Joe Biden has both witnessed and participated in a momentous epoch of American history. In Promises to Keep, he reveals what these experiences taught him about himself, his colleagues, and the institutions of government. With his customary honesty and wit, Biden movingly and eloquently recounts growing up in a staunchly Catholic multigenerational household in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Wilmington, Delaware; overcoming personal tragedy, life-threatening illness, and career setbacks; his relationships with presidents, world leaders, and lawmakers on both sides of the aisle; and his leadership of powerful Senate committees.
Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics
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President Joe Biden tells the story of his extraordinary life and career prior to his emergence as Barack Obama’s beloved, influential vice president. ‘I remain captivated by the possibilities of politics and public service. In fact, I believe that my chosen profession is a noble calling.
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මාටින් ලූතර් කිං ජීවිතය සහ මරණය
“මම පෞද්ගලික අනතුර පිළිබද ගැටලුව විසදා ඇත්තෙමි” යි හේ වරක් පැවසීය. “සෑම දවසකම මම මරණයේ තර්ජනය සමග ජීවත් වෙමි.එසේම බියට මා යටත් කර ගැනීමට ඉඩ හැරියහොත් මට ක්රියා කළ නොහැකි බව අවුරුදු ගණනාවකට පෙර මම දුටුමි.” ඒ අනුව ඔහු ධෛර්යය ගැන කතා කරනවට වඩා මරණය ගැන කතා කිරීමට කැමැත්තක් දැක්වීය- එය නිරායාසය.
වෛද්ය විල්ගේ විස්මිත ලෝකය
ලෝක පුජීත කීර්තිමත් ශල්ය වෛද්යවරයකු වු විලියම් ස්ටුවර්ට් හල්ස්ටඩ් ගේ ඒකායන පරමාර්ථය වුයේ සැත්කම්වලට බදුන් වන මිනිස්සු සැත්කමේ දි හා එයින් පසු විදින මහත් වු වේදනාව තුරන් කොට ශල්යකර්මය වඩාත් සුවපහසු ප්රතිකාරයක් ලෙස දියුණු කිරීමය. ඒ සදහා ඔහුට අවසානයේ දි සිය ජීවිතය පරදුවට තැබීමේ ප්රබල අභියෝගයකට ද මුහුණ දීමට සිදු වු නමුත් සියලු බලවේගයන් අභිබවා ඉතිහාසයේ නම සටහන් කළ යුග පුරුෂයකු බවට පත් වීමට හැකි විය.
Long Walk To Freedom (Nelson Mandela)
Nelson mandela is one of the great moral and political leaders of our time: an international hero whose lifelong dedication to the fight against racial oppression in south africa won him the nobel peace prize and the presidency of his country. Since his triumphant release in 1990 from more than a quarter-century of imprisonment, mandela has been at the center of the most compelling and inspiring political drama in the world. As president of the african national congress and head of south africa’s antiapartheid movement, he was instrumental in moving the nation toward multiracial government and majority rule.
අභීත සිංහල වීරයෝ
දේශයත්, ජාතියත් රැකගැන්ම උදෙසා සිය දිවි දෙවෙනිකොට යටත් විජිත ආක්රමණ හමුවේ නැගී සිටි අභීත වීරයන් සත් දෙනෙකුගේ ජීවන වෘත්තාන්තයන් හි ශූර වීර, රසාලිප්ත තොරතුරු රැසක් මෙහි අන්තර්ගත වේ.
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ජාතියේ පියා හෙවත් අනගාරික ධර්මපාල
ඉංග්රීසි පාලකයන්ගේ ආධිපත්යයට නතුව සිංහල රට දැය ක්රම ක්රමයෙන් පරිහානිය කරා යොමුවෙමින් පැවති යුගයක එය ආරක්ෂා කරගැනීමේ ඒකායන අරමුණින් තම ජීවිතය පවා පරදුවට තබා සටන් කළ අනගාරික ධර්මපාලතුමාගේ ජීවිත කතාව මෙහි ඇතුළත් වේ.
සූර සරදියෙල්
වීර චරිතයක් ලෙසින් බොහෝ දෙනා හඳුනන සරදියෙල්, ඉතිහාසයේ සඳහන් වන්නේ දුප්පතුන්ගේ හිතවතකු වූ මානවහිතවාදියකු ලෙසයි. සමාජ අසාධරණය වෙනුවෙන් හුදෙකලාව සටන් වැද ඉංග්රීසින්ගේ යුගයේ කන්ද උඩරට ජය ගොස නැංවූ උතුවන් කන්දේ සරදියෙල්ගේ ජීවන කතා පුවත මේ කෘතියෙන් ඔබට සමීප කරවයි.
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When Breath Becomes Air
Selected as a book of the year by the new york times, evening standard, observer, sunday times, mail on sunday and the economist shortlisted for waterstones book of the year the new york times number one bestseller the sunday times bestseller ‘finishing this book and then forgetting about it is simply not an option…unmissable’ new york times at the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade’s training as a neurosurgeon, paul kalanithi was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, the next he was a patient struggling to live