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"Es gibt hier in der Zelle keine größere Freude als Briefe" – Briefe waren für Dietrich Bonhoeffer im Gefängnis eine Art Lebenselexier. Durch die Briefe, veröffentlicht unter dem Titel "Widerstand und Ergebung", konnte Bonhoeffer weiterhin Anteil nehmen am Leben seiner Lieben – seiner Eltern Karl und Paula Bonhoeffer, seiner Verlobten Maria von Wedemeyer und seinem Freund Eberhard Bethge. Und in den Briefen, die Bonhoeffer aus dem Gefängnis heraus selber schrieb, konnte er sich der Außenwelt mitteilen. Persönliches und theologische Überlegungen sind daher in diesen Briefen untrennbar miteinander verwoben. Durch seine Briefen wird sich Dietrich Bonhoeffer im Gefängnis bewusst, dass es nicht um Religion als einen isolierten Bereich des Lebens geht, sondern darum, ganz Mensch zu sein, um ganzheitliche Nachfolge – darum, mit all seinen Bedürfnissen ganz diesseitig an Christi Leben, aber auch an seinem Leiden und Sterben teilzuhaben – und Verantwortung für diese Welt und auch für kommende Generationen zu tragen. Die Briefe an seine wichtigsten Bezugspersonen – seine Eltern, seine Verlobte und seinen besten Freund – sind in dieser Ausgabe erstmalig chronologisch zusammengestellt, denn in "Widerstand und Ergebung" sind seine Briefe an Maria von Wedemeyer nicht enthalten.

The Story Of My Experiments With Truth

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This unusual autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, is a window to the workings of Mahatma Gandhi' s mind, a window to the emotions of his heart, a window to understanding what drove this seemingly ordinary man to the heights of being the father of a nation— India. Starting with his days as a boy, Gandhi takes one through his trials and turmoils and situations that moulded his philosophy of life: going through child marriage, his studies in England, practicing Law in South Africa— and his Satyagraha there— to the early beginnings of the Independence movement in India. He did not aim to write an autobiography but rather share the experience of his various experiments with truth to arrive at what he perceived as Absolute Truth— the ideal of his struggle against racism, violence and colonialism.

Pasajes de la guerra revolucionaria

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Clásico del pensamiento revolucionario del siglo XX, es un compendio de las notas de Ernesto Che Guevara durante la gesta liberadora de Cuba. Ernesto Che Guevara fue comandante del Ejército Rebelde y uno de sus líderes más importantes y carismáticos. Esta edición incluye las correcciones del propio autor "… por si algún día volvía a publicarse". Su hija, Aleida Guevara March, hace la presentación del libro, que está dividido en dos grandes bloques: la lucha armada contra la tiranía de Batista y las actividades después del triunfo revolucionario. Incluye un acápite con cartas todas de Che. En el apéndice aparece un incluye un informe de Che dirigido a Fidel Castro. Este material se publicó por primera vez en 1975 y ha tenido tres reimpresiones: en 1985, 1999 y 2002 y una segunda edición ampliada y corregida en 2009.

The Life of Cesare Borgia

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This is no Chronicle of Saints. Nor yet is it a History of Devils. It is a record of certain very human, strenuous men in a very human, strenuous age; a lustful, flamboyant age; an age red with blood and pale with passion at white-heat; an age of steel and velvet, of vivid colour, dazzling light and impenetrable shadow; an age of swift movement, pitiless violence and high endeavour, of sharp antitheses and amazing contrasts.

María Estuardo

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María Estuardo es un libro biográfico del escritor austríaco Stefan Zweig.Es la historia de María I de Escocia, llamada María Estuardo, (Palacio de Linlithgow (Escocia); 8 de diciembre de 1542 – Castillo de Fotheringhay, Northamptonshire (Inglaterra); 8 de febrero de 1587), reina de Escocia desde el 14 de diciembre de 1542 hasta 24 de julio de 1567. También denominada popularmente como María, reina de los escoceses, quizás sea la más conocida de los monarcas escoceses por su tempestuosa vida y trágica muerte.

Notes pour un roman sur la sexualité / Parc Monceau

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Ce texte n'est pas une accumulation minutieuse de notes documentaires, en vue de composer un roman naturaliste : c'est une confession dérangeante, âpre, sans concessions et sans apprêts, sur les débuts sexuels de Drieu. Élégant, joli garçon, beau parleur, ce jeune homme doué a tout pour séduire, et pourtant sa vie affective est un désastre, au seuil d'une guerre qui va sonner le glas de cet ancien monde bourgeois que domine l'image malsaine du bordel, avec ses pensionnaires interchangeables et son cortège de maladies vénériennes. Sans complaisance mais sans tabou, Pierre Drieu la Rochelle raconte avec force une jeunesse hantée par le sexe, depuis la jalousie œdipienne qui le fait mordre sa mère au sein lorsqu'il la surprend inopinément avec son père, jusqu'à son effroi devant les jeunes filles vierges, en passant par ses rapports délicats à l'homosexualité. Notes pour un roman sur la sexualité, où l'on découvre sous un aspect surprenant ce romancier lucide, grand témoin du mal de vivre des Années folles, mais dont le déplorable engagement fasciste a dégradé l'image, constitue son dernier inédit majeur.

Para poder viver

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Em narrativa memorável, uma jovem norte-coreana conta como escapou de uma das mais sanguinárias ditaduras do planeta.Yeonmi Park não sonhava com a liberdade quando fugiu da Coreia do Norte. Ela nem sequer conhecia o significado dessa palavra. Tudo o que sabia era que fugir era a única maneira de sobreviver. Se ela e sua família ficassem na terra natal, todos morreriam - de fome, adoentados ou mesmo executados.Park cresceu achando normal que seus vizinhos desaparecessem de repente. Acostumou-se a ingerir plantas selvagens na falta de comida. Acreditava que o líder de seu país era capaz de ler seus pensamentos. Aos treze anos, quando a fome e a prisão do pai tornaram a vida impossível, Yeonmi deixou a Coreia da Norte. Era o começo de um périplo que a levaria pelo submundo chinês de traficantes e contrabandistas de pessoas, a uma travessia pela China através do deserto de Gobi até a Mongólia, à entrada na Coreia do Sul e, enfim, à liberdade.Neste livro, Yeonmi conta essa história impressionante pela primeira vez. Uma história repleta de coragem, dignidade - e até humor. "Para poder viver" é um testamento da perseverança do espírito humano. Até que ponto estamos dispostos a sofrer em nome da liberdade? Poucas vezes a resposta foi dada de modo tão eloquente.

Finding Everett Ruess

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The definitive biography of Everett Ruess, the artist, writer, and eloquent celebrator of the wilderness whose bold solo explorations of the American West and mysterious disappearance in the Utah desert at age twenty have earned him a large and devoted cult following.“Easily one of [Roberts’s] best . . . thoughtful and passionate . . . a compelling portrait of the Ruess myth.”—OutsideWandering alone with burros and pack horses through California and the Southwest for five years in the early 1930s, on voyages lasting as long as ten months, Ruess became friends with photographers Edward Weston and Dorothea Lange, swapped prints with Ansel Adams, took part in a Hopi ceremony, learned to speak Navajo, and was among the first "outsiders" to venture deeply into what was then (and to some extent still is) largely a little-known wilderness. When he vanished without a trace in November 1934, Ruess left behind thousands of pages of journals, letters, and poems, as well as more than a hundred watercolor paintings and blockprint engravings. Everett Ruess is hailed as a paragon of solo exploration, while the mystery of his death remains one of the greatest riddles in the annals of American adventure. David Roberts began probing the life and death of Everett Ruess for National Geographic Adventure magazine in 1998. Finding Everett Ruess is the result of his personal journeys into the remote areas explored by Ruess, his interviews with oldtimers who encountered the young vagabond and with Ruess’s closest living relatives, and his deep immersion in Ruess’s writings and artwork. More than seventy-five years after his vanishing, Ruess stirs the kinds of passion and speculation accorded such legendary doomed American adventurers as Into the Wild’s Chris McCandless and Amelia Earhart.

L'Inquiétante Vérité

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Journalistes d'investigation, Sheera Frenkel et Cecilia Kang démontent les mécanismes de Facebook et dénoncent ses dérives dans ce livre explosif. Ou comment l'entreprise, sous la direction de Mark Zuckerberg et Sheryl Sandberg, tous deux aveuglés par leur ambition, a poursuivi sa croissance en niant des faits accablants : fuites des données personnelles, violation de la vie privée, propagation de discours haineux et complotistes... Le géant des réseaux sociaux aux 2,85 milliards d'utilisateurs à travers le monde est devenu un vecteur de fake news, manipulé par des politiques corrompus, et un danger pour les internautes. Facebook, qui se voulait défenseur du bien, est devenu une force du mal... " L'inquiétante vérité se lit comme un thriller[...] Passionnant et alarmant. " Challenges

Second Wind

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A charming memoir of midlife by the bestselling author of Mayflower and In the Hurricane's Eye, recounting his attempt to recapture a national sailing championship he'd won at twenty-two.“There had been something elemental and all consuming about a Sunfish. Nothing could compare to the exhilaration of a close race in a real blow—the wind howling and spray flying as my Sunfish and I punched through the waves to the finish.”In the spring of 1992, Nat Philbrick was in his late thirties, living with his family on Nantucket, feeling stranded and longing for that thrill of victory he once felt after winning a national sailing championship in his youth. Was it a midlife crisis? It was certainly a watershed for the journalist-turned-stay-at-home dad, who impulsively decided to throw his hat into the ring, or water, again. With the bemused approval of his wife and children, Philbrick used the off-season on the island as his solitary training ground, sailing his tiny Sunfish to its remotest corners, experiencing the haunting beauty of its tidal creeks, inlets, and wave-battered sandbars. On ponds, bays, rivers, and finally at the championship on a lake in the heartland of America, he sailed through storms and memories, racing for the prize, but finding something unexpected about himself instead.

The Diary of A Young Girl (Pocket Classic)

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Anne Frank' s diary needs no introduction. This beautifully written memoir of a young girl caught in the middle of one of the most horrific periods of human history, is a testament to the indestructible human will to persevere and survive in the face of the most adverse of circumstances. Where Anne Frank herself became one of the victims of the Second World War, her words, crowding every available inch of space in her diary, survived to keep her story and her memory alive for the rest of the world through the ages . . .

Dove gli uomini diventano eroi

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22 aprile 2004, Afghanistan orientale, distretto di Spera. Il ranger Patrick Tillman viene ucciso in un'imboscata. Ma non dal nemico, da fuoco amico. Ventisette anni, Tillman era il soldato più celebre tra le truppe in Medio Oriente. All'epoca dell'attentato alle Torri Gemelle, era una star degli Arizona Cardinals, la squadra di football di Phoenix. Portata a termine la stagione nella NFL, aveva rinunciato a un contratto milionario per arruolarsi volontario. Così, da un giorno all'altro, l'amministrazione Bush cerca di trasformarlo in un'icona del patriottismo post 11 settembre; la sua morte, poi, ne fa un eroe, una leggenda, e il suo nome e la sua immagine vengono sfruttati per promuovere la "guerra globale al terrore".Ma chi era davvero Pat Tillman? In queste pagine Jon Krakauer ricostruisce l'intricato mosaico della sua vita privata, le intime motivazioni che lo spinsero ad arruolarsi, e soprattutto il groviglio di depistaggi e bugie che ne circondarono la fine. Dietro alla maschera costruita dalla propaganda, ciò che emerge è il ritratto, complesso, sfaccettato e commovente, di un uomo vero.

Word Monkey

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'A delight . . . a glorious, witty and life-affirming ragbag of autobiography, cultural commentary and hard-won wisdom.' ANDREW TAYLOR, author of The Shadows of London'Perceptive, wise and illuminating . . . an unmissable farewell.' Barry Forshaw, FINANCIAL TIMES'The most hilarious, life-affirming book you’ll read this year.' SAGA magazine'Wit and wisdom that make every page turn . . . what a fine talent the world has lost.' STARBURSTThis is the memoir Christopher Fowler always wanted to write about 'writing'.It's the story of how a young bookworm growing up in a house where there was nothing to read but knitting pamphlets and motorcycle manuals became a writer - a 'word monkey' - and pursued a sort of career in popular fiction. And it's a book full of brilliant insights into the pleasures and pitfalls of his profession, dos and don'ts for would-be writers, and astute observations on favourite (and not-so-favourite) novelists.But woven into this hugely entertaining and inspiring reflection on a literary life is an altogether darker thread. In Spring 2020, just as the world went into lockdown, Chris was diagnosed with terminal cancer. And yet there is nothing of the misery memoir about Word Monkey. Past and present intermingle as, in prose as light as air, he relates with wry humour and remarkable honesty what he knows will be the final chapter in his story.Deeply moving, insightful and surprisingly funny, this is Christopher Fowler's life-affirming account of coming to terms with his own mortality.'A remarkable book by a remarkable writer: amazingly entertaining and informative and also, for obvious reasons, one of the most moving.' SIMON MASON, author of the DI Wilkins Mysteries'Wonderful . . . there is no bitterness here, but a hearty celebration of how art defines a life, with dark humour on the right occasions and the deliberate aim to leave a positive message . . . his enthusiasm is infectious and sobering when you are aware that he was dying as he wrote these pages.' Maxim Jacubowski, CRIME TIME

Compass Points

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In a luminous memoir of a life richly lived, one of America’s finest writers explores the themes that have shaped his life and work: the glories of the natural world, the lure of working for a circus and fighting forest fires, the afflictions of temporary blindness and blocked speech, and the enduring influence of literary friendships, including John Berryman’s, Edward Abbey’s, and his mentor, Archibald MacLeish. From his childhood in rural Connecticut to some of the earth’s last remaining wildernesses, Hoagland has traveled the world wielding his unusual gift for observation. In Compass Points he delivers an honest and lively accounting of his voyages through two marriages; the New York parties he attended as a precocious young writer; Vermont hippiedom and academia; his many vivid sojourns into Europe, Alaska, British Columbia, the Sudan; and, perhaps most unforgettably, his stint in the “Animal Department” of Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus fifty years ago. Leavened with Hoagland’s trademark humor and insight, Compass Points is an entertaining and moving account of the days and nights of one of our most eminent literary voices.

The Loves of My Life

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From the legendary author Edmund White, a stunning, revelatory memoir of a lifetime of gay love and sex. "In his panoply of sexual encounters, Edmund White's love of sex makes us proud to be human. And the story of his sex life reads like a beautifully crafted, very moving (and very funny!) novel." -John Irving "A raw, frightening, funny, and beautiful testimony, brimming with transgressive wisdom." -Robert Jones, Jr. I'm at an age when writers are supposed to say finally what mattered most to them-for me it would be thousands of sex partners. The 85-year-old "paterfamilias of queer literature" (New York Times) recounts the sixty-plus years of sexual escapades that have inspired his many masterpieces. He explores the sex he had with other closeted boys of the 50s Midwest, with women as a young man trying to be straight, the sex he's paid for and been paid for, sex during the Stonewall and HIV eras, and in the age of the apps. Through tales of transactional sex, mutual admiration, open relationships, domination, submission, love, and loss, he paints an indelible portrait of queer history in America and abroad in a way only someone who has lived through it can. Written with White's signature honesty, irreverence, and wit, The Loves of My Life is the culmination of a legend's life and work, a delightful and moving tour of over seventy years of being unabashedly gay and in love with love in all its forms.

La revue Portrait, le monde en têtes numéro 1

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13 parcours de vie, traités sous 13 formes différentes. La rencontre déclenche l’amour, l’amitié mais aussi la colère et la haine. L’autre est perçu comme un ami ou un ennemi. En surface. Portrait va à la rencontre de celles et de ceux pour qui le hasard a produit de la rencontre.Nouveau magbook, Portrait se lance, avec son équipe et son regard documentaire et poétique, à la rencontre d’artistes, de scientifiques, de philosophes, d’historiens, de politiques, de religieux...Ces femmes et ces hommes interrogent l’existence et proposent, au détour de leurs questions, de nouvelles façons de l’aborder. Ils partagent tous une curiosité débordante pour la vie et une capacité à surmonter l’adversité. Leurs parcours insolites et réjouissants montrent que chacun a le pouvoir de rendre son existence meilleure et, par ricochet, d’agir sur le monde. Letrre à DJ MEHDIPortrait musicaL de MARC TRÉVIDIC, juge d’instruction au pôle antiterroristePortrait chinois de ROKHAYA DIALLO, militante féministe et antiracisteItinéraire de DAVID LAZAR, anarcho-rabbinPortfolio de PATRICK ZACHMANN, photographe de l’agence MagnumPortrait de famille d'une colonie de vacances pas comme les autresInterveiw de THEODORE ZELDIN, historien en quête de paix Nouvelle inédite de CLAUDE PONTI Carnet de bord inédit de KARLA SUÁREZ ÉTIENNE KLEIN, physicien, observe le temps qui passePortrait amércain de GILLES ELKAIM, explorateur solitaire dans le Grand Nord Qui êtes vous EDWY PLENEL ? BD inédite de FRED BERNARD

L'étudiant étranger

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Invité par une prestigieuse université de Virginie, un jeune Français découvre émerveillé la vie dorée des college boys, leurs équipes sportives, leur campus dans une vallée paradisiaque. C'est le temps d'une Amérique sage, celle d'avant l'explosion des mœurs et le fracas des années soixante. Très vite, le jeune homme comprend qu'il reste un 'étudiant étranger'. Il va franchir des lignes, transgresser des tabous, sans même s'en rendre compte : d'abord en faisant l'amour avec une jeune institutrice noire, April. Ensuite en tombant amoureux d'une héritière de Boston, Elisabeth, personnage fantasque et corrosif... Sur un ton limpide de sincérité, ce récit de formation ressuscite, avec humour et nostalgie, les jours fragiles de l'adolescence, quand 'tout était la première fois'.

Our Paris

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Edmund White’s charming, funny, telling series of vignettes of the Paris neighborhood where he and his lover, French architect and illustrator Hubert Sorin, lived. In this ode to Pairs, the everyday becomes extraordinary with White’s observations accompanied by Sorin’s illustrations. With characters like Father Pierre Riches, the “kind and elegant” catholic priest whose hair had been stroked by Cavafy, to Billy Boy, the jewelry designer with 16,000 Barbies, there is delightful eccentricity to this collaboration. Written during Sorin’s decline to AIDS, Our Paris is a poignant look at the couple and the city they loved.

Leonor de Aquitania

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Reina en dos ocasiones (de Francia, casada con Luis VIII, y luego de Inglaterra, con Enrique II), la dilatada trayectoria política de Leonor de Aquitania, a todas luces excepcional para una mujer de su tiempo, supuso una auténtica ruptura con la tradición masculina del ejercicio y la transmisión del poder, de la elección en el matrimonio y del mecenazgo artístico y literario. De gran personalidad y belleza, con una increíble preparación cultural y apasionada de los trovadores, fue víctima ya en vida de una leyenda negra que la presentaba como una seductora, maliciosa, pues, mujer poderosa donde las haya y heredera de la cultura occitana de la que su abuelo Guillermo IX fue buen ejemplo, Leonor contravino de un modo radical el modelo femenino de su época. A partir de un profundo conocimiento de la Edad Media, Jean Flori rebate algunas de las ideas comúnmente aceptadas, explora los vínculos entre Chrétien de Troyes y la corte Plantagenet y rastrea la presencia de Leonor en el formidable acervo de literatura artúrica. Así, es éste un libro sugerente, penetrante y rico en hipótesis profundamente documentadas, que estudia a fondo la realidad de una de las mujeres que, sin duda, han marcado la Historia. PROBABLEMENTE UNO DE LOS PERSONAJES MÁS FASCINANTES DE LA HISTORIA Jean Flori también escribió la biografía de "Ricardo Corazón de León" demostrando ser uno de los biógrafos más series y rigurosos de las grandes personalidades de la Edad media, añadiendo además la fluidez de su prosa narrativa. Su profundo conocimiento de la época le permite trazar con toda fidelidad el marco histórico en el que se movía la realeza y la aristocracia y analizar e interpretar el comportamiento de los personajes más alla de una simple exposición de hechos, lo que hace que sea una obra realmente interesante para cualquier lector.

Ausgestoßenen und Rebellen: Biographien und Memoiren

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Diese Ausgabe beleuchtet das faszinierende 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

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