In 1979 Robert Penn Warren returned to his native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had just been restored, ninety years after his death, by a special act of Congress.
Cet ouvrage est un récit de vie qui suscite l’émotion et met en valeur certaines réalités en Afrique, où l’auteure, une jeune femme, a vu le jour et a grandi.
Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in NonfictionJoanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.
Lake of the Old Uncles recounts a trip that began three-quarters of a century ago in a small village inn nestled in the Laurentian hills of French-speaking Quebec.
Short-listed for the 2003 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction A world exists on the nighttime streets that the average person cannot envision.
In PR: Fifty Years in the Field, Jack Donoghue brings together the results of a lifetime in public relations - in the military, public, and private sectors.
2016 OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature - Longlisted2016 RBC Taylor Prize - LonglistedThe unforgettable memoir of Giller Prize-winning author and poet Austin Clarke, called "e;Canada's first multicultural writer.
From the author of the best-selling The Mother Zone, comes a comic narrative about an over-anxious mother and her twenty-something over-adventurous son.
Finalist for the 2020 Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in NonfictionJoanne Vannicola grew up in a violent home with a physically abusive father and a mother who had no sexual boundaries.
Winner of the 2009 British Columbia's National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction, short-listed for the 2008 Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize Thousands of boys dream of becoming firefighters.
Mujeres congoleñas, sudanesas, kenianas, etíopes y ugandesas comparten con dolor y valentía uno de los hechos más cruciales de sus vidas: el ser viudas.
Read this book to get informed, stay sane, and learn to fight back Lizz Winstead, co-creator ofThe Daily Showand host ofFeminist BuzzkillsA must-read for all who care about bodily autonomy Renee Bracey Sherman, founder of We Testify and co-author ofLiberating AbortionAn urgent, unforgettable book Hannah Matthews, author ofYou or Someone You LoveSince the Supreme Court overturned Roe v.
NEW YORK TIMESBESTSELLERGrieving his fathers sudden passing, a film scholar and father of two boys finds solace in the picturesque idyll of Ireland's East Clare region, where he discovers and adopts an enigmatic border collie from an abandoned farm.
Pee Wee King's birth on February 18, 1914, into a Milwaukee working-class Polish family named Kuczynski was hardly an indicator that he would grow up to become a pioneer and superstar of country and western music.
In 1980, Graham Broyd did something outrageous-he sold his scholarship ticket to Washington, DC, bought a one-way flight to Los Angeles, and set off to hitchhike across America.
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisMichel Leiris date avec precision l'ecriture de L'Age d'homme : de decembre 1930 - moment ou il remet a son ami Georges Bataille le manuscrit de Lucrece, Judith et Holopherne - a novembre 1935, ou il acheve la redaction du livre et le depose sur le bureau d'Andre Malraux, lecteur chez Gallimard.
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisAntoine Francois Prevost d'Exiles, dit l'abbe Prevost (1697-1763), publie en 1731 le tome VII des Memoires et aventures d'un homme de qualite (1728-1731), plus connu sous le titre abrege de Manon Lescaut.
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d'UniversalisMemoires posthumes de Bras Cubas a tout d'abord ete publie, en 1880, dans la revue Revista Brasileira avant d'etre reedite sous forme de livre en 1881.
Si la decouverte d'un gisement de charbon a Jrada n'avait pas bouleverse les choses, des peres et des freres de toutes les regions du Maroc subsisteraient.
Dans les annees 1980, il a eu l'honneur et le grand plaisir de cotoyer les plus grands du monde entier comme Albert Raisner, Larry Adler, Dany Kane, Claude Garden, Jean-Jacques Milteau, Toots Thielemans et bien d'autres cites dans cet ouvrage, qui ont fait la promotion de cet instrument que l'on nomme l'harmonica et que certains ont considere comme un jouet d'enfant !
Dans ce premier volume de Science et sentiment - Journal d'une scientifique, Lou Daniel decrit son parcours universitaire, ses difficultes, ses succes et, entre autres, ses moments de joie.
