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Libros de Biografías y memorias 2366 resultados

  • LINDBERGH
    LINDBERGH
    SCOTT BERG
    Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh—renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to America's entry into World War II. Lindbergh's is "a dramatic and disturbing American story," says the Los Angeles...
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  • MORE FOOL ME
    MORE FOOL ME
    STEPHEN FRY
    By his early thirties, Stephen Fry?writer, comedian, star of stage and screen?had, as they say, “made it.” Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him.As the ’80s drew to a close, he began to burn the candle at both ends. Writing an...
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  • MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
    MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN AMERICA
    MARK PERRY
    At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a brilliant commander whose combined-arms operation in th...
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  • MOORE´S LAW
    MOORE´S LAW
    ARNOLD THACKRAY, DAVID BROCK AND RACHEL JONES
    Our world today--from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon--has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history a...
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  • PAROLES D'ETOILES
    PAROLES D'ETOILES
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  • BLACKOUT
    BLACKOUT
    SARAH HEPOLA
    "It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a blackout feels like."For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly staye...
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  • IN ORDER TO LIVE
    IN ORDER TO LIVE
    YEONMI PARK
    Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn’t even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die —from starvation, or disease, or even execution. In Order to Live is the story of Park’s struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country ...
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  • TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
    TEN THOUSAND SAINTS
    HENDERSON, ELEANOR
    A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud...
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  • CYCLE OF LIES
    CYCLE OF LIES
    JULIET MACUR
    The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall.In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be grant...
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  • ERNESTO GUEVARA
    ERNESTO GUEVARA
    PACO IGNACIO TAIBO II
    Desde millones de fotos, carteles, videos, camisetas, postales, discos, libros, frases, testimonios -fantasmas todos ellos de la sociedad industrial, que no sabe depositar sus mitos en la sobriedad de la memoria-, el Che nos vigila. Mas alla de toda parafernalia, retorna. Casi treinta anos despues de su muerte, su imagen cruza generaciones, su mito persigue los delirios de gran...
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  • CARTAS A UN JOVEN NOVELISTA
    CARTAS A UN JOVEN NOVELISTA
    VARGAS LLOSA, MARIO
    «Éste no es un manual para aprender a escribir, algo que los verdaderos escritores aprenden por sí mismos. Es un ensayo sobre la manera como nacen y se escriben las novelas, según mi experiencia personal [...]. Se trata, pues, de un libro muy personal y, en cierto modo, de una discreta autobiografía.» Mario Vargas Llosa «El escritor siente íntimamente que escribir es lo mejor q...
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  • KARL MARX
    KARL MARX
    FRANCIS WHEEN
    La biografía más humana, cercana y amena de uno de los filósofos más influyentes de todos los tiempos. Las ideas de Karl Marx son probablemente las que más han influido en el mundo después de las de Jesucristo. En esta apasionante y en ocasiones muy divertida biografía se nos presenta por primera vez a Karl Marx en su fa ceta más humana. Un apasionado agitador, que pasó casi to...
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  • KAFKA, LOS AÑOS DE LAS DECISIONES
    KAFKA, LOS AÑOS DE LAS DECISIONES
    REINER STACH
    Entre 1910 y 1915 el joven, libre e influenciable Kafka se transforma en un funcionario responsable y a la vez en el maestro de la pesadilla precisa y del humor kafkiano. En poco tiempo escribe La condena, La metamorfosis, El desaparecido y El proceso, y durante estos años también se establecen todas las directrices que determinarán el camino de Kafka hasta el final: el encuent...
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  • HARD CHOICES
    HARD CHOICES
    CLINTON, HILLARY
    Hillary Rodham Clinton’s inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is “a subtle, finely calibrated work…with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world” (The New York Times).In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United State...
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  • AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE: A MARVELOUS MEMOIR
    AMAZING FANTASTIC INCREDIBLE: A MARVELOUS MEMOIR
    LEE, STAN / PETER A. DAVID / COLLEEN DORAN
    In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he h...
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  • REAGAN
    REAGAN
    H. W. BRANDS
    Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the twentieth century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half c...
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    Q. 350

  • INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
    INCIDENTS IN THE LIFE OF A SLAVE GIRL
    HARRIET JACOBS
    Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War.The child and grandchild of slaves -- and therefore forbidden by law to read and write -- Harriet Jacobs was defiant in her efforts to gain freedom...
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  • EL REVOLUCIONARIO PEPE MUJICA
    EL REVOLUCIONARIO PEPE MUJICA
    A / D ALFAGUARA
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  • STEVE JOBS
    STEVE JOBS
    BLUMENTHAL, KAREN
    Autodidacta, visionario, genio, intuitivo, iconoclassta, diferente, inventor.Steve Jobs, el hombre que pensaba diferente. Un libro inspirador para los JÓVENES que no están dispuestos a renunciar a sus sueños.Más que aparatos electrónicos, lo que Jobs dejó a los jóvenes fueron importantes lecciones de vida: un modelo de coraje, de iniciativa y de creatividad. Ésta es su historia...
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  • EL PRECIO DE LA LIBERTAD (MEMORIAS)
    EL PRECIO DE LA LIBERTAD (MEMORIAS)
    MARIO ONAINDIA
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  • AUTOBIOGRAFIA INTELECTUAL
    AUTOBIOGRAFIA INTELECTUAL
    PAUL RICOEUR
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  • BOY MEETS DEPRESSION: OR LIFE SUCKS AND THEN YOU LIVE
    BOY MEETS DEPRESSION: OR LIFE SUCKS AND THEN YOU LIVE
    KEVIN BREEL
    "A short, deeply personal, and ultimately uplifting practical narrative on depression from a young mental health activist who has already inspired millions.Teenagers, educators, and parents alike, through the lens of his stories and battles, will be given a gritty message of hope, light, and inspiration"-...
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  • ORIGINAL GANGSTER
    ORIGINAL GANGSTER
    LUCAS, FRANK
    A suspenseful memoir from the real life American gangster, Frank Lucas In his own words, Frank Lucas recounts his life as the former heroin dealer and organized crime boss who ran Harlem during the late 1960s and early 1970s. From being taken under the wing of old time gangster Bumpy Johnson, through one of the most successful drug smuggling operations, to being sentenced to se...
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    Q. 170

  • THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
    THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
    DAVID MCCULLOUGH
    David McCullough once again tells a dramatic story of people and technology, this time about the courageous brothers who taught the world how to fly, Wilbur and Orville Wright"--Provided by publisher. ...
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    Q. 300

  • LAS AMAPOLAS DEL OLVIDO
    LAS AMAPOLAS DEL OLVIDO
    ANDREA GILLIES
    Andrea Gillies es una periodista británica que decidió dejarlo todo para dedicarse a cuidar a su suegra, Nancy, con principios de alzhéimer, en una vieja casa en el norte de Escocia. Las amapolas del olvido es el relato estremecedor, enternecedor, maravillosamente bien narrado, de su experiencia como cuidadora, como persona que se dedica íntegramente al bienestar de otro y a in...
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  • I AM JENNIE
    I AM JENNIE
    KETCHAM, JENNIE
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  • MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
    MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
    JORDI GARCÍA / JORDI GRACIA
    En el año Cervantes Taurus publicaMiguel de Cervantes. La conquista de la ironía, un libro llamado a convertirse en la nueva biografía de referencia de nuestro autor más universal.Ni desvalido ni predestinado, Cervantes logró escapar de su tiempo para plantarse en el centro del nuestro. Sólo los clásicos viven como auténticos modernos pero ninguno lo es tanto como Cervantes en ...
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  • VIDA EN ROJO, LA
    VIDA EN ROJO, LA
    JORGE G. CASTAÑEDA
    La vida de Ernesto Guevara de la Serna, el Che, es relatada aquí a la luz de numerosos testimonios y documentos, tan diversos como polémicos, y desde los orígenes hasta nuestros días. Cuando se celebra el 30 aniversario de la muerte del Che, Jorge Castañeda desentraña las facetas más recónditas del hombre que marcó a una época y sus ideales.Jorge G. Castañeda interroga a los te...
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  • SOY ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC: MI HISTORIA CONTADA A DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
    SOY ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC: MI HISTORIA CONTADA A DAVID LAGERCRANTZ
    ZLATAN IBRAHIMOVIC / LAGERCRANTZ, DAVID
    Esta autobiografía es una espectacular visión de la vida de un genio desde las entrañas de una gran estrella mundial.En esta autobiografía los lectores encontrarán la trayectoria, los escándalos y la relación de Zlatan Ibrahimovic o "Ibra", con otras estrellas mundiales como Ronaldo, Ronaldinho, Vieira y Lionel Messi. También, por primera vez, descubrirán lo que realmente suced...
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  • ANA FRANK
    ANA FRANK
    MELISSA MÜLLER
    El diario de Ana Frank es uno de los documentos más impresionantes del régimen de terror nacionalsocialista, un gran testimonio de humanidad y tolerancia y, al mismo tiempo, el legado de una joven y talentosa autora. Pero ¿quién fue Ana Frank, cómo pasó su infancia, cómo era su entorno familiar? En esta biografía revisada y ampliada con material inédito, Melissa Mu¨ller logra t...
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