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Camila è piccola quando i genitori, borghesi alternativi, rompono le regole e decidono di abbandonare la vita normale per unirsi alla comunità di Osho, leader spirituale dell'amore libero e della ricerca della felicità individuale come fine supremo. Diventa così una figlia dei figli dei fiori, una bambina che cresce all'ombra degli ashram hippy, tra meditazioni, musica, danze, totale condivisione dei beni e continui spostamenti da una casa all'altra, dove ogni volta bisogna ricominciare tutto da capo.

F. Scott Fitzgerald was one of the foremost American novelists of his time. His works, which included masterpieces such as The Great Gatsby, portrayed the Jazz Age of the Roaring Twenties and gave voice to a lost generation, but somewhere along the way, Fitzgerald himself became lost. After the stock market crash of 1929 and the ensuing Great Depression, the world cared not so much about glitz and glamor as they did simply trying to scrape together enough money to get by.

Worried and confused. Angry and embittered. Unfocused and uninspired. We live in a world where it's easy to fall into these unhealthy patterns of thought and emotion. Work is stressful. Relationships are rocky. Finances can be burdensome. A health crisis looms. Addictions run rampant. The list goes on. Art Haddaway in Reflections of an Editor aims to encourage and inspire anyone facing these issues.

Decía Carmen Laforet que la vida le interesaba en todos sus momentos, tanto en los malos como en los buenos. Por eso leía, viajaba, escribía y observaba los acontecimientos con el corazón revuelto, lleno de emociones que no dejaban de latir. En el centenario de su nacimiento, esta biografía recupera la voz de quien nunca quiso hacer lo que se esperaba de ella. Aquí se conjugan su certero retrato del ambiente de posguerra, sus análisis sobre la religión y la fe, y su alma, siempre errante, que, sin pertenecer a ningún sitio.

There was no reason to bet on Bruce Johnson, given where he started out. Poor, Black, and raised by a single mother who had a secret. He was the child she hid in plain view from the rest of her family. As an adult, he set out to just make a living - to do better than Black folks who tried their best before, while making his Momma and Grandmomma proud. His journey to becoming a successful TV journalist nearly killed him, but he refused to treat himself as a victim. His role was to use his voice and example to pull others out of deep waters.

An award-winning biography of one of the first undercover journalists - a pioneering Swedish woman who lived a fascinating life of adventure and forbidden love and who changed journalism forever.

Long before Wikileaks and social media, the journalist Drew Pearson exposed to public view information that public officials tried to keep hidden. Pearson devoted himself to revealing what politicians were doing behind closed doors. From 1932 to 1969, his daily "Washington Merry-Go-Round" column and weekly radio and TV commentary broke secrets, revealed classified information, and passed along rumors based on sources high and low in the federal government, while intelligence agents searched fruitlessly for his sources.

Upton Sinclair was first and foremost the most eminent and impactful muckraking journalist of the early 20th century (The Jungle - 1906: precipitated meaningful and permanent improvements in the safety and purity of the food we eat).

Perhaps you have heard of Edgar Allan Poe. Perhaps not. Either way, this 19th-century author has received quite some fame for his works and his unique style. His mystery and gruesome horror stories, comedy, and other genres have reached far into the depths of American literature. Edgar Allan Poe had a life, a background worth studying. His death, however, was and still is a mystery by itself. Find out more about this fascinating author, in a time we can hardly understand without knowing more about it.

It's an autobiography mainly covering 35 years in the magazine publishing business featuring successes, failures, amazing people, and crazy stories that really happened.

Kapuściński ripercorre viaggi e vicende proprie, raccontando retroscena finora ignorati: dall'infanzia povera a quando, fresco laureato, venne mandato allo sbaraglio prima in India e poi in Cina, senza conoscere niente di quei paesi. Erodoto, il primo vero reporter della storia, fa capolino dalle storie del giornalista polacco, quale imprescindibile punto di riferimento nel descrivere i meccanismi dell'animo umano, le sue grandezze, i suoi errori.

Fatima Daoui is one of the Middle East’s most recognized business reporters, with over 15 years of experience in the industry. Known for her scoops and exclusive interviews, Fatima is based in the United Arab Emirates and travels wherever the story takes her, from Saudi Arabia, where she specializes in covering business stories, to the far reaches of the globe to moderate influential panels on global economic issues. Having been supported by other women throughout her life, Fatima has written this book for the next generation of female leaders in media.

Put Off My Sackcloth is a mosaic of essays about one writer’s journey through a life fraught with crippling interior darkness in an uncertain world to the salve she finds in her “shored-up ruins” and new maternal life beneath the lambent glow of the Sangre de Cristo mountain range in South-Central Colorado. The daughter of a Jewish refuge from Nazi Germany and an American mother prone to suicidal depression, Annie Dawid, in these essays, traces the history of her life.

What if you got a call from Lyndon Johnson to be in Washington, DC tomorrow to take a trip around the world? If you are 24-year-old broadcast journalist Neal Spelce, you buckle up. From his live reporting during the University of Texas tower mass school shooting tragedy to his lifelong association with LBJ, Spelce found himself behind the scenes in many of the 20th century’s crucial moments. He tells never-before-revealed stories about six US presidents, including his rare conversation with father/son presidents George Bush...

The first biography of Martha Gellhorn, produced during her lifetime. This comprehensive biography provides crucial information about her early life in St. Louis, her travels abroad, her work for the Federal Emergency Relief Administration, her meeting and subsequent storied marriage to Ernest Hemingway, and her decision to leave him and resume her career as novelist and war reporter.

Working as a respected investigative journalist for the Observer and Guardian, with star-studded spells at the New Musical Express and Time Out and dedicating the last 20 years of his life completely to Animal Rights, Andrew Tyler has recorded his own "great life" - from his early days in a Jewish orphanage in London to his final day in a clinic in Switzerland.

Frank "Buschi" Buschmann ist alles andere als ein gewöhnlicher TV-Moderator und Sportkommentator, seine Sendungen und Übertragungen sind Emotion pur. Der "Sportverrückte" (O-Ton Buschmann) erzählt in kurzweiligen Episoden, wie er seine Leidenschaft für den Sport entdeckte, wie er auf Umwegen beim Fernsehen landete und was er in der medialen Glitzerwelt des Sports schon alles erlebt hat. Ob Olympia, Basketball-WM, Fußball-Bundesliga oder Superbowl - in seiner typischen mitreißenden Art schildert Buschi die emotionalsten und ungewöhnlichsten Erlebnisse seiner bisherigen Karriere.

When Gerald Eskenazi started reporting, sports journalism had a different look than it does today. Eskenazi gives a behind-the-scenes look into the journalistic techniques that go into crafting a story, as well as the pitfalls reporters fall into. There are cautionary tales of journalistic excess, as well as moments of triumph such as the time Eskenazi got Joe Namath to open up to him by admitting he was a sportswriter who knew nothing about football. Along the way, Eskenazi discusses interviewing other reluctant subjects and writing under the intense pressure of a deadline.

James Baldwin grew up in a poverty-stricken home, but through the skill of his prose and his keen observation, he was able to rise above it all. Baldwin was a once-in-a-lifetime kind of artist who had an uncanny understanding of people, situations, and the status quo. As a writer, Baldwin was highly critical of many aspects of society, and he used his pen to question why things were the way they were. This audiobook follows James Baldwin’s journey from Harlem to France, as he sorts out both his personal inclinations and the world as a whole.

From poker to poetry, poisoners to princes, opera to the Oscars, Shakespeare to Olivier, Mozart to Murdoch, Anthony Holden seems to have rolled many writers’ lives into one. Author of 35 books on a ‘crazy’ range of subjects, this cocky Lancashire lad turned bohemian citizen of the world has led an apparently charmed life from Merseyside to Buckingham Palace, the White House and beyond.