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.
Donald Trump has assembled a rogue's gallery of alt-right hatemongers, crony capitalists, immigrant bashers, and climate-change deniers to run the American government. To survive the next four years, we the people need to know whose hands are on the levers of power. And we need to know how to challenge ...
An arresting new study of the life, times, and achievement of one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century "Taylor''s endeavor is not to exp….
Il divino Meet the Renaissance master Before reaching the tender age of 30, Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475-1564) had already sculpted Pieta and David, two of the most famous sculptures in the entire history of art. As a sculptor, painter, draftsman, and architect, the achievements of this Italian master ...
Osama bin Laden\''s former sister-in-law provides a penetrating, unusually intimate look into Saudi society and the bin Laden family\''s role within it, as well as the treatment of Saudi women. On September 11th, 2001, Carmen bin Ladin heard the news that the Twin Towers had been struck. She instinctively ...
Foreword by Chrissie Hynde Without the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols. It was Steve who formed Kutie Jones and his Sex Pistols, the band that eventually went on to become the Sex Pistols, with his schoolmate Paul Cook and who was its original ...
Edgar Feuchtwanger came from a prominent German-Jewish family—the only son of a respected editor and the nephew of a best-selling author, Lion Feuchtwanger. He was a carefree five-year-old, pampered by his parents and his nanny, when Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, moved into the building ...
Grunge, also known as the \''Seattle sound\'', is the sludgy fusion of punk rock and heavy metal that emerged from the Pacific Northwest in the early part of the 1980s. But it was the unexpected, seemingly overnight success of Nirvana\''s single \''Smells Like Teen Spirit,\'' in the fall of 1991, that ...
Steven Patrick Morrissey was born in Manchester on May 22nd 1959. Singer-songwriter and co-founder of the Smiths (1982-1987), Morrissey has been a solo artist for twenty-six years, during which time he has had three number 1 albums in England in three different decades. Achieving eleven Top 10 albums ...
Hillary Rodham Clinton''s inside account of the crises, choices and challenges she faced during her four years as America''s 67th Secretary of State
Knihu Českoslovenští prezidenti (Marie Ryantová) si môžete pohodlne objednať na iPark.sk Nakupujte v spoľahlivom internetovom kníhkupectve iPark.sk.
Monografia predstavuje Jozefa K. Viktorina (1822 – 1874), katolíckeho kňaza, spisovateľa, prekladateľa, filológa a organizátora národných i kultúrnych podujatí, vzácneho a pracovitého rodoľuba, oživovateľa bernolákovsko-štúrovskej literárnej generácie.
Published in its entirety, Frida Kahlo's amazing illustrated journal documents the last ten years of her turbulent life.
This dazzling, unconventional biography shows us why, more than three centuries after his death, Rembrandt continues to exert such a hold on our imagination. De…
Georgia O’Keeffe (1887–1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles….
Abstract action: The splattered oeuvre of a cultural iconThe rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912 1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso and Mexican surrealism, he rejected convention ...
Master of Montmartre: A world of music, dance, and the Moulin RougeIn our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864 1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, paintings, and drawings, the artist immortalized the city s Belle Epoque nightlife and put ...
'Riveting ... will be his masterpiece' Andrew Roberts, The New York Times No American statesman has been as revered and as reviled as Henry Kissinger. Hailed by…
In 2013, Dr Feelgood founder, Blockheads member and musical legend Wilko Johnson was diagnosed with terminal cancer. With ten months to live, he decided to accept his imminent death and went on the road. His calm, philosophical response made him even more beloved and admired. And then the strangest thing ...
A new edition of conversations between the artist Ai Wei Wei and curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, coming up to the present day Ai Weiwei - artist, architect, curator, publisher, poet and urbanist - extended the notion of art and is one of the world\''s most significant creative and cultural figures. In this ...
As told to Leif Eriksson and Martin Svensson. Alexander Gustafsson grew up in Arboga, a small town in Sweden. A country boy, he started boxing when he was 10 - winning the national youth medal at the age of 16. After a handful of run-ins with the law he began practicing mixed martial arts and working ...