Rob Sheffield, the Rolling Stone columnist and bestselling author of Love Is a Mix Tape, offers an entertaining, unconventional look at the most popular band in history, the Beatles, exploring what they mean today and why they still matter so intensely to a generation that has never known a world without them.
"e;With passion and commitment,"e; an exiled Iraqi woman recounts her time organizing resistance to Saddam Hussein and imprisonment in Abu Ghraib (Nawal El Saadawi, author of Zeina).
Als seine beste Freundin und Seelenverwandte Sylvia im Sterben liegt, bittet sie Sergio Bambaren um einen letzten Gefallen: Er soll in ihrem Auftrag ein Buch schreiben und seine Leser in das Geheimnis eines glücklichen Lebens einweihen - aufrichtig und authentisch, egal, wie schmerzlich seine Wahrheiten auch sein mögen.
Are all governments--east and west, Muslim and secular, authoritarian and constitutional, Republican and Democratic--fundamentally the same, all of them under the extraordinary, growing power of "e;technique"e; and bureaucracy?
In 1898, when war with Spain seemed inevitable, Andrew Summers Rowan, an American army lieutenant from West Virginia, was sent on a secret mission to Cuba.
James Raven, a leading historian of the book, offers a fresh and accessible guide to the global study of the production, dissemination and reception of written and printed texts across all societies and in all ages.
Intrigued by the mystique and challenge of the Marine Corps, eighteen-year-old Wesley Fox enlisted in the summer of 1950, shortly after the outbreak of the Korean War.
Der vorliegende Band enthält die Korrespondenz zwischen dem Architekten, Kulturphilosophen und Literaten Paul Engelmann (1891-1965) und Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951), die sich - mit einer längeren Unterbrechung in späteren Jahren - von 1916 bis 1937 erstreckte: eine sich gegenseitig befruchtende Freundschaft, die sich in mannigfachen Gedanken über Literatur, Kunst, Religion und Philosophie widerspiegelt.
In this volume, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Prime Minister of Canada for 25 years, tells in his own words of his activities in public life and the events of the momentous years from 1939 to 1944, as recorded in his personal diary.
Jean Monnet (1888-1979) is often viewed as the chief architect of the European Coal and Steel Community, which over time evolved into today's European Union.
With the American revolutionaries in discord following victory at Yorktown and the Paris Peace Treaty of 1783, the proposed federal Constitution of 1787 faced an uncertain future when it was sent to the states for ratification.
In this evocative and affectionate memoir, Ambassador Jean Kennedy Smith, the last surviving child of Joe and Rose Kennedy, offers an intimate and illuminating look at a time long ago when she and her siblings, guided by their parents, laughed and learned a great deal under one roof.
This remarkable and very rare memoir discusses the bloody combat history of the Texas National Guard 36th Infantry Division in World War II, from pre-embarkation training through the capture of Rome.
Rooted and Rising is for everyone who worries about the climate crisis and seeks spiritual practices and perspectives to renew their capacity for compassionate, purposeful, and joyful action.
Bei diesem Streifzug durch 900 Jahre begegnet manFrauen aller Schichten: Adeligen, Kirchenfrauen, Verbrecherinnen,Revolutionärinnen, Wissenschaftlerinnen,Wohltäterinnen, Politikerinnen, Stars und Stilikonen.
Winner of the 2001 The Lincoln Group of New York's Award of Achievement A History Book Club Selection The assassination of Abraham Lincoln is usually told as a tale of a lone deranged actor who struck from a twisted lust for revenge.
"e;Her life was a bridge from the nineteenth century to the twentieth, from the time-hallowed beauty and rigidity of a samurai household to the disorienting, forward-looking freedoms of the West.
Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.
Die renommierten SZ-Journalisten Roman Deininger und Uwe Ritzer folgen der steilen Karriere Markus Söders: Von den frühen Erfahrungen des politischen Halbstarken über die Arbeit für Mentor Edmund Stoiber und das Kräftemessen mit Horst Seehofer bis hin zum nationalen Durchbruch als Corona-Krisenmanager.
Alexander the Great is one of the most famous men in history, and many believe he was the greatest military genius of all time (Julius Caesar wept at the feet of his statue in envy of his achievements).
Examine the Bipartisan Legacy of a Remarkable Billionaire PoliticianBloomberg: A Billionaire's Ambition tells the story of how one of America's most successful entrepreneurs was elected mayor of New York City and what he did with the power he won.
Arguably the most decisive shift in the history of ideas in modern times was the complete demolition during the late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries - in the wake of the Scientific Revolution - of traditional structures of authority, scientific thought, and belief by the new philosophy and the philosophes, culminating in Voltaire, Diderot, and Rousseau.
Fighting For Afghanistan is the third book in the Rogue Historian trilogy, taking Maloney's story into the conflict in 2006, when the Taliban-led insurgency threatened to overwhelm the U.
This book explores the literary culture of Britain's radical press from 1880 to 1910, a time that saw a flourishing of radical political activity as well as the emergence of a mass print industry.
';A brilliant orator, a firebrand for freedom and individual rights, Henry stands as an American luminary, and Kukla's magisterial biography shines the glow of achievement on subject and author alike' (Richmond Times Dispatch).
