Book Description
The adventures of a young John Difool before he became the most famous Sci-Fi anti-hero.
Author : Alejandro Jodorowsky
Publisher : Humanoids Inc
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 18,8 MB
Release : 2014-03-19
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1594655898
The adventures of a young John Difool before he became the most famous Sci-Fi anti-hero.
Author : Timothy Elliott
Publisher : Macmillan Publishers Aus.
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 42,96 MB
Release : 2016-04-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1925479072
"Tim Elliott's story - on his father and love against the odds - will split your heart open." Benjamin Law Towards the end of his first serious suicide attempts, my father said the strangest thing to me... Growing up in 1970s Sydney, Tim Elliott had a loving stay-at-home mum, a professional father, three siblings, a private school education and endless opportunities to fish and surf at the nearby beaches. But this was not the idyllic childhood it appeared. A charismatic, well-respected doctor by day, Tim's father became a roaring madman at night. The house was our castle, and Dad was our king. He was an unpredictable king, tyrannous and moody, lethal one day, loving the next. This is an extraordinary memoir of growing up with a parent afflicted by mental illness: a complex elegy, powerfully told, loaded with love, rage and surprising humour. It is about the lengths children will go to protect themselves - and their families - from shame or harm, and how adapting to that adversity becomes and intractable part of who we are as adults. PRAISE FOR TIM ELLIOT "...he has brought us a most extraordinary memoir - bitter-sweet, tragicomic - and in the end redemptive." Sydney Morning Herald "Searing piece on mental illness... Bravo" Jessica Rowe "One of the finest, most moving pieces on mental illness you'll ever read" Professor Simon Chapman
Author : John Avlon
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 39,53 MB
Release : 2017-01-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1476746486
“A vivid portrait…and thoughtful consideration of George Washington’s wisdom that couldn’t be timelier” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A revealing look at the first President’s Farewell Address, a still-relevant warning against partisan politics and foreign entanglements. George Washington’s Farewell Address was a prophetic letter he wrote to his fellow citizens and signed from a “parting friend,” addressing the forces he feared could destroy our democracy: hyper-partisanship, excessive debt, and foreign wars. In it, Washington called for unity among “citizens by birth or choice,” advocated moderation, defended religious pluralism, proposed a foreign policy of independence (not isolation), and proposed that education is essential to democracy. He established the precedent for the peaceful transfer of power. Washington’s urgent message was adopted by Jefferson after years of opposition and quoted by Lincoln in defense of the Union. Woodrow Wilson invoked it for nation-building; Eisenhower for Cold War; Reagan for religion. Once celebrated as civic scripture, more widely reprinted than the Declaration of Independence, the Farewell Address is now almost forgotten. Yet its message remains starkly relevant today. In Washington’s Farewell, John Avlon offers a stunning portrait of our first president and his battle to save America from self-destruction. Washington’s Farewell “brings to light Washington’s goodbye by elucidating what it meant not only during the early days of the republic, but its lasting effect through the centuries” (Library Journal, starred review). Now the Farewell Address may inspire a new generation to re-center their politics and reunite our nation through the lessons rooted in Washington’s shared experience.
Author : Claudette E. Sutton
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,56 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781938288401
The Jews of Aleppo, Syria, had been part of the city' fabric for more than two thousand years, through good times and bad, conquerors and kings, residing alongside Christians and Muslims with respectful tolerance. By the middle years of the twentieth century, though, all that had changed, leading to an odyssey that began for the Sutton family on a fateful day in 1941. Rising anti-Semitism, Claudette Sutton's grandfather decided, required him to "export his sons", beginning with the oldest, her father, Mike. Decades later, Mike's unassuming request to his daughter to "help me get my story down on paper" opened a treasure trove of personal memories, religious history, and global politics which have come together as Farewell, Aleppo.
Author : Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 14,35 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780618216208
A true story of Japanese American experience during and after the World War internment.
Author : University of California, Berkeley
Publisher :
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 24,36 MB
Release : 1917
Category : America
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Page : 4 pages
File Size : 14,79 MB
Release : 1865
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Author : Randy Pausch
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 38,82 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cancer
ISBN : 9780340978504
The author, a computer science professor diagnosed with terminal cancer, explores his life, the lessons that he has learned, how he has worked to achieve his childhood dreams, and the effect of his diagnosis on him and his family.
Author : Laurentine Hamilton
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 19,81 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Bible
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Author : George Peele
Publisher :
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 17,2 MB
Release : 1916
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