With a warm, genuine voice, Provenzano draws you into her life in war-torn Liverpool, filled with air raids and blackouts, backyard shelters, incendiary bombs on parachutes, food rations and grade-school gas masks.
An autobiography in the form of a philosophical diary, Little Did I Know's underlying motive is to describe the events of a life that produced the kind of writing associated with Stanley Cavell's name.
Emmanuel Roger LAM CHAN est né à Cayenne le 26 novembre 1923, Chevalier dans l'ordre de la Légion d'honneur, Commandeur dans l'ordre national du Mérite.
Adams and Jefferson: A Revolutionary Dialogue documents the public lives and personal friendship of John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, from their first meeting as delegates to the Second Continental Congress to their deaths on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence.
Pauline Wengeroff's Memoirs of a Grandmother offers a unique first-person window into traditionalism, modernity, and the tensions linking the two in nineteenth-century Russia.
The Boy Who Lost His Birthday is the uplifting story of one mans journey from boyhood in rural Hungary to triumph over oppression during the Holocaust and finally to a role as a spiritual leader in America.
This remarkable memoir by Menachem Mendel Frieden illuminates Jewish experience in all three of the most significant centers of Jewish life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A Mexican Dream and Other Compositions presents a rare collection of interwoven essays chronicling the fascinating history of the Cigarroa family and their influence on the Texas-Mexico border landscape.
Practically every member of the Peale family contributed to Americas early art and culture and Sarah Peale was the first woman artist to have made a living from her work.
The profound economic and social changes in the post-Civil War United States created new challenges to a nation founded on Enlightenment and transcendental values, religious certainties, and rural traditions.
At age 39, Ariel Gore has everything shes always wanted: a successful writing career, a long-term partnership, a beautiful if tiny home, a daughter in college and a son in preschool.
Pauline Wengeroff, the only nineteenth-century Russian Jewish woman to publish a memoir, sets out to illuminate the "e;cultural history of the Jews of Russia"e; in the period of Jewish "e;enlightenment,"e; when traditional culture began to disintegrate and Jews became modern.
By the twentieth century, North Carolina's progressive streak had strengthened, thanks in large part to a growing number of women who engaged in and influenced state and national policies and politics.
Featuring a foreword by Gabriel Garcia Marquez ("e;Che Guevara in Africa"e;), this book fills in the missing chapter in Che Guevara's life as head of the secret Cuban force that went to aid the liberation movement in the Congo against the Belgian colonialists in 1965.
When Nicholas Shakespeare stumbled across a box of documents belonging to his late aunt, Priscilla, he was completely unaware of where this discovery would take him and what he would learn about her hidden past.
L'analyse que Jean Kouadio réalise de la crise africaine est que l'Afrique se complaît dans sa soumission, sa domination et son humiliation forcées par ceux qui continuent de la régenter.
Éliane Aubert-Colombani propose de raconter dans cet ouvrage les différentes étapes de son parcours littéraire, jalonné par ses nombreuses publications.
Aimée Librizzi raconte dans Soixante ans de théâtre d'un moineau de Paris ses soixante années de théâtre dont quarante passées dans le plus grand music-hall du monde, les Folies Bergères.
Extraordinary Women Who Revolutionized TechnologyEmbark on an exhilarating journey through the untold stories of the fierce female trailblazers who paved the way in the digital world.
