Good Hand - A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown (F. Smith Michael Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

Good Hand - A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood and Transformation in an American Boomtown (F. Smith Michael Patrick)(Pevná vazba)

Good Hand (Smith Michael Patrick F.)(Paperback)

'Thrillingly and wrenchingly funny ... like Educated and Hillbilly Elegy'DAVID LIPSKY'After reading The Good Hand you may reassess whether you have ever truly done a hard day's work in your life ... This lyrical and engrossing memoir is an extraordinary tale ... Undeniably powerful' SUNDAY

Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong (Smith Paul Chaat)(Pevná vazba)

In this sweeping work of memoir and commentary, leading cultural critic Paul Chaat Smith illustrates with dry wit and brutal honesty the contradictions of life in 'the Indian business.' Raised in suburban Maryland and Oklahoma, Smith dove head first into the political radicalism of the 1970s,

In Pieces (Field Sally)(Pevná vazba)

In this intimate, haunting literary memoir and New York Times Notable Book of the year, an American icon tells her own story for the first time -- about a challenging and lonely childhood, the craft that helped her find her voice, and a powerful emotional legacy that shaped her journey as a

Second Lives, Second Chances: A Surgeon's Stories of Transformation (Laub)(Pevná vazba)

The engrossing memoir of a plastic and reconstructive surgeon involved in groundbreaking and life-changing procedures Through his work in plastic and reconstructive surgery, Dr. Donald Laub changed the lives of thousands of people who had been shunned by society. Dr. Laub's influence fostered the

The Palgrave Handbook of Peacebuilding in Africa (Karbo Tony)(Pevná vazba)

Serves as an essential, high-quality reference work on peace and security in Africa Offers a good balance of breadth and depth of understanding of the field of African peace and security issues, as well as conceptual focus (Pax Africana) to navigate its vast and complex terrain Features

Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina (Copeland Misty)(Pevná vazba)

A bestselling and prize-winning memoir by African American ballerina Misty Copeland, Life in Motion is the vividly told story of her journey to the world-class American Ballet Theatre--and delves into the harrowing family conflicts that nearly drove her away from ballet as a thirteen-year-old

Little Women And Good Wives (Alcott Louisa May)(Pevná vazba)

Written in six weeks, and at first thought by its editor to be 'dull', this story of an American family - four sisters and their mother living through the months while father is away in the Civil War - has a universal and enduring

Brand by Hand: Blisters, Calluses, and Clients: A Life in Design (Contino Jon)(Pevná vazba)

Brand by Hand documents the work, career, and artistic inspiration of graphic designer extraordinaire Jon Contino. Jon is a born-and-bred New Yorker. He talks like one, he acts like one, and most importantly, he designs like one. He is the founder and creative director of Jon Contino Studio, and

Carole A. Feuerman: Fifty Years of Looking Good (Moscovici Claudia)(Pevná vazba)

This is the most comprehensive survey of American artist Carole A. Feuerman's work in hyper-realistic sculpture to date, lavishly illustrated in colour

Multisystemic Resilience: Adaptation and Transformation in Contexts of Change (Ungar Michael)(Pevná vazba)

Multisystemic Resilience brings together for the first time in one volume a wide range of resilience scholars who have been wrestling with how to explain processes of recovery, adaptation, and transformation in contexts of change and adversity. With contributions from psychologists, epigeneticists,

Scenes from an Impending Marriage - a prenuptial memoir (Tomine Adrian)(Pevná vazba)

The most personal and autobiographical work of Tomine's career, Scenes from an Impending Marriage is a charming, delightful document of the little moments leading up to the big day. Praise for Adrian Tomine:'Tomine is, trust me, superb.' Sam Leith, Daily Telegraph 'Near perfection

Turner - Michael Bockemühl

In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch the eye with such ravishing light and color, with such elemental force, it is as if the sun itself were gleaming out of the frame. Appropriately known

Avedon at Work: In the American West (Wilson Laura)(Pevná vazba)

Internationally acclaimed for his portraits of powerful and accomplished people and women of great beauty, Richard Avedon was one of the twentieth century's greatest photographers--but perhaps not the most obvious choice to create a portrait of ordinary people of the American West. Yet in 1979, the

Two Hitlers and a Marilyn - An autograph hunter's escape from suburbia (Andrusier Adam)(Pevná vazba)

An outstanding coming-of-age memoir by an exciting new voice in

An Ocean of Light: Contemplation, Transformation, and Liberation (Laird Martin)(Pevná vazba)

For people drawn to a life of contemplation, the dawning of luminous awareness in a mind full of clutter is deeply liberating. In the third of his best-selling books on Christian contemplative life, Martin Laird turns his attention to those who are well settled in their contemplative practice. An

Dickens's Dialogue - Margins of Conversation (Goodin George)(Pevná vazba)

Explores the rhetoric of Dickens's characters and its place in his work. Drawing on Victorian conversation manuals and more recent philosophical, sociological, and linguistic insights into the nature of conversations, Goodin describes three major character types whose rhetorical strategies

The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature (Stuart-Smith Sue)(Pevná vazba)

A distinguished psychiatrist and avid gardener offers an inspiring and consoling work about the healing effects of gardening and its ability to decrease stress and foster mental well-being in our everyday lives. The garden is often seen as a refuge, a place to forget worldly cares, removed from the

Oak Flat: A Fight for Sacred Land in the American West (Redniss Lauren)(Pevná vazba)

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A powerful work of visual nonfiction about three generations of an Apache family struggling to protect sacred land from a multinational mining corporation, by MacArthur 'Genius' and National Book Award finalist Lauren Redniss, the acclaimed author of Thunder & Lightning

My Life in Full - Work, Family and Our Future (Nooyi Indra)(Pevná vazba)

The much-anticipated and inspiring memoir by Indra Nooyi, the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo, offering clear-eyed insight and a call to action for how our society can really blend work and family - and advance women - in the twenty-first

Love, Madness, Fishing (Petley Dexter)(Pevná vazba)

Full of extraordinary characters, this book is an unsentimental memoir of the 1960s and 1970s in Kent and Sussex told through the discovery of fishing. Reminiscent of Laurie Lee and Jonathan Meades, Dexter Petley's book will be remembered and celebrated for years to

Turner: His Life & Works In 500 Images (Robinson Michael)(Pevná vazba)

An in-depth and fascinating exploration of the life and works of the painter

Richard Bernstein Starmaker: Andy Warhol's Cover Artist (Padilha Roger)(Pevná vazba)

An exploration of the work by American artist Richard Bernstein that celebrates his larger-than-life portraits for the covers of Andy Warhol s Interview magazine, as well as his visually arresting fine art, movie posters, and album covers created from the mid-1960s to the

American Covenant: National Parks, Their Promise, and Our Nation's Future (Soukup Michael a.)(Pevná vazba)

An intimate and candid account of our national parks detailing their strengths, vulnerabilities, and essential role in American life 'Essential reading for anyone concerned about the future of America's national parks.'--John Miles, National Parks Traveler Part memoir, part critique, and a paean