Altri libri che potrebbero interessarti

• 

  Charlie's Good Tonight - The...

  Paul Sexton

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  “An affectionate portrait, one that recognizes Watts as musician, colleague, family man, obsessive collector and immaculate dresser.”—Sunday Times 
  “Sexton, a longtime Stones chronicler, tells Watts’s story with warmth and diligence.”—Observer 
  The fully authorized and official biography of legendary Rolling Stones drummer Charlie Watts, one of the world’s most revered and celebrated musicians of the last half century. 
  Forewords by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards 
  Charlie Watts was one of the most decorated musicians in the world, having joined the Rolling Stones, a few months after their formation, early in 1963. 
  A student of jazz drumming, he was headhunted by the band after bumping into them regularly in London’s rhythm and blues clubs. Once installed at the drum seat, he didn’t miss a gig, album or tour in his 60 years in the band. He was there throughout the swinging sixties, the early shot at superstardom and the Stones' world conquest; and throughout the debauchery of the 1970s, typified by 1972's Exile on Main St., considered one of the great albums of the century. By the 1980s, Charlie was battling his own demons, but emerged unscathed to enhance his unparalleled reputation even further over the ensuing decades. 
  Watts went through band bust-ups, bereavements and changes in personnel, managers, guitarists and rhythm sections, but remained the rock at the heart of the Rolling Stones for nearly 60 years—the thoughtful, intellectual but no less compelling counterpoint to the raucousness of his bandmates Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood. And this is his story. 
   

  Mostra libro

• 

  The Xinjiang Procedure

  Ethan Gutmann

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  What is The Xinjiang Procedure? 
  Xinjiang refers to the northwest of China where the Uyghur people, Muslims with Turkic roots, have lived for thousands of years. The procedure refers to Chinese transplant surgeons surgically extracting Uyghur organs while their hearts are still beating, average age, 28 years old.  
   From 2015 on, the WHO and the Transplantation Society asserted this was fiction. China of a different time. Then came the medical testing of any Uyghur above the age of 12. Ten million blood and DNA tests. And the camps filled the desert 
   Ethan Gutmann told the story of Falun Gong organ harvesting with intelligence and heart in his acclaimed book The Slaughter. His searing reporting drew death threats-and helped bring down Taipei's mayor, Dr. Ko Wen-Je for complicity in Beijing's organ harvesting operations. 
   Gutmann's way forward was clear. Refugees were crossing the Kazakh border, fleeing China in a vivid display of human endurance. But Beijing had changed the rules. Throughout Central Asia, human rights investigators were now considered spies. The Chinese press explicitly identified Gutmann as a new "Cold Warrior." 
   Gutmann mustered a 4x4 with no GPS tracker, his foster daughter, skis, a paper map, and a compass. They drove from Germany to the Kazakh border where they were searched and biometrically photographed. Then, from the standpoint of electronic surveillance, the duo vanished into thin air.  
   Gutmann re-emerged in London with startling new evidence from the Xinjiang concentration camps. Beijing was murdering tens of thousands of young people for their organs every year. Foreign organ tourists were purchasing them to order. A young woman's organs were valued at $900,000. 
   This is the account of how Gutmann did it. He brings the story of Beijing's organ harvesting juggernaut, and its Western medical apologists, to conclusion - and points to an unconventional way forward. The Xinjiang Procedure sets a new standard in narrative non-fiction.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Library of the World's Best...

  Various

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offering "American households a mass of good reading", the editors drew from literature of all times and all kinds what they considered the best pieces of human writing, and compiled an ambitious collection of 45 volumes (with a 46th being an index-guide). Besides the selection and translation of a huge number of poems, letters, short stories and sections of books, the collection offers, before each chapter, a short essay about the author or subject in question. In many cases, chapters contemplate not one author, but certain groups of works, organized by nationality, subject or period; there is, thus, a chapter on Accadian-Babylonian literature, one on the Holy Grail, and one on Chansons, for example.  
   
  The result is a collection that holds the interest, for the variety of subjects and forms, but also as a means of first contact with such famous and important authors that many people have heard of, but never read, such as Abelard, Dante or Lord Byron. According to the editor Charles Dudley Warner, this collection "is not a library of reference only, but a library to be read."   
   
  This first volume contains chapters from "Abelard" to "Amiel". (Summary by Leni)

  Mostra libro

• 

  20 Short Horror Stories for...

  Yash

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice.  
   ONE NIGHT, TWENTY SCARES - Premium Horror Audiobook Collection  
  Experience spine-chilling terror with 20 masterfully crafted horror stories that will keep you awake all night! 
  Dive into the ultimate horror audiobook collection featuring bone-chilling tales of supernatural terror, haunted houses, mysterious disappearances, and psychological thrillers. Each story delivers maximum fear in bite-sized doses perfect for late-night listening. 
   What Awaits You: 
  -  Haunted locations - From cursed hotels to abandoned hospitals 
  -  Supernatural encounters - Ghosts, trapped souls, and otherworldly beings 
  -  Psychological horror - Mind-bending mysteries and dark secrets 
  -  Rural nightmares - Isolated farms, forest terrors, and small-town horrors 
  -  Urban legends come alive - Modern scary stories with realistic settings 
   Perfect For: 
  ✓ Horror audiobook enthusiasts seeking premium scary content 
  ✓ Thriller lovers craving suspenseful entertainment 
  ✓ Anyone wanting spine-tingling stories for sleepless nights 
  ✓ Fans of supernatural fiction and paranormal tales 
  ✓ Collectors of dark fiction and creepy story compilations 
  Each story runs 20-25 minutes - perfect for commutes, workouts, or late-night terror sessions! 
  Featuring atmospheric narration that brings every frightening detail to life. From haunted houses on Hemlock Lane to mysterious radio whispers, these tales of terror will haunt your dreams. 
  Warning: Not recommended for the faint of heart or those planning to sleep tonight! 
  Keywords: horror audiobook, scary stories, supernatural thriller, haunted tales, spine-chilling fiction, dark audiobook collection, frightening stories, paranormal horror, suspense audiobook, nightmare stories

  Mostra libro

• 

  A Saga of the Seas - From their...

  Kenneth Grahame

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Kenneth Grahame was born on 8th March 1859 in Edinburgh. 
  At age 5 his mother succumbed to puerperal fever.  His father, who had a drinking problem, now sent his 4 children to live with their grandmother at her large house in Cookham, Berkshire. Here the children lived in large open grounds next to the river.  These early experiences would in later years, be retold in his writing through a myriad of characters. 
  Grahame loved being a pupil at St Edward's School, Oxford and wanted to enroll at the university there but his guardian demurred on account of the cost. 
  Instead, a banking career was chosen for him, starting in 1879 at the Bank of England, where he rose steadily to the rank of its Secretary until retiring, with a pension, in 1908 due to ill health. 
  Alongside his commercial career Grahame had written and published various stories and essays in several periodicals. Some were anthologized as ‘Pagan Papers’ in 1893, and two years later ‘The Golden Age’ and later still ‘Dream Days’ and its masterpiece ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ became part of many home libraries.  His ability to view life through the lens of a young and curious child was superb, enabling the reader to easily identify with the character.   
  Grahame married Elspeth Thomson in 1899 and they had one child; Alastair, born semi-blind and plagued by health problems.  In a heart-rending tragedy he would later take his own life whilst attending Oxford University in 1920.   
  In 1908 Grahame reworked many of the bedtime stories he had fashioned for his son into the enduring favourite; ‘The Wind in the Willows’, describing the heart-warming adventures of Mr Toad and his friends.   
  Kenneth Grahame died in Pangbourne, Berkshire, on 6th July 1932.

  Mostra libro

• 

  Whose Body? - The Lord Peter...

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

  Lord Peter Wimsey investigates the sudden appearance of a naked body in the bath of an architect at the same time a noted financier goes missing under strange circumstances. As the case progresses it becomes clear that the two events are linked in some way.

  Mostra libro