Recollections Of My Life

Author : Diane di Prima
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2002-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780140231588

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Recollections of My Life as a Woman by Diane di Prima Pdf

In Recollections of My Life as a Woman, Diane di Prima explores the first three decades of her extraordinary life. Born into a conservative Italian American family, di Prima grew up in Brooklyn but broke away from her roots to follow through on a lifelong commitment to become a poet, first made when she was in high school. Immersing herself in Manhattan's early 1950s Bohemia, di Prima quickly emerged as a renowned poet, an influential editor, and a single mother at a time when this was unheard of. Vividly chronicling the intense, creative cauldron of those years, she recounts her revolutionary relationships and sexuality, and how her experimentation led her to define herself as a woman. What emerges is a fascinating narrative about the courage and triumph of the imagination, and how one woman discovered her role in the world.

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780593083352

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Recollections of My Nonexistence by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography Longlisted for The Orwell Prize for Political Writing An electric portrait of the artist as a young woman that asks how a writer finds her voice in a society that prefers women to be silent, from the author of Orwell's Roses In Recollections of My Nonexistence, Rebecca Solnit describes her formation as a writer and as a feminist in 1980s San Francisco, in an atmosphere of gender violence on the street and throughout society and the exclusion of women from cultural arenas. She tells of being poor, hopeful, and adrift in the city that became her great teacher, and of the small apartment that, when she was nineteen, became the home in which she transformed herself. She explores the forces that liberated her as a person and as a writer--books themselves; the gay community that presented a new model of what else gender, family, and joy could mean; and her eventual arrival in the spacious landscapes and overlooked conflicts of the American West. Beyond being a memoir, Solnit's book is also a passionate argument: that women are not just impacted by personal experience, but by membership in a society where violence against women pervades. Looking back, she describes how she came to recognize that her own experiences of harassment and menace were inseparable from the systemic problem of who has a voice, or rather who is heard and respected and who is silenced--and how she was galvanized to use her own voice for change.

Author : Santiago Ramón y Cajal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 702 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Nervous system
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023874700

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Recollections of My Life by Santiago Ramón y Cajal Pdf

Author : Max Born
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2014-05-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317699279

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My Life: Recollections of a Nobel Laureate by Max Born Pdf

In this collection of informal reminiscences, first published in 1975, Max Born has written an extraordinarily vivid account of his life and work, originally intended for his family. Ranging from his time at the University of Göttingen, where Born had his first real motivation for a professional career in science, to the period in Berlin as professor extraordinary, when he and his wife became close friends of Einstein, these anecdotes and memories chart the "heroic age of physics" from the perspective of one of its leading characters. In 1954 Born was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics for his fundamental contributions to the great discovery of that cadre of superlative scientific minds – quantum theory. But his scientific research provides only one strand of this story. Born’s varied interests outside science led to many interesting experiences – some of historical importance insofar as they offer a glimpse into German society before and between the wars.

Author : Katey Sagal
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781476796727

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Grace Notes by Katey Sagal Pdf

"Sagal takes you through the highs and lows of her life, from the tragic deaths of her parents to her long years in the Los Angeles rock scene, from being diagnosed with cancer at the age of twenty-eight to getting her big break on the fledgling FOX network as the wise-cracking Peggy Bundy on the beloved sitcom Married with Children. Sparse and poetic, Grace Notes is an emotionally riveting tale of struggle and success, both professional and personal: Sagal's path to sobriety; the stillbirth of her first daughter, Ruby; motherhood; the experience of having her third daughter at age fifty-two with the help of a surrogate; and her lifelong passion for music."--Book jacket..

Author : Alger Hiss
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Diplomats
ISBN : NWU:35556018920405

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Recollections of a Life by Alger Hiss Pdf

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books+ORM
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-09-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781642590777

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Whose Story Is This? by Rebecca Solnit Pdf

Feminist essays for the #MeToo era from “the voice of the resistance,” the international bestselling author of Men Explain Things to Me (The New York Times Magazine). Who gets to shape the narrative of our times? The current moment is a battle royale over that foundational power, one in which women, people of color, non-straight people are telling other versions, and white people and men and particularly white men are trying to hang onto the old versions and their own centrality. In Whose Story Is This? Rebecca Solnit appraises what’s emerging and why it matters and what the obstacles are. Praise for Rebecca Solnit and her essays “Rebecca Solnit is essential feminist reading.” —The New Republic “In these times of political turbulence and an increasingly rabid and scrofulous commentariat, the sanity, wisdom and clarity of Rebecca Solnit’s writing is a forceful corrective. Whose Story Is This? is a scorchingly intelligent collection about the struggle to control narratives in the internet age.” —The Guardian “Solnit’s passionate, shrewd, and hopeful critiques are a road map for positive change.” —Kirkus Reviews “Solnit’s exquisite essays move between the political and the personal, the intellectual and the earthy.” —Elle “Rebecca Solnit reasserts herself here as one of the most astute cultural critics in progressive discourse.” —Publishers Weekly “No writer has better understood the mix of fear and possibility, peril and exuberance that’s marked this new millennium.” —Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org

Author : Daniel Shealy
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2005-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781587295980

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Alcott in Her Own Time by Daniel Shealy Pdf

By 1888, twenty years after the publication of Little Women, Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) was one of the most popular and successful authors America had yet produced. In her pre-Little Women days, she concocted blood-and-thunder tales for low wages; post-Little Women, she specialized in domestic novels and short stories for children. Collected here for the first time are the reminiscences of people who knew her, the majority of which have not been published since their original appearance in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the printed recollections in this book appeared after Alcott became famous and showcase her as a literary lion, but others focus on her teen years, when she was living the life of Jo March; these intimate glimpses into the life of the Alcott family lead the reader to one conclusion: the family was happy, fun, and entertaining, very much like the fictional Marches. The recollections about an older and wealthier Alcott show a kind and generous, albeit outspoken, woman little changed by her money and status. From Annie Sawyer Downs’s description of life in Concord to Anna Alcott Pratt’s recollections of the Alcott sisters’ acting days to Julian Hawthorne’s neighborly portrait of the Alcotts, the thirty-six recollections in this copiously illustrated volume tell the private and public story of a remarkable life.

Author : Maximilian (Emperor of Mexico)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Algeria
ISBN : STANFORD:36105010265853

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Recollections of My Life by Maximilian (Emperor of Mexico) Pdf

Author : James MORGAN (of Belfast.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026402897

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Recollections of My Life and Times. An Autobiography by ... J. Morgan ... With Selections from His Journal. Edited by His Son [T. Morgan]. by James MORGAN (of Belfast.) Pdf

Author : Mary Somerville
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Women scientists
ISBN : UOMDLP:agg6269:0001.001

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Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville by Mary Somerville Pdf

Author : John O'Keeffe
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1826
Category : Authors, English
ISBN : IND:30000099687539

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Recollections of the Life of John O'Keeffe by John O'Keeffe Pdf

Author : Stephanie Scott
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780385544719

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What's Left of Me Is Yours by Stephanie Scott Pdf

"Each chapter of this enrapturing novel is elegantly brief and charged with barely contained emotion." --New York Times Book Review A gripping debut set in modern-day Tokyo and inspired by a true crime, for readers of Everything I Never Told You and The Perfect Nanny, What's Left of Me Is Yours charts a young woman's search for the truth about her mother's life--and her murder. In Japan, a covert industry has grown up around the "wakaresaseya" (literally "breaker-upper"), a person hired by one spouse to seduce the other in order to gain the advantage in divorce proceedings. When Satō hires Kaitarō, a wakaresaseya agent, to have an affair with his wife, Rina, he assumes it will be an easy case. But Satō has never truly understood Rina or her desires and Kaitarō's job is to do exactly that--until he does it too well. While Rina remains ignorant of the circumstances that brought them together, she and Kaitarō fall in a desperate, singular love, setting in motion a series of violent acts that will forever haunt her daughter's life. Told from alternating points of view and across the breathtaking landscapes of Japan, Stephanie Scott exquisitely renders the affair and its intricate repercussions. As Rina's daughter, Sumiko, fills in the gaps of her mother's story and her own memory, Scott probes the thorny psychological and moral grounds of the actions we take in the name of love, asking where we draw the line between passion and possession.

Author : Emma Goldman
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1970-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0486225445

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Living My Life by Emma Goldman Pdf

The autobiography of the early radical leader and her participation in communist, anarchist, and feminist activities

Author : Tbd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-12
Category : History
ISBN : 0371503981

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Memories of My Life by Tbd Pdf