Memoirs Books
WW Norton & Co Mermaid A Memoir of Resilience
Book SynopsisA gorgeously crafted memoir about resilience, family, and forging your own way, by a woman born without legs.Trade Review"Extraordinarily courageous; [Cronin] chronicles her journey to fit in and thrive with bravery and wit." -- O, The Oprah Magazine"Compelling... [Cronin’s] grit, grace, and optimism are a lesson to anyone confronted by a severe challenge..." -- The Washington Post"Mermaid is studded with searing moments…" -- The Boston Globe
£11.99
Random House USA Inc Dont Lets Go to the Dogs Tonight
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£16.20
Random House USA Inc Paris to the Moon
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The finest book on France in recent years.”—Alain de Botton, The New York Times Book Review In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of Paris. In the grand tradition of Stein, Hemingway, Baldwin, and Liebling, Gopnik set out to enjoy the storied existence of an American in Paris—walks down the paths of the Tuileries, philosophical discussions in cafés, and afternoon jaunts to the Musée d’Orsay. But as readers of Gopnik’s beloved and award-winning “Paris Journal” in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with la vie quotidienne—the daily, slightly less fabled life. As Gopnik discovers in this tender account, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not comp
£15.30
WW Norton & Co Mess One Mans Struggle to Clean Up His House and
Book SynopsisHilarious and poignant, a glimpse into the mind of someone who is both a sufferer from and an investigator of clutter.Trade Review"... excellent, eccentric book..." -- Paul Levy - The Spectator"All shared in an artfully constructed, self-deprecating, humorous yet moving memoir." -- Human Givens
£12.34
Footnote Press Ltd The Last Sweet Bite
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£17.00
HarperCollins Normal Gets You Nowhere
Book SynopsisInviting you to rethink who you are, what you value, and what you want from life, this title shows how to reinvent yourself and create your own brand, and investigates what it means to live in this world as a tuned in, caring individual with a passion for making a difference.Trade Review"Kelly fans will love it." -- OK! magazine "Normal Gets You Nowhere is bursting with her trademark punk-rock spiritual fierce philosophy and indispensable advice for anyone starting out in the world, new grads, dreamers and those who might just need a dose of Kelly to push them forward." -- ashadedviewonfashion.com
£9.99
Penguin Publishing Group Autobiography
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£17.85
Penguin Books Ltd Letters on England Penguin Classics
Book SynopsisAlso known as the Lettres anglaises ou philosophiques, Voltaire's response to his exile in England offered the French public of 1734 a panoramic view of British culture. Perceiving them as a veiled attack against the ancien regime, however, the French government ordered the letters burned and Voltaire persecuted.Table of ContentsLetters on England - Voltaire Translated by Leonard TancockIntroductionLetter 1: On the QuakersLetter 2: On the QuakersLetter 3: On the QuakersLetter 4: On the QuakersLetter 5: On the Anglican ReligionLetter 6: On the PresbyteriansLetter 7: On the Socinians, Arians or Anti-TrinitariansLetter 8: On ParliamentLetter 9: On the GovernmentLetter 10: On CommerceLetter 11: On Innoculation with SmallpoxLetter 12: On Chancellor BaconLetter 13: On Mr. LockeLetter 14: On Descartes and NewtonLetter 15: On the System of GravitationLetter 16: On the Optics of NewtonLetter 17: On Infinity and ChronologyLetter 18: On TragedyLetter 19: On ComedyLetter 20: On Noble Lords who cultivate literatureLetter 21: On the Earl of Rochester and Mr. WallerLetter 22: On Mr. Pope and some other famous poetsLetter 23: On the Consideration due to Men of LettersLetter 24: On AcademiesLetter 25: On the Pensées of PascalNotesAppendix
£9.99
Cornerstone The View from Ninety
Book SynopsisCharles Handy is one of the giants of contemporary thought. His books on management including Understanding Organizations and Gods of Management have changed the way we view business. His work on broader issues and trends such as Beyond Certainty and The Second Curve has changed the way we view society.In his new book, Handy, looking back over a rich and varied life, shares the lessons he has learned along the way. What things really matter? What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant? How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us? How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? Clear-eyed and optimistic by turns, he sets out the questions that everyone needs to ask themselves in the course of their lives, and points us in the direction of the answers.
£13.49
St. Martin's Publishing Group Act One
Book SynopsisMoss Hart''s Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American memoirs, a glorious memorial to a bygone age filled with all the wonder, drama, and heartbreak that surrounded Broadway in the early twentieth century. Hart''s story inspired a generation of theatergoers, dramatists, and readers everywhere as he eloquently chronicled his impoverished childhood and his long, determined struggle to reach the opening night of his first Broadway hit. Act One is the quintessential American success story.
£20.00
St. Martin's Griffin All Things Wise and Wonderful
Book SynopsisReaders adore James Herriot''s tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful.Now here''s a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot''s own brand of humor, insight, and wisdom, and the basis for the PBS Masterpiece drama.In the midst of World War II, James is training for the Royal Air Force, while going home to Yorkshire whenever possible to see his very pregnant wife, Helen. Musing on past adventures through the dales, visiting with old friends, and introducing scores of new and amusing charactersanimal and human alikeHerriot enthralls with his uncanny ability to spin a most engaging and heartfelt yarn. Millions of readers have delighted in the wonderful storytelling and everyday miracles of James Herriot in the over thirty years since his delightful animal stories were first introduced to the world.
£16.19
Cornerstone A Moveable Feast
Book SynopsisErnest Miller Hemingway was born in Chicago in 1899 as the son of a doctor and the second of six children. After a stint as an ambulance driver at the Italian front, Hemingway came home to America in 1919, only to return to the battlefield this time as a reporter on the Greco-Turkish war in 1922. Resigning from journalism to focus on his writing instead, he moved to Paris where he renewed his earlier friendship with fellow American expatriates such as Ezra Pound and Gertrude Stein. Through the years, Hemingway travelled widely and wrote avidly, becoming an internationally recognized literary master of his craft. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954, following the publication of The Old Man and the Sea. He died in 1961.Trade ReviewReading A Moveable Feast is a little like sitting down to a banquet with a host of bohemian luminaries * Observer *Here is Hemingway at his best. No one has ever written about Paris in the nineteen twenties as well as Hemingway * New York Times *The first thing to say about the 'restored' edition so ably and attractively produced by Patrick and Sean Hemingway is that it does live up to its billing . . . well worth having * The Atlantic *The Paris sketches are absolutely controlled, far enough removed in time so that the scenes and characters are observed in tranquillity, and yet with astonishing immediacy - his remarkable gift - so that many have the hard brilliance of his best fiction * New York Herald Tribune *The first thing to say about the 'restored' edition so ably and attractively produced by Patrick and Sean Hemingway is that it does live up to its billing . . . well worth having * Christopher Hitchens, "The Atlantic" *
£8.99
LID Publishing Restart
Book SynopsisSujin Lee is one of Asia's most successful entrepreneurs of recent times. Starting with two desks and capital of only $50,000, Lee founded Yanolja, the South Korean super-app that provides hotel and travel bookings, and which today has revenues of $350 million. Before this, Lee was an orphaned child who spent his early 20s working as a hotel janitor. This book contains insights, thoughts and the experiences of Sujin Lee. Often candid and honest, it offers a rare and vivid look into the mind of an entrepreneur and the start-up of a company and its spectacular growth. Like most entrepreneurs, Lee experienced crises along the way, that forced him to start from scratch again. But he was able to continue going forwards, turning crisis into opportunity, and today Yanolja has evolved into a global, one-stop travel tech company, with further plans to expand into the cloud-based business
£14.44
Picador USA Alphabetical Diaries
£16.15
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC A Work In Progress
Book Synopsis''I''m not past my prime. And neither are you!''Engaging and wise, A Work in Progress will resonate with every middle-aged woman who feels newly invisible, silenced, underestimated or diminished. From knowing our worth, looking ahead with excitement and possibility, and realising that we still have so much to give and enjoy, this is a book that will change lives.Sue Cleaver shares her experiences and life stories, reflects on how they made her feel and what she learned, and offers advice and tips for others who find themselves in similar situations. Are you a chronic overthinker, do you have anxiety, or suffer from self-doubt? Sue has been there, done that, and is still learning from it. Training as a therapist was only the start of her journey of self-discovery and at sixty she feels more empowered to live life to the full than ever before.''I''ve spent a lifetime feeling that I''m not enough or I don''t belong. It''s only now that I''m beg
£18.00
HarperCollins Publishers Undressing Emmanuelle A memoir
Book SynopsisThe candid and heartbreakingly honest memoir of Sylvia Kristel, the cinema icon of the 1970s who played the lead role in the worldwide sensation erotic Emmanuelle films.Trade Review'Far from being seedy, this is an elegantly written book. The prose is simple, evocative and highly readable. I found myself wishing that our home-grown celebrities would write books full of ideas and feelings, not glossy magazine therapy-speak. A few of her highly stylised sentences tell far more about the whys and wherefores of exposure and fame than all the trash clogging the bestseller lists of late.' Belle de Jour, The Times 'This is a poignant, semi-intentionally hilarious autobiography. Her story is gripping.' Sunday Times 'A remarkable memoir. A series of impressionistic snapshots, delivered in austere, melancholic prose, it is quite unlike other show-biz memoirs and its candour is raw. Sylvia is a cult icon, she loosened our inhibitions. But the price was high.' Bridget Hourican The Gloss Magazine
£11.39
Random House Publishing Group Never Give Up
Book SynopsisIn thismovingstory, the New York Times bestselling author of The Greatest Generation chronicles the values and lessons he absorbed from his parents and other people who worked hard to build lives on the prairie during the first half of the twentieth century. ?A spare, elegant masterpiece.??Ken BurnsTom?s father, Red, left school in the second grade to work in the family hotel?the Brokaw House, established in Bristol, South Dakota, by R. P. Brokaw in 1883. Eventually, through work on construction jobs, Red developed an exceptional talent for machines. Tom?s mother, Jean, was the daughter of a farmer who lost everything during the Great Depression. They met after a high school play, when Jean played the lead and Red fell in love with her from the audience. Although they didn?t have much money early in their marriage, especially once they had three boys at home, Red?s philosophy of ?Never give up? served them well. His big break came after World War II, when he went to work for the Army Corps of Engineers building great dams across the Missouri River, magnificent structures like the Fort Randall and the Gavins Point dams. Late in life, Red surprised his family by recording his memories of the hard times of his early life, reflections that inspired this book.Tom Brokaw is known as one of the most successful people in broadcast journalism. Throughout his legendary career, Brokaw has always asked what we can learn from world events and from our history. Within Never Give Up is one answer, a portrait of the resilience and respect for others at the heart of one American family?s story.
£12.59
Vertebrate Publishing Ltd The Search
Book SynopsisThe Search documents Paul Besley's experiences of volunteering on a Mountain Rescue team where he is soon joined by Scout, his very own search dog. Paul's demons threaten to derail their training, until his past finally catches up with him and his life inescapably unravels.
£16.14
Route Publishing Swerve
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£17.99
The History Press Ltd Between Silk and Cyanide
Book SynopsisIn 1942, with a black-market chicken under his arm, Leo Marks left his father''s famous bookshop, 84 Charing Cross Road, and went to war. He was twenty-two and a cryptopgraher of genius. In Between Silk and Cyanide, his critically acclaimed account of his time in SOE, Marks tells how he revolutionised the code-making techniques of the Allies, trained some of the most famous agents dropped into France including Violette Szabo and ''the White Rabbit'', and why he wrote haunting verse including his ''The Life that I have'' poem. He reveals for the first time the disastrous dimensions of the code war between SOE and the Germans in Holland; how the Germans were fooled into thinking a Secret Army was operating in the Fatherland itself, and how and why he broke General de Gaulle''s secret code. Both thrilling and poignant, Marks''s book is truly one of the last great Second World War memoirs.
£16.19
She Writes Press Girl Groomed
Book SynopsisRaw and riveting, Girl, Groomed is seasoned psychotherapist Carol Odell's evolving story of coming to terms with the impacts of her own history of sexual abuse and violence at the hands of a predatory horse trainer who, for far too much of her young life, held all the reins. Set in the equestrian world of Virginia, this candid memoir details how, starting at ten years old, Carol falls under the spell of Clarentine, the charismatic - and explosively violent - owner of the stables just down the hill from her house. In tandem with that story, Carol examines the multi-faceted consequences of the complex trauma that resulted from the exploitive relationship Clarentine cultivated with her - including the resulting crisis she blindly imposes on her marriage. Chapters toggle back and forth between scenes of her childhood growing up jumping horses on the show circuit and the therapy sessions she later undergoes as an adult. Using her own journey as an example, Carol demonstrates in this insightful memoir how unintegrated trauma limits us and our connection with others - and how the work of uncovering and reintegrating 'what we do with what happens to us' can become the very source of our liberation.
£15.29
Troubador Publishing I Didnt Ask To Be Born
Book SynopsisI Didn't Ask to Be Born' is filled with personal memories interwoven throughout with historical accounts of royal and aristocratic children's mismanagement and the repercussions for mental health. There are poignant anecdotes of modern-day children's dilemmas supported with psychological theories. Focussing on how the complexity of poor mental health resulting from childhood trauma demonstrates the dire impact on society. The concerning limitations of current frameworks are highlighted suggesting that a more holistic approach to mental well-being is needed. This is a candid exploration of personal growth as the intricacies of the human psyche are explored. I Didn't Ask to Be Born' is a call to reclaim one's rightful sense of self helping to foster empathy for the complexity that unites us all.
£10.79
Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc And Home Was Kariakoo
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£15.29
Hachette Australia Heartstrong
Book SynopsisSHORTLISTED FOR THE ABIA BIOGRAPHY BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD 2023A powerful, moving memoir on love, loss and this one precious life.''If not with you, then for you.''It was a perfect Wednesday morning when Alex ''Chumpy'' Pullin kissed his partner, Ellidy, goodbye to go spearfishing. Most days, Ellidy would go to the beach too, but that day she didn''t. Later, there was a knock at the door. A man had been found unconscious on the ocean floor. It was Chumpy. From that moment, Ellidy''s world stopped. There was deep grief, disbelief and then the gradual realisation that this was real. Ellidy''s partner of eight years, a World Champion snowboarder, a man of energy and music, was gone. And so was the life they had built together and the dream of the child they had been trying for. In the hours that followed, a suggestion was made: did Ellidy want to harvest Chumpy''s sperm and try for the baby they both wanted so deeply?
£13.59
Atria/One Signal Publishers Dear Writer
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£23.19
Quercus Publishing A Crime in the Family
Book SynopsisA memoir of brutality, heroism and personal discovery from Europe's dark heart, revealing one of the most extraordinary untold stories of the Second World WarIn the spring of 1945, at Rechnitz on the Austrian-Hungarian border, not far from the front lines of the advancing Red Army, Countess Margit Batthyany gave a party in her mansion. The war was almost over, and the German aristocrats and SS officers dancing and drinking knew it was lost. Late that night, they walked down to the village, where 180 enslaved Jewish labourers waited, made them strip naked, and shot them all, before returning to the bright lights of the party. It remained a secret for decades, until Sacha Batthyany, who remembered his great-aunt Margit only vaguely from his childhood as a stern, distant woman, began to ask questions about it.A Crime in the Family is Sacha Batthyany's memoir of confronting these questions, and of the answers he found. It is one of the last untold stories of Europe's nightmare century,spanning not just the massacre at Rechnitz, the inhumanity of Auschwitz, the chaos of wartime Budapest and the brutalities of Soviet occupation and Stalin's gulags, but also the silent crimes of complicity and cover-up, and the damaged generations they leave behind. Told partly through the surviving journals of others from the author's family and the vanished world of Rechnitz, A Crime in the Family is a moving and revelatory memoir in the vein of The Hare with the Amber Eyes and The House by the Lake. It uncovers barbarity and tragedy but also a measure of peace and reconciliation. Ultimately,Batthyany discovers that although his inheritance might be that of monsters, he does not bear it alone.
£12.34
Rowman & Littlefield In Defense of Israel
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£18.99
Grove Press / Atlantic Monthly Press The Broken King
£20.89
Process Media Demons In The Age Of Light: A Memoir
Book SynopsisA young gifted writer heals her soul from devastating schizophrenia after religion and psychiatry attempt to cure her.
£14.39
University of Nebraska Press Fast Guys Rich Guys and Idiots
Book SynopsisA personal odyssey that peers over the cliff of change and into the pit of obsession.Trade Review“A candid, often hilarious account of [Moses’s] experiences on the tracks, in the garages and in the gasoline alleys of the racing world—but especially memorable is the wild variety of characters Moses met along the way. The book might have been written twenty years ago, but racing is still populated by fast guys, rich guys, and idiots.”—Brock Yates, Wall Street JournalTable of ContentsPART IChapter One - Chasing RabbitsChapter Two - In the DarkChapter Three - Fast GuysChapter Four - The Learning CurveChapter Five - More KinksChapter Six - Swept AwayPART IIChapter Seven - Piracy on the High BanksChapter Eight - Rich GuysChapter Nine - Dangerous Darlene Strikes Again or, Climaxing at the Daytona 24-HourChapter 10 - IdiotsChapter 11- Crimes of PassionChapter 12- Heavy Metal RulesChapter 13 - Every Which Way But StraightPART IIIChapter 14 - Can't Let a Slow Car Get You DownChapter 15 - Chickens Is All He's GotChapter 16 - Saved by the KidChapter 17 - Pedal to the MetalChapter 18 - Bandits, But Still BugaboosChapter 19 - There But for Fortune. . . .Chapter 20 - Going out with a BangChapter 21 - Some Hole, Huh?Epilogue
£18.04
Random House USA Inc Not That Kind of Girl A Young Woman Tells You
Book Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Includes two new essays!NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY MICHIKO KAKUTANI, THE NEW YORK TIMES • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY BUZZFEED, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, AND LIBRARY JOURNALFor readers of Nora Ephron, Tina Fey, and David Sedaris, this hilarious, wise, and fiercely candid collection of personal essays establishes Lena Dunham—the acclaimed creator, producer, and star of HBO’s Girls—as one of the most original young talents writing today. In Not That Kind of Girl, Dunham illuminates the experiences that are part of making one’s way in the world: falling in love, feeling alone, being ten pounds overweight despite eating only health food, having to prove yourself in a room full of men twice your age, finding true love, and most of all, having the guts to believe that your story is one t
£999.99
Atria Books My Love Story
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£16.15
Allen & Unwin Emergencies Only: An Australian nurse's journey
Book SynopsisIn 2015, Amanda McClelland was awarded the Florence Nightingale Medal, in recognition of an extraordinary career dedicated to making a difference. As a nurse and a humanitarian aid worker she has battled against extreme poverty, disease epidemics and natural disasters, helping to rebuild broken lives and strengthen communities across the globe.From nursing in remote Indigenous communities in Australia's Top End to re-building villages after the devastating Boxing Day Tsunami in Aceh, from fighting famine in Sub Saharan Africa to facing kidnapping on the war-torn streets of Mogadishu, from battling cyclone damage in PNG to heading up the Red Cross's West African Ebola response, Amanda has faced huge challenges and collected incredible stories along the way. Emergencies Only is not a compendium of tragedy, but an eye-opening life-lesson in practicality, compassion and good humour, written with empathy and an eye for detail, and filled with the human stories that lie behind the headlines.
£13.49
Thomas Nelson Bikin and Brotherhood My Journey
Book SynopsisFrom TV shows about building choppers and the motorcycle gang lifestyle to the phenomenal success of the Harley-Davidson Motor Company, no one can deny America has become fascinated with bikers. This firsthand look into the world of the Harley enthusiast takes you into the sinister and often misunderstood reality of the true one-percenters.
£13.26
Pointed Leaf Press Life of Things
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£31.50
Scribner Book Company The Choice
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£13.99
Princeton University Press The Seducers Diary
Book SynopsisMatters of marriage, the ethical versus the aesthetic, dread, and, increasingly, the severities of Christianity are pondered by Kierkegaard in this intense work.Table of ContentsFOREWORD, by John Updike vii THE SEDUCER'S DIARY 1 NOTES 201
£10.44
Princeton University Press The Calculus of Friendship
Book SynopsisTells the story of an extraordinary connection between a teacher and a student. This title describes the transformation that takes place in a student's heart, as he and his teacher reverse roles, as they age, as they are buffeted by life itself.Trade Review"An intimate view of mentorship is revealed by US mathematician Steven Strogatz in The Calculus of Friendship, a compilation of letters exchanged with his high-school math teacher over 30 years. Through their correspondence they share problems in calculus, chaos theory and major life events, from professional and sporting successes to family bereavements and divorce. The book touchingly charts their changing roles and relationship, from student to professor, teacher to retirement."--Nature "The spring of his freshman year in college, Strogatz began to exchange letters with his high school calculus teacher, Don Joffray. At some point, their amiable correspondence about math problems led to a true friendship. In The Calculus of Friendship, Strogatz weaves their letters into reflections on the philosophical similarities between calculus and human relationships and portrays a friendship firmly founded on a love of dreaming up and solving calculus problems ... One can also feel the personality and humor of these pen pals emerging through their symbol-sprinkled sentences."--Science "Part biography, part autobiography and part off-the-beaten-path guide to calculus, this quick read details 30 years of correspondence between Strogatz and Joffray. Calculus, Isaac Newton's ingenious invention for modeling change mathematically, serves as both text and subtext for the letters that pass between Strogatz and Joff. Focusing almost exclusively on questions of mathematics, these brief notes frame the unlikely friendship of a teacher and his star student. With the precision of an award-winning mathematician and the clarity of a best-selling science author, Strogatz leads us on an excursion through some of the lesser-known mathematical sights--the ones usually reserved for the 'members only' tour... The mathematics covered in these letters is impressive for such a short volume."--American Scientist "There is no better English-language explicator of complex quantitative concepts than Steven Strogatz. His work is a model for how mathematics needs to be popularized."--Michael Schrage, Harvard Business Review "This story will draw in both the novice and the veteran. Teachers of mathematics will appreciate the long-term effect their teaching can have on students. The included mathematics can be related to both high school and undergraduate calculus sequences to demonstrate some interesting, thought-provoking, and 'big picture' connections to these courses."--Mathematics Teacher "[A] beautiful book, bound to become a classic in the mathematical literature... Like Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology, you don not have to know any mathematics whatsoever to read this book. It is a candid and all-too-human story told with brutal honesty, warts and all, sharing with the reader the elation and sincere regrets bound up in the relationship--but in the end, the victories, too. With some beautiful mathematics throughout!"--Lawrence S. Braden, Notices of the American Mathematical Society "You wouldn't guess it from the title, but The Calculus of Friendship is a genuine tearjerker. I defy anyone to follow the correspondence between mathematician Steven Strogatz and his high school teacher Don Joffray (affectionately nicknamed 'Joff') without getting just a little lachrymose. If you don't, check to see if there is a heart in your chest. If there is, ensure that it's not just a cold slab of stone."--Bookslut "The story of the correspondence between these two men is at once charming and subtly powerful. Strogatz writes directly and honestly, telling the story of a slow-growing friendship that was at once somewhat stilted and yet deep and sustaining. The immediacy and intimacy of Strogatz's writing transform the pleasures and tragedies of normal life into the elements of a compelling narrative, and because the book works so well on this human level, it also very effective in presenting some important lessons about education and about mathematics."--Mathrecreation blogTable of ContentsPrologue ix Continuity (1974-75) 1 Pursuit (1976) 8 Relativity (1977) 13 Irrationality (1978-79) 23 Shifts (1980-89) 34 Proof on a Place Mat (March 1989) 42 The Monk and the Mountain (1989-90) 71 Randomness (1990-91) 84 Infinity and Limits (1991) 94 Chaos (1992-95) 107 Celebration (1996-99) 115 The Path of Quickest Descent (2000-2003) 118 Bifurcation (2004) 128 Hero's Formula (2005-Present) 140 Acknowledgments 155 Further Reading 157 Bibliography 161 Photography Credits 163 Index of Math Problems 165
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Scribner Book Company No Way Home A Dancers Journey from the Streets of
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Ohio University Press Aquamarine Blue 5 Personal Stories of College
Book SynopsisThis is the first book to be written by autistic college students about the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggle of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole.DawnTrade Review“This is the first book to be written by autistic college students who have been diagnosed with Aspergers Syndrome or with High Functioning Autism. It demonstrates their unique way of looking at and solving problems and the challenges they face. Aquamarine Blue 5 details the struggles of these highly sensitive students and shows that there are gifts specific to autistic students that enrich the university system, scholarship, and the world as a whole. "Her unusual approach to understanding human behavior leads to powerfully clear analysis of the problems faced by people with Autism.” * ForeWord *“These essays… exhibit a level of awareness, effective writing, and sophisticated understanding of the world they must cope with that are usually thought beyond the capabilities of even the highest-functioning people with autism.” * author of Exiting Nirvana: A Daughter’s Life with Autism *
£14.24
HarperCollins Publishers Inc Into the Planet
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University of Missouri Press The Plain Language of Love and Loss
Book SynopsisReflects on the meaning of death and loss for three generations of the author's family and their friends. Focusing on issues of bullying, child rearing, and non-conformity, this work offers a look at growing up Quaker in the tumultuous 1960s that shows the more sober side of the decade's counterculture.Trade ReviewBeth Taylor's memoir is one of the most tender and moving books I've read in a long time. Written with poise and grace, never falling into self-pity, The Plain Language of Love and Loss will surely touch the heart of anyone who has found the means to salvage a kind of meaning out of great tragedy. This is a book I will not forget.â Tim O'Brien, author of The Things They Carried and In the Lake of the Woods ""The Plain Language of Love and Loss blesses us all with its wisdom and grace. It is a luminous, powerful, and unforgettable book that is ultimately a triumph of the human spirit and a sister's love.""â Laura Palmer, author of Shrapnel in the Heart and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller Escape â This tender narrative is, on the surface, about Quakers and Quakerism in modern America. It is about one familyâ s struggle to align its spiritual strivings with the realities of human limitations and the uncontrollability of circumstance. And it is about some of the ways that the Vietnam War era indelibly marked America. But it is also about much, much more, and anyone who has raised (or is raising) children will empathize here with the poignant collage of tragedy, vulnerability, humdrum, and triumph, as well as the bittersweet canvas of both community and isolation upon which the hues of all our lives are painted.â - Emma Jones Lapsansky-Werner, Professor of History and Curator of the Quaker Collection at Haverford College and coeditor of Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720â 1920
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Rizzoli International Publications A Soldier on the Southern Front
Book SynopsisA rediscovered Italian masterpiece chronicling the author''s experience as an infantryman, newly translated and reissued to commemorate the centennial of World War I. Taking its place alongside works by Ernst JŸnger, Robert Graves, and Erich Maria Remarque, Emilio Lussu''s memoir is one of the most affecting accounts to come out of the First World War. A classic in Italy but virtually unknown in the English-speaking world, it reveals, in spare and detached prose, the almost farcical side of the war as seen by a Sardinian officer fighting the Austrian army on the Asiago plateau in northeastern Italy, the alpine front so poignantly evoked by Ernest Hemingway in A Farewell to Arms.For Lussu, June 1916 to July 1917 was a year of continuous assaults on impregnable trenches, absurd missions concocted by commanders full of patriotic rhetoric and vanity but lacking in tactical skill, and episodes often tragic and sometimes grotesque, where the incompetence of his own side wTrade Review"This beautiful, harrowing, moving, occasionally comic memoir of the experiences of the Sardinian writer, Emilio Lussu, on the Italian-Austrian front...in the First World War has remained largely unknown to English-speaking readers. ...Its republication in a new translation...means it should now find a place on the bookshelf alongside Robert Graves and Erich Maria Remarque." -Times Literary Supplement"Any avid student of history, particularly military history, will be enthralled with A Soldier on the Southern Front...this book will not soon be forgotten." -New York Journal of Books"The recovered memoir of a brave Italian soldier in World War I. It is a story of trench warfare in 1916, but more importantly, it is the story of the men who fought and their derision of their commanding officers. The author’s memory is vivid, and the characters demand it. The author writes about a war of maneuver to save lives rather than a war of position that would cost them. Lussu’s philosophy of war was born in the days he lived through and wrote about." -Kirkus Reviews"Part lyrical Italian mojo, part authorial descriptive genius, part 100-year-old stoicism, this eminently readable book ungraphically describes the infantry experience." -Library Journal"...Emilio Lussu’s A Soldier on the Southern Front, stands as a closely observed critique of wartime generalship that is demonstrably inadequate to the task at hand...Lussu’s own recollections of combat stand out, because he retains throughout a tone of remarkable dispassion even while recording instances of senior officer ineptitude likely to mortify even the most obdurate donkey. Soldier recounts a single year in the combat history of the Sardinian brigade to which Lussu was assigned throughout the war...by stitching together a series of loosely-related episodes, Lussu provides a detailed and compelling picture of what it was like to fight the Austrian army in the mountains of northern Italy. Mostly, it was miserable. As on the Western Front so too on the Southern one: Service in the trenches combined filth, deprivation, exhaustion, and periodic terror, reinforced by an acute awareness of being at the mercy of forces utterly without mercy." -Andrew Bacevich in Raritan
£19.64
University of Minnesota Press Young Man From The Provinces
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£12.34
Hay House Inc Left to Tell
Book SynopsisTrade Review“I am humbled by the extraordinary spirituality that shines throughout Immaculée Ilibagiza’s story of terror, endurance, healing, and forgiveness. As a Rwandan, I am proud that we can look beyond the misconceived differences that resulted in the murder of so many of our children, men, and women in 1994. Immaculée’s account of genocide survival is truly astonishing. It gives us hope of overcoming the divisions deliberately created by those with self-serving agendas and no thought for humanity. Everyone should read this story—survivors as well as perpetrators. I hope that all can experience Immaculée’s profound spiritual transformation and be inspired to work for a united and lasting nation.”— Jeannette Kagame, First Lady of the Republic of Rwanda “In 1994, Rwandan native Ilibagiza was [24] years old and home from college to spend Easter with her devout Catholic family when the death of Rwanda’s Hutu president sparked a three-month slaughter of [more than] one million ethnic Tutsis. She survived by hiding in a Hutu pastor’s tiny bathroom with seven other starving women for 91 cramped, terrifying days. This searing first-hand account of Ilibagiza’s experience cuts two ways: her description of the evil that was perpetrated, including the brutal murders of her family members, is soul-numbingly devastating, yet the story of her unquenchable faith and connection to God throughout the ordeal uplifts and inspires. This book is a precious addition to the literature that tries to make sense of humankind’s seemingly bottomless depravity and counterbalancing hope in an all-powerful, loving God.”— Publishers Weekly “Left to Tell is for anyone who is weary of the predictable ‘eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth’ trance most of the world suffers from. Immaculée Ilibagiza breaks that spell by bravely quelling the storm within, and contacting a force so powerful that it allows her to calm the storm ‘without,’ and more important, to forgive the ‘unforgivable.’ Her story is an inspiration to anyone who is at odds with a brother, a nation, or themselves.”— Judith Garten, teacher and counselor of The 50/50Work and a child of the WWII Holocaust “This book has renewed my faith in God and the Universe in a profound and real way that has changed me forever.”— Christiane Northrup, M.D., the author of Women’s Bodies, Women’s Wisdom “An inspirational, life-altering book. Once you turn that first page, you’re changed forever. You will never forget Immaculée and what it means to embrace life in the darkest of times.” — Cindy Pearlman, New York Times Syndicate “Immaculée Ilibagiza’s gift of forgiveness to the perpetrators of the unthinkable acts revealed in this book is just one of the extraordinary examples of her unwavering courage. This book moved me in unimaginable ways, and reminded me once again about the immense grace that is born out of faith and forgiveness.” — Denise Linn, the author of If I Can Forgive, So Can You “Reading this book has truly changed my life—not in some distant future, but right now! I can’t even describe my feelings, but they have shifted things inside me in such a way that I just can’t find the words. This is a book that defies adequate description.”— Vimala Rodgers, author and motivational speaker “Immaculée’s story is totally gripping from first to last page. It’s such an important work that I don’t want to just describe it as a page-turner . . . but it is. This is a book that will stay with me forever.”— Al Burton, writer, director, and creator of numerous hit TV shows “Left to Tell reminds us that we are all sons and daughters of God; that with faith, miracles will always appear; and that forgiveness is the key to freedom. A must-read for all of us in these troubled times.”— Colette Baron-Reid, the author of Remembering the Future “Left to Tell is an incredibly important story. It addresses both the best and the worst aspects of our humanity. Immaculée is a living example of the undefeatable human spirit! Her story is timeless.”— Steve Kalafer, three-time Academy Award–nominated producer
£999.99
Random House USA Inc Miracle in the Andes
Book SynopsisNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A harrowing, moving first-person account of the 1972 plane crash that left its survivors stranded on a glacier in the Andes—and one man’s quest to lead them all home—by Nando Parrado, a subject of the Oscar-nominated film Society of the SnowFeaturing a new introduction by the author to commemorate of the fiftieth anniversary of the crash“In straightforward, staggeringly honest prose, Nando Parrado tells us what it took—and what it actually felt like—to survive high in the Andes for seventy-two days after having been given up for dead.”—Jon Krakauer, author of Into the Wild “In the first hours there was nothing, no fear or sadness, just a black and perfect silence.” Nando Parrado was unconscious for three days before he woke to discover that the plane carrying his rugby team to Chile had crashed deep in the Andes, killing many of his teammates, his mother, and his sister. Stranded with the few remaining survivors on a lifeless glacier and thinking constantly of his father’s grief, Parrado resolved that he could not simply wait to die. So Parrado, an ordinary young man with no particular disposition for leadership or heroism, led an expedition up the treacherous slopes of a snowcapped mountain and across forty-five miles of frozen wilderness in an attempt to save his friends’ lives as well as his own. Decades after the disaster, Parrado tells his story with remarkable candor and depth of feeling. Miracle in the Andes, a first-person account of the crash and its aftermath, is more than a riveting tale of true-life adventure; it is a revealing look at life at the edge of death and a meditation on the limitless redemptive power of love.
£18.00
Random House USA Inc Love Is a Mix Tape
Book Synopsis“The happiest, saddest, sweetest book about rock ‘n’ roll that I’ve ever experienced.”—Chuck Klosterman Mix tapes: We all have our favorites. Stick one into a deck, press play, and you’re instantly transported to another time in your life. For Rob Sheffield, that time was one of miraculous love and unbearable grief. A time that spanned seven years, it started when he met the girl of his dreams, and ended when he watched her die in his arms. Using the listings of fifteen of his favorite mix tapes, Rob shows that the power of music to build a bridge between people is stronger than death. You’ll read these words, perhaps surprisingly, with joy in your heart and a song in your head—the one that comes to mind when you think of the love of your life. Praise for Love is a Mixtape “A memoir that manages, no small feat, to be funny and beautifully forlorn at the same t
£13.60
LEGARE STREET PR Memoir of Chief Justice Lefroy
£19.90
