Author: George Augustus SalaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Quite Alone
Author: George Augustus SalaPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 344
Book Description
Quite Alone
Author: Matthew TellerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Travel writing, journalism and essays from more than ten years of exploring the Middle East. Compassionate, engaged and observant, Matthew Teller listens to people. In 27 stories from thirteen countries, he takes us from the heart of the region's biggest cities-Cairo, Riyadh, Dubai-to the furthest reaches of deserts and mountains in a quest for personal connections and human understanding. Author and documentary-maker Teller carries us along with beautiful writing about unique people and places. Track the fabled Arabian oryx from the edge of extinction to a celebrated return to its natural habitats. Explore the legendary souks of pre-war Damascus and Aleppo on a Syrian food tour like no other. Climb the peaks of Iraqi Kurdistan to discover an ancient citadel reinventing itself for the 21st century. In Kuwait he meets a community pushed to the edge of society. In Jordan he spends time with a master winemaker. Teller introduces marginalised communities of Egypt on a River Nile journey that breaks new ground, and hears from Qataris, Palestinians and Omanis who are pushing new cultural boundaries to bring change to their countries.
Going Solo
Author: Eric KlinenbergPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143122770
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
With eye-opening statistics, original data, and vivid portraits of people who live alone, renowned sociologist Eric Klinenberg upends conventional wisdom to deliver the definitive take on how the rise of going solo is transforming the American experience. Klinenberg shows that most single dwellers—whether in their twenties or eighties—are deeply engaged in social and civic life. There's even evidence that people who live alone enjoy better mental health and have more environmentally sustainable lifestyles. Drawing on more than three hundred in-depth interviews, Klinenberg presents a revelatory examination of the most significant demographic shift since the baby boom and offers surprising insights on the benefits of this epochal change.
The Opposite of Loneliness
Author: Marina KeeganPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476753628
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
The instant New York Times bestseller and publishing phenomenon: Marina Keegan’s posthumous collection of award-winning essays and stories “sparkles with talent, humanity, and youth” (O, The Oprah Magazine). Marina Keegan’s star was on the rise when she graduated magna cum laude from Yale in May 2012. She had a play that was to be produced at the New York Fringe Festival and a job waiting for her at The New Yorker. Tragically, five days after graduation, Marina died in a car crash. Marina left behind a rich, deeply expansive trove of writing that, like her title essay, captures the hope, uncertainty, and possibility of her generation. Her short story “Cold Pastoral” was published on NewYorker.com. Her essay “Even Artichokes Have Doubts” was excerpted in the Financial Times, and her book was the focus of a Nicholas Kristof column in The New York Times. Millions of her contemporaries have responded to her work on social media. As Marina wrote: “We can still do anything. We can change our minds. We can start over…We’re so young. We can’t, we MUST not lose this sense of possibility because in the end, it’s all we have.” The Opposite of Loneliness is an unforgettable collection of Marina’s essays and stories that articulates the universal struggle all of us face as we figure out what we aspire to be and how we can harness our talents to impact the world. “How do you mourn the loss of a fiery talent that was barely a tendril before it was snuffed out? Answer: Read this book. A clear-eyed observer of human nature, Keegan could take a clever idea...and make it something beautiful” (People).
Memorials of a Quiet Life
Author: Augustus John Cuthbert HarePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 504
Book Description
Path and Goal
Author: Ada CambridgeQuiet Moments Alone with God
Author: Emilie BarnesPublisher: Harvest House Publishers
ISBN: 0736934154
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Much–loved author and home management expert Emilie Barnes wrote Quiet Moments Alone with God to help women develop consistent devotional habits. This beautiful deluxe edition, with a padded cover and in a take–anywhere compact size, is filled with heartfelt meditations for busy women. From someone who has been there, Emilie writes about God’s grace, family struggles, forgiveness, the challenges of everyday life, and other subjects close to heart and home. Each quiet moment includes a Scripture verse, a brief devotion, and an inspiring message takes 15 minutes or less to complete ends with encouragement to put thought to action Readers experience God’s touch daily as they make their way through this book spending a few Quiet Moments Alone with God.
God Forsaken
Author: Frederic BretonAm I Alone Here?
Author: Peter OrnerPublisher: Catapult
ISBN: 1936787253
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
This National Book Critics Circle Award is “an entrancing attempt to catch what falls between: the irreducibly personal, messy, even embarrassing ways reading and living bleed into each other, which neither literary criticism nor autobiography ever quite acknowledges" (The New York Times). “Stories, both my own and those I’ve taken to heart, make up whoever it is that I’ve become,” Peter Orner writes in this collection of essays about reading, writing, and living. Orner reads and writes everywhere he finds himself: a hospital cafeteria, a coffee shop in Albania, or a crowded bus in Haiti. The result is a book of unlearned meditations that stumbles into memoir. Among the many writers Orner addresses are Isaac Babel and Zora Neale Hurston, both of whom told their truths and were silenced; Franz Kafka, who professed loneliness but craved connection; Robert Walser, who spent the last twenty-three years of his life in a Swiss insane asylum, working at being crazy; and Juan Rulfo, who practiced the difficult art of silence. Virginia Woolf, Eudora Welty, Yasunari Kawabata, Saul Bellow, Mavis Gallant, John Edgar Wideman, William Trevor, and Václav Havel make appearances, as well as the poet Herbert Morris--about whom almost nothing is known. An elegy for an eccentric late father, and the end of a marriage, Am I Alone Here? is also a celebration of the possibility of renewal. At once personal and panoramic, this book will inspire readers to return to the essential stories of their own lives.
The Letters of Queen Victoria
Author: Victoria (Queen of Great Britain)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description