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Par Nadja Halilbegović. 2007
Mon enfance sous les bombes, journal de Nadja des années 1992 à 1995, est un hommage aux milliers de victimes…
du siège de Sarajevo et aux enfants qui, de par le monde, vivent - et meurent toujours - sous les bombes. Les réflexions de Nadja Halilbegovich sur la vie et la mort, ses appels au secours à l'Amérique de Clinton, son désarroi poignant et l'espoir toujours renouvelé de jours meilleurs ne peuvent laisser personne indifférent. Les enfants notamment se sentiront interpellés par le récit de cette jeune fille qui leur ressemble... À noter aussi les commentaires de l'auteure devenue adulte insérés ça et là dans le texte sous le titre de Retour en arrière qui apportent des précisions au journal, de même qu'un prologue et un épilogue. -- 4e de couvPar Donovan Bailey. 2023
A memoir of Olympic glory, the value of mentorship and the courage to champion your own excellence, from the long-reigning…
world's fastest man, Canadian sprinting legend Donovan Bailey.From the lush fields of his boyhood in Jamaica, to the basketball courts of Oakville, where he came of age in one of Canada’s most thriving cultural mosaics, to his sprint toward double Olympic gold for Canada in Atlanta in 1996, Donovan Bailey got a long way on natural talent. But he also learned that in the bureaucratic world of Canadian sports, an athlete who didn't come up in the system needed to take charge of his fate if he was going to become the world’s best. As he ascended from outsider to dominant athlete, others didn’t always understand the rigour at work behind Bailey’s confident demeanour. He’d learned from watching Muhammad Ali that a champion needed to act like a champion. But media grew fixated on the sprinter’s immodesty, the likes of which they never saw from Canadian athletes, especially track athletes in the wake of the Ben Johnson doping scandal at Seoul in 1988. Bailey was having none of it, and when he called out Canada's subtle racism and contradicted the prevailing idea most Canadians had of their country, he left in his wake a media uproar and cracked wide open the nation’s moral complacency. In addition to his unforgettable 100-metre and 4x100 relay gold-medal sprints in Atlanta, Bailey's track career was a litany of records and rare accomplishments, including his audacious 1997 race in Toronto's SkyDome against American 200-metre Olympic champion Michael Johnson to determine who was really the world’s fastest man. There was no disputing the result. Bailey had been coached in success before he was seriously coached in athletics. Following the lead of his father, a machinist-turned-real estate investor, Bailey became a millionaire by the age of 21, an experience he continues to draw on as an entrepreneur and philanthropist. Frank about his dominance on the track and unapologetic for expecting as much of those around him as he expects of himself, Undisputed is an athlete's story that refuses to settle for second best.Par Andrew Forbes. 2016
Spitball literary essays on the off-kilter joys, sorrows and wonder of North America’s national pastime. A collection of essays for…
ardent seamheads and casual baseball fans alike, The Utility of Boredom is a book about finding respite and comfort in the order, traditions, and rituals of baseball. It’s a sport that shows us what a human being might be capable of, with extreme dedication—whether we’re eating hot dogs in the stands, waiting out a rain delay in our living rooms, or practising the lost art of catching a stray radio signal from an out-of-market broadcast. From learning about America through ball-diamond visits to the most famous triple play that never happened on Canadian soil, Forbes invites us to witness the adult conversing with the O-Pee-Chee baseball cards of his youth. Tender, insightful, and with the slow heartbreak familiar to anyone who’s cheered on a losing team, The Utility of Boredom tells us a thing or two about the sport, and how a seemingly trivial game might help us make sense of our messy lives.Par Rick Mercer. 2023
THE INSTANT #1 BESTSELLERRick Mercer is back—again!—with the eagerly awaited sequel to his bestselling memoirAt the end of his memoir…
Talking to Canadians, Rick Mercer was poised to make the biggest leap yet in his extraordinary career. Having overcome a serious lack of promise as a schoolboy and risen through the showbiz ranks—as an aspiring actor, star of a surprisingly successful one-man show about the Meech Lake Accord, co-founder of This Hour Has 22 Minutes, creator and star of the dark-comedy sitcom Made in Canada—he was about to tackle his biggest opportunity yet. The Road Years picks up the story at that exciting point, with the greenlighting of what would become Rick Mercer Report. Plans for the show, of course, included political satire and Rick’s patented rants. But Rick and his partner, Gerald Lunz, were also determined to do something that comedy tends to avoid as too challenging: they would emphasize the positive. Rick would travel from coast to coast to coast in search of everything that’s best about Canada, especially its people. He found a lot to celebrate, naturally, and was rewarded with a huge audience and a run of 15 seasons. The Road Years tells the inside story of that stupendous success. A time when Rick was heading to another town—or military base, sports centre, national park—to try dogsledding, chainsaw carving, and bear tagging; hang from a harness (a lot); ride the “Train of Death;” plus countless other joyous and/or reckless assignments. Added to the mix were encounters with the country’s great. Every living prime minister. Rock and roll royalty from Rush to Randy Bachman. Olympians and Paralympians. A skinny-dipping Bob Rae. And Jann Arden, of course, who gets a chapter to herself. Along the way he even found the time to visit several countries in Africa and co-found and champion the charity Spread the Net, which has gone on to protect the lives of millions. Join the celebration, and revive a wealth of happy memories, with what is Rick Mercer’s funniest, most fascinating book yet.Par Manjula Martin. 2024
H Is for Hawk meets Joan Didion in the Pyrocene in this arresting combination of memoir, natural history, and literary…
inquiry that chronicles one woman&’s experience of life in Northern California during the worst fire season on record.A MOST-ANTICIPATED BOOK: The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Saturday Evening Post, Poets & Writers, The Millions, Alta, Heat Map NewsTold in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means—now—to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. She was also seeking refuge from a health crisis that left her with chronic pain, and found a sense of healing through tending her garden beneath the redwoods of Sonoma County. But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent: each autumn, her garden filled with smoke and ash, and the local firehouse siren wailed deep into the night.In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record, Martin, along with thousands of other Californians, evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. Both a love letter to the forests of the West and an interrogation of the colonialist practices that led to their current dilemma, The Last Fire Season, follows her from the oaky hills of Sonoma County to the redwood forests of coastal Santa Cruz, to the pines and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, as she seeks shelter, bears witness to the devastation, and tries to better understand fire&’s role in the ecology of the West. As Martin seeks a way to navigate the daily experience of living in a damaged body on a damaged planet, she comes to question her own assumptions about nature and the complicated connections between people and the land on which we live.Par David Grann. 2023
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck,…
survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on The Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.A Best Book of the Year: The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker, TIME, Smithsonian, NPR, Vulture, Kirkus Reviews&“Riveting...Reads like a thriller, tackling a multilayered history—and imperialism—with gusto.&” —Time "A tour de force of narrative nonfiction.&” —The Wall Street JournalOn January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty&’s Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as &“the prize of all the oceans,&” it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.But then ... six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes – they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death—for whomever the court found guilty could hang.The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann&’s recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O&’Brian, his portrayal of the castaways&’ desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann&’s work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.Par Kate Manne. 2024
The definitive takedown of fatphobia, drawing on personal experience as well as rigorous research to expose how size discrimination harms…
everyone, and how to combat it—from the acclaimed author of Down Girl and Entitled&“An elegant, fierce, and profound argument for fighting fat oppression in ourselves, our communities, and our culture.&”—Roxane Gay, author of HungerFor as long as she can remember, Kate Manne has wanted to be smaller. She can tell you what she weighed on any significant occasion: her wedding day, the day she became a professor, the day her daughter was born. She&’s been bullied and belittled for her size, leading to extreme dieting. As a feminist philosopher, she wanted to believe that she was exempt from the cultural gaslighting that compels so many of us to ignore our hunger. But she was not.Blending intimate stories with the trenchant analysis that has become her signature, Manne shows why fatphobia has become a vital social justice issue. Over the last several decades, implicit bias has waned in every category, from race to sexual orientation, except one: body size. Manne examines how anti-fatness operates—how it leads us to make devastating assumptions about a person&’s attractiveness, fortitude, and intellect, and how it intersects with other systems of oppression. Fatphobia is responsible for wage gaps, medical neglect, and poor educational outcomes; it is a straitjacket, restricting our freedom, our movement, our potential.In this urgent call to action, Manne proposes a new politics of &“body reflexivity&”—a radical reevaluation of who our bodies exist in the world for: ourselves and no one else. When it comes to fatphobia, the solution is not to love our bodies more. Instead, we must dismantle the forces that control and constrain us, and remake the world to accommodate people of every size.Par Charlotte Gill. 2023
"A Canadian masterpiece."—Toronto StarAn award-winning writer retraces her unconventional, biracial, globe-trotting family&’s journey as she reckons with ethnicity and belonging,…
diversity and race, and the complexities of life within a multicultural household.Charlotte Gill&’s father is Indian. Her mother is English. They meet in 1960s London when the world is not quite ready for interracial love. Their union results in a total meltdown of familial relations, a lot of immigration paperwork, and three children, all in varying shades of tan. Together they set off on a journey to Canada and the United States in an elusive pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness—a dream that eventually tears them apart.Almost Brown is an exploration of diasporic intermingling involving two deeply eccentric parents from worlds apart and their half-brown children as they experience the paradoxes and conundrums of life as it&’s lived between race checkboxes. Their intercultural experiment features turbans and tube socks, chana masala and Cherry Coke, feminist uprisings, racial alliances and divides, a divorce, multiple grudges, and plenty of bad fashion. The family implodes, but after twenty years of silence, father and daughter reclaim a space for forgiveness and love.Almost Brown is a funny, turbulent, and ultimately heartwarming book about the brilliant messiness of a mixed-race family and a search for answers to the question, What are you? Tender and incisive, it is both a deeply personal memoir and an excavation into ethnicity, ancestry, and race—a historical concept that still informs our beliefs about identity today.Par Nicholas Guyatt. 2022
A leading historian reveals the never-before-told story of a doomed British prison and the massacre of its American prisoners of…
warAfter the War of 1812, more than five thousand American sailors were marooned in Dartmoor Prison on a barren English plain; the conflict was over but they had been left to rot by their government. Although they shared a common nationality, the men were divided by race: nearly a thousand were Black, and at the behest of the white prisoners, Dartmoor became the first racially segregated prison in US history.The Hated Cage documents the extraordinary but separate communities these men built within the prison—and the terrible massacre of nine Americans by prison guards that destroyed these worlds. As white people in the United States debated whether they could live alongside African Americans in freedom, could Dartmoor&’s Black and white Americans band together in captivity? Drawing on extensive new material, The Hated Cage is a gripping account of this forgotten history.Par Annabel Abbs. 2024
'Sleepless has changed how I feel about sleep . . . I was captivated' The Times, Book of the Week'This…
book will inspire you to get up, light a candle, and experience your own Night Self' Financial TimesTHE NIGHT SELF IS: CREATIVE. CURIOUS. VULNERABLE. ENCHANTED. COURAGEOUS.In the winter of 2020, Annabel Abbs experienced a series of bereavements. As she grieved, she kept busy by day, but at night sleep eluded her. And yet her sleeplessness led to a profound and unexpected discovery: her Night Self. As the night transformed into a place of creativity and liberation, Annabel found she wasn't alone. From the radical fifteenth-century philosopher Laura Cereta and subversive artist Louise Bourgeois, to Virginia Woolf and the activist Peace Pilgrim, women have long found sanctuary, inspiration and courage in darkness.Drawing on the latest science, which shows we are more imaginative, open-minded and reflective at night, Annabel set out to discover the potential of her Night Self. Sleepless follows her journey, from midnight hikes to starlit swims, from Singapore, the brightest city on Earth, to the darkest corner of the Arctic Circle, and finally to that most elusive of places - sleep.A moving, revelatory voyage into the dark, Sleepless invites us to feel less anxious about our sleep, and to embrace the possibilities of the night.Par Gill Johnson. 2024
In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris,…
Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Love from Venice is her vivid evocation of that summer, the last hurrah of the European Grand Tour, when the international jet set lit upon the city for their fun. Drawing on letters that she wrote to David Ross, her admirer and correspondent, and to her parents in London, Johnson describes her life as she flits from palazzo to Lido to palazzo. Absorbed into the social whirl of the super-rich, how do her feelings for her love begin to change?This is a moving and witty memoir of a young woman coming to terms with her own feelings and destiny, and learning about different aspects of love from the people she meets, all set in high-season Venice in a halcyon age.Par Gill Johnson. 2024
In the summer of 1957, rebelling against her family and anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris,…
Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Love from Venice is her vivid evocation of that summer, the last hurrah of the European Grand Tour, when the international jet set lit upon the city for their fun. Drawing on letters that she wrote to David Ross, her admirer and correspondent, and to her parents in London, Johnson describes her life as she flits from palazzo to Lido to palazzo. Absorbed into the social whirl of the super-rich, how do her feelings for her love begin to change?This is a moving and witty memoir of a young woman coming to terms with her own feelings and destiny, and learning about different aspects of love from the people she meets, all set in high-season Venice in a halcyon age.Par Peter Englund. 1988
Poltava y el nacimiento del Imperio Ruso. La batalla de Poltava en 1709 marca el nacimiento del Imperio ruso de…
Pedro el Grande. En 1700, el zar, de acuerdo con Dinamarca, Sajonia y Polonia, decidió acabar con la hegemonía sueca del norte de Europa. Cuando estas fuerzas internacionales consiguieron derrotar a las tropas del rey Carlos XII en Poltava, Ucrania, empezó el principio del declive y colapso del Imperio sueco y el ascenso de Rusia.Junio de 1709. La guerra dura ya nueve largos años, y el ejército de Carlos XII sitia la ciudad de Poltava, en Ucrania. La caravana a Moscú se ha detenido, y el ejército ruso bajo las órdenes del zar Pedro está solo a cuatro kilómetros de distancia. Los suecos se han estado preparando para la batalla y las tropas, que habían estado desperdigadas por las llanuras de Ucrania, se han congregado. El plan consiste en marchar al amparo de la oscuridad y pillar a los rusos por sorpresa, pero cuando sale el sol todo el plan se desbarata.En este libro se retrata el golpe fatal, hora tras hora, la catástrofe que sesgó 10000 vidas. Se analizan las estrategias en el campo de batalla, los detalles que hacen la historia comprensible, real. A través de los diarios y cartas de los testigos, lo sucedido se llena de las voces de los que estaban allí: el general, sus sirvientes, soldados, el capellán y la viuda de un soldado...Par Hua Hsu. 2022
PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the…
solace that can be found through art, by the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu&“This book is exquisite and excruciating and I will be thinking about it for years and years to come.&” —Rachel Kushner, New York Times bestselling author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars RoomIn the eyes of eighteen-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken—with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity—is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for generations, is mainstream; for Hua, the son of Taiwanese immigrants, who makes &’zines and haunts Bay Area record shops, Ken represents all that he defines himself in opposition to. The only thing Hua and Ken have in common is that, however they engage with it, American culture doesn&’t seem to have a place for either of them.But despite his first impressions, Hua and Ken become friends, a friendship built on late-night conversations over cigarettes, long drives along the California coast, and the successes and humiliations of everyday college life. And then violently, senselessly, Ken is gone, killed in a carjacking, not even three years after the day they first meet.Determined to hold on to all that was left of one of his closest friends—his memories—Hua turned to writing. Stay True is the book he&’s been working on ever since. A coming-of-age story that details both the ordinary and extraordinary, Stay True is a bracing memoir about growing up, and about moving through the world in search of meaning and belonging.Par Juan Fernández-Miranda, Javier Chicote Lerena. 2021
Una investigación explosiva que desvelará la historia de España,desde el 23-F y la caída de la UCD hasta el felipismo…
y la consolidación de José María Aznar. La fuente de este riguroso y minucioso trabajo de investigación periodística es el archivo personal de Emilio Alonso Manglano, director del CESID entre 1981 y 1995: sus agendas, sus cuadernos de notas y los informes de inteligencia que guardó: una investigación de varios años repleta de secretos y ocultismo sobre el contenido de más de 200 kilos de documentos que desentrañan la historia nunca contada de España. Personajes como el Rey Juan Carlos, Adolfo Suárez, Mario Conde, Felipe González o Margarita Robles son algunos de los muchos protagonistas de este libro. Reseñas:«Una contribución periodística e histórica de gran relevancia. Ofrece una perspectiva inédita de la España de los años 80 y 90 y arroja luz directa sobre momentos claves de nuestra Historia.»ABC «Un libro que cuestionará algunas de las versiones que se han tenido por ciertas de ese turbio periodo de la reciente historia de España que fue el felipismo.»Fernando Palmero, El Mundo«Los apuntes del militar ponen al desnudo la realidad incorrecta, miserable y en ocasiones delictiva, manejada por los gestores de la seguridad nacional.»Juan Luis Cebrián, El País «Un carboncillo muy bien hecho –porque la cosa es oscura– de las cloacas del felipismo. Está escritocomo en las películas: en equipo, de madrugada, con material exclusivo y el poder vigilando.»Daniel Ramírez, El Español «Un apasionante libro, una investigaciónde largo alcance que desvela oscuros capítulos de la historia de España.»Azahara Villacorta, El Comercio «El jefe de los espías causa a veces desasosiego, pero nunca indefensión. Nos deja un poco más solos y más huérfanos en su complejidad, pero nos distingue del rebaño de la humillación y saber lo que no sabíamos nos hace mejores y nos permite tener una visión más nítida y menos fanática de nuestra historia y de nosotros mismos.»Salvador Sostres, ABC«Lo recomiendo mucho.»Pilar Eyre, periodista y escritora «Es un libro de categoría donde hay reflexiones muy positivas y muy negativas de Manglano.»Luis María Anson «Tiene un índice suculento, con el que cualquiera quedaría enganchado.»Pedro J. Ramírez «Fernández-Miranday Chicote han hecho un gran servicio al país y, en particular, a los historiadores.»Javier Carrasco, Castellón Plaza «El enfrentamiento de Juan Carlos con Suárez y los fondos secretos que recibió de Arabia Saudí durante décadas quedan confirmados.»Iñigo Sáenz de Ugarte, eldiarioes «El libro es muy jugoso. Un repaso de la historia reciente de España.»Fernando de Haro, La tarde COPE«Un documento imprescindible para entender el presente.»Publishers Weekly «Una investigación que aporta datos inéditos de la historia de España.»Servimedia «El volumen saca a la luz el archivo secreto de Emilio Manglano, consejero del rey y director del CESID durante 14 años. Era el jefe del espionaje,el hombre más informado de España. Lo sabía todo. Y lo documentó todo.»Juan Luis Galiacho, El Cierre Digital «Apasionante libro.»Jorge Alacid, Las ProvinciasThey were a small group of conspirators who risked their lives by plotting relentlessly to obstruct and destroy the Third…
Reich from within. The Gestapo nicknamed this shadowy confederation of traitors the &“Black Orchestra.&” This is their tension-filled story. As the &“Final Solution&” unfolds, a loose network of German military officers, diplomats, politicians, and civilians are doing everything in their power to undermine the Third Reich from the inside: reporting troop movements to the Allies, feeding disinformation to the Nazi high command, plotting to assassinate Adolf Hitler, and more. The Gestapo nicknames this shadowy confederation of traitors the &“Black Orchestra.&” Its players include Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a dissident Lutheran pastor, and his brother-in-law Hans von Dohnanyi, a staff attorney at the Abwehr, the German military intelligence service. In this tension-filled narrative, Tom Dunkel traces the perilous movements of these &“white knights&” as they and their families face constant danger of being exposed and executed. Some act out of moral outrage and patriotism. Some want to atone for their own Nazi sins. When their treasonous activities are finally discovered, Hitler&’s SS and the Gestapo are hell-bent on taking bloody revenge as the end of the war rapidly approaches and lives hang in the balance. White Knights in the Black Orchestra is a tautly written, meticulously reported account of men and women heroically resisting Hitler&’s ruthless regime. It packs the punch of the best espionage thrillers, but the cat-and-mouse drama and plot twists are grounded firmly in fact. This is a stirring story of people willing to risk all by doing the right thing in a country gone mad, a story that may prompt readers to ask themselves &“What would I have done?&”Par Anna Reid. 2023
&“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine's brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.&”—Financial TimesBorderland tells the…
story of Ukraine. A thousand years ago it was the center of the first great Slav civilization, Kievan Rus. In 1240, the Mongols invaded from the east, and for the next seven centuries, Ukraine was split between warring neighbors: Lithuanians, Poles, Russians, Austrians, and Tatars. Again and again, borderland turned into battlefield: during the Cossack risings of the seventeenth century, Russia's wars with Sweden in the eighteenth, the Civil War of 1918-1920, and under Nazi occupation. Ukraine finally won independence in 1991, with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Bigger than France and a populous as Britain, it has the potential to become one of the most powerful states in Europe. In this finely written and penetrating book, Anna Reid combines research and her own experiences to chart Ukraine's tragic past. Talking to peasants and politicians, rabbis and racketeers, dissidents and paramilitaries, survivors of Stalin's famine and of Nazi labor camps, she reveals the layers of myth and propaganda that wrap this divided land. From the Polish churches of Lviv to the coal mines of the Russian-speaking Donbass, from the Galician shtetlech to the Tatar shantytowns of Crimea, the book explores Ukraine's struggle to build itself a national identity, and identity that faces up to a bloody past, and embraces all the peoples within its borders.Par Alice Walker. 2010
The National Book Award– and Pulitzer Prize–winning author&’s fascinating and far-reaching conversations with acclaimed writers and thought leaders. Spanning…
more than three decades, this collection of fascinating discussions between Alice Walker and renowned writers, leaders, and teachers, explores the changes that Walker has experienced in the world, as well as the change she herself has brought to it. Compelling literary and cultural figures such as Gloria Steinem, Pema Chödrön, and Howard Zinn represent a different stage in Walker&’s artistic and spiritual development. Yet, they also offer an unprecedented look at her career and political growth. Noted literary scholar Rudolph Byrd sets Walker&’s work into context with an introductory essay, as well as with a comprehensive annotated bibliography of her writings. &“Read as separate pieces, these conversations offer vivid glimpses of Walker&’s energetic personality. Taken together, they offer a sense of her marvelous engagement with her world.&” —Kirkus ReviewsPar Ian Baxter. 2018
A photographic documentation of the German foreign volunteer unit—&“a valuable addition to any enthusiast&’s library of WWII military history books&”…
(Firetrench). Drawing on a superb collection of rare and unpublished photographs, the 5th SS Division Wiking 1941-1945 is the 5th book in the Waffen-SS Images of War Series by Ian Baxter. The book tells the dramatic story of the 5th SS Panzer Division Wiking at War. The men of the division were recruited from foreign volunteers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Estonia, the Netherlands and Belgium under the command of German officers. Not all were collaborators—the choice they were all too often presented with was join up or be locked up—or worse. During the course of the war, the division served on the Eastern Front in 1941. It surrendered in May 1945 to the American forces in Austria. &“The photos are mostly unpublished before and give an excellent impression of Wiking at war. We see a good variety of conditions over the 5 years of their war, from the height of summer to the depths of winter. We see fine detail of their uniforms and personal equipment as well as the development of larger equipment from motorcycles and early Panzer IVs, to the larger Panthers of the final period. There is also good coverage of anti-aircraft and anti-tank weapons as well as heavier artillery. There is a good spread of detail in here which will interest the historian as well as the reenactors, militaria collectors and modelers alike.&”—Military Model ScenePar Frederic Porta, Manuel Tomás. 2021
Després de la publicació de Barça inèdit i Barça insòlit, arriba Barça oblidat, amb les més recents pinzellades extretes d'aquest…
immens tapís, d'aquest tresor que l’aficionat a l'esport, en general, i el barcelonista, en particular, coneixeran de bon grat. Barça oblidat és el llibre que tanca la trilogia realitzada per Manuel Tomàs i Frederic Porta sobre la història del F.C. Barcelona. Després de Barça inèdit i Barça insòlit, convertits ja en llibres de referència i consulta per als interessats en la matèria, aquest últim volum torna a submergir-se en la prolífica i centenària trajectòria del club blaugrana, situant tots els fets en el seu context polític, econòmic i social a partir del rigor i d'una lectura tan amena com didàctica. Així, els autors completen 2.400 píndoles d'aproximació al ric passat de l'entitat que qualsevol culer, i per extensió aficionat curiós al futbol, hauria de conèixer sobre l'ambaixador més destacat que hagi tingut mai Catalunya.Reprenent la celebrada fórmula del trencadís, els autors formen un relat basat en la investigació d'actes oficials, documents fins ara desconeguts i l'hemeroteca periodística de temps pretèrits. Onze capítols on es rescaten tota mena d'episodis, anècdotes, personatges i circumstàncies que no mereixen caure en l'oblit. Vuit-centes anècdotes noves que retraten una visió panoràmica del Barça a través dels seus 121 anys de trajectòria singular. En definitiva, el tercer lliurament d'una obra que homenatja la memòria històrica del barcelonisme, tantscops, dissortadament, marginada. Fins i tot per aquells que estimen el club i el consideren part bàsica del seu sentiment personal. La crítica ha dit...«Completa encara més les històries sobre el F.C. Barcelona que ens van relatar en els seus dos llibres anteriors. Un altre encert de Córner.»Tardes de Domecq «Píndoles de barcelonisme per aproximar-se de manera amena i de vegades punyent a la rica història blaugrana.»Xavier G. Luque, La Vanguardia«Una feina de documentació a l’hemeroteca i als arxius que barregen dades històriques amb detalls de la vida diària.»La Razón «Un llibre amè i àgil que convida a despumar la opulència dels grans clubs i a reconèixer la importància de tantes persones, llocs isuccessos que, des de la quotidianitat, han passat a formar part de la manera de ser dels equips. Tot i que de vegades semblin oblidades.»Pedro Zuazua, El País