Resultados para "Spiegel" en Biografías y memorias

A murder at the nexus of Silicon Valley, California surf culture, and the cannabis gold rush reveals the dark side of the legal weed business in this revelatory and thrilling work of investigative journalism.

Lola Milholland grew up in the nineties, the child of iconoclastic hippies. Her mom—energetic and intense at work and at play, whether at her job marketing for an agricultural co-op or paddling down a river, fat spliff in hand—had spent her life revolting against the strictures of her American and Filipino upbringing. Her dad, a child of the eastern Oregon desert, was a jovial documentary filmmaker and historian who loved to collect ephemera.

Alice Carrière tells the story of her unconventional upbringing in Greenwich Village as the daughter of a remote mother, the renowned artist Jennifer Bartlett, and a charismatic father, European actor Mathieu Carrière. From an early age, Alice is forced to navigate her mother’s recovered memories of ritualized sexual abuse, which she turns into art, and her father’s confusing attentions—her childhood is spent in an adult’s world, with little-to-no boundaries or supervision.

Reality Winner was a twenty-five-year-old translator for the NSA when she saw a document that she assumed would make headlines: After public silence by the NSA and blatant lies by the Trump administration, the 2016 US election was far from secure. She impulsively printed the document—a breach of NSA protocol—stuffed it into her stockings, left the building, and mailed it to The Intercept, which promptly informed the NSA.

Recalling memoirs like Wild and Educated, an internationally renowned whitewater rafting guide offers a gripping and inspiring memoir about overcoming hardship and coming into her own through her relationship with the rivers she has known.

In Forest Euphoria, Kaishian shows us this making of a scientist and introduces listeners to the queerness of all the life around us. Fungal species, we learn, commonly encompass more than two biological sexes—and some as many as twenty-three thousand. Some intersex slugs mutually fire calcium carbonate “love darts” at each other during courtship.

In this powerful, incisive work of social and self-exploration, Melnick blends personal essay with cultural criticism to explore Parton’s dual identities as a feminist icon and objectified sex symbol, identities that reflect the author’s own fraught history with rape culture and the arduous work of reclaiming her voice.

They hide in plain sight. They survive on free school breakfasts and lunches, join school sports teams in order to shower, sleep on friends’ couches, in parks, or on the streets. Their official designation is “unaccompanied homeless youth”—they are not "runaways" breaking free from strict parenting; these are kids seeking safety. They have escaped abusive parents, have been abandoned, or have never had a home to begin with.

Victor von Bülow (alias LORIOT) und Gregor von Rezzori - bei allen Unterschieden in Herkunft und Lebenslauf erweisen sich diese zwei Großmeister des Humors als verwandte Geister: beide arbeiteten erfolgreich als Zeichner, Schauspieler und Autoren; ihre Werke besitzen feinsinnige Komik und geschliffene Eloquenz. Sprachliche Eleganz gilt geradezu als ihr Markenzeichen. Dies zeigt sich auch wieder in den Gesprächen, die Hellmuth Karasek in der Fernsehsendung SPIEGEL TV Thema in den 90er Jahren mit ihnen führte. Ein großartiges Dokument!

In "My Lady of the Chinese Courtyard," Elizabeth Cooper offers the reader a translation of two series of letters by Kwei-li, the wife of a high-rank Chinese official. The first series is addressed to her husband whilst he is on a world tour with Prince Chung in the late 19th century. The second series of letters is from 25 years later and are addressed to her mother-in-law. Political intrigue is raging in China and the country is on the verge of a revolution.

Rebecca Spiegel is working as a teacher in New Orleans when she learns of her sister’s suicide. Only after the funeral does shock give way to grief—and to many questions. How could Emily do this to herself? How could she have abandoned all those who loved her? And what could have been done differently to prevent this devastating loss?

Bighearted and hopeful. Unflinchingly honest and healing. A profound compendium of intimate, inspiring essays and thoughtful prompts that will keep you afloat in difficult times and sustain you in the everyday. Microjoys are a practice of uncovering joy and finding hope at any moment. They are...

Why Did She Jump? provides an intimate, uncompromising look into one mother's search for peace, understanding, and clarity amid the chaos surrounding her daughter's tragic death. It is a masterful recounting of the events leading up to her suicide and lifts the veil of shame and secrecy as it forges a path toward understanding mental illness.

Renia is a young girl who dreams of becoming a poet. But Renia is Jewish, she lives in Poland and the year is 1939. When Russia and Germany invade her country, Renia's world shatters. Separated from her mother, her life takes on a new urgency as she flees Przemysl to escape night bombing raids, observes the disappearances of other Jewish families and, finally, witnesses the creation of the ghetto. But alongside the terror of war, there is also great beauty, as she begins to find her voice as a writer and falls in love for the first time.

The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's life during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English. Renia Spiegel was born in 1924 to an upper-middle class Jewish family living in Southeastern Poland, near what was at that time the border with Romania. At the start of 1939, Renia began a diary. By the fall of 1939, Renia and her younger sister, Elizabeth (née Ariana), were staying with their grandparents in Przemysl just as the German and Soviet armies invaded Poland. Cut off from their mother, who was in Warsaw, Renia and her family were plunged into war.

A captivating true story about a young mother's struggle after losing the love of her life to Covid, having to navigate through grief, and discovering her path to happiness! Michelle Greene is a Canadian woman of Jamaican descent who became a mother to two boys at a very young age! This is her story of triumph. After one boy’s father passed away and the other left a permanent vacancy in their lives, Michelle worked hard to ensure her boys would want for nothing.

Der Ausnahmejournalist Stefan Aust erzählt sein Leben - Zeitzeugnis und Hintergrundbericht. Stefan Aust ist einer der bekanntesten Journalisten Deutschlands. Er begann bei der Zeitschrift konkret und arbeitete dann viele Jahre bei "Panorama", wo sein Bericht über die Tätigkeit des Marinerichters Filbinger im 2. Weltkrieg zu dessen Rücktritt als Ministerpräsident führte. Er gründete "SPIEGEL TV" und war 12 Jahre lang Chefredakteur des SPIEGEL. Sein Buch Der Baader Meinhof Komplex gilt bis heute als Standardwerk über die RAF.