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Burn the Place: A Memoir
By Iliana Regan. 2019
LONGLISTED for the NATIONAL BOOK AWARD A &“blistering yet tender&” (Publishers Weekly) memoir that chronicles one chef&’s journey from foraging…
on her family&’s Midwestern farm to running her own Michelin-starred restaurant and finding her place in the world.Iliana Regan grew up the youngest of four headstrong girls on a small farm in Indiana. While gathering raspberries as a toddler, Regan learned to only pick the ripe fruit. In the nearby fields, the orange flutes of chanterelle mushrooms beckoned her while they eluded others. Regan&’s profound connection with food and the earth began in childhood, but connecting with people was more difficult. She grew up gay in an intolerant community, was an alcoholic before she turned twenty, and struggled to find her voice as a woman working in an industry dominated by men. But food helped her navigate the world around her—learning to cook in her childhood home, getting her first restaurant job at age fifteen, teaching herself cutting-edge cuisine while hosting an underground supper club, and working her way from front-of-house staff to running her own kitchen. Regan&’s culinary talent is based on instinct, memory, and an almost otherworldly connection to ingredients, and her writing comes from the same place. Raw, filled with startling imagery and told with uncommon emotional power, Burn the Place takes us from Regan&’s childhood farmhouse kitchen to the country&’s most elite restaurants in a galvanizing tale that is entirely original, and unforgettable.Austen Years: A Memoir in Five Novels
By Rachel Cohen. 2020
"A thoroughly authentic, smart and consoling account of one writer’s commitment to another." --The New York Times Book Review"An absolutely…
fascinating book: I will never read Austen the same way again." —Helen Macdonald, author of H is for Hawk An astonishingly nuanced reading of Jane Austen that yields a rare understanding of how to live"About seven years ago, not too long before our daughter was born, and a year before my father died, Jane Austen became my only author."In the turbulent period around the birth of her first child and the death of her father, Rachel Cohen turned to Jane Austen to make sense of her new reality. For Cohen, simultaneously grief-stricken and buoyed by the birth of her daughter, reading Austen became her refuge and her ballast. She was able to reckon with difficult questions about mourning, memorializing, living in a household, paying attention to the world, reading, writing, and imagining through Austen’s novels.Austen Years is a deeply felt and sensitive examination of a writer’s relationship to reading, and to her own family, winding together memoir, criticism, and biographical and historical material about Austen herself. And like the sequence of Austen’s novels, the scope of Austen Years widens successively, with each chapter following one of Austen's novels. We begin with Cohen in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where she raises her small children and contemplates her father’s last letter, a moment paired with the grief of Sense and Sensibility and the social bonds of Pride and Prejudice. Later, moving with her family to Chicago, Cohen grapples with her growing children, teaching, and her father’s legacy, all refracted through the denser, more complex Mansfield Park and Emma. With unusual depth and fresh insight into Austen’s life and literature, and guided by Austen’s mournful and hopeful final novel, Persuasion, Rachel Cohen’s Austen Years is a rare memoir of mourning and transcendence, a love letter to a literary master, and a powerful consideration of the odd process that merges our interior experiences with the world at large.This book deals with the Slovak National Uprising (SNP) that was launched on 29 August 1944 in Banská Bystrica, Slovakia.…
In the West, the uprising is an under-researched topic in the history of WWII. The Slovak state was an ally of Nazi Germany, but the uprising proved that the population did not share the regime’s ideology.The Still Good Times: Life in Pre-Hitler Germany
By Fred Harry Meyer. 2019
Ever since I left the land that was my home, wherever I have traveled and lived, I have been asked…
the same question: How could a Hitler happen, in the land of poets and scientists and thinkers, the land of music and arts, the land of plenty, the land of orderliness and efficiency, of cleanliness and dependability, the very land of humaneness?Born in Hannover in 1905 as a German Jew, Fred Harry Meyer (1905–1969) and his new Christian bride fled to the United States in the nick of time in 1937. His autobiography provides a vivid and detailed yet flowing picture of the life left behind in Germany up till 1932 and the events that led to Nazi Germany, World War II, and the Holocaust.Remain in Love: Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club, Tina
By Chris Frantz. 2020
Two iconic bands. An unforgettable life. One of the most dynamic groups of the ‘70s and ‘80s, Talking Heads, founded…
by drummer Chris Frantz, his girlfriend Tina Weymouth, and lead singer David Byrne, burst onto the music scene, playing at CBGBs, touring Europe with the Ramones, and creating hits like “Psycho Killer” and “Burning Down the House” that captured the post-baby boom generation’s intense, affectless style. In Remain in Love, Frantz writes about the beginnings of Talking Heads—their days as art students in Providence, moving to the sparse Chrystie Street loft Frantz, Weymouth, and Byrne shared where the music that defined an era was written. With never-before-seen photos and immersive vivid detail, Frantz describes life on tour, down to the meals eaten and the clothes worn—and reveals the mechanics of a long and complicated working relationship with a mercurial frontman.At the heart of Remain in Love is Frantz’s love for Weymouth: their once-in-a-lifetime connection as lovers, musicians, and bandmates, and how their creativity surged with the creation of their own band Tom Tom Club, bringing a fresh Afro-Caribbean beat to hits like “Genius of Love.” Studded with memorable places and names from the era—Grace Jones, Andy Warhol, Stephen Sprouse, Lou Reed, Brian Eno, and Debbie Harry among them—Remain in Love is a frank and open memoir of an emblematic life in music and in love.The Market in History (Routledge Revivals)
By B.L. Anderson and A.J.H. Latham. 1986
First published in 1986. The free market is often associated with liberty and individualism, and this connection has been made…
for more centuries than is generally realised. This essays collected in this book trace the development, importance and influence of the market as a dominating component of the shared human life from classical antiquity to the present. The authors, from various backgrounds, keep constantly in view the moral and political questions raised by the role of markets, as well as laying out succinctly what can be known or deduced about the actual operation of the market in Western and other cultures. This book will be of interest to students of economics and history.Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman
By Bob Willis, Mike Dickson. 2019
A biography celebrating the life of the legendary cricketer Bob Willis, with tributes from key figures in sports and media…
and a foreword by Sir Ian Botham. Following his passing in 2019, tributes to Bob came flooding in in every major news outlet and from every major figure in the industry - and outside of it. His career spanned decades, from his days as a cricketer for England to his time as a pundit on Sky TV. This autobiography includes never-before-seen writing from Bob alongside contributions from key figures as well as a detailed account of the great England victory over Australia at Headingly in 1981.The book, edited by Bob's brother David, combines a new biography, written by Daily Mail sportswriter Mike Dickson, with a celebration of a truly legendary man. Tributes from some of his many friends in the world of cricket and beyond are accompanied by reflections on highlights from an eventful life, drawing on autobiographical and personal material by Bob himself, contemporary press reports and the accounts of team-mates and opponents.The Grand Strategies of Great Powers (Routledge Studies in Modern History)
By Tudor A. Onea. 2021
What is grand strategy and what is it good for? What are great powers, and which states are great powers…
today? What are the grand strategies available to great powers? What are the conditions under which a certain strategy is suitable and when should it be rejected? What are the factors affecting the success or failure of a given grand strategy? The present volume provides answers to these questions by introducing a typology of great power grand strategies, as strategies of rising, status quo, and declining powers, as well as through historical illustrations of each type. The reader is thus exposed to strategies such as divide and conquer, biding your time, opportunity strike, primacy, semi-detachment, concert, and appeasement through the experiences of leaders such as Bismarck, Peter the Great, Metternich, Deng Xiaoping, Neville Chamberlain, and Stalin. This analysis is then brought to bear on present developments in the grand strategies of the United States, China, and Russia. The volume should be of interest to both the academic and foreign policy-making communities, and in particular to students of international relations, diplomacy, history, and current international affairs.The Six-Day War
By Randolph S. Churchill, Winston S. Churchill. 1967
A broad, engaging and detailed account for the military historian and Middle East historian alike, of Israel's heroic defense of…
her existence and her stunning victory in the Six Day War of 1967.British India and Tibet: 1766-1910 (Routledge Library Editions: Tibet #2)
By Alastair Lamb. 1986
This book, first published in 1960 and revised in 1986, is an important analysis of the under-studied Northern frontier of…
the British Indian Empire. It considers British relations across the Himalayas, looking at encounters with Bhutan, Sikkim, Nepal and Tibet.Refugees, Borders and Identities: Rights and Habitat in East and Northeast India
By Anindita Ghoshal. 2021
This book examines the impact of Partition on refugees in East and Northeast India and their struggle for identity, space…
and political rights. In the wake of the legalisation of the Citizenship Amendment Act in 2019, this region remains a hotbed of identity and refugee politics. Drawing on extensive research and in-depth fieldwork, this book discusses themes of displacement, rehabilitation, discrimination and politicisation of refugees that preceded and followed the Partition of India in 1947. It portrays the crises experienced by refugees in recreating the socio-cultural milieu of the lost motherland and the consequent loss of their linguistic, cultural, economic and ethnic identities. The author also studies how the presence of the refugees shaped the conduct of politics in West Bengal, Assam and Tripura in the decades following Partition. Refugees, Borders and Identities will be indispensable for scholars and researchers of refugee studies, border studies, South Asian history, migration studies, Partition studies, sociology, anthropology, political studies, international relations and refugee studies, and for general readers of modern Indian history.Mekong Dreaming: Life and Death along a Changing River
By Andrew Alan Johnson. 2020
The Mekong River has undergone vast infrastructural changes in recent years, including the construction of dams across its main stream.…
These projects, along with the introduction of new fish species, changing political fortunes, and international migrant labor, have all made a profound impact upon the lives of those residing on the great river. It also impacts how they dream. In Mekong Dreaming, Andrew Alan Johnson explores the changing relationship between the river and the residents of Ban Beuk, a village on the Thailand-Laos border, by focusing on the effect that construction has had on human and inhuman elements of the villagers' world. Johnson shows how inhabitants come to terms with the profound impact that remote, intangible, and yet powerful forces—from global markets and remote bureaucrats to ghosts, spirits, and gods—have on their livelihoods. Through dreams, migration, new religious practices, and new ways of dwelling on a changed river, inhabitants struggle to understand and affect the distant, the inassimilable, and the occult, which offer both sources of power and potential disaster.Enduring Cancer: Life, Death, and Diagnosis in Delhi (Critical Global Health: Evidence, Efficacy, Ethnography)
By Dwaipayan Banerjee. 2020
In Enduring Cancer Dwaipayan Banerjee explores the efforts of Delhi's urban poor to create a livable life with cancer as…
patients and families negotiate an overextended health system unequipped to respond to the disease. Owing to long wait times, most urban poor cancer patients do not receive a diagnosis until it is too late to treat the disease effectively. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in the city's largest cancer care NGO and at India's premier public health hospital, Banerjee describes how, for these patients, a cancer diagnosis is often the latest and most serious in a long series of infrastructural failures. In the wake of these failures, Banerjee tracks how the disease then distributes itself across networks of social relations, testing these networks for strength and vulnerability. Banerjee demonstrates how living with and alongside cancer is to be newly awakened to the fragility of social ties, some already made brittle by past histories, and others that are retested for their capacity to support.China’s Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories, and Long-Term Competition
By Chad J. Ohlandt, Andrew Scobell, Eric Warner, Edmund J. Burke, Cortez A. Cooper III, Sale Lilly, J. D. Williams. 2020
To explore what extended competition between the United States and China might entail out to 2050, the authors of this…
report identified and characterized China’s grand strategy, analyzed its component national strategies (diplomacy, economics, science and technology, and military affairs), and assessed how successful China might be at implementing these over the next three decades.Cartas a Antonia: Las conmovedoras reflexiones y enseñanzas de un abuelo a su nieta
By Alfredo Molano Bravo. 2020
“Muchas veces se le oyó hablar de este texto, lo hizo no como uno más de sus veinte y tantos…
libros, sino como el mejor regalo que le habría hecho a esa niña que tanto amó. De todos sus libros es el más profundo, autobiográfico y universal”. Alfredo Molano Jimeno Este es el libro inédito que Alfredo Molano Bravo le escribió a su nieta durante más de una década, en el que reúne sus historias y pensamientos más íntimos para explicarle el país en el que nació, y le relata muchos de los viajes que lo llevaron a recorrer casi 14.000 kilómetros del territorio colombiano, a pie, subido en sus Converse de colores. Este libro incluye el diario que Molano llevó hasta pocos días antes de morir, donde narra los detalles de su lucha contra el cáncer con la rigurosidad de cronista que lo caracterizó y que lo llevó a convertirse en uno de los escritores más destacados de la historia reciente del país. Un libro imperdible para entender a Colombia y convencerse de la importancia de vivir con intensidad. “Lo de los perros fue una metáfora que nos permitió volver a hablar de los miedos. Esos mismos que por la noche, cuando ya todo está en silencio y las luces se han apagado, saltan sobre mi cama y mi almohada, me cercan, me paralizan y se llevan mi sueño entre sus fauces. Al miedo, le decía yo a Antonia, hay que mirarle la cara. A los perros hay que mirarlos a los ojos, a la muerte también”. Alfredo Molano BravoPrecious Moments in Hell
By Charli. 2020
The world is full of tragedy. No one is exempt from having times when they feel like giving up on…
life because of pain and misery, “hell on earth.” Author and survivor Charli’s memoir reminds readers to never give up on themselves for the Lord is in the midst of tumultuous events. He is always present in the form of a Precious Moment.Charli is one of the many people who have lived through soul-crushing pain. Beginning when she was four years old, she witnessed the darker side of humanity firsthand, from a physically abusive father who abandoned the family to a neglectful mother. Living in foster care and enduring seven years of daily torture was no walk in the park for Charli and certainly didn’t lighten the burden she would have to bear later in life. Like never-ending torrential rain, Charli’s life threw one storm after another at her, namely the murder of her mother, the sexual victimization and abduction of her daughter, and the abuse from her husbands not unlike what her mother experienced decades prior.“There are valleys we each will walk through in this life. Some refer to them as hell on earth. Psalm 23 call them ‘valleys of shadows of death.’” This book is a testimony that can serve as a lamp onto your feet and a light onto your path.Both Eastern and Western: An Intellectual History of Iranian Modernity
By Afshin Matin-Asgari. 2018
Since the Iranian Revolution of 1979 many Western observers of Iran have seen the country caught between Eastern history…
and Western modernity between religion and secularity As a result analysis of political philosophy preceding the Revolution has become subsumed by this narrative Here Afshin Matin-Asgari proposes a revisionist work of intellectual history challenging many of the dominant paradigms in Iranian and Middle Eastern historiography and offering a new narration In charting the intellectual construction of Iranian modernity during the twentieth century Matin-Asgari focuses on broad patterns of influential ideas and their relation to each other These intellectual trends are studied in a global historical context leading to the assertion that Iranian modernity has been sustained by at least a century of intense intellectual interaction with global ideologies Turning many prevailing narratives on their heads the author concludes that modern Iran can be seen as culturally and intellectually both Eastern and WesternChina's Next Strategic Advantage: From Imitation to Innovation
By George S. Yip, Bruce McKern. 2016
A book for everyone who does business with China or in China. The history-making development of the Chinese economy has…
entered a new phase. China is moving aggressively from a strategy of imitation to one of innovation. Driven both by domestic needs and by global ambition, China is establishing itself at the forefront of technological innovation. Western businesses need to prepare for a tidal wave of innovation from China that is about to hit Western markets, and Chinese businesses need to understand the critical importance of innovation in their future.Experts George Yip and Bruce McKern explain this epic transformation and propose strategies for both Western and Chinese companies. This book is for everyone who does business with China or in China, or is interested in the development of the world's fastest-growing economy. Western CEOs can learn from Chinese companies and can create an effective innovation process in China, for China and the world. Chinese CEOs can benefit from understanding the strategies of their peers as they strive to enter foreign markets. And all Western businesses should prepare for disruption from their new competitors. Yip and McKern provide case studies of successful firms, outline ten ways in which the managerial and innovative capabilities of these firms differ from those of Western firms, and describe how multinationals doing business in China can become part of the Chinese ecosystem of new knowledge and technology. Yip and McKern argue that these innovation capabilities will be the basis for creating world-class products and services to meet the challenges of a new era of global competition.The Happily Ever After: A Memoir of an Unlikely Romance Novelist
By Avi Steinberg. 2020
A journalist's journey through the lands of popular romance lit and a soulful and hilarious memoir about writing a novel…
about searching for loveIs romance dead? Is that why there are so many vampires in today's romance novels? When Avi Steinberg's love life took a grim turn, he did what he always does: He consulted his old books, the usual cast of Great (Very Serious, Usually Male) Authors. And he immediately realized that these books were part of the problem. Instead, he began to read romances, the books he--like so many of us--have been conditioned to dismiss as "trashy." What he discovered was a genre that was tremendously diverse and daring, along with a vast network of innovative writers who were keeping the novel as alive as ever. His own relationship problems, he realized, came down to a failure of his imagination. And so he set out on a quest to write and publish a romance novel and to find real-life love.A hybrid of memoir, travelogue, and critical essay, The Happily Ever After chronicles an adventure in a brave new world of literature. Steinberg offers a report from the trenches of romance, moving between major industry conferences and writing groups at the local bar as he works and reworks his romance novel idea. He reveals the inside scoop from a major romance publishing house, crisscrosses the country meeting mysterious ghostwriters and Fabio's great unsung rival, and offers a running take on the fascinating history of romance writing, the genre that invented, and continues to reinvent, the modern novel. Along the way he meets many readers, each of whom sheds light on why we are so fascinated by--and phobic of--romance fiction and what the vitality and fractiousness of our biggest genre says about us.With quirky wit and disarming honesty, Steinberg captures an often misunderstood literary culture and learns, from its devoted practitioners, how to take the Happily Ever After seriously in his own life.How To Be a Modern Samurai: 10 Steps To Finding Your Power & Achieving Success
By Antony Cummins. 2020
The first guide to using samurai self-discipline, focus and determination in order to find your unique inner power and be…
a success in your chosen field. This inspiring book offers historically authentic and highly effective mind-control and leadership techniques, as well as fun activities to bring a flavour of old Japan into your life.For centuries, the Japanese samurai were the unquestioned leaders of their society, maintaining their position through their iron will, Zen-like emotional control and clan-building social skills. Today, in a modern world that so often privileges instant gratification and self-indulgence, few commit to the Way of the Samurai, yet this challenging path of self-discipline, self-control and dedication will bring great rewards to those who follow it. In this ultimate guide to making use of the authentic samurai practices and techniques in today's world, learn how to control your mind and emotions, stay on the path until you have achieved mastery of your chosen art, build a network of loyal followers, defend your home from physical and psychic attack, use samurai spirituality and even magic - and much more.