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  Never a Native

  Alice Shalvi

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  "Alice Shalvi is one of the few women in the world who lived through a world devastated by fascism, and advanced a democracy in which people are linked, not ranked. Reading about her past will inspire our future."
  
  Gloria Steinem
  
  Professor Alice Shalvi - scholar, educator, and heroic activist, tells the story of her life in a simple, almost matter-of-fact manner, as though each stage of her very rich and varied career simply flowed most naturally the one from the other. There is in this kind of presentation an underlying tone of modesty, one which downplays the struggles, the persistence and enormous energy which resulted in her massive achievements in the areas of social activism and feminism. This energy tempered with such modesty resonates as an undercurrent throughout this classic autobiography.

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  On the Tracks of a Shadow

  Carlos Usín

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  At the end of the Spanish Civil War, the government of the Francoist “New Spain” set in motion a complex and Machiavellian system of repression directed against all those Republican prisoners who had lost the war. From that moment on, hundreds of thousands of prisoners (Republicans or not) suffered first-hand the torture of forced labour, internment in concentration camps or in prisons or, in certain cases, death. Although in the vast majority of cases the victims of reprisals belonged to political parties, unions and other left-wing organisations, some internees were practising Catholics educated by the Piarists but were still not spared. This is the story of Enrique, one of those internees, who in 1936, shortly after his twentieth birthday, found himself obliged to take part in a civil war instead of continuing his medical studies at university. Over the following 20 years, his determination to finish his degree did not waver and although he did not fire a single shot, because he spent the war working in a hospital, he was given a Summary Military Trial, sentenced to twelve years and one day for “aiding the rebellion”, suffered internment in concentration camps and prisons and was sent to work battalions where he carried out forced labour, and all that despite being Catholic and right-wing. Quite simply, he was on the wrong side at the least opportune time.

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  My Experiments with Truth

  Mohandas Gandhi

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  This work is Gandhi’s autobiography, documenting his spiritual journey amidst the political strife of his times. 
  Mohandas Gandhi inspired the spiritual and political souls of millions of people. His concept of nonviolent resistance propelled numerous struggles throughout the world, including the civil rights movement in America. Written after his release from prison, first published in English in 1927, My Experiments with Truth is Gandhi's autobiography, documenting his spiritual journey amidst the political strife of his times.

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  Stones Touring Party - A Journey...

  Robert Greenfield

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  A journalist who rode along with the Rolling Stones on their 1972 US tour chronicles what he witnessed on and off the stage. 
   
  The Rolling Stones’ 1972 tour of the United States was perhaps their best—and certainly most notorious—ever. Their previous visit in 1969 had ended in the nightmare of Altamont; now, three years later, they had just recorded their two finest albums, Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street, and were musically in their prime—if also personally at their most dissolute and debauched. 
   
  Robert Greenfield, one of America’s finest writers, went along for the ride and came back with a riveting account of high living, excess and rock & roll fury, from the Playboy Mansion to the jail cells of Rhode Island. This was an extended tour Party, capital P, to which all America’s hip, rich and glitzy were invited, from Truman Capote to Stevie Wonder, Annie Liebowitz to Hugh Hefner. The result has been acclaimed as one of the all-time classic music books. 
   
  Previously published as STP: A Journey Through America with the Rolling Stones, this reissue uses the original title and features a new introduction by the author. 
   
  Praise for Stone’s Touring Party 
   
  “A compelling account of the Stones trashing America during 1972. . . . Greenfield was allowed the kind of access journalists can only dream of today.” —The Times (UK) 
   
  “One of the greatest rock books ever written.” —GQ 
   
  “Exceptionally well-written and highly readable.” —Jerry Hopkins, Los Angeles Times 
   
  “Unsparing in its picture of the calculation and lyrical decadence behind the tour.” —John Rockwell, New York Times 
   
  “Skip this review and rush right down to your local bookstore and get a copy . . . reads like the best fiction.” —Ed War, Creem

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  Resignation Trilogy - True...

  J. Clark Allison

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  Three entertaining true stories reported by your intrepid food server from the front lines of the Great Resignation of 2021. Got a restaurant or other service business? Find out what not to do if you want to keep your current and future employees from leaving for greener pastures. It's not rocket science but has got a lot of you completely baffled, apparently. I'll give you a hint, the first rule is, don't be an a-hole.

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  Pilgrim Soul - WB Yeats and the...

  Daniel Mulhall

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  When W.B. Yeats became the first Irish person to be awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923, the Swedish Academy was crediting him with giving expression to 'the spirit of a whole nation'. The prize established Yeats as the unofficial poet laureate of a country that had, in his own words, been 'transformed utterly' during the preceding decade.
  From the Celtic Twilight of the 1890s to his death in 1939, Yeats's writings offer a unique window through which to view the changing Ireland of his time. In PILGRIM SOUL, Daniel Mulhall's highly accessible and illuminating guide to Yeats, the poet's special role in Irish affairs is examined closely. Each chapter opens with a major Yeats poem through which Mulhall examines the historical events that inspired it. Along the way, he explores Yeats's 'indomitable' Irishness, the roots of his periodic disenchantment with Ireland and the conservative politics of his later years as well as the way Yeats's lifelong encounter with Irish affairs helped reshape his poetry.
  Throughout his life, Yeats produced compelling images of his homeland for readers in Ireland and around the world. As a personal journey through Yeats's poetry and his life, PILGRIM SOUL mirrors Daniel Mulhall's own four decades as an ambassador for Ireland, its people and its culture.

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