Author : Joseph John Thomson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 39,40 MB
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1108037925
This 1936 memoir by J. J. Thomson gives a fascinating picture of Cambridge scientific research during the period 1876-1936.
Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher :
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 29,5 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0593083334
An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher; of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself; of how punk rock gave form and voice to her own fury and explosive energy. Solnit recounts how she came to recognize the epidemic of violence against women around her, the street harassment that unsettled her, the trauma that changed her, and the authority figures who routinely disdained and disbelieved girls and women, including her. Looking back, she sees all these as consequences of the voicelessness that was and still is the ordinary condition of women, and how she contended with that while becoming a writer and a public voice for women's rights. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves, the gay men around her who offered other visions of what gender, family, and joy could be, and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. These influences taught her how to write in the way she has ever since, and gave her a voice that has resonated with and empowered many others.
Author : Carl G. Jung
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 10,61 MB
Release : 2011-01-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0307772713
An eye-opening biography of one of the most influential psychiatrists of the modern age, drawing from his lectures, conversations, and own writings. "An important, firsthand document for readers who wish to understand this seminal writer and thinker." —Booklist In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, Carl Gustav Jung undertook the telling of his life story. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is that book, composed of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, as well as chapters written in his own hand, and other materials. Jung continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961, making this a uniquely comprehensive reflection on a remarkable life. Fully corrected, this edition also includes Jung's VII Sermones ad Mortuos.
Author : Wharton Jackson Green
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 14,7 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Lawyers
ISBN :
Author : Klemens von Klemperer
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,15 MB
Release : 2009-08-01
Category : History
ISBN : 184545944X
The account of the author’s life, spent between Europe and America, is at the same time an account of his generation, one that came of age between the two World Wars. Recalling not only circumstances of his own situation but that of his friends, the author shows how this generation faced a reality that seemed fragmented, and in their shared thirst for knowledge and commitment to ideas they searched for cohesiveness among the glittering, holistic ideologies and movements of the twenties and thirties. The author’s scholarly work on the German Resistance to Hitler revealed to him those who maintained dignity and courage in times of peril and despair, which became for him a life’s pursuit. This work is unique in its thorough inclusion of the postwar decades and its perspective from a historian eager to rescue the “other” Germany—the Germany of the righteous rather than the Holocaust murderers.
Author : The Lep Report
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 46,15 MB
Release :
Category : Music
ISBN :
IF YOU REALLY WANT TO INDULGE IN DEF LEPPARD, THEN THIS BOOK IS DEFINITELY FOR YOU! This book includes 37 chapters all about Def Leppard, featuring in-depth write-ups on the band's studio albums and select single releases **PLUS** never-before-told personal stories **AND** never-before-seen pictures! Includes: * IN-DEPTH write-ups spotlighting the band's original studio albums (plus the Retro Active compilation) and select single releases. This compendium is completely refreshed from the original versions that were written for The Lep Report. Also, a brand new, rare, from-the-inside look at the Vault greatest hits release ("Peeks Inside Vault's Vault & More")! * BRAND NEW write-ups spotlighting the Hysteria singles WOMEN, LOVE BITES, and ROCKET (And A Personal One At That!). * Numerous chapters featuring NEVER-BEFORE-TOLD personal stories (along with NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN pictures) from my time working at the band's record label in the mid-'90s, with some of my favorite memories and interactions involving the band. Chapters include "Stumping Sav," "Meet. Greet. Repeat.," "Poor Sav...And, Go Joe!," "Definitely Not A Wardrobe Malfunction," and much more! * Tribute chapters spotlighting JOE ELLIOTT ("The Ballad of Joe: Reflections & An Appreciation"), "MUTT" LANGE ("The Magical Mysteria Of "Mutt" Lange"), and STEVE CLARK ("A Tribute") * Song By Song: Ranking And Reviewing Def Leppard Songs Chapter Breakdown: Introduction: How It All Started Personal Story: Stumping Sav Personal Story: A Special Radio Request Album Spotlight: On Through The Night Album Spotlight: High 'n' Dry Album Spotlight: Pyromania Album Spotlight: Hysteria Steve Clark: A Tribute Album Spotlight: Adrenalize Album Spotlight: Retro Active Peeks Inside Vault's Vault & More! Album Spotlight: Slang Album Spotlight: Euphoria Album Spotlight: X Album Spotlight: Songs from the Sparkle Lounge Album Spotlight: Def Leppard Personal Story: If It Pleases You, It Pleases...Them Personal Story: An 'Ugly' Situation With A Concert On The Side Personal Story: Definitely Not a Wardrobe Malfunction Personal Story: Where Does Love Go When It Dies? Right Here! Single Spotlight: "Women" Single Spotlight: "Hysteria" Single Spotlight: "Pour Some Sugar On Me" Single Spotlight: "Love Bites" Single Spotlight (And A Personal One At That!): "Rocket" Single Spotlight: "Let's Get Rocked" Single Spotlight: "Make Love Like A Man" Single Spotlight: "Tonight" Single Spotlight: "Promises" Single Spotlight: "Long Long Way To Go" Single Spotlight: "Nine Lives" The Magical Mysteria Of "Mutt" Lange Personal Story: Poor Sav...And, Go Joe! Personal Story: And Now A Quick Break For The Scent Of Glitter Personal Story: The Ballad of Joe (Reflections & An Appreciation) Personal Story: Meet. Greet. Repeat. Song By Song: Ranking And Reviewing Def Leppard's Songs So rise up and gather round -- better yet, get really comfortable and get ready -- to indulge in A LOT of Def Leppard with this must-read, definitive book! From the creator of the Def Leppard fansite The Def Leppard Report (aka The Lep Report). ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!
Author : Jeff Strand
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,44 MB
Release : 2020-12-10
Category :
ISBN :
Jeff Strand, whose work Publishers Weekly has called "wickedly funny" and Kirkus has called "ridiculously stupid," has had one of the least meteoric rises to success in the publishing industry. But he eventually got there, even if he should probably put "success" in quotes. He's been at it a long time, and has learned a lot of lessons along the way. And he shares them with brutal honesty in this very book, along with plenty of hilarious (and sometimes painful) anecdotes about his career. This is not a book that will tell you how to format a manuscript or write a compelling query letter. It's a book about how to cope with rejection and bad reviews. Book signings where nobody shows up. Helplessly watching your peers go on to greater success than you. He's been through all of that and so much more, and in these pages you'll have a bunch of laughs as you commiserate and figure out how to get through it all.
Author : Ghazi Q. Hassoun
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 13,80 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781935766612
The personal story of a Palestinian born in Haifa in 1935. As a result of the Israeli/Palestinian war of 1948, he and his family became refugees in Tyre, Lebanon. Later, he emigrated to the United States where he received a PhD in theoretical physics and taught, as a university professor, for more than three decades.
Author : Sir Chimanlal Harilal Setalvad
Publisher :
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 47,4 MB
Release : 1946
Category : India
ISBN :
Author : John Grosvenor Beevor
Publisher :
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 44,33 MB
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN :
