Verlag: e-artnow
The Poet Li Po A.D. 701-762 is a series of poems by Li Po translated into English. Li Po is revered as the most beloved Chinese poet throughout history, known for his ephemeral metaphysical style of writing.
William Young was the son of gentleman farmer Henry Young who owned Cotchford Farm in the mid-nineteenth century. At the age of just twenty-three William left the farm for what we might now term a 'gap year' working in Canada. This book, based on his own diary from 1854/5, tells the fascinating story of his journey via Liverpool and onwards on a three-masted schooner to New York, Buffalo and eventually Lake Erie. The voyage had its own perils, a long way from transatlantic travel today. Unbeknown to our diarist, the ship he travelled on was part of a criminal enterprise and eventually suffered both mutiny and wreck. In the mill towns on Lake Erie Young proves an indispensable worker both on crops and stonework. Just as he is about to return to England he is beset with difficulties..... His is a young, clear voice on life a hundred and sixty years ago.Zum Buch
In her memoir, Jevranne explores the effects trauma has on the body and how it can often result in blocked-out memories. She shares her personal journey with grief and the struggles that appeared when silencing herself because of not feeling valid in her pain- a childhood and generational wound embedded through the years. As she travelled Canada alone, she began opening up to strangers and heard others express not feeling worthy in their grief, bringing her to see how ingrained this anguish is in many of us. Along the way, she realized the power of vulnerability and helping others feel seen and heard. This led her to embark on the journey of ‘cracking the code’ to her healing while being guided by those she lost and piecing it together. Removing that wound from herself, and in hopes of waking it up and clearing it from not only her family lineage but others in the collective.Zum Buch
Yarns on a life lived at a million miles, from beloved broadcaster, podcaster and go-getter Brodie Kane 'A romp through glorious (and gross) adventures, Brodie writes as if you're her best friend. By the end, you'll really wish you were.' - Kerre Woodham First up: this is absolutely not a guide to life. I've done some impressive stuff, but I've also slept on the floor of an old Greek man's house and lost my dignity in the Brunei jungle. I say yes to everything this life has to offer - I'm from the 'women can have it all' club - and, boy, have I got the stories to show for it. From surf-lifesaving to a hungover Army deployment, being broke with a gum infection in Europe, spooning Richie McCaw on a mountain, improvising make-up for Paul Holmes, running my first ultra-marathon and reinventing myself after redundancy: every wild, brilliant and hilarious experience has taught me something new. Whether it's how not to care about being judged, how to fake it till you make it, how to throw yourself into the unknown or how to push through the pit of despair, I've come to love that we are all works in progress. If I fail from time to time, that's okay too. Open the book of this open book (me). I want to show you the raw, the real and the vulnerable of a full-volume life and how the greatest moments - or at the very least the greatest yarns - come about by just giving it a crack. HarperCollins Australia 2024Zum Buch
Germany's award-winning true crime author Adrian Langenscheid kindles heart-pounding reading pleasure with his shocking short stories about true Austrian crimes.It is a breath-taking and deeply harrowing portrait of human abysses that arouses tremendous emotions precisely because of its cool, factually neutral depictions.Ice-cold serial killers, fatal family dramas, tragic kidnappings, vile torture, and unscrupulous abuse: fourteen shocking true-crime short stories about true crime cases from Austria await you on 300 pages.Captivated, stunned, amazed, and moved to tears. You will question everything you think you know about human nature. Life writes horrifying stories, and this book sums them up. Dive into the shocking world of true criminal cases and real crimes!"The tenth book by Adrian Langenscheid proves that things are also pretty bloody in beautiful Austria. As always, riveting to the last page! Franziska Singer (Podcast "Darf's ein bisserl Mord sein?")"Morbid, bizarre, sad...goosebumps!" Leonie-Rachel Soyel (Podcast Couchgeflüster)Zum Buch
An authoritative, unprecedented account of how in the early 2000s Canadian music finally became cool Hearts on Fire is about the creative explosion in Canadian music of the early 2000s, which captured the world’s attention in entirely new ways. The Canadian wave didn’t just sweep over one genre or one city, it stretched from coast to coast, affecting large bands and solo performers, rock bands and DJs, and it connected to international scenes by capitalizing on new technology and old-school DIY methods. Arcade Fire, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Feist, Tegan and Sara, Alexisonfire: those were just the tip of the iceberg. This is also the story of hippie chicks, turntablists, poetic punks, absurdist pranksters, queer orchestras, obtuse wordsmiths, electronic psychedelic jazz, power-pop supergroups, sexually bold electro queens, cowboys who used to play speed metal, garage rock evangelists, classically trained solo violinists, and the hip-hop scene that preceded Drake. This is Canada like it had never sounded before. This is the Canada that soundtracked the dawn of a new century. Featuring more than 100 exclusive interviews and two decades of research, Hearts on Fire is the music book every Canadian music fan will want on their shelf.Zum Buch
Around the turn of the nineteenth century, a steady stream of young German poets and thinkers coursed to the town of Jena to make history. The French Revolution and the Napoleonic Wars had dealt a one-two punch to the dynastic system. Confidence in traditional social, political, and religious norms had been replaced by a profound uncertainty that was as terrifying for some as it was exhilarating for others. Nowhere was the excitement more palpable than among the extraordinary group of poets, philosophers, translators, and socialites who gathered in this Thuringian village. Jena became the place for the young and intellectually curious, the site of a new departure, of philosophical disruption. Influenced by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, then an elder statesman and artistic eminence, the leading figures among the disruptors—the translator August Wilhelm Schlegel; the philosophers Friedrich "Fritz" Schlegel and Friedrich Schelling; the dazzling, controversial intellectual Caroline Schlegel, married to August; Dorothea Schlegel, a poet and translator, married to Fritz; and the poets Ludwig Tieck and Novalis—resolved to rethink the world, to establish a republic of free spirits. They didn't just question inherited societal traditions; with their provocative views of the individual and of nature, they revolutionized our understanding of freedom and reality.Zum Buch
