Résultats pour "A" dans Culturel et régional

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Frederick Douglass was born into slavery in Maryland around 1818, and this is the account he wrote himself — not a novel, not a retelling, but the testimony of a man who taught himself to read, fought back against a brutal overseer, escaped north, and...

Once among New York City’s most recognizable faces, Walter Thornton—agent to future film-noir legends and architect of the WWII pin-up phenomenon—vanished from the glamorous world he helped create after a mid-1950s trial destroyed his reputation. A man once synonymous with glamour became a...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Art Kensey takes you on a remarkable journey through time, family and the human story. Blending traditional research with modern DNA, this book explores how one gene can lead to a lifetime of discoveries. You will meet ancestors who shaped nations...

A tender and quietly powerful memoir tracing one man’s life through changing times, from rural Ireland to Apartheid-era South Africa, love, loss, and resilience.

A gripping, inspiring, and eye-opening memoir of fortitude and survival—of a twelve-year-old boy’s traumatic flight from Afghanistan to the West—that puts a face to one of the most shocking and devastating humanitarian crises of our time. “To risk my life had to mean something. Otherwise...

Lillian Lincoln Lambert rose from humble beginnings as a poor farm girl in the segregated South to become the first Black woman to earn an MBA from Harvard Business School and, later, the founder of a $20 million maintenance company with 1,200 employees. In The Road to Someplace Better, she shares an inspiring personal journey that took her from dead-end jobs in New York City and Washington, D.C., to the ivory tower and the world of entrepreneurship.

Earl Lovelace is a major Caribbean writer, one of the few of his generation to have lived in and written almost exclusively from the region. With sharp observation and even sharper wit, his writing pulses with the rhythm, flow, and vibrancy of the lives of “ordinary” people, whose culture and language he champions. In this brief but rich biography, Funso Aiyejina explores the writer and his work with the intimacy of a friend and the perceptiveness of a scholar.