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.
This book is the original autobiographical work by Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company. In this book, Ford details how he got into business, the strategies that he used to become a wealthy and successful businessman, and what others can do by learning from the examples he has outlined. This ...
This is a biography of J.B. Priestley, covering his relationships with his three wives, children and other women and friendships with figures such as H.G. Wells, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, Charlie Chaplin and Groucho Marx.
Josef Dobiáš, univerzitní profesor a řádný člen Československé akademie věd, je v rodném Pelhřimově známý díky Dějinám královského města Pelhřimova a jeho okolí (monumentálnímu šestisvazkovému dílu, čítajícímu dohromady přes 4600 stran textu a vycházejícímu v letech 1927–1970), jež napsal z lásky k rodnému ...
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 ...
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 ...
What do you do when you wake up in your mid-forties and realize you''ve been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic as an adult, after she had forged a career for herself, married twice and raised four children. This book ...
An insider''s perspective on the life and influence of Israel''s first native-born prime minister, his bold peace initiatives, and his tragic assassination More than two decades have passed since prime minister Yitzhak Rabin''s assassination in 1995, yet he remains an unusually intriguing and admired ...
From activist, Pussy Riot member and freedom fighter Maria Alyokhina, a raw, hallucinatory, passionate account of her arrest, trial and imprisonment in Siberian…
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 ...
Sborník Náš pan děkan vychází u příležitosti 50. výročí úmrtí Václava Boštíka (1897-1963), kaplana (1927-1933) a posléze dlouholetého děkana v Ústí nad Orlicí (1934-1942) a opět (1945-1961). Jednotlivé příspěvky představují Václava Boštíka jako kněze pečujícího o svěřenou farnost, stavebníka zadávajícího ...
Jozef Lettrich bol v prelomových rokoch 1945-1948 najvýznamnejšou politickou osobnosťou Slovenska, bol nielen predesedom Demokratickej strany v tomto časovom období, ale aj predsedom Slovenskej národnej rady. Patril medzi popredných predstaviteľov odboja a po viac ako dve desaťročia stál na čele demokratického ...
The gripping biography of one of the most successful managers in the game, Josďż˝ Mourinho, giving a rare insight into Mourinho the man as well as Mourinho the manager. This unique insider account of the private man and public manager begins at Old Trafford in 2004, when Mourinho put himself on the football ...
Tough Mudder is not a race. It''s a challenge.Unlike other endurance events, Tough Mudder encourages team spirit. The course''s design forces you to seek help from others and with twenty obstacles, forty tons of ice and five hundred thousand litres of Grade-A mud set over ten to twelve miles, you''re ...
A tour de force of storytelling years in the making: a dual biography of two of the greatest songwriters, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie, that is also a murder mystery and a history of labor relations and socialism, big business and greed in twentieth-century America—woven together in one epic saga that ...
Lit Up Inside contains the lyrics of about one third of the songs that Van Morrison has written over his 50 year career. In this representative selection from the work of one of the most innovative and enduring songwriters of the last century, the reader will find examples of all the features of the ...
Sborník textů téměř šedesáti autorek a autorů, který je koncipován jako dárek k padesátinám Miloslava Kaly, prezidenta Nejvyššího kontrolního úřadu.
From the popular YouTube tastemaker Eva Gutowski comes her nationally bestselling lifestyle and advice book on the ups and downs of life, told in her hilarious, charming, and genuine voice. What''s up guys? It''s me, Eva! You may know me from my YouTube channel, MyLifeAsEva. If that''s the case, then ...
Rozsáhlá publikace obsahuje téměř 300 medailonů osobností Náchoda, jež se zasloužily o město v oblasti kultury (literatura, hudba, výtvarné umění včetně architektury, historie, pedagogika). Nemíní suplovat práce o historii města ani různé encyklopedi e, ale chce je svým způsobem doplnit údaji o vztahu ...
Námětem knihy jsou dramatické životní osudy Emila Dlouhého-Pokorného (1867–1936), dnes takřka zapomenuté postavy veřejného života konce 19. a první poloviny 20. století. Na počátku bouřlivých 90. let se stal průkopníkem křesťanského socialismu v našich zemích a řadí se k zakladatelským osobnostem katolického ...
New discoveries and a fresh perspective, with unprecedented access to Richey''s personal archive On 1 February 1995, Richey Edwards, guitarist of the Manic Street Preachers, went missing at the age of 27. On the eve of a promotional trip to America, he vanished from his London hotel room, his car later ...
