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Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life (Tramp Lit Series)
Par Ian Cutler. 2019
Jim Christy’s life and adventures began on the mobbed-up streets of South Philadelphia. Over his 73 years to date, Christy…
has asserted his freedom of spirit as a vagabond adventurer, latter-day hobo, journalist, private eye, actor, musician, and artist, in over 50 countries around the globe, and still found time to write over 30 books. His early adventures as a street fighter and child tramp provide a unique socio-cultural history of Philadelphia in the 50’s and 60’s before thebook moves on to recount his later exploits from some of the most remote and random corners of the world.The view from down here: Life as a young disabled woman
Par Lucy Webster. 2023
Women's lives are shaped by sexism and expectations. Disabled people's lives are shaped by ableism and a complete lack of…
expectations. But what happens when you're subjected to both sets of rules? This powerful, honest, hilarious, and furious memoir from journalist and advocate Lucy Webster looks at life at the intersection; the struggles, the joys, and the unseen realities of being a disabled woman. From navigating the worlds of education and work, dating and friendship; to managing care; contemplating motherhood; and learning to accept your body against a pervasive narrative that it is somehow broken and in need of fixing, The View from Down Here shines a light on what it really means to move through the world as a disabled woman. © 2023 Lucy Webster © 2023 DK Audiola reine d'une ère nouvelle (Elizabeth II #1)
Par Robert Hardman. 2022
Elizabeth Windsor n'était pas née pour être reine. Pourtant, depuis son accession au trône en 1952 à l'âge de 25…
ans, elle s'est révélée une figure astucieuse, déterminée, menant sa famille et son peuple à travers plus de sept décennies de changements sociaux sans précédentDare to dream: the Rose Resnick story
Par Rose Resnick. 1988
Resnick lost her sight in 1918 at the age of two--the result of measles. As a child growing up in…
New York City she attended public schools. Her musical talent was discovered at the New York Association for the Blind. Her love of music has aided her throughout her life in her careers in education and social work, and has brought her many awardsGator country: Deception, danger, and alligators in the everglades
Par Rebecca Renner. 2023
This program features a bonus conversation between the author and Officer Jeff Babauta (who led the undercover investigation known as…
Operation Alligator Thief) and an introduction read by the author. David Grann meets Susan Orlean in this page-turning true story of an underground operation into the mysterious world of alligator poaching and its larger than life Floridian characters To catch a Florida Man, you have to become one, and that's what Officer Jeff Babauta did. As his ponytailed, whiskey-soaked alter ego, he established Sunshine Alligator Farm. His goal? Infiltrate the shady world of illegal poachers in the Florida Everglades in order to protect the natural world. A head-spinning adventure soon unfolds. Jeff deals with glow-in-the-dark alligators and high-speed airboat rides, but quickly learns that not all poachers are villains. They're simply people trying to survive, fighting against the poverty and greed holding them down. Jeff wants to solve the mystery of alligator poachers, and in doing so he must venture deeper into a strange ecosystem where right is wrong, and justice comes at the cost of those who've welcomed him into their world. Gator Country is the twisting true story of the impossible choices individuals must make to stay afloat in this world. Through its wholly unique blend of reporting, nature writing, and personal narrative, this book transports listeners to vibrant and dangerous Florida landscapes and offers intimate portraits of those who call the region home. Broad in scope and vivid in detail, Gator Country is a fast paced tale of the risks people will take to survive in one of the world's most beautiful yet formidable landscapes and the undercover investigation that threatens to topple the whole scheme. A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron BooksThe ledge between the streams
Par Ved Mehta. 1984
Continues the author's life as a blind boy growing up in India during the 1940s. He recalls his loving and…
cultured family, the political violence of partition, and his attempts, fired by a thirst for learning, to overcome his handicap. Sequel to "Vedi."Les exportés (Écoutez lire)
Par Sonia Devillers. 2023
"Ma famille maternelle a quitté la Roumanie communiste en 1961, sans savoir la vérité. Elle connaissait le nom du passeur…
à contacter, la somme à rassembler. Mais rien sur le bétail, rien sur les machines-outils, rien sur les centaines de milliers de dollars qui ont transité. Ma mère, ma tante, mes grands-parents et mon arrière-grand-mère ont fait l'objet d'un troc agricole et financier, un trafic d'êtres humains en plein cœur de l'Europe. Il était temps que s'ouvrent les archives et que soit révélé l'innommable : la situation de ceux que le régime communiste ne nommait pas et que, chez les miens, on ne nommait plus, les juifs. Moi qui suis née en France, j'ai voulu retourner de l'autre côté du Rideau de fer. Combler les blancs laissés par mes grands-parents et par un pays tout entier face à son passé." Sonia Devillers offre une lecture bouleversante de son récit, vertigineuse enquête familiale enchevêtrée dans les remous tragiques de l'histoireLosing music: A memoir
Par John Cotter. 2023
"I was in the car the first time music seemed strange: the instruments less distinct, the vocals less crisp." John…
Cotter was thirty years old when he first began to notice a ringing in his ears. Soon the ringing became a roar inside his head. Next came partial deafness, then dizziness and vertigo that rendered him unable to walk, work, sleep, or even communicate. At a stage of life when he expected to be emerging fully into adulthood, teaching, and writing books, he found himself "crippled and dependent" and in search of care. When he is first told that his debilitating condition is likely Ménière's Disease but that there is "no reliable test, no reliable treatment, and no consensus on its cause," Cotter quits teaching, stops writing, and commences upon a series of visits to doctors and treatment centers. What begins as an expedition across the country navigating and battling the limits of the American health-care system quickly becomes something else entirely: a journey through hopelessness and adaptation to disability. Along the way, hearing aids become inseparable from his sense of self, as does a growing understanding that the possibilities in his life are narrowing rather than expanding. And with this understanding of his own travails comes reflection on age-old questions around fate, coincidence, and making meaning of inexplicable misfortune. A devastating memoir that sheds urgent, bracingly honest light on both the taboos surrounding disability and the limits of medical science, Losing Music is refreshingly vulnerable and singularly illuminating?a story that will make listeners see their own lives anewThe palace: From the tudors to the windsors, 500 years of british history at hampton court
Par Gareth Russell. 2023
The popular and "scrupulous historian" (Daily Mail , London) Gareth Russell presents five hundred years of British history—from King Henry…
VIII to Queen Elizabeth II—as seen through the doorways of the exquisite Hampton Court Palace . Architecturally breathtaking and rich in splendid art and décor, Hampton Court Palace has been the stage of some of the most important events in British history, such as the commissioning of King James's version of the Bible, the staging of many of Shakespeare's plays, and Queen Elizabeth II's coronation ball. Accessible, engaging, and unputdownable, The Palace takes us into every room in the castle, revealing the ups and downs of royal history and illustrating what was at play politically, socially, and economically at the time. An engaging and charming history book that is perfect for fans of Alison Weir, Philippa Gregory, and Andrew Lownie, The Palace makes you feel as if you were in the room as history was madeEndgame: Inside the royal family and the monarchy's fight for survival
Par Omid Scobie. 2023
Endgame, the explosive book from longtime royal journalist Omid Scobie and author of the international blockbuster Finding Freedom, is a…
penetrating investigation into the current state of the British monarchy—an unpopular king, a power-hungry heir to the throne, a queen willing to go to dangerous lengths to preserve her image, and a prince forced to start a new life after being betrayed by his own family. Queen Elizabeth II's death ruptured the already-fractured foundations of the House of Windsor—and dismantled the protective shield around it. With an institution long plagued by antiquated ideas around race, class and money, the monarchy and those who prop it up are now exposed and at odds with a rapidly modernizing world. Relying on his vast experience as a royal reporter and over a decade of conversations and interviews with current and former Palace staff, trusted friends of the royals and even the family members themselves, Scobie pulls back the curtain on an institution in turmoil to show what the monarchy must change in order to survive. This is the monarchy's endgame. Do they have what it takes to save it?The great betrayal: The great siege of constantinople
Par Ernle Bradford. 2023
An engrossing chronicle of the Fourth Crusade and the fall of the Holy Roman Empire, from the bestselling author of…
Thermopylae. At the dawn of the thirteenth century, Constantinople stood as the bastion of Christianity in Eastern Europe. The capital city of the Byzantine Empire, it was a center of art, culture, and commerce that had commanded trading routes between Asia, Russia, and Europe for hundreds of years. But in 1204, the city suffered a devastating attack that would spell the end of the Holy Roman Empire. The army of the Fourth Crusade had set out to reclaim Jerusalem, but under the sway of their Venetian patrons, the crusaders diverted from their path in order to lay siege to Constantinople. With longstanding tensions between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, the crusaders set arms against their Christian neighbors, destroying a vital alliance between Eastern and Western Rome. In The Great Betrayal, historian Ernle Bradford brings to life this powerful tale of envy and greed, demonstrating the far-reaching consequences this siege would have across Europe for centuries to comeLe roman de Constantinople (Le roman des lieux magiques)
Par Gilles Martin-Chauffier. 2005
Les lieux, les grandes figures et les événements qui ont marqué l'histoire de l'actuelle ville d'Istanbul du sacre de Théodora,…
prostituée devenue impératrice, à la passion de Soliman le Magnifique pour son vizir, de l'impératrice Irène qui fit crever les yeux de son fils à l'intronisation de Mehmet III ordonnant la mort de ses 19 frères. Prix Renaudot essai 2005.Explorateur d'océans: la vie, un vaste territoire d'incertitudes et autant de promesses à explorer
Par Jean-Louis Etienne, Jean-Louis Etienne. 2021
A partir de son expérience d'explorateur et des nombreuses expéditions scientifiques et océanographiques auxquelles il a participé et qu'il retrace…
dans cet ouvrage, J.-L. Etienne exprime son amour de l'océan et rappelle qu'il s'agit de l'un des deux poumons de la planète, dont la préservation est indispensable pour réguler le climat et nourrir les hommes.L'affaire Dreyfus: la vérité en marche (Garnier-Flammarion)
Par Émile Zola. 1994
"Fin novembre 1897. Sur l'île du Diable, le capitaine Dreyfus purge sa peine. Condamné, depuis trois ans déjà, pour haute…
trahison au terme d'une parodie de procès. Jusqu'ici, Zola a préféré se taire. Depuis peu, pourtant, il est convaincu de l'innocence de Dreyfus. Et perçoit la portée morale d'une affaire dont il fera désormais "son affaire". "Dreyfus est innocent, je le jure. J'y engage ma vie, j'y engage mon honneur... Et par tout ce que j'ai conquis, par le nom que je me suis fait, par mes oeuvres qui ont aidé à l'expansion des lettres françaises, je jure que Dreyfus est innocent. Que tout cela croule, que mes oeuvres périssent si Dreyfus n'est pas innocent ! Il est innocent." -- 4e de couvStalin's library: a dictator and his books
Par Geoffrey Roberts. 2022
This engaging life of the twentieth century's most self-consciously learned dictator explores the books Stalin read, how he read them,…
and what they taught him. Stalin, an avid reader from an early age, amassed a surprisingly diverse personal collection of thousands of books, many of which he marked and annotated, revealing his intimate thoughts, feelings, and beliefs. Adult. UnratedThe wandering mind: What medieval monks tell us about distraction
Par Jamie Kreiner. 2023
The digital era is beset by distraction, and it feels like things are only getting worse. At times like these,…
the distant past beckons as a golden age of attention. We dream of recapturing the quiet of a world with less noise. We imagine retreating into solitude and singlemindedness, almost like latter-day monks. But although we think of early monks as master concentrators, a life of mindfulness did not, in fact, come to them easily. As historian Jamie Kreiner demonstrates in The Wandering Mind, their attempts to stretch the mind out to God-to continuously contemplate the divine order and its ethical requirements-were all-consuming, and their battles against distraction were never-ending. Delving into the experiences of early Christian monks, Kreiner shows that these men and women were obsessed with distraction in ways that seem remarkably modern. Drawing on a trove of sources that the monks left behind, Kreiner reconstructs the techniques they devised in their lifelong quest to master their minds. She captures the fleeting moments of pure attentiveness that some monks managed to grasp, and the many times when monks struggled and failed and went back to the drawing board. Blending history and psychology, The Wandering Mind is a witty, illuminating account of human fallibility and ingenuity that bridges a distant era and our ownRecollections, wrecks, and reflections: my journey from daylight through darkness and beyond
Par Edward Legge. 2022
A revealing chronicle of how a West Virginia youth managed to navigate his way through obstacles posed by life with…
limited vision and eventual total blindness to become successful, both personally and professionally. Describes the importance of a supportive family and special services in his journey, and relates how he transformed from an introvert to an extrovert, thanks to success in higher education and athletics. AdultThe war that made the Roman Empire: Antony, Cleopatra, and Octavian at Actium
Par Barry S Strauss. 2022
High minds: the Victorians and the birth of modern Britain
Par Simon Heffer. 2022
"Britain in the 1840s was a country wracked by poverty, unrest, and uncertainty; there were attempts to assassinate the queen…
and her prime minister; and the ruling class lived in fear of riot and revolution. By the 1880s it was a confident nation of progress and prosperity, transformed not just by industrialization but by new attitudes to politics, education, women, and the working class. That it should have changed so radically was very largely the work of an astonishingly dynamic and high-minded group of people-politicians and philanthropists, writers and thinkers-who in a matter of decades fundamentally remade the country, its institutions and its mindset, and laid the foundations for modern society. High Minds explores this process of transformation as it traces the evolution of British democracy and shows how early laissez-faire attitudes to the fate of the less fortunate turned into campaigns to improve their lives and prospects. The narrative analyzes the birth of new attitudes in education, religion, and science. And High Minds shows how even such aesthetic issues as taste in architecture collided with broader debates about the direction that the country should take. In the process, Simon Heffer looks at the lives and deeds of major politicians; at the intellectual arguments that raged among writers and thinkers such as Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, and Samuel Butler; and at the "great projects" of the age, from the Great Exhibition to the Albert Memorial. Drawing heavily on previously unpublished documents, he offers a superbly nuanced portrait into life in an extraordinary era, populated by extraordinary people-and show how the Victorians' pursuit of perfection gave birth to the modern Britain we know today." -- Provided by publisherThe BBC: a century on air
Par David Hendy. 2022
"The first in-depth history of the iconic radio and TV network that has shaped our past and present. Doctor Who;…
tennis from Wimbledon; the Beatles and the Stones; the coronation of Queen Elizabeth and the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales: for one hundred years, the British Broadcasting Corporation has been the preeminent broadcaster in the UK and around the world, a constant source of information, comfort, and entertainment through both war and peace, feast and famine. The BBC has broadcast to over two hundred countries and in more than forty languages. Its history is a broad cultural panorama of the twentieth century itself, often, although not always, delivered in a mellifluous Oxford accent. With special access to the BBC's archives, historian David Hendy presents a dazzling portrait of a unique institution whose cultural influence is greater than any other media organization. Mixing politics, espionage, the arts, social change, and everyday life, The BBC is a vivid social history of the organization that has provided both background commentary and screen-grabbing headlines--woven so deeply into the culture and politics of the past century that almost none of us has been left untouched by it." -- Provided by publisher