Dr. Jonny Acheson, an Emergency Medicine Consultant in one of the UKs busiest departments, loved his job. Diagnosed with Parkinsons in 2016, his once-thriving environment worsened his symptoms. When Your Neurons Dance explores his adaptation, suppor...Lasīt vairāk
The Making of a Marxist Philosopher is a beautiful memoir and family history from renowned Marxist philosopher Sean Sayers. Reflecting on the fate of Marxism in an engaging, thoughtful way, this book is filled with revealing family photographs which...Lasīt vairāk
This book brings this memoir to light to enrich the discussion about the Greek Civil War and the late 1940s, through the highly perceptive views of a firsthand observer of the turmoil....Lasīt vairāk
Professor William Mitschs memoir shows through real and current examples from the field of environmental and wetland science, that personal and professional success depends on persistence and a refusal to compromise on doing the right thing which,...Lasīt vairāk
This text explores the life of the authors brother who has dealt with the effects of a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) for over four decades. It recounts the institutional, psychological, and social labyrinths he and his family have navigated fo...Lasīt vairāk
Part ethnography, part memoir, and part critical reflection on the Anthropocene, this book examines the ways that islands form and inform human experiences of the everyday and the extraordinary....Lasīt vairāk
This book is framed as a memoir of the authors journey through a cancer diagnosis and resulting impairments, as he continued his teaching and research activities during and after medical procedures....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1987, The Poet Auden is a personal memoir by A.L. Rowse, who knew the poet from the time he was an undergraduate at Oxford and kept some touch with him all his life until his final return to Oxford....Lasīt vairāk
Andrew Tillyard had a full and active life until a vehicle crash changed it all. He sustained a serious head injury and was airlifted to the hospital where he worked, having only just survived. In this book, he recounts the raw, uncompromising strug...Lasīt vairāk
A Story of a Marriage Through Dementia and Beyond is the extraordinary, unflinching account from sociologist Laurel Richardson of her love and caregiving through the last period of her husbands Ernest Lockridges life - from his transient amnesia t...Lasīt vairāk
Speaking My Soul is the story of linguist John R. Rickfords life from his early years in Guyana to his status as Emeritus Professor of Linguistics at Stanford. With a foreword by poet John Agard, this is key reading for students and faculty in ling...Lasīt vairāk
A Measure Life will be an enjoyable and insightful read for students of literature, culture, and English history as well as admirers of Richard Hoggart....Lasīt vairāk
The argument has been made that memoir reflects and augments the narcissistic tendencies of our neo-liberal age. Mediating Memory: Tracing the Limits of Memoir challenges and dismantles that assumption. Focusing on the history, theory and practice o...Lasīt vairāk
This book describes Martin Tolchins 40-year career with The New York Times, The Hill, and Politico, tracking the evolution of political journalism from the 1950s to the present and inspiring students and general readers to exercise media literacy an...Lasīt vairāk
Rebuilding Life after Brain Injury: Dreamtalk tells the astounding survival story of Sheena McDonald, a British radio and TV journalist, who 20 years ago was hit by a van and suffered a very severe brain injury....Lasīt vairāk
This book is a narrative in dialogue form in which the author, now an octogenarian who is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and a PhD in philosophy, describes his intellectual evolution from a published laboratory researcher to engagement in the full-t...Lasīt vairāk
Young, Gifted and Fat is an autoethnography of performing thin on the stage and in life. Sharrell Lucketts story of weight loss and gain and playing the (beautiful, desirable, thin) leading lady showcases an innovative and interdisciplinary approac...Lasīt vairāk
This is a personal history of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of Edith Kurzweil, author, teacher, editor of Partisan Review, and a recent recipient of the National Medal of Humanities...Lasīt vairāk
Contain the authors experiences when her beloved grandson, Alex, died. Through her personal story she touches the universal in all grandparents grief....Lasīt vairāk
This memoir recalls Yervant Alexanians death-defying experiences in the center of the Armenian Genocide. Like other Armenians of his generation, he was an eyewitness to the massacre and dislocation of his family and fellow countrymen in Ottoman Turk...Lasīt vairāk
This book, first published in 1926, is the candid record of a womans experiences in the business world at the turn of the twentieth century. Finishing her career as an advertising executive one of the first women to succeed in that industry. This a...Lasīt vairāk
Memories of my Life, first published in 1908, is an autobiography by the psychologist, anthropologist, geographer, and inventor Sir Francis Galton. This book contains a detailed account of Galtons life, and will be of interest to students of Victori...Lasīt vairāk
In this collection of informal reminiscences, first published in 1975, Max Born has written an extraordinarily vivid account of his life and work, originally intended for his family....Lasīt vairāk
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart is as qualified as anyone on the planet to discuss the realities, dilemmas and lessons to be learnt from the last 20 years of corporate engagement with sustainability, ethics and responsibility. In this unique book we hear a un...Lasīt vairāk
FA Mann was among the most brilliant of an exceptional group of German-Jewish émigrés who came to Britain in the 1930s. This book is a personal recollection by someone who knew him as a friend and professional colleague for more than 30 years....Lasīt vairāk
Based on a series of high profile seminars held in Oxford in which senior British officers, predominantly from the army, reflect on their experience of campaigning, this title embraces the UKs major operations since the end of the Cold War, focusin...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 17-May-2013, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781118514948)
Praise for George E.P. Box and An Accidental Statistician I found most interesting the parts describing how he developed as a statistician, the intellectual influences on him, and the genesis of the ideas for which he is so well known......Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 29-Sep-2011, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195396133)
The seventh volume of The History of Neuroscience in Autobiography is a collection of autobiographical essays by distinguished senior neuroscientists in which they recount the events that shaped their lives and identify the mentors and colleagues wh...Lasīt vairāk
The author has been a member of Odin Theatret for 33 years. This title offers a personal account of her work with Eugenio Barba and this world-renowned theatre company. It describes her experience of being an actress from a professional and female p...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 12-Jan-2010, Izdevniecība: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9781119198482)
With new commentary and Insights on the life and times of Jesse LivermoreReminiscences of a Stock Operator is the fictionalized biography of perhaps the most famous financial speculator of all time-Jesse Livermore....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Aug-2009, Izdevniecība: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780195389159)
Atina Grossmann, Konrad Kwiet, Wendy Lower, Jürgen Matthäus, and Nechama Tec analyze the testimony of one Holocaust survivor, Helen Zippi Spitzer Tichauer. This books new, multifaceted approach toward Zippis unique story combined with the author...Lasīt vairāk
Tells the story of David Amrams adventures growing up on a farm in Pennsylvania, working odd jobs, misfitting in the Army, barnstorming through Europe with the famous Seventh Army Symphony, exiling in Paris, scuffling on the Lower East Side, day-la...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Dec-2008, Izdevniecība: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315420776)
This volume collects a dozen of Elliss autoethnographic stories with a layering of new interpretations, reflections, and vignettes to her older work....Lasīt vairāk
