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81) First Loves
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Solotaroff was one of the notable intellectuals of his generation, the founder of the New American Review, editor and friend of Philip Roth, and editor-in-chief at HarperCollins. Solotaroff reveals himself here as a thinking man with a big heart and gaping wounds of love that are not disconnected from the contributions he has made to American culture throughout his career.
Solotaroff turns back to the earliest pages of his romance with Lynn, remembering...
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Mujeres en conflictos, es un reconocimiento a seis prestigiosas reporteras de guerra peruanas que pusieron en riesgo sus vidas para que se conozca y entienda la crueldad y la barbarie humana que conllevan las guerras, y dejaron, a través de su trabajo de investigación periodística, un mensaje de razón que resalta la importancia de no olvidar.
A las mujeres siempre les han negado espacios en la vida pública, sin embargo, desafiando ese orden...
83) Mi Vida
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Este es un vívido relato de la vida del autor. Nada en este libro es ficticio. La historia nos revela su vida académica desde la primaria y hasta su ingreso a la universidad. Sus debilidades, desafíos, fortalezas y victorias se encuentran plasmados en esta narrativa.
84) Vargas Llosa sube al escenario (y otros perfiles de escritores y artistas de los que he aprendido)
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Detrás de la cultura, de la emoción e intensidad vital que suscita, solo hay personas con su nombre de pila, su lugar de nacimiento y sus gustos para el tiempo libre. Son las extraordinarias obras que han creado y el reconocimiento que han obtenido lo que las aleja de los demás mortales.
Esas personas especiales son los verdaderos protagonistas de este libro que, además de funcionar como guía y prescriptor —no en vano Sergio Vila-Sanjuán es...
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As they shook hands and sat down across from each other in the stark office, Rufus knew that history was being made... Chronicling the true life of Canadian newsman Lukin "Rufus" Johnson, this never-before-told biography explains how one man went from labouring across the Canadian prairies and through the farms of Ontario to becoming the first Canadian newsman to interview Hitler. After beginning his career as a journalist only to be pulled away to...
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For twenty years, Jan Wong had been one of her newspaper's best-known reporters. Then one day she turned in a story that set off a firestorm of controversy, including death threats, a unanimous denunciation by Parliament and a rebuke by her own newspaper. For the first time in her professional life, Wong fell into a severe clinical depression. Yet she resisted the diagnosis, refusing to believe she had a mental illness. As it turned out, so did her...
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A true story. Fast-paced. Immersive. The definitive parable of everything Bitcoin, cryptocurrency, and blockchain.
There is the Bitcoin story of the headlines, but there is a more important one behind them: tangled plots sprawling like roots deep underground, entire worlds in which we are just passersby. In Once a Bitcoin Miner, journalist and author Ethan Lou takes readers on a richly told first-person narrative through the proverbial cryptocurrency...
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The prominent journalist, historian, and author-an eyewitness to some of the most pivotal events of the twentieth century-tells the story of his final years. In the third book of a three-volume series, William Shirer recounts his return to Berlin after the Third Reich's defeat, his shocking firing by CBS News, and his final visit to Paris sixty years after he first lived there as a cub reporter in the 1920s. It paints a bittersweet picture of his...
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The famous journalist and author of The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich documents his front row seat at the pivotal events leading up to World War II. In the second of a three-volume series, William Shirer tells the story of his own eventful life, detailing the most notable moments of his career as a journalist stationed in Germany during the rise of the Third Reich. Shirer was there while Hitler celebrated his new domination of Germany, unleashed...
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YA EN 2ª EDICIÓN. Mediante las iniciativas personales de mujeres excéntricas, desafiantes, únicas, Londres ha sido y sigue siendo un lugar donde los libros tienen vida propia y sus libreras, una manera más libre de estar en el mundo. Este libro aborda la historia de más de una treintena de libreras y de sus establecimientos en el Londres de los últimos dos siglos. Recorremos la mítica Charing Cross Road, donde abrieron sus librerías las sufragistas...
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This book on a topic as old as life itself, awaits authorship by an expert. That would be you. You are the only person, living, dead, or yet to be born, who has experienced sex in the ways that you have thought about, have experienced, or are considering doing. “Sex As...” invites you to create a written, pictorial, and/or collage journal of your sexual life, to be shared with others or not. You will be able to respond to phrases such as: Sex...
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Joaquín Navarro-Valls fue portavoz de la Santa Sede durante veintidós años, en los pontificados de Juan Pablo II y Benedicto XVI. Fue el primer no italiano en ese cargo y desempeñó un papel de primer orden en la diplomacia vaticana en momentos decisivos.
Acompañando a Juan Pablo II, recorrió más de un millón de kilómetros, equivalente a veinte vueltas al globo.
Este español universal, médico psiquiatra, fue también corresponsal para Roma...
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In 1900, the young and beautiful Leonel Ross Campbell became the first female reporter to work for the Denver Post. As the journalist known as Polly Pry, she ruffled feathers when she worked to free a convicted cannibal and when she battled the powerful Telluride miners' union. She was nearly murdered more than once. And a younger female colleague once said, "Polly Pry did not just report the news, she made it!"
If only that young reporter had known...
95) I Wrote a Book
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Oh boy where do I start?
You know those dreams you have when you're young? You're so full of energy and passion about the dream? And then when you grow up into adulthood, you can be bogged down by... you know... bills and stuff? That kind of energy in your life can really keep you down and out man. This book is one I've wanted to publish for a while, as it marks the end of the chapter of my life where I don't pursue my dreams, and instead I just...
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Ray Guy: The Final Columns, 2003-2013 is a collection of the columns Ray Guy wrote for The Northeast Avalon Times, a community newspaper based in Portugal Cove. Guy previously achieved fame and acclaim for his astute and humorous observations of Newfoundland politics and society in columns in The Telegram and The Sunday Express from the 1960s to 1990s. Guy began writing for The Northeast Avalon Times in 2003, the same year Danny Williams was elected...
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Born in KwaZulu-Natal into what he described as a 'very ordinary South African family that believed in the virtue of racism', Van Rensburg became a self-styled rebel who tirelessly pursued his own vision of a brighter future for emerging societies in post-colonial southern Africa.
His emotional and intellectual struggle against his upbringing and cultural roots led him to reject his life of white privilege in South Africa. Determined to prevent the...
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Imágenes caleidoscópicas, sí, puesto que, tal y como descubrirá con facilidad el lector, varias son las opciones desde las que cabe abordar la lectura de este periplo circumplanetario:
-En primer lugar, todos los comentarios Facebook mediante los que mantuve entretenidos -espero- a mis incondicionales seguidores y que no he tenido el menor pudor en recopilar minuciosamente para integrar el cuerpo de este libro. Propondría para etiquetarlos el...
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Roger Kahn is one of America's foremost sportswriters. After successful seasons as a newspaperman and magazine writer, he burst onto the national scene in 1972 with his memorable bestseller, THE BOYS OF SUMMER, memorializing the Brooklyn Dodgers. Now in his eighth decade, Kahn has again written a book for the hearts and minds of his readers. Chronicling his own life, INTO MY OWN is Kahn's reflection on the eight people who shaped him as a man, a father,...
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The Trials of a Scold, by author Jeff Biggers, is a well-researched and passionate biography of Anne Royall, one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted as a "common scold" in 1829 in one of the most bizarre trials in the nation's history.
Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear, and one of the nation's most daring, impassioned, and indomitable social critics. A servant in the house of the man she would later marry,...
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