Resultados para "The Tempest" en Ciencias sociales

In the spring of 1983 Terry Tempest Williams learned that her mother was dying of cancer. That same season, The Great Salt Lake began to rise to record heights, threatening the Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and the herons, owls, and snowy egrets that Williams, a poet and naturalist, had come to gauge her life by. One event was nature at its most random, the other a by-product of rogue technology: Terry's mother, and Terry herself, had been exposed to the fallout of atomic bomb tests in the 1950s.

Kae Tempests erster großer Essay ist zugleich intimes Selbstporträt, hellsichtige Zeitdiagnose und mitreißendes Plädoyer für mehr Selbstsorge, Empathie und Gemeinsinn. Verletzlich und unverstellt erzählt das literarische und musikalische Ausnahmetalent von Ängsten, Rauschzuständen und dem zerstörerischen Wunsch nach Anerkennung - und fragt nach nicht weniger als dem richtigen Leben.

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Riot Days by Maria Alyokhina, read by Kate Lock. From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in a penal colony in the Urals for standing up for what...