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La vida de Rubén Darío escrita por él mismo

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En los últimos años de su vida, Rubén Darío redactó su autobiografía, que apareció publicada en la revista Caras y caretas bajo el título de “La vida de Rubén Darío escrita por él mismo”. Este es el testimonio vital de una personalidad extraordinaria, un testigo de excepción del panorama político y cultural latinoamericano y europeo entre los siglos XIX y XX. Obra que permite un conocimiento más profundo del gran poeta del Modernismo.

Algernon, Charlie, and I

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The author of Flowers for Algernon discusses the highs & lows of the writing life, as well as his methods for creating fiction.In his bestselling novel Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes created an unlikely duo—a laboratory mouse and a man—who captured the hearts of millions of readers around the world. Now, in Algernon, Charlie, and I, Keyes reveals his methods of creating fiction as well as the heartbreaks and joys of being published. For the first time, readers, writers, teachers, and students can glimpse the creative life behind this cherished novel.Includes the original novelette version of Flowers for Algernon

Doppelganger

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"I’ve been raving about Naomi Klein’s Doppelganger . . . I can’t think of another text that better captures the berserk period we’re living through." —Michelle Goldberg, The New York Times"If I had to name a single book that makes sense of these last few dark years, it would be this one." —Katie Roiphe, The New York Times Book Review“If ever a book was necessary, it’s this one.” —Bill McKibben“Thoughtful and honest . . . Incisive . . . Klein moves her reader toward the truer grounds of solidarity in these times.” —Judith ButlerWhat if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self—a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d devoted your life to fighting against?Not long ago, the celebrated activist and public intellectual Naomi Klein had just such an experience—she was confronted with a doppelganger whose views she found abhorrent but whose name and public persona were sufficiently similar to her own that many people got confused about who was who. Destabilized, she lost her bearings, until she began to understand the experience as one manifestation of a strangeness many of us have come to know but struggle to define: AI-generated text is blurring the line between genuine and spurious communication; New Age wellness entrepreneurs turned anti-vaxxers are scrambling familiar political allegiances of left and right; and liberal democracies are teetering on the edge of absurdist authoritarianism, even as the oceans rise. Under such conditions, reality itself seems to have become unmoored. Is there a cure for our moment of collective vertigo?Naomi Klein is one of our most trenchant and influential social critics, an essential analyst of what branding, austerity, and climate profiteering have done to our societies and souls. Here she turns her gaze inward to our psychic landscapes, and outward to the possibilities for building hope amid intersecting economic, medical, and political crises. With the assistance of Sigmund Freud, Jordan Peele, Alfred Hitchcock, and bell hooks, among other accomplices, Klein uses wry humor and a keen sense of the ridiculous to face the strange doubles that haunt us—and that have come to feel as intimate and proximate as a warped reflection in the mirror.Combining comic memoir with chilling reportage and cobweb-clearing analysis, Klein seeks to smash that mirror and chart a path beyond despair. Doppelganger asks: What do we neglect as we polish and perfect our digital reflections? Is it possible to dispose of our doubles and overcome the pathologies of a culture of multiplication? Can we create a politics of collective care and undertake a true reckoning with historical crimes? The result is a revelatory treatment of the way many of us think and feel now—and an intellectual adventure story for our times.

The Vintage Mencken

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Hero Tales from American History

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It is a good thing for all Americans, and it is an especially good thing for young Americans, to remember the men who have given their lives in war and peace to the service of their fellow-countrymen, and to keep in mind the feats of daring and personal prowess done in time past by some of the many champions of the nation in the various crises of her history. Thrift, industry, obedience to law, and intellectual cultivation are essential qualities in the makeup of any successful people; but no people can be really great unless they possess also the heroic virtues which are as needful in time of peace as in time of war, and as important in civil as in military life.

Wars I Have Seen

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A memoir of the Nazi occupation—and the Allied liberation—of France, from the iconic author of Tender Buttons and The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas Intimate friends of Gertrude Stein, aware of her indomitable courage and resourcefulness, were not at all surprised when she emerged unscathed from the Nazi occupation of France, her Picasso collection intact and her poodle, Basket, wagging his tail contentedly at her heels. But Stein had her full share of troubles and excitement in those four years, and it is this unbelievable period that she documents in full in this most graphic and revealing of all her books. Written in longhand under the very noses of the Nazis, Wars I Have Seen is the on-the-spot story of what the people of France endured. From the early days, in which Stein was more concerned with foraging food for her dogs than with the fate of democracy, to the coming of the Americans, which gave her the thrill of a lifetime, Stein depicts the heroic exploits of the French Resistance fighters and the excitement of the battle for liberation with all of her signature literary panache.

Zur eigenen Lebensgeschichte

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In 'Zur eigenen Lebensgeschichte' bietet Leopold von Ranke den Lesern einen faszinierenden Einblick in sein eigenes Leben und seine einzigartige Perspektive auf die Welt. Mit seinem prägnanten und detailreichen Schreibstil präsentiert er seine Memoiren als ein Werk der historischen Betrachtung, das ebenso persönlich wie informativ ist. Ranke, als führender Vertreter der Geschichtswissenschaft des 19. Jahrhunderts, erzählt von seinen Begegnungen mit den großen Persönlichkeiten seiner Zeit und reflektiert über die Bedeutung von Geschichte und Erinnerung. 'Zur eigenen Lebensgeschichte' ist ein literarisches Juwel, das sowohl historisch interessierte Leser als auch Liebhaber autobiografischer Literatur gleichermaßen ansprechen wird.

A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee

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Written by American novelist John Esten Cooke, A Life of Gen. Robert E. Lee includes information on the Civil War leader's early life, family, politics and military strategy.

Colonel Parkinson in Charge

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A writer’s witty and surprisingly optimistic account of learning to live with Parkinson’s disease. When he was sixty-five, François Gravel was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, upending the old age he had imagined for himself. As a way of contemplating his new life with a degenerative illness, he turned to what he knew best and loved most: writing. Gravel immersed himself in research on Parkinson’s, exploring its medical history and treatments and paying close attention to the changes he experienced, all in service of learning how to best manage his symptoms throughout the advancement of this incurable disease. With a lightness of touch that belies a difficult subject (he imagines Dr. Parkinson as a military man who has set up camp in his brain), Gravel shares what he has learned in a memoir that is at once charming, serious, and moving. He writes, “For a long time, I believed that Parkinson’s was a disease. Now, I realize it’s a philosophy course.” Colonel Parkinson in Charge is, in some ways, the companion text for this course, engaging with and demystifying a daunting subject to help readers better understand life with Parkinson’s disease.

La búsqueda de Gobi

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La búsqueda de Gobi es la milagrosa historia de Dion Leonard, un corredor de ultramaratones experimentado que se encontró con una perrita callejera mientras competía en una carrera de 155 millas a través del desierto de Gobi en China. La adorable cachorro, que luego nombró «Gobi», demostró que lo que le faltaba en tamaño, lo compensaba con el corazón. Gobi recorrió junto a Dion gigantescas dunas de arena y atravesó las montañas Tian Shan, aldeas y las arenas negras del desierto de Gobi, manteniendo el ritmo con él durante casi ochenta millas. Dion fue testigo de la increíble determinación y corazón de Gobi, y se dio cuenta que su propio corazón experimentaba también un cambio. Dion permitía que Gobi durmiera en su tienda de campaña por las noches, le compartía agua y alimentos de sus propias provisiones limitadas, a veces también la cargaba, aun sabiendo que eso significaba retrasarse en la carrera, o peor aún, le impedería terminar en absoluto. En las carreras anteriores de Dion, él se enfocaba en ganar y ser el mejor, pero esta vez su objetivo era asegurarse que su amistad con Gobi continuara mucho después de llegar a la meta. Sin embargo, antes de que pudiera llevarla a casa, Gobi desapareció en una inmensa ciudad china. Con la ayuda de desconocidos y el apoyo de gente alrededor del mundo, Dion inició la búsqueda para reencontrar al asombroso animal que le demostró a él y al mundo entero que los milagros son posibles.

50 Classic Autobiographies

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An anthology of 50 classic autobiographies with an active table of contents to make it easy to quickly find the book you are looking for.The Americanization of Edward Bok by Edward BokAutobiography By John Stuart MillAutobiography of a Pocket-Handkerchief by James Fenimore CoopoerThe Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon JohnsonAutobiography of Andrew Carnegie by Andrew CarnegieAutobiography of Anthony Trollope by Anthony TrollopeThe Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin FranklinThe Autobiography of Charles DarwinThe Autobiography of "Cockney Tom" by Thomas BastardAutobiography by Johann Wolfgang von GoetheAutobiography of Ma-ka-tai-me-she-kia-kiak, or Black Hawk by Black HawkThe Autobiography of Mother Jones by Mary Harris JonesA Ball Player's Career by Adrian C. AnsonBoyhood by Leo TolstoyCaptivity and Restoration by Mrs. Mary RowlandsonCertain Personal Matters by H. G. WellsChildhood by Jacques CasanovaThe Citizen-Soldier by John BeattyConfederate Girl's Diary by Sarah Margan DawsonThe Confessions by Jean Jacques RousseauThe Diary of a U-boat Commander by AnonymousThe Education of Henry Adams by Henry AdamsGrace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners by John BunyanLife On The Mississippi by Mark TwainAdams by Josiah QuincyMy Life and Work by Henry FordMongolian Plains by Roy Chapman AndrewsNarrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick DouglassOhio Woman in the Philippines by Emily Bronson CongerParis War Days by Charles Inman BarnardThe Real Diary of a Real Boy by Henry A. ShuteSeven and Nine years Among the Camanches by Edwin Eastman"Shiloh" as Seen by a Private Soldier by Warren OlneyTheodore Roosevelt, An Autobiography by Theodore RooseveltTo the Gold Coast for Gold by Richard F. BurtonUp From Slavery: An Autobiography by Booker T. WashingtonWalden by Henry David ThoreauWar Birds: Diary of an Unknown Aviator by AnonymousA Warrior's Daughter by Zitkala-SaThe Yosemite by John Muir To find out more about Golgotha Press, visit www.golgothapress.com

Don't Wake Up George Brown!

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Alan Jones shares his reminiscences of growing up in South Liverpool during the forties and fifties in the aftermath of the Second World War - the most destructive war the world has ever known. It was a time of austerity, of rationing, but also a time when the extended family was still largely in existence. As part of an extended family, he recalls how he spent as much time with his grandmother as he did with his parents, and given she had brought up nine children, it was a family of sizeable proportions. It was a time when children had much more freedom to roam the streets and when corporal punishment was woven into the fabric of school life.

Las medallas de sus derrotas (Colección Endebate)

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El papel de Winston Churchill en la Segunda Guerra Mundial le garantizó un lugar destacado entre los grandes líderes del siglo XX. Hitchens, el gran disidente de todo, demuestra en este ensayo cuánto hay de real en su historia, y cuánto de construcción interesada de un mito.Ya mucho antes de morir, Winston Churchill se había convertido en un personaje de la Historia. En este iluminador ensayo Hitchens lanza su incisiva mirada sobre la construcción de ese mito y lo que explica sobre la necesidad humana de creer en causas elevadas y héroes que las defiendan.

Diarios de motocicleta

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A finales de 1951, con tan solo veintitrés años, el joven Ernesto Guevara, aún lejos de convertirse en el legendario guerrillero que más tarde sería, emprendía junto con su amigo Alberto Granado un viaje que les llevaría a recorrer gran parte de América Latina en motocicleta. En las notas que escribió sobre su aventura se deja entrever la personalidad del joven Che, su determinación y sus ansias de explorar el mundo, así como una incipiente conciencia social, todos ellos rasgos esenciales de la personalidad del célebre líder revolucionario. Lo que aquí se narra es mucho más que una aventura juvenil; se trata de un viaje iniciático en el que el joven estudiante de medicina de clase media y sin grandes inquietudes políticas poco a poco comienza a convertirse en un hombre dispuesto a cambiar el mundo. Es precisamente ese espíritu transformador lo que hoy más que nunca nos atrae. Para los jóvenes de ahora, como escribe Ángeles Diez en el prólogo, “este diario ha de ser leído como una promesa. La de un cambio cierto y necesario”.

Playing for Keeps

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist looks at the life and times of the Chicago Bulls superstar— “The best Jordan book so far” (The Washington Post). One of sport’s biggest superstars, Michael Jordan is more than an internationally renowned athlete. As illuminated through David Halberstam’s trademark balance of impeccable research and fascinating storytelling, Jordan symbolizes the apex of the National Basketball Association’s coming of age. Long before multimillion-dollar signings and lucrative endorsements, NBA players worked in relative obscurity, with most games woefully unattended and rarely broadcast on television. Then came Larry Bird and Magic Johnson, Jordan’s two great predecessors, and the game’s status changed. The new era capitalized on Jordan’s talent, will power, and unrivaled competiveness. In Playing for Keeps, Halberstam is at his investigative best, delving into Jordan’s expansive world of teammates and coaches. The result is a gripping story of the athlete and media powerhouse who changed a game forever. This ebook features an extended biography of David Halberstam.

Alexander Hamilton

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The #1 New York Times bestseller, and the inspiration for the hit Broadway musical Hamilton!Pulitzer Prize-winning author Ron Chernow presents a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation."Grand-scale biography at its best—thorough, insightful, consistently fair, and superbly written . . . A genuinely great book." —David McCullough“A robust full-length portrait, in my view the best ever written, of the most brilliant, charismatic and dangerous founder of them all." —Joseph EllisFew figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow’s biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today’s America is the result of Hamilton’s countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways, to repudiate the modern world.” Chernow here recounts Hamilton’s turbulent life: an illegitimate, largely self-taught orphan from the Caribbean, he came out of nowhere to take America by storm, rising to become George Washington’s aide-de-camp in the Continental Army, coauthoring The Federalist Papers, founding the Bank of New York, leading the Federalist Party, and becoming the first Treasury Secretary of the United States.Historians have long told the story of America’s birth as the triumph of Jefferson’s democratic ideals over the aristocratic intentions of Hamilton. Chernow presents an entirely different man, whose legendary ambitions were motivated not merely by self-interest but by passionate patriotism and a stubborn will to build the foundations of American prosperity and power. His is a Hamilton far more human than we’ve encountered before—from his shame about his birth to his fiery aspirations, from his intimate relationships with childhood friends to his titanic feuds with Jefferson, Madison, Adams, Monroe, and Burr, and from his highly public affair with Maria Reynolds to his loving marriage to his loyal wife Eliza. And never before has there been a more vivid account of Hamilton’s famous and mysterious death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July of 1804.Chernow’s biography is not just a portrait of Hamilton, but the story of America’s birth seen through its most central figure. At a critical time to look back to our roots, Alexander Hamilton will remind readers of the purpose of our institutions and our heritage as Americans.9780143034759

James Baldwin: The Last Interview

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Never before available, the unexpurgated last interview with James Baldwin“I was not born to be what someone said I was. I was not born to be defined by someone else, but by myself, and myself only.” When, in the fall of 1987, the poet Quincy Troupe traveled to the south of France to interview James Baldwin, Baldwin’s brother David told him to ask Baldwin about everything—Baldwin was critically ill and David knew that this might be the writer’s last chance to speak at length about his life and work.The result is one of the most eloquent and revelatory interviews of Baldwin’s career, a conversation that ranges widely over such topics as his childhood in Harlem, his close friendship with Miles Davis, his relationship with writers like Toni Morrison and Richard Wright, his years in France, and his ever-incisive thoughts on the history of race relations and the African-American experience.Also collected here are significant interviews from other moments in Baldwin’s life, including an in-depth interview conducted by Studs Terkel shortly after the publication of Nobody Knows My Name. These interviews showcase, above all, Baldwin’s fearlessness and integrity as a writer, thinker, and individual, as well as the profound struggles he faced along the way.

Sherri's Secrets

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With candor and directness, the author takes you on a deeply personal, narrative journey through her life. From a sometimes abusive and disturbing childhood, to several moves between three provinces in Canada, she builds a life with her husband and children.Through a compelling tale of adversity and accomplishment, she becomes an enterprising and tenacious adult. Learning through it all, that she is empowered to decide what situations confine or define her, and asserts. "How truly blessed my life has been!"

Autobiografia

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La vita di Gandhi, in questo testo curato da C. F. Andrews, non è scritta per interessare il lettore alla storia di un’anima o alle av-venture di un uomo che ha vissuto intensamente e lottato e agito su milioni di uomini. La personalità dello scrittore entra nel libro come un carattere ideale, il cui svolgimento è la formazione d’una dottrina di vita; i casi esteriori sono appena accennati per quel tanto che era necessario a dare come lo scheletro del corpo, che l’autore voleva rappresentare nel suo movimento e nella sua vita.Il Gandhi non è uno scrittore d’arte. Giornalista o autore, scrive per l’attuazione del suo programma pratico; e i suoi scritti sono azioni. Azioni di propaganda, come egli intende la sua propaganda: politica che è religione, e religione che è vita morale, formazione di sé, perfezionamento della propria volontà, purificazione dello spirito e via alla fratellanza universale. Prefazione di Giovanni Gentile.

Annette King

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Annette King is New Zealand's longest-serving women MP — 1984-2017 less three years in the wilderness from 1990-1993. In her 30 years in Parliament, she spent 15 in government (10 as a cabinet minister) and 15 in opposition. She is a former deputy leader of the Labour Party, and held a number of senior cabinet portfolios. This book will take a dual approach to her life and political career. Annette's career embraces a tumultuous time in New Zealand politics and Labour politics . . . Rogernomics and Lange's independent foreign policy; the 1990s and advent of MMP; the refinement of Rogernomics under Ruth Richardson etc; the rise and nearly fall of Helen Clark; the Clark government (where Annette served as Health, Food Safety, Police, Transport, Justice and Racing Minister); the subsequent 9 years of difficult and troubled opposition for Labour; and eventually the rise of Jacinda Ardern. Annette played pivotal roles in all these eras, often as the peacemaker or as Auntie Annette. She became a mentor for many of the prominent members of the Ardern government and, of course, played a lead role in the 2017 election campaign and subsequent negotiations. The book will give rein to Annette's voice, but also feature other prominent figures including Jacinda. The book will open with the 2017 campaign.

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