From Washington Post national investigative reporter Carol Leonnig and White House Bureau Chief Philip Rucker, both winners of the Pulitzer Prize, shocking new reporting on Donald Trumps unique Presidency and its implications Rucker and Leo...Daugiau...
A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR Brilliant. The unwritten Bowie book that needed writing CAITLIN MORAN Splendid. Provides plenty of evidence of Bowies restless, rummaging intelligence, and his pleasure in the fact that books allow readers to slip...Daugiau...
So beautifully written, so insightful, so thoughtful, so honest, so vulnerable, so intimate ... A gift JESMYN WARD Wow. Just wow ROXANE GAY Unflinchingly honest RENI EDDO-LODGE An act of truth-telling unlike any other I can think of ALEX...Daugiau...
We can expect the manifesto-writers at the next general election to pass magpie-like over these chapters ... The appeal to act is heartfelt Financial Times Includes a new chapter, Moving Ahead? Britains private, fee-paying schools are...Daugiau...
In this beautifully written nature narrative, Tiffany Francis explores nocturnal landscapes and investigates how our experiences of the night-time world have permeated our history, folklore, science, geography, art, and literature. ...Daugiau...
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2019 WINNER OF A WINDHAM-CAMPBELL PRIZE 2017 I love this book MAGGIE NELSON An essay collection unlike any Ive read New York Times In Can You Tolerate This? Ashleigh Young ushers us into her ea...Daugiau...
An invigorating history of the arguments and cooperation between America and Britain as they divided up the world and an illuminating exploration of their underlying alliance Throughout modern history, British and American rivalry has gone ha...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 27-Jun-2019, Hardback, Leidėjas: Bloomsbury Academic USA, ISBN-13: 9781501340642)
Music, Memory and Memoir provides a unique look at the contemporary cultural phenomenon of the music memoir and, leading from this, the way that music is used to construct memory. Via analyses of memoirs that consider punk and pop, indie and d...Daugiau...
During the sweeping changes taking place in 19th century Japan, no thinker was more important than Fukuzawa Yukichi (1835-1901). Born into a low-ranking samurai family, he traveled to Nagasaki at age nineteen to study Dutch. In 1858, he was sent t...Daugiau...
As deft and devastating as a piece of non-fiction writing in miniature as youre ever likely to read ... A collection to be savoured, its urbanity, wisdom and humorous probing best digested at leisure Daily Telegraph In Facts and Fiction, Mi...Daugiau...
Isaiah Berlin was one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century - a man who set ideas on fire. His defence of liberty and plurality was passionate and persuasive and inspired a generation. His ideas - especially his reasoned rejection o...Daugiau...
The seminal, ground-breaking and controversial feminist text on the menopause, revised and updated When The Change was published in 1991, menopause was a word of fear. Then, as now, expensive magazines advertised even more expensive anti-age...Daugiau...
Wonderfully intense and honest - a poignant manual of how to grow hope against the odds. Chris Packham, TV presenter and author of Fingers in the Sparkle Jar Finding herself in a new home in Brighton, Kate Bradbury sets about transforming...Daugiau...
The remarkable memoir of Zuzana Ruzickova, Holocaust survivor and world-famous harpsichordist. Zuzana Ruzickova grew up in 1930s Czechoslovakia dreaming of two things: Johann Sebastian Bach and the piano. But her peaceful, melodic childhood...Daugiau...
For decades now, Pico Iyer has been based for much of the year in Nara, Japan, where he and his Japanese wife, Hiroko, share a two-room apartment. But when his father-in-law dies suddenly, calling him back to Japan earlier than expected, Iyer b...Daugiau...
One of the most important politics books of the year, To Obama is a record of a time when politics intersected with empathy. The real story of Obamas America Sunday Times Every day, President Obama received ten thousand letters from ordina...Daugiau...
There is, as you pick it up, nothing to prepare you for its power OBSERVER Quite simply, one of the most beautiful books I have ever read AMINATTA FORNA How do we navigate our complex histories for our children? What is our duty to sh...Daugiau...
A travelogue and memoir to rank alongside anything by Chatwin or Thubron Jim Crace A most absorbing and rewarding book Michael Palin In 1956, Sudan gained independence from Britain. On the brink of a promising future, it instead descen...Daugiau...
Ferociously smart. A rare combination of guilty pleasure and intellectual insight VOGUE Perceptive. Refreshing. Tears away layers of false readings and conspiracy theories NEW YORK TIMES Intricately researched. Churchwells Marilyn is a...Daugiau...
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Edited by two-time National Book Award winner and Womens Prize shortlisted-author Jesmyn Ward, a timely and groundbreaking collection of essays and poems about race in America In this bestselling collection of...Daugiau...