Биографии и Мемуары
35106 кн.
Originally published in the early 1950s, The Scalpel, the Sword celebrates the turbulent career of Dr. Norman Bethune (1890-1939), a brilliant surgeon, campaigner against private medicine, communist, and graphic artist. Bethune belonged to that international contingent of individuals who recognized the threat of fascism in the world and went out courageously to try to defeat it. Born in Gravenhurst, Ontario, Bethune introduced innovative techniques in treating battlefield injuries and...
| Автор | Ted Allan |
Improbable, heart-wrenching, and uplifting, Jeremiah Brown’s journey from novice rower to Olympic silver medallist in under four years is a story about chasing a goal with everything you’ve got. After nearly being incarcerated at age seventeen and becoming a father at nineteen, Jeremiah Brown manages to grow up into a responsible young adult. But while juggling the demands of a long-term relationship, fatherhood, mortgage payments, and a nine-to-five banking career, he feels something is...
| Автор | Jeremiah Brown |
These private recollections of longtime Japan resident and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie capture the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor. From the private musings of author Donald Richie, comes this extensive collection of brief written «portraits» which capture the personalities of 54 different Japanese people—some famous, some notorious, and some unknown. First written in 1987, Japanese Portraits presents one author's vision of Japanese culture...
| Автор | Donald Richie |
A candid and intimate chapter in the life of a modern woman, Yvette Eastman's vivid narrative also contributes richly to the life story of Theodore Dreiser. Dearest Wilding: A Memoir records the journey that took Yvette Szekely from an upper-middle-class scholar's home in Budapest to the intellectual and artistic centers of urban America in the 1920s and 1930s. In 1929 sixteen-year-old Yvette Szekely met Dreiser, who was fifty-eight at the time, and within a year he became her...
| Автор | Yvette Eastman |
This book tells the fascinating history of the life of Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu — Japan's most famous Shogun. Since its initial appearance, A.L.Sadler's imposing biography of the Japanese Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu has been recognized as an outstanding contribution to the knowledge of Japanese history. It is also considered the standard reference work on the period that saw the entrenchment of feudalism in Japan and the opening of some two and a half centuries of rigid isolation...
| Автор | A. L. Sadler |
Winner of the PEN/Ackerley Prize 2013. At the tender age of fourteen, Richard Holloway left his home town of Alexandria, north of Glasgow, and travelled hundreds of miles to be educated and trained for the priesthood at an English monastery. By the age of twenty-five he had been ordained and was working in the slums of Glasgow. Through the forty years that followed, Richard touched the lives of many people as he rose to one of the highest positions in the Anglican Church. But behind his...
| Автор | Richard Holloway |
A native of northern Russia, Alexander Baranov was a middle-aged merchant trader with no prior experience in the fur trade when, in 1790, he arrived in North America to assume command over Russia’s highly profitable sea otter business. With the title of chief manager, he strengthened his leadership role after the formation of the Russian American Company in 1799. An adventuresome, dynamic, and charismatic leader, he proved to be something of a commercial genius in Alaska, making huge profits for...
| Автор | Kenneth N. Owens |
The name of John Muir has come to stand for the protection of wild land and wilderness in both America and Britain. Born in Dunbar in the east of Scotland in 1838, Muir is famed as the father of American conservation, and as the first person to promote the idea of National Parks. Combining acute observation with a sense of inner discovery, Muir's writings of his travels through some of the greatest landscapes on Earth, including the Carolinas, Florida, Alaska and those lands which were to...
| Автор | John Muir |
In this astonishing account, Iceberg Slim reveals the secret inner world of the pimp, and the smells, sounds, fears and petty triumphs of his world. A legendary figure of the Chicago underworld, this is his story: from defending his mother against the men in their lives to becoming a giant of the streets. A seething tale of brutality, cunning and greed, Pimp is a harrowing portrait of life on the wrong side of the tracks, and a rich warning from a true survivor.
| Автор | Iceberg Slim |
When people find themselves displaced, what do they do to re-create, their homes? And what does home mean to them? The lives in this book span a wealth of definitions. <br><br>Finding Home: How Americans Prevail is about people who have become dislodged from their center, the place they call home, and about how they have righted themselves. Everyday Americans elaborate on how they have solved problems our society hands us on a daily basis.<br><br>Included are the voices...
| Автор | Sally Ooms |
Ted Van Dyk, a shrewd veteran of countless national political and policy fights, casts fresh light on many of the leading personalities and watershed events of American politics since JFK. He was a Pentagon intelligence analyst during the Berlin Crisis of 1961 and an aide to Jean Monnet and other leaders of the European movement before serving at the Johnson White House as Vice President Humphrey’s senior advisor and alter ego. He was involved in that administration’s Great Society triumphs and...
| Автор | Ted Van Dyk |
This audacious and illuminating memoir by Richard Baum, a senior China scholar and sometime policy advisor, reflects on forty years of learning about and interacting with the People�s Republic of China, from the height of Maoism during the author�s UC Berkeley student days in the volatile 1960s through globalization. Anecdotes from Baum�s professional life illustrate the alternately peculiar, frustrating, fascinating, and risky activity of China watching...
| Автор | Richard Baum |
One of the most fascinating and controversial novels of the twentieth century, Vladimir Nabokov’s Lolita is renown for its innovative style and notorious for its subject matter and influence on popular culture. A Reader’s Guide to Nabokov’s “Lolita” carries readers through the intricacies of Nabokov’s work and helps them achieve a better understanding of his rich artistic design. The book opens with a detailed chronology of Nabokov’s life and literary career. Chapters include an analysis of the...
| Автор | Julian Connolly |
Virginia Claypool Meredith's role in directly managing the affairs of a large and prosperous farm in east-central Indiana opened doors that were often closed to women in late nineteenth century America. Her status allowed her to campaign for the education of women, in general, and rural women, in particular. While striving to change society's expectations for women, she also gave voice to the important role of women in the home. A lifetime of dedication made Virginia Meredith...
| Автор | Frederick Whitford |
In the early evening on October 1, 2003, Christina Crosby was three miles into a seventeen mile bicycle ride, intent on reaching her goal of 1,000 miles for the riding season. She was a respected senior professor of English who had celebrated her fiftieth birthday a month before. As she crested a hill, she caught a branch in the spokes of her bicycle, which instantly pitched her to the pavement. Her chin took the full force of the blow, and her head snapped back. In that instant, she was...
| Автор | Christina Crosby |
<P>Tempest-Tossed is the first full biography of the passionate, fascinating youngest daughter of the «Fabulous Beecher» family—one of America's most high-powered families of the nineteenth century. Older sister Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Brother Henry Ward Beecher was one of America's most influential ministers, and sister Catherine Beecher wrote pivotal works on women's rights and educational reform. And then there was Isabella...
| Автор | Susan Campbell |
Ich oszczędności wyparowały po kryzysie w 2008 roku lub z powodu różnych życiowych wypadków. Zamiast przejść na zasłużoną emeryturę, żegnają się z wygodnym życiem przedstawicieli klasy średniej, które wiedli dotąd. Sprzedają domy, bo nie mogą ich już utrzymać, przesiadają się do kamperów, przyczep, vanów czy pikapów i ruszają w drogę. Jeżdżą od stanu do stanu w poszukiwaniu dorywczej pracy – na kempingach, przy zbiorach owoców i warzyw, w centrach logistycznych Amazona. Dla wielu firm to...
| Автор | Джессика Брудер |
Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwin's parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwin's personal journey from the eve of war in Rhodesia to his experience fighting in the civil war that he detests to his...
| Автор | Peter Godwin |
От Ростова-на-Дону до Рио-де-Жанейро (так фишка легла). Вся правда о себе, своих родных и событиях в СССР и за рубежом. Девушка и юноша, два десятиклассника, встретились, сразу подружились, будто ждали друг друга, и начали планировать свою совместную жизнь: смешно, жизнерадостно и чётко – учимся, женимся, а там видно будет. Однако все сложилось довольно неожиданно: молодая семья, детишки, служба в глубинке, в гарнизоне, а потом… Рио-де-Жанейро, Нью-Йорк, Сальвадор Дали и другие события из жизни...
| Автор | Галина Курьянова |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2021 |
Прилетел однажды из теплых краев в тридевятое царство Чужеземец. Из жалости приютил он у себя молодую Вдову с сыном Змеем. Вдова и Чужеземец не любили друг друга, но решили жить вместе. Хотелось им построить дворец, чтобы в старости было, где согреться, но знаний и умений не было ни у Чужеземца, ни у Вдовы. Родили они еще двоих детей: Феечку и Волчонка. С каждым годом дворец их рос, но стены его были хлипкими, а внутреннее убранство страшным. И вот возвысился дворец – снаружи красивый, а...
| Автор | Зульфия Талыбова |
| Жанр | Современная русская и зарубежная проза, Сказки народов мира, Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2022 |
Книга Ирины Николаевны Зориной – из разряда подлинных свидетельств поколения шестидесятников о судьбах общества и страны. Ирина Зорина ясно показывает надежды оттепели и утраты глухих 1970-х; анализирует шанс, исторически предоставленный поколению перестройкой. В галерее лиц – лучшие люди только что ушедшей эпохи: Юрий Карякин, Юрий Любимов, Алесь Адамович и другие знаковые фигуры политики (Евгений Примаков) и культуры (Наум Коржавин, Владимир Высоцкий, Эрнст Неизвестный). И. Н. Зорина –...
| Автор | Ирина Зорина |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары |
| Год | 2020 |
О любви обычно пишут что-то хорошее или душещипательное. Однако, когда это светлое чувство соединяется с военной службой… может произойти и самое невероятное… В четвёртой части серии "О чём молчит море" автор рассказывает об особенностях амурных дел в среде нахимовцев, о рыцарских поступках и подлости, о преданности и изменах и, конечно же, о прекрасных дамах, благодаря которым и родились истории, о многих из которых моряки стараются молчать…
| Автор | Валентин Одоевский |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Психология и психотерапия |
| Год | 2023 |
«Лолита» Владимира Набокова не просто произвела фурор среди современников писателя – она и по сей день остается одним из самых популярных романов в мире. Однако мало кто знает, что сюжет книги во многом вдохновлен историей похищения Салли Хорнер, одиннадцатилетней девочки, о которой Набоков узнал из газет. Сара Вайнман, журналистка и редактор сайта CrimeReads, впервые с 1950-х годов проливает свет на трагическую судьбу Хорнер и описывает обстоятельства, в которых был создан нашумевший роман...
| Автор | Сара Вайнман |
| Жанр | Культурология, Биографии и Мемуары |
Стихи — это записи в дневнике времени, а точнее, подробности экзекуций. Поэтическое искусство — это отдушина сердца, и прелесть в том, что ты пишешь о самой главной боли своей жизни или юношеских лет, а этого никто не поймёт. Я писал для себя, пытаясь эстетически удовлетворить собственный рассудок. Делюсь, так как некоторые факты моей биографии могут избавить вас от моих ошибок или же вас могут заинтересовать мои размышления. Приятного прочтения и удачи в понимании моего полёта мыслей.
| Автор | Георгий Кройтор |
| Жанр | Биографии и Мемуары, Поэзия |
| Год | 2022 |