The Heart of Helambu

The Heart of Helambu

Over the course of the last twenty-five years, Tom O’Neill has traveled frequently to Kathmandu and the Helambu region of Nepal to undertake ethnographic fieldwork with the Yolmo business owners and carpet weavers of the area. The Heart of Helambu is an evocative and touching account of his experiences working in Nepal during those turbulent times.In his autoethnographic memoir, O’Neill reflects on the complex relationships he developed with his research participants: the carpet weavers, their families, and others in the communities which he studied. A compelling account of ethnographic fieldwork’s personal dimension and the ethical and emotional challenges that come with maintaining relationships across substantial social distances, The Heart of Helambu illustrates an important aspect of anthropological research through O’Neill’s engaging story.

Washington

Washington

From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography“Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal“Until recently, I’d never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington . . . Well, I was wrong. I can’t recommend it highly enough—as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, The New YorkerCelebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods.Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway musical Hamilton has sparked new interest in the Revolutionary War and the Founding Fathers. In addition to Alexander Hamilton, the production also features George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Aaron Burr, Lafayette, and many more.

V13

V13

La crónica, descarnada y humana, del proceso judicial por el atentado islamista contra la sala Bataclan.V13: viernes 13 de noviembre de 2015. En tres puntos diferentes de París se producen atentados yihadistas. El más grave es el de la sala Bataclan, donde están actuando los Eagles of Death Metal. El resultado de los ataques en el corazón de Francia es de ciento treinta muertos y más de cuatrocientos heridos. Años después, durante nueve meses –entre septiembre de 2021 y junio de 2022–, se celebra el juicio en el Palacio de Justicia de la capital. Hay catorce acusados: el principal es el único superviviente de entre los terroristas de Estado Islámico que participaron en la masacre. Sobrevivió porque no detonó su cinturón con explosivos. ¿Falló el mecanismo? ¿Tuvo miedo? ¿O quizá un fugaz momento de arrepentimiento y humanidad? El resto son colaboradores en distintos grados. Y además están los testigos –que cuentan historias de una gran crudeza–, los familiares de los fallecidos, los severos fiscales, los abogados defensores, que utilizan argucias para tratar de salvar a sus clientes, el tribunal, que debe emitir sentencia… La justicia evalúa con frialdad la barbarie.Emmanuel Carrère cubre el juicio y envía sus crónicas semanales a L’Obs. Esos textos son la base de este libro. En sus páginas encontramos la narración del juicio, la voz de las víctimas, los advenedizos que han tratado de hacerse pasar por víctimas, los héroes que ayudaron a detener a los criminales, los corrillos de los abogados, los detalles entre bambalinas…La dimensión humana y la dimensión política. El resultado: un volumen sobrecogedor y un testimonio necesario. El periodismo hecho literatura a través de la perspicaz mirada de Carrère.

El batallón de mujeres de la muerte

El batallón de mujeres de la muerte

Al socaire de la I Guerra Mundial, Maria Botchkareva decide incorporarse a filas y crear batallones de mujeres que se incorporen al frente con el objetivo de contribuir a la expulsión de los alemanes y dar un ejemplo a los hombres. El estallido de la Revolución disloca la maquinaria de guerra y el ascenso de los bolcheviques la lleva al dilema de incorporarse a la guerra civil en marcha o exiliarse. Se la conocía como la Juan de Arco rusa.

Jak stracić matkę. Opowieść o Erice Jong i strachu przed lataniem

Jak stracić matkę. Opowieść o Erice Jong i strachu przed lataniem

Szczere i poruszające wspomnienia Molly Jong-Fast – córki słynnej pisarki Eriki Jong, autorki kultowego „Strachu przed lataniem”.Córka Eriki Jong – autorki słynnego „Strachu przed lataniem” i ikony ruchu feministycznego – Molly Jong-Fast zaprasza nas za kulisy niezwykłej relacji matki i córki. „Jak stracić matkę” to bezlitosna wiwisekcja dorastania w świecie pełnym chaosu, ambicji, złamanych serc i uzależnień. Kiedy matka Molly zaczyna znikać w mroku demencji, historia zmienia się w poruszające świadectwo miłości, którą mimo wszystko udało się dostrzec i ocalić.Pełna opowieści o sławnych przyjaciołach i wrogach Eriki, ta książka stanowi przede wszystkim głęboki manifest tego, jak trudne, skomplikowane, a mimo wszystko bezcenne potrafią być nasze najbliższe więzi.Rozbraja szczerością, zachwyca ciętym dowcipem i zostawia w sercu ślad – bo każdy z nas ma kogoś, kogo kocha i kto doprowadza go do szaleństwa.

O enfermeiro da noite

O enfermeiro da noite

Livro-reportagem narra o modus operandido maior serial killer da história dos Estados Unidos. Adaptação para Netflix chega no fim do ano.O enfermeiro Charlie Cullen sempre foi uma pessoa de múltiplas facetas. Foi um filho exemplar, um pai querido, um amigo confiável e um profissional admirado por seus colegas. Também viria a ser o serial killermais letal da história dos Estados Unidos, com envolvimento na morte de cerca de quatrocentos pacientes.Sua trajetória assassina durou dezesseis anos, ao longo dos quais ele pulou de hospital em hospital para apagar seus rastros e continuar matando. Quando o “Anjo da Morte” — como foi apelidado pela imprensa — recebeu a sentença final e foi levado para a viatura da polícia em março de 2006, parecia que os segredos sinistros de sua vida, carreira e captura desapareceriam com ele.Então, em um trabalho instigante que levou dez anos para ser concluído, o premiado jornalista investigativo Charles Graeber contou a história completa pela primeira vez. Baseado em centenas de páginas de registros policiais sigilosos, entrevistas e gravações, bem como conversas exclusivas com Cullen diretamente da cadeia e com um informante que ajudou a detê-lo, O bom enfermeirotece uma trama urgente e sombria de assassinato, amizade e traição.Seguindo a tradição de clássicos como A sangue frio, o livro-reportagem de Graeber vai além da descrição dos assassinatos de Cullen e dos esforços para capturá-lo. Obra-prima do true crime, O enfermeiro da noitepinta um retrato vívido da loucura e oferece um vislumbre penetrante do sistema de saúde norte-americano.No último trimestre do ano, a adaptação cinematográfica de O enfermeiro da noite chega à Netflix. Estrelado pelos vencedores do Oscar Eddie Redmayne (Animais Fantásticos) e Jessica Chastain (Os Olhos de Tammy Faye), o filme é um dos mais aguardados da plataforma de streaming.

A pedazos

A pedazos

Un libro sincero, desgarrador, conmovedor. La escritura como salvavidas.En la Navidad de 2022, mientras pasaba las vacaciones en Roma con su pareja, Isabella, Hanif Kureishi sufrió un desvanecimiento y se desplomó. Al recuperar la consciencia se encontró en el suelo, rodeado de un charco de sangre, y no tardó en descubrir que era incapaz de moverse. Una vez en el hospital, los médicos confirmaron que había quedado parapléjico. Este libro testimonial —que es mucho más que un libro testimonial— está escrito en forma de despachos de urgencia, o como entradas de un diario dictado durante su estancia en varios hospitales, primero en Roma y después, ya de vuelta a casa, en Londres.Una escritura fragmentaria, a pedazos, en la que el autor relata su dura realidad diaria, su completa dependencia de los demás, la difícil asimilación de su nuevo estado, las sesiones de fisioterapia con las que recuperar algo de sensibilidad y movilidad en las extremidades, la relación con el personal médico, la incipiente amistad con otros pacientes y las tenues esperanzas ante cada pequeño signo de posible mejoría. Kureishi, sin embargo, no se limita a sentar acta de su día a día hospitalario, que cuenta sin paños calientes, sino que también evoca su infancia, el descubrimiento de la literatura, los primeros trabajos en el mundo del teatro, la fama que le llevó a visitar Hollywood nominado al Óscar por el guión de Mi hermosa lavandería, sus aventuras sexuales o la amistad con autores como Salman Rushdie.Estas páginas, llenas de jugosas reflexiones sobre el oficio y el sentido de la escritura como acto creativo, se convierten para él en un arma de combate: un modo de asimilar y al mismo tiempo rebelarse contra su situación. Constituyen un relato testimonial e íntimo, pero también una nueva muestra de la prosa vívida y visceral de Kureishi, que no rehúye lo carnal y lo escatológico. Un libro sincero, desgarrador, conmovedor. La escritura como salvavidas.

In The Shadow of Cotton

In The Shadow of Cotton

This memoir refreshes our culture of remembrance with humor and tears through the eyes of a child coming of age among the tide of baby boomers in the Deep South in a cotton mill village in the 1950s and 1960s. In the Shadow of Cotton is a thoroughly engaging, heartwarming, and often funny story of play, daily life, and most important love and respect and loyalty in the mill village community. The work includes the life and times of the period and a history of cotton, the cotton mills, and its villages.

Gratitude

Gratitude

A deeply moving testimony and celebration of how to embrace life. No writer has succeeded in capturing the medical and human drama of illness as honestly and as eloquently as Oliver Sacks. During the last few months of his life, he wrote a set of essays in which he movingly explored his feelings about completing a life and coming to terms with his own death.“A series of heart-rending yet ultimately uplifting essays….A lasting gift to readers." —The Washington Post“It is the fate of every human being,” Sacks writes, “to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death.” Together, these four essays form an ode to the uniqueness of each human being and to gratitude for the gift of life.“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved. I have been given much and I have given something in return. Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure.” —Oliver Sacks “Oliver Sacks was like no other clinician, or writer. He was drawn to the homes of the sick, the institutions of the most frail and disabled, the company of the unusual and the ‘abnormal.’ He wanted to see humanity in its many variants and to do so in his own, almost anachronistic way—face to face, over time, away from our burgeoning apparatus of computers and algorithms. And, through his writing, he showed us what he saw.” —Atul Gawande, author of Being Mortal

Erotic Vagrancy

Erotic Vagrancy

'One of the very best biographies I have ever read' STEPHEN FRY'A hot thunderstorm of a book' DAVID HARE'Erotic Vagrancy gave me a week of pure joy' CRAIG BROWN'Unputdownable' TONY PALMER'A genius writer' LYNN BARBERRichard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor were a Sixties supercharged couple in an era of supercharged couples. As a pairing they were fantasy figures, impossibly desirable. Liz supple and soft, in perfumes and furs - yet with something demonic and lethal about her. Dick, in turn, with his ravaged, handsome face, looked as though lit by silver moonlight - poised to turn into a wolf. Roger Lewis uses this glamorous and damaged pair as the starting point to tell the story of an age of excess: the freaks and groupies, the private jets and jewels and the yachts sailing in an azure sea; the magnificent bad taste and greed. It is about the clash of worlds: the filth and decay of South Wales and the grandeur and elegance of Old Hollywood; the fantasies we have about film stars and the fantasies the Burtons had about each other.

Cricketing Caesar

Cricketing Caesar

Mike Brearley was one of England's greatest captains, thrice winning the Ashes, including the memorable series of 1981. He also led Middlesex to four county championships and two Gillette Cup wins. In this first-ever biography of Brearley, Mark Peel assesses the many facets of his complex personality to explain his phenomenal success as a leader.

Solitary and Wild

Solitary and Wild

For lovers of the often dark and troubled poetry of Louis MacNeice, his father is a reassuring presence: solid, sober, pious yet tolerant, a Church of Ireland clergyman who was not afraid to reject the Ulster Covenant of 1912, denounce sectarianism, and even espouse Irish nationalism. This book originated in the discovery of one inconvenient fact. Frederick MacNeice (1866–1942) was not a Home Ruler but an all-Ireland Unionist, who for many years was an enthusiastic Orangeman in Dublin and then Ulster. In later life, especially as Bishop of Down after 1934, he set aside these connections in order to pursue intercommunal peace and tolerance in Belfast and beyond. Louis colluded with his father in reinterpreting his earlier career, as part of a process of personal reconciliation which profoundly affected his later poetry and autobiographical writings. The relationship between father and son is discussed in two chapters, and several well-known poems are reinterpreted in the light of fresh evidence. Above all, this is the biography of a visionary who never despaired of spreading salvation through the often derided Church of Ireland. Using unfamiliar archives and local newspapes as well as the writings of both father and son, this book reconstructs the disparate worlds in which Frederick MacNeice lived and worked. It also explores his muted responses to the suffering of his parents and siblings, the early death of his deeply depressed first wife, the benefits resulting from his second marriage and its consequences for his children. The figure that emerges is complex, guarded, astute, and remarkably effective in using religion to spread enlightenment. His life demonstrates that salvation deserves to be taken seriously as a motive force in modern Irish history.

Sailing Alone Around the World

Sailing Alone Around the World

Sailing Alone Around the World is a sailing memoir by Joshua Slocum in 1900 about his single-handed global circumnavigation aboard the sloop Spray. Slocum was the first person to sail around the world alone. The book was an immediate success and highly influential in inspiring later travelers.Joshua Slocum (February 20, 1844 – on or shortly after November 14, 1909) was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world. He was a Nova Scotian-born, naturalised American seaman and adventurer, and a noted writer. In 1900 he wrote a book about his journey, Sailing Alone Around the World, which became an international best-seller. He disappeared in November 1909 while aboard his boat, the Spray.

Fauci: Expect the Unexpected

Fauci: Expect the Unexpected

Compiled from hours of interviews drawn from the eponymous National Geographic documentary, this inspiring book from world-renowned infectious disease specialist Anthony Fauci shares the lessons that have shaped the celebrated doctor's life philosophy, offering an intimate view of one of the world's greatest medical minds as well as universal advice to live by. Before becoming the face of the White House Coronavirus Task Force and America's most trusted doctor, Dr. Anthony Fauci had already devoted three decades to public service. Those looking to live a more compassionate and purposeful life will find inspiration in his unique perspective on leadership, expecting the unexpected, and finding joy in difficult times. With more than three decades spent combating some of the most dangerous diseases to strike humankind-- AIDS, Ebola, COVID-19--Dr. Fauci has worked in daunting professional conditions and shouldered great responsibility. The earnest reflections in these pages offer a universal message on how to lead in times of crisis and find resilience in the face of disappointments and obstacles. Filled with inspiring words of wisdom, this profound book will offer readers a concrete path to a bright and hopeful future. Editor's Note: Dr. Anthony Fauci had no creative control over this book or the film on which it is based. He was not paid for his participation, nor does he have any financial interest in the film or book release.

Diego Costa - The Beast

Diego Costa - The Beast

TAKE A LOOK INTO THE RICH HISTORY OF ENGLISH FOOTBALL AND THE GRAND OLD NAME OF CHELSEA FOOTBALL CLUB WILL INEVITABLY ENJOY MORE THAN A PASSING MENTION. AND AFTER A FRUSTRATING SEASON WHICH SAW THE CLUB FINISH TANTALISINGLY CLOSE TO WINNING THE PREMIER LEAGUE TITLE, THE SUMMER OF 2014 WITNESSED THE ARRIVAL OF A NEW STAR IN WEST LONDON.Fresh from an outstanding season in Spain, where his thirty-six goals had propelled Atlético Madrid to a first La Liga title since 1996 and to within seconds of a maiden Champions League crown, Diego Costa arrived at Stamford Bridge for ?32 million.Brazilian by birth, Costa had caused an enormous wave of controversy in his homeland after opting to take Spanish citizenship and a subsequent place in Spain’s squad over the opportunity to represent the Seleç?o in a home World Cup in 2014.An early exit for Spain ensued but, undeterred, Costa arrived in the English capital tasked by manager Jose Mourinho with scoring the goals that had eluded many of his predecessors the previous season. And with a Premier League record of seven goals in his first four starts he took to the physical nature of England’s top division with typical aplomb.Costa began his nomadic rise to the top via the lower echelons of Portuguese and Spanish football, before establishing himself as a force under Diego Simeone’s rejuvenated Atléti. Affectionately nicknamed ‘El Cholo’, ‘the Beast’, his pace, power, aggression and deadly finishing have swiftly seen him become a crowd favourite at ‘the Bridge’.Diego Costa: ‘The Beast’ is an in-depth look into the life of this spectacular footballer and his rise to the very top.

Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov

Andrei Sakharov holds an honored place in the pantheon of the world's greatest scientists, reformers, and champions of human rights. But his embrace of human rights did not come through a sudden conversion; he came to it in stages. Drawing from a 2014 Hoover Institution conference focused on Sakharov's life and principles, this book tells the compelling story of his metamorphosis from a distinguished physical scientist into a courageous, outspoken dissident humanitarian voice.His extraordinary life saw him go from playing the leading role in designing and building the most powerful thermonuclear weapon (the so-called hydrogen bomb) ever exploded to demanding an end to the testing of such weapons and their eventual elimination. The essays detail his transformation, as he appealed first to his scientific colleagues abroad and then to mankind at large, for solidarity in resolving the growing threats to human survival—many of which stemmed from science and technology. Ultimately, the distinguished contributors show how the work and thinking of this eminent Russian nuclear physicist and courageous human rights campaigner can help find solutions to the nuclear threats of today.

Katharina II.

Katharina II.

In ihrem fesselnden Werk „Katharina II.“ entfaltet Gertrude Aretz das komplexe Leben einer der bedeutendsten Herrscherinnen des 18. Jahrhunderts. Durch eine feinsinnige Erzählweise und akribische Detailtreue entführt Aretz den Leser in die facettenreiche Welt der russischen Kaiserin. Der literarische Stil des Buches spiegelt die Eleganz und das monumentale Ausmaß der Epoche wider, während der historische Kontext das Aufeinandertreffen von persönlichem Ehrgeiz und politischer Strategie enthüllt. Aretz gelingt es, die unterschiedlichen Schattierungen im Leben dieser außergewöhnlichen Frau lebendig werden zu lassen, indem sie historische Quellen mit einem erzählerischen Reichtum verwebt, der den Leser fesselt und zugleich informiert. Gertrude Aretz ist eine angesehene Historikerin und Autorin, deren Werke sich durch kritische Tiefe und einfühlsame Darstellung vergangener Epochen auszeichnen. Ihr spezielles Interesse an weiblichen historischen Figuren spiegelt sich in ihrer leidenschaftlichen Erforschung von Katharina der Großen wider. Aretz' akademischer Hintergrund, gepaart mit ihrer Fähigkeit zur lebendigen Erzählung, erlaubt es ihr, über die rein chronologischen Ereignisse hinauszublicken und die tieferliegenden Motivationen und Herausforderungen der Kaiserin zu erkunden. Für jeden, der sich für die Intrigen und politischen Bestrebungen des russischen Zarenhofes interessiert, präsentiert „Katharina II.“ eine unverzichtbare Lektüre. Aretz' meisterhafte Darstellung bietet nicht nur eine umfassende Analyse einer historischen Persönlichkeit, sondern auch einen inspirierenden Einblick in die Stärke und Komplexität weiblicher Führung in einer von Männern dominierten Welt. Leser, die nach einer intensiven, historischen Untersuchung verlangen, werden in diesem Werk sowohl Erleuchtung als auch Unterhaltung finden, die lange nach dem Umblättern der letzten Seite nachklingt.

An Invisible Thread

An Invisible Thread

This 10th anniversary edition of the beloved #1 New York Times bestseller includes a new introduction and afterword by the author. Chronicling the lifelong friendship between a busy sales executive and a disadvantaged young boy that began with one small gesture of kindness, this is a “ray of hope for a better future, as well as an assurance that love is a stronger force than injustice and inequality” (Sybrina Fulton, mother of Travyon Martin and coauthor of Rest in Power: The Enduring Life of Trayvon Martin).Stopping was never part of the plan...She was a successful ad sales rep in Manhattan. He was a homeless, eleven-year-old panhandler on the street. He asked for spare change; she kept walking. But then something stopped her in her tracks, and she went back. And she continued to go back, again and again. They met up nearly every week for years and built an unexpected, life-changing friendship that has today spanned almost three decades.Whatever made me notice him on that street corner so many years ago is clearly something that cannot be extinguished, no matter how relentless the forces aligned against it. Some may call it spirit. Some may call it heart. It drew me to him, as if we were bound by some invisible, unbreakable thread. And whatever it is, it binds us still.​Now with new material that brings the life-changing story up to date for its tenth anniversary, An Invisible Thread is “a book capable of restoring our faith in each other and in the very idea that maybe everything is going to be okay after all” (Catherine Ryan Hyde, author of Pay It Forward).

Marivaux

Marivaux

Biographie de Marivaux. Une oeuvre abondante et variée, mais assez disparate et placée sous le double signe de la nonchalance et du besoin; une vie grise, retirée et discrète; un caractère sensible, à la fois indulgent et ombrageux: c'est tout ce que l'histoire littéraire nous permet de connaître ou d'entrevoir de Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux, né à Paris le 4 février 1688. Il pensa d'abord que le journalisme pourrait lui servir de gagne-pain. Dès 1717, il avait donné au Mercure des Caractères, publiés sous l'étiquette jugée par lui abusive de "Théophraste moderne", puis un petit roman en forme d'Aventure dialoguée. La vogue européenne et française du Spectateur et de ses émules l'engagea à lancer, en juillet 1721, un Spectateur français. Les livraisons qui se promettaient d'être hebdomadaires s'espacèrent, dès le départ, pour arriver péniblement à la 25e feuille en octobre 1724. En 1726, L'Indigent philosophe tenta de prendre la relève, mais ne dépassa pas la 7e feuille et, en 1734, Le Cabinet du philosophe la 11e. A partir de ce moment-là, la publication échelonnée et alternée de ses deux grands romans le détourna de ce métier de folliculaire, qui lui avait si médiocrement réussi. Réduire Marivaux au marivaudage, c'est ignorer la diversité, la profondeur et parfois la hardiesse que dissimulent l'enjouement et l'élégance. Réduire le marivaudage au maniérisme, c'est en méconnaître la dignité, le pathétique et d'abord le principe: la sincérité compte plus que le jeu en ce subtil mariage du coeur et de l'esprit où triomphe la politesse et l'honneur du langage, où le sentiment ne s'analyse que pour mieux se manifester, où le refus comme le don de soi n'entraînent jamais une démision de la conscience, où l'on ne badine avec l'amour que pour mieux aimer.