![]() In 2014 his title, The President Has Been Shot!: The Assasination of Joh F. His other books include the acclaimed photographic history Lincoln's Assassins: Their Trial and Execution, as well as Chasing Lincoln's Killer, and adaptations of Manhunt and Bloody Crimes for young readers. ![]() ![]() He serves on the advisory council of the Ford's Theatre Society. He has held a number of government and think-tank posts in Washington, D.C., including at the United States Department of Justice. Swanson has degrees in history from The University of Chicago, where he was a student of John Hope Franklin, and law from the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2006, Entertainment Weekly magazine named Manhunt one of the ten best books of the year. In 2009 in Newsweek magazine, Patricia Cornwell named Swanson's Manhunt and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood as the two best nonfiction crime books ever. James L.Swanson is the Edgar Award winning author of the New York Times bestseller Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer. ![]()
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![]() This new edition features a foreword by Mark Z. In Bachelard’s enchanting spaces, “We are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.” Houses and rooms cellars and attics drawers, chests, and wardrobes nests and shells nooks and corners: No space is too vast or too small to be filled by our thoughts and our reveries. Guiding us through a stream of meditations on poetry, art, and the blooming of consciousness itself, Bachelard examines the domestic places that shape and hold our dreams and memories. This lyrical journey takes as its premise the emergence of the poetic image and finds an ideal metaphor in the intimate spaces of our homes. The rare work of irresistibly inviting philosophy, Bachelard’s seminal work brims with quiet revelations and stirring, mysterious imagery. Since its initial publication in 1958, The Poetics of Space has been a muse to philosophers, architects, writers, psychologists, critics, and readers alike. ![]() ![]() A beloved multidisciplinary treatise comes to Penguin Classics ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The subjects and geographies are different, ranging from a panchayat election in Punjab during the height of militancy in the 80s to Naxal prone Chanderpur in Maharashtra to the Perumon tragedy in Kerala and right across to the orchid plantations in Arunachal. These stories span different generations-the oldest is set at the Bikaner border during the Indo-Pak war and the latest about the UP sand mafia in 2015. This book is a collection of narratives that provide an insight into some episodes where the protagonist displayed immense courage and commitment. Kamadhenu : Cows of IndiaRajni Sekhri Sibal, The genesis of Californias. Having worked in the civil services for thirty-seven years, Rajni has seen things at close quarters. About The Book: The Guru: Guru Nanaks Saakhis explores events in Guru Nanak Devs life that give an insight into the thoughts and beliefs of a sagacious. Women Managers: The Untapped ResourceNational Economic Development Office. Rajni Sekhri Sibal narrates stories that have been untold - about the work of ten strong and effective women who left an impact. Most of the books in the public space are autobiographies of men narrating how important they were and the important people they interacted with daily while in service. Women of Influence a compilation of the work of a few women who have walked that extra mile and made a difference despite major pressures in governance. ![]() ![]() ![]() This week, we're super excited to share that Verizon is now on Be My Eyes, so if you're a Be My Eyes user, you can now call up Verizon to get support with accessibility features as well as jobs for Humanity who just launched their new job board at blind.jobs. The other cool thing I wanted to share today is all of the new companies that are coming on to the Be My Eyes app to provide specialized video support to our blind community. Well, not printed, but you know what I mean, for every single episode of 13 Letters, so thank you, Diamond, for your sponsorship. They are the ones who make sure that transcripts are printed. If you look at their website, it says Diamond is an inclusive digital agency specializing in scalable, accessible and high-performance web and mobile applications, but they're really so much more than that. The first thing is to give a huge thank you to our long time transcript sponsor, Diamond. ![]() Before we get to today's episode, we have a couple quick announcements. Hello, everyone, and thanks for listening to 13 Letters. ![]() ![]() ![]() At the centre of this book is the ‘Leopold Vindictive’ network – a small group of Belgian villagers prepared to take huge risks. Who were the people who provided this rich seam of intelligence? Many were not trained agents nor, with a few exceptions, people with any experience of spying. Authentic voices from rural France, the Netherlands and Belgium – they were sometimes comic, often tragic and occasionally invaluable with details of German troop movements and fortifications, new Nazi weapons, radar system or the deployment of the feared V-1 and V-2 rockets that terrorized London. The messages flooded back written on tiny pieces of rice paper tucked into canisters and tied to the legs of the birds. Between 19, sixteen thousand plucky homing pigeons were dropped in an arc from Bordeaux to Copenhagen as part of 'Columba' – a secret British operation to bring back intelligence from those living under Nazi occupation. ![]() ![]() Gordon Corera uses declassified documents and extensive original research to tell the story of MI14(d) and the Secret Pigeon Service for the first time. ![]() ![]() ![]() And if there is some eternal world after this one, what fate awaits a taker of lives? ![]() I understand why there are scythes, and how important and how necessary the work is… but I often wonder why I had to be chosen. The ending of human life used to be in the hands of nature. We have one very limited world, and although death has been defeated as completely as polio, people still must die. It’s not as if we can go somewhere else the disasters on the moon and Mars colonies proved that. ![]() All of that is behind us now, and yet a simple truth remains: People have to die. It’s hard for most of us to imagine a world so unsafe, with dangers lurking in every unseen, unplanned corner. Aging couldn’t be reversed, and there were accidents from which there was no return. There were invisible killers called “diseases” that broke the body down. Old age used to be a terminal affliction, not a temporary state. And knowing that it is for the greater good doesn’t make it any easier. It is the most difficult thing a person can be asked to do. ![]() ![]() Slipping through enemy positions, a string of targets were taken out. Treating as gospel the SAS’s saying ‘any fool can be uncomfortable’, they deployed with vehicles, and while there was nowhere to hide they could make a dash for the border if desperate.Įven as warnings came in that McNab’s patrol was on the run, Bravo Three Zero remained undetected – the furthest Coalition forces behind Iraqi lines. But Andy NcNab’s famed Bravo Two Zero patrol did deploy, with fatal results – all bar one being captured or killed.Īnd then there was Bravo Three Zero. The men of Bravo One Zero stepped off the chopper, took one look at the flat desert devoid of any cover and decided no way were they deploying into all of that. ![]() ![]() It was the opening hours of the Gulf War and the SAS were flown deep behind enemy lines to hunt down Saddam’s Scud missiles, the use of which threatened a Third World War. There were three patrols that fateful January 1991 morning: Bravo One Zero, Bravo Two Zero and Bravo Three Zero. ‘The attention to detail is unbelievable’ Tim Lovejoy ![]() ‘The story that needed to be told’ Jason Fox Honesty, integrity and real experience that puts you in the thick of the action.’ Billy Billingham ![]() ![]() ![]() It was released on Blu-ray and DVD on October 20, 2015, and grossed over $9 million in total domestic video sales. It grossed over $85 million worldwide after the theatrical release, against a $12 million budget. ![]() In the process, Quentin explores the relationship with his friends including his compatibility with Margo. The film follows the coming of age and search by the protagonist, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen (Wolff), for Margo Roth Spiegelman (Delevingne), his childhood friend and object of affection. ![]() The film stars Nat Wolff and Cara Delevingne and was released on July 24, 2015, in the United States by 20th Century Fox. Weber, the same team that wrote the first film adaption of another of Green's novels, The Fault in Our Stars. The film was adapted for the screen by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Paper Towns is a 2015 American romantic mystery comedy-drama film, directed by Jake Schreier, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by John Green. ![]() ![]() The title tune, inspired by Holiday’s autobiography of the same name, is notable for its ringing intro by trumpeter Charlie Shavers. Holiday adds startling new shades of meaning, turning phrases that might have seemed like ordinary rehash on anyone else’s record into a demand for new reflection. While it can be argued whether these are definitive, I’ve grown to cherish them more. Elsewhere, Holiday updates earlier versions of Irene Kitchens’ “Some Other Spring,” as well as “God Bless The Child” and the devastating protest song “Strange Fruit” (embedded below). ![]() That starts with a new take on “I Must Have That Man!” - one of her more famous and joyous 1930s hits with Lester Young, now transformed into a grieving cry for someone who’s gone. Few singers in the autumn of their years would chance reinterpreting their own masterworks fewer still would have such resounding success at it. This record, dotted with tunes she’d once owned two decades before as a bubbly bird in front of big bands, makes the argument for her.īy the mid-1950s, the hard-living Holiday had lost some dexterity, but none of her gumption. ![]() Billie Holiday’s voice, fragile and thin at the end, belied the strong-willed fighter she always was. ![]() ![]() Affecting, engaging, and beautifully written, Heart: A History takes the full measure of the only organ that can move itself. He also confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that future progress will depend more on how we choose to live than on the devices we invent. Jauhar deftly braids these tales of discovery, hubris, and sorrow with moving accounts of his family’s history of heart ailments and the patients he’s treated over many years. And we encounter Wilson Greatbatch, who saved millions by inventing the pacemaker-by accident. Walton Lillehei, who connected a patient’s circulatory system to a healthy donor’s, paving the way for the heart-lung machine. He introduces us to Daniel Hale Williams, the African American doctor who performed the world’s first open heart surgery in Gilded Age Chicago. As the cardiologist and bestselling author Sandeep Jauhar shows in Heart: A History, it was only recently that we demolished age-old taboos and devised the transformative procedures that have changed the way we live.ĭeftly alternating between key historical episodes and his own work, Jauhar tells the colorful and little-known story of the doctors who risked their careers and the patients who risked their lives to know and heal our most vital organ. In the sixth century BC, the Greek philosopher. Memory loss, to him, was an inevitable consequence of aging. ![]() For his part, my father seemed unconcerned. ![]() My father’s problems, we realized, were on a different plane. As cardiologists, we understood diseases of the heart. ![]() ![]() The bestselling author of Intern and Doctored tells the story of the thing that makes us tickįor centuries, the human heart seemed beyond our understanding: an inscrutable shuddering mass that was somehow the driver of emotion and the seat of the soul. Introduction: They Used to Call Me Topper. ![]() |