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Charles Ball was an enslaved African-American from Maryland, best known for his account as a fugitive slave, Slavery in the United States. This book is an autobiography of Balls life as a slave and as a fugitive, giving first-hand accounts of what it was like to live through this dark part of history.

A powerful book Shashi TharoorA must-read Vandana ShivaA terrifying investigative account of a global corporations role in perpetrating Indias greatest mercury poisoning catastrophe.In 2001, a Hindustan Unilever-owned thermometer factory in Kodaikanal, Tamil Nadu, made national headlines when a massive dump of broken mercury thermometers was discovered at a local scrapyard. As the multinational corporation conducted one hasty internal assessment after another to save face, state authorities discovered that the company had violated all acceptable guidelines for toxic waste disposal measures, causing grievous harm to its workers health and the regions fragile ecosystem.As evidence of mercury poisoning among workers mounted, the local community aided by environmental watchdog Greenpeace and various public-interest organizations launched a battle against the multibillion-dollar conglomerate that would last fifteen years, culminating in an undisclosed settlement paid to 600 of its ex-employees. And despite the factorys closure, scientific reports would reveal mercury levels to be 1,000 times higher than the safe limit, raising serious concerns about HULs toxic legacy in the hill station.For years, Ameer Shahul, a former investigative reporter and Greenpeace campaigner, closely tracked the Kodaikanal mercury poisoning case. The result is Heavy Metal, a blistering account of a colossal industrial tragedy precipitated by corporate negligence and acts of omission and commission at the highest levels.

"Rivoglio la mia vita!" il grido perentorio di chi vuole tornare indietro e riappropriarsi subito e senza compromessi di unidentita sottrattale inaspettatamente. Questo racconto autobiografico, piu che essere incentrato sullevento traumatico che cambia la vita della protagonista, si sviluppa per "quadri mnemonici", da cui riaffiorano eventi, emozioni e momenti salienti del passato che si fondono con le riflessioni e le rielaborazioni del vissuto esperienziale presente. Una narrazione che restituisce quellintegrita identitaria sottratta, recuperandola dal fluire di una vita che travalica la frattura del trauma e si continua a vivere nella disponibilita ad avviare ulteriori esperienze e a rivedere le proprie convinzioni. Una trama emergente da un felice connubio fra cuore e mente, che si riversa in una scrittura di grande forza emotiva, ma anche ironica e divertente, a tratti demistificante, comunque sempre capace di risvegliare lemozione del lettore e avvincerlo per la fluidita espressiva.

As Memórias de Krzysztof Arciszewski possibilita ao público o acesso a uma fonte singular de informações e torna o nosso conhecimento sobre o Brasil holandês mais abrangente. Arciszewski foi recrutad

When psychoanalytic investigation, which usually contents itself with frail human material, approaches the great personages of humanity, it is not impelled to it by motives which are often attributed to it by laymen. It does not strive "to blacken the radiant and to drag the sublime into the mire"; it finds no satisfaction in diminishing the distance between the perfection of the great and the inadequacy of the ordinary objects Leonardo da Vinci was admired even by his contemporaries as one of the greatest men of the Italian Renaissance, still even then he appeared as mysterious to them as he now appears to us. An all-sided genius, "whose form can only be divined but never deeply fathomed," he exerted the most decisive influence on his time as an artist; and it remained to us to recognize his greatness as a naturalist which was united in him with the artist. Although he left masterpieces of the art of painting, while his scientific discoveries remained unpublished and unused, the investigator in him has never quite left the artist, often it has severely injured the artist and in the end it has perhaps suppressed the artist altogether. According to Vasari, Leonardo reproached himself during the last hour of his life for having insulted God and men because he has not done his duty to his art. And even if Vasaris story lacks all probability and belongs to those legends which began to be woven about the mystic master while he was still living, it nevertheless retains indisputable value as a testimonial of the judgment of those people and of those times. What was it that removed the personality of Leonardo from the understanding of his contemporaries?ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sigmund Freud (18561939) was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology through dialogue between a patient and a psychoanalyst.

Amants, heureux amants, voulez-vous voyager? demandait La Fontaine qui ajoutait: Que ce soit aux rives prochaines. Aussitot, ce sont les enchantements de lItalie qui nous viennent a lesprit, ce pays ou la vie est un art, ou lart est si vivant. Depuis Toulouse, la plus italienne des villes de France, Christiane Rance nous invite a filer vers Genes, a flaner autour des grands lacs et a rever sur la lagune venitienne. Au cours de son voyage, nous redecouvrons la Toscane, le cur de lOmbrie, luniversalite de Rome, le feu de Naples et jusquaux sortileges de la Sicile. Nous voila a sonder lame italienne et avec elle ses paysages et ses hauts-lieux. A interroger les genies qui ont façonne cette terre benie les cesars et les papes, Michel-Ange, Leonard, Raphael, Dante, mais aussi Pasolini, Fellini ou Cristina Campo. Sous la plume alerte et enjouee de Christiane Rance, on croise des saints et des heros, des musiciens et des princes, des stars de Cinecitta, comme des mammas et des mafieux. Riche en decouvertes et en paradis secrets, ce voyage en Italie est une invitation a retrouver le gout du bonheur et de leternite.

"Meister des Eigensinns". Uber Hermann Hesse (1877-1962): In diesem Buch geht es um das Leben und Werk des meistgelesenen und meistverkauften deutschsprachigen Schriftstellers der Welt. Viele Leser:innen lesen Hermann Hesse in ihrer Jugend und dann erst wieder im Alter. Dabei konnte Hesse in jedem Lebensalter interessant sein: Hat doch der Dichter aus Schwaben, der sich in der Schweiz niederlie, die schweizerische Staatsburgerschaft annahm und im Tessin begraben liegt, zeitlebens mit Krisen und Zweifeln zu kampfen gehabt. Der Freidenker, dessen Werk facettenreich ist, schrieb dabei meistens autobiografisch; immer machte er sich furs Individuum stark: Wie kann der Einzelne den Widerstanden einer ihm feindlich gesonnenen Welt begegnen? Im Eigensinn fand er eine Kategorie, die ihm in seinem Kampf ums Uberleben half. Schon die Hippies begeisterten sich fur Hesse; fur sie wurde er zum Kultautor.Das Buch ist ein Buch fur alle, die sich fur die schillernde Biografie Hermann Hesses interessieren und neugierig auf sein umfangreiches Werk sind.

Ils s’appellent Bertrand, Justin, Berty, Maurice, Pierre, Jean, Henri, René-Georges, Godefroy, François. Aviateurs, marins, soldats, combattants de la France Libre, résistants, tous refusent la défai

Neste romance, Carlos Di Vienna nos mostra O OUTRO LADO DA FAMA de Diego Laicci, um cantor mundialmente conhecido, mas que no estava preparado para conviver com o sucesso. A busca desenfreada pela fama deturpa a mente do cantor, e faz com que perca o melhor da vida, e ele percebe ento, que no existe nenhum valor no mundo que possa substituir a saude, a alegria e a paz de espirito. O artista ento, toma uma deciso, e com uma proposta inusitada, surpreende a todos. Antes mesmo do termino do primeiro capitulo, o leitor percebera que o famoso cantor esta a beira do abismo, e cercado de segredos, que sero revelados aos poucos pelo autor. Messias Ebras assume o caso, e o experiente investigador se ve em meio a uma complicada trama, onde o que parece ser o fim e apenas o recomeço. Uma trama to complexa que confundiu ate mesmo o experiente investigador Messias Ebras, que foi mais uma vez brilhante. Nos faz esquecer por um momento, que a mente brilhante por detras da trama e de Carlos Di Vienna, que mais uma vez nos propicia uma otima leitura e consolida de vez o seu amadurecimento como autor . - Comentario de Fabio de Oliveira.

The term capitalism is generally applied to the system under which the instruments of production are the property of private owners, who usually employ managers and manual workers to carry out production by their meansA word first of all to indicate clearly the point of view which characterizes the study. I shall not enter into the question of the formation of capital itself, that is, of the sum total of the goods employed by their possessor to produce more goods at a profit. It is the capitalist alone, the holder of capital, who will hold our attention. My purpose is simply to characterize, for the various epochs of economic history, the nature of this capitalist and to search for his origin.ABOUT THE AUTHORHenri Pirenne (1862-1935) was a Belgian historian who made significant contributions to the field of medieval history.

Despite its conjectural side, history has not been free from this universal revision. There is no longer a single one of its phases of which we can say that it is certainly known. What appeared to be definitely acquired is now once more put in question.Among the events whose study seemed completed was the French Revolution. Analysed by several generations of writers, one might suppose it to be perfectly elucidated. What new thing can be said of it, except in modification of some of its details? And yet its most positive defenders are beginning to hesitate in their judgments. Ancient evidence proves to be far from impeccable. The faith in dogmas once held sacred is shaken. The latest literature of the Revolution betrays these uncertainties. Having related, men are more and more chary of drawing conclusions. Not only are the heroes of this great drama discussed without indulgence, but thinkers are asking whether the new dispensation which followed the ancien regime would not have established itself naturally, without violence, in the course of progressive civilisation. The results obtained no longer seem in correspondence either with their immediate cost or with the remoter consequences which the Revolution evoked from the possibilities of history. ABOUT THE AUTHORGustave Le Bon (18411931) was a French social psychologist, sociologist, and anthropologist known for his work in the fields of crowd psychology and mob behavior. Born on May 7, 1841, in Nogent-le-Rotrou, France, Le Bon made significant contributions to the understanding of collective behavior and the psychology of groups.

Lobjectif de ce petit recueil de pensées, personnelles et non personnelles, sur la mort, autrement dit sur la vie, est damener le lecteur à regarder la mort en face, à reconsidérer son rapport à la m

20-something and uncertain about her future, Florentyna Leow is exhilarated when an old acquaintance offers her an opportunity for work and cohabitation in a little house in the hills of Kyoto.Florentyna begins a new job as a tour guide, taking tourists on elaborate and expensive trips around Kyotos cultural hotspots. Amidst the busy tourist traps and overrun temples, Florentyna develops her own personal map of the city: a favourite smoky jazz kissa; a top-shelf katsuobushi loving cat; an elderly lady named Yamaguchi-san, who shares her sweets and gives Florentyna a Japanese name.Meanwhile, her relationship with her new companion develops an intensity as they live and work together. Their little kitchen, the epicenter of their shared life, overlooks a community garden dominated by a fruitful persimmon tree. Their relationship burns bright, but seasons change, the persimmon tree out back loses its fruit, and things grow strange between the two women.How Kyoto Breaks Your Heart is a collection about the ways in which heartbreak can fill a place and make it impossible to stay.

1986. Barnabé Voisin a 15 ans. Passionné de musique, il retrouve sa bande de copains, Hercule, Émile, Antoine, John, Kadour et Jean-Albert. Ces inséparables amis s’apprêtent à vivre toutes leurs prem

Girolamo Maria Francesco Matteo Savonarola (Ferrara, 21 settembre 1452 - Firenze, 23 maggio 1498) e stato un religioso, politico e predicatore italiano. Appartenente allordine domenicano, profetizzo sciagure per Firenze e per lItalia. Nel 1497 fu scomunicato da papa Alessandro VI, lanno dopo fu impiccato e bruciato sul rogo come eretico e scismatico.

Piccola storia ad uso di chi crede e di chi non crede.1429: una giovane pastorella del tutto sconosciuta, cresciuta vicino alle rive della Mosa, riesce a convincere la propria famiglia, il re, lesercito ed il popolo di aver ricevuto lincarico di una missione fuori ogni intendimento: liberare il misero regno di FranciaDa Orleans a Rouen, il destino luminoso e tragico di Giovanna attraversa i secoli e rimane ancora oggi un fenomeno di stupefacente modernita.

Réflexion sur la découverte de soi, le voyage immobile et les immenses pouvoirs de l’imaginaire, "Voyage autour de ma chambre" (1795) est un condensé drôlatique de l’esprit des Lumières. Il est deven

Réflexion sur la découverte de soi, le voyage immobile et les immenses pouvoirs de l’imaginaire, "Voyage autour de ma chambre" (1795) est un condensé drôlatique de l’esprit des Lumières. Il est deven

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Durant une bonne partie de son enfance, Martial Alexandre Bossis a subi la pire des choses qui puissent arriver à un enfant. Il a dû surmonter cette étape et son lot de traumatisme jusqu’à ce qu’il s