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Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press' portrait of himself, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films. Grace Kelly, Carey Grant and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style, and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. Alfred Hitchcock wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot.
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• The child who never cried
• I'll do it
• Sound, please
• I was grey
• At home
• Fake it
• Oh dear
• I am typed
• Good evening
• Birds and beasts
• Back to basics.

"Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. In this quick-witted portrait, Ackroyd reveals something more: a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances, just as Hitch did in his own films: Grace Kelly, Cary Grant, and James Stewart despair of his detached directing style and, perhaps most famously of all, Tippi Hedren endures cuts and bruises from a real-life fearsome flock of birds. In [this book], Peter Ackroyd wrests the director's chair back from the master of control and discovers what lurks just out of sight, in the corner of the shot,"--Amazon.com.
Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition-- Hitchcock's childhood was an isolated one. As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's portrait of him, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring all others out. Ackroyd reveals a jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashes a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. The result is a gripping biography of one of the most respected directors of the twentieth century.

• List of Illustrations
• 1. The Melon Capital of the World
• 2. TJ Is a Wonderful Boy
• 3. I Met a Traveler from an Antique Land
• 4. Bad Day for a Black Brother
• 5. Remember Me
• 6. A Bump in the Road
• 7. The Diary.
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In this psychologically gripping memoir, Blake Allmendinger returns to his childhood home after a forty-year absence. His homecoming to the struggling farming community of Rocky Ford, Colorado, formerly known as the Melon Capital of the World, forces the author to confront his own sad and disturbing history, one that parallels his hometown's decline. Allmendinger's family was dominated by his emotionally and mentally unstable mother, who became depressed while living in Rocky Ford as a young woman. For the rest of her life she abused the members of her family, creating tensions that remained unresolved until the end of the author's visit, when his mother died suddenly, a family member committed suicide, and a secret diary was discovered. The Melon Capital of the World is a remarkable blend of personal narrative, memoir, and Allmendinger's interviews with people who knew his mother and her family. His story is a gritty but compassionate, and at times humorous, portrait of a family trying to survive in the rapidly disappearing rural American West.
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• Beginning
• The year 1905
• Roof life
• Sightings
• Stalking food
• Self seen
• After words.

This is not a memoir. It does not take the form of a story. It is instead a kind of self-portrait, or perhaps several self-portraits. Svetlana Alpers had been keeping files: records of what she saw out the windows of her loft in New York; records of art sold, bought, or seen on her walls; records of foods found in markets and prepared in places where she lived; and records of herself seen in photographs, drawings, and paintings made by others. In solving the question of her father's place and date of birth, she reconstructs the life of her Russian grandfather in a distant and tumultuous Europe of a century ago. It was Roof Life that made it all come together. The title refers to what one discovers looking out from high windows with distant and distinctive views. In addition, it refers to the way one's attention is heightened and sharpened by confronting things that are unfamiliar, or that are made to appear unfamiliar by circumstances. It describes the immediacy of distance. Renowned art historian Svetlana Alpers assembles in these pages descriptions of things that mattered in a life that began in Cambridge, Massachusetts, continued in Berkeley, California, and is now lived in New York City. The experience of Europe informs it all.
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• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (interlude)
• Délire de style à Libreville
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (2)
• Causerie à Nicosie
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (3)
• Rumba pour baccarat à Rabat
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (4)
• Pas d'agape à Prague
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (5)
• Conflit de ladies à New Delhi
• Silence du soir à Dakar
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (6)
• Les pieds dans le plat à Essaouira
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (7)
• Intrigant événement à Téhéran
• On materne à Berne
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (8)
• Faute de comedor à San Salvador
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (9)
• Périls à Brazzaville
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (10)
• Coup de mou à Moscou
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (11)
• Pas de requin à Pékin
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (12)
• En cabane à Copacabana
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (13)
• Alarme à Amman
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (14)
• Avoir les foies à Garoua
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (15)
• Ça bloque à Auckland
• Pendant ce temps-là, à Paris... (16)
• Grand bide à Abidjan.

"Il s'en passe de belles sous les dorures des ambassades de France ! Les plafonds s'écroulent, les invités volent l'argenterie, et tandis qu'à Pékin les Chinois essaient de nous rouler sur la propriété de nos propres murs, Monsieur l'ambassadeur demande au colonel, en plein dîner officiel, s'il aime les sculptures d'éphèbes nus... 40 histoires vraies vécues par un jeune diplomate au service de la France. Gabriel Alphand a sillonné les continents pendant quinze ans pour régler les problèmes les plus invraisemblables de nos ambassades. Nommé au Quai d'Orsay, il a nagé dans le milieu feutré de la diplomatie française avec l'agilité de l'anguille, tout en gardant un oeil rieur et distancié sur ce monde parfois étrange..."--P. [4] of cover.

• Warehouse white noise
• The "Palm Springs of Washington"
• Ganas in Carver Country
• Getting out
• Walla Walla walkabouts
• Cold feet
• The arrival
• Tree noodles
• "Indian time"
• La Cruz de Campos
• Glacier dip
• Washington gray
• Goldendale
• An X-Man
• Apache medicine
• Cougar country
• City-slicker natives
• Tlaloc in L.A.
• Southern fire
• Main in the maze
• Running the wrong way
• The devil's coffin
• El chapito
• Deer runners
• Chihuahua
• Touch of treasure
• The rebirth story
• Nayarit
• Mangoes
• Santo coyote
• Hardware store
• Weaving words
• The flying men of Teotihuacán
• Descending eagle
• Oaxaca
• Zapatistas : rebel country
• Acteal
• Guatemala
• Old orchard
• Today

"Growing up in Yakima, Washington, Noé Álvarez worked at an apple-packing plant alongside his mother, who "slouched over a conveyor belt of fruit, shoulder to shoulder with mothers conditioned to believe this was all they could do with their lives." A university scholarship offered escape, but as a first-generation Latino college-goer, Álvarez struggled to fit in. At nineteen, he learned about a Native American/First Nations movement called the Peace and Dignity Journeys, epic marathons meant to renew cultural connections across North America. He dropped out of school and joined a group of Dené, Secwépemc, Gitxsan, Dakelh, Apache, Tohono O'odham, Seri, Purépecha, and Maya runners, all fleeing difficult beginnings. Telling their stories alongside his own, Álvarez writes about a four-month-long journey from Canada to Guatemala that pushed him to his limits. He writes not only of overcoming hunger, thirst, and fear--dangers included stone-throwing motorists and a mountain lion--but also of asserting Indigenous and working-class humanity in a capitalist society where oil extraction, deforestation, and substance abuse wreck communities. Running through mountains, deserts, and cities, and through the Mexican territory his parents left behind, Álvarez forges a new relationship with the land, and with the act of running, carrying with him the knowledge of his parents' migration, and--against all odds in a society that exploits his body and rejects his spirit--the dream of a liberated future."--Amazon.com

• Weniger ist mehr : über die düsteren Karriereaussichten attraktiver Blondinen
• Fahrer dringend gesucht! : wenn im Weltbild des Chauffeurs die Topmanagerin gar nicht vorkommt
• Verkehrte Welt : warum für Sekretärinnen ein männlicher Chef das einzig Wahre ist
• Unter tollen Hechten : warum von weiblicher Selbstkritik in Beurteilungsgesprächen dringend abzuraten ist
• Beichtgeheimnisse : über meine Rolle als Kummerkasten
• Wünsch dir was! : wenn fachliche Kriterien bei der Besetzung von Praktikantenstellen nur eine Nebenrolle spielen
• Einsame Spitze : warum die Partnersuche von Topmanagerinnen meistens ergebnislos verläuft
• Feel it! : wenn Bauchentscheidungen betriebs-wirtschaftlich positiv zu Buche schlagen
• Mittenmang : warum in mir als Chefin kein Alphatier steckt
• Vorsicht, Falle! : warum eine weibliche Führungskraft für die Herren Kollegen das "Mädchen für alles" bleibt
• So lonely : warum mich auf Geschäftsreisen meine Abenteuerlust verlässt
• Ohne Belang? : warum die Herren beim Small Talk lieber unter sich sind
• Gratwanderung : warum weder Abstinenz noch exzessives Trinken für Frauen im Management eine Option darstellen
• Achtung! Wilde Tiere! : wie ich in aggressiv geführten Verhandlungen mit meinen eigenen Waffen kämpfe
• "Alles meins!" : über die Abhängigkeit des männlichen Selbstwertgefühls von Statussymbolen
• Mensch bleiben : vom Umgang mit "Humankapital"
• Versuch vorläufig gescheitert : über mein ergebnisloses Bemühen, der Uniformität des dunklen Zwirns einen eigenen Kleidungsstil entgegenzusetzen
• Tonstörung : Gilt die Höflichkeitsordnung auch in der Führungsetage?
• Brüsseler Spitzen : mein Auslandsjahr als Spießrutenlauf
• "Ich bin doch nicht blöd!" : warum ich nicht alles nehme, was ich kriegen kann
• Ene mene mu : und raus bist du! : warum die Quote für Frauen mit Karriereabsichten so wichtig ist
• All they need is love : vom Rahmenprogramm externer Tagungen, das vor allem die Herren erfreut
• Siehe Anhang : warum mein Partner nicht so recht ins Damenprogramm passen will
• Sex fails : warum es nur Frauen ohne jede Ausstrahlung bis nach ganz oben schaffen
• Manege frei! : wie ich versuche, im Machtspiel meiner Kollegen zu bestehen
• Majestätsbeleidigung : Verhandeln im Schwarzmeerraum
• Ein Kind? : wenn sich die Familienplanung im Geheimen abspielt
• Ein Kind! : wie ich verhindern will, dass der Nachwuchs unfreiwillig mein Karriereende einläutet
• Zum Schluss.