The first half of this volume describes the links between the earliest Irish rebellions orchestrated by Celtic nobles and more political attempts at emancipation during the 18th and 19th centuries. The second half of the book includes details of the Easter Rising and the Civil War, the fight for workers' rights and the war in Northern Ireland. Personalities featured include: Donal O'Sullivan Beare, Grace O'Malley, Silken Thomas, Robert Emmett, Michael Collins, Gerry Adams and Bobby Sands. View More...
His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, has captured the world's heart with his extraordinary wisdom and humility in the face of China's brutal decades-long occupation of Tibet. This dynamic collection includes impressionistic essays about the Tibetan leader by Diki Tsering, his mother; China scholar and journalist Orville Schell; and travel writer Pico lyer; as well as an interview with His Holiness by famed monologist Spalding Gray. A Simple Monk is published in cooperation with New York's Tibet House, which will receive a portion of the proceeds. View More...
Told in the first-person and accompanied by photographs from family archives, this autobiography follows Diki Tsering, a poor girl born in 1901, the Year of the Ox, to a peasant family, who eventually marries at age sixteen and gives birth to the future H.H. Dalai Lama. The story is told chronologically, giving readers a personal look at His Holiness as a small child. It tells of his personality and upbringing, and what it's like for a mother to watch her son become one of the most recognized faces in the world. Her story ends in 1959 with her chronicle of the Chinese invasion of Tibet and the... View More...
The author's memoirs of his coming of age, set against the twilight of the Weimar Republic. As he becomes aware of the growing numbers of jack-booted soldiers who come to parade through the streets of his native Baden-Baden, he learns that he and his family, being Jews, are enemies of the Reich. View More...
They were the talk of Paris, photographed by Beaton and Man Ray, painted by Picasso and written about by Hemingway. "Perfect... and witty... Souhani brings out the irreducible eccentricity of this particular marriage." --"Independent."
These letters represent 20 years of a unique and powerful correspondence between a straight woman and a gay man, documenting the similarities and difference everyone has in common. View More...
These letters represent 20 years of a unique and powerful correspondence between a straight woman and a gay man, documenting the similarities and difference everyone has in common. View More...
During a career that spanned more than fifty years, two continents, and work in many media, Man Ray (1890-1976) produced a large body of photographic images that continue to command our attention. This volume presents his early work in New York in the 1910s, selections from his sizeable Paris oeuvre in the 20s, 30s, and 50s, and photographs taken during his time in Hollywood in the 40s. Though in later years he expressed a desire to be remembered as a painter, Man Ray continued to work with photography throughout his life, pushing the boundaries of the medium with cameraless images, solarized ... View More...
A mosaic of mid-century Manhattan and an exuberant oral history that begins in the post-World War II years when the city came into its own, and ends in the mid-1970s when it nearly went bust. For anyone who grew up in or near "the city"-or fell in love with New York as an adult-this unique history is filled with vintage photos and personal interviews with such New York luminaries as Jimmy Breslin, Bill Gallo, Monte Irvin, Robert Merrill, Elaine Kaufman, Jerry Della Femmina, and Saul Zabar. "It Happened in Manhattan" is an often humorous, sometimes poignant, occasionally bitter-but always lovi... View More...
