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Biography & True StoriesJune 2019The Half Quilt
by Zeng San
Rucheng, Hunan, is the first large-scale centralized land recuperation after the Red Army's Long March. A story of "half-quilt" embodies the deep feelings of the military and civilians in the village of Shazhou in Rucheng. The revolutionaries Mao Zedong and Zhu De launched revolutionary activities in Rucheng, which has consolidated the mass foundation on this land.The book takes the "Half Quilt" story as the entrance, integrates the Long March story and revolution story of Rucheng, and the story of Shazhou Village's poverty eradication in the new era.
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Biography & True StoriesAugust 2018Tao Shu: Biography of a Chinese Reformer
by Tao Yongshu
Tao Shu, a pioneer of humanistic pragmatism and westernization in the latter Qing Dynasty, is a representative of modern talents in Hunan. The book is mainly a biography focusing on academic research and commentary. The book presents the lengendary figure Tao Shu from various perspectives in a true way. It is divided into five chapters: the 1st chapter introduces the education and family background of Tao Shu, the 2nd to 4th chapter clarify Tao Shu as a politician, a reformer, and an educator, and the last chapter shows the achievements in terms of philosophy, historiography, genealogy, textogy, and literature including poem writing.
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Biography & True StoriesFebruary 2018Stories in Guiyang
by Deng Yanhong
Guiyang, in Hunan province, is a birthplace of profound culture and history where legends have emerged for generations. This book introduces Guiyang in five parts: history, sites in Guiyang, celebrities in Guiyang, landscape in Guiyang, and works of Guiyang. You can experience and have a clear understanding of the culture, the history, the local customs and practices, besides, you can also know more about the glory of Guiyang in the past time and enjoy both ancient and modern civilization in Guiyang.
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Biography & True StoriesNovember 2017Zhuzhou Heroines in Revolutions
by Chen Lixia
This book collects stories of 41 outstanding women representatives who participated in the movement during the 1911 Revolution and the New Democracy Revolution, and focuses on the contribution they made to national liberation, people' freedom, and emancipation of women. It is aimed at presenting the revolutionnary spirit and commemorating those heroines.
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True stories2020Patty Pan Compote
by Olha Kari
"Patty Pan Compote" is a series of reportage sketches and essays describing how a whole generation of Ukrainians lived amidst the chaos of declining Soviet Union. This book is about what it was like to live in the 90's, when "pineapple" compote was cooked from the patty pat and eggplant became the substitute for mushrooms, when everyone was gripped by a total knitting obsession due to the lack of clothes. People grew accustomed to stockpiling absolutely everything, and the first sanitary pads have just begun to change the lives of Ukrainian women. Based on her own recollections, the author tells how the punitive gastronomy of that time worked, how the pseudo-brotherly relations with other Soviet republics often manifested themselves and how Abkhazia hosted Ukrainian schoolchildren a few months before the war between Georgia and Abkhazia.
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True stories2015Courage and Fear
by Ola Hnatiuk
Courage and Fear is a study of a multicultural city in times of great change. Olya Hnatiuk presents a meticulously documented portrait of Lviv’s ethnically diverse intellectuals during World War II. As the Soviet, Nazi, and once again Soviet occupations tear the city’s social structures apart, groups of Polish, Ukrainian, and Jewish doctors, academicians, and artists try to survive, struggling to manage complex relationships and to uphold their ethos. As their pre-war lives are violently upended, courage and fear shape their actions. Olya Hnatiuk employs diverse sources in several languages to tell the story of Lviv from a multi-ethnic perspective and to challenge the nation focused narratives dominant in Central and Eastern Europe.
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True stories2018History's Carnival
by Leonid Plyushch
A memoir and autobiography of Ukrainian mathematician Leonid Pliushch (1939-2015), one of the most famous dissidents of the USSR. It was first published in the West in 1979 in five languages (Russian, French, English, Italian and Ukrainian) and it belongs to the "treasury" of anti-totalitarian resistance literature. Analyzing his life path from his postwar childhood to the Dnipropetrovsk psychiatric prison, where he was thrown with the beginning of repressions in 1972, Leonid Pliushch creates an invaluable panoramic portrait of the generation of "sixties", which was given a chance to free their mind from authoritarianism. The text is presented in the author's edition of 2002 with appendices and foreword by Oksana Zabuzhko.
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Biography & True StoriesTrainspotter
by Ehsan Norouzi
A journey to the heart of Iran: a mirror reflecting the history of the world TRAINSPOTTER is an experience about Iranian railways: Ehsan Norouzi travels by train across Iranian railways over a period of time, does not even fail to visit abandoned or half-destroyed stations, and talks with switchmen, train drivers, train hostesses, and many other people who are somehow related to railways. It is an account of the discovery of the tracks which were meant to link different corners of Iran according to the international developments and political tendencies in different eras. In TRAINSPOTTER, Norouzi finds people who actually narrate the history of Iran in the light of construction, completion, and even destruction of these railroads.
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Biography & True StoriesShriman Yogi
by Ranjeet Desai
This is a biographical novel on Shivaji Maharaj. This historical novel has created history in the world of literature and books. Shivaji Maharaj is the most worshipped person in Maharashtra. Every single household here knows Shivaji. He is the most respected and worshipped character. He was a dream come true. Shivaji was born as a Hindu but at such time when Hinduism was forgotten by the Hindus. In his novel Ranjit Desai - pictures Shivaji from his birth rather he starts with the days prior to his birth. Before writing this novel Desai has searched history, he has not left any stone unturned while doing so. Writing on Shivaji was a very difficult task. Shivaji had many qualities and the last 3-4 centuries have changed people's view about him. They have become more possessive about him adding unnecessarily and untruthfully to his qualities - considering him a god. On this background it was very difficult to portray Shivaji as perfect as possible Desai had realized his responsibility. He has pictured Shivaji meticulously in this novel. Religious but not superstitious, strict but not wicked, adventurous but not impetuous, practical but not aimless, realistic, visionary but not dreamy. Graceful but not prodigal. Desai has succeeded in highlighting Shivaji's human nature. His base was that of a human. He valued all, respected every religion. He was an expert commander. He awakened the love for motherland in the sleeping mind, of people. He ignited their confidence. While describing this, Desai has brought many of Shivaji's qualities into limelight. Shivaji was a noble king but he was a nobleman. He also had his own sufferings. He lost many, but his first preference was his motherland. As we go on reading we get involved in the book so much that we live each moment and when Desai ends the novel we feel that "WE' have lost Shivaji.
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Biography & True StoriesSix women who changed the world. The great scientists who revolutionized physics
Le grandi scienziate della fisica del XX secolo
by Gabriella Greison
Six lives in a compelling narration Six extraordinary women Six short novels you’ll be happy to get lost inMarie Curie (1867-1934), Lise Meitner (1878-1968), Emmy Noether (1882-1935), RosalindFranklin (1920-1958), Hedy Lamarr (1914-2000), Mileva Marić (1875-1948). These are the magnificent six. Except for Marie Curie their names are essentially unknown to the general reading public. They are just ordinary women names. These women were all born within a lapse of fifty years and they worked through the most crucial and roaring years of the twentieth century, years of atrocious wars (which they experienced first-hand), and of great advancement in sciences. These women advanced sciences. There’s a Polish chemist who could not attend university, the Jewish physicist whom the Nazis hated, the German mathematician whom nobody loved, the English crystallographer whose discoveries were snatched, the Hollywood star who became a military engineer and the Serbian theorist overshadowed by her husband. So what about Hedy Lamarr? Wasn’t she an actress?Yes, she was an actress. The Hollywood diva, the first full nudity in the history of cinema (1929), defined by all sides the most beautiful woman in the world before Marilyn Monroe. But she was also an engineer, and a talented one. She invented modern wireless communication, the very one we use with our phones. Of course, the six heroines presented by Gabriella Greison are not the only six women in sciences, but, with their will, their skills, their talent and hard work, they paved the way for fellow women scientists to come in an all-men world. They gave us their discoveries. But they also made us aware of the fact that women could, in fact had to, be allowed to choose science as their career. Their centuries-long banishment has already come at a very high price for humankind. Six terrific stories, with a touch of fairytale. They are not always cheerful stories, they do not always have a happy ending, because they are real stories, of achievements and failures. We laugh and cry, as should be. Still, thanks to these six icons of twentieth-century science and to their example it was less hard for other women to find their way and to give us the fruits of their knowledge and imagination.To name but some of them: Amalia Ercoli Finzi, Fabiola Gianotti, Barrè Sinoussi, Elizabeth Blackburn, Carol Greider, Barbara McClintock, Wu Chieng-Shiung, Vera Rubin, Jocelyn Bell, Lisa Randall, Jennifer Doudna, Emmanuelle Charpentier…These names might not ring a bell to the general reading public, but for the first time these women were the principal investigators of huge research teams, carrying out cutting-edge research. More and more women are following in their wake: they love sciences, they graduate in sciences, they take a Ph.D. in sciences and they’ll be free to give us the fruits of their brilliant minds.For all this we have to thank our six magnificent women: Marie, Lise, Emmy, Rosalind, Hedy e Mileva.
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True stories: discovery / historical / scientificSeptember 2020The Lost Collection
by Pauline Baer de Perignon
Paintings by Monet, Degas, and Renoir… Imagine a magnificent family collection mysteriously vanishing during WWII! The narrator, Pauline, knows from family rumours that one of her great-grandfathers, Jules Strauss, was an art collector. A considerable aura has grown up around this figure. Despite his unfailing eye, he sold his acquisitions too soon. One day, a distant cousin hands Pauline a scribbled list of the paintings that once belonged to Strauss. There is no trace of these pieces in the family apartment. Where are they now? What happened in 1942? Pauline, a homemaker looking for a subject for a book, is no art historian. But, driven by insatiable curiosity that soon borders on obsession, she develops a passion for these missing paintings. Her search takes her from the Louvre to a museum in Dresden, via Gestapo archives.
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True stories: discovery / historical / scientificAugust 2020The Tailor of Relizane
by Olivia Elkaim
“Algeria, 1958: my grandfather was Jewish and a tailor by trade. He had to give up everything.” When someone knocks at Marcel’s door in the middle of the night, he fears for his life and those of his wife and children. A bag is pulled over his head, he is bundled into a truck and driven into the desert. Will he be killed or released? Three days later, he returns to Relizane safe and sound. His family wonder what his safe return means. What forfeit has he paid and who to? His wife Viviane, his brothers, mother and neighbours all question him. But he says nothing. When a young Arab apprentice turns up outside his shop, Marcel realises that sooner or later he will have to leave his country. But even in France, where he makes a new life for himself, he never gives up the wild hope of returning to his shop in Relizane…
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Biography & True Stories10 Outstanding Armenian Queens
by Artak Movsisyan
The ten prominent queens featured in this book are from various eras of the millennia old Armenian history. The selection of the ten most outstanding queens includes those national leaders who have left a fundamental mark in Armenian history. This book is written in a popular-scientific style and is intended for both the academic community as well as the general public. After each entry, several sources are listed for further reading. This way, the reader is given a chance for a more detailed inquiry and study on the lives of these kings and the remarkable events that took place during their lifetimes.
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Biography & True StoriesNihao, Zhong Nanshan
by YE Yi
In 2003, Zhong Nanshan lead a panel of leading experts and saved many lives. 17 years later, he took up the battle again. Read this book and find all about the person he is and the spirit of his.
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Biography & True StoriesOctober 2021 - October 2025the moon creator and the legend of human origin
by Microcosmic
【內容】 ◎宇宙起源、地月傳說◎ 第1節楔子（1） 第二節 盤古大神開天闢地，小宇宙誕生（三） 第三節 銀河中的智慧（5） 第四節 月亮是古人造的（8） 第五節 月神之星際旅行（十） 第六節 主，微妙智慧的大神，重建地球（14） 第七節 神創造人的傳說是真實的。黃色、白色、紅色和黑色物種的神 (16) ◎守護地月文明◎ 第8節：保護地球的月球古人類：地球上的五個王國（19） 第九節 六千七百萬年前五米高的巨人和恐龍的滅絕（21） 第十節 星際航行仍是金字塔文明（24） 第11節 冰封的南極洲，後代的寶庫（26） 第十二章 亞特蘭蒂斯的文明與墮落（二十九） 第13章 亞特蘭蒂斯與穆大陸之戰，影響月中之月（32） 第十四條：天罰。兩大洲一夜之間沉入海底 (37) 第15話女媧修天助地人修月女媧（40）
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Biography & True StoriesAugust 2016Fremde Eltern. Zeitgeschichte in Tagebüchern und Briefen 1933–1945
by Joachim Krause (Hg.)
Explosive discovery in the attic: Long after the death of his parents (1995/2000) and 70 years after the early "heroic death" of his uncle, Joachim Krause finds almost 2000 letters that they wrote to each other between 1933 and 1945, plus a few diaries. Like putting together a jigsaw puzzle, the texts gradually give shape to their thinking, life and actions at the time. The three young people seek orientation and they argue - about National Socialism and the Jews, about the meaning of war and death, about sexual morals and questions of faith. The mother proves to be a fervent admirer of Hitler, the uncle a fanatical officer, only the father maintains a certain critical distance to National Socialist ideology. Her letters become authentic witnesses of contemporary history."Such unembellished voices from prehistoric times make us understand the world from which the world of today originates. We hear who our parents were before we knew them." (Christoph Dieckmann)
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Biography & True StoriesVenice is lagoon
by Roberto Ferrucci
After the two tragedies avoided in summer 2019, the theme of the cruises ships in the lagoon has returned to international prominence. For too many years Venice has been waiting in vain for the solution to what is only one of the serious problems that afflict the city (tens of millions of tourists who besiege it every year, thousands of apartments Airbnb and the consequent hemorrhage of residents, the scandal of the Mose, the most useless and expensive public work in Europe) and the solution can only be one: out the ships from the lagoon. This long story, that in France has been defined a récit, tries to give voice to those who live in Venice and is forced to suffer the sieges of mass tourism. In an alternation between the lagoon and Saint Nazaire, where most of the cruise ships are built, the narrator and his companion do the accounts with the consequences of these epochal anomalies. They are looking, like other Venetians, for a possible key to resistance in a city where obstacles are increasing day by day, in the face of the indifference of institutions often hindering themselves. Venice, which has become the crossroads and the emblem of an era finally forced to come to terms with a nature that is showing us the bill, that tells us to hurry, that time is up. A book that tries with the word to find an alternative route, a possible and necessary reversal of course to save the most beautiful and fragile city in the world, and with it the entire planet. The series: Taccuini d'Autore collects books on the road. Texts that travel around the world, crossing the frontiers of writing, crossing this abstruse era looking for traces of meaning, meeting stories, landscapes, characters. Books that accompany us in our daily lives and in ours elsewhere.
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True storiesThis Side That Side
Restorying Partition with Graphic Narratives from Pakistan, India, Bangladesh
by Vishwajyoti Ghosh
The most decisive formative moment in South Asian history, Partition has remained a site of constant engagement, investigation and memory-making for over three generations. Over the years, Partition discourse has been shaped by prevalent politics, the use of faith for political reasons, a nod to nostalgia, a cocktail of facts and rumours laced with speculation, and the scholarly exchange of memories.Marking a watershed, generational moments of chance in this discourse, This Side, That Side brings together graphic narratives on this epochal moment by comic artist, writers, illustrators, filmmakers, theatre activists and storytellers from across South Asia.This anthology explores a dominant theme in contemporary South Asia- an enduring curiosity about the ‘other side’. Poignant, contemplative, and often even playful, these narratives are creative explorations by those who may not have witnessed Partition, but who continue, till date, to negotiate its legacy.Many of the stories in This Side, That Side grew out of conversations---in several cases, across borders---between graphic artists and storytellers. This anthology itself is a result of a unique collaborative process between the publisher YODA PRESS, in proposing the idea and nurturing its result; GOETHE INSTITUTE/ MAX MUELLER BHAWAN, DELHI in providing processual and conceptual partnership to the project; and VISHWAJYOTI GHOSH, in mining, selecting and structuring the stories within the framework of a graphic narrative, mentoring the contributors, and designing the book.
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Biography & True StoriesLife and Times of the Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman
by Monayem Sarker
This book reveals the political involvement of Bangabandhu during his childhood, youth, and later student life. It also points out how he developed his awareness and ideas about indomitable leadership.
