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Dinner for One: How Cooking in Paris Saved Me
By Sutanya Dacres. 2022
From podcast host Sutanya Dacres comes Dinner for One, an unforgettable memoir of how she rebuilt her life after her American-in-Paris fairy tale shattered, starting…
with cooking dinner for herself in her Montmartre kitchen When Sutanya Dacres married her French boyfriend and moved to Paris at twenty-seven, she felt like she was living out her very own Nora Ephron romantic comedy. Jamaican-born and Bronx-raised, she had never dreamed she herself could be one of those American women in Paris she admired from afar via their blogs, until she met the man of her dreams one night in Manhattan. A couple of years later, she married her Frenchman and moved to Paris, embarking on her own &“happily-ever-after.&” But when her marriage abruptly ended, the fairy tale came crashing down around her. Reeling from her sudden divorce and the cracked facade of that picture-perfect expat life, Sutanya grew determined to mend her broken heart and learn to love herself again. She began by cooking dinner for one in her Montmartre kitchen. Along the way, she builds Parisienne friendships, learns how to date in French, and examines what it means to be a Black American woman in Paris—all while adopting the French principle of pleasure, especially when it comes to good food, and exploring what the concept of self-care really means. Brimming with charm, humor, and hard-won wisdom, Sutanya's story takes you on an adventure through love, loss, and finding where you truly belong, even when it doesn&’t look quite how you expected.Generation Drift: Why we're up career creek and how to paddle home
By Josh Roberts. 2022
Everyone can escape career creek. All they need is the right paddle.In 2012 Josh Roberts left university with a head…
full of dreams and a heart full of hope.The world - and in particular the world of work - was his oyster. He was going to get a brilliant job, enjoy a challenging, purposeful career and get stinking rich in the process. Fast forward a decade, though, and success hasn't been quite so easy. Unless you count six jobs in six years, a string of failed 'side hustles' and having a mental breakdown as 'success'. No, like millions of other young workers, Josh spent his twenties drifting aimlessly through his career before resolving, on the eve of his twenty-eighth birthday, to make a change. Which is what Generation Drift is all about. Told with warmth and wit - and brimming with advice from CEOs, recruiters, psychologists and fellow 'drifters' - it's a hopeful, helpful guide to navigating professional uncertainty and finding fulfilling work. This book will share the tools and signposts you need to look to the future with a positive view. Generation Drift is Josh's optimistic, reassuring and practical guide to navigating professional uncertainty and finding fulfilling work.Yield: The Journal of an Artist
By Anne Truitt. 2021
This posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt's remarkable series of journals &“Impressive .…
. . Truitt lyrically looks back on 80 years of life. . . . [T]hese daily entries . . . offer a version of Truitt free of artifice as she meditates on the sacred and mundane. . . . This sparks with intelligence.&”—Publishers Weekly In the spring of 1974, the artist Anne Truitt (1921–2004) committed herself to keeping a journal for a year. She would continue the practice, sometimes intermittently, over the next six years, writing in spiral-bound notebooks and setting no guidelines other than to &“let the artist speak.&” These writings were published as Daybook: The Journal of an Artist (1982). Two other journal volumes followed: Turn (1986) and Prospect (1996). This book, the final volume, comprises journals the artist kept from the winter of 2001 to the spring of 2002, two years before her death. In Yield, Truitt&’s unflinching honesty is on display as she contemplates her place in the world and comes to terms with the intellectual, practical, emotional, and spiritual issues that an artist faces when reconciling her art with her life, even as that life approaches its end. Truitt illuminates a life and career in which the demands, responsibilities, and rewards of family, friends, motherhood, and grandmotherhood are ultimately accepted, together with those of a working artist.Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the…
first time. Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female gallerists in the business, she first opened the Galerie B. Weill in the heart of Paris’s art gallery district in 1901, holding innumerable exhibitions over nearly forty years. Written out of art history for decades, Weill has only recently regained the recognition she deserves. Under five feet tall and bespectacled, Weill was beloved by the artists she supported, and she rejected the exploitative business practices common among art dealers. Despite being a self-proclaimed “terrible businesswoman,” Weill kept her gallery open for four decades, defying the rising tide of antisemitism before Germany’s occupation of France. By the time of her death in 1951, Weill had promoted more than three hundred artists—including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, and Suzanne Valadon—many of whom were women and nearly all young and unknown when she first exhibited them. Pow! Right in the Eye! makes Weill’s provocative 1933 memoir finally available to English readers, offering rare insights into the Parisian avant-garde and a lively inside account of the development of the modern art market.Memoir of a provocative Parisian art dealer at the heart of the 20th-century art world, available in English for the…
first time. Berthe Weill, a formidable Parisian dealer, was born into a Jewish family of very modest means. One of the first female gallerists in the business, she first opened the Galerie B. Weill in the heart of Paris’s art gallery district in 1901, holding innumerable exhibitions over nearly forty years. Written out of art history for decades, Weill has only recently regained the recognition she deserves. Under five feet tall and bespectacled, Weill was beloved by the artists she supported, and she rejected the exploitative business practices common among art dealers. Despite being a self-proclaimed “terrible businesswoman,” Weill kept her gallery open for four decades, defying the rising tide of antisemitism before Germany’s occupation of France. By the time of her death in 1951, Weill had promoted more than three hundred artists—including Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Amedeo Modigliani, Diego Rivera, and Suzanne Valadon—many of whom were women and nearly all young and unknown when she first exhibited them. Pow! Right in the Eye! makes Weill’s provocative 1933 memoir finally available to English readers, offering rare insights into the Parisian avant-garde and a lively inside account of the development of the modern art market.Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling
By Peter Cossins. 2021
When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so…
fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "Pirate" nickname, replied: "To shorten my agony."Drawing on the fervour for these men of the mountains, Climbers looks at what sets these athletes apart within the world of bike racing, about why we love and cherish them, how they make cycling beautiful, and how they see themselves and the feats they achieve.Working chronologically, Peter Cossins explores the evolution of mountain-climbing. He offers a comprehensive view of the sport, combining contemporary reports with fresh one-to-one interviews with high-profile riders from the last 50 years, such as Cyrille Guimard, Hennie Kuiper and Andy Schleck. And, unlike many other cycling books, Climbers also includes the stories of female racers across the world, from Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio and Annemiek van Vleuten to Fabiana Luperini and Amanda Spratt.Climbers analyses the personalities of these racers, highlighting the individuality of climbing as an exercise and the fundamental fact that it's a solitary challenge undertaken in relentlessly unforgiving terrain that requires unremitting effort.Captivating and iconic, Climbers is the ultimate cycling book to understand what it takes both physically and mentally to take on the sport's hardest stages.Climbers: How the Kings of the Mountains conquered cycling
By Peter Cossins. 2021
When, during the Pyrenean stages of the 1998 Tour de France, a journalist asked Marco Pantani why he rode so…
fast in the mountains, the elfin Italian, unmistakeable in the bandanna and hooped ear-rings that played up to his "Pirate" nickname, replied: "To shorten my agony."Drawing on the fervour for these men of the mountains, Climbers looks at what sets these athletes apart within the world of bike racing, about why we love and cherish them, how they make cycling beautiful, and how they see themselves and the feats they achieve.Working chronologically, Peter Cossins explores the evolution of mountain-climbing. He offers a comprehensive view of the sport, combining contemporary reports with fresh one-to-one interviews with high-profile riders from the last 50 years, such as Cyrille Guimard, Hennie Kuiper and Andy Schleck. And, unlike many other cycling books, Climbers also includes the stories of female racers across the world, from Ashleigh Moolman-Pasio and Annemiek van Vleuten to Fabiana Luperini and Amanda Spratt.Climbers analyses the personalities of these racers, highlighting the individuality of climbing as an exercise and the fundamental fact that it's a solitary challenge undertaken in relentlessly unforgiving terrain that requires unremitting effort.Captivating and iconic, Climbers is the ultimate cycling book to understand what it takes both physically and mentally to take on the sport's hardest stages.Notes on Heartbreak: the must-read book of the summer
By Annie Lord. 2022
Fierce, funny and raw, this unflinchingly honest exploration of heartbreak is so much more than a book about one single…
break-up'Arresting and vivid, raw and breathtaking...told with stunning originality.' Dolly Alderton 'Painful while it sloughs away the dead romantic ideals, leaving you cleansed, reborn and gorgeously satisfied.' Pandora Sykes 'A beautiful tender messy brilliant generous open-hearted book.' Emma Gannon This is a love story told in reverse. It's about the best and worst of love: the euphoric and the painful. The beautiful and the messy. Reeling from a broken heart, Annie Lord revisits the past - from the moment she first fell in love, the shared in-jokes and intertwining of a long-term relationship, to the months that saw the slow erosion of a bond five years in the making. It is an unflinchingly honest reminder of the simultaneous joy and pain of being in love that will resonate with anyone that has ever nursed a broken heart. 'An electrifying debut.' Caroline O'Donoghue 'Annie Lord tells us a story at once both specific and universal.' Shon FayeHow to Turn $100 into $1,000,000: Earn! Save! Invest!
By James McKenna, Jeannine Glista, Matt Fontaine. 2016
From the creators of Biz Kid$ and Bill Nye the Science Guy, here is a comprehensive guide for kids to…
the basics of earning, saving, spending, and investing money. Written in a humorous but informative voice that engages young readers, it’s the book that every parent who wants to raise financially savvy and unspoiled children should buy for their kids. It is packed with lively illustrations to make difficult concepts easy to understand—all as a way of building financial literacy, good decision-making, and the appreciation of a hard-earned dollar.Nanaville: Adventures in Grandparenting
By Anna Quindlen. 2019
The perfect gift for new parents and grandparents this Mother’s Day: a bighearted book of wisdom, wit, and insight, celebrating…
the love and joy of being a grandmother, from the Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist and #1 New York Times bestselling author “I am changing his diaper, he is kicking and complaining, his exhausted father has gone to the kitchen for a glass of water, his exhausted mother is prone on the couch. He weighs little more than a large sack of flour and yet he has laid waste to the living room: swaddles on the chair, a nursing pillow on the sofa, a car seat, a stroller. No one cares about order, he is our order, we revolve around him. And as I try to get in the creases of his thighs with a wipe, I look at his, let’s be honest, largely formless face and unfocused eyes and fall in love with him. Look at him and think, well, that’s taken care of, I will do anything for you as long as we both shall live, world without end, amen.” Before blogs even existed, Anna Quindlen became a go-to writer on the joys and challenges of family, motherhood, and modern life, in her nationally syndicated column. Now she’s taking the next step and going full nana in the pages of this lively, beautiful, and moving book about being a grandmother. Quindlen offers thoughtful and telling observations about her new role, no longer mother and decision-maker but secondary character and support to the parents of her grandson. She writes, “Where I once led, I have to learn to follow.” Eventually a close friend provides words to live by: “Did they ask you?” Candid, funny, frank, and illuminating, Quindlen’s singular voice has never been sharper or warmer. With the same insights she brought to motherhood in Living Out Loud and to growing older in Lots of Candles, Plenty of Cake, this new nana uses her own experiences to illuminate those of many others. A New York Times BestsellerHygge: A Celebration of Simple Pleasures. Living the Danish Way.
By Charlotte Abrahams. 2016
Candlelight is hygge; the smell of freshly brewed coffee is hygge; the feel of crisp, clean bed linen is hygge;…
dinner with friends is hygge. 'Hygge', pronounced 'hoo-ga', is a Danish philosophy that roughly translates to 'cosiness'. But it is so much more than that. It's a way of life that encourages us to be kinder to ourselves, to take pleasure in the modest, the mundane and the familiar. It is a celebration of the everyday, of sensual experiences rather then things. It's an entire attitude to life that results in Denmark regularly being voted one of the happiest countries in the world. So, with two divorces behind her and her 50th birthday rapidly approaching, journalist Charlotte Abrahams ponders whether it's hygge that's been missing from her life. Is it a philosophy we can all embrace? In a society where lifestyle trends tend to centre on deprivation - be it no sugar, no gluten, no possessions - what does cherishing yourself actually mean? And will it make her happy? In Hygge, Charlotte Abrahams weaves the history of hygge and its role in Danish culture with her own attempts, as an English woman, to embrace a more hygge life. In this beautifully written and stylishly designed book, she examines the impact this has on her home, her health, her relationships and, of course, her happiness. Light a candle, pour yourself a glass of wine, and get ready to enjoy your more hygge life.Violar desde el poder: Abuso Sexual, acoso y pederastia de politicos mexicanos
By Yohali Reséndiz. 2022
La verdad trágica que produce rabia e indignación sobre algunos servidores públicos, magistrados, senadores o diputados, encargados de construir un…
México mejor, denunciados por cometer delitos sexuales. Violar desde el poder es una investigación que revela los abusos sexuales de políticos siniestros como Félix Salgado Macedonio, Benjamín Saúl Huerta, Juan Bustos, Manuel Horacio Cavazos, José Elías Medel Galindo, Juan Antonio Vera Carrizal, Cuauhtémoc Gutiérrez de la Torre y más, encubiertos por otros funcionarios, cómplices que desde sus cargos públicos se burlan del dolor mortal de las víctimas. Yohali Reséndiz entrevista a los múltiples afectados y revela las horrendas secuelas que estos actos de salvajismo y desvergüenza dejaron en mujeres, muchachos de 15 o 16 años y niñas violadas por sus propios familiares. La periodista remueve las aguas negras de la impunidad y da rostro a esos seres indefensos atacados con crueldad para sembrar en sus vidas traumas, dolor físico y emocional, impotencia y miedo. En estas páginas sin precedentes, el lector encontrará motivos para reflexionar y denunciar estos delitos que cometen funcionarios del gobierno que prometen una vida mejor, pero que actúan como depredadores amparados en el poder político. El libro se completa con una guía para denunciar ante ministerios públicos delitos de violación y abuso sexual. Hoy más que nunca México debe expresar surechazo a los feminicidios, a la violencia sexual y al abuso sexual infantil, este libro es una potente iniciativa para ello. abuso sexual ;acoso ;violacion ;abuso sexual infantil ;delitos sexuales ;pornografia ;pederastas ;impunidad ;denuncia ;violencia contra la mujer ;equidad de genero ;inclusion ;maltrato infantil ;feminicida ;delito ;impunidad ;víctimas de delitos sexuales;corrupcion ;trata de personas;trata de blancas;feminicidios;muertas de juares;escandalos sexuales;verdad mexicana;gobierno mexicano;narco gobierno;mexico feminicida;se va a caer;[Críticas/Reseñas]Socialism Is Great!
By Lijia Zhang. 2009
With a great charm and spirit, “Socialism Is Great!” recounts Lijia Zhang's rebellious journey from disillusioned factory worker to organizer…
in support of the Tiananmen Square demonstrators, to eventually become the writer and journalist she always determined to be. Her memoir is like a brilliant miniature illuminating the sweeping historical forces at work in China after the Cultural Revolution as the country moved from one of stark repression to a vibrant, capitalist economy.The Career Coaching Handbook
By Julia Yates. 2022
Uniquely combining the latest research into careers with the most up-to-date coaching approaches, Julia Yates shows how to effectively apply…
coaching techniques to the world of career support. Demonstrating how coaching research explains practice and how practice benefits from research, The Career Coaching Handbook is accessibly written with a solid evidence-based foundation. Presented in three parts, this new edition covers developments in theory and research and applies this knowledge to the real world, as well as introducing a few new practical approaches. Part 1, Theories of Career, looks at twenty-first century career paths, job satisfaction and career changes – both planned and unplanned. Part 2, Career Coaching Approaches, looks at coaching strategies that are applicable to career coaching in particular. Part 3, Coaching into the World of Work, covers specific real-world situations in which coaching is beneficial, from job search strategies to CV and interview coaching. Evidence and research is used throughout to demonstrate the most effective strategies for coaching. The Career Coaching Handbook provides an essential introduction for students or practitioners who are interested in developing their own practice, finding new and improved ways to do things and understanding the theories that underpin effective career coaching practice.La soga y los ratones (El espejo del limbo #Volumen 2)
By André Malraux. 2022
Segundo volumen de memorias de André Malraux, incomparable testimonio uno de los grandes intelectuales franceses del siglo xx. En La…
soga y los ratones, segundo batiente de las memorias tituladas El espejo del limbo, André Malraux presenta un agudo testimonio de su tiempo a través de su increíble biografía, con particular atención a sus años de madurez. Dividido en seis partes diferenciadas, el libro repasa sus encuentros con las principales figuras contemporáneas en las esferas política y artística. Y al igual que su predecesor, Antimemorias, acaba conformando un relato originalísimo y deslumbrante, que propone una reflexión de gran calado sobre el devenir de la historia, las grandes transformaciones del siglo XX, el mal, la fraternidad, la muerte y lo único que le ofrece resistencia: la capacidad de los humanos de metamorfosearse a través del arte. Nuestra edición se completa una abarcadora introducción sobre la génesesis de la obra y una cronología de la vida del autor, ambas a cargo de Ignacio Echevarría. Sobre el autor:«Malraux se presenta como el héroe que ha sabido no morir, gracias a la última audacia de su obra».Carlos OrtegaBeijing Bastard: Into the Wilds of a Changing China
By Val Wang. 2014
A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider's perspective to China's shift from ancient empire to modern…
superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance troupe--until she shaved her head and became a leftist, the stuff of many teenage rebellions. But Val's true mutiny was when she moved to China, the land her parents had fled before the Communist takeover in 1949. Val arrives in Beijing in 1998 expecting to find freedom but instead lives in the old city with her traditional relatives, who wake her at dawn with the sound of a state-run television program playing next to her cot, make a running joke of how much she eats, and monitor her every move. But outside, she soon discovers a city rebelling against its roots just as she is, struggling too to find a new, modern identity. Rickshaws make way for taxicabs, skyscrapers replace hutong courtyard houses, and Beijing prepares to make its debut on the world stage with the 2008 Olympics. And in the gritty outskirts of the city where she moves, a thriving avant-garde subculture is making art out of the chaos. Val plunges into the city's dizzying culture and nightlife and begins shooting a documentary, about a Peking Opera family who is witnessing the death of their traditional art. Brilliantly observed and winningly told, Beijing Bastard is a compelling story of a young woman finding her place in the world and of China, as its ancient past gives way to a dazzling but uncertain future.Chronicles of My Life: An American in the Heart of Japan
By Donald Keene. 2008
"I sometimes think that if, as the result of an accident, I were to lose my knowledge of Japanese, there…
would not be much left for me. Japanese, which at first had no connection with my ancestors, my literary tastes, or my awareness of myself as a person, has become the central element of my life."In this eloquent and wholly absorbing memoir, the renowned scholar Donald Keene shares more than half a century of his extraordinary adventures as a student of Japan. Keene begins with an account of his bittersweet childhood in New York; then he describes his initial encounters with Asia and Europe and the way in which World War II complicated that experience. He captures the sights, scents, and sounds of Japan as they first enveloped him, and talks of the unique travels and well-known intellectuals who later shaped the contours of his academic career.Keene traces the movement of his passions with delicacy and subtlety, deftly weaving his love for Japan into a larger narrative about identity and home and the circumstances that led a Westerner to find solace in a country on the opposite side of the world. Chronicles of My Life is not only a fascinating tale of two cultures colliding, but also a thrilling account of the emotions and experiences that connect us all, regardless of our individual origins.Of the Americans who serve—and have served—in the United States Armed Forces, many struggle with alcoholism and addiction. What happens when the people…
who keep our country safe need saving? How do we fulfill our promise to leave no one behind? We show them there are service members who have been through similar circumstances, who can help them, and who might also need help. This book does just that.In this new meditation book, service members who are in recovery share their words of healing and hope in daily meditations. These people are in a class of their own—they know what they experienced, they know how their recovery has been affected by their service, they know how to help themselves . . . and they know how to help each other. The voices in this book are unique and will resonate with readers, providing insights, thoughts, and feelings only others who have served can understand and relate to. The same can be said of recovery: we look to the person on our left and the person on our right—and we leave no one behind.Step Eight: Preparing for Change
By Anonymous. 2022
Our drinking or drug use likely caused a lot of pain. So we turn to Step Eight: &“Made a list…
of all persons we had harmed, and became willing to make amends to them all.&” This pamphlet helps us accomplish these two essential parts of recovery.Step Five: Telling Your Story
By Anonymous. 2022
Self-revelation is the basis of the Fifth Step, &“Admitted to God, to ourselves, and to another human being the exact…
nature of our wrongs.&” Harness the courage to do the Fifth Step by focusing on the process and its benefits.This pamphlet is for those who want to pull themselves out of their fear, despondency, despair, or procrastination. It&’s for those who want greater self-acceptance, healing of the past, and hope for a better future. It shows what has worked for many of us. Only you, with the help of your recovering friends and your Higher Power, can make a Fifth Step that sets you free and strengthens your recovery. This pamphlet outlines the process of first completing Step Four, then choosing a compassionate listener, telling your story, and finally letting go.