Shortlisted for the Costa Biography Award ‘What a remarkable book this is; tender, funny, brave, heartfelt, radiant with love and life. It brought me often to laughter and – several times – to tears. It sings with joy and kindness’ Robert Macfarlane From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Your Life in My Hands comes this vibrant, tender and deeply personal...

What If You Were Able To Get Right Inside The Mind Of World-Famous Poker Pro Gus Hansen-- And Learn His Winning Secrets? Now You Can. One of professional poker's most intriguing and fascinating players, Gus Hansen has often been called "The Madman" for his crazy, fearless, aggressive style. But you can't dispute the fact that this poker superstar knows how to...

Ein Foto sagt oft mehr aus über einen historischen Moment als eine ganze Bibliothek. Es sind oft Bilder, die uns heute noch bewegen, ja erschüttern. Bilder, die Geschichte machten. Aber meist wissen wir nichts vom Schicksal der Menschen, die auf diesen Bildern aufgenommen sind. Das ändern wir in diesem Buch. Wir erzählen die Geschichte hinter der Geschichte. Dabei gibt es immer wieder auch...

The Dylan breakthrough portfolio Daniel Kramer’s classic Bob Dylan portfolio captures the artist’s transformative “big bang” year of 1964–65. Over the course of a year and a day, Kramer’s extraordinary access to Bob Dylan on tour, in concert, and backstage, allowed for one of the most mesmerizing photographic portfolios of any recording artist and a stunning document of Dylan breaking...

In Wild Grass, Pulitzer Prize-winning Ian Johnson describes a China caught between the desire for change percolating up from below and the ossified political structure above. He recounts the stories of three ordinary people who find themselves finding oppression and government corruption, risking imprisonment and even death. A young architecture student, a bereaved daughter, and a peasant...

While the F­105 Thunderchief was the USAF's principal strike weapon during the Rolling Thunder campaign, the US Navy relied on the Douglas A-4 Skyhawk for the majority of its strikes on North Vietnam. The Skyhawk entered service in 1956 and remained in continuous production for 26 years. Throughout Operation Rolling Thunder it was the US Navy's principal day­time light strike bomber,...

"The Structure of Desire" by W.F. Lantry, is a wonderful book of poetry for all those who have loved someone. But it is infinitely more than just a book of love poems. The author places his reader at a privileged crossroad of his poetic landscape that reveals the sanctum sanctorum of the multi-faceted magic that results from loving another. In this case Miranda, who he describes as: "A...

The history of British Railways in the late 1950s/early 1960s is characterised by change; massive change, as its management attempted to meet statutory obligations against a background of social, economic and political influences. The Modernisation Plan of 1955 paved the way for the electrification of the route from Manchester to London Euston, with a consequential effect of the Midland route...

The father of Russian literature, Pushkin is beloved not only for his poetry but also for his brilliant stories, which range from dramatic narratives of love, obsession and betrayal to lively comic tales, and from satirical epistolary tales to imaginative historical fiction. This volume includes all Pushkin's prose in brilliant new translations, including his masterpieces 'The Queen of...

'Before Cliff Richard and the Shadows, there was nothing worth listening to in British music.' - John Lennon. Cliff Richard tells his story, in his own words, in his highly anticipated new autobiography. Achieving a hit in every decade since the 1950s, Cliff Richard stands alone in pop history. Coming of age in 1950s London, he began his music career at Soho's legendary 2i's Cafe, and now...

Bibliografia dotyczy prac w zakresie akwizycji języka pierwszego. Obejmuje głównie piśmiennictwo w języku angielskim i jest pierwszą tego typu bibliografią w Polsce. Skierowana jest do osób interesujących się szeroko pojętą psycholingwistyką, w szczególności zaś akwizycją języka pierwszego.

Edycja dwujezyczna polsko-angielska / Polish-English bilingual edition "Skrzydła Romantyzmu" to swoisty pamiętnik erudyty. Posłużenie się esejem zwolniło autora od przedstawiania treści w sposób encyklopedyczny. Dzięki temu natomiast mógł sobie pozwolić na efektowne lawirowanie, posługując się plastycznym językiem i często sięgając po anegdoty. Wszyscy, którzy wolą zamiast faktów przyjrzeć...

Das Rätselbuch für Krimi-Fans. Spannende Fälle, knifflige Logikrätsel und ein verborgener Cold Case An kalten, verregneten Tagen zeigt sich Seattle von seiner dunkelsten Seite. 5 Leichen wurden gefunden, 5 Teams ermitteln. Wem gehört der Schädel aus den Untergrund-Tunneln am Pioneer Square? Starb der Barista bei der Verkostung seiner...

The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history. The paperback edition includes a new chapter discussing further fallout from the scandal. In 2006, an oddball...

Je me suis redressée brusquement et une goutte de sueur s'est échappée derriere mon oreille. Elle a suivi un moment la ligne de ma mâchoire, a glissé le long de mon cou pour trouver son chemin entre mes seins. Aujourd'hui encore, je la sens, cette trace premiere qui m'a marquée jusqu'au creux de mon ventre. Je regardais en silence ce garçon qui se tenait devant moi et tout ce que je sentais,...

Za prawdziwość informacji autor gwarantuje - z racji emocji i nagromadzonych anegdot prosi o wyrozumiałość.Można na Polskę patrzeć perspektywy spraw wielkich, można też dostrzegać w niej swoisty wdzięk - wielki Polak, Fryderyk Chopin stworzył dramatyczne koncerty i Etiudę rewolucyjną, ale też skomponował pełne lekkości mazurki.Polska - państwo 40 milionów mieszkańców - nie jest ani...

‘The best novel I’ve encountered this year, brilliant and funny and profound, producing some of the most complex, fascinating characters I’ve ever known. As far as I’m concerned, the novel is an instant classic’ Jaroslav Kalfar, author of Spaceman of Bohemia ‘This is art of the highest order, a masterpiece of restraint, insight and style’ Matthew Thomas, author of We Are Not Ourselves 9th...

The women who shaped and were erased from our history. The Forgotten Women series will uncover the lost histories of the influential women who have refused over hundreds of years to accept the hand they've been dealt and, as a result, have formed, shaped and changed the course of our futures.

2017 marked three important anniversaries for the Palestinian people: 100 years since the Balfour Declaration; 50 years since the Six-day War; and ten years since the Blockade of Gaza. As an act of penance, solidarity and hope, actor and musician Justin Butcher - along with ten other companions for the full route, plus another hundred joining him for various stretches along the way - walked...

American art museums flourished in the late twentieth century, and the impresario leading much of this growth was J. Carter Brown, director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, from 1969 to 1992. Along with S. Dillon Ripley, who served as Smithsonian secretary for much of this time, Brown reinvented the museum experience in ways that had important consequences for the cultural...