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"As well as being one of the leading political journalists of his generation, Andy McSmiths varied life has brought him into contact with a huge variety of people, high and low, whom he describes with an acute eye for character. His book Strange People I Have Known is a fast-paced and entertaining read that brings deep insight into British political life." Bill Browder"A fascinating memoir which gives a revelatory insiders account of the biggest political names from the past few decades, interwoven with evocative reflections on the many colourful characters who have peppered McSmiths own life." Pippa Crerar"An addictive memoir that fizzes with anecdotes. If you like top-level political gossip and insights written with panache, look no further." Gary Gibbon***Westminster and Whitehall are secret worlds, hidden to most. But working as a lobby journalist, former Labour Party staffer Andy McSmith has had exclusive access to our top politicians for decades. Here, he shares his personal encounters with the great and the good of the British political landscape, revealing what they are really like behind the scenes.With witty and perceptive flair, he describes encounters such as flying to Tokyo with Margaret Thatcher, the last Prime Minister who would walk fearlessly into a room full of journalists, unprotected by special advisers; dining with Sir Edward Heath, a man who knew how to hold a grudge, in his home in Salisbury; observing Gordon Brown and Tony Blair as new MPs, sharing a cramped office in Parliament and collaborating like brothers; and working with Boris Johnson back when he had an ambition to be something more than just a journalist.Filled with vivid portraits of those at the heart of British politics over the past forty years, Strange People I Have Known is a memoir of a life well lived and an insiders account of the inner workings of government.

"What we have been missing" Henry Kissinger***If the United States does not lead, there will be no leadership. If the US instead turns inward, there will be a price to be paid later. George H. W. BushMarking thirty years since the end of George H. W. Bushs presidency, Robin Renwick paints a warm, affectionate portrait of a President who sought to unify rather than divide his country, and whose staunch belief in diplomacy strengthened cooperation around the world.A True Statesman explores Bushs core belief in the United States as the indispensable nation in helping to deal with world crises, charting his efforts to end the Cold War, secure the reunification of Germany and drive Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait.Extending beyond Bushs time in office, it also reflects on US foreign policy over the past three decades, examining the consequences of his successors differing approaches to Americas role on the world stage.Incisively written by a former British Ambassador to Washington, this insider account offers fresh insights into both the 41st President and Americas foreign policy from IranContra to Russias invasion of Ukraine.

Of the twenty chapters that make up these Memoirs, seventeen appear here in print for the first time, unearthed by the editors from the Harvard Archive. They include intense depictions of Lowells mental illness and his efforts to recover, and conclude with reminiscences of other writers - T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Ezra Pound, John Berryman, Anne Sexton, Hannah Arendt, and Sylvia Plath. Memoirs demonstrates Lowells expansive gifts as a prose stylist and provide further evidence of the range and brilliance of his achievement.

This latest volume of Campbells acclaimed diaries sees the author, and the country, at a profound crossroads. Brown is finally gone, and Cameron is in the ascendancy with a little help from the Liberal Democrats. Somehow Campbell must emerge from the ruins and grapple with his own future; just as Britain begins its own journey into austerity and, eventually, to Brexit. Volume 8 contains some of Campbells most poignant and thought-provoking writing so far and is a must-read for fans of this most accomplished of political diarists.

"Das Beiderwandkleid" von Waldtraut Lewin ist auch als kunstvoll gestaltetes Buch (die Druckversion) im Festeinband mit zusatzlichem durchsichtigem goldbedruckten Schutzeinband aus Pergamentpapier erhaltlich. Klappentext und Inhaltsubersicht! Klappentext: Der Roman beginnt mit einem grandiosen Monolog an den Tod, ein faszinierender Einstieg, zumal die Handlung zu einem Zeitpunkt beginnt, wo in Deutschland eine grausige Kriegs-, Kalte- und Hungerzeit herrscht und wie in einem Inferno Feuer vom Himmel regnet. Die Autorin findet mit sicherem Gespur die richtigen Begriffe und Formulierungen fur ein Thema, das nach wie vor mit einem Tabu belegt ist, etwa wenn sich das kleinen Madchen selber schone Gefuhle macht in einer halichen Welt: offen und ehrlich. Wunderbar auch die eindringliche Zeichnung der anderen: Groeltern, Mutter, Jungen, mit denen das Madchen spielt oder wie es sich zum ersten Mal verliebt, erst in den sogenannten Mozart, spater in den zackigen Ami-Offizier, der den Groeltern so schadet, was der Liebe der Kleinen aber keinen Abbruch tut. Im vorliegenden Buch handelt es sich um eine einfuhlsam erzahlte, wahre Geschichte aus der Sicht eines kleinen Madchens, ohne da dabei der altkluge Erwachsenenblick durchschlagt, der sie unglaubwurdig machen wurde. Vielmehr wird diese Perspektive mit dem Groerwerden der Protagonistin konsequent und authentisch durchgehalten. Gewollt provozierende Literatur zu einem Problem, das weder in Deutschland noch sonstwo auf der Welt so sensibel und vorurteilslos wie hier beschrieben wird.

Alexander (Sandy) Goehr is a leading British composer and teacher. Born into a Jewish musical family in Berlin in 1932, he arrived in England in 1933 with his father, Walter, a composer, conductor, and pupil of Arnold Schoenberg; and his mother Laelia, a trained pianist from Kyiv. Raised in Amersham, he attended Richard Halls classes at the Royal Manchester College of Music. There he formed the Manchester School a group of young composers and performers including Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, and John Ogdon. He was introduced to Olivier Messiaen when his father conducted the first British performance of Turangalila-Symphonie in 1953, and he later studied with Messiaen and Yvonne Loriod in Paris.In the late 1950s and early 60s Goehr became known as a radical exponent of serial music. Since then, he has composed more than one hundred major works, including operas, orchestral and chamber pieces, and music for film, television, dance and theatre. He is Emeritus Professor of Music at Cambridge University and one of Europes most important music educators. He has written and lectured extensively and his music is performed all over the world.Jack Van Zandt (b. 1954), an American composer and Goehrs former pupil and assistant, has co-written this first comprehensive account of the life, creative foundations, and teachings of this great composer.

Rachel Meller was never close to her aunt Lisbeth, a cool, unemotional woman with a drawling Viennese-Californian accent, a cigarette in her hand. But when Lisbeth died, she left Rachel an intricately carved Chinese box with a sunflower clasp. Inside the box were photographs, letters and documents that led Rachel to uncover a story she had never known: that of a passionate Jewish teenager growing up in elegant Vienna, who was caught up by war, and forced to flee to Shanghai. Far from home, in a strange city, Lisbeth and her parents build a new life - a life of small joys and great hardship, surrounded by many others who, like them, have fled Hitler and the Nazis. 1930s Shanghai is a metropolis where the old rules do not apply - a city of fabulous wealth and crushing poverty, where disease is rife, and gangsters rub shoulders with rich emigres; where summer brings unspeakable heat, and winter is bitterly cold; and where European refugees build community and, maybe, a young woman can find love. Set against a backdrop of the war in the Far East, The Box with the Sunflower Clasp is a sweeping family memoir that tells the hidden history of the Jews of Shanghai. Rachel Meller writes with elegance and insight as she examines what it means to survive, and what the legacy of displacement and war might mean for the generation that comes afterwards.

In 1964 Faisal bin Abdul Aziz became king of a country holding a quarter of the worlds oil reserves, also home to Mecca and Medina. He was called the most powerful Arab ruler in centuries. Eleven years later, in front of television cameras, his nephew shot him at point-blank range. In this authoritative biography, Alexei Vassiliev tells the story of a pious, cautious and resolute leader who steered Saudi Arabia through a minefield of domestic problems, inter-Arab relations and the decline of Soviet influence in the Middle East. King Faisal maintained ties with both Egypt and the United States through two Arab - Israeli wars and the 1973 Arab oil embargo, which revolutionized the world energy market. Throughout, he staked high hopes on cooperation with the US, a relationship that is still vital to both countries interests. Exhaustively researched and including original documents and interviews in Arabic, Russian and English, King Faisal of Saudi Arabia: Personality, Faith and Times offers a unique perspective of this seminal figure and is key to understanding the Arab world today.

Finally, the Diary Book, where we find the authors everyday life, his particularities and reflections that colours the happenings of his daily life.What to say about this writing that many times seems to be unreal for the reader, but that in Joo Rosa de Castros experience appears to have much meaning?The reader is not up to decipher the enigmas nor understand them, but enjoy the words of the writers intimacy that lead us to seversal situations lived by him and that he wished to share. Like the writing in which he reveals to be the best hour, the best day, the best month and the best year of his life, or when he discusses the matter drugs based on the discussion held by Maria Rita Kehl in the Philosophical Cafe, or even the confession that he doesnt know how to console when the matter is death, when he knew of the death of the dog of his Januarios muse.At last, getting into this book means allowing to open oneself to the perceptions, reflections of its author and enjoy his words.

Eliza Lowe, with two of her sisters, ran a school for girls, aged between 13 and 18, first in Liverpool, then in Southgate Middlesex. The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the lives of some her pupils, one from the influential Rathbone family and one who became a suffragist. Life in the school is described thanks to extant unpublished letters from pupils. An appendix continues the story of her school after her death when her niece took over and later became Headmistress of one of the early Woodard girls schools in Bangor.

Eliza Lowe, with two of her sisters, ran a school for girls, aged between 13 and 18, first in Liverpool, then in Southgate Middlesex. The book covers her life in Whitchurch, Burton on Trent, Everton, Liverpool and finally in Middlesex. It describes her school and investigates the lives of some her pupils, one from the influential Rathbone family and one who became a suffragist. Life in the school is described thanks to extant unpublished letters from pupils. An appendix continues the story of her school after her death when her niece took over and later became Headmistress of one of the early Woodard girls schools in Bangor.

Jacques Tatis Monsieur Hulot, unverkennbar mit seiner Pfeife, seinem Regenschirm und seinen gestreiften Socken, war eine geniale Slapstick-Kreation, die das Publikum auf der ganzen Welt uber die Absurditat des Lebens lachen lie. David Bellos Biografie zeichnet Tatis Aufstieg und Fall nach, von seinen Anfangen als Variete-Mime wahrend der Depression uber den Erfolg von Jour de Fete und Mon Oncle bis hin zu Playtime, dem grandiosen Meisterwerk, das den gefeierten Regisseur und Oscar-Preistrager in den Bankrott trieb und ihn um finanzielle Unterstutzung fur die Fertigstellung seiner letzten Filme betteln lie.Bei der Analyse von Tatis einzigartiger Vision, eines Clowns, dessen filmische Innovation darin bestand, das alltagliche Leben in eine Kunstform zu verwandeln, enthullt Bellos die komplizierte Inszenierung seiner beruhmtesten Gags und stutzt sich auf bisher unzugangliche Archive, darunter Filmmaterial, Videos, aufgezeichnete Interviews und fruhe Entwurfe von Drehbuchern, sowie die Mithilfe von Tatis Tochter. Herausgekommen ist das Bild eines Mannes, der gleichzeitig engagiert, leidenschaftlich und schuchtern war, mehr Kunstler als Geschaftsmann. In der genau recherchierten Darstellung wird Tati sehr lebendig und bleibt, wie auf der Leinwand, seltsam liebenswert.

El presente libro es el resultado de diez años de trabajo (2006-2016) en el archivo de la familia Vigotski. Los editores, dos de los más grandes especialistas mundiales en la obra de Vigotski, descifraron, estudiaron, clasificaron y comentaron una inmensa cantidad de notas personales del autor, que se publicaron por primera vez en Rusia tan solo en el año 2017.Las anotaciones aqui incluidas conciernen a todos los periodos de la biografia cientifica del autor y contienen nueva informacion sobre el; comienzan por la anotacion mas temprana de las halladas (La tragicomedia de las busquedas) y terminan con su ultima anotacion antes de morir (Pro domo sua).La edicion castellana ha sido realizada en estrecha colaboracion con ambos editores y, creemos, constituye un aporte fundamental en el estudio y difusion de la obra siempre abierta del genial psicologo bielorruso.

From the hopeful beginnings of Britains entry into the European project to the bitterness of Brexit, Continental Drift is a vivid, personal account of a political life spent at the heart of the European Parliament.As Europes longest-serving MEP, Bill Newton-Dunn offers a front-row view of the shifting tides in Britains often uneasy relationship with its continental neighbours. Spanning the four decades from 1979 to 2020, this lively memoir chronicles the currents of Euroscepticism, internal wranglings of UK delegations and the complex dance between Westminster and Brussels.But Continental Drift is more than political history: it is also rich with behind-the-scenes stories, sharp observations and colourful pen portraits of the characters who shaped Europe, from British premiers and fiery backbenchers to European visionaries and bureaucratic bruisers, not to mention impassioned Communists and rumoured Mafiosi. With dry wit and unsparing honesty, Newton-Dunn brings to life the dramas, debates and diplomatic showdowns that marked a turbulent era.Candid, compelling and frequently funny, Continental Drift is a timely reflection on Britains place in Europe and what was lost when the flag came down.

A EDITORA CONTRACORRENTE tem a satisfação de anunciar o lançamento da edição brasileira do livro "O Brasil sob Vargas", de Karl Loewenstein, um dos mais importantes juristas do século XX. Publicado o

In September 1949 Adenauer became German Chancellor. One year later remilitarization was a done deal. Any resistance to it was fought by theauthorities. As early as in 1951 the federal government filed the application to declare the anti-constitutionality of the KPD. During this period, Willi Dickhut fi rst worked in the cadre department of the KPD North Rhine-Westphalia, and later in the KPDs central cadre department. It becomes clear how close the collaboration with the cadre department "West" of the SED was. Bureaucratic mistakes in the treatment of cadres occurred already then. From mid-1952 the author worked as First County Secretary in Solingen. Efforts to regain lost ground for the KPD in the factories and enter into a unity of action with the SPD at the local level there were successful. On 17 August 1956 the KPD was banned. The work in illegality impeded the necessary internal discussion in the party that in a situation in which the KPD unhesitatingly adopted the revisionist line of the CPSU promulgated by Khrushchev at the 20th Party Congress in February 1956. Willi Dickhut shared the view of the Communist Party of China that socialism had been betrayed there. This led to his expulsion from the party in 1966. To Willi Dickhut it was clear: the degeneration of the KPD and DKP made the building of a new Marxist-Leninist party a necessity. He promoted this task with all his energy.

John Creedons scenes from an Irish childhood paint a colourful and sometimes hilarious picture of a changing Ireland and the growing pains of boyhood.Set in a city-centre household bustling with humanity, the cast includes a dozen children and another dozen adults, including aunts, an American writer, an African doctor, and a Scottish bookie.The streets outside overflow with brewery horses, beat clubs, dance halls, nuns, priests, a Turkish delight shop and a pub where a child could sit up on a high stool and smoke his cigarette in peace.Creedon spent the sixties striding the streets of inner-city Cork, with summers farmed out to friends and family in the countryside. His stories are set in wildly contrasting worlds, from urban exotica to spacious meadows, from tales of the open road to his classroom of over fifty boys.These are stories of friendship, fun, family and folklore. The result is a heart-warming and revealing journey into an Irish boyhood.

Between 2016 and his retirement in 2022, Assistant Garda Commissioner John ODriscoll was the public face of garda operations targeting organised crime. This put him at the centre of a long-running quest to bring about the demise of the Kinahan drug cartel, culminating in US sanctions being imposed an unprecedented development, spearheaded by ODriscoll.But the Kinahans were just some of the many notorious drug dealers and criminals ODriscoll successfully brought to book. During his tenure at Dublins Store Street, he was tasked with reckoning with the heroin epidemic, and his unique approach to community policing got to the root of the power of infamous criminals like Tony Felloni, Michael Cronin and Derek Dunne, stripping them of their assets.Spanning a period of unprecedented change that challenged the very nature of fighting crime in Ireland, On Duty, the first ever memoir of an Assistant Garda Commissioner, offers a unique insight into policing at the highest level.

The youngest of seven children from a hurling-obsessed Portumna family, Joe Canning was steeped in the game from birth. Regarded as a prodigy from the moment he stepped onto the pitch as a boy, he burst onto the national radar aged just 19, scoring 212 for Galway in a narrow defeat to Cork. But it would be another nine summers before he would lift the Liam MacCarthy Cup. Over the next decade, the whole country became fixated on Galways quest for glory and the many struggles along the way: would Joe Canning be the greatest hurler never to win an All-Ireland medal?Pulsating with a unique sense of family and community in a place where hurling is a way of life, Joe Cannings memoir reflects on the standards of excellence he sometimes felt chained to, the suffocation of trying to meet other peoples expectations and the personal battles that brought perspective to a singular focus on winning. Thoughtful and revealing, this is the remarkable story of one of Irelands greatest hurlers.

With the strong possibility of Labour forming our next government, it is fascinating to consider the last time the party stood on the verge of power, back in 1997. At that time, future Europe Minister Denis MacShane had a ringside seat that he would occupy for the next decade or so, living through Cool Britannia, the Good Friday Agreement, Peter Mandelsons multiple resignations, Princess Dianas death and Tony Blairs seeming invincibility.New Labour may be remembered as an unstoppable force, but MacShanes diaries reveal that while, outwardly, all seemed to be going well, the personal rivalries, slights and petty jealousies between the partys big beasts meant that it was never far from disaster.MacShane was a regular in Downing Street from the moment of Labours election victory, and his candid, intimate diaries show figures such as Tony Blair, Gordon Brown, Robin Cook, Peter Mandelson, Clare Short and Alastair Campbell in a light in which theyve never been seen before, detailing the personalities as much as the politics of Labours most successful stint in government.