Биографии и Мемуары
Различные книги в жанре Биографии и МемуарыA Shape in the Dark
In <i>A Shape in the Dark</i>, wilderness guide and lifelong Alaskan Bjorn Dihle weaves personal experience with historical and contemporary accounts to explore the world of brown bears–from encounters with the Lewis and Clark Expedition, frightening attacks including the famed death of Timothy Treadwell, the controversies related to bear hunting, the animal’s place in native cultures, and the impacts on the species from habitat degradation and climate change. Much more than a report on human-bear interactions, this compelling story intimately explores our relationship with one of the world’s most powerful predators. An authentic and thoughtful work, it blends outdoor adventure, history, and elements of memoir to present a mesmerizing portrait of Alaska’s brown bears and grizzlies, informed by the species’ larger history and their fragile future.
Настоящая любовь. Автобиография звезды
Эта книга – откровенный дневник певицы, в котором она честно рассказывает о той стороне своей жизни, которая скрыта от софитов рампы и объективов телекамер. Уход мужа из семьи заставил Дженнифер о многом задуматься, вспомнить свою бедную жизнь с родителями и сестрами, занятия танцами, прошлые браки и отношения. Она пришла к выводу, что ей не хватало самоуважения – в детстве она всегда старалась быть хорошей, чтобы заслужить любовь родителей. Позднее в отношениях с мужчинами Дженнифер растворялась в партнере, всегда была зависима от него. В певческой и актерской карьере ей всегда помогали менеджеры, а в личной сфере она действовала на свой страх и риск, не всегда правильно понимая, как и что надо делать. Задуматься о своей жизни ее заставила бескорыстная, настоящая любовь детей (отсюда и название книги), и Дженнифер поняла, что достойна лучшего.
Битва с огнем. Жизнь и служба лондонского пожарного
Груз ответственности, лежащий на пожарных, не просто велик – огромен. Они приходят на помощь людям в самых разных ситуациях, от комичных до трагических. Сегодня пожарный снимает с дерева кошку, а завтра вытаскивает ребенка из огня. Но что он чувствует при этом сам? Как справляется с собственными переживаниями? Какой опыт выносит из каждой смены на работе? Именно об этом и решил рассказать читателям автор Эдрик Кеннеди-Макфой – спортсмен, тренер и в прошлом лондонский пожарный. В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет.
Tranquility Lost
In 1983, the BC provincial government announced plans to close Tranquille, a large residential institution for persons with intellectual disabilities located outside Kamloops. The announcement was made with no community placement plans for residents. The nearly six hundred employees of Tranquille, members of the BC Government Employees Union and the Union of Psychiatric Nurses, were alarmed by the lack of any Ministry of Human Resources planning for the future of the residents and the ministry’s stated intention to use newly tabled legislation to terminate Tranquille employees without cause and avoid any other collective agreement obligations to employees. Consequently, BCGEU members decided to sit-in and occupy the institution by expelling management, running the institution themselves and publicly advocating for quality community care for people with intellectual disabilities. They did so for nearly a month. Tranquility Lost chronicles the political and public policy conditions leading up to the occupation, the day-to-day activities of the occupation itself, the challenges faced by the workers and negotiations leading to an agreement. Steeves’s account profiles the courage of Tranquille employees and their unprecedented use of collective bargaining as a tool to address conditions faced by government clients as well as government employees themselves.
Apples, etc.
Gathie Falk is one of Canada’s most heralded visual artists: she has won the Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize; she has been honoured with the Order of British Columbia and the Order of Canada; and her work is featured in major galleries across the country. From performance works involving eggs and bird feathers, to paintings of flower beds and night skies, to celebrated sculptures of fruit, men’s shoes, and dresses, Falk’s chronicles of the everyday span more than four decades and a variety of media.
Apples etc. is Gathie Falk’s memoir, a lively, personal, and yet unsentimental reflection on nearly ninety years of art and life. Falk tells of growing up in small Mennonite communities in the 1930s and ’40s. These were hard years, as her Russian immigrant father died just ten months after she was born. While the family struggled financially, Falk recalls cabbage rolls made by hand, a backyard skating rink, and music lessons paid for by an anonymous donor. Her apprenticeship, she says, was a long one. After working a series of menial jobs, she trained as a public school teacher, which led her back to the art classes she’d given up as a child. It has now been fifty years since Falk’s art career was launched, and her “veneration of the ordinary” has sustained her through the deaths of beloved friends and relatives, a short-lived marriage, broken bones, and debilitating pain. Interweaving stories about her community, her family, and her daily rituals with anecdotes about her major artworks, Falk paints a portrait of a life well lived.
Good with Money
What would you do if you were worth $350 million dollars? Would it change who you are—or would you use it to change the world? In the late nineties, John Lefebvre was approaching middle age and living out an unpromising legal career in Calgary. Then he jumped on board a dot-com start-up as a founder of Neteller, an online payment company. As Neteller’s fortunes rose along with those of the online gambling industry, the pay-off for Lefebvre and his partners would be astronomical. But it didn’t come without a price. Good With Money tells the story of what happens when a pot-smoking lawyer who only wanted to play music ends up as one of the lucky winners in the Internet boom. From Lefebvre’s early years as a teenage slacker in Calgary to his arrest by the FBI at his mansion in Malibu, to the many unusual ways Lefebvre has spent or given away almost all of his fortune, Good With Money is inspiring, cautionary, and always entertaining. Kerry Gold tells story with verve and an arched eyebrow, giving insight into the blessings and perils of sudden wealth while posing the big question: what does it really mean to be good with money?
Shaped by Snow
The author's family played a key role in the development of today's ski industry; author has an intimate perspective of the industry and is unafraid to criticize it.The book touches upon several critical current events, including designation and slashing of Bears Ears National Monument, the California wildfires, and droughts in the American West.Debut writer under thirty voicing her concerns about community, the ski industry, and her own decision of whether or not to have children in the face of climate change.The author is well–connected in environmental literature and outdoor recreation circles; we will explore these connections for review coverage and promotion.
Hawks Rest
"Among the many pleasures of re–reading Gary Ferguson's Hawks Rest, is finding the prose even more accomplished than remembered, the wit more agile, the observations more revelatory, its stance in the world proved once again so precisely wise. Hawks Rest is a book I will return to again and again."—MARK SPRAGG, author of Where Rivers Change Direction and An Unfinished Life"Gary Ferguson is one of the preeminent historians of the American West, and of the place and value of wilderness within that history. Hawk's Rest is an intense journal of the politics and ecology of one of America's wildest cores, in Yellowstone National Park. In many ways, this book is an important portrait of one of the foundations of our country's democracy, and of the struggles to hold on to that idea."—RICK BASS, author of All the Land to Hold Us"Hawks Rest is a long step toward a user's guide to wilderness, and a reverential and beautifully said hymn to the wild."—TIM CAHILL, author of Hold the Enlightenment and Jaguars Ripped My Flesh"A lyrical and often tough–minded evocation of a summer spent in the Yellowstone backcountry, a place that is, unexpectedly, full of larger-than-life characters, some of whom are admirable and some of whom are not.”—WILLIAM KITTREDGE, author of Hole in the Sky and The Nature of Generosity"Dazzling…an Edward Abbey–esque book, full of snappy vignettes and chiseled writing."—SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE"A sharp and ironic sense of what it's like to live in the American outback, twenty–first–century style."—NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE"A well-written work…if you love Yellowstone, a great treat."—DESERET NEWS"Ferguson evoke(s) feelings of solitude, timelessness and aching beauty in the smallest details…"—THE OREGONIAN"Mournful and defiant as a wolf howl…an eloquent tribute to a threatened place and its lone protectors."—LOS ANGELES TIMESHawks Rest brings the wonder, politics, and wildness of one of America’s most vast and popular national parks to readers everywhere. With a new introduction by the author, this edition offers fresh insight into the condition of parks nationwide, while reintroducing readers to Ferguson's timeless tales and unique wisdom.Gary Ferguson is the author of twenty–two books including Through the Woods and, most recently, The Carry Home. He lives with his wife, Mary, in Montana's Beartooth Mountains, and in Portland, Oregon.
Through the Woods
Well–known, established author: Gary Ferguson is a widely read author and a familiar name nationwide; an established fan base will be excited for this reprint of an old favorite.Genre–defying: narrative/creative nonfiction with a dash of journalism will satisfy an array of literary appetites. Inside look: Into the Woods leads readers into a place of nature and community seldom seen except by those who live there, including the deep woods of Appalachia.
The Beat Hotel
The Beat Hotel has been closed for nearly forty years. But for a brief period—from just after the publication of Howl in 1957 until the building was sold in 1963—it was home to Allen Ginsberg, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, Peter Orlovsky, Harold Norse, and a host of other luminaries of the Beat Generation. Now, Barry Miles—acclaimed author of many books on the Beats and a personal acquaintance of many of them—vividly excavates this remarkable period and restores it to a historical picture that has, until now, been skewed in favor of the two coasts of America.A cheap rooming house on the bohemian Left Bank, the hotel was inhabited mostly by writers and artists, and its communal atmosphere spurred the Beats to incredible heights of creativity. Its inhabitants followed the Howl obscenity trial, and they corresponded with Jack Kerouac as On the Road was taking off. There Ginsberg wrote “Kaddish,” “To Aunt Rose,” “At Apollinaire’s Grave,” and “The Lion for Real,” and Corso developed the mature voice of The Happy Birthday of Death. The Beat Hotel is where the Cut-up method was invented, and where Burroughs finished and published Naked Lunch and the Cut-up novels. From a party where Ginsberg and Corso drunkenly accosted Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, to an awestruck audience with Louis-Ferdinand Céline a year before he died; from a drug-addled party on a houseboat on the Seine with Errol Flynn and John Huston, to Burroughs’s near arrest as a heroin dealer: mischief, inspiration, and madness followed the Beats wherever they went. Based on firsthand accounts from diaries, letters, and many original interviews, The Beat Hotel is an intimate look at a crucial period for some of the twentieth century’s most enduring and daring writers.