Биографии и Мемуары
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Seit Bob da ist, hat sich mein Leben sehr verändert. Ich war ein obdachloser Straßenmusiker ohne Perspektive und ohne eine Idee, was ich aus meinem Leben machen sollte. Nun stehe ich wieder mit zwei Beinen auf der Erde, ich habe die Vergangenheit hinter mir gelassen, aber ich weiß nicht, was die Zukunft bringen wird. Ich brauche wohl immer noch Unterstützung, um auf meinem Weg zu bleiben. Zum Glück steht mir Bob mit seiner Freundschaft und seiner Klugheit zur Seite. Die wunderbare Geschichte...
| Автор | Джеймс Боуэн |
An homage to wild and whimsical John Fluevog shoes and their free-spirited fans, written by the cult shoe designer and featuring lush photography, graphics, and hand-drawn illustrations. Colorful and quirky, Fluevog shoes have graced the feet of celebrities such as Madonna, Jack White, and Lady Gaga, as well as legions of lifelong fans who consider themselves more a community than mere customers. Known for cheeky slogans such as «no, you're weird» and the message engraved on the soles of...
| Автор | John Fluevog |
You know what you need to do to lose weight, so why can't you do it?Morbidly obese and desperately unhappy, Gregg McBride asked himself this question for years, until something different finally «clicked,» and enabled him to embark on a weight-loss journey of 250 pounds that has now lasted ten years and still counting.Alternately hilarious and heartbreaking in its honesty, Weightless is Gregg's story, but it is much more. It's an exclusive weight-loss plan with menus, recipes,...
| Автор | Gregg McBride |
“The powerful origin story of one of Yellowstone’s greatest and most famous wolves.” — Washington Post “[ The Rise of Wolf 8 ] is a goldmine for information on all aspects of wolf behavior and clearly shows they are clever, smart, and emotional beings.” — Psychology Today Yellowstone National Park was once home to an abundance of wild wolves—but park rangers killed the last of their kind in the...
| Автор | Rick McIntyre |
Character is Destiny provides a rare and unique glimpse into Pehr Gyllenhammar’s professional triumphs and failures; and his successful efforts to shape industry in Europe, most notably with his creation of the European Roundtable of Industrialists which revitalized Europe’s infrastructure through projects like the France-England Channel Tunnel. Character is Destiny also provides a window into his friendships with some of the great luminaries of the world. It is equal parts history,...
| Автор | Pehr Gyllenhammar |
In 1984, John Hanrahan was featured in Interview magazine's iconic Olympic Issue as one of America's top athlete's vying for a spot on the US Olympic Team. He had come within a point of defeating the mighty Soviet world medalist and had defeated other international competitors. He had a shot at a lifelong dream, but then abandoned the final trials. The coach searched frantically for him at LaGuardia airport. He was nowhere to be found. He hadn't exactly fallen off the face...
| Автор | John Hanrahan |
Author is a world-class athlete who has just completed a tour with Cirque du Soleil Totem. He played the main character (Crystal Man) in the touring show.Author has been featured on CNN's Sanjay Gupta's Human Factor. CNN will produce two to three more videos following the author as he undergoes surgery on both of his shoulders.Inspirational story with universal appeal across audiences.Has already received endorsement from Robert Lepage, creator and director of Cirque du Soleil's...
| Автор | Joe Putignano |
Bill Denehy was at the top of his game . . . until he threw a pitch that changed the course of his life. A home-run bio about a gifted pitcher whose National League career held promise until a hard slider to Willie Mays injured his shoulder, Rage chronicles Denehy's injury-plagued career in major league baseball and the loss of his vision due to injections used to keep him in the game. Denehy holds nothing back as he shares the rage he felt his whole life, his lost dreams, his descent in...
| Автор | Peter Golenbock |
What happens when one harrowing incident changes your life, splitting it between before and after? On the fourth day of what Lara Naughton thought would be two weeks of bliss in Belize, she was kidnapped and assaulted by a man pretending to be a cabdriver. Held in the depths of the tropical forest—alone with the jaguar Man—she found that compassion was her only defense. Lara’s survival and journey of healing is poignant, compelling, and exceptional. Bending...
| Автор | Lara Naughton |
In a society uprooted by two world wars, industrialization, and dehumanizing technology, a revolutionary farmer turns to poetry to reconnect his people to the land and one another. A farmer, poet, activist, pastor, and mystic, Britts (1917–1949) has been called a British Wendell Berry. His story is no romantic agrarian elegy, but a life lived in the thick of history. As his country plunged headlong into World War II, he joined an international pacifist community, the Bruderhof, and was soon...
| Автор | Philip Britts |
This is a translation of the only known detailed account of the building of the notorious 262-mile long Thai-Burma Railway by one of the Japanese professional engineers who was involved in its construction. The author, Yoshihiko Futamatsu, provides an invaluable new source of historical and technical reference that complements the existing large body of literature in English on this subject. Futamatsu’s memoir also includes wide-ranging reflections on the course and conduct of ‘his’ war as well...
| Автор | Yoshihiko Futamatsu |
Uwe Ochsenknecht ist Kult. Filme wie Das Boot, Männer und Schtonk! haben ihn berühmt gemacht. Seit über vierzig Jahren gehört er zu den gefragtesten Schauspielern Deutschlands. Doch trotz seiner hohen Medienpräsenz hat er selbst sich mit Äußerungen zu seinem Privatleben stets zurückgehalten – bis jetzt. In seiner Autobiografie gibt Uwe Ochsenknecht erstmals ausführlich Einblick in sein Leben. Der erste Sex, die große Liebe, die umwerfenden Erfolge: Überraschend offenherzig erzählt er von...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
For anyone who's ever sensed that there must be something more . . . let the adventure begin.Using her own personal, professional, and exotic travel experiences, Laurie Gardner shows how we can derive life-changing insights and essential personal growth from any situation. Most importantly, we discover how to connect with our deepest desires and our highest selves, learning to honor our own intuition and truth. Laurie Gardner has Harvard degrees in comparative world religions, psychology,...
| Автор | Laurie Gardner |
Das Leben des «King of Rock'n'Roll» zum ersten Mal als lebendiges Feature! Vor 60 Jahren betrat ELVIS PRESLEY zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben ein Aufnahmestudio. Drei Jahre später lag ihm die Welt zu Füßen. DIE AUDIOSTORY beschreibt seine einzigartige Karriere – von Elvis' Anfängen, seiner Militärzeit in Deutschland und den Hollywood-Jahren bis hin zu seinem grandiosen Bühnen-Comeback. Viele O-Töne von Zeitzeugen (z.B. Elvis' Begleitmusiker) und aufschlussreiche Interviews ...
| Автор | Ксюша Ангел |
Including her survival of Japan’s Great Kanto Earthquake, this book is an enthralling account of Dorothy Britton’s life, loves and discoveries in an amazingly varied life and career. Bilingual from birth, she found the immense joy of blending in with peoples of different cultures simply by getting the sound right when speaking their languages to the extent that she herself sounds Japanese. While interviewing Talent Education’s Shinichi Suzuki, she realized his peerless ‘mother tongue method’ for...
| Автор | Dorothy Britton |
Max Blecher’s work of autobiographical fiction employs poetic prose to explore his ideas of self-identity and the body. An intimate and frank account, <em>Occurrence in the Immediate Unreality</em> is unsettling as it examines and lays bare what Blecher terms ‘the crisis of unreality’ in relation to the human condition and details the ‘bizarre adventure of being a man’ from the perspective of Blecher who never fully experienced manhood owing to his contraction of tuberculosis in...
| Автор | UNIV PLYMOUTH |
Sir John (Jack) Harold Plumb (1911 – 2001) was a great British historian. He led an extraordinary life of startling contrasts, much of it cloaked in secrecy. This memoir attempts to lift that cloak. / This is a very personal account written by Neil McKendrick, a fellow historian, a fellow Master of a Cambridge college and one his oldest and closest friends, who knew Plumb from his early days to his dying hours some fifty years after they first met. / This new memoir depicts a startlingly...
| Автор | Prof Neil McKendrick |
By any standards, Waldermar Lotnik's experience of the Second World War was remarkable. Fighting in the Polish Resistance, his unit was engaged in a bitter ethnic conflict with pro-Nazi Ukrainians. Unknown in the West, this struggle was, like that raging at the same time between Serbs and Croats, provoked by the Germans arming one ethnic group and unleashing it against a rival. Lotnik described with total and sometimes frightening candour his part in a war without rules that claimed at...
| Автор | Waldemar Lotnik |
Colin Dayan has one of the most original minds in America and also one of the fiercest. Here for the first time she turns her rigorous intellect toward her own life, onto her vexed relationship with her mother and subsequent suffering – and she does so with her usual uncompromising clarity. It’s rare for such a tormented work to be so masterful. In the Belly of her Ghost is not exactly an easy read, but it’s also very hard to put down. -Madison Smartt Bell <br> Colin Dayan’s searing...
| Автор | Colin Dayan |
In a world torn by hatred, injustice, and war, is there an answer to humanity’s quest for the good? Here is the true story of one man for whom this question was personal. Josef Ben-Eliezer was born in Germany to a Jewish family under the shadow of the Nazis. As a child he witnessed Hitler’s assault on Poland and then was forced into exile in Siberia, barely escaping with his life from starvation and disease as he made his way across southern Asia and finally arrived in the land of Israel. Faced...
| Автор | Josef Ben-Eliezer |
This is a beautiful translation by John Farndon (with Olga Nakston) of the late Ravil Bukharaev’s literary existential novel memoir in which he explains to his wife how his Muslim faith and ideals influenced both his love for her and his understanding of life and self, particularly his quest for truth and ‘authenticity’. Throughout their long marriage, the writers and poets Ravil Bukharaev and Lydia Grigorieva had written in separate rooms in their home. In this deeply-felt and poetic memoir,...
| Автор | Ravil Bukhraev |
My Korea: Forty Years Without a Horsehair Hat is a cultural introduction to Korea, part memoir and part miscellany, which introduces traditional and contemporary culture through a series of essays, stories, anecdotes and poems. The book seeks to tell the reader all that he or she needs to know for a full and rewarding life in Korea or as a visitor passing through. Confucianism, Buddhism, relationships, everyday living, language and literature are comprehensively covered. Newcomers to Korea are...
| Автор | Kevin O'Rourke |
A Hundred Days of Carnage, Twenty-Five Years of Rebirth In the space of a hundred days, a million Tutsi in Rwanda were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors. At the height of the genocide, as men with bloody machetes ransacked her home, Denise Uwimana gave birth to her third son. With the unlikely help of Hutu Good Samaritans, she and her children survived. Her husband and other family members were not as lucky. If this were only a memoir of those chilling days and the long, hard road to...
| Автор | Denise Uwimana |
How did a Catholic priest who died a failure become one of the world’s greatest poets? Discover in his own words the struggle for faith that gave birth to some of the best spiritual poetry of all time. Gerard Manley Hopkins deserves his place among the greatest poets in the English language. He ranks seventh among the most frequently reprinted English-language poets, surpassed only by Shakespeare, Donne, Blake, Dickinson, Yeats, and Wordsworth.Yet when the English Jesuit priest died of typhoid...
| Автор | Gerard Manley Hopkins |