Autobiography

By Isabelle Francq, Sebastião Salgado

Le témoignage exclusif de Sebastião Salgado, l'un des plus grands photographes actuels, sur ses engagements en faveur d'une planète préservée.

Les photographies de Sebastião Salgado ont fait le journey du globe. Ses photos en noir et blanc, ses pics d'anonymes, notamment de travailleurs ou de réfugiés, et plus récemment son projet consacré aux endroits préservés de los angeles planète sont connus pour los angeles beauté de leurs lumières, leur strength et l. a. dignité des êtres qui s'y exprime.

Remontant le cours de ses reportages (" l. a. major de l'homme ", " Exodes ", " Genesis ") et de son histoire, du Brésil à Paris – où Lélia Wanick Salgado, son épouse, et lui ont fondé l'agence Amazonas photos –, il nous confie son amour de los angeles photographie et nous promène à travers le monde qu'il ne cesse de sillonner, pour aller voir, comprendre et témoigner.

" Sebastião Salgado nous livre un portrait de notre monde qui parle de los angeles voix l. a. plus infrequent qui soit, cette voix qui nous dit des choses que nous ne voulons pas savoir, [...] mais qui, lorsqu'on nous les dit, s'imposent instantanément comme vraie. "
Salman RUSHDIE
(préface au catalogue de l'exposition " Territoires et vies " à l. a. BNF)

By Brittney Griner, Sue Hovey

Hailed by way of ESPN because the world’s most renowned lady basketball participant, Brittney Griner, the dunking phenom and nationwide sensation who's shattering stereotypes and breaking barriers, now stocks her coming-of-age tale, revealing how she discovered her power to beat bullies and to include her genuine self.

Brittney Griner, the No. 1 decide within the 2013 WNBA Draft, is a once-in-a-generation participant, owning a mixture of measurement and athleticism by no means prior to noticeable within the women’s video game. yet “the sport’s so much transformative determine” (Sports Illustrated) is both recognized for making headlines off the court docket, for conversing out on problems with gender, sexuality, physique photograph and self-esteem.

At 6’8”, with an 88-inch wingspan and a dimension 17 shoe (men’s), the Phoenix Mercury big name has heard each vicious insult within the e-book, enduring years of taunting that all started in heart college and keeps to this present day. in the course of the highs and lows, Griner has realized to stay actual to herself, emerging above the haters attempting to take her down.

In her heartfelt memoir, she displays on painful episodes in her lifestyles and describes how she got here to have a good time what makes her unique—inspiring classes she now stocks. choked with all of the humor and character Griner has turn into recognized for, In My Skin is greater than a glimpse into probably the most unique personalities in activities; it’s additionally a robust name to readers to be real to themselves, to like who they're at the within and out.

With a eight pages of photos.

By Paul O'Grady

Paul O'Grady is one among Britain's very best-loved entertainers. he's identified and loved by means of hundreds of thousands, no matter if because the writer of the acid-tongued Blonde Bombsite, Lily Savage, or the presenter of the beautifully winning, award-winning Paul O'Grady exhibit on Channel four.

Now, in his personal distinct voice, Paul O'Grady tells tale of his adolescence in Irish Catholic Birkenhead that begun him at the lengthy and winding street from mischievous altar boy to nationwide treasure. it's a brilliantly evoked, hilarious and sometimes relocating story of gossip within the again backyard, bragging within the nook store and slanging fits at the entrance doorstep, populated through larger-than-life characters with hearts of gold and tongues as sharp as razors.

At My Mother's Knee good points an unforgettable forged of rogues, rascals, enthusiasts, warring parties, saints and sinners - and one iconic bus conductress. It's a ebook which relatively does have whatever for everybody and which reminds us that, whilst all's acknowledged and performed, there's slightly savage in all of us...

By Karl Ove Knausgaard

My fight: ebook One introduces American readers to the audacious, addictive, and profoundly superb foreign literary sensation that's the provocative and outstanding six-volume autobiographical novel by means of Karl Ove Knausgaard. It has already been anointed a Proustian masterpiece and is the infrequent paintings of unbelievable literary originality that's intensely, irresistibly readable. Unafraid of the massive issues--death, love, paintings, fear--and but devoted to the intimate information of existence because it is lived, My fight is a vital paintings of up to date literature.

By Jane Lee, Dave Jarvis

With the popularity because the toughest and most deadly woman legal in Britain, Gypsy Jane Lee was once feared and revered all through London's felony underworld. this can be her precise tale. in the course of a terrifying trip that all started as a 14-year-old armed robber, she has been shot 4 instances, tasered 3 times via police and served 3 prison phrases.

Convicted for armed theft she used to be published from criminal basically to head out and try to homicide 4 humans. Gypsy Jane has led a lifestyles full of crime, betrayal, medicines and homicide yet she sessions herself as a lady of ideas: she values loyalty and honour, and has merely ever sought after a 'normal' lifestyles.

By Susan Rosenberg

On a November evening in 1984, Susan Rosenberg sat within the passenger seat of a U-Haul because it swerved alongside the hot Jersey Turnpike. on the wheel was once a fellow political activist. within the again have been 740 kilos of dynamite and various weapons. That evening I nonetheless believed with all my middle that what Che Guevara had acknowledged approximately revolutionaries being encouraged via love was once precise. I additionally believed that our executive governed the area by way of strength and that it was once essential to oppose it with strength. Raised on long island City's higher West aspect, Rosenberg have been politically lively considering the fact that highschool, focused on the black liberation stream and protesting repressive U.S. rules worldwide and the following at domestic. At twenty-nine, she used to be at the FBI's such a lot sought after record. whereas unloading the U-Haul at a garage facility, Rosenberg was once arrested and sentenced to an exceptional fifty eight years for ownership of guns and explosives. i couldn't see the lengthy distance I had traveled from my dedication to justice and equality to stockpiling weapons and dynamite. on the grounds that might take years. Rosenberg served 16 years in a few of the worst maximum-security prisons within the usa sooner than being pardoned by way of President Clinton as he left place of work in 2001. Now, in a narrative that's either a robust memoir and a profound indictment of the U.S. criminal process, Rosenberg recounts her trip from the impassioned idealism of the Sixties to existence as a political prisoner in her personal state, subjected to dehumanizing remedy, but touched via moments of grace and team spirit. Candid and eloquent, An American Radical unearths the girl in the back of the controversy--and displays America's turbulent coming-of-age over the last part century.

This is the tale that Disney could by no means let you know.

What do you do while every thing on your lifestyles falls aside? if you are Chris Mitchell, you run clear of home--all find out how to Disney international, a spot the place nobody ever dies--and staff, often called forged participants, will not be allowed to frown. Mitchell stocks the behind-the-scenes tale of his 12 months within the Mouse's military. From his personal own Disneyfication, to what rather occurs within the hidden tunnels underneath the Magic nation and what to not consume on the Mousketeria, it used to be a yr full of extra adventure--and surprises--than he may well ever have "imagineered."

humorous and relocating, Mitchell tracks his ascent during the behind the scenes social hierarchy during which princesses rule, and his escapades within the "Ghetto" the place forged individuals stay and something is going. alongside the way in which, he unmasks the misfits and drop-outs, lifers and nomads who go away their demons on the degree door as they retain the magic that pulls hundreds of thousands to this famed fantasyland--the related magic that Mitchell seeks and eventually unearths within the final position he ever anticipated.

Chris Mitchell is an motion activities photographer and journalist who grew up in l. a.. He was once a senior at UCLA whilst he begun his first journal, an inline skating book, and bought it to activities & health Publishing. inside many years, he used to be engaged on 5 magazines in the Surfer workforce. He keeps to paintings heavily with a few guides and internet sites, in addition to occasion and television construction businesses like ESPN, ASA leisure and Lifelounge. he's a well-known specialist in motion activities, and as such, has stunt coordinated dozens of productions, together with Batman and Robin, Brink! and Airborne. he's additionally the Chairman of the overseas Inline Stunt Federation for the development of maximum skating as a fit and secure job. After spending a 12 months operating as a photographer at Disney global in Orlando, Florida, he moved again to l. a., the place he presently lives.

By Berlin Reed

By Rob Jovanovic

With particular new interviews from the band, this can be a pleasing account of 1 of the main influential teams in rock heritage.

Brian Eno famously stated "the first Velvet Underground album basically offered 10,000 copies, yet everybody who acquired it shaped a band." probably no different musicians can declare such restricted chart luck and so enduring a musical legacy because the Velvet Underground. Artists together with David Bowie, The intercourse Pistols, pleasure department, Roxy track, Nirvana, U2, R.E.M., or even dissident Czech playwright and eventual president Václav Havel have mentioned the Velvets as an important influence.

Seeing the Light offers the untold tale of the band. shaped through the mercurial Lou Reed and classically proficient Welshman John Cale within the mid-1960s, the band first won notoriety after being followed through Andy Warhol. Warhol's patronage allowed the crowd to chart unexplored areas of rock 'n' roll, generating unforgettable and unsettling tune that veered from droning, avant-garde experimentalism to folk-infused pop, providing taboo-busting stories of drug habit, prostitution, and sexual deviance. artistic tensions and pissed off ambition ultimately observed either Cale and Reed go away the band, to its ignominious end.

In the a long time in view that, The Velvet Underground's tune has attained vintage prestige, respected along The Beatles and The seashore Boys as one of many assets of contemporary pop. With particular new interviews from contributors Moe Tucker and Doug xmas, in addition to the widow in their bandmate Sterling Morrison, journalist Rob Jovanovic peels again the mystique of 1 of an important bands in rock history.