Girlish: Growing Up in a Lesbian Home"I could not put this book down. Suzette shows us the search for one’s authentic self has no expiration date and is worth whatever it takes. This book is a glorious tale of tenacious courage that any woman searching for her path in life will love." - Jennifer Louden, national bestselling author of Why Bother? Discover the Desire for What’s Next "In The Only Way Through Is Out, Suzette Mullen reveals how she unearthed her true sexual identity from beneath a mountain of cultural, familial, and internalized heteronormativity. Swimming upstream, she emerges in midlife as the heroine of her own story, and as inspiration to any reader struggling to express their most authentic self." - Robin Rinaldi, author of The Wild Oats Project: One Woman’s Midlife Quest for Passion at Any CostTable of Contents Author’s Note Part One The Path The Unspeakable The Man I Love Listen and Lean In Zone of Privacy The Real Part Two Open Doors The Talk Sacred Vows LaLa Land Future Stories Heart Friends Sticky Wicket Brave Part Three The Family Coming Out My Power The Dating Game The Ledger Choices and Consequences The Plagues Doubt Surrender Part Four Detour Concern This Way Threshold Home Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisAn examination of the career and work of Humphrey Repton, landscape gardener of later Georgian England. It charts Repton's vision of England, how his style changed and persisted over time and from place to place, how he influenced his profession, and how he fashioned his social identity.

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Book SynopsisA collection of letters by Sir Joshua Reynolds. It is the first edition to be published since 1929, and since that date the number of known letters has almost doubled. This volume contains 308 letters by the artist to friends, family and patrons, all accompanied by detailed notes.

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Book SynopsisA study of David Octavius Hill (1802-70), pioneer photographer, painter and lithographer. It analyzes his photographic partnership with Robert Adamson, offering an understanding of its remarkable success, and explains the purpose and intelligence of this work in the context of Hill's life.

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Book SynopsisBritish Royal Navy Captain James Cook's voyages of exploration across and around the Pacific Ocean were a marvel of maritime achievement, and provided the first accurate map of the Pacific. The expeditions answered key scientific, economic, and geographic questions, and inspired some of the most influential images of the Pacific made by Europeans. Now readers can immerse themselves in the adventure through the collections of London's National Maritime Museum, which illuminate every aspect of the voyages: oil paintings of lush landscapes, scientific and navigational instruments, ship plans, globes, charts and maps, rare books and manuscripts, coins and medals, ethnographic material, and personal effects. Each artifact holds a story that sheds light on Captain Cook, the crews he commanded, and the effort's impact on world history. Showcasing one of the richest resources of Cook-related material in the world, this publication invites readers to engage with the extraordinary voyagesmanifes

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“[An] affecting and informative memoir.”—Alex Beam, Wall Street Journal“Our Days Are Like Full Years is not a bitter or angry book. It is a memoir of [Kahn and Pattison’s] times together, moving and heroic (on her part) as well as troubling.”—Rowan Moore, The Guardian“[A] warm and elegant account – splendidly illustrated with drawings, photographs, and facsimiles of correspondence”—Arquitectura Viva, 2020“Part memoir, part collection of letters, part architecture treatise, and part love story, Harriet Pattison’s Our Days Are Like Full Years takes you inside the architect Louis Kahn’s mind and, even more, inside his heart. This is the saga of a devil’s bargain with a saint, and it is at once poignant and triumphant. Pattison has written a magnificent book, filled with warmth, elegance, insight, and grace.”—Paul Goldberger, author of Why Architecture Matters

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Book SynopsisA unique and intimate look into Claude Monet's outstanding personal collection of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by fellow artists Claude Monet (18401926) was the founder of French Impressionism and remains one of the world's best-known and most beloved painters. His works are on view in many of the finest museums, and details of his storied life are well documented. Less well known are Monet's activities as an art collector; Monet as Collectoris a sumptuously illustrated volume that traces this history, and in the process reconstitutes the artist's private collection. The masterpieces he assembled throughout his life form an outstanding, unique ensemble, one that has never before been analyzed in its entirety. The collection includes paintings, drawings, and sculptures by such artists as Delacroix, Corot, Boudin, Jongkind, Manet, Renoir, Caillebotte, Cézanne, Morisot, Pissarro, Rodin, and Signac, and offers a new kind of insight into the artistic tastes and vision of this legenda

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Taken together, the writings [in Savage Tales] form an episodic account of a complex persona under construction.”—Holland Cotter, New York Times Book Review“Goddard conveys Gauguin’s collage aesthetic and the brilliant symbiosis of word and image through beautiful reproductions of carefully selected album pages, and she demonstrates how this bricolage of motifs, and the process of appropriation, reiteration, fragmentation and repetition are aesthetic strategies shared by the artist’s visual and literary oeuvre.”—Mary Morton, The Art NewspaperCHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2020

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Book SynopsisTrade Review“Imaginatively conceived and engagingly written”—Nicholas Thomas, Inside Story [Australia]“[A] fascinating mix of art history focussing on the development of “universal man” portraiture with the rise of Joshua Reynolds, an exploration of competing political positions on the idea of empire, comparisons of society and the evolving awareness and importance of the individual in eighteenth century English, Polynesian and Native American culture”—Margaret Cassidy, Journal of the Oceanic Art Society“In these studies of Ostenaco and Mai, Fullagar’s ambitious whole-of-life approach to biography really shines…Fullagar’s method combines rich historical contextualisation and informed speculation…Fullagar’s approach decentres empire from the stories of Ostenaco’s and Mai’s lives, and provides a richer, and fuller perspective on these compelling individuals.”—Shino Konishi, History Australia “Destabilises Eurocentric notions of biography, bringing alternative, indigenous worldviews and knowledges to bear on the process and outcome of life writing. Tracing the hubris of imperialism, the independent motivations of indigenous actors, and the fluid values and structures of their societies, Fullagar has rendered a stunning work of portraiture herself, entwining three lives and bloated empire—as she writes of Reynolds’ paintings—with ‘more flair than flailing’.”—Emma Gattey, Family & Community HistoryWinner of the Historians of British Art Book Prize for single-author book on a subject 1600–1800 Winner of the 2020 General History Prize, sponsored by The State Library of New South WalesWinner of the Douglas Stewart Prize for Non-fiction, sponsored by the New South Wales State LibraryShortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize- biography category, sponsored by The University of Edinburgh“Deftly combining indigenous studies, postcolonial perspectives, cultural history, and visual studies, Kate Fullagar produces a new portrait of Georgian Britain that is both surprising and entirely convincing.”—Douglas Fordham, University of Virginia “Spanning three land masses and two oceans, The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist exemplifies the very best of the new biography, and is a must read for anyone interested in the cultural history of the British Empire.”— Eliga Gould, author of the Among the Powers of the Earth: The American Revolution and the Making of a New World Empire“Kate Fullagar peers into the soul of the eighteenth century, discovering the shared human challenges that connected three very different men, three faces of the whirling gyre of the British empire. As deep and luminous as a Reynolds portrait, and as wide and wondrous as the Pacific, The Warrior, the Voyager, and the Artist will astonish.”— Jane Kamensky, author of A Revolution in Color: The World of John Singleton Copley“A deftly-told story of three inter-connected but very different lives that challenges many of the clichés about the history of the British empire. Fullagar’s account is subtle, persuasive and humane.”—John Brewer, California Institute of Technology“Fullagar does for biography what Reynolds wanted to do for portraiture—have it speak with the authority and humanity of history. But where he failed, Fullagar brilliantly succeeds.”—Peter Brunt, Victoria University of Wellington

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Book SynopsisA new edition of the New York Times bestsellerBailey Whites classic collection of essays featuring the unusual characters of her Georgia hometownTrade ReviewTucson Citizen, 3/26/09 "Pass the corn pone and enjoy." Columbia State, 4/19/09 "Funny essays...and White's mama...is amusing enough all on her own." Augusta Metro Spirit, 5/20/09 "A stunning display of Southern hilarity...Those in search of heart, humor, and intriguing characters could do a lot worse than the life of White." Bookviews.com, July 2009 "A celebration of the South...For fellow Southerners it will resonate with many memories of this unique region." Option,8/15/11 "A trip back to Flannery O'Connor territory, with perhaps a side route to Capote-land."

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Book SynopsisA candid memoir about confronting a crippling disease, by the host of ESPN's Sports Reporters and ABC's college football

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Book SynopsisThe founder of Recovery Management Agency—the world’s first agency devoted to helping addicts heal their addictions by reawakening their souls—uses her knowledge of depth psychology and her personal experience as a recovering addict to help you reconnect with soul, find meaning and live your purpose. On her fifth anniversary of sobriety, Elisa Hallerman still awoke with a hurting heart. This is not right. I am not happy. Sobriety was supposed to fix her, right? Isn’t that what sobriety is all about?    Hallerman quickly realized that though she had freed her addiction to substances, she had not freed her soul. After years of trauma and substance abuse, she had only covered up the wounds, rather than truly healing them from within. Despite her sobriety, her current lifestyle – a top talent agent and partner at WME, representing the best of Hollywood’s elite – was making her sick. While she was no longer clinging to drugs and alcohol, she was still using food, men, work, ego-inflation and other addictive behaviors to push away the pain.   And so she quit it all, in an effort to ignite her life and reconnect to her soul.    Since then, Hallerman received a doctorate in Depth Psychology and established the first-ever Recovery Management Agency, one that helps addicts not only recover and their addiction but reawaken their soul connection and live their unique purpose. Leaning on her studies and expertise, Soulbriety brings together Hallerman’s story, philosophy, and methodology encouraging and facilitating us to use our soul as our map, as nourishment, and to create deep meaning in our lives.   Soulbriety is not just about getting sober; it’s about true, soul-centered wellness. It starts when you slow down and grow down, in a way you’ve been yearning for—but probably didn't quite know how to before. To explore your unconscious root system, plumb the depths of your soul, travel your own individual hero’s journey. Hallerman shows us exactly how to get there with step-by-step solutions and incredibly affecting storytelling. And Hallerman is not alone in this endeavor; she has affected thousands of lives, healed many wounds, and inspired countless others to take charge of their life by taking charge of their soul. As actress Jamie Lee Curtis says in Soulbriety’s forward, Hallerman is “a crucial voice for these unprecedented times.” 

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Book SynopsisThe incredible, untold origin story of cyberwar and the hackers who unleashed it on the world, tracing their journey from the ashes of the Cold War to the criminal underworld, governments, and even Silicon Valley--while the Pandora's Box they opened changed the world foreverTwo years before 9/11, the United States was attacked by an unknown enemy. No advance warning was given, and civilians weren't the target. Instead, tomahawk missiles started missing their targets, US agents were swept up by hostile governments, and America’s enemies seemed to know its every move in advance. The Pentagon was so confused that its distress call simply read: “This shouldn’t be happening.” A new phase of warfare—cyberwar—had arrived. And within two decades, it escaped Pandora's Box, plunging us into a state of total war where every day, countless cyber attacks perpetrated by mercenaries and states are reshaping the world. 

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Book SynopsisIn Grief is Love, author Marisa Renee Lee reveals that healing does not mean moving on after losing a loved one-healing means learning to acknowledge and create space for your grief. It is about learning to love the one you lost with the same depth, passion, joy, and commitment you did when they were alive, perhaps even more. She guides you through the pain of grief-whether you''ve lost the person recently or long ago-and shows you what it looks like to honor your loss on your unique terms, and debunks the idea of a grief stages or timelines. Grief is Love is about making space for the transformation that a significant loss requires.In beautiful, compassionate prose, Lee elegantly offers wisdom about what it means to authentically and defiantly claim space for grief''s complicated feelings and emotions. And Lee is no stranger to grief herself, she shares her journey after losing her mother, a pregnancy, and, most recently, a cousin to the COVID-1

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Book SynopsisVersace. The very name conjures up images of outrageous glamour and bold sexuality, opulence and daring. All of course true, but only half the story. Versace is also the legacy of a great creative genius from a poor, backward part of southern Italy who transformed the fashion world through his intuitive understanding of both women and how a changing culture influenced the way they wanted to dress. The first book in English about the legendary designer, House of Versace shows how Gianni Versace, with his flamboyant sister Donatella at his side, combined his virtuosic talent and extraordinary ambition to almost single-handedly create the celebrity culture we take for granted today. Gianni Versace was at the height of his creative powers when he was murdered in Miami Beach. The story was front page news around the world and the manhunt for his killer a media obsession. His beloved sister Donatella demanded no less than a funeral befitting an assassinated head-of-state to be held in Milan’s magnificent cathedral. In what was the ultimate fashion show, the world’s rich and beautiful – Princess Dianna, Elton John, Carla Bruni, Naomi Campbell, Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, Anna Wintour and others – gathered to mourn a man already considered one of fashion’s great pioneers.         Deborah Ball, a long-time Milan correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, conducted hundreds of interviews with Versace family members, Gianni Versace’s lovers and business rivals, models such as Naomi Campbell whom he helped shoot to international stardom and fashion industry icons, including Anna Wintour, the legendary editor of Vogue. Ball vividly recounts the behind-the scenes struggles – both creative and business – of Donatella as she stepped out of her brother’s long shadow and took control of the House of Versace. The book offers the first inside look at the enormous challenges Donatella faced in living up to Gianni’s genius, her struggle with a drug habit, her battles with her brother Santo and the mystery of why Gianni left control of his house to Donatella’s young daughter, Allegra. House of Versace is a compelling, highly readable tale of rise from obscurity, a painful fall and ultimate redemption as the Versace empire returned to health – for now. Bringing together fashion, celebrity, business drama, jet-set lifestyles, and a notorious crime, House of Versace is an old-fashioned page-turner about a subject of enduring fascination.

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Book SynopsisOpening in July 1914, as Mohandas Gandhi leaves South Africa to return to India, Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1918 traces the Mahatma’s life over the three decades preceding his assassination. Drawing on new archival materials, acclaimed historian Ramachandra Guha follows Gandhi’s struggle to deliver India from British rule, to forge harmonious relations between India’s Hindus and Muslims, to end the pernicious practice of untouchability, and to nurture India’s economic and moral self-reliance. He shows how in each of these campaigns, Gandhi adapted methods of nonviolence that successfully challenged British authority and would influence revolutionary movements throughout the world. A revelatory look at the complexity of Gandhi’s thinking and motives, the book is a luminous portrait of not only the man himself, but also those closest to him—family, friends, and political and social leaders.

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Book SynopsisOne of the most moving and eloquent accounts of the Holocaust, read by tens of millions of people around the world since its publication in 1947.The Diary of a Young Girl is the record of two years in the life of a remarkable Jewish girl whose triumphant humanity in the face of unfathomable deprivation and fear has made the book one of the most enduring documents of our time.The Everyman’s hardcover edition reprints the Definitive Edition authorized by the Frank estate, plus a new introduction, a bibliography, and a chronology of Anne Frank’s life and times.

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Book SynopsisA haunting account of teaching English to the sons of North Korea's ruling class during the last six months of Kim Jong-il's reign   Every day, three times a day, the students march in two straight lines, singing praises to Kim Jong-il and North Korea: Without you, there is no motherland. Without you, there is no us. It is a chilling scene, but gradually Suki Kim, too, learns the tune and, without noticing, begins to hum it. It is 2011, and all universities in North Korea have been shut down for an entire year, the students sent to construction fields—except for the 270 students at the all-male Pyongyang University of Science and Technology (PUST), a walled compound where portraits of Kim Il-sung and Kim Jong-il look on impassively from the walls of every room, and where Suki has gone undercover as a missionary and a teacher. Over the next six months, she will eat three meals a day with her young charges and struggle to teach them English, all under the

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Book SynopsisRichard Holmes’s luminous meditation on the art of biography explores the fascinating relationship between fact and fiction through his own personal experience as a biographer. Ranging widely over art, science, and poetry, Holmes describes a pilgrimage of the heart that has taken him across three centuries. He powerfully evokes the lives of women both scientific and literary: Margaret Cavendish, Mary Somerville, Germaine de Staël, Mary Wollstonecraft, and the Dutch intellectual Zélide. Holmes investigates the reductive myths that have overshadowed some favorite Romantic figures: the love-stunned John Keats, the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley, the opium-soaked Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and the mad visionary William Blake. This great chronicler of the Romantics has produced a chronicle of himself and his intellectual passions; it contains his most personal and most seductive writing.

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Book SynopsisIn her eye-opening, ruthlessly honest account, Darcy Lockman shares the stress, frustratation, and exhilaration of her clinical training as a psychologist in the midst of institutional dysfunction at Brooklyn’s Kings County Hospital.  After leaving her career in magazine journalism to become a psychotherapist, Darcy Lockman confronted a slew of challenges including numerous troubling cases, struggles to provide the poor and chronically ill with adequate care, and the general and sometimes humorous indignities of being a trainee in any field. This compelling memoir will by turns deeply move, shock, and enrage you. Hope is not lost though, and Brooklyn Zoo introduces us to the many smart people currently trying to fix the mental health-care system, enhancing our understanding of what psychologists can make possible through their work.

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Book SynopsisWhat would you do if, when you were ten, you were left to fend for yourself, and, in order to survive, you had to undertake a harrowing journey all the way from Afghanistan to Italy? In early 2002, Enaiatollah Akbari’s village fell prey to the Taliban. His mother, fearing for his life, led him across the border. So began Enaiat’s remarkable and often publishing five-year ordeal—trekking across bitterly cold mountains, riding the suffocating false bottom of a truck, steering an inflatable raft in violent waters—through Iran, Turkey, Pakistan, and Greece, before he eventually sought political asylum in Italy, all before he turned fifteen years old. Here Fabio Geda delivers the moving true story of Enaiat’s extraordinary will to survive and of the accidental brotherhood he found with the boys he met along the way. In the Sea There Are Crocodiles brilliantly captures Enaiat’s engaging voice and humor, in what is a trul

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Book SynopsisFor the first time, music legend Rudy Pérez shares his remarkable journey from a poor refugee kid in Miami to composing the greatest hit songs on the world stage. Named the most successful Latin songwriter in history, Rudy Pérez is the creator behind some of the bestselling records of Beyoncé, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, and IL Divo.In his one-of-a-kind memoir, Rudy tells about his childhood in Cuba and the heart-gripping visits to his father in prison during the height of the communist revolution. Tracing his family''s perilous escape on one of the last Freedom Flights to America, Rudy opens up about the years of poverty and growing up in a crime-ridden neighborhood. These memories contrast with tender moments of dancing to the stereo with his siblings, nodding along to his mother''s classical favorites, and swaying to blues melodies with his father. At a young age, Rudy tried his hand at recreating the music he loved, and his talent led him

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