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The Power In The People
''Michael Mansfield has given power to the voiceless, the innocents ... For this, he too is a hero'' - JOHN PILGER''Michael Mansfield combines rare humanity with a brilliant understanding of the law'' - JON SNOW''A book of great importance ... Mr Mansfield''s thoughtful reflections demand our attention'' - KEN LOACH''I want this book to inspire people, give them a blueprint for fighting their own battles, and challenge the status quo. To see that together, we are always stronger. To understand that those who stand in the way of change cannot do so forever.'' Michael Mansfield, KCBarrister Michael Mansfield, KC, has spent his career fighting injustice, persecution and corruption. And be it the Birmingham Six, Bloody Sunday, Stephen Lawrence, the Marchioness, Hillsborough or Grenfell, he has come to learn one thing - that people power is unstoppable.Time and again he has witnessed governments, police forces, legal institutions and the establishment, try to block change and maintain the status quo in order to protect their interests. But almost every time he has seen that passion, perseverance, collectivity and courage create a powerful momentum which is increasingly difficult to stop.In this short but powerful book, the veteran barrister draws upon his 50 years of fighting for justice and revisits his most important cases and clients, proving without doubt that when people get together they can make lasting and positive change.
Vandamme
Nikdo z napoleonských generálů nemá horší pověst než Dominique Vandamme (1770–1830). Paměti i literatura o něm tvrdí, že to byl ten nejhorší rabiát, násilník, kořistník a leccos horšího, jenže to všechno jsou lži založené na dobových, většinou německých pamfletech. Kým opravdu byl tento voják, jehož kariéru provázely oslnivé úspěchy i nebetyčná smůla? Bojoval za revoluci od roku 1792, zaskvěl se u Slavkova roku 1805, věrně sloužil Napoleonovi, který ale jeho služby nejednou neocenil. Osudově prohrál roku 1813 u Chlumce a Přestanova, kde jej Napoleon nechal na holičkách, přesto za něj nasazoval život i v posledním tažení roku 1815, v bitvách u Ligny a Wavre, a bránil Paříž i v době, kdy už Napoleon podruhé abdikoval...
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The Girl Who Killed A Nation
The Girl who Killed a Nation is a fast-paced tale that is deeply reflective, readable and down to earth, and will draw in lovers of travel, history, and personal memoir. It is a true African story that will change readers? perceptions. How did a teenage girl cause the death of 40,000 of her own people in 1856 ? and why do some compare her to an African Joan of Arc or Greta Thunberg? Was she a black liberation leader, a malicious liar or the disruptor of a conservative patriarchal society? Join Treive Nicholas on a moving physical and spiritual journey from the Wild Coast of South Africa to a highly symbolic grave in Cambridgeshire, England as he searches for the infamous teenage prophetess Nongqawuse ? leader of the popular mass movement known as the Great Cattle Killing (1856?57). Fate is his constant companion, gently leading him to the rivers, woods and pastures where mercurial spirits, kings, prophets, witch doctors and colonial leaders played out this visceral African story in the cauldron of nine wars, settler invasion and cruel natural disasters. The ripples of this almost unbelievable tragedy are still felt today. On the grassy hills of the Eastern Cape, Treive concludes the South African leg of his pilgrimage, holding an open-air court at the grave of the revered amaXhosa ruler, King Hintsa. The verdict on his death? Bloody regicide, at the hands of Sir Harry Smith, the Hero of Aliwal and darling of Victorian society. After recovering from four tropical diseases, and much to Treive?s great surprise, the journey does not end there. Instead, it all comes uncomfortably closer to home. Much closer.
Porozprávam ti, kto je Carlo Acutis
Carlo Acutis bol napohľad obyčajný chlapec z talianskeho Milána. Mal množstvo záľub – okrem športu či lásky k prírode vynikal najmä v tom, ako sa vyznal vo svete počítačov a internetu. A ako ich vedel šikovne využívať na dobré veci.
Carlo mal rád ľudí. V jeho očiach bol dôležitý každý: pani, ktorá potrebovala peniaze pre svoju zranenú mamu, kamarát, ktorého ostatní odsunuli nabok, alebo chudobný človek bez jedla a prístrešku. Za 15 rokov svojho života zanechal tento chlapec stopy láskavosti v mnohých srdciach.
Ako sa mu to len podarilo? Určite, je tu aj isté tajomstvo pomoci „zhora“, bez ktorej by to nešlo. Tým druhým tajomstvom bolo, že Carlo spoznal, že zmysel svojho života nájde jedine vtedy, keď sa ním stane Boh. Pochopil, že nič nie je dôležitejšie, ako zamerať sa na nebo, na večnosť. A zo všetkých síl sa o to každý deň usiloval.
Tento chlapec však nie je žiadnym „svätuškárom“. Priprav sa, že Carlova radosť je nákazlivá a že ti možno nebude stačiť jedna kapitola z knižky na večer.
Kniha, ktorú držíš v rukách, ti pomôže zistiť, ako nasmerovať svoj život na to, čo je skutočne dôležité. Carlovi sa podarilo prísť víťazne do cieľa za rekordne krátky čas. Vďaka tomu ho môžeme od 27. apríla 2025 oslavovať ako svätého.
Evanira Mendes
This compilation of Evanira Mendes’s biography and translated publications offers for the first time in English an opportunity to revisit the music and culture of 1950s Brazil. Examining the trajectory of the Brazilian Folklore Movement, this book provides a new perspective on contemporary accounts that have overlooked the participation of women scholars from that era and seeks to grant Mendes the recognition she so richly deserves. Growing up on a farm in rural Sao Paulo State, Evanira Mendes (1929–2022) exhibited an early love of folklore, cultivated through the stories, songs, and gossip of wandering travelers in exchange for food and shelter. As she got older, she entered the Conservatório Dramático e Musical de Sao Paulo to study piano, but her love of folklore persisted, and she was invited to work in the school’s folklore archive and later as a folklore researcher for the Sao Paulo Folklore Commission from 1949 to 1959. There, she won awards including the national Sílvio Romero folklore medal; won second place in a national folklore monograph competition; helped to organize the folklore pavilion at the IV Centenary of the Founding of Sao Paulo celebration; and worked closely with important names of the era. Despite these accomplishments, she has essentially been forgotten. This book follows Evanira Mendes’s experiences working as a field researcher as part of the Sao Paulo Folklore Commission, her participation and organization at national and international folklore conferences, her participatory research in Afro-Brazilian community dances and observation and critique of Brazilian modern artistic expression in the theaters of Sao Paulo, and her work as editor of the folklore page and later weekly columnist in the Correio Paulistano newspaper. Her first-person accounts of fieldwork and participation in folklore courses are supplemented by separate published accounts from various sources, helping to compile a comprehensive portrait of music and culture in Sao Paulo and Brazil from that era.
Barbara Comyns
A ground-breaking biography of a cult British novelist. The extraordinary twentieth-century writer Barbara Comyns led a life as captivating as the narratives she spun. This pioneering biography reveals the journey of a woman who experienced hardship and single-motherhood before the age of thirty but went on to publish a sequence of novels unique in the English language. Comyns turned her hand to many jobs in order to survive, from artist’s model to piano restorer. Unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and witty woman whose life ranged from enduring poverty when young to mixing with spivs, spies and high society. While working as a housekeeper in her mid-thirties, Comyns began transforming the bleak episodes of her life into compelling fictions streaked with surrealism and deadpan humour. The Vet’s Daughter (1959), championed by Graham Greene, brought her fame, although her use of the gothic and macabre divided readers and reviewers. This biography excavates Comyns’s life and reclaims her fiction, providing a timely reassessment of her literary contribution. It sheds new light on a remarkable author who deftly captured the complexities of human life. -- .
Henry James Comes Home
In this enthralling re-creation of American novelist Henry James'' famous ten-month trip around the United States, lauded critic Peter Brooks brings to life both the literary giant and America in its Gilded Age.In 1904, after two decades of living and travelling abroad, Henry James returned to the United States to discover a world drastically different from the one he had left behind. Suddenly, the future of the world seemed to be in his native land, which he had once considered provincial, lacking in nourishment for the novelist. James thus set forth to refamiliarize himself with the United States, travelling the breadth of the land and exercising his acute powers of observation to document all that he saw. James''s ten-month journey across America and its product, the ethnographic work The American Scene, are the focus of Henry James Comes Home, scholar and literary critic Peter Brooks?s dazzling follow-up to his book Henry James Goes to Paris. Brooks combines biography and criticism to recreate James''s American journey, tracing his travels around New England, down south to Florida, across the Midwest, up the coast of California, and eventually to Seattle and Portland. For James, being American was "a complex fate," and Brooks shows how James''s keen remarks on rampant materialism and the challenges at the heart of democracy are still of enduring relevance to us in this day.
Camp
Over the years, as a camper and a counsellor, Michael Eisner absorbed the life lessons that come from sitting in the stern of a canoe or gathering around a campfire at night. In this deeply personal memoir, he recounts his experiences at one remarkable summer camp and examines how they helped turn him into the man he is today. Camp is Eisner''s ode to Keewaydin - a Vermont camp that four generations of the Eisner family have attended for 100 years - as well as a guide to growing up, building relationships, and developing the tools of leadership. Through heartwarming anecdotes from his time spent at Keewaydin and stories from his life in the upper echelons of American business that illustrate the camp''s continued influence, Eisner creates a touching and insightful portrait of his own youth, as well as a resounding declaration of summer camp as an invaluable national institution. With new material from the author on the continued impact Keewaydin has had on his life in the twenty years since the memoir''s first publication, Camp remains an important personal chronicle of the success mindset and of the character-building that a child can find in a remote corner of the Vermont woods and carry into adulthood.
Dear Mr Snippet
My very dearest Mr Snippet... World War II has just begun, and newly-married John, a young cadet army officer from London, has been forced to leave behind his beloved wife Rita. As each of them desperately try to hold onto their joint hopes and dreams, will fate grant them the future they dream of, or will the unpredictabilities of a relentless war conspire against the? hrough their passionate, witty and heartfelt letters, personal diary entries and family photographs, Dear Mr Snippet chronicles John and Rita's parallel yet contrasting lives, lived through the tensions and brutalities of World War II, Dunkirk and the Battle of Normandy. Collated by their granddaughter, Roseanna Rolph, Dear Mr Snippet is a truly compelling and unique historical memoir that transports readers back to another time, whilst shedding light on the struggles faced by military families to this day.
In the Rhododendrons
''IN THE RHODODENDRONS is vital consolation, amidst the amidst. It''s a triumph, an instant classic. Christle has become one of our art''s most urgent living practitioners'' Kaveh Akbar, author of Martyr!When Heather Christle realises that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their stories, in search of a more hopeful narrative and a future she can live with.When Heather Christle realises that she, her mother, and Virginia Woolf share a traumatic history, she begins to rewrite and intertwine each of their stories, in search of a more hopeful narrative and a future she can live with.On a recent visit to London''s Kew Gardens, Christle''s mother revealed details of a painful story from her past that took place there, under circumstances that strangely paralleled Heather''s own sexual assault during a visit to London as a teenager.Her private, British mother''s revelation - a rare burst of vulnerability in their strained relationship - propels Christle down a deep and destabilising rabbit hole of investigation, as she both reads and wanders the streets of her mother''s past, peeling back the layers of family mythologies, England''s sanctioned historical narratives, and her own buried memories. Over the course of several trips to London, with and without her mother, she visits her family''s ''birthday hill'' in Kew Gardens, the now-public homes of the Bloomsbury set, the archives of the British Library, and the backyard garden where Woolf wrote her final sentence. All the while, she finds that Woolf and her writings not only constantly seem to connect and overlap with her mother''s story, but also that the author becomes a kind of vital intermediary: a sometimes confidante, sometimes mentor, sometimes distancing lens through which Christle can safely observe her mother and their experiences.Wide-ranging and prismatic, the fruit of an insatiably curious, delightfully brilliant mind, In the Rhododendrons is part memoir, part biography of Virginia Woolf, part reckoning with the things we cannot change and the ways we can completely transform, if we dare. This utterly original book will stir readers into new ways of seeing their own lives.
Nuclear Copper
Nuclear Copper is a true story that delves into the fascinating and covert world of nuclear policing, as seen through the eyes of PC Okuhara. As Matt Okuhara became immersed in the intricacies of nuclear security, he quickly earned a position in the elite Strategic Escort Group (SEG). Alongside this extraordinary group of professionals, he embarked on a series of high-stakes assignments, safeguarding sensitive nuclear materials both domestically and abroad.In Nuclear Copper, readers are granted a rare glimpse into the clandestine world of safeguarding nuclear assets. Working hand-in-hand with international partners, PC Okuhara’s experiences are not confined to his home country. The narrative describes collaborative efforts with special forces, the French Marines, and the Japanese Coastguard. These international partnerships bring unique challenges and cultural dynamics.The risks of this work are omnipresent, and the consequences of failure are unthinkable. From identifying potential threats to uncovering attempts at nuclear espionage, the officers of the CNC navigate a world where precision, adaptability, and resolve are essential qualities.
Crackdown
Garth Mullins was born partially blind and with Albinism into a world too bright for him to fully see and too unforgiving to fully accept him. Growing up, he was often bullied, by both students and teachers, who mocked his appearance and trivialized his disability. But Garth found strength and purpose in anti-fascist activism and punk rock, a scene that accepted him for who he was and offered an escape from the alienation and drudgery of his suburban Vancouver neighbourhood. He also found solace in heroin, spurring an addiction that would span three decades. Garth''s own experiences as a heroin user, complete with dope sickness, incarceration and overdose, is a common story for those struggling with heroin and opioid addictions. And for Garth, it was this realisation, while fighting his addiction, that led him to drug activism. He had seen first-hand the failure of abstinence-based recovery programs, the fatal threat posed by unsafe drug supplies, the over-representation of drug users, particularly Black and Indigenous users, in jails and prisons. And he saw that far from the government being successful in its attempt to curb drug use, its war against drugs had been a deadly failure. Weaving together Garth''s raw and intimate account of his addiction with the broader issues and history surrounding drug treatment and policy, Crackdown offers a forceful challenge to the received wisdom about how best to treat addiction and keep drug users alive and safe.
Charles Chaplin - Môj životopis
Autobiografia Charlesa „Charlieho“ Chaplina, hviezdy nemej komédie, ktorej legendárne scénky sú dodnes známe, je neopakovateľne živým opisom života jedného z najväčších filmových tvorcov a komikov s úvodom Davida Robinsona. Charlie Chaplin bol ako dieťa očarený a inšpirovaný pohľadom na oslnivé vaudevillové hviezdy, ktoré prechádzali okolo jeho domu, a odvtedy nikdy nestratil ambíciu stať sa hercom. Chaplinova filmová kariéra Tuláka, ktorého zbožňoval celý svet, je opradená legendami, ale táto úprimná autobiografia odkrýva aj inú stránku. Chaplin sa narodil v divadelnej rodine, jeho otec zomrel na alkoholizmus a matka, ktorá nezvládala chudobu, trpela záchvatmi šialenstva. Z detstva, ktoré prežil v chudobe v južných londýnskych slumoch, našiel Chaplin únik v ranom debute na javisku music hallu, po ktorom nasledoval úspech v Amerike, založenie United Artists s D. W. Griffithom a Douglasom Fairbanksom, boj o udržanie umeleckej kontroly nad vlastnou tvorbou, séria neúspešných manželstiev a nakoniec vyhnanstvo z Hollywoodu po osobných škandáloch a prenasledovaní za jeho ľavicovú politiku počas McCarthyho éry. Sir Charles „Charlie“ Chaplin (1895 – 1976) sa narodil vo Walworthe v Londýne. Jeho najznámejšou rolou bol Tulák, všeobecne známa a kultová postava, ktorá sa objavila vo filmoch ako Kid (1921), Zlaté opojenie (1925) a Svetlá veľkomesta (1931). Medzi jeho ďalšie filmy patria Moderná doba (1936) a Diktátor (1940), satirický útok na Hitlera a nacistov.
Ő, Szirtes Tamás
A Kossuth-díjas rendező, a Madách Színház igazgatója ebben a különleges kötetben mást sem tesz, mint mesél. Mesél mesterekről és tanítványokról, a legnagyobb színészlegendákról, a hazai modern zenés színház kezdeteiről és mindennapjairól. Mesél a színházcsinálásról, fél évszázadot átölelő és ma is tovább ívelő rendezői pályájáról, útkeresésről és megérkezésről; mesél kora és korunk Magyarországáról. Megismerhetjük világlátását, átélhetjük teremtő szenvedélyét, megosztja beszélgetőpartnerével meggyőződéseit és persze kételyeit is. Olvashatunk célokról, sikerekről, vezetésről, tehetségről, kudarcokról, örömről és bánatról is. Egy könyv tele tisztelettel, humorral, iróniával és öniróniával, színházi anekdotákkal egy mindig önazonos és örökké kíváncsi alkotótól. A történetmesélés nagymesterét, Szirtes Tamást Rényi Ádám faggatta közel egy teljes éven át, hogy az olvasó számára betekintést szerezzen egy páratlanul izgalmas élet színfalai mögé.
Angels in the Cellar
Twenty years ago Peter Hahn had a breakdown while in the back of a London taxi. Emotionally exhausted by his corporate life, he no longer recognised himself, but knew he had to find a path out. Since then Peter has found his way to Le Clos de la Meslerie, a small ancient farm in the Loire Valley, where he grows and makes small-batch organic wines. Angels in the Cellar invites us to spend a year in Peter's company among the vines, where he reflects on the land, his life, regenerative farming and the lives of the small group of people he works with. We join Peter through each season, pruning the wines and harvesting the grapes by hand, before we follow him to the wine cellar, where the alchemy begins - and the angels take charge. An evocative, poetic account of a year spent working with nature, Angels in the Cellar is also a powerful repudiation of the global economy, its obsession with hyper-consumption and its impacts on the land and its ecosystems.
Idealista – Život barona Pierra de Coubertin
Píše se rok 1889 a Světová výstava stvrzuje pozici Paříže jako centra moderny. Mladý Pierre de Coubertin je plný ideálů, touží stvořit něco pro svou zemi a napomoci porozumění mezi národy. O pět let později zakládá Mezinárodní olympijský výbor a v roce 1896 stojí i za zrodem novodobých olympijských her. Na sklonku života, v Berlíně roku 1936, však Coubertin sleduje, jak se jeho sen hroutí pod tíhou nacistické propagandy. Kniha Idealista zachycuje 74 let Coubertinova života a odhaluje i dosud neznámé detaily o jeho spolupráci s Jiřím Stanislavem Guthem-Jarkovským, se kterým stavěli základy mezinárodního olympijského hnutí. Ponořte se do inspirativního, ale i tragického příběhu muže, kterému se i přes všechny překážky podařilo vybudovat sportovní událost, již dnes sledují miliardy lidí po celém světě.
Daley
DALEY Is the long-awaited autobiography of the life of double Olympic decathlon champion, Daley Thompson. Wearing his heart on his sleeve, he chronicles his legendary sporting achievements, but, for the first time, also reveals the personal struggles he faced to rise from the humblest of beginnings to become the ultimate Olympic Superstar, who then had to reconcile what he had become with his own humanity as a son and as a father. At his sporting peak, Daley was a charismatic, uncompromising, anti-establishment superhero. That was the public persona the nation loved, and which inspired a generation of Britons to realise that a young Black man could be our hero. But the introvert Daley didn't want to be 'famous' for anything other than his sporting achievements. He was, and remains, the antithesis of today's social media obsessed 'celebrity'. For him, the pure Olympian, it was only ever about the sport and the winning. Much as Daley may be cast as 'unrelenting, invincible for ten years', his sporting supremacy was a product of his singular willpower and courage. He is an invention of his own making, inherently human and born of an Olympian ideal that we all admire, yet with all the same flaws and frailties as the rest of us. Now, for the first time, he tells his story, no punches pulled.
Už neplavu tam, kde jsou krokodýli
Sabine Kueglerová, "dítě džungle", rozpolcená mezi dvěma kulturami, se v průběhu života často vrací do Papue v Nové Guinei – tam, kde vyrostla. Při jedné z těchto cest těžce onemocní, je považována za nevyléčitelnou, a tak se odhodlá k zoufalému pokusu ke své záchraně. Opustí znovu Německo a odjede zpátky do džungle, aby našla své uzdravení. Po dlouhých pěti letech plných neuvěřitelných dobrodružství se rozhodne vyprávět o svém hledání léku, ale i své identity mezi dvěma kulturami. Protože její jedinečný život jí poskytl šanci stát se ambasadorkou dvou rozdílných světů.
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How Black History Can Save Your Life
Black History''s Power to Combat RacismHow Black History Can Save Your Life by Ernest Crim III, a hate crime survivor and Anti-Racist Educator, is an essential guide for anyone seeking to combat interpersonal racism, understand the roots of discrimination, and gain actionable strategies through Black historical narratives. This black history book for adults book empowers individuals, parents, and educators with tools to challenge racism and foster equity in their communities.Shortlisted for The New York Times Bestsellers#1 New Release in African American Demographic Studies and in Black & African American BiographiesUsing Black history to fight racism. This book builds on Crim''s personal experiences, including a viral 2016 hate crime incident that profoundly shaped his career. During a night out, Crim was targeted with racial slurs, but instead of letting it defeat him, he used the situation to highlight the pervasive nature of racism in America. He captured the moment on video, sparking a national conversation about the importance of confronting and addressing discrimination.Reclaiming the stories of Black history. Crim delves deep into the stories of Black excellence, resistance, and perseverance. He equips families, parents, and educators with the tools they need to combat racism in everyday life and within schools. Through his lens as a parent and former teacher, Crim demonstrates how the untold stories of Black history hold the keys to understanding the roots of racism and how it can be untaught. Drawing on his two bestsellers—Black History Saved My Life and The ABCs of Affirming Black Children—Crim teaches readers how to deconstruct racist systems and foster equitable practices in their communities.Inside, you’ll find:Strategies to de-escalate and combat interpersonal racism in everyday situations.Tools for parents and educators to address racism in schools and educate children through an equitable lens.Inspiring Black history stories that provide a blueprint for resilience and empowerment in the face of discrimination.If you liked The Color of Law, Stamped from the Beginning, or Seven Sisters and a Brother, you’ll love How Black History Can Save Your Life.
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
