I was born on Wednesday, the nineteenth of June, 1861. It was a few days before the full of the moon. I found myself in a village. I had some slight notions of the morning sun and of my parents. That is as much as I can recall of my baby days. ...Lasīt vairāk
The real story behind Dunnes Stores, the most quintessentially Irish shop of all, and the family drama behind it This is the story of the extraordinary family behind one of Irelands most famous businesses, Dunnes Stores, over three gener...Lasīt vairāk
When Jens Stoltenberg took office as secretary general of NATO in 2014, the world was already changing. What followed was a decade marked by war, diplomatic crises, and decisions that helped shape the Wests shared security.On My WatchThis is not a b...Lasīt vairāk
Seeking Home is a memoir of a childhood in China as a refugee from Nazi Germany during the turbulent years 1934-49.Richter recalls the little-known history of North Chinas occupation by the Japanese during the turbulent World War II years amid the...Lasīt vairāk
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WESTMINSTER BOOK AWARDS I am in awe of the woman who grew from the child in this book ... The pure character necessary to grow through this dark entangled forest of childhood is the stuff of legends. Bravissima LEMN S...Lasīt vairāk
Lady Nijos A Tale Unasked (Towazugatari) is the last, and arguably the finest, among classical Japanese literatures famous womens diaries. Thought to have been completed around 1307, when the author was in her late forties, the first two thirds o...Lasīt vairāk
A great accomplishment . . . A wonderful reflection of an extraordinary sweep of history - Barack Obama For 16 years, Angela Merkel was Chancellor of Germany. She led the country through numerous crises, shaping both Germany and interna...Lasīt vairāk
Raymond Klibansky, Georges Leroux, Peter Feldstein, Alberto Manguel
(Izdošanas datums: 16-Sep-2025, Hardback, Izdevniecība: McGill-Queen's University Press, ISBN-13: 9780228014379)
Born in Paris in 1905 to a German-Jewish family from Frankfurt and dying a century later in Montreal, Raymond Klibansky lived a life indelibly coloured by the history of the twentieth century. His thought shaped and was shaped by intellectual cu...Lasīt vairāk
Is a diplomats life really as glamorous as a royal visit, or as dramatic as a coup détat in Turkey? Leigh Turner is a former British ambassador who held posts in Ukraine, Turkey and Austria. In this witty globe-trotting adventu...Lasīt vairāk
The first insider account of life as a chief whip inside Westminster, from MP Simon Hart, who has served under Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak....Lasīt vairāk
Alisyn Camerotas memoir Combat Love is her story of growing up longing for stability and attachment as the foundation of her family crumbled. Set on the Jersey Shore in the free-range 1980s, Camerota finds the belonging she craves co...Lasīt vairāk
Leo Varadkar shares his fascinating experience as Irish prime minister at a time of much change and turbulence, in this remarkably honest memoir. Leo Varadkar was an unlikely Taoiseach the youngest on taking office in 2017, the first Tao...Lasīt vairāk
A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR When everyday life becomes a state of emergency, how can yesterdays words suffice? We were so happy and didnt know it A thirty-three-year-old writer lives in a quiet European su...Lasīt vairāk
In this book, Burton shows how he fought and won on behalf of working people, the environment, people of color, the peace movement, and, most of all, for the poor and underprivileged-- Provided by publisher. Profane, irascible, and be...Lasīt vairāk
An unflinching insight into the role of a government minister, sharing with searing honesty the personal and political cost when ambition and idealism clash with reality....Lasīt vairāk
The authors of this dual memoir did not live through the trauma of the Holocaust; they inherited it. Whether survivor-parents revealed what they endured or erected barriers of silence, the horrors they experienced permeated the lives of their childre...Lasīt vairāk
