Historické osobnosti dokážu aj v dnešnej dobe vplývať na ľudí. Či už svojimi múdrymi výrokmi, vynálezmi, objavmi, úspechmi, ba dokonca aj neúspechmi. Všetko to, čo v živote dosiahli, aké mali detstvo, ako mysleli, žili alebo ako trpeli či zomreli, vám ponúkajú práve biografie. Biografia je teda v podstate akýsi životopis danej osobnosti. Rôzne knihy o slávnych vám ponúkajú aj mnohé kníhkupectvá. Azda najkontroverznejšou autobiografiou je Hitlerova kniha Mein Kampf, mapujúca jeho život a názory, ktoré sú podľa mnohých odborníkov zvrátené. V mnohých krajinách bola táto kniha dokonca zakázaná.
As heard on BBC Radio Four - Book of the Week... A memoir of love, death and jazz chickens, Eddie Izzard''s fabulous Believe Me is his one and only autobiography...''I know why I''m doing all this,'' I said. ''Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things... that maybe ...
''In my world, the word inspirational gets bandied around a lot, but Jonny Benjamin is truly deserving of that adjective.'' - HRH The Duke of Cambridge''Jonny Benj….
People can’t stop talking about Stormy Daniels. She''s a world-famous, award-winning adult film star and director – and a proud woman who dared to take on the President of the United States. In Full Disclosure, Stormy tells the unvarnished truth about her extraordinary life. She describes her tough childhood ...
Žiadne iné dielo o Albertovi Einsteinovi nezachytáva život a osobnosť tohto génia tak komplexne ako Einsteinov životopis od Waltera Isaacsona, ktorému sa podarilo jedinečným spôsobom spojiť známe fakty s novými skutočnosťami, získanými z Einsteinových osobných, predtým nezverejnených písomností. Isaacson ...
An insightful new biography of the most controversial and perhaps most fervent of all Zionist political figures Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880-1940) was a man of huge paradoxes and contradictions and has been the most misunderstood of all Zionist politicians a first-rate novelist, a celebrated Russian journalist, ...
It has been 50 years since Norman Mailer asserted, I think that William Burroughs is the only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius. This assessment holds true today. No-one since then has taken such risks in their writing, developed such individual radical political ...
A radical look at Jane Austen As you''ve never seen her - as a lover of farce, comic theatre and juvenilia. The Genius of Jane Austen celebrates Britain''s favourite novelist 200 years after her death and explores why her books make such awesome movies, time after time. Jane Austen loved the theatre. ...
Now a Major Motion Picture starring Dame Judi Dench from director Stephen Frears. History''s most unlikely friendship--this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearest companion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim. In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo ...
The ULTIMATE unofficial companion to the YouTube superwoman sensation, Lilly Singh.
In a sunlit clearing in central Gondwana, on an otherwise ordinary day in the late Cretaceous, the seeds of Earth''s first and greatest civilization were sown in….
The History of Gangster Rap is a deep dive into one of the most fascinating subgenres of any music category to date. Sixteen detailed chapters, organized chronologically, examine the evolution of gangster rap, its main players, and the culture that created this revolutionary music. From still-swirling ...
Druh sortimentu : Kniha, So Much Longing in So Little Space,, Rok vydania : 2019,.
Learn the facts, figures, super-powers and origins of your favourite characters from the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). From the Avengers and Ant-Man to Black Panther and Doctor Strange, this book spans over a decade of action-packed Marvel Studios movie releases. Filled with interesting facts and ...
War is sweeping the witchlands and tainted magic is destroying both friends and enemies. While the Bloodwitch Aeduan is keeping one crucial secret. Here, loyalties will be tested as never before. The Bloodwitch Aeduan and Iseult the Threadwitch race for safety, desperate to evade the Raider King. His ...
''I Will Be Complete is the best memoir I''ve read in years. It''s likely the best memoir published in years.'' Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life and Chang and Eng From the bestselling author of Carter Beats the Devil and Sunnyside, a shocking, big-hearted memoir about his bizarre upbringing in California ...
The thrilling true story of Richard Sorge - the man John le Carre called ''the spy to end spies\'', and whose actions turned the tide of the Second World War Richard Sorge was a man with two homelands. Born of a German father and a Russian mother in Baku in 1895, he moved in a world of shifting alliances ...
Jon Savage's oral history of Joy Division is the last word on the band that ended with the suicide of Ian Curtis in Macclesfield on 18 May, 1980.
Cena:14.13€ | Autor:Oz, Amos | Rok vydania:2005 | Jazyk: V anglickom jazyku | Dostupnosť:2-3 týždne | ISBN:9780099450030 | Vydavateľ:Vintage
The winner of the Guardian First Book Award that reinvented the biographic form. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up.