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InAn Irishman Abroad, Tarka King recalls his feral youth on the periphery of the Anglo-Irish world, his brief UK public school education and a period of extensive travel, followed by a period of soldiering in the Middle East at the height of the Cold War before returning to Ireland. The book identifies the pre-Belfast Good Friday Agreement Ulster Canal project as a way of tackling historic regional socio-economic ills, with supporting opinions from wide range of contacts stretching from senior IRA hunger strikers through to dedicated hardline Unionists. King refl ects on how he felt compelled to move to England due to the unrest in the early 1980s and how management of his farm and forests in 'no-man's- land' was not surrendered and his interest in pursuing the Ulster Canal restoration continues.

Journalist Stephen Singular, a New York Times bestselling author, has written books about some of the most high-profile crimes in recent American history: the O.J. Simpson case, the JonBenet Ramsey case, and the saga of the BTK serial killer. Until now, he's probed human violence from the outside, documenting other people's stories. In The Heart of Violence, he turns the lens inward, combining true crime with a personal spiritual journey that examines the roots of violence from a radically different perspective. He explores the long-term effects of the war that shaped his father's life (and helped shape his own), while venturing far beyond the boundaries of conventional journalism. Neither he nor the reader could have imagined where this quest would lead him.

"In 1999 Todd Lawson's brother, Sean, died tragically of preventable cerebral malaria at the end of a motorcycle adventure through southern Africa. It left Todd with a hole in his heart and in his life. Wracked with guilt over their joint decision to forgo antimalarial drugs, and his own failure to grasp the gravity of the early signs of Sean's ultimately fatal disease, Todd gets on with life but remains adrift until he meets Christina, a soulmate and like-minded traveller. Together they embark on an audacious motorcycle trip in honor of Sean's vagabond spirit, embracing his preferred method of travel: two wheels, no technology, all adventure. Riding from their home in Whistler, BC, they sprinkle Sean's ashes carried back to Canada from Africa inside the belly of a carved wooden elephant throughout every country in the Americas. Although the 19-month, 23-country odyssey delivers healing for Todd and unparalleled, off-the-beaten-path adventure for the couple, the biggest revelation of all is that they can't stop there: they must return to Africa to experience the continent as the brothers had. This time, however, there will be a purpose: delivering mosquito nets to vulnerable families suffering the ravages of malaria in isolated villages where nets are otherwise unavailable. What begins as a way to truly honor the legacy of Sean becomes an arms-open exploration into the beauty of the natural world and the people living closest to it."--Provided by publisher.

Da en stor europæisk operation er tæt på at gå i vasken, siger han ja til en opgave hjemme i København – velvidende at der er en enorm risiko for at blive afsløret. Det får da også store konsekvenser for ham, og han tvinges til at tage sit liv som undercoveragent op til revision.

Desmond may have given me an insight into human behaviour, but he's given me lots of laughs, too. We think the same things are funny, and he's a brilliant raconteur. --Sir David Attenborough This is a book about the joys of watching the world. >Desmond Morris was born in 1928. Educated at Birmingham and Oxford universities, he became the Curator of Mammals at London Zoo in 1959, a post he held for eight years.In 1967 he published The Naked Ape which has sold over 10 million copies worldwide and has changed the way we view our own species forever.An accomplished artist, TV presenter, film maker and writer, Desmond Morris's books have been published in over thirty-six countries.

Opa Manne kann auf einen außergewöhnlichen Lebensweg zurückblicken. Seine Teenager-Enkel sind fasziniert von seinen Abenteuern. Sie wollen aber auch verstehen warum er diesen Weg gewählt hat und stellen die Fragen, die alle Enkel an ihren Großvater stellen: Wie hast du deine Kindheit erlebt, was hat dich geprägt, was sind deine Überzeugungen und was hat dich angetrieben im Leben?Er schildert in dieser Autobiografie, wie er seine entbehrungsreiche Kindheit in den 1950er- und 1960er-Jahren auf dem zukunftslosen elterlichen Bauernhof erlebte, was ihn anspornte, seinen Weg zu gehen, und was ihm wichtig war im Leben. Er erzählt nicht nur von seinen Abenteuern in Asien, sondern auch von seinen Überzeugungen, Gedanken und Gefühlen, die ihn all die Jahre begleitet und geleitet haben. Und er redet über all das, was er so gerne von seinen eigenen Großeltern erfahren hätte. Schon als 21-Jähriger geht er als Entwicklungshelfer nach Nepal. Nach dem Studium der Internationalen Agrarwirtschaft arbeitet er 22 Jahre in Asien. Erst als Single, dann mit Familie. Er- fährt mit dem Auto von Deutschland nach Nepal- trifft den Dalai-Lama,- trekkt zum Everest-Basislager,- reist monatelang durch Südostasien und mit der Transsibirischen Eisenbahn zurück. - Er übersteht Gelbsucht, Typhus, Malaria und gefährliche Situationen auf Sri Lanka.Opa Manne gibt tiefe Einblicke in seinen Alltag in der Entwicklungszusammenarbeit sowie in seine prägenden Begegnungen mit beeindruckenden Menschen, darunter Nobelpreisträger und Everest-Bezwinger.Unterhaltsam beschreibt er wie er es schaffte seine Träume zu verwirklichen. Er motiviert seine Leserinnen und Leser und zeigt an konkreten Beispielen, wie sie sich mutige Ziele setzen und diese auch erreichen können. Inspirierend, mit über 220 Fotos und einmaligen Zeitdokumenten aufwendig illustriert.

Meet Jason: a college educated documentary film producer, cat parent of two, and one of San Francisco’s top drug dealers. After Jason’s world falls apart in LA, he moves to Berkeley for a fresh start with his kid brother. Just one problem: his long-closeted Adderall addiction has exploded into an out-of-control crystal meth binge. Within weeks, Jason plunges into the sprawling ParTy n’ ’Play subculture of the Bay Area’s gay community. It is a wildly decadent scene of drugs, group sex, and criminals, and yet it is also filled with surprising characters, people who are continually subverting Jason’s own presumptions of the stereotypical tweaker. Soon Jason becomes a dealer on the pretense of researching this tweaker world for a project that will carry him, like a life raft, back to the shores of a normal life. But his friendly entrepreneurial spirit and trusting disposition disarm clients and rival dealers alike. The money begins to roll in as demand increases to frightening levels. Suddenly, Jason is in control of the entire crystal meth market for San Francisco’s gay community, even as he finds himself nodding off behind the wheel of his car, or walking down the sidewalk. As friends and family work frantically to steer him towards recovery, Jason resists, chasing something else: a sleepless nirvana fueled by sex, drugs, and the Tweakerworld. With painful honesty, Jason Yamas has crafted a landmark narrative that is not just a personal account of addiction, but a portrait of a vulnerable, largely undocumented community of people who, for many reasons, have been marginalized to the point of invisibility.

Garry Fabian Miller's Dark Room is a photography book unlike any other. At its heart is the artist's description of a life lived making pictures between the dark and the light, a deeply personal account woven against the history of photography from the moment of its birth in the 1830s to its decline, and some would say death, in the digital age almost two hundred years later.It is a memoir that reads at times like a manifesto, at others like a confession; a last testament to the dark room as both a site for the imagination, and a physical space for the alchemy that William Henry Fox Talbot once described as 'a little bit of magic realised'. Dark Room charts Miller's work over five decades, shifting from a camera-based practice in early career to the abstract picture making for which he has become internationally recognised, working without a camera to experiment with the possibilities of light as both medium and subject. At its core is the relationship with nature and place that has so sustained his way of life, and specifically with his home on Dartmoor and the cycle of daily walks that have been at the core of his practice for thirty years.The book also features an essay on Miller's work by his friend the potter and writer Edmund de Waal and technical notes by Martin Barnes, senior photography curator of the Victoria and Albert Museum.

"Evolving from a conversation between Joshua Whitehead and Angie Abdou, Indigiqueerness is part dialogue, part collage, and part memoir. Beginning with memories of his childhood poetry and prose and travelling through the library of his life, Whitehead contemplates the role of theory, Indigenous language, queerness, and fantastical worlds in all his artistic pursuits. This volume is imbued with Whitehead's energy and celebrates Indigenous writers and creators who defy expectations and transcend genres"--

Felicity Bryan was best known as one of Britain's leading literary agents. On being diagnosed with terminal stomach cancer, she wrote this memoir, which covers the period from when she left school in the early sixties to her marriage in 1981.

Bank robber, convicted murderer, escape artist. John Massey's autobiography reveals what it's like to spend five decades inside

Exquisitely sharp, deeply humane and brutally hilarious, Toy Fights is a future classic from one of the greatest writers of his generation.This is a book about family, money and music but also about schizophrenia, hell, narcissists, debt and the working class, anger, swearing, drugs, books, football, love, origami, the peculiar insanity of Dundee, sugar, religious mania, the sexual excesses of the Scottish club band scene and, more generally, the lengths we go to not to be bored.Don Paterson was born in Dundee, Scotland, in 1963. He spent his boyhood on a council housing estate. When he wasn't busy dreading his birthdays, dodging kids who wanted to kill him in a game of Toy Fights, working with his country-and-western singer dad, screwing up in the Boys' Brigade, obsessing over God, origami, The Osmonds, stamps, sex or Scottish football cards, he was developing a sugar addiction, failing his exams, playing guitar, falling in love, dodging employment and descending into madness. While he didn't manage to figure out who he was meant to be, the first twenty years of his life - before he took a chance, packed his guitar and boarded a train to London - did, for better or worse, shape who he would become.

An autobiography

To read 'Murmurations' is to step into the studio of a painter. These writings, rich sources of information, share thoughts, processes and practices that together demonstrate links between geometry, history and literature. In its midst a life-a painter's life-comes to take place.

This is a book about friends, family, growing up in north Wales, feeling you''re being left behind, snogging, sex, lessons learned along the way and the people who carried you when you didn''t even know you needed to be carried. A book about making sense of things when you have no idea how to do so.

Siân James has been plucking harp strings since childhood. In this volume we gain an honest and clear self-analysis as she traces her world-wide connections whilst co-operating with stars of the folk scene. Through songs and their significance we learn about the girl from Maldwyn - sometimes humorous, sometimes agonising, and with honesty...

Sharon Morgan, the Welsh actress of stage and screen opens up to reveal the hidden challenges she has faced as a devoted mother of two.

TWELVE MOONS follows a year spent caught between the wild sea and the changing moon of the wide Northumberland skies.