Libros de Biografías y memorias 2407 resultados

Mariano Rivera

The greatest relief pitcher of all time shares his extraordinary story of survival, love, and baseball.Mariano Rivera, the man who intimidated thousands of batters merely by opening a bullpen door, began his incredible journey as the son of a poor Panamanian fisherman. When first scouted by the Yankees, he didn't even own his own glove. He thought he might make a good mechanic....

Ruben Aguirre

Hurgar en los recuerdos de quien dio vida al Profesor Jirafales permite adentrarnos en la trayectoria de un hombre que con su talento, humor blanco y creatividad contribuyó a consolidación de uno de los fenómenos de la televisión más impactantes de América Latina. Rubén Aguirre Fuentes cuenta de manera entrañable a partir de fotografías, anécdotas personales y referencias perio...

Mindy Kaling

Mindy Kaling has lived many lives: the obedient child of immigrant professionals, a timid chubster afraid of her own bike, a Ben Affleck-impersonating Off-Broadway performer and playwright, and, finally, a comedy writer and actress prone to starting fights with her friends and coworkers with the sentence "Can I just say one last thing about this, and then I swear I'll shut up a...

James C. Humes

Who could have foreseen the start of World War I twenty-five years before the assassination of a Serbian archduke plunged Europe into war? Who could have predicted the rise of al-Qaeda nearly eight decades before anyone had heard of Osama bin Laden? Winston Churchill did. And for the first time bestselling author James C. Humes reveals these and other shocking predictions from ...

Eva Schloss

«La historia de Ana es la de una chica quellegó a todo el mundo con la simple humanidadde su diario. Mi historia es diferente.También fui víctima de la persecución nazi yme enviaron a un campo de concentraciónpero, a diferencia de Ana, yo sobreviví.»Eva Schloss era muy diferente a AnaFrank, pero eran grandes amigas. Despuésse convertirían en hermanastras, yaque el padre de Ana,...

Enrique Del Risco

En forma de una memoria, Enrique Del Risco nos presenta en Siempre nos quedará Madrid, los pormenores de la salida de su isla natal, Cuba, y su experiencia como inmigrante en la Madrid del noventa y cinco. Con mucho humor, pero al mismo tiempo con una profunda carga reflexiva, Del Risco nos invita a lo largo de estas páginas a vivir con él, a recorrer los escondrijos de su tiem...

López, Carlos

Este texto fue publicado originalmente en la revista Magna Terra en el 2001, edición que constituyó un homenaje al escritor guatemalteco Augusto Monterroso al cumplir sus 80 años de vida. Esta nueva edición es un hasta pronto a Tito, quien solía decirle al autor de esta biografía, Carlos López, que cuando muriera le gustaría que le dijeran "difuntito" y estaba seguro que al mor...

Elena Poniatowska

En Las palabras del árbol, Elena Poniatowska elabora un retrato íntimo de Octavio Paz basándose en conversaciones, recuerdos, cartas y trozos de poemas. Rescatando no solo la voz del poeta sino haciéndose parte de ella, narrando en segunda persona los momentos que compartieron, construyendo un testimonio de una de las figuras más polémicas de las letras mexicanas. "Mil novecien...

Ingmar Bergman

Las memorias del cineasta sueco Ingmar Bergman.Ignmar Bergman, cineasta y hombre de teatro sueco, ha pasado a ser ya todo un mito en la historia del cine mundial. Pero pocos son los que saben que se casósiete veces, que tuvo ocho hijos, que mantuvo numerosas relaciones amorosas, algunas célebres, y que se codeó, entre otros , con gente como Greta Garbo, Chaplin o Ingrid Bergman...

Juan Pablo Escobar

La historia jamas contada de uno de los criminales mas poderosos y sanguinarios del siglo XX.Creiamos que se habia dicho todo sobre Pablo Escobar, uno de los mas perversos criminales de America Latina, pero cualquiera que lea este libro se dara cuenta de que lo que sabiamos hasta ahora habia sido contado desde fuera, nunca desde la intimidad del hogar. Y las historias familiare...

Ian Kershaw

Esta monumental obra recrea, con una destreza y una intensidad extraordinarias, valiéndose de una inmensa variedad de fuentes, el mundo vital, político y militar de Adolf Hitler, desde sus raíces provincianas en la Austria de los Habsburgo hasta su muerte en Berlín en 1945. En Hitler, Kershaw despliega todo su conocimiento sobre el personaje y su época para ofrecernos un fresco...

Joshua Rubenstein

«León Trotsky vive en la memoria colectiva. Trotsky, una figura revolucionaria sobresaliente y sagaz escritor, encabezó un levantamiento que contribuyó a perfilar la política del siglo XX. Siendo aún adolescente se entregó al antizarismo en la clandestinidad, y a partir de este momento, jamás renegó de su compromiso con la revolución. Realizó labores de organización, escribió, ...

Farrah Abraham

At 16, Farrah Abraham had everything a girl could want: popularity, beauty, a spot on the cheerleading squad and her first true love. Then, without warning, everything changed when she had to face life as a single mum. Now, in this remarkably candid memoir, Farrah takes readers into the life that hasn't been seen on television. ...

Felicia Day

From online entertainment mogul, actress, and "queen of the geeks" Felicia Day comes a funny, quirky, and inspiring memoir about her unusual upbringing, her rise to Internet-stardom, and embracing her individuality to find success in Hollywood. The Internet isn't all cat videos. There's also Felicia Day--violinist, filmmaker, Internet entrepreneur, compulsive gamer, hoagie spec...

Kyle, Chris

Fascinante, reveladora y poderosa, Francotirador es la asombrosa autobiografia del Capitan SEAL Chris Kyle, el francotirador que tuvo el record mas alto en la historia militar estadounidense. En Francotirador, Kyle relata la extraordinaria historia de su carrera que duro una decada. El fascinante relato de como paso de ser un cowboy de rodeos de Texas a ser un experto franco ti...

Jenny Lawson

When Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life. ...

Taylor, Jill Bolte

Jill Bolte Taylor is a neuroanatomist who teaches at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Bloomington, Indiana. She is the National Spokesperson for the Mentally Ill for the Harvard Brain Tissue Resource Center (Brain Bank) and the Consulting Neuroantomist for the Midwest Proton Radiotherapy Institute. Since 1993 she has been an active member of NAMI (National Alliance ...

Dawkins, Richard

With the 2006 publication of The God Delusion, the name Richard Dawkins became a byword for ruthless skepticism and "brilliant, impassioned, articulate, impolite" debate (San Francisco Chronicle). his first memoir offers a more personal view.His first book, The Selfish Gene, caused a seismic shift in the study of biology by proffering the gene-centered view of evolution. It was...

Dawkins, Richard

In this hugely entertaining sequel to the New York Times bestselling memoir An Appetite for Wonder, Richard Dawkins delves deeply into his intellectual life spent kick-starting new conversations about science, culture, and religion and writing yet another of the most audacious and widely read books of the twentieth century—The God Delusion.Called "one of the best nonfiction wri...

Augusten Burroughs

Running with Scissors" is the true story of a boy whose mother (a poet with delusions of Anne Sexton) gave him away to be raised by her unorthodox psychiatrist who bore a striking resemblance to Santa Claus. So at the age of twelve, Burroughs found himself amidst Victorian squalor living with the doctor's bizarre family, and befriending a pedophile who resided in the backyard s...

David Browne

Wilson, Mary Louise

The unabashedly funny and forthright memoir by the Tony Award winner for Grey Gardens, detailing the singular life and career of one of our most admired and acclaimed stage actorsMary Louise Wilson became a star at age sixty with her smash one-woman play Full Gallop portraying legendary Vogue editor Diana Vreeland. But before and since, her life and her career?including the Ton...

Green, Allison

Curious about her enduring love for Richard Brautigan s work, Allison Green embarks on a roadtrip tracing the route of his most famous work, Trout Fishing in America. As she travels, she examines the way we relate to the things that influence us the ancestors who created us, the past that shaped us, the writers who changed the way we saw the world and how these things intertwin...

Scott Berg

Few American icons provoke more enduring fascination than Charles Lindbergh—renowned for his one-man transatlantic flight in 1927, remembered for the sorrow surrounding the kidnapping and death of his firstborn son in 1932, and reviled by many for his opposition to America's entry into World War II. Lindbergh's is "a dramatic and disturbing American story," says the Los Angeles...

Stephen Fry

By his early thirties, Stephen Fry?writer, comedian, star of stage and screen?had, as they say, "made it." Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him.As the '80s drew to a close, he began to burn the candle at both ends. Writing an...

Mark Perry

At times, even his admirers seemed unsure of what to do with General Douglas MacArthur. Imperious, headstrong, and vain, MacArthur matched an undeniable military genius with a massive ego and a rebellious streak that often seemed to destine him for the dustbin of history. Yet despite his flaws, MacArthur is remembered as a brilliant commander whose combined-arms operation in th...

Arnold Thackray, David Brock And Rachel Jones

Our world today--from the phone in your pocket to the car that you drive, the allure of social media to the strategy of the Pentagon--has been shaped irrevocably by the technology of silicon transistors. Year after year, for half a century, these tiny switches have enabled ever-more startling capabilities. Their incredible proliferation has altered the course of human history a...

Sarah Hepola

"It's such a savage thing to lose your memory, but the crazy thing is, it doesn't hurt one bit. A blackout doesn't sting, or stab, or leave a scar when it robs you. Close your eyes and open them again. That's what a blackout feels like."For Sarah Hepola, alcohol was "the gasoline of all adventure." She spent her evenings at cocktail parties and dark bars where she proudly staye...

Yeonmi Park

Yeonmi Park was not dreaming of freedom when she escaped from North Korea. She didn't even know what it meant to be free. All she knew was that she was running for her life, that if she and her family stayed behind they would die —from starvation, or disease, or even execution. In Order to Live is the story of Park's struggle to survive in the darkest, most repressive country ...

Henderson, Eleanor

A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring New York City during the late 1980s, Ten Thousand Saints triumphantly heralds the arrival a remarkable new writer. Eleanor Henderson makes a truly stunning debut with a novel that is part coming of age, part coming to terms, immediately joining the ranks of The Emperor's Children by Claire Messud...