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Une vie in progress
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ISBN: 9782021502794 Year: 2023 Publisher: Paris : Seuil,

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Hans Ulrich Obrist a enregistré des milliers d’entretiens avec les meilleurs créateurs, artistes, musiciens, écrivains, penseurs, philosophes. Il est un des curateurs d’exposition les plus réputés à l’échelle internationale. Dès son adolescence, il s’est mis à écumer l’Europe, en trains de nuit, pour visiter des ateliers – là où s’approche l’essentiel de l’art et de ses mystères. « J’ai toujours été inspiré par l’idée d’être au milieu des choses mais au centre de rien. » Pourtant, qui connaît Hans Ulrich Obrist ? Curieux et enthousiaste de tout, il est resté très discret sur lui-même. Dans ce livre événement, il accepte enfin de s’exposer. Tout part de l’enfance, en Suisse, à deux pas des frontières allemande et autrichienne, à même d’inspirer une conception fluide de la notion d’identité. Et puis, vers l’âge de six ans, c’est un très grave accident : renversé par une voiture, il passe plusieurs semaines entre la vie et la mort. Il en tire le sentiment persistant que chaque jour pourrait être le dernier. Sa frénésie de découvertes, de rencontres, de lectures, en fait un infatigable bourlingueur. Mais, tout à coup, c’est la pandémie, le confinement. Un arrêt brutal. Et l’occasion de prendre le temps d’un retour sur soi. Entre rituels, croyances, convictions, fulgurances, on comprend la cohérence des choix, et la volonté de toujours se renouveler.

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Amilcar Cabral's Revolutionary Theory and Practice : A Critical Guide
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ISBN: 9781685853242 1685853242 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers,

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Introduces Cabral's writings on colonialism and imperialism, nationalism and national liberation, class and class struggle, and the state.


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Nicolae Ceausescu : A Study in Political Leadership
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ISBN: 9781685853075 1685853072 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers,

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Seeking the factors that account for Ceausescu's remarkable successes, as well as his disastrous failures, Fischer examines in detail his personal background before World War II, his development as a party official, and particularly, his methods of rule since 1965.


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Lane With No Name : Memoirs and Poems of a Malaysian-Chinese Girlhood
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ISBN: 9781685858131 1685858139 Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers,

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Hilary Tham's memoirs reveal the many images, cultures, myths, and memories out of which her poetry has emerged.


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Albert Jäger (1801-1891). : Erinnerungen aus meinem Leben
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ISBN: 320521773X 3205217721 Year: 2023 Publisher: Wien : Böhlau Verlag,

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Die Lebenserinnerungen des österreichischen Historikers Albert Jäger (1801-1891) werden hier erstmals in einer wissenschaftlich kommentierten Edition veröffentlicht. Jäger durchlief als Autodidakt eine bemerkenswerte Karriere vom Benediktinermönch in Marienberg zunächst zum Gymnasialprofessor in Meran, dann zum Universitätsprofessor in Innsbruck und in Wien. Dort fungierte Jäger ab 1854 als erster Direktor des Instituts für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, ehe er sich auch zeitweise der konservativen Politik zuwandte. Die Erinnerungen dieses bemerkenswerten Zeitzeugen bieten besondere Einblicke in die Geschichte der Habsburgermonarchie, Tirols und der historischen Forschung im 19. Jahrhundert.


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Die ›Epistulae ad familiares‹ des Kaisers Augustus : Studien zur Textgeschichte in der Antike, Edition und Kommentar
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ISBN: 3111193594 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Alongside Cicero and Pliny the Younger, Emperor Augustus has been the third important writer of private letters in the Late Republic period and the early Principate. However, his letters have only been preserved by indirect transmission, i.e., as "ations and paraphrases in the work of later authors. Together with a study on the ancient textual and reception history of the letters, this volume contains an edition of the fragments with a commentary. Der Kaiser Augustus ist neben Cicero und dem jüngeren Plinius der dritte wichtige Verfasser von Privatbriefen in der Zeit der späten Republik und des frühen Prinzipats. Allerdings sind diese Briefe nur sekundär überliefert, d.h. als Zitate und Paraphrasen bei späteren Autoren erhalten. Die vorliegende Arbeit geht in einem ersten Teil den bislang noch nicht befriedigend geklärten Fragen nach, ob die Briefe in der Antike publiziert vorlagen, wie die Briefe rezipiert wurden und wann ihre selbstständige Überlieferung abgebrochen ist. Daran schließen eine Neuedition der Fragmente mit Übersetzung und ein schwerpunktmäßig philologischer Kommentar an, in welchem neben sprachlichen und stilistischen Fragen auch das Verhältnis zwischen den ursprünglichen Kommunikationszusammenhängen und den Zitierkontexten der Brieffragmente behandelt wird. Den Schluss bilden zwei Synthese-Kapitel, in denen zunächst die wichtigsten Beobachtungen zu (Brief-)sprache und (Brief-)stil des Augustus zusammengefasst werden und dann über das (auto-)biographische Potenzial der Brieffragmente reflektiert wird.


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Centenarians' Autobiographies : Age, Life Writing and the Enigma of Extreme Longevity
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ISBN: 9783110769579 3110769573 Year: 2023 Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter,

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Situated at the intersection between medical humanities, aging studies, autobiographical studies, disability studies and ethic studies, this book explores the fascination of centenarians' autobiographies for humanites research. It can be argued that the growing presence of centenarians' autobiographies on book markets across the globe may by rooted in the public's desire for positive images of aging, in contrast to the image of inevitable decay.


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Summary of Max Frumes & Sujeet Indap's The Caesars Palace Coup.
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ISBN: 9798350063967 Year: 2023 Publisher: US : IRB,

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Get the Summary of Max Frumes & Sujeet Indap's The Caesars Palace Coup in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: In the tradition of Barbarians at the Gate and The Big Short comes the riveting, multi-dimensional poker game between private equity firms and distressed debt hedge funds that played out from the Vegas Strip to Manhattan boardrooms to Chicago courthouses and even, for a moment, the halls of the United States Congress. On one side: relentless financial engineers Marc Rowan, David Sambur, and David Bonderman with their teams at Apollo Global Management and TPG Capital. On the other: superstar distressed debt investors Dave Miller and Ryan Mollett with their cohorts at the likes of Elliott Management, Oaktree Capital, and Appaloosa Management.The Caesars bankruptcy put a twist on the old-fashioned casino heist. Through a 27 billion leveraged buyout and a dizzying string of financial engineering transactions, Apollo and TPG?in the midst of the post-Great Recession slump?had seemingly snatched every prime asset of the company from creditors, with the notable exception of Caesars Palace. But Caesars' hedge fund lenders and bondholders had scooped up the company's paper for nickels and dimes. And with their own armies of lawyers and bankers, they were ready to do everything necessary to take back what they believed was theirs?if they could just stop their own infighting.


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Rev. James Fraser, 1634-1709 : a new perspective on the Scottish Highlands before Culloden
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ISBN: 1399501305 1399501291 1399501275 Year: 2023 Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press,

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This book studies the revealing autobiographical sources left by Rev. James Fraser of Kirkhill (1634-1709), a Gaelic-speaking scholar, traveller and minister. It examines Fraser's self-presentation and situates him within his locality, Scotland, the British Isles and Europe, also incorporating recent historiography to provide a more comprehensive presentation of the social, economic and cultural trajectories of the early modern Highlands.

David Worthington focuses on the Scottish Highlands' strong engagement with Europe and early entanglement with empire. He challenges the assumption that the north Highlands, in particular, was sealed off from the rest of the world before Culloden and he identifies the agency, vitality and resilience of the people of the Highlands prior to the peripheralisation, depopulation and under-development that then occurred.


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The Life History of Raul Honwana : An Inside View of Mozambique from Colonialism to Independence, 1905-1975
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ISBN: 9781685852986 168585298X Year: 2023 Publisher: Boulder : Lynne Rienner Publishers,

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Raul Honwana's autobiography, spanning the colonial period and the transition to independence in Mozambique, provides significant new insights into Mozambique's social and political history.

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