Category: Memoirs

By Om Swami

In fact: A Monk's Memoir is a good and simple account of Om Swami's existence, one of many ultimate non secular leaders of India.

Summary of the ebook

If fact be informed is a rare memoir of the making of a non secular existence in today’s difficult, aggressive, and baffling occasions. The e-book unravels the lifestyles tale of Om Swami and his trip to turning into a monk. As an 18-year-old younger boy, Om Swami headed to Australia to achieve his worldly goals and aspirations. He struggled to make his ends meet yet years down the road he was once a multimillionaire incomes $250,000 a 12 months. He regularly had a burning wish to discover his spirituality.

As an 8-year-old he observed a imaginative and prescient of God in a dream which reworked his lifestyles without end. This caused off his wish to meet God and he practiced astrology, meditation and tantra in his pursuit to grasp God. but God used to be nowhere in sight, deeply annoyed he plunged into the worldly affairs to distract himself from the restlessness and commotion inside of. After spending numerous years in Australia he moved to India and led his existence in solitude within the Himalayas. He battled loss of life as he starved, confronted the wrath of nature and wild animals. yet eventually his sadhana introduced him to the last word recognition – i'm what i've been looking, which turned the foundation of all his teachings. This miraculous memoir is a must-read for these attracted to the lifestyles and teachings of Om Swami.

About Om Swami

Om Swami is an India monk who lives in a distant position within the Himalayan foothills. He holds an MBA measure from collage of expertise, Sydney and a Bachelor's measure in company Computing from college of Western Sydney. He based a ecocnomic software program corporation with workplaces in San Francisco, long island, Toronto, London, Sydney and India.

By Belle Boggs

A remarkable exploration of the normal, clinical, mental, and political points of fertility

When Belle Boggs's "The artwork of ready" was once released in Orion in 2012, it went viral, resulting in republication in Harper's Magazine, an interview on NPR's The Diane Rehm Show, and a place on the intersection of "highbrow" and "brilliant" in New York magazine's "Approval Matrix."

In that heartbreaking essay, Boggs eloquently recounts her consciousness that she may by no means manage to conceive. She searches the it appears fertile global round her—the emergence of thirteen-year cicadas, the beginning of eaglets close to her rural domestic, and an strange gorilla being pregnant at a neighborhood zoo—for indicators that she isn't really by myself. Boggs additionally explores different points of fertility and infertility: the best way eager for a toddler performs out within the vintage Coen brothers movie Raising Arizona; the depiction of childlessness in literature, from Macbeth...

By Marc Eliot

"Todo el mundo quiere ser Cary furnish. Incluso yo quiero ser Cary Grant".

Con estas palabras resumía el propio Cary furnish el atractivo y l. a. fascinación que su personaje público despertó en todo el mundo a lo largo de varias décadas. Considerado uno de los grandes mitos de l. a. period dorada de Hollywood, pocos conocen, sin embargo, su vida privada, sus orígenes humildes en Inglaterra, donde nació y recibió el nombre de Archibald Alexander Leach, y los avatares que le llevaron a convertirse en uno de los actores más cotizados de su época. Marc Eliot ofrece en este libro, sin duda l. a. biografía definitiva del actor, una amena y a los angeles vez rigurosa narración de l. a. vida de este gigante del cine, centrándose tanto en su intimidad —muy suculenta y salpicada de escándalos, divorcios y titulares— como en su faceta profesional, haciendo especial hincapié en su relación con sus directores favoritos: Howard Hawks, George Cukor o Alfred Hitchcock, el cineasta que mejor supo esculpir el irrepetible talento de Cary furnish, cuya enigmática mirada vuelve a hipnotizarnos en las páginas de este libro imprescindible.

By Peter Mommsen

Those that knew J. Heinrich Arnold (1913-1982) say they by no means met someone else like him. a few converse of his humility, sensitivity, and compassion; others of his frankness and earthy humor. In his presence, whole strangers poured out their darkest secrets and techniques and left remodeled. Others sought after him useless. Few knew Arnold’s prior, or may have imagined the crucibles he persisted. formerly. 3 years in the past, Peter Mommsen, 28, got down to discover his grandfather's prior. the end result? Homage to a damaged guy — a notable tale of betrayal and forgiveness. Get your publication at the present time, and skim it. You’ll by no means examine your personal lifestyles an identical manner back.

By Jean Cocteau

Reflections on lifestyles and artwork from the mythical filmmaker-novelist-poet-genius. by the point he released the trouble of Being in 1947, Jean Cocteau had produced the most revered motion pictures and literature of the 20th century, and had labored with the major artists of his time, together with Proust, Gide, Picasso and Stravinsky. This memoir tells the interior account of these achievements and of his glittering social circle. Cocteau writes approximately his youth, approximately his improvement as an artist, and the peculiarity of the artist’s existence, approximately his goals, friendships, discomfort, and laughter. He probes his motivations and explains his philosophies, giving intimate information in hovering prose. And sprinkled all through are anecdotes concerning the elite and ancient humans he linked to. past illuminating a really striking lifestyles, the trouble of Being is an inspiring homage to the assumption that paintings concerns.

By Michele Barbi

Trans. by way of Paul G. Ruggiers

By Augusto Segre

During this lyrical memoir, translated for the 1st time into English, famous Jewish historian, writer, translator, and activist Augusto Segre not just recounts his wealthy existence reviews but in addition inspires the altering global of Italian Jewry within the 20th century. Raised within the conventional Jewish neighborhood of Casale Monferrato within the former ghetto, Segre depicts the adjustments wrought on his humans via emancipation, fascism, international wars, and the Holocaust.Segre used to be a vocal opponent of Italian fascism and a combatant in Italy’s partisan conflict opposed to the Nazis. With the aid of Italian peasants, he and his kin spent eighteen months evading German and Italian fascist squaddies throughout the German career of Italy. Segre additionally used to be an ardent Zionist who helped refugees get away to Israel and eventually immigrated himself in 1979.  He spent 3 months in Israel in 1948, chronicling Israel’s warfare of Independence. With an ethnographic eye, Segre interweaves his personal stories with these of his rabbi father and makes use of newspapers, public files, and letters to bare the shared feelings and moods of a humans and the effect the best occasions in ecu and Jewish background had on all of them. the rage of Italian Jews towards assimilation was once obtrusive in Segre’s time, and an understanding of it pervades this paintings. thoughts of Jewish lifestyles offers an extraordinary glimpse right into a conventional, non secular and colourful working-class Jewish group that not exists. (20090107)

By Ruth Fowler

A tender British woman-broke and out of luck-does conflict with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, medications, and the intercourse Ruth Fowler is a twenty-five-year-old Brit with a Cambridge measure and a middle-class history who arrives in big apple urban with goals of turning into a journalist. yet getting a piece visa in post-9/11 the USA proves to be difficult. It does not take lengthy for money and incentive to run out-sending Fowler to the guts of Manhattan's darkish underbelly of strip golf equipment and the intercourse alternate, the place as her regulate ego "Mimi" she works as a dancer for greater than years. either uncooked and surprising, lady, Undressed tells the harrowing tale of her descent into darkness, the younger and prosperous Eton-educated Englishman with whom she perilously falls in love, and her revelatory trip again to herself.

By Alexander Kotov

By Andrew Exum

This Man’s military follows one outstanding younger man’s transformation from Ivy League pupil to twenty-first-century warrior. Soldier X vividly brings to existence his trip via ROTC education, the grueling trials of the elite Ranger college, and into the treacherous terrain of the Shah-e-Kot Valley in Afghanistan. There he leads his males to root out the hardcore remnants of Osama bin Laden’s forces, and needs to confront and kill an Al Qaeda fighter. On his go back to the us, Soldier X needs to face how media insurance has distorted public conception of the warfare again domestic as he seeks to make peace with the guy he had turn into. within the culture of Tim O’Brien’s If I Die in a wrestle sector, This Man’s military is a gripping tale of a tender man’s creation to the horrors of warfare, stated with brutal honesty and compelling perception. through turns harrowing and encouraging, it's the first account of strive against from a brand new iteration that's emerging to confront the grave risk that faces our civilization and our lifestyle.