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Un casque bleu chez les Khmers rouges

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Pour sa première mission extérieure, le capitaine Guillaume Ancel, 27 ans, débarque en mai 1992 au Cambodge, pays ravagé par vingt années de guerre. Avec les soldats de la mission de paix de l’APRONUC (Autorité Provisoire des Nations Unies au Cambodge), il s’agit de faire appliquer les accords de Paris, en commençant par désarmer les factions. Plus facile à dire qu’à faire. Guillaume Ancel découvre un pays semé de mines et plongé dans le chaos. Le tiers de sa population a disparu, en grande partie durant le génocide perpétré par les Khmers rouges. Sa mission : rencontrer certains de leurs chefs pour les amener à déposer les armes. Lui, en tant que négociateur n’en porte pas. Chef de patrouille, il est à la tête de soldats de « l’armée du monde » venus de Chine, d’Amérique, du Népal, d’Italie ou d’Uruguay. Le récit de la collaboration de ces hommes, au cœur des ténèbres, est une des lumières de ce livre. Un casque bleu chez les Khmers rouges est aussi un témoignage sans concessions, comme les précédents ouvrages de l’auteur sur ses missions en ex-Yougoslavie ou au Rwanda. Guillaume Ancel ne tait ici ni les travers ni les dérives, parfois terribles, de ceux qui sont venus faire la paix.

Dying Is Not on My Day Planner for Tomorrow

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Learn of an amazing story of personal peril and triumph, about one very ordinary mans journey through more life threatening medical problems than most people will ever experience, overcoming these multiple events under difficult financial circumstances over a 10 year period and each time bouncing back up and continuing lifes challenges. Starting with malignant prostate cancer and millions of dollars in debts, he has very little prospects and no job. He then suffers through sleep apnea, multiple small strokes, heart attacks, and bypass surgery, while each time bouncing back up and putting the past behind as much as possible. The challenge is to keep going and deal with the future as it comes. Through all of this, he is still alive today and successfully paid off all of his debts. Dying is Not On My Dayplanner For Tomorrow is an inspirational story and a must read for anyone dealing with personal trials and/or serious health issues.

O rebelde do traço

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Biografia do genial cartunista, humorista e ativista Henfil. A obra conta a história do artista, que foi crítico ferrenho da ditadura militar e participou do processo de redemocratização do país. Escrito por um dos mais importantes biógrafos brasileiros, este livro mostra como Henfil cresceu e viveu para se tornar um dos maiores artistas de sua geração e como nasceram os personagens criados por ele. Segundo Zuenir Ventura, "O rebelde do traço é também um livro de época — dos melhores que o gênero já produziu sobre os anos 1970 e 1980, quando o país fez a travessia do sufoco para a abertura, vivendo o que um dos ditadores da vez chamou de 'transição lenta, gradual e segura'".

Alexander McQueen

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The first, definitive biography of the iconic, notoriously private British fashion designer Alexander McQueen “offers new insights...and provides unprecedented access to a misunderstood soul” (The Boston Globe).When forty-year-old Alexander McQueen committed suicide in February 2010, a shocked world mourned the loss. McQueen had risen from humble beginnings as the son of an East London taxi driver to scale the heights of fame, fortune, and glamour. He created a multimillion-dollar luxury brand that became a favorite with celebrities, including Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell. He designed clothes for the world’s most beautiful women and royalty, most famously the Duchess of Cambridge, who wore a McQueen dress on her wedding day.But behind the confident facade and bad-boy image, lay a sensitive soul who struggled to survive in the ruthless world of fashion. As the pressures of work intensified, McQueen became increasingly dependent on the drugs that contributed to his tragic end. Meanwhile, his failure to find lasting love in a string of boyfriends only added to his despair. And then there were the secrets that haunted his sleep…A modern-day fairy tale infused with the darkness of a Greek tragedy, Alexander McQueen provides “a thorough and emotionally compelling exploration…of a complex and enigmatic artist” (Publishers Weekly). Andrew Wilson’s “magnificent” (The Independent, UK) and “compelling and heavily researched bio” (Entertainment Weekly), featuring never-before-seen photographs and rare interviews, dispels myths, corrects inaccuracies, and shares new insights into McQueen’s private life and the source of his creative genius.

Never Die Easy

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"Never die easy. Why run out of bounds and die easy? Make that linebacker pay. It carries into all facets of your life. It's okay to lose, to die, but don't die without trying, without giving it your best." His legacy is towering. Walter Payton—the man they called Sweetness, for the way he ran—remains the most prolific running back in the history of the National Football League, the star of the Chicago Bears' only Super Bowl Championship, eleven times voted the most popular sports figure in Chicago's history. Off the field, he was a devoted father whose charitable foundation benefited tens of thousands of children each year, and who—faced with terminal liver disease—refused to use his celebrity to gain a preferential position for organ donation. Walter Payton was not just a football hero; he was America's hero. Never Die Easy is Walter Payton's autobiography, told from the heart. Growing up poor in Mississippi, he took up football to get girls' attention, and went on to become a Black College All-American at tiny Jackson State (during which time he was also a finalist in a Soul Train dance contest). Drafted by the Bears in 1975, he predicted that he would last only five years but went on to play thirteen extraordinary seasons, a career earning him regular acknowledgment as one of the greatest players in the history of professional football. And when his playing days were over, he approached business and charity endeavors with the same determination and success he had brought to the football field, always putting first his devotion to friends and family. His ultimate battle with illness truly proved him the champion he always had been and prompted a staggering outpouring of love and support from hundreds of thousands of friends and admirers. Written with veteran journalist and author Don Yaeger in the last weeks of Walter Payton's life, Never Die Easy presents Walter's singular voice—warm, plainspoken, funny, self-aware—along with the voices of the friends, family, teammates, and business associates who knew him best at all stages of his life, including his wife, Connie, and their children, Brittney and Jarrett; his teammate and friend Matt Suhey; former Bears head coach Mike Ditka; and many, many others. Walter made Don Yaeger promise that his book would be "inspirational and leave people with some kind of lesson . . . and make sure you spell all the words right." Never Die Easy keeps all those promises.

Non è colpa dello specchio se le facce sono storte

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Nel marzo del 2022, pochi giorni dopo l'inizio dell'invasione dell'Ucraina da parte delle forze armate russe, Paolo Nori si vide cancellare alcune lezioni su Dostoevskij che doveva tenere in un'università milanese. Scoppiò un caso di rilevanza internazionale e Nori si trovò al centro di una notorietà improvvisa, mentre si moltiplicavano gli inviti per tenere conferenze. Dalla Russia si fece avanti un regista che voleva girare un documentario su di lui. Nel declinare l'offerta, Nori gli scriveva: «Questa mia vicenda ridicola conferma una cosa che voi russi sapete benissimo. Che la letteratura, quand'è potente, come nel caso di Dostoevskij, è più forte di qualsiasi censura e di qualsiasi dittatura». L'invasione russa è poi diventata una guerra che si trascina da anni e nel frattempo Nori ha pubblicato altri libri, non solo in Italia, ma anche in Russia, dove alcuni suoi titoli sono stati per la prima volta tradotti - ma anche censurati. La legge, infatti, impedisce che si pubblichino libri in cui la guerra in Ucraina non è denominata "operazione speciale" e di conseguenza l'editore russo ha dovuto operare alcuni tagli ai testi originali per poterli pubblicare. Col risultato, forse non disprezzabile, che Nori è ora uno scrittore censurato sia in Italia che in Russia. In questo nuovo libro, il reo confesso filorusso Paolo Nori riflette sulle ragioni di un istinto che non è solo dei governi autoritari o delle cieche burocrazie: quello di abbandonarsi a semplificazioni che mettono sullo stesso piano politica e letteratura, guerra e poesia; quello di sentirsi dalla parte della ragione fino ad avere il diritto di zittire e cancellare le opinioni diverse; quello di ignorare pervicacemente che, come scrisse Gogol', «non è colpa dello specchio se le facce sono storte». Ed è proprio lo specchio della letteratura che Nori, attraverso le storie dei suo amati autori russi, ma anche attraverso la sua scrittura unica e inconfondibile, mette di fronte ai suoi lettori: perché ciascuno eserciti la propria capacità di ragionare (ed emozionarsi) senza farsi imprigionare dalle gabbie mentali che confondono le persone con i loro governi, i libri scritti in una lingua con i proclami e gli ordini guerreschi pronunciati nella stessa lingua, la difesa della libertà con la censura.

Welcome to the Underachievers

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Having nearly but not quite set Bolton, Manchester, England, The World alight with his first band the Irony Board, John Hartley packed his musical alter ego Johny Nocash into a bag and travelled down the M6 to build a new life on the periphery of London. The sequel to the acclaimed musical memoir 'Capturing the Wry', John Hartley's 'Welcome to the Underachievers' picks up the story in the mid-1990s. In the unlikely setting of a first floor unit in an industrial estate on the outskirts of Southall he finds a musical kindred spirit in Jacques Cachecarte and the pair embark on a plan to subvert the world of indiepop.Featuring evening residencies in upstairs Highgate tearooms, car-crashing record company executives in sheepskin coats and a foreword by Richard Blackborow of legendary UK indie band BOB, 'Welcome to the Underachievers' is a must-read for anyone familiar with hopes, dreams and unfulfilled ambition.

La gara dei sogni

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Come in un romanzo d’avventure, e di piccole disavventure, Edoardo De Angelis ci racconta la sua vita attraversata dalla musica, la sua storia e quella della sua famosa canzone Lella, entrata nel patrimonio universale della musica popolare. Affacciandosi a queste storie, se ne possono scorgere mille altre: storie di persone, di grandi artisti e di grandi uomini, di indimenticabili amicizie. Storie di viaggi infiniti e infiniti ritorni, incontri e passaggi di un percorso che di anno in anno, di dove in quando, di canzone in canzone, disegnano un percorso di quasi cinquant’anni della nostra canzone d’autore, ma anche della nostra vita, dei sentimenti, del costume, della società, perché questo è il cibo di cui la canzone d’autore si nutre. Come una favola, nella quale i personaggi sono Fabrizio De André, Sergio Endrigo, Francesco De Gregori, Neri Marcorè e tantissimi altri che sono entrati con passo sicuro nelle pagine di questa cronaca del nostro tempo. La gara di sogni è un viaggio al ritmo della musica: non si sa dove esattamente sia iniziato, né dove finirà, ma è sicuro che su questa immaginaria carrozza ci sarà un posto riservato per ogni lettore, per ogni amico che si avvicini con il cuore aperto e la mano tesa.

In the Land of Pain

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A “startling [and] splendid” book (The New York Times Book Review) from one of the greatest writers of the nineteenth century on his years of enduring severe illness—a classic in the literary annals of human suffering. • Edited and translated by the bestselling, Booker Prize winning author of The Sense of an Ending. “Pain, you must be everything for me. Let me find in you all those foreign lands you will not let me visit.” —Alphonse Daudet Daudet (1840–1897) was a greatly admired writer during his lifetime, praised by Dickens and Henry James. In the prime of his life, he developed an agonizing nerve disease caused by syphilis and began taking notes about his experience, published posthumously as In the Land of Pain. Daudet wrote in powerful, unflinching images about his excruciating symptoms, his fears, his desperate attempts at treatment, and the effects of the morphine he came to depend on. His novelist’s eye and sense of humor did not desert him as he observed the bizarre society of his fellow patients at curative spas, nor did his generosity and compassion for them and for his friends and family. In Julian Barnes’s crystalline translation, Daudet’s notes comprise a record—at once shattering, haunting, and beguiling—of both the banal and the transformative realities of physical suffering.

Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die

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“Nelson’s unmistakable voice shines through . . . funny, inspirational and bawdy, with a well-honed sense of humor.” —Kirkus ReviewsIn Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die, Willie Nelson muses about his greatest influences and the things that are most important to him, and celebrates the family, friends, and colleagues who have blessed his remarkable journey. Willie riffs on everything, from music to poker, Texas to Nashville, and more. He shares the outlaw wisdom he has acquired over the course of eight decades, along with favorite jokes and insights from family, bandmates, and close friends. Rare family photographs, beautiful artwork created by his son, Micah Nelson, and lyrics to classic songs punctuate these charming and poignant memories.A road journal written in Willie Nelson’s inimitable, homespun voice and a fitting tribute to America’s greatest traveling bard, Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die—introduced by another favorite son of Texas, Kinky Friedman—is a deeply personal look into the heart and soul of a unique man and one of the greatest artists of our time, a songwriter and performer whose legacy will endure for generations to come.“An irreverent, entertaining read. Humble, optimistic, and quick to give credit to those around him for contributing to his success, Nelson is a charming narrator.” —Publishers Weekly“Nelson takes us for a rollicking ride along the highways and byways of his long life and career in this rambunctious, hilarious, reflective, and loving memoir.” —American Songwriter

Véra

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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the award–winning author of The Revolutionary and The Witches comes “an elegantly nuanced portrait of [Vladimir Nabokov’s] wife, showing us just how pivotal Nabokov’s marriage was to his hermetic existence and how it indelibly shaped his work.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times ONE OF ESQUIRE’S 50 BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME“Monumental.”—The Boston Globe“Utterly romantic.”—New York magazine“Deeply moving.”—The Seattle TimesStacy Schiff brings to shimmering life one of the greatest literary love stories of our time: Vladimir Nabokov, émigré author of Lolita; Pale Fire; and Speak, Memory, and his beloved wife, Véra. Nabokov wrote his books first for himself, second for his wife, and third for no one at all. “Without my wife,” he once noted, “I wouldn’t have written a single novel.” Set in prewar Europe and postwar America, spanning much of the twentieth century, the story of the Nabokovs’ fifty-two-year marriage reads as vividly as a novel. Véra, both beautiful and brilliant, is its outsized heroine—a woman who loves as deeply and intelligently as did the great romantic heroines of Austen and Tolstoy. Stacy Schiff's Véra is a triumph of the biographical form.

An American Story

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The remarkable true story of a young immigrant from Venezuela who had a dream to change the world, a talent for entertaining, and a determined spirit to build a new life, taking as many as possible with him on the journey.An American Story is the stirring memoir by actor, producer, and activist Wilmer Valderrama, delving into his upbringing in Venezuela where he was raised by two hard working parents as they navigated their family through a rapidly changing country and the rise of Hugo Chavez. With the economy crashing around them and their livelihood disappearing, the family decides to flee the country. Suddenly, the young boy who had loved riding his horse and dreaming of being Zorro from his favorite black and white tv show had to grow up quickly, journeying as a teenager from a tiny little pueblo in Venezuela to the big city of Los Angeles.After being cast in a school theatre production, Valderrama knew he had found his calling, and began thinking of ways to help support his struggling family. He would attempt the impossible: find work in Hollywood as an unproven Latino actor. Following countless auditions and frequent criticisms of his accent, he created the personality that would eventually land him the role as Fez on the hit series That 70s Show, which catapulted him to stardom.Over the coming years, he would create the smash show, Yo Mamma, voice the lead character in Disney’s Encanto, and so much more, culminating in his joining the cast of the hit show NCIS in 2016.It was through service to others and his first USO trip, however, where Valderrama found his expanded calling, entertaining and encouraging U.S. troops around the world. He has since traveled with the USO a multitude of times, having participated in almost 50 tours domestically and internationally and was recently named USO Global Ambassador.Through his work, Valderrama hopes to demonstrate his love and gratitude for the country that changed his life. An American Story weaves Valderrama’s personal stories with those of the remarkable people he’s met along his philanthropic journey. This isn’t just Valderrama’s story, though. It’s a view of America through an immigrant’s eyes, in both its stunning unmatched wonders and all its native challenges. It is the profound and gripping story of someone who found the way and is now inviting as many as possible to join him on the adventure.

Sailing Alone Around the World

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"Sailing Alone Around the World" is a classic sailing and adventure book written by Captain Joshua Slocum. The book was first published in 1900 and is an account of Slocum's remarkable solo journey around the world in a small sailing vessel, the "Spray." This voyage made him the first person to complete a solo circumnavigation of the globe. Joshua Slocum, a Canadian-born American seaman and adventurer, set out on his journey in 1895 from Boston, Massachusetts. His vessel, the "Spray," was a 36-foot sloop. Over the course of three years, Slocum sailed single-handedly across the Atlantic Ocean, through the Strait of Magellan at the southern tip of South America, and across the Pacific and Indian Oceans before returning to the United States. "Sailing Alone Around the World" is not just a narrative of his travels but also a reflection on his experiences, the people he met along the way, and his thoughts on life and solitude at sea. The book is considered a classic of adventure literature and a testament to Slocum's navigational skills and his ability to handle the challenges of long-distance solo sailing. Joshua Slocum's circumnavigation of the globe remains an inspiration to sailors and adventurers, and his book continues to be widely read by those who are captivated by tales of maritime exploration and self-reliance.

Cartas 1955-1964 (Tomo 2)

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Segundo volumen de la compilación de la correspondencia del autor de Rayuela. Unas cartas que pueden leerse como diario personal, autobiografía o cuaderno de bitácora de sus libros.«Odio las cartas literarias, cuidadosamente preparadas, copiadas y vueltas a copiar; yo me siento a la máquina y dejo correr el vasto río de los pensamientos y los afectos», escribió Julio Cortázar en 1942: una declaración de principios que mantuvo siempre. Con curiosidad permanente, Cortázar da cuenta de todos los aspectos de su actividad como escritor, de sus desvelos políticos y sus vaivenes personales, hace el balance del día, opina sobre lo que lee, lo que escucha y lo que ve, relata sus andanzas como traductor, como militante revolucionario o como defensor de los derechos humanos. Nada queda afuera: la Argentina de provincias, Buenos Aires, París, Cuba, Nicaragua, el boom de la literatura latinoamericana, la amistad, el amor, la muerte. El autor no cesa de asombrarnos con su humor, su lucidez y una inusual coherencia entre vida y obra. Organizada en cinco volúmenes que abarcan un período comprendido entre 1937 y 1984, la presente edición de la correspondencia cortazariana presenta más de mil cartas inéditas, recupera los fragmentos suprimidos en ediciones anteriores e incluye índices de obras del autor y de personas citadas. Una colección que parece estar escribiendo ahora, a nuestro lado «un hombre que jamás se aburrió un solo segundo a lo largo de toda su vida».

Truman Capote

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Eccentrico e perfido, aristocratico e curioso di tutto, George Plimpton è stato tra le voci più influenti della letteratura americana contemporanea. A lui si deve l’invenzione dell’intervista come genere letterario, e le sue inchieste e i suoi libri restano memorabili per i lettori almeno quanto lo erano per i fortunati partecipanti le feste esclusive che per decenni ha ospitato nel suo appartamento dell’Upper East Side newyorkese. Proprio come «una specie di cocktail party di conoscenti di Truman Capote» Plimpton ha organizzato il racconto della vita e della carriera del leggendario autore di Colazione da Tiffany, raccogliendo le testimonianze di decine di persone, da Marella Agnelli a Mia Farrow, da Gore Vidal a Kurt Vonnegut, e fondendole in una straordinaria biografia corale fatta di ricordi, racconti, accuse e gossip. Attraverso la voce di chi ha amato e di chi ha odiato Capote, possiamo seguire l’infanzia nel profondo Sud e l’arrivo a New York; i primi successi letterari e la scandalosa vita amorosa; le controversie che accolsero A sangue freddo; gli anni al centro della vita artistica mondiale e gli ultimi giorni trascorsi fra perdita d’ispirazione, alcolismo e isolamento. Il risultato è una lettura irresistibile che aderisce magicamente alla vita e alla leggenda di Capote, e che merita di figurare nella biblioteca delle sue opere.

Désobéissance civile et démocratie

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Notre manière de penser est une question de vie ou de mort. Si ceux qui tiennent les rênes de la société se montrent capables de contrôler nos idées, ils sont assurés de rester au pouvoir. Nul besoin de soldats dans les rues. Cet ordre résulte d’un processus de sélection au cours duquel certaines idées sont promues par le biais des plus puissantes machines culturelles du pays. Nous devons réexaminer ces idées et réaliser comment elles s’opposent à notre expérience du monde. Nous serons alors en mesure de contester l’idéologie dominante.De l’exercice de la justice aux motivations réelles des guerres, en passant par les conditions d’entretien de la violence économique et sociale, l’auteur illustre la manière dont la tenue des affaires du monde, c’est-à-dire de nos affaires, devrait être entre nos mains. Et toujours chez Howard Zinn le même optimisme sur la nature et le destin de l’humanité : l’histoire ne réserve que des surprises, et elles ne sont pas toutes mauvaises.

The Story of a Life

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One of the most famous works of Russian literature, a memoir about a writer's coming of age during World War I, the Russian Civil War, and the rise of the Soviet era. This is the first unabridged translation of the first three books of Konstantin Paustovsky's magnum opus.In 1943, the Soviet author Konstantin Paustovsky started out on what would prove a masterwork, The Story of a Life, a grand, novelistic memoir of a life spent on the ravaged frontier of Russian history. Eventually expanding to fill six volumes, this extraordinary work of a lifetime would establish Paustovsky as one of Russia’s great writers and lead to a nomination for the Nobel Prize in Literature.Here the first three books of Paustovsky’s epic autobiography—long unavailable in English—appear in a splendid new translation by Douglas Smith. Taking the reader from Paustovsky’s Ukrainian youth, his family struggling on the verge of collapse, through the first stirrings of writerly ambition, to his experiences working as a paramedic on the front lines of World War I and then as a journalist covering Russia’s violent spiral into revolution, this vivid and suspenseful story of coming-of-age in a time of troubles is lifted by the energy and lyricism of Paustovsky’s prose and marked throughout by his deep love of the natural world. The Story of a Life is a dazzling achievement of modern literature.

The Maverick

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The captivating story of the famed publisher George Weidenfeld, from his struggles as an Austrian-Jewish refugee in London to his rise as a world-renowned literary figure. After arriving in London just before World War Two as a penniless Austrian-Jewish refugee, George Weidenfeld went on to transform not only the world of publishing but the culture of ideas. The books that he published include momentous titles such as Lolita, Double Helix, The Group, and The Hedgehog and the Fox, with authors he championed ranging from Joan Didion, Mary McCarthy, JD Salinger, and Edna O’Brien to Henry Miller, Harold Wilson, Saul Bellow, and Henry Kissinger. His role as publisher brought him into the orbit of influential figures such as George Bush, Ann Getty, Donald Trump, and LBJ.In this first biography, Thomas Harding provides a full, unvarnished, and at times difficult history of this complex and fascinating character. Throughout his long career, he was written about in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time Magazine, Vanity Fair, and other publications. Was he, as described by some, the “greatest salesperson,” “the world’s best networker,” “the publisher’s publisher,” and “a great intellectual”? Was his lifelong effort to be the world’s most famous host a cover for his desperate loneliness? Who, in fact, was the real George Weidenfeld and how did he rise so successfully within the ranks of New York and London society?Drawing on author correspondence, internal memos, and other documents buried deep in the secret publishing files of Weidenfeld & Nicolson, Harding crafts a portrait of the publisher's life that is inextricable from the efforts and intricacies of putting a book into the world. Structured around twenty books associated with George Weidenfeld, and intercut with explorations of contemporary concerns such as cancel culture, the right to publish, freedom of speech, and separating the art from the artist, The Maverick tells the captivating story behind the life of this iconic publisher.

Gandhi

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In questa bellissima biografia di Gandhi, Eknath Easwaran, uno dei massimi studiosi e traduttori di testi sacri induisti in lingua inglese, descrive la straordinaria rivoluzione personale di Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, un uomo semplice che divenne la guida politica e spirituale di un’intera nazione, nel più grande esperimento nella storia dell’umanità: la satyagraha, la guerra senza violenza. L’autore ebbe la fortuna di conoscere e frequentare in gioventù Gandhi, “non per studiare il suo stile politico, ma per osservare da vicino il suo magnetismo, la sua energia spirituale”. Profondamente colpito da quell’incontro, Easwaran racconta in questo libro tutta la vitalità del maestro, a apartire dagli anni trascorsi in Sudafrica fino al giorno tragico della sua uccisione. I momenti privati, la quotidianità interamente votata alla sua missione, la sua pratica della non violenza, lo stile di vita semplicissimo, dove ogni difficoltà viene interpretata come un’occasione per crescere spiritualmente e nutrire la propria immaginazione.

Source Code

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De zakelijke triomfen van Bill Gates zijn algemeen bekend: als twintigjarige stopte hij met zijn studie aan Harvard University om een softwarebedrijfje te starten dat uitgroeide tot een reusachtige multinational en dat de manier waarop we werken en leven voorgoed veranderde; als miljardair richtte hij zijn aandacht op filantropische projecten om onder meer de klimaatverandering en de wereldgezondheid aan te pakken. Source Code gaat niet over Microsoft, de Gates Foundation of de toekomst van technologie: het is het persoonlijke en nog onbekende verhaal van Bill Gates. Hij vertelt over zijn jeugd en zijn vroege passies. Over zijn principiële grootmoeder en zijn ambitieuze ouders, zijn eerste diepgaande vriendschappen en het plotselinge overlijden van zijn beste vriend; over zijn worstelingen om erbij te horen en zijn ontdekking van de wereld van coderen en computers aan het begin van een nieuw tijdperk. Hij beschrijft hoe hij als tiener een pad insloeg dat een revolutie zou ontketenen en de wereld zou veranderen. Bill Gates vertelt zijn verhaal nu voor het eerst – scherpzinnig, warm en onthullend. Het is een even fascinerend als inspirerend zelfportret van een zeer succesvolle ondernemer die onderzoekt hoe hij is geworden wie hij is.

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