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Written in the late nineteenth century and first published in
Harper's Round Table magazine in 1896, this collection of articles
details turn-of-the-century America's rugged wilderness. Good
Hunting is an engaging read for those whose interests lie in
hunting sports, and nature. Roosevelt, being the first president to
begin many of the national park conservation programs in
twentieth-century America, was a lover of the outdoors, and his
writings are filled with notations and observations of the lands
that he explored. From hunting elks, wolves, and bucks, Roosevelt
provides stunning insight into some of northwestern America's most
well-known inhabitants. Good Hunting is a fascinating historical
portal through which we can view a celebrated sportsman, president,
and keen observer of the outdoors. The seven chapters in this book
range from classic hunting articles, memorable anecdotes from other
outdoorsmen, and even a detailed piece on the specifics of ranching
a topic of much interest at the turn of the century. This is a
classic read for anyone wanting to learn more about a man who was
so loved by a country, and to escape to the America of yesteryear.
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Love Dream
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Lillian Bosnack
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With this singular book Nataniël tells the story of a childhood in three small towns and one large suburb, in an era during which rules were seldom questioned and of a young boy’s overwhelming fear of the ordinary. Look At Me is Nataniël's first full-length memoir.
Charmé word met pre-eklampsia gediagnoseer toe sy 27 weke swanger is met Lisa. Klein Lisatjie word met ’n noodkeisersnee gebore en Charmé se lewe verander heeltemal. Lisa weeg 850 gram, en sy veg elke dag om haar lewe. Charmé se reis tot ma-word was nie maklik nie. Maar Charmé vertel haar storie met humor en deernis: ‘n universiële storie van oorlewing van elke modern ma. Charmé se storie help ons om te weet dat ons nie alleen is nie, die ma langs jou het dieselfde pyne, vreugde, angs en vrae.
The true story of a young lady's escape to better things. Of love,
marriage and children. A tale of death and despair in a foreign
land. Of fate taking a hand and joining two people in a deep and
lasting love. The author has used letters and anecdotal evidence
from family members who are the lead players in this story. He
hopes he has done justice to the tale of their lives.
This book is about my lifetime of adventure and inside I explain
how I overcame a hand disability from birth to become a British and
Scottish Rally Champion, but my story is not just about motor
sport: I have also worked for a top Hollywood film producer and
shared breakfast with one of the world's top female film stars. I
have also interacted with two US presidents, and met many other
wonderful people. My book also delves into the realms of working
with top world rally constructor as well as major motor
manufacturer. The many and varied characters I have met during my
lifetime has also made my life so much more colourful, and you can
meet many of these characters within the pages of this book. Yes, I
have met all of life's challenges to date.
Ming-Cheau Lin’s family emigrated to South Africa from Tainan, Taiwan when she was just three years old and stayed in Bloemfontein with a small East Asian community. Seen as an outsider, she struggled to understand her identity as a minority and immigrant and faced harsh realities of being ‘yellow’ in the western world in addition to the legacy of South Africa’s history.
After assimilating to the surrounding society, she is deemed ‘not Asian enough’ when she is unable to conform to the rules of first-generation Asian elders, yet too Asian for everyone else. Taiwanese or South African, teenager or rebel, creative or disappointment.. she shares her story and journeys to uncover the reasons why yellow people are treated the way they are in a space that doesn’t recognise them as part of the population
Kojo Baffoe embodies what it is to be a contemporary African man. Of Ghanaian and German heritage, he was raised in Lesotho and moved to South Africa at the age of 27. Forever curious, Kojo has the enviable ability to simultaneously experience moments intimately and engage people (and their views) sincerely, while remaining detached enough to think through his experiences critically. He has earned a reputation as a thinker, someone who lives outside the box and free of the labels that society seeks to place on us.
Listen to Your Footsteps is an honest and, at times, raw collection of essays from a son, a father, a husband, a brother and a man deeply committed to doing the internal work. Kojo reflects on losing his mother as a toddler, being raised by his father, forming an identity, living as an immigrant, his tussles with
substance abuse, as well as his experiences of fatherhood, marriage and making a career in a fickle industry. He gives an extended glimpse into the experiences that make boys become men, and the battles that make men discover what they are made of, all the while questioning what it means to be ‘a man’.
From one of America's most respected journalists and modern
historians comes the highly acclaimed, "splendid" (The Washington
Post) biography of Jimmy Carter, the thirty-ninth president of the
United States and Nobel Prize-winning humanitarian. Jonathan Alter
tells the epic story of an enigmatic man of faith and his
improbable journey from barefoot boy to global icon. Alter paints
an intimate and surprising portrait of the only president since
Thomas Jefferson who can fairly be called a Renaissance Man, a
complex figure-ridiculed and later revered-with a piercing
intelligence, prickly intensity, and biting wit beneath the
patented smile. Here is a moral exemplar for our times, a flawed
but underrated president of decency and vision who was committed to
telling the truth to the American people. Growing up in one of the
meanest counties in the Jim Crow South, Carter is the only American
president who essentially lived in three centuries: his early life
on the farm in the 1920s without electricity or running water might
as well have been in the nineteenth; his presidency put him at the
center of major events in the twentieth; and his efforts on
conflict resolution and global health set him on the cutting edge
of the challenges of the twenty-first. "One of the best in a
celebrated genre of presidential biography," (The Washington Post),
His Very Best traces how Carter evolved from a timid, bookish
child-raised mostly by a Black woman farmhand-into an ambitious
naval nuclear engineer writing passionate, never-before-published
love letters from sea to his wife and full partner, Rosalynn; a
peanut farmer and civic leader whose guilt over staying silent
during the civil rights movement and not confronting the white
terrorism around him helped power his quest for racial justice at
home and abroad; an obscure, born-again governor whose brilliant
1976 campaign demolished the racist wing of the Democratic Party
and took him from zero percent to the presidency; a stubborn
outsider who failed politically amid the bad economy of the 1970s
and the seizure of American hostages in Iran but succeeded in
engineering peace between Israel and Egypt, amassing a historic
environmental record, moving the government from tokenism to
diversity, setting a new global standard for human rights and
normalizing relations with China among other unheralded and
far-sighted achievements. After leaving office, Carter eradicated
diseases, built houses for the poor, and taught Sunday school into
his mid-nineties. This "important, fair-minded, highly readable
contribution" (The New York Times Book Review) will change our
understanding of perhaps the most misunderstood president in
American history.
This is an account of a year in the life of Peter Berry, an
ordinary man living in a sleepy Suffolk village. Happily married
and running a successful business, Peter's life changes when, at
the age of fifty, he is given a terminal diagnosis of early-onset
dementia. Since that day, he has learned to live with his very own
'dementia monster'. From depression and suicide attempts through to
his determination to confront his dementia, Peter has embarked on a
series of challenges to show that 'life isn't over with dementia,
it's just a little different'. Peter has now raised thousands of
pounds for dementia charities, cycling hundreds of miles in his
quest to show that life is always worth living. When Peter meets
Deb, recently retired, they embark on regular cycle rides and, as
their friendship grows, Deb is able to look at her own life through
the lens of Peter's dementia. In 'Slow Puncture', Peter tells the
world what it is really like to live with a terminal condition and
Deb learns to enjoy each day more fully. With a foreword by
best-selling author Wendy Mitchell, author of 'Somebody I Used to
Know', this is an inspirational look at both living in the present
and coping with dementia.
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The Wretched of the Earth
(Paperback)
Frantz Fanon; Introduction by Cornel West; Translated by Richard Philcox; Foreword by Homi K. Bhabha; Preface by Jean-Paul Sartre
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The sixtieth anniversary edition of Frantz Fanon's landmark text,
now with a new introduction by Cornel WestFirst published in 1961,
and reissued in this sixtieth anniversary edition with a powerful
new introduction by Cornel West, Frantz Fanon's The Wretched of the
Earth is a masterfuland timeless interrogation of race,
colonialism, psychological trauma, and revolutionary struggle, and
a continuing influence on movements from Black Lives Matter to
decolonization. A landmark text for revolutionaries and activists,
The Wretched of the Earth is an eternal touchstone for civil
rights, anti-colonialism, psychiatric studies, and Black
consciousness movements around the world. Alongside Cornel West's
introduction, the book features critical essays by Jean-Paul Sartre
and Homi K. Bhabha. This sixtieth anniversary edition of Fanon's
most famous text stands proudly alongside such pillars of
anti-colonialism and anti-racism as Edward Said's Orientalism and
The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
Runner-up, Carr P. Collins Award for Best Book of Non-Fiction, 2021
Go-Go's bassist Kathy Valentine's story is a roller coaster of sex,
drugs, and of course, music; it's also a story of what it takes to
find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing
down. At twenty-one, Kathy Valentine was at the Whisky in Los
Angeles when she met a guitarist from a fledgling band called the
Go-Go's-and the band needed a bassist. The Go-Go's became the first
multi-platinum-selling, all-female band to play instruments
themselves, write their own songs, and have a number one album.
Their debut, Beauty and the Beat, spent six weeks at the top of the
Billboard 200 and featured the hit songs "We Got the Beat" and "Our
Lips Are Sealed." The record's success brought the pressures of a
relentless workload and schedule culminating in a wild, hazy,
substance-fueled tour that took the band from the club circuit to
arenas, where fans, promoters, and crew were more than ready to
keep the party going. For Valentine, the band's success was the
fulfillment of a lifelong dream-but it's only part of her story.
All I Ever Wanted traces the path that took her from her childhood
in Texas-where she all but raised herself-to the height of rock n'
roll stardom, devastation after the collapse of the band that had
come to define her, and the quest to regain her sense of self after
its end. Valentine also speaks candidly about the lasting effects
of parental betrayal, abortion, rape, and her struggles with drugs
and alcohol-and the music that saved her every step of the way.
Populated with vivid portraits of Valentine's interactions during
the 1980s with musicians and actors from the Police and Rod Stewart
to John Belushi and Rob Lowe, All I Ever Wanted is a deeply
personal reflection on a life spent in music.
Equal parts freedom fighter and statesman, Nelson Mandela
bestrode the world stage for the past three decades, building a
legacy that places him in the pantheon of history's most exemplary
leaders.
As a foreign correspondent based in South Africa, author John
Carlin had unique access to Mandela during the post-apartheid years
when Mandela faced his most daunting obstacles and achieved his
greatest triumphs. Carlin witnessed history as Mandela was released
from prison after twenty-seven years and ultimately ascended to the
presidency of his strife-torn country.
Drawing on exclusive conversations with Mandela and countless
interviews with people who were close to him, Carlin has crafted an
account of a man who was neither saint nor superman. Mandela's
seismic political victories were won at the cost of much personal
unhappiness and disappointment.
Knowing Mandela offers an intimate understanding of one of the
most towering and remarkable figures of our age.
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