A prominent historian provides an engaging on-the-ground account of the everyday authoritarianism that produced the Arab Spring in Egypt "e;A visceral and perceptive study of life under autocracy.
This is the story (told in nearly two hundred short recollections) of a surgeon from a family of surgeons, raised in the Arkansas oil country of the Jim Crow South.
ENCOUNTERS IN A NOISY WORLD - The finitude of eternityIf the view of things is different from the hitherto accustomed one, something is formed, which does that service to the well-worn life, the appearance of which does not become aware of its distinctness to everyone.
Ekaterina Limonova, que estudió una carrera universitaria superior y alcanzó el éxito profesional sin sospechar siquiera que su capacidad auditiva era muy inferior a la media, emprende en Por qué un viaje por sus experiencias vitales, desde su complicada infancia en la Unión Soviética de los años 80 hasta su vida actual en Gran Bretaña, donde finalmente fue diagnosticada su pérdida auditiva y la de uno de sus hijos.
'Flight of The Spirit' is a deeply inspiring real-life story of one woman's journey through the trauma of personal loss and grief to love and upliftment.
The decision to write 480 Codorus Street was one riddled with the need to share my story with future generations to ensure they know they can overcome adversity.
After receiving an unsettling medical diagnosis, Elaine Schnelle, a 61-year-old divorced, retired grandma and psychic medium, decides that the only way she can achieve her dream of driving around Australia, is to do it now - and alone.
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Wow, No Thank You'One of our culture's greatest humorists is back' Glamour'Brilliant, hilarious and perspicacious' ELIZABETH DAY'SO funny.
Dieses Buch lädt Sie ein, die Summe der Erfahrungen, Gefühle und Geschichten eines besonderen Lebens zu erkunden, das 1943 beginnt und nach 80 Jahren autobiographisches Erinnern mit tiefgreifendem Assoziieren verwebt.
'Nerve-shattering, enlightening and deeply moving' - JOHN NICHOL'A powerful and compelling read' - ROWLAND WHITEOn 5 December 2002, trainee pilot Nathan Gray walked away from an 'unsurvivable' crash at RAF Wittering in Cambridgeshire.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'.
A doctor reflects on his profession and his experience with patients in this brilliant essay collection that expands on his wildly popular Twitter poems.
"e;This wonderful book is faithful both in its witness to the world's beauty and to our need to act now to preserve something of that wonder and grace.