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Beath R: ONE LIFE, MANY UNIFORMS

ONE LIFE, MANY UNIFORMS

A Life Of Service, Sport, Loss and Survival

“Here is a writer with a rare gift for appreciation and for reminding us of all we have to celebrate in our fractured world.”&nbsp;—Pico Iyer, author of 
The Half Known Life Behind the scenes of a globe-spanning career in freelance journalism Foreword by Tim Cahill A Crooked Line celebrates an age when print journalism changed lives and made the world a better place. That era may be winding down, but this perceptive book makes the case for why incisive writing will always matter. Over the course of his 40-year career, Michael Shapiro has reported from more than 20 countries, writing for National Geographic, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times and many other top publications. But the itinerant writer’s life, while rewarding, has never been easy.
 
Shapiro worked as an investigative reporter and staff writer for San Francisco Bay Area newspapers before letting go of a regular paycheck and setting out to share stories of people and places worldwide. The exhilarations of the open road, “afoot and light-hearted” as Whitman wrote, were tempered by the challenges of freelancing, from making a living to working with heavy-handed editors.
 
His stories put people first: For a feature about Puerto Rico’s recovery after Hurricane Maria, he visited farmers who spoke of shifting from exporting produce to growing food for local people. His profile of a Yosemite photographer, who climbed Half Dome after being diagnosed with cancer, brought the man’s big-hearted humanity to the fore.
 
Shapiro is known as a travel writer, but his work goes far beyond global dispatches. In this book he shares stories of: <ul><li>saving Sunset magazine’s priceless archive of Western life (including photos made by Ansel Adams) after Time Inc. told staffers to toss everything into a dumpster</li><li>an investigation into the U.S. government’s attempt to conceal the circumstances of pro football star and soldier Pat Tillman’s death during the war in Afghanistan</li><li>writing a tribute about environmental hero Jane Goodall just hours after she died</li><li>how the Grateful Dead’s ecstatic songs celebrate the wonders of nature.</li></ul>Renowned for his books of conversations with writers and artists, A Sense of Place and The Creative Spark, Shapiro has interviewed David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Smokey Robinson, Joan Rivers, Frances Mayes and Peter Matthiessen. In this volume, he tells the story of how he convinced a reluctant Paul Theroux to agree to an interview and shares an in-depth dialogue with poet and philosopher David Whyte. A Crooked Line highlights Shapiro’s best journalism and includes behind-the-scenes anecdotes about how he pitched stories and got assignments worldwide. Postscripts detail what happened afterward; some include letters from people he wrote about, sharing what his coverage meant to them. Due to the dramatic changes in the journalistic landscape, a career like Shapiro’s couldn’t begin today. Yet the skills he honed as a journalist—empathetic listening, concise and evocative writing, and a keen sense of what matters—remain as relevant as ever. The tales and insights in A Crooked Line provide a timely affirmation of journalism’s enduring power to illuminate the human experience. This penetrating book reminds us that whatever life path we choose, it’s vital to make it our own.

The Perils and Rewards of a Life in Freelance Journalism

A Crooked Line

Ein emotionales und wichtiges BuchConny Böttger widmet ihr Leben der Tierrettung. Ihr Engagement nahm seine Anfänge, als ihr Großvater seinen Bauernhof schließen und seine letzte Kuh zum Schlachthof bringen wollte. Diese letzte Kuh markiert den Beginn einer sehr schönen und fast unglaublichen Geschichte.Neben ihrem Vollzeitberuf hat Conny mit ihren Unterstützer:innen in den letzten Jahren über 100 Rinder auf das Gut im Erzgebirge geholt, auf dem sie die Tiere unterstellen darf. Sie ist bei jeder Rettungsaktion persönlich dabei, kennt jede Kuh einzeln und weiß um ihre Gefühle und Bedürfnisse. Für Conny sind die Tiere nicht bloß Kühe, sie sind Lebewesen, deren Bedürfnisse über die Maßen schützenswert sind. Und das geht ins Herz.

Ein emotionales und wichtiges BuchConny Böttger widmet ihr Leben der Tierrettung. Ihr Engagement nahm seine Anfänge, als ihr Großvater seinen Bauernhof schließen und seine letzte Kuh zum Schlachthof bringen wollte. Diese letzte Kuh markiert den Beginn einer sehr schönen und fast unglaublichen Geschichte.Neben ihrem Vollzeitberuf hat Conny mit ihren Unterstützer:innen in den letzten Jahren über 100 Rinder auf das Gut im Erzgebirge geholt, auf dem sie die Tiere unterstellen darf. Sie ist bei jeder Rettungsaktion persönlich dabei, kennt jede Kuh einzeln und weiß um ihre Gefühle und Bedürfnisse. Für Conny sind die Tiere nicht bloß Kühe, sie sind Lebewesen, deren Bedürfnisse über die Maßen schützenswert sind. Und das geht ins Herz.

Vom Glück, Kühe zu retten

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 WAINWRIGHT PRIZE FOR NATURE WRITING AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR 2025 'The most exquisitely written meditation on family, childhood, and nature' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'An extraordinary, necessary book' ROBERT MACFARLANE 'Hold it in your hands and then dream of the green world' MONIQUE ROFFEY 'Surprising at every turn and rewarding in ways you never expect' MARLON JAMES 'A masterclass on how to write place, dreams and memory into being' OLIVE SENIOR The Possibility of Tenderness is a personal history narrated through the lens of the 'grung' and plants. It's also a people's history of the land, a family saga, an archival detective story through time. It's the migration tale of a young scholar who arrives in Britain from rural Jamaica to study at Oxford to achieve 'upward social mobility' and who now lives in Roundhay Leeds. Suddenly, amidst his journey of dreams and class aspiration, the plants and people of his native district, Coffee Grove, begin to offer different ways of living, alternative dreams, and the possibility of tenderness and the permission to roam England. Marrying the local and the familial with global history and unfolding as a timely and immersive tale of land, environment, and the world of plants, The Possibility of Tenderness reveals how the history of a tiny rural village in a mountainous region of Jamaica is interlinked with that of modern Britain. And, also what that rural village can teach us about leisure, land ownership and reclamation today. Mama, the author's grandmother, is a central protagonist of the story. Alongside her, herbalists, plant workers, farmers, and plant lovers help forge an intimate portrait of Coffee Grove, as do the plants themselves; fever grass, jointa, search mi heart, leaf of life, helping Allen-Paisant revise his sense of self and solidify a new understanding of his place in the world. The Possibility of Tenderness is a cross-pollinating book about the transformative power of plants, the legacy of dreams, and the lessons they offer for living with the earth.

A Jamaican memoir of plants and dreams

The Possibility of Tenderness

What happens when people grow up believing that privilege is natural, wealth is virtue, and the rules are for everyone else? Discover the must-read insider's account of the 1%, the shocking true story of life as a nanny to the super-rich.'I could not put it down. The most compelling read of the year' PHILIPPA PERRY 'A compulsive read. Enraging, horrifying and utterly gripping' SABINE DURRANT 'A glimpse into the terminally messed up lives of the billionaire class and their offspring ... Gripping' CHRIS VAN TULLEKEN 'A thought-provoking and eye-opening memoir.' CLARE MACKINTOSH 'Written with fierce precision and filled with disturbing details, this book is urgent and essential reading' HANNAH MURRAY****The perfect nanny is invisible. She is trusted with everything: the children, their routines, the family secrets. She is expected to notice everything and remember nothing.For more than a decade, the Unnamed Nanny worked for some of the richest families in the world. She travelled on private jets, stayed on vast estates and luxury yachts, and helped raise children whose lives were planned years in advance. She saw separate apartments for young children; staff who were expected to disappear; parents who believed there was no problem that money couldn't solve.She was paid to look after the children. She was expected to look away from everything else. But everyone has their limits to what they can witness and remain silent. She found hers the hard way.Part memoir, part exposé, The Unnamed Nanny is an anonymous account of raising the children of the ultra-rich - and what really happens behind the closed doors of the 1%.The families remain anonymous.So must she.

An Insider's Account of Raising the One Per Cent

The Unnamed Nanny

NATIONAL BESTSELLER This “deeply felt memoir of race and history that defies social erasures of the diasporic Palestinian experience” (The Whiting Award Judges Citation) explores Elena Dudum’s transformational journey and evolving relationship to Palestine. My father scours the web for century-old magazines about Palestine. For years, he would talk about these mysterious documents but rarely show them to anyone. “I have proof,” he would say to whoever would listen, “that Palestine exists.” In her Palestinian Christian home in San Francisco, Elena Dudum was raised in a household ruled by her father’s lectures. He taught her everything: the story of her grandparents’ flight from their homeland, the history of her family’s orange groves, and the facts of the ongoing occupation of Palestine. Above all, he taught her not to forget. Soon his lessons consumed her childhood, and Elena found herself shrinking from an inheritance that felt both sacred and suffocating. For years, she resisted it all until a family trip to Palestine shattered the abstraction of her homeland. Checkpoints, razed olive groves, soldiers—it was all plainly in front of her, as were the ghosts of her family’s past. What was once always just out of reach, now pressed against her body. Back in the United States, something in her quietly unraveled. She tried to outrun what she now knew by burying herself in elite institutions and the rising world of tech, where ambition was rewarded and history was inconvenient. Eventually, the inheritance she thought she could escape demanded reckoning. Braiding rich personal narrative with archival fragments and cultural critique, They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful traces one woman’s journey as she returns—slowly, deliberately—to her father’s lessons, determined to claim them on her own terms.

A Palestinian Memoir

They Told Me Back Home Would Be Beautiful

'A beautifully written work of startling brilliance' IRVINE WELSH 'The height of crafted eloquence' SAMANTHA HARVEY 'Both gripping and consoling' SARAH PERRY There is something special about the night. For many, dusk and evening conjure thoughts of starlit skies, romance, bedtime stories and rest. For others, the small hours mean fear, vulnerability and sleeplessness. At night things go bump, the familiar world becomes mysterious and uncanny; owls and bats take wing, foxes prowl. With new material delving deeper into all things nocturnal, Overnight is a hymn to nighttime wildlife, travel, dreams and art. Along the way, Dan Richards meets a fascinating array of people who labour while the rest of us sleep, and brings their work into the light. From night terror chills to the warmth of dawn on the summer solstice, Overnight will change the way you think about the hours after dark.

Journeys, Conversations and Stories After Dark

Overnight

A workbook designed to guide the bereaved through grief using a clinically-informed, structured storytelling method, this book gives readers the ability to disclose their suffering and work toward healing and reconcile with their loss using narrative writing. Based upon her research and the 'expressive storytelling' method she created, Linita Eapen Mathew calls upon her own experiences losing her father along with carefully structured narrative exercises to teach readers how they can write, re-examine, revise, and re-write their grief story to work towards a point of clarity and release. Leaning into grief theory and trauma-informed and therapeutic writing research, Writing Through Grief allows readers to create a complete and consistent account of their experiences to help them process events that unfolded, release trauma, and relieve the intense reactions and responses to the loss of both the living and the deceased. With each chapter combining Eapen's personal narrative with expressive storytelling exercises alongside discussion of the research behind them for context, this book offers readers a creative, productive but emotionally sensitive approach to handling grief. Whether guided by a trained psychologist, a workshop instructor or writing in the comfort of a personal space, writers can disclose their suffering and work toward healing and reflection through creative writing.

An Expressive Storytelling Workbook

Narrating Your Grief

Warum Kreativität schon immer die richtige Antwort auf alle Probleme warEinst war die Logik unser ganzer Stolz. Alles haben wir geplant und gemessen. Doch plötzlich verstehen wir die Welt nicht mehr. Wir haben uns verrechnet. Nun drängt auch noch Künstliche Intelligenz in unser Leben und auf unsere Bildschirme. Die Logik kennt keine Grenzen mehr. Die Zukunft scheint nicht länger eine Verheißung zu sein, sondern eine Zumutung. Controller denken: Der Mensch ist kostspielig, kompliziert und unkalkulierbar. Ihn zu ersetzen verspricht große Profitsprünge. Das ist Kapitalismus next level.&nbsp; 
Frank Dopheide findet, es ist höchste Zeit, sich auf das zu besinnen, was uns Menschen wirklich ausmacht. Wir sind schöpferische Wesen. Unser Einfallsreichtum kann Leben retten - und unseren Feierabend. Kreativität kann Menschen zum Weinen und Lachen bringen und ein ganzes Stadion zum Mitsingen. Kreativität ist kein Kurs in der Volkshochschule, sondern der Moment, in dem man Flügel bekommt und über sich hinauswächst. Geben wir den Menschen den Glauben an das Wunder der Kreativität zurück. Hier ist das Buch dazu. Zum Lesen, Staunen, Freuen, Mitmachen und Verschenken.&nbsp;

Warum Kreativität schon immer die richtige Antwort auf alle Probleme warEinst war die Logik unser ganzer Stolz. Alles haben wir geplant und gemessen. Doch plötzlich verstehen wir die Welt nicht mehr. Wir haben uns verrechnet. Nun drängt auch noch Künstliche Intelligenz in unser Leben und auf unsere Bildschirme. Die Logik kennt keine Grenzen mehr. Die Zukunft scheint nicht länger eine Verheißung zu sein, sondern eine Zumutung. Controller denken: Der Mensch ist kostspielig, kompliziert und unkalkulierbar. Ihn zu ersetzen verspricht große Profitsprünge. Das ist Kapitalismus next level.&nbsp; Frank Dopheide findet, es ist höchste Zeit, sich auf das zu besinnen, was uns Menschen wirklich ausmacht. Wir sind schöpferische Wesen. Unser Einfallsreichtum kann Leben retten – und unseren Feierabend. Kreativität kann Menschen zum Weinen und Lachen bringen und ein ganzes Stadion zum Mitsingen. Kreativität ist kein Kurs in der Volkshochschule, sondern der Moment, in dem man Flügel bekommt und über sich hinauswächst. Geben wir den Menschen den Glauben an das Wunder der Kreativität zurück. Hier ist das Buch dazu. Zum Lesen, Staunen, Freuen, Mitmachen und Verschenken.&nbsp;

Eine kurzweilige Geschichte der Kreativität

Den Verstand verlieren ist eine gute Idee

Independently published

In Built From Broke, entrepreneur Ry Russell shares 35 hard-earned principles for winning, losing, and building again-lessons forged through early success, bankruptcy, rebuilding from scratch, and ultimately discovering that success means far more than money. These aren't theories learned in a classroom. They're principles paid for through mistakes, risk, sacrifice, competition, and experience.From money, relationships, and business to resilience, criticism, discipline, and purpose, Russell shares the unconventional rules that helped him rebuild his confidence, his businesses, and eventually his life. Along the way, he learned that sometimes losing everything gives you something success never could: the freedom to decide what-and who-you want to build next.This isn't a blueprint for becoming someone else. It's a reminder that your worst chapter doesn't have to become your final chapter.You can lose. You can learn. You can rebuild. And the second time, you can build differently.

From Bankruptcy to Budz: 35 Principles for Winning, Losing, and Building Again

Built from Broke

'Tender, transporting, creative and beautifully written ... Simply glorious, from start to finish' Rachel Clarke, author of Dear LifeSimultaneously heart-breaking and darkly hilarious, Leaving Home is a portrait of the artist both as a child and as an adult.Mark Haddon's parents were not really cut out for the job of having children. They were cut out, respectively, for the jobs of designing abattoirs and keeping a pathologically clean and tidy house. At least Mark had the consolations of The Weetabix Solar System Wallchart, walnut whips and the occasional Babycham.Astringently honest and scalpel sharp, this is a book about being different and seeing the world differently. It's about being a cartoonist and a care assistant. It's about family. It's about how art, in all its varied forms, provides a way of understanding and coming to terms with the mess of human life. And it's richly illustrated throughout with images from the author's childhood.As bracing as it is embracing, Leaving Home is about escaping a place that never felt like home and learning to create somewhere that does.'I loved this funny, melancholy and arrestingly original memoir of an artist's coming into being' Sarah Perry, author of Enlightenment

A Memoir in Full Colour

Leaving Home

Icons of Style

Camp, theatrical and fierce. Chappell Roan is serving fashion with a plot twist on stage and the red carpet.From her humble midwestern roots to her rapid rise to global pop superstar, Chappell Roan is known for turning a look and putting on a show. Creating her own definition of camp, wearing chainmail on stage at the VMAs and turning heads at Paris Fashion Week, Roan has always carved her own aesthetic.With this beautifully illustrated guide to her style evolution, key looks and signature pieces, dive into the outrageous, experimental and original world of Chappell Roan's style.

The story of a fashion legend

Icons of Style: Chappell Roan

Harvest

ONE LIFE, MANY UNIFORMS

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