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Giorgio Vasari’s biographical collection “The Lives of the Artists” is one of the most frequently cited art history books since the 16th century. It is also the first comprehensive book on art history ever created. In the work, Vasari brings together facts, knowledge, and sometimes gossip about almost 200 Renaissance artists. Most of the biographies are focused on Florentines and Romans, though Vasari also wrote about other European artists. “The Lives of Artists” not only discusses the...
| Автор | Giorgio Vasari |
This is the first and only biography of Jeane Kirkpatrick, who became an iconic figure in the 1980s as Ronald Reagan's UN ambassador and the most forceful presence in the administration, outside of the President himself, in shaping the Reagan Doctrine and fighting the Cold War to a victorious conclusion.Political Woman traces the complex interlock between Kirkpatrick's personal and professional lives using her as yet unarchived private papers and extensive interviews with her and her...
| Автор | Peter Collier |
This unforgettable memoir, by one of our most gifted writers, introduces us to the young Toby Wolff, by turns tough and vulnerable, crafty and bumbling, and ultimately winning. Separated by divorce from his father and brother, Toby and his mother are constantly on the move, yet they develop an extraordinarily close, almost telepathic relationship. As Toby fights for identity and self-respect against the unrelenting hostility of a new stepfather, his experiences are at once poignant and comical,...
| Автор | Tobias Wolff |
"[a] fascinating and indispensable book."<B>—Christopher Knight, <I>Los Angeles Times</I></B><BR /><BR /><B>Best Books of 2018—<I>The Guardian</I> </B><BR /><BR /><B>Gold Medal for Contribution to Publishing, 2018 California Book Awards</B><BR /><BR /> Carleton Watkins (1829–1916) is widely considered the greatest American...
| Автор | Tyler Green |
The first-ever biography of Mozhdah Jamalzadah: refugee, pop singer, and champion of women’s rights. Many have tried to silence her, but Mozhdah Jamalzadah remains the most powerful female voice of her generation in Afghanistan, boldly speaking out about women’s rights. Voice of Rebellion charts her incredible journey, including arriving in Canada as a child refugee, setting her father’s protest poem to music (and making it a #1 hit), performing that song for...
| Автор | Roberta Staley |
Woodfox was the subject of a major New Yorker profile by Rachel Aviv in January 2017, almost a year after his release from prison in February 2016, and featured in the documentary Cruel and Unusual about the Angola 3. Many individual journalists have doggedly followed his story throughout the years, from national publications like the New York Times and the Guardian to the local Louisiana Times-Picayune . His story will shine a bright light on the inhumanity of solitary confinement and...
| Автор | Albert Woodfox |
From an award-winning essayist and acclaimed poet comes this radiant, observant, and warmly funny memoir about childhood, family, and small-town life. Carla Funk grew up in a place of logging trucks and God, pellet guns and parables. Every Sunday, she sat with her mother and brother in the same pew at the Mennonite church while her dad stayed home with his cigarettes and a fridge full of whiskey. In these tender, humorous stories, Funk stitches together the wondrous and the mundane: making...
| Автор | Carla Funk |
Julius was as famous as a hollywood celebrity in Norway. He was featured in numerous news articles and on television programs, inspired a pop song and even became a character in best-selling books Uniquely told – uses the same method and style of a contemporary biography, but to explore the life of an animal and not a human being. Explores the ramifications of turning animals into celebrities Will appeal to animal lovers Includes fascinating details about wild and captive chimpanzee...
| Автор | Alfred Fidjestøl |
Seán Hartnett left the British army in 2005, operating as a covert surveillance technician at JCU-NI, the top-secret counter-terrorism unit in Northern Ireland. His experiences were published in the bestselling Charlie One , the book the British Ministry of Defence tried to ban. But this wasn't the end of Hartnett's career in counter-espionage. After operations in South Africa, Australia and London, he arrived home to Ireland, just as the Celtic Tiger was about to implode, but not...
| Автор | Seán Hartnett |
The Prison Letters of Countess Markievicz were first published in 1932 as a classic of feminist literature. Now restored to their original form by leading Markievicz expert, Lindie Naughton, this new edition features previously unpublished letters that Markievicz sent to family members and friends, offering a unique insight into her extraordinary life. After escaping the firing squad for her part in the 1916 Easter Rising, she was sentenced to life imprisonment and transferred to Mountjoy Jail...
| Автор | Lindie Naughton |
<P>Come home Charley Patton is a moving and an imaginative memoir documenting the Civil Rights Era and contemporary southern culture. Intricately layered and deeply arresting, Ralph Lemon's research on the African American experience intertwines personal anecdotes and family remembrances with diaristic accounts of the making of a dance, as Lemon journeys the mythic roads of migration—visiting the sites of lynchings, following the paths of Civil Rights marches, and meeting the...
| Автор | Ralph Lemon |
<P>When artist, illustrator, writer, and adventurer Rockwell Kent first published N by E in a limited edition in 1930, his account of a voyage on a 33-foot cutter from New York Harbor to the rugged shores of Greenland quickly became a collectors' item. Little wonder, for readers are immediately drawn to Kent's vivid descriptions of the experience; we share «the feeling of wind and wet and cold, of lifting seas and steep descents, of rolling over as the wind gusts hit,»...
| Автор | Rockwell Kent |
<P>The Lives of Robert Ryan provides an inside look at the gifted, complex, intensely private man whom Martin Scorsese called «one of the greatest actors in the history of American film.» The son of a Chicago construction executive with strong ties to the Democratic machine, Ryan became a star after World War II on the strength of his menacing performance as an anti-Semitic murderer in the film noir Crossfire. Over the next quarter century he created a gallery of brooding,...
| Автор | J.R. Jones |
<P>In August 1918 Rockwell Kent and his 9-year-old son settled into a primitive cabin on an island near Seward, Alaska. Kent, who during the next three decades became America's premier graphic artist, printmaker, and illustrator, was seeking time, peace, and solitude to work on his art and strengthen ties with his son. This reissue of the journal chronicling their 7-month odyssey describes what Kent called «an adventure of the spirit.» He soon discovers how deeply he is...
| Автор | Rockwell Kent |
A world dominated by America and driven by cheap oil, easy credit, and conspicuous consumption is unraveling before our eyes. In this powerful, deeply humanistic book, Grace Lee Boggs, a legendary figure in the struggle for justice in America, shrewdly assesses the current crisis—political, economical, and environmental—and shows how to create the radical social change we need to confront new realities. A vibrant, inspirational force, Boggs has participated in all of the twentieth century’s...
| Автор | Grace Lee Boggs |
<P>Martha Hill (1900–;1995) was one of the most influential figures of twentieth century American dance. Her vision and leadership helped to establish dance as a serious area of study at the university level and solidify its position as a legitimate art form. Setting Hill's story in the context of American postwar culture and women's changing status, this riveting biography shows us how Hill led her colleagues in the development of American contemporary dance...
| Автор | Janet Mansfield Soares |
W TEJ KSIĄŻCE WSZYSTKO KRĘCI SIĘ WOKÓŁ SEKSU Robert Ziębiński nie ma oporów, by pytać. Rozmówcy nie mają oporów, by odpowiadać. „Porno” odsłania ukryte pod płaszczykiem wstydu kulisy branży rozkoszy. Filmowe porno istnieje od ponad stu lat. Od około siedemdziesięciu w takiej formie, jaką znamy dziś. Mamy więc co najmniej cztery pokolenia ludzi, którzy wciąż wierzą w to, że porno to prawda. W Hollywood rocznie powstaje ponad trzynaście tysięcy filmów porno, z których dochód to około...
| Автор | Robert Ziębiński |
Dans un siècle dominé par des souverains absolutistes et des aristocrates prétentieux, la famille Mozart a traversé l'Europe à la recherche d'une consécration artistique et un travail prestigieux. L'ambition du père Léopold et le génie du fils, Wolfgang ,suffiront-ils pour atteindre cet objectif? Le récit de leur vie, pour les connaître et les comprendre, et les suivre pas à pas le long des étapes de leurs voyages aventureux. Vie et aventures de la famille Mozart dans l'Europe du 18ème siècle:...
| Автор | Diego Minoia |
Kolejna fascynująca książka Kamila Janickiego! Kamil Janicki, autor m.in. bestsellerowych Dam złotego wieku , powraca do historii kobiet i proponuje pasjonującą opowieść o czterech żonach jednego z najważniejszych władców w historii Polski. Jadwiga Andegaweńska, Anna Cylejska, Elżbieta Granowska i Zofia Holszańska – żony Władysława Jagiełły – wielkiego monarchy, przebiegłego polityka i człowieka, który szczęście w miłości odnalazł dopiero u schyłku swego życia. Wraz z nim na tronie zasiadały...
| Автор | Kamil Janicki |
To lektura dla dorosłych. Kobiety, które odważyły się odnaleźć swoją seksualność i – przede wszystkim – tożsamość, w rozmowach z dwójką doświadczonych seksuologów opowiadają o własnych doświadczeniach i poszukiwaniach. Od tysięcy lat pozycja społeczna kobiet, a co za tym idzie, ich seksualność były kształtowane przez dominujący w większości społeczeństw i kultur patriarchat. Dopiero w XXI wieku rewolucja seksualna dała kobietom prawo do eksplorowania własnej seksualności. Bohaterki tej...
| Автор | Andrzej Depko |
Balaski i cienie II Rzeczypospolitej. Sensacje Celebryci Skandale Szalone życie celebrytów II RP. Ówczesne smaki i obyczaje kulinarne. Kolonialne ambicje Polski. Romanse w Zakopanem. Czy Dymsza był zdrajcą? Morskie opowieści spod biało-czerwonej bandery. Na czym polega fenomen Mieczysława Fogga? Tajemniczy kasiarz Szpicbródka. Prawda i legenda o Gdyni oraz Wolnym Mieście Gdańsku. Michał Waszyński – światowej sławy polski reżyser. Konszachty polityków z gangsterami. Niepowtarzalny klimat i...
| Автор | Sławomir Koper |
Seria: Niemiecka Literatura Kobiet (3), ISSN 2719-8170 Sophie Mereau-Brentano (1770–1806) należała do nielicznego grona pierwszych profesjonalnych pisarek niemieckich. Dane jej było bowiem publikować pod własnym nazwiskiem, wydawać czasopisma czy pertraktować z wydawcami. Swoją pozycję na rynku wydawniczym zawdzięczała jednakże w dużej mierze wsparciu „kolegów” po piórze – Friedricha Schillera i Achima von Arnima. Publikacja "Sophie Mereau-Brantano. „Dyletantka” na weimarskim...
| Автор | Группа авторов |
Põhja-Koreas üles kasvanud lapsena oli Hyeonseo Lee üks miljonitest salatseva ja jõhkra kommunistliku režiimi kätte lõksu langenud inimestest. Tema kodu Hiina piiri ääres andis talle veidi aimu maailmast, mis jäi Erakliku Kuningriigi vanglapiiridest välja. Kui 1990. aastatel tabas maad näljahäda, hakkas ta kahtlema, küsimusi esitama ja taipama, et teda on terve elu ajupestud. Võttes arvesse repressioone, vaesust ja nälga, mille tunnistajaks ta oli, ei saanud tema kodumaa kindlasti olla „parim...
| Автор | Hyeonseo Lee |
See raamat ei ole Jürgen Kloppi elulugu. Kui tahate fakte tema elu ja karjääri kohta, siis selleks on raamatud olemas. Ma ei tahtnud kirjutada tüüpilist biograafiat, sest ta pole tüüpiline treener. Olen üsna kindel, et ta pole ka tüüpiline inimene. Kirjutades kellestki, keda imetled, püüad sa sellest inimesest aru saada. Mina uurisin asju, mis eristavad teda teistest jalgpallitreeneritest. Tema huumorimeelt. Tema piiritut südamlikkust. Tema spontaanset nutikust. Tema võimet inspireerida ja...
| Автор | Anthony Quinn |