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""Starting his reign in 1927, Alexander Alekhine dominated the world of elite chess for more than a decade. To this day, he is the only world chess champion to die while holding the title. On his way to the top, Alekhine dodged artillery on World War I battlefields, narrowly escaped a Bolshevik firing squad and negotiated with Nazis to escape occupied Paris. He also earned a reputation as a "grandmonster" of chess: arrogant, amoral and alcoholic. This book explores both the triumphs that established Alekhine as one of the most creative minds ever to storm the chess world and the tragic choices that ended his career and, finally, his life. He is still one of the most controversial figures in chess history, but competitive chess as we know it would not exist without him"--

A journey to cities and towns that were central to Garibaldi's life - Genoa, Rome, Ravenna, Como, Marsala, Palermo, Naples, Turin, Venice, Florence and London.

In this thought-provoking memoir, an award-winning journalist explores the chaos, doubt, and search for meaning that come with staying one step ahead of cancer for decades.“An Exercise in Uncertainty has a powerful and restorative story to tell us. Jonathan Gluck’s life of illness and survival is a vital primer for us all—a lesson in how to face and comprehend two of the basic facts that render us human: We die, but much more important, we live.”—Richard Ford “Navigates the dire straits of mortality with eloquence, wit, and intelligence.”—Susan OrleanAt age thirty-eight, Jonathan Gluck, a new father with a promising journalism career, was shocked to learn he had multiple myeloma, a rare, incurable blood cancer. He was told he had eighteen months to live.That was more than twenty years ago.Gluck isn’t just something of a medical miracle. He’s also part of a growing population. Thanks to revolutionary medical advances, many cancers and other serious illnesses are no longer death sentences but chronic diseases people can often live with for years. While doctors continue to look for “magic bullet” cures, they can now extend patients’ lives by slowing the progression of their diseases one treatment at a time. The result is a strange, new no-man’s-land between being sick and being well where Gluck and millions of others reside.In An Exercise in Uncertainty, Gluck maps this previously uncharted territory. Among the many vexing side effects of chronic illness he explores is uncertainty—never knowing from one day to the next how one’s illness might change them physically, emotionally, spiritually. When you have an incurable disease, how do you cope with knowing that even when you’re in remission, it will eventually return? How do you live with the anxiety, the fear, the near-constant awareness of your mortality? For Gluck, one surprising answer is fly-fishing. If you’re looking for peace in your own sea of uncertainty, it might be something else.As Gluck will be the first to say, cancer has absolutely nothing good to offer, but almost dying has taught him valuable lessons about how to live.

"Chelsea Handler has never been one to hold back. But this life of adventure and absurdity is only part of her story. Chelsea's truest calling is showing up for her family--canine and human, biological and chosen. She's come to embrace spending time with herself, meditating, remaining open to love, and ending relationships with grace when that's what's called for. She is a sister to the many women who rely on her. Suprisingly vulnerable and always outrageous, Chelsea Handler captures the antics-filled, exhilarating, and joyful life she's built"--

What comes after addiction? “For as long as I can remember, my mind was like a train with only three stops. Stop number one: getting money for drugs. Stop number two: getting drugs. Stop number three: getting high. During the years I should have been learning to save money, file taxes, and pay bills, I was stuck on a train to nowhere. Now somehow my train was on a brand-new course to somewhere I’d never been, and I was the friggin’ conductor.”After the opioid addiction and jail sentence that she chronicled in her first memoir, High Achiever, Tiffany Jenkins was ready for a fresh start. A chance to try life again, this time without drugs coursing through her veins. What she didn’t expect was just how fast life would happen once she was out of prison. In just two years, she went from inmate to married and sober mom of three. And life, as it does, just kept happening: a few years later, her marriage collapsed, a crisis that forced her to reckon with the foundations of her mental health and sobriety.Told with dark humor and raw honesty, A Clean Mess is Tiffany Jenkins’s story of how she learned to live and feel for the first time without numbing herself with drugs—and how she discovered inner reserves of strength she didn’t know she had. From her tentative first days of sobriety when all her worldly possessions fit into a trash bag, to seeing two pink lines on a pregnancy test weeks later, to navigating anxiety, a new marriage, and motherhood at the same time, to surviving betrayal and divorce, Jenkins shows how she got through it all when her crutches and Band-Aids were taken away from her. An inspiring memoir that reads like fiction, A Clean Mess is a book that will buoy anyone seeking a life raft in hard times.

This concise and authoritative biography of the UK's longest-reigning monarch is written by leading historian Sir David Cannadine. It explores the intertwined stories of her life and times, and assesses her wide-ranging but often unremarked impact on the institution of the monarchy, on the UK's public life and national image, and globally.

Der 14. Dalai Lama gehört zu den bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten unserer Zeit. Als im Exil lebender Führer des tibetischen Volkes und einer der weisesten Gelehrten des Buddhismus geniesst er weltweit grosse Anerkennung. Kein anderer Fotograf der Welt ist dem Dalai Lama so nahe wie der Schweizer Manuel Bauer, der sich seit den 1990er- Jahren mit dem Buddhismus, mit Tibet und dessen spirituellem Anführer auseinandersetzt. Auf zahllosen Reisen, bei Auftritten und Veranstaltungen, aber auch in seinem indischen Zuhause begleitete und besuchte Bauer den Dalai Lama und hat dies in atmosphärischen Fotografien festgehalten. Dieses französischsprachige Buch zeigt rund 200 Bilder aus den Jahren 1990 bis 2024, von denen zahlreiche noch nie zu sehen waren. Es erlaubt einmalige Einblicke in die internationale Reisetätigkeit des Dalai Lama, seine öffentlichen Auftritte und den medialen Rummel, der diese begleitet. Zudem zeigt es private Seiten der öffentlichen Person und lässt uns auch an den wenigen Augenblicken teilhaben, in denen der Dalai Lama mit sich und seinen Gedanken allein ist. Texte des Buddhismusgelehrten und früheren Mönchs Thupten Jinpa und des Journalisten und Tibet-Kenners Christian Schmidt erweitern unseren Blick auf das Thema. Im Mittelteil des Bandes wird ein Kalachakra, ein faszinierendes Sandmandala- Ritual, das der Dalai Lama mit seinen Getreuen 2014 im indischen Ladakh abhielt, erstmals ausführlich fotografisch dokumentiert und erläutert.

Der 14. Dalai Lama gehört zu den bekanntesten Persönlichkeiten unserer Zeit. Als im Exil lebender Führer des tibetischen Volkes und einer der weisesten Gelehrten des Buddhismus geniesst er weltweit grosse Anerkennung. Kein anderer Fotograf der Welt ist dem Dalai Lama so nahe wie der Schweizer Manuel Bauer, der sich seit den 1990er- Jahren mit dem Buddhismus, mit Tibet und dessen spirituellem Anführer auseinandersetzt. Auf zahllosen Reisen, bei Auftritten und Veranstaltungen, aber auch in seinem indischen Zuhause begleitete und besuchte Bauer den Dalai Lama und hat dies in atmosphärischen Fotografien festgehalten. Dieses englischsprachige Buch zeigt rund 200 Bilder aus den Jahren 1990 bis 2024, von denen zahlreiche noch nie zu sehen waren. Es erlaubt einmalige Einblicke in die internationale Reisetätigkeit des Dalai Lama, seine öffentlichen Auftritte und den medialen Rummel, der diese begleitet. Zudem zeigt es private Seiten der öffentlichen Person und lässt uns auch an den wenigen Augenblicken teilhaben, in denen der Dalai Lama mit sich und seinen Gedanken allein ist. Texte des Buddhismusgelehrten und früheren Mönchs Thupten Jinpa und des Journalisten und Tibet-Kenners Christian Schmidt erweitern unseren Blick auf das Thema. Im Mittelteil des Bandes wird ein Kalachakra, ein faszinierendes Sandmandala- Ritual, das der Dalai Lama mit seinen Getreuen 2014 im indischen Ladakh abhielt, erstmals ausführlich fotografisch dokumentiert und erläutert.

Homicide investigator and criminal behavioralist Sarah Cailean highlights eight women--from Kate Warne and Isabella Goodwin to Frances Glessner Lee and Barbara Rae-Venter--whose work impacted investigations, law enforcement, forensics, and other related fields, shattered stereotypes in the field of true crime, and gave voice to the voiceless.

Growing up in a small town in the 60s, I want to be a performer - I do not know that I am gay. I am cast in brilliant productions and meet my first true love. A life together blossoms, filled with incredible acting roles for us both.Then the bombshell is dropped-he is diagnosed with HIV. I nurse him for months, unable to work and no financial aid, until his death in 1992. A nine-year relationship. When my soulmate dies, I am at a complete loss. Only friends and theatre bring me back to life.Years later I move to Brighton and meet an aspiring designer from Algeria on a gay dating app. So begins our love story. We overcome immigration obstacles thanks to Lord Cashman and build a life as Civil Partners. Out of the blue he returns to his Islamic faith and cannot continue with his lifestyle. I spiral into depression. Friends and theatre pull me from the depths of despair. I return to Chichester Theatre thanks to Stephen Mear where I was working when we first met nine years before.I've known Trevor Jones for a lifetime and was very excited to see what his book was like. I loved it it's a true account of his life, very moving, hysterically fun and full of surprises. Go to your local bookstore and buy or order it or place it in a very prominent place on the shelf. Biggins x

An eye-opening odyssey that combines the surprising Brontë history of key houses with their sometimes glorious, sometimes heartbreaking, always fascinating afterlives.Beautifully produced with excellent photography.

Dafydd Elis-Thomas, The Rt Hon. the Lord Elis-Thomas of Nant Conwy, is an outstanding Welsh public figure. His political career spans from his first election as a Westminster MP for Plaid Cymru in 1974 at the age of twenty-seven, until May 2021 when he finally retired after twenty-two years of service as a member of the Senedd in Cardiff. Both controversial and magnetic, his life is captured in this biography. He has been branded a 'maverick', an 'intellectual acrobat' and a 'political chameleon' - as well as being labelled a 'terrorist' for his interventions in Northern Ireland, and a 'traitor' for opposing nationalism. As the first Presiding Officer of the National Assembly for Wales, he helped stabilise the new institution and embedded devolution during its first tentative decade. His career has often been marked by controversy, and this is what makes his story remarkable - just as his political life has proved to be unpredictable.

I first thought of writing this book after reading John Grisham's first - and I believe, his only - non-fiction work, An Innocent Man. The determination to undertake this project was solidified after meeting and interviewing John Thompson more than decade ago.