EDA - Biography & Memoir 4

A Vintage Shorts Travel Selection Growing up in Haiti, Edwidge Danticat kept well clear of carnivalーterrified by the stories of danger and debauchery that her uncle told her. Decades later, a grown……続きを見る

Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay is an English diarist, novelist and playwright. During his lifetime, she wrote fo……続きを見る

Frances Burney (13 June 1752 – 6 January 1840), also known as Fanny Burney and after her marriage as Madame d'Arblay is an English diarist, novelist and playwright. During his lifetime, she wrote fo……続きを見る

يقوم الكتاب على فكرة عمل تحليل شامل لما ستكون عليه الأحداث القادمة حتى موعد تاريخ زوال إسرائيل والذي تم استقراءه عددياً من سورة الإسراء. وبعبارة أخرى، سيفترض هذا الكتاب صحة النبوءة، ومن ثم يقوم بتح……続きを見る

Ethel Livesey was quite a gal. An attractive young woman from a respectable middle-class family in Manchester, she had over 40 aliases, eight official marriages, four children and five divorces. Her……続きを見る

Does the thought of mistletoe give you hives? Does the sound of jingling bells instill fear in your heart? Do you hide under the covers from the day after Thanksgiving till New Year's Day? And even ……続きを見る

A unique and invaluable collection of the young Sylvia Plath’s drawings from important and formative years in her life: 1955-1957 Sylvia Plath: Drawings is a portfolio of pen-and-ink illustrations c……続きを見る

Emmanuel Quiason Yap possessed a unique perspective on world affairs. This was largely a product of his upbringing and life experience, which underpinned his great love of country. Through his life,……続きを見る

Convorbirile dintre Daniel Cristea-Enache și Paul Cornea urmăresc îndeaproape viața și parcursul profesional ale istoricului literar în perioada comunistă. Venirea la putere a Partidului Comunist, m……続きを見る

Emilie Davis was a free African American woman who lived in Philadelphia during the Civil War. She worked as a seamstress, attended the Institute for Colored Youth, and was an active member of her c……続きを見る

« J'étais républicaine bien avant la Révolution », tels furent les mots de Charlotte Corday lors de son procès. Mais à l'époque on refusa de l'entendre et la légende tenace s'est perpétuée jusqu'à a……続きを見る

Extrait : "Le Paris du siège, au matin du 31 octobre. Dans le brouillard froid, Saint-Pierre-de-Montrouge achève de sonner un mélancolique Angelus. Le long de l'avenue d'Orléans, où de rares lumière……続きを見る

This story is true. It is a disturbing expose of child sexual abuse at the hands of an authority figure, a Canon, in the Anglican Church of Canada in the early 1960’s. What it is not, unfortunately,……続きを見る

In Three Tides, a "writer's writer" lets readers peek over her shoulder as she talks about writing, revealing the process that allows her to stumble, crawl and run. Through memoir chronicling a part……続きを見る

Extrait : L’idée de Dieu a joué un tel rôle dans les destinées humaines, elle a pénétré si profondément les mœurs, le langage et jusqu’à l’hérédité des peuples, que celui qui en est aujourd’hui dépo……続きを見る

"J'ai grandi dans une banlieue grise cernée par les tours. Du béton, du gris clair, du gris foncé, du gris sale, du gris triste et sans âme, du gris à perte de vue... Je pense que c'est pour ça que ……続きを見る

CRONACHE GEODETICHE: RIASSUNTO   Alessandro vuol diventare pilota militare, ma non supera la selezione all’Accademia Aeronautica; conseguita la maturità, senza troppa convinzione si iscrive a……続きを見る

As members of a tiny ethnic minority in Indonesia--the world's largest Islamic nation--Chinese-Indonesian women face hurdles of race and gender that others would find insurmountable. In Breaking Bar……続きを見る

John C. Campbell (1867–1919) is widely considered to be a pioneer in the objective study of the complex world of Appalachian mountaineers. Thanks to a grant from the Russell Sage Foundation, Campbel……続きを見る

An autobiographical work by Clarence Darrow, covering his coming of age, growing up, and family life. Well worth the read, this is a fascinating tale about one of America's greatest and most enterta……続きを見る

Greeks arrived in America with the expectation that freedom would permit their families to thrive and be successful. With hard work, belief in the Orthodox faith, and commitment to education, Greeks……続きを見る

**New York Times bestseller How do you hold on to hope when you don’t get the ending you asked for?** When Katie Davis Majors moved to Uganda, accidentally founded a booming organization, and later ……続きを見る

Abu Hanifah Nu'man ibn Thabit was one of the greatest pioneers in the history of Islamic Law, particularly in legal reasoning. The Hanafi Legal School that he founded has become the most widely foll……続きを見る

One of the most important dance artists of the twentieth century, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006) created works that thrilled audiences the world over. As an African American w……続きを見る

Le Petit Chose (Edition Intégrale - Version Entièrement Illustrée) * Inclus une courte biographe d'Alphonse Daudet Descriptif : Le premier roman d'un célèbre écrivain qui cache à peine une autobiogr……続きを見る

If your mentally ill patient dies, are you to blame? For Dr. Françoise Davoine, a Parisian psychoanalyst, this question becomes disturbingly real as one of her patients commits suicide on the eve of……続きを見る

Description : Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: Que d’angles dans cette……続きを見る

Islamistischer Fundamentalismus und Intoleranz sind eine Folge der Überhöhung des Korans und des Menschen Mohamed. Erst wenn Muslime es wagen, Mohameds Unantastbarkeit in Frage zu stellen und ihn Me……続きを見る

What can you remember of your childhood? This was the question put to a number of ‘seniors’ asked to start from as far back as they could get, and go as far as the onset of adolescence. Their answer……続きを見る

Deirdre David traces the successful writing life of Pamela Hansford Johnson (1912-1981) from the time of her childhood growing up in a theatrical household in South London to her death as the widow ……続きを見る