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This is the story of the world heavyweight championship fight between George Foreman and Muhammed Ali in 1975. As the weeks to the fight ticked away, Ali's preparation was sluggish and his attitude fatalistic, in contrast to the machine-like and confident Foreman.
This biography of Arthur Miller is quite thorough, but I am afraid, awfully slow going. Bigsby moves chronologically trough Miller's life until the death of his second wife, Marilyn Monroe, and then covers the remaining 50 years in the book's final two chapters. But if we are in, say 1949, we will get two or three later recollections of events of that year. Miller's older brother Kermit, for example, writes a letter about how happy he is in the aftermath of World War II, but later comments from Kermit's son suggest that his father was manic depressive from the end of the war until his death. While this approach offers valuable insight, Bigsby relies on the tactic far too much and plowing through this book becomes a chore.
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The age of the rock star, like the age of the cowboy, has passed. Like the cowboy, the idea of the rock star lives on in our imaginations.
What did we see in them? Swagger. Recklessness. Sexual charisma. Damn-the-torpedoes self-belief. A certain way of carrying themselves. Good hair. Interesting shoes. Talent we wished we had.
What did we want of them? To be larger than life but also like us. To live out their songs. To stay young forever. No wonder many didn't stay the course.
In Uncommon People, David Hepworth zeroes in on defining moments and turning points in the lives of forty rock stars from 1955 to 1995, taking us on a journey to burst a hundred myths and create a hundred more.
As this tribe of uniquely motivated nobodies went about turning themselves into the ultimate somebodies, they also shaped us, our real lives and our fantasies. Uncommon People isn't just their story. It's ours as well.
Introducing Levi-Strauss is a guide to the work of the great French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009). The book brilliantly traces the development and influence of Levi-Strauss' thought, from his early work on the function of the incest taboo to initiate an exchange of women between groups, to his identification of a timeless "wild" or "primitive" mode of thinking - a pensee sauvage - behind the processes of human culture. Accessibly written by Boris Wiseman and beautifully illustrated by Judy Groves, Introducing Levi-Strauss also explores the major contribution that Levi-Strauss made to contemporary aesthetic history - his work on American-Indian mythology provides a key insight into the way in which art itself comes into being.
The first and only behind-the-scenes Harry Potter memoir from one of the films' biggest stars, Tom Felton
They called for a break, and Gambon magicked up a cigarette from out of his beard. He and I were often to be found outside the stage door, having 'a breath of fresh air', as we referred to it. There would be painters and plasterers and chippies and sparks, and among them all would be me and Dumbledore having a crafty cigarette.
From Borrower to wizard, Tom Felton's adolescence was anything but ordinary. His early rise to fame saw him catapulted into the limelight aged just twelve when he landed the iconic role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter films.
Speaking with candour and his own trademark humour, Tom shares his experience of growing up on screen and as part of the wizarding world for the very first time. He tells all about his big break, what filming was really like and the lasting friendships he made during ten years as part of the franchise, as well as the highs and lows of fame and the reality of navigating adult life after filming finished.
Prepare to meet a real-life wizard.
Światowa sensacja i popkulturowy fenomen - debiut Jennette McCurdy ("ICarly", "Sam i Cat"). To książka, o której mówią całe Stany Zjednoczone. Poruszające wspomnienia jednej z najsłynniejszych dziecięcych aktorek amerykańskich i pełen emocji zapis zmagań dziecka, które wbrew własnej woli zostało wrzucone w środek piekielnej machiny amerykańskiego show-biznesu. "Cieszę się, że moja mama umarła" to przejmująca opowieść o wychodzeniu z zaburzeń odżywiania, uzależnień i toksycznej relacji z przemocową matką, a także o mozolnym odzyskiwaniu kontroli nad własnym życiem. Jennette McCurdy od dziecka marzyła o tym, żeby zostać pisarką, jednak jej mama miała wobec niej inne plany. Dziewczynka miała sześć lat, kiedy po raz pierwszy wzięła udział w castingu, a jej świat zmienił się na zawsze. Debra zdecydowała, że jedyna córeczka zrobi karierę aktorską. Cena nie grała roli. Liczyła jej kalorie, wydzielała racje żywnościowe, opóźniała jej dojrzewanie, ważyła pięć razy dziennie, a nawet kąpała do szesnastego roku życia! Jennette, pragnąc za wszelką cenę zadowolić najważniejszą osobę w swoim życiu, godziła się na ten okrutny układ. Marzenie Debry o sławie córki w końcu się spełniło, ale status gwiazdy najważniejszych seriali Nickelodeonu (w "Sam i Cat" grała obok Ariany Grande) Jennette przypłaciła zaburzeniami odżywiania, masą niszczących i toksycznych relacji damsko-męskich, alkoholizmem i depresją. Kiedy jednak odkryła, że terapia może pomóc jej wydobyć się z piekła, odważyła się rzucić aktorstwo i robić to, co od zawsze pragnęła - pisać. Pełna czarnego humoru i przenikliwych spostrzeżeń na temat życia przejmująca biograficzna opowieść "Cieszę się, że moja mama umarła" stanowi fascynujący zapis walki o niezależność, własne granice i czerpanie radości z życia. Bestsellerowy pamiętnik i numer jeden "New York Timesa", który błyskawicznie zyskał status fenomenu popkultury "Cieszę się, że moja mama umarła" to zdecydowanie coś więcej niż źródło plotek o Arianie Grande i pazerności Nickelodeonu. "Vogue" Dla McCurdy ta książka to nie tylko pisarski debiut. To także rozrachunek z poczuciem winy i żałobą po śmierci matki. To opis wychodzenia z zaburzeń odżywiania i przepracowywania dziesięcioleci traumy. I w końcu robienie tego, czego od początku pragnęła, a czym na pewno nie było aktorstwo - pisania "USA Today" Fascynujące wspomnienia. Czytelnicy mają okazję poznać McCurdy jako dowcipną i spostrzegawczą pisarkę, jej wielką empatię i brutalne puenty. To dokument ukazujący zarówno jej bolesną przeszłość, jak i mądrość, jaką zyskała po drodze. "Time"
Na przełomie XIX i XX wieku nazwisko Ferrein było w Moskwie tak dobrze znane, jak nazwiska złotnika Fabergé czy śpiewaka Szalapina. Znano je także na świecie – zwłaszcza wśród chemików, botaników, lekarzy czy farmaceutów – ponieważ Ferreinowie należeli do elity uczonych i przedsiębiorców i dzięki swojej pracowitości i umiejętności wprowadzania innowacji cieszyli się szczególnym uznaniem, a firmę farmaceutyczną, zarządzaną przez Woldemara Ferreina, można było uznać za wzór. Daisy Ferrein opisuje swoje dzieciństwo spędzone w Moskwie, sielskie dni w majątku Butowo i w Szwajcarii. Pisze z uczuciem o charyzmatycznym dziadku, utalentowanej muzycznie babci i ukochanym rodzeństwie, o rodzinie, którą łączyły niezwykle silne więzy. A także o miłości swojego życia, mężu, Polaku Józefie Wagnerze. Historia nie oszczędziła rodziny Ferreinów, pozbawieni przez bolszewików majątku, cierpieli głód i skazani zostali na tułaczkę, aż wreszcie rozjechali się po świecie. Drugą ojczyzną Daisy stała się Polska, a potem USA. Jej wspomnienia, choć pisane jedynie z myślą o wnukach, są niezwykle cennym i interesującym dokumentem epoki.
Fashion photographer Arthur Elgort has loved jazz since he was nine years old, when a childhood friend introduced him to the music; he soon found himself frequenting jazz clubs all over his native New York City.
The dynamic style that made Elgort such a sensation in fashion photography was directly informed by his love for jazz and dance. His talent as a photographer grew alongside his interest and knowledge of jazz. By the time he was a well-known working photographer, Elgort could parlay his influence into meetings with his boyhood idols, requesting to have his favorite musicians appear in both his fashion and personal work.
Countless jazz greats have appeared in front of Elgort's camera, including Illinois Jacquet, Dexter Gordon and Dorothy Donegan. Each sitting produced not only images but memorable stories: the time Elgort took Dorothy shopping at Chanel; what it was like to shoot Dexter in his Hell's Kitchen apartment; getting to know Illinois and his wife personally. Arthur Elgort: Jazz collects these moments and more, exploring for the first time the creative exchange between the photographer and his musical heroes.
Mówili o niej "Czarownica" - bo gadała ze zwierzętami oraz miała kruka terrorystę, który kradł złoto i atakował rowerzystów. Ponad trzydzieści lat żyła w drewnianej leśniczówce pośrodku Puszczy Białowieskiej, bez wody i prądu. Spała w łóżku z rysiem i mieszkała pod jednym dachem z oswojonym dzikiem. Była naukowcem, ekologiem, autorką nagradzanych filmów i słuchowisk radiowych. Aktywnie działała na rzecz najstarszego lasu w Europie. Uważała, że należy żyć prosto i blisko przyrody. Wśród zwierząt znalazła to, czego nigdy nie doświadczyła od ludzi.Ostatnia Kossakówna. Córka Jerzego, wnuczka Wojciecha, prawnuczka Juliusza - trzech malarzy rozmiłowanych w polskim krajobrazie i historii. Bratanica Marii Pawlikowskiej-Jasnorzewskiej i Magdaleny Samozwaniec. Miała być synem i czwartym Kossakiem. Tak jak przodkowie, dźwigać sztalugi i znane nazwisko. Wybrała własną drogęCo takiego spotkało ją w Krakowie, że zdecydowała się na ucieczkę? Dlaczego została wydziedziczona? Wreszcie - czy w "dziczy" odnalazła szczęście?Simona autorstwa Anny Kamińskiej to fascynujący portret buntowniczej pasjonatki i silnej, nietuzinkowej kobiety. Opowieść o bezkompromisowym szukaniu swojego miejsca w świecie i o zrzucaniu ciężaru wielkiego nazwiska. Historia upadku starej, artystycznej rodziny oraz tego, jak szara rzeczywistość PRL-u wymazywała barwny świat krakowskiej arystokracji.
A collection of letters from John le Carré, one of the greatest British novelists of our time, and a fabulous letter writer, spanning decades from his childhood to the Cold War to his final years
John le Carré was one of the greatest novelists of his generation but also had an extraordinary life, from his childhood with a con man father to his inimitable career as a writer. From his involvement in the Cold War, time in Berlin, travels to Vietnam and engagement with world leaders, his experiences were truly remarkable.
This collection of letters reveals John le Carré - the man, the writer and his world - for the first time and most intimately. Including letters to Stephen Fry and about Mrs Thatcher, and correspondence with Alec Guinness and a ten-year-old aspiring spy, Selected Letters come together with crispness and clarity to illuminate the extraordinary writer. A magnificent and tender portrait for John le Carré's many millions of fans around the world.
Hailed by Glennon Doyle as 'the Christian Joan Didion', Kate Bowler used to accept the modern idea that life is an endless horizon of possibilities, a series of choices which if made correctly, would lead us to a place just out of our reach. A beach body by summer. A trip to Disneyland around the corner. A promotion on the horizon. But then at thirty-five she was diagnosed with stage IV colon cancer, and now she has to ask one of the most fundamental questions of all: How do we create meaning in our lives when the life we hoped for is put on hold indefinitely?
In No Cure for Being Human, Kate searches for a way forward as she mines the wisdom (and absurdity) of our modern 'best life now' advice industry, which offers us exhausting positivity, trying to convince us that we can out-eat, out-learn and out-perform our humanness. With dry wit and unflinching honesty she grapples with her cancer diagnosis, her ambition and her faith and searches for some kind of peace with her limitations in a culture that says that anything is possible.
"I am Malala, a girl from Pakistan who wants to make the world a better place for all"
Meet Malala. She is a daughter, a sister, a writer, an activist and an inspiration to people around the world. This board book is an introduction to her incredible life and her inspirational work for the youngest readers and their families.
A bold and simple text is followed by a detailed biography of Malala's life, and the book is stunningly illustrated by debut illustrator Mariam Quraishi.
In the summer of 1865, the former exile Dostoevsky found himself trapped in a cheap hotel in Wiesbaden, unable to leave until he'd paid the bill. Having lost the last of his money at the roulette table, his debts hung heavy over his head, his epileptic seizures were worsening, and his wife and beloved brother were dead. Desperate, a story came to him, a way to write himself out of his predicament: the murderer Raskolnikov, the hot, disorienting swirl of St Petersburg, the axe, the terrible crime, and the murderer's paranoia. The book was Crime and Punishment, and from the moment it was published it was a sensation. But how did this haunting tale of guilt come to be, and why does it still hold such a sway over us all these years later?
The Sinner and the Saint gives us the story of the creation of a work of literature that has bewitched readers for over a century, and of the two men so central to it: Dostoevsky himself, and Pierre François Lacenaire, a notorious murderer and glamorous egoist who charmed and outraged Paris in the 1830s and whose sensational story provided the germ of the novel. As reports of his trial tore through Europe, readers asked themselves: could the instincts of nihilism, the philosophy inspiring a new generation of Russian revolutionaries, also drive a man to murder? Showing how both men's lives were directed by the intoxicating new ideas swirling around Europe in the nineteenth century, The Sinner and the Saint also reveals why they still appal and entice us today. Thrilling and definitive, this is the story of a masterpiece.
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2022
Taking the form of random journal entries over the course of seven years, Exteriors concentrates on the ephemeral encounters that take place just on the periphery of a person’s lived environment. Ernaux captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris: poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. Exteriors is in many ways the most ecstatic of Ernaux’s books – the first in which she appears largely free of the haunting personal relationships she has written about so powerfully elsewhere, and the first in which she is able to leave the past behind her.
"Słońce i stal" - pierwszy polski przekład klasycznego, autobiograficznego i kontrowersyjnego eseju Yukio Mishimy, w którym koncentruje się na upodobaniu do sztuk walki i odkrywaniu fizycznych możliwości ciała. Książka ta (pisana w latach 1965-1968) uchodzi za punkt zwrotny w karierze wybitnego japońskiego pisarza oraz przez niektórych również uważana jest za zapowiedź jego samobójczej śmierci. Wybitny znawca twórczości Mishimy i jego przyjaciel John Nathan ("Mishima. Życie" PIW, 2022) tak przedstawia znaczenie tego eseju: "W >Słońcu i stali
A vastly entertaining and unique history of the interaction between spying and showbiz, from the Elizabethan age to the Cold War and beyond.
'A treasure trove of human ingenuity' The Times
Written by two experts in their fields, Stars and Spies is the first history of the extraordinary connections between the intelligence services and show business.
We travel back to the golden age of theatre and intelligence in the reign of Elizabeth I. We meet the writers, actors and entertainers drawn into espionage in the Restoration, the Ancien Régime and Civil War America. And we witness the entry of spying into mainstream popular culture throughout the twentieth century and beyond - from the adventures of James Bond to the thrillers of John le Carré and long-running TV series such as The Americans.
From a bitter and poverty-stricken childhood to a career as the most acclaimed and best loved writer in the English-speaking world, Charles Dickens had a life as full of incident as any of those he created in his novels of life in Victorian England. The enormous quantity of work, his public readings and his difficult relationships has made him a figure of enduring fascination.
In this biography Jane Smiley reveals Charles Dickens as his contemporaries would have done, getting to know him more intimately than ever before. At the same time Smiley offers interpretations of almost all of Dickens' major works, showing how 'his novels shaped his life as much as his life shaped his novels.
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