Libros de Biografías y memorias 2382 resultados

Paul Ricoeur

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"-...

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...

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. ...

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...

Ketcham, Jennie

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Chris Hadfield

Hadfield is a genius, a man of science and technology and no first-timer to the universe."-New York Post Chris Hadfield has spent decades training as an astronaut and has logged nearly 4000 hours in space. During this time he has broken into a Space Station with a Swiss army knife, disposed of a live snake while piloting a plane, and been temporarily blinded while clinging to t...

Jose Maria Gironella

En su obra póstuma, el autor de Los cipreses creen en Dios, condensa la experiencia y la sabiduría atesoradas a lo largo de su vida para ofrecernos una visión del mundo rica y enérgica. Por amor a la verdad es un recorrido personal por las grandes cuestiones como la belleza, la sexualidad, la immortalidad o el poder. ...

Carola Stern

Primo Levi

Francesc Escribano

Jan Swafford

The definitive book on the life and music of Ludwig van Beethoven, written by the acclaimed biographer of Brahms and Ives. ...

Alice Calaprice

This is the single most complete guide to Albert Einstein's life and work for students, researchers, and browsers alike. Written by three leading Einstein scholars who draw on their combined wealth of expertise gained during their work on the Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, this authoritative and accessible reference features more than one hundred entries and is divided in...

Knizhnik, Shana / Carmon, Irin

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThe authors make this unassuming, most studious woman come pulsing to life. . . . Notorious RBG may be a playful project, but it asks to be read seriously. . . . That I responded so personally to it is a testimony to [its] storytelling and panache. Jennifer Senior, New York TimesSupreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg never asked for fame she has only...

Canessa, Roberto

On October 12, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the "Old Christians" rugby team—and many of their friends and family members—crashed into the Andes Mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping and heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world's leading pediatric cardi...

Franklin, Jonathan

"The best survival book in a decade" (Outside magazine), 438 Days is the true story of the fisherman who survived fourteen months in a small boat drifting seven thousand miles across the Pacific Ocean.On November 17, 2012, a pair of fishermen left the coast of Mexico for a weekend fishing trip in the open Pacific. That night, a violent storm ambushed them as they were fishing e...

Rousey, Ronda

"The fight is yours to win."In this inspiring and moving book, Ronda Rousey, the Olympic medalist in judo, reigning UFC women's bantamweight champion, and Hollywood star charts her difficult path to glory. Marked by her signature charm, barbed wit, and undeniable power, Rousey's account of the toughest fights of her life—in and outside the Octagon—reveals the painful loss of h...

Kalanithi, Paul

At the age of thirty-six, on the verge of completing a decade?s worth of training as a neurosurgeon, Paul Kalanithi was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer. One day he was a doctor treating the dying, and the next he was a patient struggling to live. And just like that, the future he and his wife had imagined evaporated. When Breath Becomes Air chronicles Kalanithi?s transforma...

Travis Barker

Travis Barker's soul-baring memoir chronicles the highlights and lowlights of the renowned drummer's art and his life, including the harrowing plane crash that nearly killed him and his traumatic road to recovery—a fascinating never-before-told-in-full story of personal reinvention grounded in musical salvation and fatherhood.After breaking out as the acclaimed drummer of the m...

Peter Slevin

This is the inspiring story of a modern American icon, the first comprehensive account of the life and times of Michelle Obama. With disciplined reporting and a storyteller s eye for revealing detail, Peter Slevin follows Michelle to the White House from her working-class childhood on Chicago s largely segregated South Side. He illuminates her tribulations at Princeton Universi...

Stephens, Megan

A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence. ...

Rudiger Safranski

Rüdiger Safranski, un maestro en el arte de exponer la historia de las ideas, nos acerca un Goethe casi inédito para el lector en lengua española, pues para escribir esta impresionante biografía ha recurrido a incontables fuentes primarias: cartas, diarios, epistolarios, conversaciones o semblanzas de cuantos lo conocieron y trataron. Considerado ya un clásico en su propio tiem...

Morten Storm

Auster, Paul

Michael White

Jack Welch