Libros de Biografías y memorias 2412 resultados

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. ...

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...

Tirado, Linda

"I've been waiting for this book for a long time. Well, not this book, because I never imagined that the book I was waiting for would be so devastatingly smart and funny, so consistently entertaining and unflinchingly on target. In fact, I would like to have written it myself - if, that is, I had lived Linda Tirado's life and extracted all the hard lessons she has learned. I am...

Blow, Charles

A gorgeous, moving memoir of how one of America's most innovative and respected journalists found his voice by coming to terms with a painful past" New York Times" columnist Charles M. Blow mines the compelling poetry of the out-of-time African-American Louisiana town where he grew up -- a place where slavery's legacy felt astonishingly close, reverberating in the elders' stori...

Jackson, Nate

One man's odyssey into the brutal hive of the National Football LeagueAs an unsigned free agent who rose through the practice squad to the starting lineup of the Denver Broncos, Nate Jackson took the path of thousands of unknowns before him to carve out a professional football career twice as long as the average player. Through his story recounted here--from scouting combines t...

Hobbs, Jeff

A heartfelt, and riveting biography of the short life of a talented young African-American man who escapes the slums of Newark for Yale University only to succumb to the dangers of the streets--and of one's own nature--when he returns home. When author Jeff Hobbs arrived at Yale University, he became fast friends with the man who would be his college roommate for four years, Ro...

Blanco, Richard

Where am I from? Where do I belong? Who am I? These are the universal questions that have emerged from Richard Blanco's illuminating, story-rich poetry. Now Blanco explores these questions in this vivid account of his coming of age as the child of Cuban immigrants and his effort to contend with his burgeoning artistic and sexual identities. These are the stories of that shy yet...

Biss, Eula

Why do we fear vaccines? A provocative examination by Eula Biss, the author of "Notes from No Man's Land," winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear--fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cann...

Alberto Enriquez Perea

Poeta de la naturaleza tropical, enamorado de la vida y del amor; poeta de Nuestra América martiana, apasionado de la belleza y sus colores; poeta del mar y del cielo divino, pendiente del Cristo y de Simón Bolívar, Carlos Pellicer (1897-1977) fue no sólo un artista sino un titán de fuerza telúrica. En estas páginas se reúne por primera vez una generosa muestra de su poesía jun...

Josefina Estrada

Ricardo Garibay fue uno de los escritores más prolíficos y polémicos del siglo XX. Esta antología ofrece una colección de sus textos memorables y entrañables dentro de los géneros de cuento, memoria, crónica, semblanza, diálogos y paraderos literarios.Garibay fue un maestro del lenguaje empleado en todos los niveles de la sociedad mexicana. Con un oído finísimo, nadie como él h...

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Berrett-Koehler

In this book, Seth Adam Smith expands on the philosophy behind his extraordinarily popular blog post Marriage Isn t for You which received over 30 million hits and has been translated into over twenty languages and shares how living for others can enrich every aspect of your life, just as it has his. With a mix of humor, candor, and compassion, he reveals how, years before his ...

Branch, John

The much-anticipated debut from the Pulitzer Prize winning New York Times reporter, Boy on Ice is a moving human story and behind-the-scenes account of a life lived in the glare of sporting fame. ...

Lucas, Geralyn

Futerman, Samantha

Imagine one day opening Facebook and reading a message from a stranger that says, "I think we might be twins...don't freak out..." It all began when design student Anais Bordier viewed a YouTube video and saw her own face staring back. After some research, Anais found that the Los Angeles actress Samantha Futerman was born in a South Korean port city called Busan on November 19...

Knapp, Jennifer

Jennifer Knapp's meteoric rise in the Christian music industry ended abruptly when she walked away and came out publicly as a lesbian. This is her story--of coming to Christ, of building a career, of admitting who she is, and of how her faith remained strong through it all. At the top of her career in the Christian music industry, Jennifer Knapp quit. A few years later, she pub...

Williams, Marie

Katz, Jon

In this heartfelt, thoughtful, and inspiring memoir, "New York Times" bestselling author Jon Katz tells the story of his beloved rescue donkey, Simon, and the wondrous ways that animals make us wiser and kinder people. In the spring of 2011, Jon Katz received a phone call that would challenge every idea he ever had about mercy and compassion. An animal control officer had found...