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N. V. Krishna Warrior
by K. V. RamakrishnanOn the life and works of N. V. Krishna Warrior, b. 1917, Malayalam author.
N. W. A the Aftermath: Exclusive Interviews With Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, Jerry Heller, Yella and Westside Connection (Behind The Music Tales #Vol. 4)
by Harris Rosen Ben KinkeadN.W.A: The Aftermath is the fourth book from the In Their Own Words: Behind the Music Tales of Truth, Fiction & Desire series. The interviews provide first-hand knowledge and the state of mind of these legendary figures who existed within the heart of arguably the most infamous and dark period in music history. Each chapter will unravel the truth and give you new insight. Don't miss out on the opportunity to learn what really happened. What was Eazy-E's all consuming desire? How did Jerry Heller feel after listening to "No Vaseline"? When did Yella find out Eazy-E had AIDS? What really happened in the Ice Cube Vs Cypress Hill war? What really went on behind the scenes at Death Row? What did Dr. Dre think of Snoop Doggy Dogg's Tha Doggfather album? Why did people say Dr. Dre fell off? Who had the money lined up to produce an N.W.A movie in 2006? How did Ice Cube go from burning to turning Hollywood? And much more Much of what you will read here has been sensationalized by others in a manner of journalistic psycho-speak. N.W.A: The Aftermath is as close to the truth as one can get. Alternately triumphant and tragic, lively, uplifting, and resentful, each tells a distinct story, creating an intimate portrait as fearless as its subjects.
NAUSHADNAMA The Life and Music of Naushad: The Life And Music Of Naushad
by Raju BharatanNaushad is by popular consent the greatest among our film music composers, having been active for 65 years! For twenty years during that period, he ruled the field: from Rattan in 1944, he was the standard against whom every other composer tried to match himself! He didn't have much to show by way of originality after Mughal e Azam (1961), though his music never became base : it was only that the stars for whom he composed declined, the public taste changed, he became trapped in his own image as the custodian of the classical mould in film sangeet. It is a measure of the great man that he steadily refused to succumb to the market pressure. His composing abilities were never in question, but he could not give 'hits" or tunes that would appeal.When he tried to adjust, he was pathetic. Raju Bharatan is such an authority on Naushad and our film music, with so much first hand knowledge and information, a book from him on Naushad is likely to be the last word as an account of his professional life. But this book covers so much more: what the cine music filed was like from inside, how the composers were competing , how they were bad-mouthing Naushad in private, in spite of the show of public bonhomie, what devious games were played to corner awards and limelight, etc. The point is not the filmi world was so dirty; the point is that the composers created great music even in such atmosphere.
NBC Goes to War: The Diary of Radio Correspondent James Cassidy from London to the Bulge (World War II: The Global, Human, and Ethical Dimension)
by James CassidyThe diary of radio correspondent James Cassidy presents a unique view of World War II as this reporter followed the Allied armies into Nazi Germany.James Joseph Cassidy was one of 362 American journalists accredited to cover the European Theater of Operations between June 7, 1944, and the war’s end. Radio was relatively new, and World War II was its first war. Among the difficulties facing historians examining radio reporters during that period is that many potential primary documents—their live broadcasts—were not recorded. In NBC Goes to War, Cassidy’s censored scripts alongside his personal diary capture a front-line view during some of the nastiest fighting in World War II as told by a seasoned NBC reporter.James Cassidy was ambitious and young, and his coverage of World War II for the NBC radio network notched some notable firsts, including being the first to broadcast live from German soil and arranging the broadcast of a live Jewish religious service from inside Nazi Germany while incoming mortar and artillery shells fell 200 yards away. His diary describes how he gathered news, how it was censored, and how it was sent from the battle zone to the United States. As radio had no pictures, reporters quickly developed a descriptive visual style to augment dry facts. All of Cassidy’s stories, from the panic he felt while being targeted by German planes to his shock at the deaths of colleagues, he told with grace and a reporter’s lean and engaging prose.Providing valuable eyewitness material not previously available to historians, NBC Goes to War tells a “bottom-up” narrative that provides insight into war as fought and chronicled by ordinary men and women. Cassidy skillfully placed listeners alongside him in the ruins of Aachen, on icy back roads crawling with spies, and in a Belgian bar where a little girl wailed “Les Américains partent!” when Allied troops retreated to safety, leaving the town open to German re-occupation. With a journalistic eye for detail, NBC Goes to War unforgettably portrays life in the press corps. This newly uncovered perspective also helps balance the CBS-heavy radio scholarship about the war, which has always focused heavily on Edward R. Murrow and his “Murrow’s Boys.”
NEW YORK JEW
by Alfred KazinAlfred Kazin, one of the central figures of America's intellectual life in the 20th century, takes us into his own life and times. His autobiography encompasses, within a single large, fluent narrative, a personal story openly told; an inside look at New York's innermost intellectual circles; and brilliantly astute observations of the literary accomplishments, atmosphere, and fads of the 1940's, '50's, and '60's in the context of America's shifting political gales. Kazin begins his story in 1940, where we see him first as a young man working for The New Republic, then for Fortune in the time of James Agee. We see him in wartime London; as traveler, after the war, in Italy, Germany, Russia and Israel. We see him as teacher and scholar; as husband and lover; as a writer of profoundly influential critical works; as both observer of and participant in the cultural history of his time. Marvelous scenes of close-up encounters with literary figures abound. The young Kazin, "summoned" to discuss his just-published first book, pays his first visit to the great Edmund Wilson (he was "merely impatient with my book") and his wife ("she went into my faults with great care...she looked beautiful in the increasing crispness of her analysis") Mary McCarthy. We see Lionel Trilling ("for Trilling I would always be 'too Jewish'"); Saul Bellow, soon after Augie March, already projecting a "sense of destiny as a novelist that excited everyone around him"; Sylvia Plath as a student of Kazin's at Smith. Kazin shares the particular joy of being in the company of Hannah Arendt--Hannah at work, "brimming over with enthusiasm for the New World," and in the Morningside Drive apartment where she and her husband, Heinrich Bluecher, lived "thought dominated" lives, and were magnets for young writers. We see old and young contemporaries--Robert Frost, Paul Goodman, T. S. Eliot, and others--freely expressing (and being) themselves. Every image and incident is filtered through Kazin's own strong sensibility--powerfully informed by his Russian immigrant-socialist background, by the resurgent sense of his own Jewishness, and by the "raw power, mass, and volume" of the city he is unfailingly drawn to. New York is itself a central character in his book as in his life--a life superbly told, in a book that will be of fascination to everyone interested in American writing and writers.
NFL Confidential: True Confessions from the Gutter of Football
by Johnny AnonymousMeet Johnny Anonymous. No, that’s not his real name. But he is a real, honest-to-goodness pro football player. A member of the League. A slave, if you will, to the NFL. For the millions of you out there who wouldn’t know what to do on Sundays if there wasn’t football, who can’t imagine life without the crunch of helmets ringing in your ears, or who look forward to the Super Bowl more than your birthday, Johnny Anonymous decided to tell his story.Written during the 2014–2015 season, this is a year in the life of the National Football League. This is a year in the life of a player—not a marquee name, but a guy on the roster—gutting it out through training camp up to the end of the season, wondering every minute if he’s going to get playing time or get cut. Do you want to know how players destroy their bodies and their colons to make weight? Do you wonder what kind of class and racial divides really exist in NFL locker rooms? Do you want to know what NFL players and teams really think about gay athletes or how the League is really dealing with crime and violence against women by its own players? Do you wonder about the psychological warfare between players and coaches on and off the field? About how much time players spend on Tinder or sexting when not on the field? About how star players degrade or humiliate second- and third-string players?What players do about the headaches and memory loss that appear after every single game? This book will tell you all of this and so much more. Johnny Anonymous holds nothing back in this whip-smart commentary that only an insider, and a current player, could bring.Part truth-telling personal narrative, part darkly funny exposé, NFL Confidential gives football fans a look into a world they’d give anything to see, and nonfans a wild ride through the strange, quirky, and sometimes disturbing realities of America’s favorite game. Here is a truly unaffiliated look at the business, guts, and glory of the game, all from the perspective of an underdog who surprises everyone—especially himself.JOHNNY ANONYMOUS is a four-year offensive lineman for the NFL. Under another pseudonym, he’s also a contributor for the comedy powerhouse Funny Or Die.You can pretty much break NFL players down into three categories.Twenty percent do it because they’re true believers. They’re smart enough to do something else if they wanted, and the money is nice and all, but really they just love football. They love it, they live it, they believe in it, it’s their creed. They would be nothing without it. Hell, they’d probably pay the League to play if they had to! These guys are obviously psychotic.Thirty percent of them do it just for the money. So they could do something else—sales, desk jockey, accountant, whatever—but they play football because the money is just so damn good. And it is good.And last of all, 49.99 percent play football because, frankly, it’s the only thing they know how to do. Even if they wanted to do something “normal,” they couldn’t. All they’ve ever done in their lives is play football—it was their way out, either of the hood or the deep woods country. They need football. If football didn’t exist, they’d be homeless, in a gang, or maybe in prison.Then there’s me.I’m part of my own little weird minority, that final 0.01 percent. We’re such a minority, we don’t even count as a category. We’re the professional football players who flat-out hate professional football.
NILE TO ALEPPO: With The Light-Horse In The Middle East [Illustrated Edition]
by Major Hector William DinningIncludes World War One In The Desert Illustration Pack- 115 photos/illustrations and 19 maps spanning the Desert campaigns 1914-1918"Fresh and vivid memoir of an Australian horseman serving in the Palestine campaign. Includes a chapter 'Working with Lawrence' on the legendary T.E. Lawrence of Arabia.The author, Brisbane-born Captain Hector Dinning, was an officer in the "Light Horsemen" of the Australian Army in the Great War. He served with his unit in the Palestine campaign, journeying from Cairo in Egypt to Aleppo in Syria, and recounts his experiences in the Middle East. This book will especially interest anyone keen on T.E.. Lawrence 'of Arabia'. Dinning worked alongside the legendary Colonel and his portrait of him is especially valuable as it was written early (1920) before the legend of Lawrence had taken hold. Written in a direct, forceful and typically Australian style, this memoir will delight anyone interested in Lawrence, the Middle East and the Great War."-Print Edition
NISHGA
by Jordan AbelFrom Griffin Poetry Prize winner Jordan Abel comes a groundbreaking, deeply personal, and devastating autobiographical meditation that attempts to address the complicated legacies of Canada's residential school system and contemporary Indigenous existence.As a Nisga'a writer, Jordan Abel often finds himself in a position where he is asked to explain his relationship to Nisga'a language, Nisga'a community, and Nisga'a cultural knowledge. However, as an intergenerational survivor of residential school--both of his grandparents attended the same residential school--his relationship to his own Indigenous identity is complicated to say the least.NISHGA explores those complications and is invested in understanding how the colonial violence originating at the Coqualeetza Indian Residential School impacted his grandparents' generation, then his father's generation, and ultimately his own. The project is rooted in a desire to illuminate the realities of intergenerational survivors of residential school, but sheds light on Indigenous experiences that may not seem to be immediately (or inherently) Indigenous. Drawing on autobiography and a series of interconnected documents (including pieces of memoir, transcriptions of talks, and photography), NISHGA is a book about confronting difficult truths and it is about how both Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples engage with a history of colonial violence that is quite often rendered invisible.
NITRO: The Incredible Rise and Inevitable Collapse of Ted Turner's WCW
by Guy Evans<p>In April 1999, Entertainment Weekly asked its readers what many Americans were surely wondering to themselves: how did wrestling get so big? <p>As a consequence of the heated ratings competition between World Championship Wrestling (WCW) and the World Wrestling Federation (WWF), the spectacle had taken over Monday nights on prime-time cable television. But in a departure from the family-friendly programming produced by the last industry boom - the 1980s wave, which made household names of Hulk Hogan, 'Rowdy' Roddy Piper and Andre the Giant - the new era of wrestling combined stunning athleticism with a raunchy sex appeal, engrossing story lines and novel production techniques that reflected a changing society and its shifting values. <p>Once again, wrestling was a ubiquitous phenomenon - only this time, it seemed as though the fad would never end. With both WCW and WWF expanding into other forms of entertainment - movies, video games, music and the like - the potential for growth appeared to be limitless. <p>But with uncertainty surrounding its corporate future, and increasingly uninspired programming eroding its audience, WCW stood on the verge of collapse. Three years into a five-year plan devised by its charismatic leader - a former Blue Ribbon Foods salesman named Eric Bischoff - the company whose unexpected ascension initiated the entire boom was operating on borrowed time. <p>For by the end of the five-year plan, WCW ceased to exist. <p>But NITRO is a story about much more than WCW and the Monday Night Wars. It is a story of an era, a time in which the media and cultural landscape precipitated - and later supported - pro wrestling's mainstream popularity. It is a story of how a company made in the image of an intuitively brilliant risk-taker betrayed its original promise. It is a story of how a handful of men, each struggling with their own limitations, facilitated a public obsession that changed television forever. <p>And so, with the inside knowledge of a journalist, the perspective of a historian, and the passion of a fan, author Guy Evans provides a fresh look at an unfortunate inevitability - the downfall of World Championship Wrestling. Bolstered by exclusive interviews with over 120 former TBS and WCW employees, NITRO is the definitive picture of the last wrestling boom. </p>
NIÑO DEL AÑO, EL (EBOOK)
by Franco RinaldiEn 1992 Franco Rinaldi ganó el Premio Persona en la categoría "Niño del Año". Para merecerlo, había sido lo más parecido a un chico de doce años que podía ser. Bastante para alguien que nació con los huesos de cristal y en total iba a alcanzar el metro-cero-nueve de altura. La osteogénesis imperfecta parece darle derecho a la gente a decirle "Franquito", acariciarle la cabeza o preguntarle cosas tales como si alguna vez pensó en matarse. Franco no miente ni dice la verdad. En el fino andarivel entre autobiografía y ficción, arma el esqueleto de este avión enorme que es su libro. Hilvana los episodios en la TV con las tardes en los bares -que son botes salvavidas-; la intimidad con las azafatas, con el médico, con la madre; las amigas que lo acompañan al teatro, a la cama o al hospital; las sesiones de terapia en las que se pregunta qué es curarse. Pero para él lo mejor de todo es volar, con el cielo azul de un lado del avión y violeta del otro. Y no para abstraerse de sí mismo o del mundo. Al contrario: porque conoce todos los elementos que tienen que estar a la vez en movimiento para que tantas toneladas de materia puedan flotar. En este libro - en la vida?-, la felicidad está en los detalles. Marina Mariasch
NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories
by Jeff Alulis Nofx<P>NOFX: The Hepatitis Bathtub and Other Stories is the first tell-all autobiography from one of the world's most influential and controversial punk bands. Alongside hilarious anecdotes about pranks and drunkenness and teenage failures-featuring the trademark NOFX sense of humor-the book also shares the ugliness and horror the band members experienced on the road to becoming DIY millionaires. <P>Fans and non-fans alike will be shocked by stories of murder, suicide, addiction, counterfeiting, riots, bondage, terminal illness, the Yakuza, and pee...lots and lots of pee. Told by each of the band members (and two former members), NOFX looks back at more than thirty years of comedy, tragedy, and completely inexplicable success. <P><b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
NOMINADOS (EBOOK)
by Marcos GorbanGran Hermano es el reality show más importante del mundo. El de mayores audiencias, el de mayor facturación, el que más fantasías despierta. Los drogan? Les dan alcohol para que tengan sexo? Está todo arreglado? Por qué están tomando sol todo el día sin hacer nada? Están guionados? Los mitos que se tejieron alrededor del programa son muchos. Y han ido cambiando a través de los años. Pero hay muchas historias que el público y la prensa desconocen. Cuál fue la trastienda de los castings, de las galas en vivo, de las decisiones que más impacto tuvieron, desde la confesión de homosexualidad de Gastón hasta la inclusión de un ex presidiario en 2007?
NYPD Green
by Luke WatersIn this gritty, sometimes hilarious, but always brutally honest memoir, Irish immigrant and retired NYPD homicide detective Luke Waters shares the darker and harder side of the police force that "will make you sit up, stay up, and keep reading" (Edward Conlon, author of Blue Blood).Growing up in the rough outskirts of northern Dublin at a time when joining the guards, the army, or the civil service was the height of most parents' ambitions for their children, Luke Waters knew he was destined for a career in some sort of law enforcement. Dreaming of becoming a police officer, Waters immigrated to the United States in search of better employment opportunities and joined the NYPD. Despite a successful career with one of the most formidable and revered police forces in the world, Waters's reality as a cop in New York was a far cry from his fantasy of serving and protecting his community. Over the course of a career spanning more than twenty years--from rookie to lead investigator, during which time he saw New York transform from the crack epidemic of the '90s to the low crime stats of today--Waters discovered that both sides of the law were entrenched in crooked culture. In NYPD Green Waters offers a gripping and fascinating account filled with details from real criminal cases involving murder, theft, gang violence, and more, and takes you into the thick of the danger and scandal of life as a New York cop--both on and off the beat. Balanced with wit and humor, Waters's account paints a vivid picture of the colorful characters on the force and on the streets and provides an unflinching--often critical--look at the corruption and negligence in the justice system put in place to protect us, showing the hidden side of police work where many officers are motivated not purely by the desire to serve the community, but rather by the "green" earned in overtime, expenses, and allowances. A multifaceted and engaging narrative about the immigrant experience in America, Waters's story is also one of personal growth, success, and disillusionment--a rollicking journey through the day-to-day in the New York Police Department.
NYPD Green: The True Story of an Irish Detective Working in one of the Toughest Police Departments in the World
by Luke Waters'Luke Waters had more than 20 years on the job. What he saw, what he heard and what he did will make you sit up, stay up and keep reading - and that's only what he can tell you.' - Ed Conlon, Bestselling Author of Blue Blood.Finglas native Luke Waters dreamed of following his grandfather and brother into An Garda Siochana, until, as for so many other Irish men and women in the 1980s, America beckoned. But Luke never lost sight of his dream and, in spite of the hurdles he had to overcome, in August 1993 he joined the ranks of New York's finest.As Waters rose through the ranks to become a homicide detective in one of the toughest places in the world, The Bronx, he would see the best and the worst: the heroism of fellow detectives, the ravages of crack cocaine, and the terrible fallout of 9/11. NYPD Green is a no-holds-barred account of the people and the cases, but also an insight into the dark side of a job where corruption and bravery often go hand in hand. The story of an Irishman made good, of the American dream, NYPD Green also pays tribute to one of the hardest jobs there is.
Na Bairi Na Koi Begana: न बैरी न कोई बैगाना
by Surender Mohan Pathakअब हाज़िर है जिसका आप सबको रहा है इंतज़ार!मेरी कहानी, मेरी अपनी ज़ुबानी। मेरी आत्मकथा के इस पहले भाग को पढ़ते हुए कभी आपको हंसी आएगी, कभी आंख नम हो जाएगी... और कई बार मेरा हाथ थामे मेरे बचपन से गुज़रते हुए ऐसा लगेगा जैसे दिल में कुछ नम पिघल रहा है। तो चलिए रू-ब-रू होते हैं उनकी 298वीं रचना, न बैरी न कोई बेगाना से...
Na Orquestra de Auschwitz: O Segredo da Minha Mãe
by Jean-Jacques FelsteinUma história que desperta emoção, respeito e raiva, numa escrita marcante e intransigente. Uma história impressionante de sofrimento indescritível e do seu impacto nas gerações futuras. Enviada para Auschwitz em 1943, Elsa Miller sobreviveu ao campo de extermínio devido ao seu talento. Como violinista, teve a «oportunidade» de se juntar à orquestra feminina do campo, regida por Alma Rosé, sobrinha do famoso compositor Gustav Mahler. É este o segredo que Jean-Jacques Felstein, o filhode Elsa, descobre muito tempo após a morte prematura da mãe, que nunca lhe revelara nada acerca do seu passado. Ao tentar preenchero vazio que sente, segue os passos de Elsa e encontra sobreviventes da orquestra em vários países: Alemanha, Bélgica, Polónia, Israel e Estados Unidos da América. São as memórias de Hélène, Violette, Anita e outros músicos que o ajudam, finalmente, a compreendera sua mãe, que aos 20 anos passou pelo inferno e para sempre carregou esse fardo. Relatos que nos dão a conhecer a realidade incompreensível do campo: as audições das quais dependia a sobrevivência, os ensaios intermináveis, os destroços humanos que marchavam ao ritmo da banda a caminho dos trabalhos forçados, os concertos de domingo e as peças de música que Josef Mengele, o «Anjo da Morte», exigia ouvir quando não estava a decidir quem vivia e quem morria. Uma história que desperta emoção, respeito e raiva, numa escrita marcante e intransigente. Uma bela homenagem a estas mulheres. Um diálogo admirável além da morte, em que Jean-Jacques Felstein, ao seguir os passos de Elsa, tenta aliviar a mãe do peso do seu sofrimento e, assim, amenizar a sua própria devastação por ter crescidocom uma mãe ausente.
Na sombra
by Príncipe Harry Duque de SussexFilho e neto de duas das mulheres mais fotografadas do século XX e membro da família mais famosa do mundo, o Príncipe Harry conta, pela primeira vez, a sua história. Uma partilha intensa e emocionante que nos revela o homem além do Príncipe. Foi uma das imagens mais duras do século XX: dois jovens rapazes, dois príncipes, caminhando atrás do caixão da mãe, cena a que o mundo assistia em absoluta comoção - e horror. No momento em que Diana, princesa de Gales, era entregue à sua morada final, milhares de milhões de pessoas perguntavam-se o que estariam os príncipes a pensar e a sentir - e o que seria feito deles desse dia em diante. É aqui que Harry conta, finalmente, essa história. Antes de perder a mãe, aos 12 anos, o príncipe Harry era feliz e despreocupado - em contraste com a seriedade do irmão mais velho, herdeiro da Coroa. A dor daquela perda mudou tudo. Começou a ter dificuldades na escola, deixou-se dominar pela raiva e pela solidão e, por ver a imprensa como a responsável pela morte da mãe, rejeitava a ideia de viver sob os holofotes. Aos 21 anos, juntou-se ao Exército britânico. A disciplina deu-lhe estrutura, e duas missões militares fizeram dele um herói no seu país. Mas depressa se sentiu mais perdido que nunca: sofria de stress pós-traumático e tinha ataques de pânico paralisantes. Acima de tudo, não conseguia encontrar o amor verdadeiro. Até que conheceu Meghan. O mundo rendeu-se ao romance digno de cinema e exultou com o seu casamento de conto de fadas. Porém, desde o início, Harry e Meghan foram perseguidos pela imprensa e submetidos a ondas de violência, racismo e mentiras. Perante o sofrimento da mulher, considerando que a segurança e a saúde mental de ambos estava em risco, Harry não viu outra alternativa senão abandonar a sua pátria para evitar uma trágica repetição do passado. Ao longo dos séculos, deixara família real foi algo a que poucos se atreveram. Na verdade, a última pessoa a tentá-lo tinha sido a sua mãe… Pela primeira vez, o príncipe Harry conta a sua história, narrando a sua viagem com uma honestidade crua e inabalável. Um livro histórico, pleno de visão, descobertas, introspeção e experiência, Na Sombra revela como o amor triunfa sempre sobre a dor.
Naan Malaalaa
by Translated into Tamil by Padmaja Narayananஅநீதி இழைக்கப்பட்டு, வாய் அடைக்கப்பட்ட அனைத்துப் பெண்களுக்கும் காணிக்கை. ஒன்றாக ஒலிக்கும்போது நம் குரல் கேட்கப்படும்.
Nabeel's Song
by Jo TatchellIn the winter of 1979 Nabeel Yasin, Iraq's most famous young poet, gathered together a handful of belongings and fled Iraq with his wife and son. Life in Baghdad had become intolerable. Silenced by a series of brutal beatings at the hands of the Ba'ath Party's Secret Police and declared an “enemy of the state,” he faced certain death if he stayed. Nabeel had grown up in the late 1950s and early '60s in a large and loving family, amid the domestic drama typical of Iraq's new middle class, with his mot...
Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq
by Jo TatchellNABEEL'S SONG is an epic true story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry and as a young man became famous for it. But by the end of the 1970s Saddam's rise to power was encroaching on his life, and that of his family. Nabeel's brothers were arrested and he himself was denounced as an enemy of the state and fled Iraq in 1980. NABEEL'S SONG tells his story, and that of the family that he left behind; his matriarch of a mother Sabria, his four brothers and their rebellion against Saddam's regime, and his two sisters - all ordinary people living in extraordinary and difficult times. This is a moving family story of exile and endurance. 'Jo Tatchell's moving narrative, from Nabeel's mouth, tells of endurance, literary resistance and the courage of a loving, close-knit family opporessed by tyranny and war' The Times
Nabeel's Song: A Family Story of Survival in Iraq
by Jo TatchellNABEEL'S SONG is an epic true story of one family's experience of life before, during and after the regime of Saddam Hussein. Nabeel Yasin had an ordinary childhood, in a middle-class neighbourhood in 1950s Baghdad. He showed an early gift for poetry and as a young man became famous for it. But by the end of the 1970s Saddam's rise to power was encroaching on his life, and that of his family. Nabeel's brothers were arrested and he himself was denounced as an enemy of the state and fled Iraq in 1980. NABEEL'S SONG tells his story, and that of the family that he left behind; his matriarch of a mother Sabria, his four brothers and their rebellion against Saddam's regime, and his two sisters - all ordinary people living in extraordinary and difficult times. This is a moving family story of exile and endurance. 'Jo Tatchell's moving narrative, from Nabeel's mouth, tells of endurance, literary resistance and the courage of a loving, close-knit family opporessed by tyranny and war' The Times
Nabih Berri and Lebanese Politics
by Omri NirNabih Barri is a key figure in the Lebanese and Shi'ite politics for the last three decades. As the leader of the Shi'ite Amal movement since 1980 and as the Lebanese Speaker since 1992, Barri played a major role in all political events and processes in Lebanon between the early 1980's and today, including the current severe Lebanese crisis.
Nabokov and the Real World: Between Appreciation and Defense
by Robert AlterFrom award-winning literary scholar Robert Alter, a masterful exploration of how Nabokov used artifice to evoke the dilemmas, pain, and exaltation of the human conditionAdmirers and detractors of Vladimir Nabokov have viewed him as an ingenious contriver of literary games, teasing and even outsmarting his readers through his self-reflexive artifice and the many codes and puzzles he devises in his fiction. Nabokov himself spoke a number of times about reality as a term that always has to be put in scare quotes. Consequently, many critics and readers have thought of him as a writer uninterested in the world outside literature. Robert Alter shows how Nabokov was passionately concerned with the real world and its complexities, from love and loss to exile, freedom, and the impact of contemporary politics on our lives.In these illuminating and exquisitely written essays, Alter spans the breadth of Nabokov's writings, from his memoir, lectures, and short stories to major novels such as Lolita. He demonstrates how the self-reflexivity of Nabokov's fiction becomes a vehicle for expressing very real concerns. What emerges is a portrait of a brilliant stylist who is at once serious and playful, who cared deeply about human relationships and the burden of loss, and who was acutely sensitive to the ways political ideologies can distort human values.Offering timeless insights into literature’s most fabulous artificer, Nabokov and the Real World makes an elegant and compelling case for Nabokov's relevance today.
Nabokov: The Mystery of Literary Structures
by Leona TokerVladimir Nabokov described the literature course he taught at Cornell as "a kind of detective investigation of the mystery of literary structures." Leona Toker here pursues a similar investigation of the enigmatic structures of Nabokov's own fiction. According to Toker, most previous critics stressed either Nabokov’s concern with form or the humanistic side of his works, but rarely if ever the two together. In sensitive and revealing readings of ten novels, Toker demonstrates that the need to reconcile the human element with aesthetic or metaphysical pursuits is a constant theme of Nabokov’s and that the tension between technique and content is itself a key to his fiction. Written with verve and precision, Toker’s book begins with Pnin and follows the circular pattern that is one of her subject’s own favored devices.
Nacidos para Correr
by Christopher McDougallUna aventura épica que comenzó con una simple pregunta: ¿Por qué me duele el pie? Aislados por las peligrosas Barrancas de Cobre en México, los apacibles indios Tarahumara han perfeccionado durante siglos la capacidad de correr cientos de millas sin descanso ni lesiones. En este fascinante relato, el prestigioso periodista y corredor habitualmente lesionado Christopher McDougall sale a descubrir sus secretos. En el proceso, nos lleva de los laboratorios de Harvard a los tórridos valles y las gélidas montañas de Norte América, donde los cada vez más numerosos ultra corredores están empujando sus cuerpos al límite, y finalmente a una vibrante carrera en las Barrancas de Cobre entre los mejores ultra corredores americanos y los sencillos Tarahumara. Esta increíble historia no solo despertará tu mente; además inspirará tu cuerpo cuando te des cuenta de que, de hecho, todos hemos nacido para correr.