Vida de Cristóbal Colón

Vida de Cristóbal Colón

Gracias a los escritos de Bartolomé de las Casas conocemos parte de la Vida de Cristóbal Colón, sin embargo, ambos nunca se conocieron. Las Casas se embarcó hacia América en 1502 y residió en La Española hasta su retorno a Sevilla, en 1506. Precisamente en 1502, Colón hizo su cuarto y último viaje al Nuevo Mundo. Quizá estas dos notables figuras se hubieran encontrado, pero una tormenta hizo desembarcar a Colón en Jamaica donde permaneció hasta su regreso a España, en 1504. El navegante genovés era treinta años mayor que el fraile sevillano y murió dos años después en Valladolid, con poco más de cincuenta años. Las Casas fallecería casi medio siglo después.Bartolomé de las Casas fue uno de los principales biógrafos y relatores de las aventuras de Colón. Aunque algunos historiadores discrepan de ciertos detalles, no hay lugar a dudas de que nadie, en su época, estaba mejor documentado que el fraile dominico español. Tuvo acceso a sus diarios, a sus cartas, a los textos oficiales y a otros documentos.

Bowie

Bowie

‘Bowie’ er en filosofisk rejse gennem David Bowies musik, tekstunivers og mange personaer ind til kernen i spørgsmålet om, hvorfor han har betydet så meget for så mange mennesker. Det er en bog om musikeren, som rakte ud efter os og viste os verdener, som vi ikke vidste fandtes – helt i Bowies egen ånd læst ud fra hans værk og kun sjældent hans biografi og privatliv. Simon Critchley er internationalt anerkendt professor i filosofi og livslang Bowie-fan, med rødder i den engelske, grå arbejderforstad som Bowie selv. Critchley er ikke i tvivl om, at Bowie er en af de største kunstnere i de seneste 100 år. Han viser hvorfor – og hvordan hans kunst balancerer mellem fortvivlelse og håb, dystopi og utopi, fravær og begær, mellem død og liv, og hvordan hans spektakulære exit den 10. januar 2016 fletter sig ind i kunstnerens værk. Om tolvårige Critchleys første møde med David Bowie på tv i 1972: “Han virkede så seksuel, så vidende, så underfundig og så fremmedartet. På én gang arrogant og sårbar. Han så ud, som om han havde forstået, hvad det hele gik ud på – hans ansigt var en dør til en verden af ukendte nydelser.”

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson (1743 – 1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. A proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights motivating American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation, he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level. He was a land owner and farmer.Jefferson was primarily of English ancestry, born and educated in colonial Virginia. He graduated from the College of William & Mary and briefly practiced law, at times defending slaves seeking their freedom. During the American Revolution, he represented Virginia in the Continental Congress that adopted the Declaration, drafted the law for religious freedom as a Virginia legislator, and he served as a wartime governor (1779–1781). He became the United States Minister to France in May 1785, and subsequently the nation's first Secretary of State in 1790–1793 under President George Washington. Jefferson and James Madison organized the Democratic-Republican Party to oppose the Federalist Party during the formation of the First Party System. With Madison, he anonymously wrote the controversial Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798–1799, which sought to embolden states' rights in opposition to the national government by nullifying the Alien and Sedition Acts.As President, Jefferson pursued the nation's shipping and trade interests against Barbary pirates and aggressive British trade policies. He also organized the Louisiana Purchase, almost doubling the country's territory. As a result of peace negotiations with France, his administration reduced military forces. He was reelected in 1804. Jefferson's second term was beset with difficulties at home, including the trial of former Vice President Aaron Burr. American foreign trade was diminished when Jefferson implemented the Embargo Act of 1807, responding to British threats to U.S. shipping. In 1803, Jefferson began a controversial process of Indian tribe removal to the newly organized Louisiana Territory, and he signed the Act Prohibiting Importation of Slaves in 1807.

Auf den Wegen der Außenseiter und Revolutionären

Auf den Wegen der Außenseiter und Revolutionären

Diese Ausgabe gewährt Einblicke in das beeindruckende Leben von Ausgestoßenen, Rebellen, Verbrechern und Revolutionären: Freiherr Friedrich von der Trenck (Heinrich Conrad) Fürst Peter Krapotkin (Heinrich Conrad) Graf von Lavalette und seine Frau (Heinrich Conrad) Masers de Latude (Heinrich Conrad) Carl Hau: Mein Todesurteil. Die Geschichte meines Prozesses (Autobiographie) Kropotkin: Memoiren eines Revolutionärs (Autobiographie) Michael Bakunin (Ricarda Huch) Garibaldi: Biographie (Ricarda Huch) Autobiographie: Meine Lebenserinnerungen Lenin (Emil Ludwig) Ernst Toller: Eine Jugend in Deutschland (Autobiographie) Louise Aston: Aus dem Leben einer Frau (Autobiographie) Wladimir Korolenko: Die Geschichte meines Zeitgenossen (Autobiographie) Clara Zetkin: Erinnerungen an Lenin (Autobiographie) Leopold von Sacher-Masoch: Eine Autobiographie Rosa Luxemburg: Biographie (Karl Radek) Briefe aus dem Gefängnis von Rosa Luxemburg

Stephen King. 100 Seiten

Stephen King. 100 Seiten

»King kennt alle Träume, die ewigen wie die aktuellen, die bösen wie die guten, und erzählt sie mit einer Stimme, die man nie vergisst.« Stephen King hat über 400 Millionen Bücher in 40 Sprachen verkauft. Sehr viele, von "The Shining" bis "The Stand", sind verfilmt worden. Kolleginnen und Kollegen loben King, den Respekt von Kritik und Literaturwissenschaft hat er sich hart erkämpft – mit Stoffen, die Grauen erregen, Lust bereiten und Erkenntnis zünden. Dietmar Dath stellt das Werk von Kings Debüt "Carrie" bis zum krönenden Zyklus um den "Dunklen Turm" vor und legt Quellen sowie (etwa pseudonyme) Versteckspiele offen. So begreift man, wie es diesem Autor gelingen konnte, unserer Zeit mit all ihren Krisen und Katastrophen tiefer ins dunkle Herz zu schauen als irgendwer sonst.

Personal Memoirs Of General Ulysses S. Grant

Personal Memoirs Of General Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States and the Union general who was imperative for the North's victory in the Civil War. His autobiography has long become legendary and can be found here in a complete edition. In 70 detailed chapters Grant tells the story of his life from his birth and boyhood to his graduation at West Point, the Mexican War, the outbreak of the rebellion and his merits in the the civil war to the day of the march to Washington D.C.

I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor

I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor

The first-ever edition of Che Guevara's letters, the vast majority never-before published in English in any form.Ernesto Che Guevara was a voyager—and thus a letter writer—for his entire adult life. The letters collected in I Embrace You with All My Revolutionary Fervor: Letters 1947-1967 range from letters home during his Motorcycle Diaries trip, to the long letter to Fidel after the success of the Cuban revolution in early 1959 (from which the book's title comes), from the most personal to the intensely political, revealing someone who not only thought deeply about everything he encountered, but for whom the process of social transformation was a constant companion from his youth until shortly before his death. His letters give us Che the son, the friend, the lover, the guerrilla fighter, the political leader, the philosopher, the poet. Che in these letters is often playful, funny, sometimes sarcastic, and deeply affectionate. His life was short, and these twenty years, from when he was 19 until days before his death, show it was also incredibly rich and full.As his daughter Aleida Guevara, also a doctor like her father, writes, "When you write a speech, you pay attention to the language, the punctuation and so on. But in a letter to a friend or a member of your family, you don't worry about those things. It is you speaking, in your authentic voice. That's what I like about these letters; they show who Che really was and how he thought. This is the true political testimony of my father."

Trieste

Trieste

Un portrait délicat de la cité de l’Adriatique, carrefour séculaire des tumultes de l’histoire européenne.L’écrivain britannique Jan Morris a découvert Trieste comme soldat en 1945, et cette ville n’a cessé depuis de la hanter. Maintes fois bousculée par les remous de l’histoire, Trieste incarne la précarité des frontières, la finitude des empires et s’est affirmée depuis des siècles comme un havre pour les exilés, célèbres ou anonymes. Évoquant l’histoire, l’art, la littérature ou l’architecture, Jan Morris esquisse dans ces pages un tableau élégant et teinté de mélancolie de la grande cité portuaire des Habsbourg, éprouvée par les années noires du fascisme et le glacis du rideau de fer. La Trieste d’aujourd’hui, cosmopolite et frémissante, à la fois latine, slave et germanique, reste une métaphore de l’histoire troublée de notre continent.Plongez dans un tableau élégant et teinté de mélancolie de la grande cité portuaire des Habsbourg !EXTRAITIl y eut un temps où j’avais coutume de dire que si j’étais juive, je serais certainement sioniste. J’avais servi en Palestine sous mandat britannique et j’avais alors pensé que c’était les Arabes, pas les Juifs, qui en bavaient ; mais voir la jeune armée israélienne déferler dans le Sinaï lors de la première de ses guerres m’emplit de sympathie romanesque pour le petit État. Plus tard, je changeai à nouveau d’avis et compris que les Juifs que j’admirais le plus étaient ceux de la diaspora qui n’avaient pas abandonné la fierté de leur origine et restaient étroitement liés par l’histoire et la culture, par un amour des mots, de la musique et du débat, mais qui étaient par essence des citoyens du monde, supranationaux, extraterritoriaux. C’est leur esprit, diffus mais rémanent, tel un gène de chromosome, qui me fait voir Trieste encore comme une ville juive. D’ailleurs, les Juifs restent encore dans les parages. L’essentiel de leur vieux ghetto, dans le quartier de la Piazza Unità, a fait les frais des transformations municipales, mais ce qui en reste, comme dans bien des anciens ghettos d’Europe, est devenu plutôt tendance. Les excellentes librairies, les antiquaires, les marchands d’art et les restaurateurs abondent et il y a un marché aux puces le dimanche. Via del Monte, la synagogue des migrants abrite un musée juif, dirigé par un rabbin de la grande synagogue et il y a une école juive à côté. Ici et là, cependant, des rues médiévales abandonnées subsistent, dans l’attente de la démolition, et leurs hautes maisons vides à volets clos, leurs lampes, chaînes, cadenas et chats errants rappellent des époques plus cruelles. L’autre jour encore, dans le même quartier du ghetto, j’ai vu trois musiciens ambulants en loques chassés par la police et, en les regardant fermer leurs étuis, fourrer leurs instruments sous le bras et partir d’un pas traînant vers le front de mer, je songeai qu’ils ressemblaient vraiment aux malheureux Juifs d’antan poussés comme du bétail dans les wagons. A PROPOS DE L'AUTEURNée en 1926, Jan Morris est l’un des plus célèbres écrivains de voyage de langue anglaise. Elle est l'auteur de Pax Britannica, une histoire de l’empire britannique, et de délicats portraits de Venise, Trieste, Oxford, New York ou Hong Kong. Elle vécut et écrivit sous son nom James Morris jusqu’en 1972, année où elle a changé de sexe.

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete

The Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant' is an autobiography by Ulysses S. Grant; the 18th President of the United States. It largely focuses on his military career during the Mexican–American War and the American Civil War. When it was written in 1885; Grant was dying of cancer; therefore; the two-volume set was published by famous novelist Mark Twain shortly after Grant's death.

Cry Like a Man

Cry Like a Man

As a leader in teaching, training, and transforming boys in Detroit, Jason Wilson shares his own story of discovering what it means to “be a man” in this life-changing memoir.   His grandfather’s lynching in the deep South, the murders of his two older brothers, and his verbally harsh and absent father all worked together to form Jason Wilson’s childhood. But it was his decision to acknowledge his emotions and yield to God’s call on his life that made Wilson the man and leader he is today.    As the founder of one of the country’s most esteemed youth organizations, Wilson has decades of experience in strengthening the physical, mental, and emotional spirit of boys and men. In Cry Like a Man, Wilson explains the dangers men face in our culture’s definition of “masculinity” and gives readers hope that healing is possible.   As Wilson writes, “My passion is to help boys and men find strength to become courageously transparent about their own brokenness as I shed light on the symptoms and causes of childhood trauma and ‘father wounds.’ I long to see men free themselves from emotional incarceration—to see their minds renewed, souls weaned, and relationships restored.”  

Un Américain peu tranquille

Un Américain peu tranquille

Voici l'histoire d'un Américain. Comme les cadavres que l'on découvre vite après les crimes, cette histoire est encore toute chaude. Aussi, la vie de cet Américain se raconte-t-elle par secousses. Il n'y a pas si longtemps, son corps tremblait, son cœur battait, son sang sautait. Pour certains d'entre les vivants, il n'est pas mort. Il tressaute encore, il tressaille toujours. Voici l'histoire de sa vie : l'enregistrement des spasmes d'Al Capone.

School Blues

School Blues

Daniel Pennac has never forgotten what it was like to be a very unsatisfactory student, nor the day one of his teachers saved his life by assigning him the task of writing a novel. This was the moment Pennac realized that no-one has to be a failure for ever. In School Blues, Pennac explores the many facets of schooling: how fear makes children reject education; how children can be captivated by inventive thinking; how consumerism has altered attitudes to learning. Haunted by memories of his own turbulent time in the classroom, Pennac enacts dialogues with his teachers, his parents and his own students, and serves up much more than a bald analysis of how young people are consistently failed by a faltering system. School Blues is not only universally applicable, but it is unquestionably a work of literature in its own right, driven by subtlety, sensitivity and a passion for pedagogy, while embracing the realities of contemporary culture.

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Elon Musk ist der da Vinci des 21. Jahrhunderts. Seine Firmengründungen lesen sich wie das Who's who der zukunftsträchtigsten Unternehmen der Welt. Alles, was dieser Mann anfasst, scheint zu Gold zu werden. Mit PayPal revolutionierte er das Zahlen im Internet, mit Tesla schreckte er die Autoindustrie auf und sein Raumfahrtunternehmen SpaceX ist aktuell das weltweit einzige Unternehmen, das ein Raumschiff mit großer Nutzlast wieder auf die Erde zurückbringen kann. Dies ist die persönliche Geschichte hinter einem der größten Unternehmer seit Thomas Edison, Henry Ford oder Howard Hughes. Das Buch erzählt seinen kometenhaften Aufstieg von seiner Flucht aus Südafrika mit 17 Jahren bis heute. Elon Musk gilt als der »Real Iron Man« – in Anlehnung an einen der erfolgreichsten Comichelden der Welt. Es ist die gleichsam inspirierende, persönliche und spannende Geschichte eines der erfolgreichsten Querdenker der Welt. In einem Umfang wie noch kein Journalist zuvor hatte Ashlee Vance für diese Biografie exklusiven und direkten Zugang zu Elon Musk, seinem familiären Umfeld und persönlichen Freunden. Mit 16 Seiten exklusiven und persönlichen Bildern aus Elon Musks persönlichem Fotoalbum.

Plus rien ne pourra me blesser

Plus rien ne pourra me blesser

Pour David Goggins, l'enfance a été un cauchemar – pauvreté, préjugés raciaux et violences familiales ont ponctué ses jours et hanté ses nuits. Jeune homme dépressif, en surpoids et sans aucun avenir à l'horizon, incapable de courir sur plus de 500 mètres, il va pourtant choisir de prendre son destin en main. Grâce à une force de caractère hors du commun, une discipline extrême et un travail acharné, il va se métamorphoser en une icône des forces armées américaines.Seul homme de l'histoire à avoir été breveté Navy SEAL, Ranger de l'armée de terre et contrôleur aérien tactique, il a par la suite établi de nombreux records d'endurance dans le domaine des ultra-marathons, au point d'être proclamé « l'homme le plus en forme des États-Unis » par Outside Magazine.En partageant son histoire, David Goggins partage également les échecs et les difficultés qui ont émaillé sa vie mais, surtout, il confie aux lecteurs les clés de sa résilience et les recettes qui lui ont permis d'affronter l'adversité pour s'épanouir malgré la souffrance et atteindre ce plein potentiel qui se trouve à la portée de chacun d'entre nous.Un livre bouleversant et stupéfiant qui a changé la vie de dizaines de milliers de lecteurs.

Billy's Story

Billy's Story

From the bestselling author of the Thrown Away Children series comes another heartbreaking story of life in foster care.Louise has trouble on her hands from the first moment that 5-year-old Billy Blackthorn comes to stay. He is one of more than 20 children taken into care from a single family, and erupts into the Allen household with a volatility that is frightening and disturbing in equal measure. It is only as Louise begins to uncover the secrets of Billy's dark past that she begins to understand what made his family 'untouchable'.'Britain's top foster carer' The Sun'A shining light' Emily Finch, BBC

Töpffer No 3 Des nouvelles genevoises

Töpffer No 3 Des nouvelles genevoises

Aimez-vous la Suisse ? Voulez-vous en avoir des nouvelles ? En voici trois différentes.  Découvrez qui sont les deux prisonniers dont Töpffer nous parle. Vous trouverez aussi une nouvelle lorsqu'il était jeune (La peur). Et une autre d'une de ses expéditions en montagne (Le col d'Antenne).  Des récits passionnants !

Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow

Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow

The star of The Incredible Dr. Pol shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild’s hit show The Incredible Dr. Pol and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol’s more than 20,000 patients have ranged from white mice to 2600-pound horses and everything in between. From the time he was twelve years old and helped deliver a litter of piglets on his family’s farm to the incredible moments captured on his hit TV show, Dr. Pol has amassed a wealth of stories of what it’s like caring for this menagerie of animals. He shares his own story of growing up surrounded by animals, training to be a vet in the Netherlands, and moving to Michigan to open his first practice in a pre fab house. He has established himself as an empathetic yet no-nonsense vet who isn’t afraid to make the difficult decisions in order to do what’s best for his patients—and their hard-working owners. A sick pet can bring heartache, but a sick cow or horse could threaten the very livelihood of a farmer whose modest profits are dependent on healthy livestock.Reminiscent of the classic books of James Herriot, Never Turn Your Back on an Angus Cow is a charming, fascinating, and funny memoir that will delight animal lovers everywhere.

Lire, c'est amusant ! No 3

Lire, c'est amusant ! No 3

Voyez les raisons qui font que l’on peut se désintéresser d’un livre. Voilà aussi l'histoire de comment, certains auteurs, en sont arrivés à écrire. Cela vous donnera peut-être l'idée de le faire, vous aussi, ou du moins de les lire. Apprenez à mieux les connaître et découvrez leurs oeuvres. Voici leur histoire unique !

The World of Yesterday

The World of Yesterday

"The World of Yesterday" is an autobiographical work by Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. Published in 1942, the book describes the author's personal experiences of the intellectual and cultural life of Europe before and during World War I. Zweig portrays the society of the time as a golden age of peaceful coexistence and intellectual and artistic flourishing, which was abruptly shattered by the rise of nationalism, fascism, and war. The book is a poignant meditation on the loss of a world and a way of life, and a warning against the dangers of fanaticism and totalitarianism. The writing is lyrical and evocative, drawing the reader into a vivid and nostalgic portrait of a bygone era.

Brief Candle in the Dark

Brief Candle in the Dark

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century—The God Delusion.Called “one of the best nonfiction writers alive today” (Stephen Pinker) and a “prize-fighter” (Nature), Richard Dawkins cheerfully, mischievously, looks back on a lifetime of tireless intellectual adventure and engagement. Exploring the halls of intellectual inquiry and stardom he encountered after the publication of his seminal work, The Selfish Gene; affectionately lampooning the world of academia, publishing, and television; and studding the pages with funny stories about the great men and women he’s known, Dawkins offers a candid look at the events and ideas that encouraged him to shift his attention to the intersection of culture, religion, and science. He also invites the reader to look more closely at the brilliant succession of ten influential books that grew naturally out of his busy life, highlighting the ideas that connect them and excavating their origins.On the publication of his tenth book, the smash hit, The God Delusion, a “resounding trumpet blast for truth” (Matt Ridley), Richard Dawkins was catapulted from mere intellectual stardom into a circle of celebrity thinkers dubbed, “The New Atheists”—including Christopher Hitchens, Sam Harris, and Daniel Dennett.Throughout A Brief Candle in the Dark, Dawkins shares with us his infectious sense of wonder at the natural world, his enjoyment of the absurdities of human interaction, and his bracing awareness of life’s brevity: all of which have made a deep imprint on our culture.