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.
Který spisovatel se může pochlubit tím, že dnes mnozí katolíci usilují o jeho blahořečení, a zároveň byl již před lety B. Václavkem pasován na jednu z lásek avantgardní generace? Který autor byl označen za sloup západní civilizace a současně za bratra klaunů a akrobatů? Všechny tyto charakteristiky se ...
This is the never-before-published story of a snake trying to make it in the world of sixties high society, strongly suggested to be a stand-in for Warhol himself. The snake’s tongue-in-cheek observations as he slithers from adorning Jackie Kennedy’s boots to embellishing Coco Chanel’s shirt will delight ...
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 ...
George is the story of two extraordinary lives - the private man and the public legend. Georgios Panayiotou was just eighteen when he decided to adopt the stage name of George Michael. Sometimes his two worlds would collide with shattering consequences. Bestselling biographer Sean Smith has gone back ...
For fans of Ronda Rousey's My Fight Your Fight and John Kavanagh's Win or Learn comes the first book from UFC fighter and no…
Knihu Evita (Marcos Aguinis) si môžete pohodlne objednať na iPark.sk Nakupujte v spoľahlivom internetovom kníhkupectve iPark.sk.
Johannes Kaufmann, narodený v roku 1915, odišiel čoskoro zo školy a pracoval ako učeň v leteckej továrni.
Knihu Roth zbavený pout - Autor a jeho dílo (Claudia Rothová Pierpontová) si môžete pohodlne objednať na iPark.sk Nakupujte v spoľahlivom internetovom kníhkupectve iPark.sk.
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald’s only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world’s ...
''Meticulously researched and superbly written. The Putin book that we''ve been waiting for.'' Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland''Books about modern Russia ab….
From bestselling biographer Sean Smith comes the fascinating and tumultuous true story behind Sir Tom Jones, the nation\''s treasure, sage of The Voice and living music legend. Now approaching his 75th birthday, Tom Jones\'' life has been an unforgettable rollercoaster ride. From starting out in a little ...
''People may say that I couldn''t sing. But no one can say that I didn''t sing.'' Despite lacking pitch, rhythm or tone, Florence Foster Jenkins became one of America''s best-known sopranos, celebrated for her unique recordings and her sell-out concert at Carnegie Hall. Born in 1868 to wealthy Pennsylvanian ...
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given a couple of years to live. In January 2017 he celebrated his seventy-fifth birthday. This biography of the brilliant theoretic…
A revelatory narrative charting the lives and works of legendary authors Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster and D. H. Lawrence during 1922, the birth year of modernism. \''The world broke in two in 1922 or thereabouts,\'' the American author Willa Cather once wrote. Yet for Virginia Woolf, T. ...
A no-holds-barred look into the remarkable life and career of the prolific musician, songwriter, and producer behind Eurythmics and dozens of pop hits. Dave Stewart s life has been a wild ride one filled with music, constant reinvention, and the never-ending drive to create. Growing up in industrial ...
Jonathan Franzen: The Comedy of Rage is the first critical biography of one of today''s most important novelists. Drawing on unpublished emails and both published and private interviews, Philip Weinstein conveys the feel and heft of Franzen''s voice as he ponders the purposes and problems of his life ...
