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The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe contains an in-depth examination of the circumstances of Edgar Allan Poe's death in 1849. Beginning with a chronology of the poet¿s life, the book then delves into the many myths and theories that have become attached to the poet's mysterious demise.

"The memoirs of Emmy Arnold, co-founder of the Bruderhof, a Christian communal movement"--

This bookoffers a nostalgic deep-dive into the legendary period in Matte¿s life when the running back was asked to play quarterback as well as the lasting impact of his playing time on the NFL and the Colts organization as a whole.

This book traces the life of Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806-1859), who is rightly revered as one of the greatest of all engineers. His leading role in the transport revolution of the nineteenth century, and especially in the building of the Great Western Railway, left an indelible mark on the British landscape. His achievements captured the imagination of his contemporaries and subsequent generations, whilst his colossal energy and determination to carry out projects on the largest scale and to an extremely high standard set him apart from his rivals. Brunel tells the story both of the engineer, who followed his father Marc into what was then a new profession, and of the man. It explores his successes and failures, at home and abroad, including both the broad gauge GWR and the SS Great Eastern, as R. Angus Buchanan expertly brings out Brunel's imagination, drive and inventiveness. Above all, it sets him in the context of his times, showing both what made him who he was and how he made the most of the great opportunities offered to him.

Addresses the whole of D. H. Lawrence's life and writing career‿integrating biography, critical analysis, and recent scholarship in a single volume The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence is a focused exploration of the whole of the author's life and writing career. Combining biographical detail and close readings of works in different genres, the book illuminates the complexities of Lawrence's writing through a careful, questioning approach to biographical sources and recent scholarship. Andrew Harrison provides original insights into Lawrence's relationship to working-class experience, his anti-suffragist feminist views, his reaction to the Great War, his responses to racial and cultural difference, his attitudes towards sex, sexuality, and sexual identity, and much more. Nine accessible chapters address important subjects in the author's life and writing, including his treatment of taboo topics, his conflicted relationship with the literary marketplace, and the ways in which his writing challenged English middle-class values. Each chapter draws upon the biographical record to provide an interpretive context while highlighting aspects of Lawrence's work that relate to present-day concerns, such as his critical responses to wartime propaganda and censorship, his critique of heteronormativity, and his lifelong concern with issues around mental health and wholeness of being. Designed to help readers develop a fresh understanding of Lawrence's writing, The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence: Investigates Lawrence's wartime experiences, tracing his transformation from an author who wished to change the attitudes of his readers into a radical anti-establishment figureAddresses Lawrence's explorations of gender fluidity and non-normative sexual identities in his fictionDiscusses Lawrence's concern with post-war social reconstruction and his risk-taking exploration of revolutionary political and religious movements in his novels of the 1920sEngages with psychoanalytic criticism on the attachment issues that shaped Lawrence's life and writing, showing how he attempted to confront the psychic wounds of his childhood Based on materials and approaches the author has developed teaching Lawrence for more than two decades, The Life of the Author: D. H. Lawrence is an excellent textbook for undergraduate students taking English and English Literature courses, as well as graduate students discussing Lawrence in the contexts of early twentieth-century literature, literary modernism, and sexualities in modern literature.

Memoirs of a Black Philosopher is a history of both anti-Black racism and the author's indefatigable struggle to transcend it by educating himself. These memoirs demonstrate the value of academic philosophy¿s ¿upward path¿ from the ordinary to the sublime.

A local legend with a national cult-following, in Life After Football Dean Windass tackles retirement and the challenges it brings. Highs, lows, drink, divorce, despair, collapse. And then reinvention. A proud and straight-talking Yorkshireman, he pulls no punches, - and shows retirement from the game comes with its own wins and losses.

Viele nehmen sich und ihre Kunst in ihren Autobiografien sehr, sehr ernst. Eric Goulden, der 1977 seine Karriere unter dem Namen Wreckless Eric mit seinem einzigen Hit »Whole Wide World« begann, macht diesen Fehler nicht. »A Dysfunctional Success« (Ein dysfunktionaler Erfolg) ist selbstironisch, nonchalant und schwarzhumorig, beinhaltet aber dennoch das, was man von einer Musikerautobiografie unbedingt erwarten darf: eine From-Rags-to-Riches-Story. Nur dass es bei Goulden auch wieder steil zurück zu den Rags ging. Ein massives Drogenproblem ist natürlich auch dabei, in Gouldens Fall eine Amour fou mit dem Alkohol. Und eine Amour fou des selbsternannten »Donovan of Trash« zur Popmusik. Soviel Freude sie auch dem Publikum bereitet, soviel Ärger kann Popmusik den Produzenten machen. Davon kann Goulden ein Liedchen singen bzw. ein Buch schreiben.In »A Dysfunctional Success« zeichnet Goulden sein Leben nach. Geburt, Coming of Age im grimmigen England der 1960er und 1970er Jahre, beschissene Jobs und (vermeintliche) Rettung durch Pop. Er schreibt über seine Unfähigkeit, sich in die Gesellschaft einzufügen, den schnellen Ruhm und die lange Erfolglosigkeit beim Label Stiff Records, das seinen Labelmates wie etwa Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe oder Madness durchaus funktionierenden Erfolg bescherte. »A Dysfunctional Success« ist nicht nur die Geschichte eines verkannten Genies, sondern auch die subjektive Geschichte des Punk von einem, der von Anfang an nicht nur dabei, sondern mittendrin war.»In den frühen Tagen von Stiff Records fragte Label-Gründer Jake Riviera jeden, was er sein wollte: reich oder berühmt. Ich dachte, die Antwort sei einfach - ich wollte berühmt sein, weil man das von mir erwartete, und wenn ich ein paar Hits hätte, wäre ich sicher sowieso reich. Aber >berühmt< war die falsche Antwort - Elvis Costello zum Beispiel sagte >reich

This book is first in its category to reflect a lived experience from a phenomenological viewpoint within the Hizmet Movement (HM). Through the author's lens, you will read about the transformation of HM along with his own over a span of three decades. Moreover, the book does not shy away from sensitive subjects such as LGBTQA+ topics in this Turkey-based, Muslim educational movement. This book took more than five years to complete and includes a brief history of the Turkish Republic and the HM, details from Gülen's life, his and other HM participants' overlapping philosophies on education and language, and the arduous interview process to put this book together. A full copy of the interview with Mr. Fethullah Gülen on education and language is available at the end of the book.This would be an excellent source for educational psychology departments, teacher training programs, political science, and theology majors.

This book tells the story of how a Swedish diplomat who saved the lives of thousands of Jews in Hungary became a symbol after his disappearance in January 1945. A variety of aspects are analysed, including secret diplomacy and representations of Wallenberg on film and television as well as in monuments. -- .

Annette Bryn Parri is one of Wales''s foremost musicians and accompanists. Her story starts with the piano lessons she received as a young girl. Despite travelling the world with famous singers such as Bryn Terfel and Gwyn Hughes Jones, her roots remain deep in the village of Deiniolen.

I was standing outside an apartment block that had been split apart by a missile. The words of a poem came to me when I could no longer find my own.In nearly four decades as a journalist covering conflict from Palestine to Kosovo to Rwanda, Channel 4 News International Editor Lindsey Hilsum has always carried a book of poetry. It helps her make sense of the senseless, salve her soul as the world around her rages, and remember those she has met in the darkest of times.In Ukraine, she tweeted a poem a day, and people began to read, to share, to ask for more. Here, Lindsey collects her favourite poems from ancient times to modern, translated from different languages and by writers from all around the world. Alongside each, she recalls a memory from her own work, whether interviewing the warlords of Bosnia and Sudan, meeting child soldiers in Uganda or giving testimony about the genocide in Rwanda. Her prose reveals comic absurdity and astonishing courage, meaning and its absence, unexpected moments of love and the untold consequences that come long after most cameras disperse. She explores the pity of war - and its fatal attraction.Vital, authentic, a read like no other, this is the first account Lindsey has written of her experience, accompanied by the voices of poets through the ages who have fought, witnessed terror or fled their homes, yet found the words to capture their humanity.

From beloved CBS Sunday Morning correspondent Mo Rocca, author of New York Times bestseller Mobituaries, comes an inspiring collection of stories that celebrates the triumphs of people who made their biggest marks late in life.

How do you live with the pain of watching someone you love suffer from addiction? And how do you cope with the grief of losing them, especially when your job is to make people laugh every day? You find comfort in walking the hard path with others, peace in holding the good with the grief, and strength in the One who is bigger than your pain.

A month before his college graduation, Paul Rousseau is accidentally shot in the head by his best friend. As Paul survives and recovers, he finds himself embroiled in legal ramifications as the relationship between himself and his best friend disintegrates.

Martin Hibbert was left paralysed by the Manchester Arena bombing which killed twenty-two people on 22 May 2017. Determined to make a difference, he scaled Kilimanjaro in a wheelchair, raising a million pounds for charity

This first volume presents the lives and careers of 13 men who held the two highest ranks in Hitler's Sturmabteilung from its inception in 1920 until the defeat of the Third Reich in 1945. It is the first and only comprehensive examination of the senior SA leadership. Sir Ian Kershaw writes of the series: "I know of no comparable compilation."