Libros de Biografías y memorias 2368 resultados

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...

Ephron, Delia

Bestselling author Delia Ephron shares a deeply personal collection of stories and essays, anchored by a loving remembrance of her sister Nora. In "Sister Mother Husband Dog, "Delia Ephron brings her trademark wit and effervescent prose to a series of autobiographical essays about life, love, sisterhood, movies, and family. In "Losing Nora," she deftly captures the rivalry, mut...

Berger, Jody

"Berger movingly details her journey to healing. Her indefatigable quest...underscores the fact that there is no such thing as one size fits all in medicine."--Gayatri Devi, MD, clinical associate professor, NYU School of Medicine, and author of A Calm BrainTaking charge of your health has never been so important as it is today.Jody Berger has discovered this first hand: at for...

Huey P. Newton

Eloquently tracing the birth of a revolutionary, Huey P. Newton's famous and oft-quoted autobiography is as much a manifesto as a portrait of the inner circle of America's Black Panther Party. ...

Charlie Chaplin

Chaplin's heartfelt and hilarious autobiography tells the story of his childhood, the challenge of identifying and perfecting his talent, his subsequent film career and worldwide celebrity. In this, one of the very first celebrity memoirs, Chaplin displays all the charms, peculiarities and deeply-held beliefs that made him such an endearing and lasting character. Re-issued as p...

Mosab Hassan Yousef

Una conmovedora historia de terror, intriga politica y decisiones impensables."Hijo de Hamas" es la conmovedora historia verdadera de un miembro del movimiento Hamas que rechazo su violento destino y ahora lo arriesga todo al exponer los secretos de la organizacion extremista islamica para mostrarle al mundo un camino hacia la paz. Mosab Hassan Yousef conoce este devastador gru...

Lilly Marcou

El mito alrededor de Stalin hace que con frecuencia se olvide al hombre que fue. Este libro sigue la vida del hombre en sus experiencias privadas, y presenta un retrato poco frecuente del ser humano de carne y hueso detrás de la figura cuya sombra cubrió la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Apoyado en archivos inéditos y testimonios de los descendientes y los amigos más cercanos, el ...

Patrick Girard

Pierre Milza

Milán, 25 de abril de 1945, 20 horas: la caravana que lleva a Mussolini y a sus más fieles lugartenientes emprende camino hacia un destino incierto. Tres días más tarde, en Giulino di Mezzegra, en la orilla oeste del lago Como, el Duce y Claretta Petacci son ejecutados.¿Qué sucedió durante esos tres largos días? ¿Cómo fue arrestado el dictador? ¿Quién disparó? ¿El Duce y su com...

Goldsworthy, Adrian

Los verdaderos hechos de uno de los grandes romances de todos los tiempos, tan fascinantes como su mito. Marco Antonio y Cleopatra vivieron un lujoso esplendor, lucharon por un imperio que perdieron y acabaron quitándose la vida. Su historia es la del choque de dos culturas, una crónica de ambición, crueldad y pasión. Con cuadernillo a todo color. ...

Whitaker, Mark

The first major biography of an American icon, comedian Bill Cosby. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with Cosby and more than sixty of his closest friends and associates, it is a frank, fun and fascinating account of his life and historic legacy. Far from the gentle worlds of his routines or TV shows, Cosby grew up in a Philadelphia housing project, the son o...

Bailey, Mark

True tales of celebrity hijinks are served up with an equal measure of Hollywood history, movie-star mayhem, and a frothy mix of forty cocktail recipes.Humphrey Bogart got himself arrested for protecting his drinking buddies, who happened to be a pair of stuffed pandas. Ava Gardner would water-ski to the set of "Night of the Iguana" holding a towline in one hand and a cocktail ...

Mcbee, Thomas Page

"Thomas Page McBee's "Man Alive" hurtled through my life. I read it in a matter of hours. It's a confession, it's a poem, it's a time warp, it's a brilliant work of art. I bow down to McBee--his humility, his sense of humor, his insightfulness, his structural deftness, his ability to put into words what is often said but rarely, with such visceral clarity and beauty, communicat...

Okeefe Aptowicz, Cristin

A mesmerizing biography of the brilliant and eccentric medical innovator who revolutionized American surgery and founded the country's most famous museum of medical oddities Imagine undergoing an operation without anesthesia performed by a surgeon who refuses to sterilize his tools--or even wash his hands. This was the world of medicine when Thomas Dent Mutter began his trailbl...