Inge Jens erzahlt erstmals aus ihrem eigenen Leben. Die Literaturwissenschaftlerin berichtet in dieser Autorenlesung uber Kindheit und Jugend in Hamburg, die Studienzeit in Tubingen und die Familiengrundung mit dem beruhmten Schriftsteller und Gelehrten Walter Jens. Sie beschreibt ihren Weg von der Rolle als Frau an seiner Seite zu einer erfolgreichen Autorin. Begegnungen mit Zeitgenossen wie Katia und Golo Mann oder Johannes Rau kommen zur Spra ...
Maailmakirjanduse vaartteoste armastatud tolkija Valda Raua 100. sunniaastapaeva tahistamiseks ilmus tema paevikute, kirjade ja markmete pohjal koostatud raamat „Uks elu“, milles avaneb nii ta enda ja tema perekonna kaekaik kui ka aeg ja inimesed, kultuurisundmused ning seltsielu labi aastakumnete. Lisaks kummekond tolkenaidist, Valda Raua loomingu muljetavaldav bibliograafia, arvukalt fotosid. Lugeja ette ilmuvate inimeste nimed votab viiel leh ...
Занимательные истории из жизни. Воспоминания автора рисуют картины из детства и партизанской юности; перипетии судьбы во время Второй Мировой войны; интересные случаи во время путешествий. Ярко описаны душевные переживания.
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Growing up and living in Kibera, Kenya, Abdul Kassim was well aware of the disproportionate number of challenges faced by women due to the extreme gender inequalities that persist in the slums. After being raised by his aunts, his mother, and his grandmother and having a daughter himself, he felt that he needed to make a difference. In 2002, Abdul started a soccer team for girls called Girls Soccer in Kibera (GSK), with the hope of fostering a s ...
In this book, Senator Bernie Sanders explains where he comes from. He describes in detail how, after cutting his teeth in the Civil Rights movement, Sanders helped build an extraordinary grassroots political movement in Vermont, making it possible for him to become the first independent elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in forty years and now the longest-serving independent in U.S. political history. An extensive afterword by The Nati ...
A passionate memoir of the author's discovery of her grandmother's true identity. Growing up in the small town of Maden in Turkey, Fethiye Cetin knew her grandmother as a happy and respected Muslim housewife called Seher. Only decades later did she discover the truth. Her grandmother's name was not Seher but Heranus. She was born a Christian Armenian. Most of the men in her village had been slaughtered in 1915. A Turkish gendarm ...
Weddings. They're fun, festive, and joyful – they offer endless opportunities to reexamine love and what we want for ourselves, regardless of whether or not our aim is a walk down the aisle. In Save the Date, Jen Doll charts the course of her own perennial wedding guesthood, from the ceremony of distant family members when she was eight to the recent nuptials of a new boyfriend's friends. Wedding experiences come in as varied an assort ...
This work, unsurprisingly, offers invaluable insights into the life and times of Charles Darwin, his personality and the formative influences that made him what he was, for here we have his own words and 'voice' at the close of a prodigiously productive career. He tells of his childhood, his student days at Edinburgh and Cambridge, his love of beetles, shooting and geology and of his grandfather, Josiah Wedgwood. He talks at some lengt ...
