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Midnight Diaries
by Boris Yeltsin Catherine A. Fitzpatrick<P>Midnight Diaries is Boris Yeltsin's pithy, personal, and revealing account of the struggles and upheavals in Russia over the last several years, seen from the perspective of the man whose job it was to pull all the strings together. <P>Growing out of a series of late-night conversations between Mr. Yeltsin and his chief of staff, the book addresses with astounding candor subjects including: the real impact of the coup of 1991; the process of decision-making about Chechnya; Yeltsin's relationships with world leaders including Bill Clinton, Helmut Kohl, Jacques Chirac, Zhao Zemin, and Tony Blair; the real story behind the string of prime ministers he hired and then dismissed; the Russian economy and allegations of corruption; his own health; and his decision to retire from the presidency. <P>Vivid and direct in the style of Yeltsin himself, Midnight Diaries is an unprecedented look inside the tumultuous politics of a changing Russia. Its publication is an international publishing event.
Midnight Express
by Billy HayesThis is the autobiography of Billy Hayes in which he describes the torture he underwent in jail when he caught smuggling drugs.
Midnight Flight to Nuremberg: The Capture of the Nazi who put Adolf Hitler into Power
by Marcus NanniniThe autobiography of C-47 pilot and instructor, First Lieutenant Harry E. Watson, Jr, USAAF.2022 IAN Book of the Year Awards, Third Place: Non-Fiction 2022 PenCraft Book Awards, Nonfiction - Biography 1st Place Winner 2021-2022 Overall Grand Prize Winner, Nonfiction, Readers Views Silver Medalist, 2022 IPPY Book Awards Finalist, 2022 Eric Hoffer Book Awards Finalist, American BookFest Awards This is the story of an American C-47 ‘Dakota’ pilot who earned three Air Medals, seven Battle Stars and flew twenty-seven combat missions during the Second World War. As a young U.S. pilot, Harry Watson, arrived in Britain as the Battle of Normandy was reaching its crescendo. Thrown immediately into the fray, Harry, along with more than 200 aircraft, set off to carry supplies to the troops fighting in France. But with visibility reduced to zero, the aircraft were ordered to turn back – all did except Harry, who successfully delivered his life-saving cargo of blood and US Army nurses. Harry continued to take risks, which resulted in many hair-raising episodes. This included almost being caught on the ground, while on an urgent fuel resupply mission for a platoon of General Patton’s tanks, by a German Mk.IV panzer and a battalion of supporting infantry. He flew throughout Operation Market Garden, losing a close friend to German anti-aircraft fire while taking some hits to his own plane. Thereafter he led a flight of five transports on a desperate mission to evacuate a mobile field hospital that was about to be over-run by the SS. Only four of the planes made it back as they came under direct fire just before they could take-off with scores of casualties and medical personnel crammed aboard each Dakota. Around midnight, in early April 1945, he was sent on a secret mission to fly to a point near Nuremberg, which was behind enemy lines at the time. It was necessary for him to locate an empty meadow in the dark, land, load a party of US soldiers and their captives, and then take-off again. He pulled it off. Among those prisoners was Franz von Pappen, the man who had persuaded President Hindenburg to make Hitler Chancellor of Germany in 1933. Von Papen had been seized at his own home by First Lieutenant Thomas McKinley and his men from the US 194th Glider Infantry Regiment. Based on his own recollections, as told to the author Marcus Nanni, this is Harry Watson’s exciting account of the air war told, unusually, through the words of a transport pilot.
Midnight in Mexico: A Reporter's Journey Through a Country's Descent into Darkness
by Alfredo CorchadoIn the last six years, more than eighty thousand people have been killed in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. A paramilitary group spun off from the Gulf cartel, the Zetas, controls key drug routes in the north of the country. In 2007, Corchado received a tip that he could be their next target-and he had twenty four hours to find out if the threat was true. Rather than leave his country, Corchado went out into the Mexican countryside to trace investigate the threat. As he frantically contacted his sources, Corchado suspected the threat was his punishment for returning to Mexico against his mother’s wishes. His parents had fled north after the death of their young daughter, and raised their children in California where they labored as migrant workers. Corchado returned to Mexico as a journalist in 1994, convinced that Mexico would one day foster political accountability and leave behind the pervasive corruption that has plagued its people for decades. But in this land of extremes, the gap of inequality-and injustice-remains wide. Even after the 2000 election that put Mexico’s opposition party in power for the first time, the opportunities of democracy did not materialize. The powerful PRI had worked with the cartels, taking a piece of their profit in exchange for a more peaceful, and more controlled, drug trade. But the party’s long-awaited defeat created a vacuum of power in Mexico City, and in the cartel-controlled states that border the United States. The cartels went to war with one another in the mid-2000s, during the war to regain control of the country instituted by President Felipe Calderón, and only the violence flourished. The work Corchado lives for could have killed him, but he wasn't ready to leave Mexico-not then, maybe never. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man’s quest to report the truth of his country-as he raced to save his own life. .
Midnight in Moscow: A Memoir from the Front Lines of Russia's War Against the West
by John J. SullivanA memoir of service by the American ambassador who was on the diplomatic front lines when Putin invaded Ukraine, Midnight in Moscow is the first behind-the-scenes account of how U.S.-Russia relations hit their nadir—and a playbook for our unfolding confrontation. For weeks before Russia&’s invasion of Ukraine, John J. Sullivan, the U.S. ambassador in Moscow, was warning that it would happen. When troops finally crossed the border, he was woken in the middle of the night with a prearranged code. The signal was even more bracing than the February cold: it meant that Sullivan needed to collect his bodyguards and get to the embassy as soon as possible. The war had begun, and the world would never be the same. In Midnight in Moscow, Sullivan leads readers into the offices of the U.S. embassy and the halls of the Kremlin during this climactic period—among the most dangerous since World War II. He shows how the Putin regime repeatedly lied about its intentions to invade Ukraine in the weeks leading up to the attack, while also devoting huge numbers of personnel and vast resources to undermining the U.S. diplomatic mission in Russia. And he explains how, when Putin ultimately gave the order to launch a full-scale invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, he proved that Russia was not just at war with its neighbor: it was also at war, in a very real sense, with the United States, and with everything that it represents. But while Putin decided how this conflict started, its ending will be shaped by us. With his unique perspective on a pivotal moment in world history, Sullivan shows how our relationship with Russia has deteriorated, where it&’s headed, and how far we should be prepared to go in standing up to the menace in Moscow.
Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
by David GreeneFar away from the trendy cafés, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists. Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene's journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway, a 6,000-mile cross-country trip from Moscow to the Pacific port of Vladivostok. In quadruple-bunked cabins and stopover towns sprinkled across the country's snowy landscape, Greene speaks with ordinary Russians about how their lives have changed in the post-Soviet years. These travels offer a glimpse of the new Russia--a nation that boasts open elections and newfound prosperity but continues to endure oppression, corruption, a dwindling population, and stark inequality. We follow Greene as he finds opportunity and hardship embodied in his fellow train travelers and in conversations with residents of towns throughout Siberia. We meet Nadezhda, an entrepreneur who runs a small hotel in Ishim, fighting through corrupt layers of bureaucracy every day. Greene spends a joyous evening with a group of babushkas who made international headlines as runners-up at the Eurovision singing competition. They sing Beatles covers, alongside their traditional songs, finding that music and companionship can heal wounds from the past. In Novosibirsk, Greene has tea with Alexei, who runs the carpet company his mother began after the Soviet collapse and has mixed feelings about a government in which his family has done quite well. And in Chelyabinsk, a hunt for space debris after a meteorite landing leads Greene to a young man orphaned as a teenager, forced into military service, and now figuring out if any of his dreams are possible. Midnight in Siberia is a lively travel narrative filled with humor, adventure, and insight. It opens a window onto that country's complicated relationship with democracy and offers a rare look into the soul of twenty-first-century Russia.
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
by Adam SchiffFrom the congressman who led the first impeachment of Donald J. Trump, the vital inside account of American democracy in its darkest hour, and a warning that the forces of autocracy unleashed by Trump remain as potent as ever. <p><p> In the years leading up to the election of Donald Trump, Congressman Adam Schiff had already been sounding the alarm over the resurgence of autocracy around the world, and the threat this posed to the United States. But as he led the probe into Donald Trump’s Russia and Ukraine-related abuses of presidential power, Schiff came to the terrible conclusion that the principal threat to American democracy now came from within. In Midnight in Washington, Schiff argues that the Trump presidency has so weakened our institutions and compromised the Republican Party that the peril will last for years, requiring unprecedented vigilance against the growing and dangerous appeal of authoritarianism. <p><p> The congressman chronicles step by step just how our democracy was put at such risk, and traces his own path to meeting the crisis—from serious prosecutor, to congressman with an expertise in national security and a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right, and archenemy of a president. Schiff takes us inside his team of impeachment managers and their desperate defense of the constitution amid the rise of a distinctly American brand of autocracy. Deepening our understanding of prominent public moments, Schiff reveals the private struggles, the internal conflicts, and the triumphs of courage that came with defending the republic against a lawless president—but also the slow surrender of people that he had worked with and admired to the dangerous immorality of a president engaged in an historic betrayal of his office. <p><p> Schiff’s fight for democracy is one of the great dramas of our time, told by the man who became the president’s principal antagonist. It is a story that began with Trump but does not end with him, taking us through the disastrous culmination of the presidency and Schiff’s account of January 6, 2021, and how the anti-democratic forces Trump unleashed continue to define his party, making the future of democracy in America more uncertain than ever.
Midnight Light: A Personal Journey to the North
by Dave BidiniBestselling and beloved author of On A Cold Road, Dave Bidini uses his stint as guest columnist at the Yellowknifer newspaper to explore the "Gateway to the North," the meaning of community, and the issues facing residents and their daily lives.As a journalist, author and founding member of the trail-blazing band Rheostatics, Dave Bidini has had the privilege to explore Canada's immense geography. Yet, in all his many travels, he'd never visited the Northwest Territories. After an all-too-brief visit to a literary festival in Yellowknife, Bidini was hooked on the place and its people. When he returned home, all he could do was think about going back to the North. Facing a career crossroads and with memories of his recent visit to the Northwest Territories still fresh, Bidini, in a bold move, contacts the Yellowknifer, one of the last truly loval and independent newspapers, and signs on as a guest columnist for an unforgettable summer. The Yellowknifer, like the city it serves, bucks all trends as a completely community-focused newspaper. Bidini's new position gives him access to a region that is on the one hand lost in time, and on the other faced with the stark realities of poverty, racism and addiction. Along the way, Midnight Light introduces readers to an extraordinary cast of Dene elders, entrepreneurs, artists, politicians and law enforcement officers as well as an assortment of complicated souls from the South who are looking for a chance to rebuild their lives and who face the same harsh economic realities as their new neighbours. Woven throughout the narrative is the story of the irascible John McFadden, a veteran Toronto crime reporter who "escaped" to Yellowknife. McFadden is the key figure in the newspaper's ongoing fight with local authorities who do not take kindly to journalistic doggedness. During Bidini's tenure with the paper, McFadden makes headlines across the country when the RCMP charge him with obstruction while he is working on a story, culminating in a trial in which nothing less than journalistic freedom is at stake. A fast-paced, funny and at times powerfully poignant chronicle of a city and its environs, and a reminder of the vital importance of a local and independent press, Midnight Light brings the Northwest Territories and its remarkable and proud people to vivid life.
Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by Robert MartelloPaul Revere's ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn reveals another side of this American hero's life, that of a transformational entrepreneur instrumental in the industrial revolution.Robert Martello combines a biographical examination of Revere with a probing study of the new nation’s business and technological climate. A silversmith prior to the Revolution and heralded for his patriotism during the war, Revere aspired to higher social status within the fledgling United States. To that end, he shifted away from artisan silversmithing toward larger, more involved manufacturing ventures such as ironworking, bronze casting, and copper sheet rolling. Drawing extensively on the Revere Family Papers, Martello explores Revere’s vibrant career successes and failures, social networks, business practices, and the groundbreaking metallurgical technologies he developed and employed. Revere’s commercial ventures epitomized what Martello terms proto-industrialization, a transitional state between craft work and mass manufacture that characterizes the broader, fast-changing landscape of the American economy. Martello uses Revere as a lens to view the social, economic, and technological milieu of early America while demonstrating Revere’s pivotal role in both the American Revolution and the rise of industrial America.Original and well told, this account argues that the greatest patriotic contribution of America's Midnight Rider was his work in helping the nation develop from a craft to an industrial economy.
Midnight Ride Industrial Dawn: Paul Revere and the Growth of American Enterprise (Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Technology)
by Robert MartelloAn in-depth look at Revere’s great contribution to American history: his work in helping the nation develop from a craft to an industrial economy.Paul Revere’s ride to warn the colonial militia of the British march on Lexington and Concord is a legendary contribution to the American Revolution. Midnight Ride, Industrial Dawn reveals another side of this American hero’s life: that of a transformational entrepreneur instrumental in the industrial revolution.Robert Martello combines a biographical examination of Revere with a probing study of the new nation’s business and technological climate. A silversmith prior to the Revolution and heralded for his patriotism during the war, Revere aspired to higher social status within the fledgling United States. To that end, he shifted away from artisan silversmithing toward larger, more involved manufacturing ventures such as ironworking, bronze casting, and copper sheet rolling. Drawing extensively on the Revere Family Papers, Martello explores Revere’s vibrant career successes and failures, social networks, business practices, and the groundbreaking metallurgical technologies he developed and employed. Revere’s commercial ventures epitomized what Martello terms proto-industrialization, a transitional state between craft work and mass manufacture that characterizes the broader, fast-changing landscape of the American economy. Martello uses Revere as a lens to view the social, economic, and technological milieu of early America while demonstrating Revere’s pivotal role in both the American Revolution and the rise of industrial America.“Martello succeeds superbly in using Paul Revere as a lens to view the social, economic, and technological landscape of early America . . . Revere’s adept transitions are matched only by Martello’s adept retelling of them. Highly recommended.” —Choice
Midstream: An Unfinished Memoir
by Reynolds PriceThe final book from Reynolds Price, "one of the most important voices in modern Southern fiction" (The New York Times)--with a foreword by Anne Tyler and an afterwordby William Price WHEN REYNOLDS PRICE DIED IN JANUARY 2011, he left behind one final piece of writing--two hundred candid, heartrending, and marvelously written manuscript pages about a critical period in his young adulthood. Picking up where his previous memoir, Ardent Spirits, left off, the work documents a brief time from 1961 to 1965, perhaps the most leisurely of Price's life, but also one of enormous challenge and growth. Price gave it the title Midstream. Approaching thirty, Price writes, is to face the notion that "This is it. I'm now the person I'm likely to be . . . from here to the end." Midstream, which begins when Price is twenty-eight, details the final youthful adventures of a man on the cusp of artistic acclaim. Here, Price chases a love to England, only to meet heartbreak. Determined to pursue other pleasures, he travels to Sweden for a friend's wedding, then journeys to Rome with British poet Stephen Spender and spends an afternoon with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Price returns to the United States, where he finds company with a group of artists as he awaits the 1962 publication of his first novel, A Long and Happy Life. "Few writers have made as dramatic an entrance on the American literary stage," declared The New York Times on the book's success. Price would settle into a tranquil life in North Carolina, buy a house, and resume teaching. Concluding with his mother's death and Price's new endeavors--a second novel and foray into Hollywood screenwriting--Midstream offers a poignant portrait of a man at the threshold of true adulthood, navigating new responsibilities and pleasures alike. It is a fitting bookend for Price's remarkable career, and it reinforces his place in the pantheon of American literature. *** FROM ANNE TYLER'S FOREWORD TO MIDSTREAM "Just look at him flying across the campus, curls bouncing, dark eyes flashing, and a black cape (I swear it) flaring out behind him. Actually he never owned a black cape; he told me that, years later. He said it was a navy jacket, just tossed over his shoulders. But still, he was wearing a virtual cape, if you know what I mean. He was an exclamation point in a landscape of mostly declarative sentences. He lived in a house-trailer out in the woods; he invited us to come there and drink smoky-tasting tea in handmade mugs. Speaking with a trace of an English accent from his recent studies at Oxford (for he had a genius for unintentional mimicry, which he said could become a curse in certain situations), he told us funny, affectionate tales about his childhood in backwater Macon. Most of us came from Macons of our own; we were astonished to hear that they were fit subjects for storytelling. All over again, inspiration hit. Let us out of there! We had to get back to our rooms and start writing."
Midwestern Strange: Hunting Monsters, Martians, and the Weird in Flyover Country
by B.J. HollarsMidwestern Strange chronicles B.J. Hollars’s exploration of the mythic, lesser-known oddities of flyover country. The mysteries, ranging from bipedal wolf sightings to run-ins with pancake-flipping space aliens to a lumberjack-inspired “Hodag hoax,” make this book a little bit X-Files, a little bit Ghostbusters, and a whole lot of Sherlock Holmes. Hollars’s quest is not to confirm or debunk these mysteries but rather to seek out these unexplained phenomena to understand how they complicate our worldview and to discover what truths might be gleaned by reexamining the facts in our “post-truth” era. Part memoir and part journalism, Midwestern Strange offers a fascinating, funny, and quirky account of flyover folklore that also contends with the ways such oddities retain cultural footholds. Hollars shows how grappling with such subjects might fortify us against the glut of misinformation now inundating our lives. By confronting monsters, Martians, and a cabinet of curiosities, we challenge ourselves to look beyond our presumptions and acknowledge that just because something is weird, doesn’t mean it is wrong.
Midwife on Call
by Agnes LightAgnes Light trained as a nurse in the 1960s and went on to become a midwife - helping to bring new lives into the world for over thirty years. After fainting from shock at the first birth she attended as a student, Agnes grew to adore her job and the lifelong friends that worked with her on the maternity ward. In her enchanting memoir, she recalls how she struggled at first with the strict rules of hospital etiquette, and the expectation that she would always know the right thing to do - from dealing with hysterical fathers to miracle multiple births - Agnes quickly learnt she had to keep a cool head whatever the circumstances. This is a heartwarming portrait of a thoughtful and compassionate midwife. Funny, poignant and rich with period detail, Midwife on Call traces Agnes's touching journey from squeamish pupil to assured professional.
Midwife on Call
by Agnes LightAgnes Light trained as a nurse in the 1960s and went on to become a midwife - helping to bring new lives into the world for over thirty years.After fainting from shock at the first birth she attended as a student, Agnes grew to adore her job and the lifelong friends that worked with her on the maternity ward. In her enchanting memoir, she recalls how she struggled at first with the strict rules of hospital etiquette, and the expectation that she would always know the right thing to do - from dealing with hysterical fathers to miracle multiple births - Agnes quickly learnt she had to keep a cool head whatever the circumstances.This is a heartwarming portrait of a thoughtful and compassionate midwife. Funny, poignant and rich with period detail, Midwife on Call traces Agnes's touching journey from squeamish pupil to assured professional.
A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 (Sparknotes Literature Guide Ser.)
by Laurel Thatcher UlrichPULITZER PRIZE WINNER • Drawing on the diaries of one woman in eighteenth-century Maine, "A truly talented historian unravels the fascinating life of a community that is so foreign, and yet so similar to our own" (The New York Times Book Review).Between 1785 and 1812 a midwife and healer named Martha Ballard kept a diary that recorded her arduous work (in 27 years she attended 816 births) as well as her domestic life in Hallowell, Maine. On the basis of that diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich gives us an intimate and densely imagined portrait, not only of the industrious and reticent Martha Ballard but of her society. At once lively and impeccably scholarly, A Midwife's Tale is a triumph of history on a human scale.
El miedo nos hizo fuertes
by Alexis ValdésLa conmovedora historia de un niño que, a pesar de afrontar el abuso físico en casa, en su barrio y en su país, jamás perdió la alegría de vivir. Alexis Valdés escribe con profunda ternura sobre el niño que fue y logra reflejar en estaspáginas no solo los años más duros de su vida, sino transportar al lector a la Cuba de su infancia y adolescencia, con sus problemas, sus carencias, su dolor, pero también con una alegría de vivir y la esperanza de que algún día todo será mejor. El pequeño Alexis es un niño sensible y tímido, que vive con su madre, su hermano y su padrastro que le odia porque se parece mucho a su padre. El machista padrastro no soporta esa imagen dentro de la casa: La imagen del otro hombre de su mujer. El autor narra su vida en un país donde el abuso y el bullying flota en el ambiente: En casa,donde soportaba las palizasdel innombrable, porque se rehusa a escribir su nombre; en el barrio, donde otros padres golpean a sus hijos, los fuertes abusan de los débiles y los homosexuales son masacrados, y en el país donde el gobierno abusa de todos. Alexis y su familia viven en un barrio de La Habana donde los guapos —los tipos duros dela calle— imponen su ley. Es un ambiente salvaje donde son comunes las peleas de boxeo clandestinas. Solo hay un hombre bueno al que todos temen en el barrio, fuerte como una roca, el padrastro de Renecito, el niño estrella del barrio, y uno de los defensores denuestro protagonista. Los otros defensores que salvan al niño son su abuela América, una viejita mágica que leda esperanza y fuerza; su hermano asmático y delgaducho, pero muy valiente, y su padre,que es un hombre de éxito, alegre y cariñoso, pero al que no permiten ver a menudo. El escape del niño es su sueño de viajar a Praga, una ciudad llena de castillos y niños con gorritos y las mejillas rosadas. Todo comienza cuando participa en un concurso de Radio Praga Internacional, que tiene una emisión especial para América Latina. El niño les manda una carta cada semana para participar en el concurso que, de ganarlo, le llevaría ala hermosa ciudad Checa, y más que eso, le sacaría por un tiempo del infierno en que vive.
Las mieles del poder: Historias de sexo y política en México
by Alejandro SánchezPólitica méxicana, pasión y deseo, estos son los temas que aborda Alejandro Sánchez en Las mieles del poder. ¿Qué ocurriría si el destino de un país no sólo estuviera en manos de sus gobernantes, sino de sus pasiones no confesadas, sus deseos trasnochados y sus más absurdas fantasías amorosas? En Las mieles del poder, el periodista Alejandro Sánchez nos lleva al centro mismo de los enredos sentimentales y los demonios personales que no sólo cambiaron el rumbo de la vida de algunos de nuestros políticos, sino también de la política y la historia mexicana. Desde la amante de Porfirio Díaz que llevó la modernidad y el lujo al Istmo de Tehuantepec, que desapareció tan pronto como ella; el romance que le hizo rozar la decadencia a Rosario Robles y el miserable fin de José López Portillo hasta los enredos del ex yerno de Elba Esther Gordillo, la historia de ascensión y caída parece repetirse como un cliché. También figuran en este libro: Pancho Villa, Plutarco Elías Calles, la Tigresa, Diego Fernández de Cevallos, Santiago Creel y Edith González, César Nava y Patylu, entre otros. Una lectura ágil y ligera de la otra cara de los antihéroes de nuestra política.
Mientras escribo (Bestseller/debolsillo Ser. #Vol. 102)
by Stephen KingPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, útil y revelador. «Si no tiene tiempo para leer, no tendrá el tiemponi las herramientas necesarias para escribir.» Mientras escribo empieza con el relato de la asombrosa infancia de Stephen King y su extraño y temprano interés por la escritura. Una serie de vívidos recuerdos de la adolescencia, de la universidad y de los años de lucha que lo llevaron a la culminación de su primera novela, Carrie, aportan al lector una amena y divertida perspectiva sobre la formación del escritor. A continuación King describe las herramientas básicas del oficio y expone sus opiniones personales sobre el secreto de la escritura. Mientras escribo culmina con el conmovedor relato de cómo su necesidad de escribir lo estimuló para recuperarse de su casi fatal accidente en el verano del año 2000.
Mientras escribo (Bestseller/debolsillo Ser. #Vol. 102)
by Stephen KingPocas veces un libro sobre el oficio de escribir ha resultado tan clarificador, útil y revelador. Cuando Stephen King se decidió a escribir sobre su profesión y su vida, un brutal accidente automovilístico puso ambas en riesgo. Durante su convalecencia, el novelista descubrió los vínculos cada vez más fuertes entre la escritura y la vida. Y el resultado es este extraordinario libro, que es al mismo tiempo un ensayo sobre creación literaria y un relato autobiográfico. Mientras escribo comienza con la asombrosa infancia de Stephen King y su extraño y temprano interés por la escritura que lo llevaron a la culminación de su primera novela, Carrie. A continuación, King describe las herramientas básicas del oficio y expone sus opiniones personales sobre los secretos de la escritura. Mientras escribo culmina con el conmovedor relato de cómo su necesidad de escribir lo ayudó a recuperarse de su casi fatal accidente. Una vez más Stephen King demuestra que es mucho más que unmaestro del thriller: un gran escritor.
Mientras Escucho Sentada Aquí
by Lilian G. Selvaggio Valerie HockertUna mujer de mediana edad, a quien le gusta entretener, había perdido a su esposo recientemente, y pensó que su vida ya no tenía valor y que ella era inservible. Habia estado recolectando recuerdos y fotos en una caja y en un álbum, recordando, cuando tuvo la idea de organizar una fiesta y pedirle a cada invitada que trajera algo viejo y nostálgico--un pañuelito, una joya, una herramienta pequeña, un suvenir, un botón, un programa de teatro, u otro ítem pequeño. La idea era que cada invitada tendría que contar la historia detrás del objeto. La mujer no sabía que algunas invitadas tendrían sorprendentes secretos a los cuales estaba atado su recuerdo. Una vida anterior, un hijo perdido, un accidente--muchas tenían tristeza atada a sus recuerdos, pero los conservaban para mantenerse sujetas a la realidad. Tras escuchar todas las historias, la mujer decide que su vida después de todo no era tan mala, y que tenía el propósito de ser amiga de esas personas.
MIentras Espero La Cacería
by Valerie Hockert Guillermo Alberto Cervantes VindiolaDurante el último día de la temporada de caza en en extremo noroeste de los Estados Unidos, George Howard recuerda los muchos momentos de su vida. Desde su niñez marcada por la muerte de su hermano mayor, sus días como estudiante de preparatoria hasta su vida adulta, George ha pasado por un sinnúmero de cosas buenas y contrariedades que lo han conducido hasta este punto en su vida. En este último día de caceria, tomará una decisión que marcará el siguiente curso de su vida.
Mientras me hallo aquí planchando
by Valerie HockertMientras me hallo aquí planchando por Valerie Hockert Mientras Tina plancha, se pregunta cosas y su mente se maravilla con cada pieza. Mientras me hallo aquí planchando “¿Qué le habrá pasado al planchado permanente?” Tina se pregunta en voz alta mientras plancha un par de pantalones Capri de lino y tiene problemas para quitar las arrugas. Ella recorre la historia de los tejidos, desde el planchado permanente, hasta el libre de arrugas, fibra natural, y todos los que hoy necesitan plancharse, justo cuando la vida debería ser más simple. Mientras Tina plancha la camisa de vestir de su esposo, se pregunta porqué él persiste en usar un traje de negocios con camisa de vestir y corbata en su trabajo como corredor de bolsa. También reflexiona en lo que una persona de aspecto elegante es, de como todo tiene que estar en orden, y cuando no lo está, le enloquece. Hablando de enloquecer... Mientras Tina plancha un vestido que usó en una fiesta a la que asistió con su esposo, reflexiona en los buenos momentos que solían pasar juntos y se pregunta qué pasó entre ellos.
Mientras otros duermen: Una larga vigilia en el rock
by Fernando SamaleaContinuación del exitoso Qué es un long play, en este segundo volumen de memorias Fernando Samalea, el baterista del rock argentino, explora cronológicamente, con humor y emoción, historias musicales entre 1997 y 2010. Fernando Samalea homenajea a sus compañeros de ruta con las anécdotas que los unieron: García en su incendiario período Say No More; Joaquín Sabina cuando gestaba 19 días y 500 noches, y Gustavo Cerati, a quien acompañó en sus giras Ahí vamos y Fuerza natural. En estudios, escenarios, aviones y bares de todo el mundo, los músicos de varias generaciones, estéticas y búsquedas -Fabi Cantilo, A-Tirador Láser, Caetano Veloso, Joan Manuel Serrat, Calle 13, Fernando Kabusacki...- protagonizan la novela mayor que cuenta la historia privada del rock argentino y la de la música en castellano. «Siempre me sorprendió la musicalidad de Fernando. No piensa como un baterista, no tiene vicios musicales, ni de los demás. Su primer libro me divirtió mucho. ¡Tiene más memoria que yo! Le deseo mucho éxito como escritor. Es el primer escritor-baterista que conozco.»Charly García, 2016 «Más allá de que lo admiro profundamente, se me reveló como una persona que irradia un optimismo tan contagioso como vital. Siempre tiene alguna historia para contarte, internándose sin prejuicios en mundos nuevos y haciendo amigos por doquier. A pura luz y bohemia, Sama propaga el hedonismo romántico que lo ha mantenido casi inalterable a lo largo de estos años. Es un privilegio ser su compañero de ruta y su amigo.»Gustavo Cerati, 2007
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition
by Franz Schulze Edward WindhorstMies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze’s acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Coauthored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised edition, three times the length of the original text, features extensive new research and commentary and draws on the best recent work of American and German scholars. The authors’ major new discoveries include the massive transcript of the early-1950s Farnsworth House court case, which discloses for the first time the facts about Mies’s epic battle with his client Edith Farnsworth. Giving voice to dozens of architects who knew and worked with (and sometimes against) Mies, this comprehensive biography tells the compelling story of how Mies and his students and followers created some of the most significant buildings of the twentieth century.
Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography, New and Revised Edition (Illustrated Catalog Of The Mies Van Der Rohe Drawing In The Museum Of Modern Art Ser. #Pt. Ii, 1938-1967, The American Work)
by Franz Schulze Edward WindhorstAn &“excellent&” new edition of the definitive biography of the architectural genius, with more than a hundred photos (Booklist, starred review). Upon publication, this book was praised by the Chicago Tribune and &“the most comprehensive book ever written about the master designer and, by any measure, the best,&” while the Christian Science Monitor noted that &“Schulze has both the gift of an architectural historian able to render Mies&’s building innovations and that of a biographer able to paint the humanity and shortcomings of the man.&” Newsweek called it &“a revelation.&” Now, this biography of the iconic modernist architect and designer has been extensively updated, providing an even more enlightening and intimate portrait of a man who helped to create the twentieth century world. &“This excellent revised edition…has 138 illustrations, incisive descriptions of Mies&’ innovative creations and a fascinating account of his Pyrrhic victory in a lawsuit against his disaffected client Edith Farnsworth.&”—Booklist (starred review) &“This authoritative biography of Mies van der Rohe has been updated through building records, the recollections of students and a court transcript. It's a gripping read.&”—Christopher Woodward, Building Design