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Credited with having opened the floodgates of screen permissiveness in 1959 with the landmark nudie The Immoral Mr. Teas, legendary independent softcore filmmaker Russ Meyer has continued throughout his 30-year career and 23+ films to expand the limits of screen freedom with such genre classics as Lorna (1964), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1966), and Vixen (1969). Long recognized as an American auteur and honored by numerous international retrospectives of his work, Meyers story provides valuable insights into independent filmmaking, the history of the modern sexploitation genre, and cinema censorship. Researched from underground, popular and film literature, this book also incorporates much of the material contained in Meyers own vast archive, to give an in-depth study of the director dubbed King Leer.

Rube Marquards life was touched by success and scandal at nearly every turn. In 1906, the teenage pitcher defied his father and became a ballplayer. Two years later, the Giants purchased his contract for the then record $11,000. He soon became the best left-handed pitcher in the game; over the course of his career he won 201 games, threw a no-hitter and pitched in five World Series. Off the field, Marquard was a master at marketing himself, recreating his story as it suited him. He wrote his own newspaper column, starred in movies, delighted crowds by catching balls thrown off high buildings, and even appeared as a female impersonator. But it was his affair and brief marriage with vaudeville sensation Blossom Seeley that caused the most uproar. Along with Seeley, Marquard became the toast of Broadway to the chagrin of his baseball fans. Throughout his life, the pitcher re-created his story as it suited him; his largely fanciful account of his career in Lawrence Ritters Glory of Their Times (1966) was largely responsible for his election to the Hall of Fame in 1971. This book gives for the first time the true story of one of the most colorful and controversial baseball players of the century.

Alfonso Ramon Lopez spent 36 years in the big leagues as a catcher and manager. He had a .261 lifetime batting average, compiled 1,547 hits and caught a then-record 1,918 games in a 19-year playing career. The teams he managed--the Cleveland Indians and the Chicago White Sox--won two pennants and finished runner-up 10 times in 17 seasons. He was the only manager to interrupt the Yankees 15 year pennant dynasty from 1949, piloting the Indians in 1954 with an A.L. record 111 wins and guiding the White Sox in 1959. He was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1977. Al Lopez of Tampa opened up baseball to individuals of Spanish, Cuban and Italian ancestry at a time when social barriers had just begun to recede. He symbolized for many Latins the path to success. This book is his first-ever biography. It is based, first, on the recollections of the man himself, and former players, family, and fans, and also on newspaper and periodical accounts, and archival resources.

Lokpanta is compilation of short stories inspired by true events all set in the unique little town of Lokpanta located in the middle of three Southeastern states of Nigeria. Readers will be left with the nostalgic feeling of childhood memories, and the intrigues of village life. The stories are told in a way that makes it relatable to the reader. Be prepared to binge on the book till the very last page.

In 1971, Al Weller, 25, married with a young daughter, is content with his blue-collar life. Though skilled in commercial art, he prefers manual labour and truck driving, enjoying pints with mates after work.A chance suggestion from his friend Lawse leads Al to moonlight as an ad face (advertising model). For nine months, he juggles an odd double life - delivering dairy products to posh hotels while posing for knitting patterns and romance magazines.Als world turns upside down when his face suddenly appears on deodorant posters plastered across Londons buses and Underground. This unexpected fame catapults him into a new reality, challenging his comfortable working-class existence.

Der Autor wurde in Sudafrika geboren und wuchs dort auf. Er absolvierte seine medizinische Ausbildung und erwarb sein Diplom an der University of Witwatersrand (Wits). Anschlieend praktizierte er 45 Jahre lang in den USA als Internist, leitete eine Mukoviszidose-Klinik, eine Tuberkulose-Klinik und eine Klinik fur Bergarbeiter und fuhrte zudem eine Privatpraxis.Sein ehrenamtliches Engagement fuhrte ihn unter anderem an das Kibogora-Krankenhaus in Ruanda.Zu seinen personlichen Interessen zahlen Wildtierfotografie, Ornithologie sowie Tennisunterricht fur seine Kinder und Enkelkinder.Vor dem Hintergrund des Apartheid-Zeitalters in Sudafrika bietet diese eindrucksvolle Memoirenliteratur eine zutiefst personliche Reise durch eine Kindheit, die von Privilegien gepragt und zugleich vom Schatten der Ungerechtigkeit uberschattet war.Norman Nathan teilt intime und oft erschutternde Erinnerungen an seine Kindheit in Johannesburg der 1950er- und 1960er-Jahre - von idyllischen Szenen in den Vororten und Abenteuern auf dem Schulhof bis hin zum Zeugewerden brutaler Akte rassistischer Gewalt und dem Leben in einer durch Gesetze und Vorurteile geteilten Gesellschaft.Durch lebendiges Erzahlen stellt Nathan die Menschen vor, die seine fruhe Lebenszeit pragten - afrikanische Betreuungspersonen, Familienmitglieder und Schulkameraden - und schildert zugleich die harten Realitaten des Militardienstes, das politische Erwachen und den langsamen Verlust der Unschuld.Mit Momenten voller Humor, Trauer und Hoffnung ist Apartheid - Sudafrikanische Erinnerungen sowohl eine personliche Coming-of-Age-Geschichte als auch ein einzigartiges historisches Dokument.Perfekt fur Leserinnen und Leser von Memoiren, Geschichtswerken und sozialkritischer Literatur beleuchtet dieses Buch die menschlichen Kosten der Apartheid und den stillen Mut jener, die sie uberlebten.

LEAN ON NO ONE is a journey through the achievements and legacy of Elizabeth Garver Jordan, a woman who defined female ambition, creativity, empowerment and above all, lived life on her own terms. As the influence of public media via newspapers and magazines rapidly grew in the late 1800s and early 1900s, Jordans innovative approaches raised public awareness of the challenges of social and gender inequality. In her positions at Pulitzers New York World and Harpers Bazar, she significantly boosted journalistic and literary opportunities for women and inspired a new generation through her own articles and serialised short stories.Jordan recognized how both work and literary collaborations could promote positive change as well as entertaining reading, especially concerning female empowerment. The themes and experimentation in her short stories, novels of intrigue, crime and romance, a play and film productions still resonate with readers today. Her work stands alongside those of her contemporaries with whom she had close personal and professional associations such as Frances Hodgson Burnett and Henry James.Jordans independence, determination and active collaboration in the media, political, literary and personal aspects of her life not only benefitted herself but also many others. Her underestimated contribution needs to be fully revealed and acknowledged.

Fragmentos de mi voz en off es un viaje poético por la más amplia y vertiginosa escala emocional humana. Cada verso arranca pedazos esenciales del alma, como horrocruxes gélidos de una magia oscura, y los dispersa en un rompecabezas inconexo que el lector intentara recomponer.Entre imagenes surrealistas, realismo magico y versos libres, el libro explora las fisuras mas intimas del ser. Sus paginas, impregnadas de fragilidad y belleza cruda, dejan entrever una luz tenue una lamparilla persistente como unica salida en medio del caos. Interludios cuidadosamente dispuestos actuan como estantes infinitos en una biblioteca imaginaria, marcando pausas y transiciones en este recorrido emocional.Sin adscribirse a la filosofia, la obra interpela la condicion humana, retratando la rutina existencial y el eterno peregrinar del alma. Algunos pasajes, con la tinta como arma, logran desvelar y quiza justificar la obstinacion de los sentimientos frente a la razon.En un juego intertextual, el autor rinde homenaje a grandes poetas y escritores clasicos, invitandolos a protagonizar su universo. Asi, metaforas, abstracciones y fabulaciones se entrelazan para construir un testimonio poetico tan intimo como universal.

A Journey of Struggles, Faith, and Divine Intervention is a deeply personal and powerful account of one womans transformation through sorrow, faith, and an extraordinary encounter with the divine. In this inspiring autobiography, Krishna Kanta Dass opens her heart to share her journey from Hinduism to Christianity, revealing the trials, grief, and unshakeable faith that led her to accept Jesus Christ as her Lord and Saviour.After 22 years of reflection, Krishna shares the life-changing moment that altered her destiny-a heavenly visitation that brought with it a divine message and a mission she could no longer ignore. Through vivid recollections, she recounts the angelic encounter that filled her room with blinding light and the scent of gardenias and the voice that called her to share Gods message with the world.This book is not just a testimony-it is a call to faith, obedience, and spiritual awakening. With unwavering honesty and a heart full of gratitude, Krishna invites readers to walk with her through pain, healing, and divine purpose. A Journey of Struggles, Faith, and Divine Intervention will stir your spirit and inspire you to reflect on your own path, reminding you that no matter how dark life gets, Gods light can find you.

Why are we all expected to do something to make money?Why must we work?There must be a better way.This book is a tale of a less-than-ordinary life that some choose to lead.This is an everyman struggle set in the 1980s. Mrs T is in number 10, it is grim up north, and there is not a full job to be found. Simon therefore sets off on the temp trail. This is a true tale of trying to find some worthwhile work and something more than a meagre payslip.These are the jobs no one wants, and you are the misfit no one wants. If there is a positive, it is that the time spent in each is mercifully short.Will the sun come out along the way? Who knows?

’Víctor Ricardo Alfaro Ubaqui nos invita a un viaje íntimo y extraordinario a través de casi un siglo de vida. Desde su niñez en el ande peruano de Apurímac hasta su ejemplar trayectoria como educado

This collection of biographies describes twelve women conservationists who helped change the ways Americans interact with the natural environment. Their writings led Americans to think differently about their land--deserts are not wastelands, swamps have value, and harmful insects dont have to be controlled chemically. These women not only wrote on behalf of conservation of the American landscape but also described strategies for living exemplary, environmentally sound lives during the past century. From a bird lover to a back to the land activist, these women gave early warning of the detrimental effects of neglecting conservation. The main part of this work covers six historical figures who pioneered in their thinking and writing about the environment: Mary Austin, Florence Merriam Bailey, Rosalie Edge, Marjory Stoneman Douglas, Helen Nearing, and Rachel Carson. A later chapter gives portraits of six post-World War II conservationists: Faith McNulty, Ann Zwinger, Sue Hubbell, Anne LaBastille, Mollie Beattie, and Terry Tempest Williams. The work covers a broad range of conservationist concerns, including preservation of deserts and old growth forests, wildlife protection, wetlands maintenance, self-sufficient sustainable ways of producing food, and pollution control. A conclusion examines where conservationists have picked up after Rachel Carsons Silent Spring (1962) and gives conservation ideas for our time. An appendix lists the published writings of the twelve conservationists.

For most of the 20th century, American women had little encouragement to become scientists. In 1906, there were only 75 female scientists employed by academic institutions in the entire country. Despite considerable barriers, determined women have, however, decidedly distinguished themselves. Three examples: Astronomer Annie Jump Cannon discovered five novas and over 300 other stars. Mathematician and computer scientist Grace Hopper helped invent the COBOL language. Anesthesiologist Virginia Apgar devised the now universally used Apgar score to make a rapid evaluation of a newborns condition just after delivery. Of the 23 American women scientists covered, six were awarded Nobel prizes. Each biography is accompanied by a photograph. A bibliography and an index complete the work.

Born on January 5, 1907, Zetta Hamby spent much of her life in the northwestern mountains of North Carolina, keenly watching the changes in her community of Grassy Creek and in the world. Families, homes, weddings and funerals, politics, health, world war, race relations, the telephone--those are among the topics touched on in this firsthand look at rural Appalachia in the early decades of the present century. Sometimes poignant, often humorous, and surely authentic, these stories are yet another reminder of recent history that is all too quickly being lost.

Timothy Webster, best known for his work as a spy for the Union during the Civil War, began his career as a New York City policeman. In the mid-1850s he left the police department and took a job for Allan Pinkerton with his newly formed detective agency. As an operative for Pinkertons agency, Webster excelled. His cases included tracking a world famous forger, investigating grave robberies in a Chicago cemetery, and seeking to uncover a plot to destroy the Rock Island Bridge. It was also as a Pinkerton detective that Webster made his greatest contribution to his country when he was part of a small group of operatives that uncovered a plot to assassinate then President-elect Abraham Lincoln in 1861. Webster went on to serve the United States as a spy in the Civil War. He traveled to the Confederate Capital multiple times and made many connections high up in the Confederate military and government. For a time he was the Unions top spy, but his career came to an abrupt end when, in 1862, he was betrayed by fellow spies and became the first spy executed in the Civil War.

Rebecca Browning Rankin was a politician in the best sense of the word. She supervised the New York Municipal Reference Library for 32 years until her retirement in 1952. Serving in many key policy-making positions, both on mayoral committees and in professional organizations, Rankin was an excellent lobbyist for the role of information in educating the electorate. She published over fifty articles and books on aspects of city government and libraries, and delivered weekly radio speeches on WNYC from 1928 to 1938. Her career as a librarian, author and radio commentator demonstrates the use of research in the formation of public policy decisions and provides a unique perspective on politics in New York. Rankin also served as president of several library organizations including the Special Libraries Association, which she led to national status during her tenure. During the Depression, she established the Associations employment service and worked with Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and other library officials to provide pensions for public librarians in New York City. Rankin and La Guardia shared the belief that government should carry out the will of the people and care for their needs, and the two worked together to make this a reality. Quotations from primary sources in the archives of the New York Public Library and the City of New York give the book a strong narrative style. Focusing on Rankins efforts to document New York Citys past as its unofficial historian, the book examines the citys political history during the first half of the twentieth century and illuminates the relationship of the local government with one of its great cultural institutions, the New York Public Library.

Recent years have found much of Africa to be a land of turmoil and revolution. Distress in the Sudan and countries such as Rwanda, Ivory Coast, Sierra Leone and Liberia have made Africa the site of a variety of atrocities from displacement to torture to genocide. The country of Chad, which theoretically gained its independence from France in 1960, is one of many that have been fighting a series of particularly brutal wars, internal and external. In 1982, Hissene Habre wrested power from Chads UN-recognized government, igniting a vicious civil war. Thousands of innocent citizens were kidnapped, tortured and killed to quash political unrest. Covering 1982 to 1986, this memoir tells the story of Esaie Toingar, a native of southern Chad and miraculous survivor of Chads darkest days, many of which came during different Septembers. This work contains Toingars first-hand description of growing up, coming of age and waging the ultimate struggle for survival in the war-torn country. It gives a graphic account of what transpired in Chad during the rule of Habre and the ways in which the author managed to survive, fleeing his home village and seeking safety among the CODOs, a rebel movement of the south. Derived primarily from Toingars memories, this work also utilizes information garnered from other first-hand testimonials and a 1991 documentary filmed by post-Habre Chad Television. Photographs from the authors collection are included.

Many in baseball consider the scout to be the most important figure in any organization: It is the scouts work in the high school and college bleachers that unearths future legends. Few have achieved more--and in such grand style--than George Genovese. In a game that values numbers, Genoveses are staggering. No other scout has been responsible for more players in a single lineup, more home runs by players signed or more All-Star and World Series highlights than Genovese. Genoveses eye for talent is unmatched, his advocacy for the players he discovers is unrivaled, and the investment he makes toward their success is a difference maker. This autobiography is the story of his seven decades in baseball as a player, manager and scout.

A leading scholar of English romanticism and literary theory and criticism, Hazard Adams writes of a lifetime as a student, a teacher and an academic administrator. The child of academically-minded parents, both teachers at Clevelands Hawken School, Adams tells of his familys experiences at Hawken and later Seattles Lakeside School, then his Marine Corps service and education at Princeton and the University of Washington. In addition to an illuminating account of his academic career--his experiences researching and teaching in Ireland, his administrative work in the founding faculty at the University of Californias Irvine campus, and finally his experiences under the first endowed professorship in the humanities at the University of Washington--the memoir also voyages into memories of family, friends and colleagues and offers singularly well-informed comments on the current state of higher education and the academic experience.

This is the true story of my two-year journey to escape Vietnam, seven years after the end of the Vietnam War. At just nine years old, I was a naive village boy, knowing little beyond the only home I had ever known. Along with 27 others including my father and older sister I set sail on a small, overcrowded fishing boat, embarking on a perilous voyage that would ultimately lead me to America. The journey was marked by immense hardship, uncertainty, and sacrifice.Our family was torn apart. My mother and two younger siblings remained in Vietnam, separated from us for 15 long years before we were finally reunited. The pain of that separation shaped me in ways I could never have imagined. Though I did not endure it alone, I learned to transform hardship into resilience, using each challenge as a stepping stone toward a better future. Along the way, strangers some of whom I will never forget offered help in ways I could never have expected.My father s courageous decision to flee with my sister and me was driven by hope a belief in the promise of greater opportunities and a brighter future. But even after reaching America, our struggles were far from over. We battled language barriers, cultural isolation, and economic hardship, fighting to rebuild our lives from nothing. And after years of longing, we finally pieced our family back together.I invite you to join me on this journey a story of perseverance, hope, and the unbreakable human spirit. Through these pages, I seek to honor the voices of the countless Vietnamese boat people who perished at sea, never reaching their destination.In sharing my experiences, I hope to inspire others to keep moving forward, to grow stronger with each challenge, and to uplift those who can no longer speak for themselves. No matter the obstacles, we must press on, turning pain into purpose and hardship into hope.