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Through travelogues and personal accounts, Jasen Boko describes South America – a continent of contrasts, passion and unrest. Combining history, culture and personal reflections, he searches for what it means to be “at home” in the world.
A vivid account of the author's trip to Afghanistan in 1921-1922, a country in a turbulent period of modernization under the reformist king Amanullah Khan, the clash of tradition and the new age, and the exotic life of Afghan society.
How fortunate that today we have access to the most important recordings of conversations with André Gide, Henry James, Marcel Proust, Walt Whitman...
In the book of interviews, Pierre Hadot explains through his personal life story and conversations with Jeannie Carlier and Arnold I. Davidson why ancient philosophy was above all a way of life and a spiritual exercise, and not just theoretical knowledge.
Sadik Salimović's Book of Srebrenica (2002) is a memoir of the city: from Ottoman settlement, Islamization and development to the war suffering of 1992–1995 and genocide. It preserves the identity and memory of life before and after the tragedy.
Havel speaks honestly and deeply about his life, his literary journey, his dissident struggle, and his moral responsibility in a totalitarian regime. An intimate autobiographical confession of a dissident facing the "remote interrogation" of the free worl