Libros de Biografías y memorias 2382 resultados

Vittorio Hosle

Vittorio Hösle explora en este libro las raíces profundas de un rasgo fundamental de la naturaleza humana: el que tiene que ver con la risa, el humor y la comicidad, y lo hace dedicando un perspicaz y minucioso estudio al contenido de las películas de un verdadero clásico del humor contemporáneo: Woody Allen—flamante nuevo Premio Príncipe de Asturias de las Artes 2002—, de quie...

Graham Robb

A menudo sucede que la vida de los grandes hombres y mujeres no tiene el interés que su obra parece anunciar. En este sentido, el poeta Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) es el sueño de todo biógrafo. Y si a una vida intensa y apasionante se le añade la esmerada pluma de Graham Robb, gran especialista en la literatura francesa del XIX, el resultado es una biografía tan fascinante como ...

Pedro Salinas

Nos hallamos ante uno de los documentos más esperados, y más hermosos, de la literatura española del siglo xx: la colección inédita de cartas escritas por el poeta Pedro Salinas, uno de los máximos exponentes de la generación del 27, a la profesora estadounidense Katherine Whitmore, a quien conoció en el verano de 1932 y que, a lo largo de quince años, se convirtió en la destin...

Regina Zappa

Mi padre era paulistaMi abuelo, pernambucanoMi bisabuelo, mineroMi tatarabuelo, bahianoMi maestro soberanoFue Antonio Brasileiro.........Voy por la carretera hace muchos añosSoy un artista brasileño(Paratodos, 1993) "¿Puede fingir que ya me he muerto?", Chico disparó la pregunta con la cara más seria del mundo. Después, cerró los ojos, arrugó la nariz, echó la cabeza hacia atrá...

Marcus Luttrell

Four US Navy SEALS departed one clear night in early July 2005 for the mountainous Afghanistan-Pakistan border for a reconnaissance mission. Their task was to document the activity of an al Qaeda leader rumored to be very close to Bin Laden with a small army in a Taliban stronghold. Five days later, only one of those Navy SEALS made it out alive.This is the story of the only su...

Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas's startling account of how the underrated Dwight Eisenhower saved the world from nuclear holocaust. Upon assuming the presidency in 1953, Dwight Eisenhower set about to make good on his campaign promise to end the Korean War. Yet while Eisenhower was quickly viewed by many as a doddering lightweight, behind the bland smile and simple speech was a master tactician. T...

Gaillemin, Jean-Louis

Celui qui, à seize ans, confiait à son carnet «Je serai un génie et le monde m'admirera», est salué par André Breton en 1929 comme le nouveau champion du Surréalisme avant d'être stigmatisé, dix ans plus tard, sous l'anagramme d'Avida Dollars. Entre ces deux dates, se situe l'excellence d'une oeuvre révolutionnaire et visionnaire. Du purisme des années vingt aux grandes toiles ...

Mandela, Nelson

Nelson Mandela commence la rédaction de ses souvenirs en 1974 au pénitencier de Robben Island et l'achève après sa libération, en 1990, à l'issue de vingt-sept années de détention. Né et élevé dans la famille royale des Thembus, Mandela gagne Johannesburg où il ouvre le premier cabinet d'avocats noirs. Il devient un des leaders de l'ANC (Congrès national africain). Dès lors, à ...

Maradona Dalma

Dalma Maradona nació el 2 de abril de 1987. Un año antes de su nacimiento, luego de la victoria argentina en el Mundial de fútbol México 86, una encuesta arrojó como resultado que Diego Maradona era más famoso que Jesús. ¿Cómo es haber nacido hija del hombre más conocido del mundo? ¿Cómo es ese vínculo padre-hija? Hija de Dios es biografía, catarsis, ensayo y reflexión. Todos c...

Leroy Aarons

Bobby Griffith was an all-American boy ...and he was gay. Faced with an irresolvable conflict-for both his family and his religion taught him that being gay was "wrong"-Bobby chose to take his own life.Prayers for Bobby, nominated for a 1996 Lambda Literary Award, is the story of the emotional journey that led Bobby to this tragic conclusion. But it is also the story of Bobby's...

José Cecilio Del Valle

Varios Autores

Thirty acclaimed writers share their personal birth stories--the extraordinary, the ordinary, the terrifying, the sublime, the profane It's an elemental, almost animalistic urge--the expectant mother's hunger for birth narratives. Bookstores are filled with month-by-month pregnancy manuals, but the shelves are virtually empty of artful, entertaining, unvarnished accounts of lab...

Chrissie Wellington

In 2007, Chrissie Wellington shocked the triathlon world by winning the Ironman World Championships in Hawaii. As a newcomer to the sport and a complete unknown to the press, Chrissie's win shook up the sport. A LIFE WITHOUT LIMITS is the story of her rise to the top, a journey that has taken her around the world, from a childhood in England, to the mountains of Nepal, to the o...

Besnier, Patrick (1948-....)

Biographie - Linguistique et critique littéraire - Littérature ...

Esther Earl

A collection of the journals, fiction, letters, and sketches of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Photographs and essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther's story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her. ...

Novella Carpenter

Elizabeth Gilbert, author of "The Signature of All Things" and "Eat, Pray, Love""I'm so glad Novella Carpenter has written this book... The resulting journey is both brave and honest." Novella Carpenter picks up the phone one day to receive some disturbing news: her father has officially gone missing. Carpenter's father, George--a back-to-the-land homesteader and troubled Korea...

Leander Kahney

"An adulating biography of Apple's left-brained wunderkind, whose work continues to revolutionize modern technology." —Kirkus ReviewsIn 1997, Steve Jobs discovered a scruffy British designer toiling away at Apple's headquarters, surrounded by hundreds of sketches and prototypes. Jony Ive's collaboration with Jobs would produce some of the world's most iconic technology products...

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

La historia intima de las crisis, decisiones y retos que enfrento Hillary Rodham Clinton durante sus cuatro anos como sexagesima septima Secretaria de Estado de America, y de como esas experiencias motivan su vision del futuro. "Todos afrontamos decisiones dificiles en la vida," escribe Hillary Rodham Clinton en las primeras paginas de esta cronica personal de sus anos en el ep...

Robert L. O'connell

William Tecumseh Sherman was more than just one of our greatest generals. "Fierce Patriot" is a bold, revisionist portrait of how this iconic and enigmatic figure exerted an outsize impact on the American landscape--and the American character. America's first "celebrity" general, William Tecumseh Sherman was a man of many faces. Some of them were exalted in the public eye. Othe...

Clinton, Hillary Rodham

In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, she expected to return to representing New York in the United States Senate. To her surprise, her former rival for the Democratic Party nomination, newly elected President Barack Obama, asked her to serve in his administration as Secretary of State. This memoir is the story of the four extraordinary and historic years that followed...

Joseph Luzzi

A poignant personal account from a child of Calabrian peasants whose lifelong study of Italy unveils the mysteries of this "Bel Paese," "Beautiful Land," where artistic genius and political corruption have gone hand in hand from the time of Michelangelo to "The""Sopranos"The child of Italian immigrants and an award-winning scholar of Italian literature, in "My Two Italies" Jose...

Bowen, James

James is a street musician struggling to make ends meet.Bob is a stray cat looking for somewhere warm to sleep. When James and Bob meet, they forge a never-to-be-forgotten friendship that has been charming readers from Thailand to Turkey. A Street Cat Named Bob is an international sensation, landing on the bestseller list in England for 52 consecutive weeks and selling in 26 co...

Hampton Sides

"New York Times" bestselling author Hampton Sides returns with a white-knuckle tale of polar exploration and survival in the Gilded Age In the late nineteenth century, people were obsessed by one of the last unmapped areas of the globe: the North Pole. No one knew what existed beyond the fortress of ice rimming the northern oceans, although theories abounded. The foremost carto...

Young, Erin Taylor

You don't always know what you're getting into when you bring home a puppy. Enter Henry, a boxer who suffers from Supreme Dictator of the Universe Syndrome. He vandalizes his obedience school, leaps through windows, cheats death at every turn, and generally causes his long-suffering owner Erin Taylor Young to wonder what on earth she did that God would send this dog to derail h...

Lewis Buzbee

A captivating meditation on education from the author of "The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop "In "Blackboard," Lewis Buzbee looks back over a lifetime of experiences in schools and classrooms, from kindergarten to college and beyond. He offers fascinating histories of the key ideas informing educational practice over the centuries, which have shaped everything from class size to the l...

Melinek, Judy

The fearless memoir of a young forensic pathologist's "rookie season" as a NYC medical examiner, and the cases--hair-raising and heartbreaking and impossibly complex--that shaped her as both a physician and a mother. Just two months before the September 11 terrorist attacks, Dr. Judy Melinek began her training as a New York City forensic pathologist. With her husband T.J. and t...

Flinn, Kathleen

A delicious memoir from the author of "The Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry" In this family history interwoven with recipes, Kathleen Flinn returns readers to the mix of food and memoir beloved by readers of her bestselling "The Sharper Your""Knife, the Less You Cry." "Burnt Toast Makes You Sing Good" explores the very beginnings of her love affair with food and its connect...

Pol, Jan / Fisher, David

The star of "The Incredible Dr. Pol "shares his amusing, and often poignant, tales from his four decades as a vet in rural Michigan. Dr. Jan Pol is not your typical veterinarian. Born and raised the in Netherlands on a dairy farm, he is the star of Nat Geo Wild's hit show "The Incredible Dr. Pol" and has been treating animals in rural Michigan since the 1970s. Dr. Pol's more th...

Jauhar, Sandeep

In his acclaimed memoir Intern, Sandeep Jauhar chronicled the formative years of his residency at a prestigious New York City hospital. "Doctored," his harrowing follow-up, observes the crisis of American medicine through the eyes of an attending cardiologist.Hoping for the stability he needs to start a family, Jauhar accepts a position at a massive teaching hospital on the out...

Spivack, Emily

Everyone has a memoir in miniature in at least one piece of clothing. In Worn Stories, Emily Spivack has collected over sixty of these clothing-inspired narratives from cultural figures and talented storytellers. First-person accounts range from the everyday to the extraordinary, such as artist Marina Abramovic on the boots she wore to walk the Great Wall of China; musician Ros...