From Istanbul to New Delhi to Boulder, Colorado, through Venice, Paris, Rome, and points between. As travellers, we are always walking backwards, forever on the verge of stepping into the unknown, never knowing what waits around the next corner. You could be lost, forget your passport, fall ill. You could be served a bowl of food and not know whether it’s animal, vegetable, or mineral. Even flushing the toilet can be an adventure. You are a chi ...
Mary Pickford’s ambition, passion, innate talent, and savvy business acumen sent her career into the stratosphere and set the blueprint for the modern movie star. Born Gladys Louise Smith in 1892, Pickford was raised in a house on University Avenue in Toronto and began her acting career on the stage. However, her determination led her to the new world of motion pictures, where she not only revolutionized acting method but negotiated her own term ...
2013 Information Book Awards – Long-listed Harriet Tubman encouraged enslaved Africans to make the break for freedom and reinforced the potential of black freedom and independence. Born in the United States and enslaved as a child, Harriet Tubman (circa 1820-1913) is one of the best-known figures connected to the Underground Railroad. Through her knowledge and outdoor survival skills, honed through her unpaid labour in the fields and through ...
During the American Revolution and the border conflicts that followed, Simon Girty’s name struck terror into the hearts of U.S. settlers in the Ohio Valley and the territory of Kentucky. Girty (1741-1818) had lived with the Natives most of his life. Scorned by his fellow white frontiersmen as an «Indian lover,» Girty became an Indian agent for the British. He accompanied Native raids against Americans, spied deep into enemy territory, and was in ...
In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkness lurking beneath the surface of small-town America. But in Life Among the Savages, she takes on the lighter side of small-town life. In this witty and warm memoir of her family's life in rural Vermont, she delightfully exposes a domestic side in cheerful contrast to her quietly terrifying fiction. With a novelist's gift for character, an unfailing maternal instinct, and he ...
Albert Hofmann, einer der bedeutendsten Wissenschaftler unserer Zeit, entdeckte 1943 eine der starksten bewusstseinsverandernden Substanzen uberhaupt, das LSD. Seit dieser Zeit erforschte er systematisch au?ergewohnliche Bewusstseinszustande. Albert Hofmann verstarb am 29. April 2008 im Alter von 102 Jahren friedlich zu Hause. Eindrucksvoll werden wichtige Stationen des bewegten Lebens des LSD-Entdeckers Albert Hofmann in diesem Horbuch dargeste ...
Многотомник «Миг и вечность» посвящен рассказу о жизни и творчестве Натальи Евгеньевны Бажановой – политолога, историка, экономиста, публициста, педагога, дипломата, внесшего выдающийся вклад в изучение международных отношений, мировой экономики, этносов, стран, цивилизаций. При этом, хотя Н. Е. Бажанова находится в центре повествования, акцент сделан также на описание и анализ нашего многообразного, противоречивого, сложного и очень интересного ...
In the 1820s, several years before Braille was invented, Therese-Adele Husson, a young blind woman from provincial France, wrote an audacious manifesto about her life, French society, and her hopes for the future. Through extensive research and scholarly detective work, authors Catherine Kudlick and Zina Weygand have rescued this intriguing woman and the remarkable story of her life and tragic death from obscurity, giving readers a rare look int ...
One of the most fascinating but least remembered figures in modern American history, Major General Leonard Wood (1860-1927) was, with his close friend Theodore Roosevelt, an icon of U.S. imperialism as the nation evolved into a global power at the dawn of the twentieth century. The myriad of roles that Wood played in his extraordinary career offer a mirror image of the country's expansion from the urban Northeast to the western frontier to ...
