Биографии и Мемуары
35106 кн.
Jeden z najlepszych radiowców wszech czasów w szczerej, chwilami bolesnej, ale zazwyczaj pogodnej i zabawnej książce, która wyjaśnia, skąd się biorą Niedźwiedzie. Wszyscy znamy głos Marka Niedźwieckiego. Dla wielu to wzorzec radiowego brzmienia. Jest jednym z niewielu mistrzów tworzenia nastroju wyłącznie za pomocą dźwięku. Ale nie wszyscy wiedza, jaka cenę ten chłopak z Szadku zapłacił za popularność. W swojej nowej książce Marek Niedźwiecki opowiada nie tylko o drodze, jaką rozpoczął w...
| Автор | Marek Niedźwiecki |
Tej książki nie sposób przeoczyć! Adolf Hitler przerywa milczenie na temat skarbów, „złotego pociągu” i innych tajemnic Trzeciej Rzeszy! Wielu z nas pragnie wiedzieć, gdzie zostały ukryte nazistowskie skarby. Do tej pory nie odnaleziono np. Bursztynowej Komnaty czy licznych skrzyń wypełnionych złotem, kosztownościami, pieniędzmi czy cennymi dokumentami, o których wspominali świadkowie i badacze historii. Podobnie rzecz się ma z wieloma dziełami sztuki czy tzw. złotym pociągiem, którego pod...
| Автор | Christopher Macht |
Released on the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Katrina: A Freight Train Screamin’ by Cary Black, reports on Hurricane Katrina through the eyes of the people of the Gulf Coast who experienced her. The book contains extensive interviews from evacuees, residents, disaster aid workers, and a host of other folks affected by Katrina and her aftermath. There has been much conflicting information in the media about the disaster. This book is being written to convey the stories and impact the...
| Автор | Cary Black |
“Stradley [has]…a clipped, hard-hitting narrative style that makes no excuses and offers no apologies. Boxing fans interested in this…tragic figure should be captivated. A gritty, absorbing account of a boxer who couldn’t defeat his own inner demons.”— Kirkus Reviews From the pages of Berserk: The Shocking Life and Death of Edwin Valero … "There’s no telling what went on during the next few hours, or where his paranoia took him, but in that room something terrible happened. At 5:30...
| Автор | Don Stradley |
“[A] gritty, true-crime narrative…with hard-edged prose and a total absence of cheap moralizing…[A] stark and gripping account.”— Kirkus Reviews "The historical fact that the city of Boston has seen more than its share of this breed – boxers who became intertwined with the criminal underworld – is the literary gold that author Don Stradley mines so beautifully in this book. There are moments of triumph in the ring, and some failures; Stradley is right to focus as much on the boxing...
| Автор | Don Stradley |
"[Ron Lyle's] life was a remarkable one and the story of it worth re-telling, which makes the book’s new edition thoroughly welcome. Off The Ropes is absolutely recommended reading."—Gary Lucken, Boxing Monthly "Nobody ever hit me that hard. No question. I’ll remember that punch on my deathbed. A great puncher, a great guy."—Earnie Shavers In a life as tough as his battles in the ring, Ron Lyle had already served hard time for second-degree murder before he started his...
| Автор | Candace Toft |
The Patient is the story of Ugandan doctors and their patients through the decades. It’s the story of mostly young enthusiastic medical students becoming doctors, and choosing their paths in a corrupt and impoverished world where their own needs, wellbeing, and sanity, compete with the needs of their patients. It is the story of a hospital badly in need of healing, a health care system that is designed to fail, and a country whose continuing existence is proof that resilient and subservient...
| Автор | Olive Kobusingye |
“Land of the Free” is a history of the US cast as a memoir in two cultures. Navigating between two nations, Author David A. Bedford discovered the cultural differences and similarities between Argentina and the US. The typical themes and ideas, heard and repeated over the years, have characterized our societies and are often accepted and taken for granted by most people. They exert a powerful influence on people’s attitudes, emotions, and sometimes unconsciously their behavior. In this book,...
| Автор | David A. Bedford |
“Santa Fe is known as The City Different. But not just because of its beautiful scenery, its rich traditions or historical heritage. I think it’s the people—those wonderful individuals whose proclivities have labeled them a little the other side of center and who have added the spice to the life I enjoyed there for so many years. I hope the reader will enjoy some of my memories.” With that, Betty Bauer turns us loose to ponder over why streakers never bothered to streak in Santa Fe, why one...
| Автор | Betty E. Bauer |
Outsiders seldom understand the curious amalgam of artists, galleries, misfits and hangers-on known as the Santa Fe Art Scene. In this collection of stories, we witness a group of Santa Fe painters confronting their art and life in creative ways, solving the ages-old problems of painting the perfect canvas, making that obstinate muse smile. Julia Brownell is a patrician beauty whose exhibition of gold-leafed paintings sells out on its opening night and creates an envious discord among her peers....
| Автор | Douglas Atwill |
Helena Rubinstein was born into a poor Polish family at the end of the nineteenth century; by the time of her death in 1965 she had built a cosmeti empire that spanned the world. When Rubinstein opened her first salon in Melbourne, her scientific approach to beauty was an instant sensation. Women just couldn't get enough of her innovative advice on skincare, and her beauty products were constantly sold out. Having conquered Australia, Rubinstein went on to open salons in Europe and America,...
| Автор | Michele Fitoussi |
'Glorious – funny and wry and wise, and utterly its own lawmaker' Robert Macfarlane 'A rich, strange, oddly glorious brew' Guardian Longlisted for the Wainwright Golden Beer Book Prize 2018 21st-Century Yokel [b][/b] is not quite nature writing, not quite a family memoir, not quite a book about walking, not quite a collection of humorous essays, but a bit of all five. Thick with owls and badgers, oak trees and wood piles, scarecrows and ghosts,...
| Автор | Tom Cox |
Tajemnicze zaginięcie, którym żyła cała Polska 19-letnia Iwona Wieczorek ostatni raz była widziana w nocy z 16 na 17 lipca 2010 roku w Gdańsku. W poszukiwania – oprócz policji – zaangażowali się jasnowidze, detektywi, rodzina i znajomi dziewczyny. Wielokrotnie obejrzano nagrania z monitoringu, przesłuchano setki świadków, przeszukano okolicę. Bez skutku. Janusz Szostak jako jedyny dziennikarz zapoznał się z całością akt sprawy. Niezwykle drobiazgowo przeprowadził własne śledztwo,...
| Автор | Janusz Szostak |
In the 1830s Mulrawirrapurka, the heroic Kaurna warrior and leader, strives to protect his people and his land after British settlers invade, claiming the Tandanya Plain as their own. He spends the early years of settlement trying to keep the peace, working with the new colony to understand and respect each other’s’ values, but soon realises just how much authority the British hold over their new society. For Murlawirrapurka, though, the British settlers aren’t the only enemy, with increasing...
| Автор | Eva Chapman |
The first thing you need to know is I'm not Chinese. My name is Raymond Wong and I stopped being Chinese at the age of five. Raymond Wong wants to forget his past: a charming, conniving, and controlling Chinese mother, a father who hasn't so much as written him a letter in 28 years, a stepfather who never sees him as a son, a childhood rife with ridicule and bullying from American kids, and the pain of being an outcast in his own family. Raymond goes back to Hong Kong with the mother...
| Автор | Raymond M. Wong |
Mervyn Linford left the prefabs and bombsites in the East End of London in 1952 and moved to Pitsea in Essex. In those days Pitsea was a typical sleepy marshland village overlooking the saltwater creeks and the Thame's Delta. The proposed New Town was as yet just a twinkle in the planners' eyes and Basildon, such as it was, comprised of just two small estates: Barstable and Whitmore Way. The rest of the surrounding area was no less than a paradise for a young boy newly arrived from the...
| Автор | Mervyn Linford |
'I really liked this book. I'd forgotten how shit it was in the seventies' Paul Weller The Jam released their debut single, ‘In The City’, in May 1977. At that time, no-one was happy in Britain, particularly not in Ian Stone's house. He was fourteen and his days consisted of going to school, watching Arsenal play terrible football and listening to his parents’ marriage disintegrating. Outside, the country was divided – by racism, violence, inner-city riots, police...
| Автор | Ian Stone |
Written in eight days, in December 1905, and published in the January 1906 issue of the magazine Teikoku Bungaku (Imperial Literature), Shumi no iden (The Heredity of Taste) is Soseki Natsume's only anti-war work. Chronicling the mourning process of a narrator haunted by his friend's death, the story reveals Soseki's attitude to the atrocity of war, specifically to the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-5, and to the personal tragedies and loss of individuality of young men like his hero...
| Автор | Soseki Natsume |
If you’re playing basketball, that’s science in action! Science is all around us and in everything that we do this even more true for basketball. Issac Newton explains the concept of Motion in Physical Science by using Three Laws of Motion. In this book, you will get the chance to fully understand Newton’s Three Laws using a sport we all know and love – Basketball! Learn who Sir Issac Newton was, and dive into Inertia and other great physical science terms that help to explain and simplify...
| Автор | Professor Beaver |
In this elegiac account that is part travelogue, part memoir, British poet and writer Malcolm Ritchie recounts his and his wife's unforgettable three-year-sojourn in Sora, a remote farming and fishing village on the Japan Sea coast. Ritchie weaves together anecdotes, conversations, lyrical verses, and unforgettable character studies to vividly and hauntingly evoke the rhythms of life in a traditional rural Japanese community. Underlying this portrait is the author's growing awareness...
| Автор | Malcolm Ritchie |
Published here for the first time in English, My Individualism and The Philosophical Foundations of Literature are essays which explore issues close to famed Japanese novelist Soseki Natsume's heart: the philosophical and cultural significance of isolation, belonging and identity associated with rapid technological, industrial and cultural change. Set against the background of the Meiji era, in which Soseki believed modern man was dislocated from Japan's past as well as its future, he...
| Автор | Natsume Soseki |
Many Blessings: A Tapestry of Accomplished African American Women by Sonnee Weedn, Ph.D. Ten years ago, Marin County psychologist, Dr. Sonnee Weedn, was asked to treat a young, urban, African American woman. Believing that as a white woman living in the reality of de facto segregation, she was not knowledgeable enough to treat this woman in psychotherapy, she set about to learn more about African American culture. This stimulated her thinking about African American women. What was it that...
| Автор | Sonnee Weedn, PhD |
That Imperial Japan closely resembled authoritarian Germany was no simple coincidence. This book explores the effect of German thought on nineteenth century Japan, focusing on Hermann Roesler—the most influential collaborator.The Meiji leadership was committed to an authoritarian form of government. At the same time it was also clearly committed to a constitutional system. The mid and late 1880's saw the efforts of Japan's most capable leaders directed to the formation and...
| Автор | Johannes Siemes |
Born different, a boy struggles. His story draws you in. So, too, does his mother’s relentless quest: from the fight for a suitable education and effective health care through the fight for his life as he enters the harrowing world of addiction. The boy’s poetry—undiscovered in his lifetime—is intertwined, depicting the inner life of a person underestimated. Facing bitter disappointments and often insurmountable obstacles, mother and son manage to cope with adversity, sometimes in opposition....
| Автор | Jessie Dunleavy |