Libros de Biografías y memorias 2393 resultados

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...

Katrovas, Richard

A provocative collection of personal and political essays by an American writer, "Raising Girls in Bohemia" chronicles the life of a father raising three perfectly bilingual, culturally bifurcated, Czech-American daughters. While tracing what fatherhood has taught him about the world, Katrovas delves into a range of intricately related yet far-flung subjects including fine dini...

Bebergal, Peter

This epic cultural and historical odyssey unearths the full influence of occult traditions on rock and roll--from the Beatles to Black Sabbath--and shows how the marriage between mysticism and music changed our world. From the hoodoo-inspired sounds of Elvis Presley to the Eastern odysseys of George Harrison, from the dark dalliances of Led Zeppelin to the Masonic imagery of to...

Stark, Lizzie

Would you cut out your healthy breasts and ovaries if you thought it might save your life? That's not a theoretical question for journalist Lizzie Stark's relatives, who grapple with the horrific legacy of cancer built into the family DNA, a BRCA mutation that has robbed most of her female relatives of breasts, ovaries, peace of mind, or life itself. In "Pandora's DNA," Stark u...

Herbie Hancock

The long-awaited memoir by one of the most influential and beloved musicians of our time In "Herbie Hancock" the legendary jazz musician and composer reflects on a life and a thriving career that has spanned seven decades. A true innovator, Hancock has had an enormous influence on both acoustic and electric jazz, R&B and hip-hop, with his ongoing exploration of different musica...

Kyle, Chris / Scott Mcewen / Jim Defelice

Former U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle tells the story of his legendary career, from 1999-2009, during which time he recorded the most confirmed sniper kills (officially a record 155, though the real number is even much higher) in the history of the United States military, any branch, from 1776 to present. Nicknamed "The Legend" by his fellow SEALS, Kyle's service in Iraq and Afghani...

Bragg, Rick

For nearly sixty years, Jerry Lee Lewis has been a monumental figure in American life. The wildest and most dangerous of the early rock and rollers, he electrified the world with hit records such as "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On," "Great Balls of Fire," and "Breathless." His music was raucous, exuberant, slyly sexual; his wailing vocals were grounded by the locomotive force of ...

Hunt, Nick

"Nick Hunt has written a glorious book, rich with insight and wit, about walking his way both across and into contemporary Europe. . . . So many memorable encounters with people and places! A book about gifts, modernity, endurance and landscape, it represents a fine addition to the literature of the leg."--Robert Macfarlane, award-winning travel writer, author of "The Wild Plac...

Wang, Val

A humorous and moving coming-of-age story that brings a unique, not-quite-outsider's perspective to China's shift from ancient empire to modern superpower Raised in a strict Chinese-American household in the suburbs, Val Wang dutifully got good grades, took piano lessons, and performed in a Chinese dance troupe--until she shaved her head and became a leftist, the stuff of many ...

Kasischke, Lou

Near the top of Mount Everest, on 10 May 1996, eight climbers died. It was the worst tragedy in the mountain's history. Lou Kasischke was there. Now he tells the harrowing story of what went wrong, as it has never been told before including why the climbers were desperately late and out of time. His personal story, captured in the title AFTER THE WIND, tells about the intense m...

Safran, John

An unlikely journalist, a murder case in Mississippi, and a fascinating literary true crime story in the style of Jon Ronson. A notorious white supremacist named Richard Barrett was brutally murdered in Mississippi in 2010 by a young black man named Vincent McGee. At first the murder seemed a twist on old Deep South race crimes. But then new revelations and complications came t...

Robert Baer

What is the definition of assassination? Robert B. Baer's boss at the CIA once told him, "It's a bullet with a man's name on it." Sometimes assassination is the senseless act of a psychotic, a bloodletting without social value. Other times, it can be the sanest and most humane way to change the course of conflict--one bullet, one death, case closed. Assassination has been drama...

Gildiner, Catherine

Picking up her story in the late '60s at age 21, Cathy Gildiner whisks the reader through five years and three countries, beginning when she is a poetry student at Oxford. Her education extended beyond the classroom to London's swinging Carnaby Street, the mountains of Wales, and a posh country estate. After Oxford, Cathy returns to Cleveland, Ohio, which was still reeling from...