Libros de Biografías y memorias 2382 resultados

Cristina Morato

Las apasionantes biografías de unas fascinantes mujeres que abandonaron el confort de sus mansiones por una vida nómada, y en ciudades como Bagdad, El Cairo, Damasco o Estambul aún se las recuerda. La lectura de Las mil y una noches despertó en un buen número de damas británicas, aristocráticas y aventureras, la fascinación por un Oriente de harenes, bazares, caravanas y nómada...

De Beauvoir, Simone

En Memorias de una joven formal, Simone de Beauvoir nos cuenta cómo surgió su vocación de escritora en el circunspecto ambiente burgués de su familia. En La plenitud de la vida relata, con la misma honradez, cómo se realizó esa vocación. Son los años de lucha, de aspiraciones y vicisitudes dentro del círculo de intelectuales que tanto aportaría a las letras francesas. Simone se...

Ashlee Vance

Elon Musk, the entrepreneur and innovator behind SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity, sold one of his internet companies, PayPal, for $1.5 billion. Ashlee Vance captures the full spectacle and arc of the genius's life and work, from his tumultuous upbringing in South Africa and flight to the United States to his dramatic technical innovations and entrepreneurial pursuits. Vance uses M...

Deschodt, Éric

Roussel, Eric

Favier, Jean (1932-2014)

Jünger, Ernst

Il y a peu d'écrivains que leurs lecteurs puissent suivre au jour le jour, dans leurs travaux, leurs lectures ou leurs promenades. André Gide était de ceux-là. Ernst Jünger l'est sans aucun doute. Les lecteurs de Jardins et Routes et du Journal le savent. On pouvait croire pourtant qu'il fallait à Jünger des événements, un climat extraordinaire : la guerre. Tous ceux qui le sui...

Bernard, Michel (1958-....)

Erman, Michel (1955-....)

Recréer le flux d'une existence singulière, y compris dans ses énigmes et ses absences, tel est le propos de cette biographie. Michel Erman explore le cheminement intellectuel et sensible de l'auteur de la Recherche. Il s'attache à inscrire pleinement l'homme et son oeuvre dans le contexte historique de l'époque (la IIIe République, l'affaire Dreyfus, la Première Guerre mondial...

Perino, Dana

"From her years as a presidential press secretary to her debates with colleagues on Fox News' The Five, Dana Perino reveals the lessons she's learned that have guided her through life, including stories from behind the scenes at the White House with President George W. Bush that the cameras never captured. Thoughtful, inspiring and often surprising, AND THE GOOD NEWS IS ... tra...

Brierley, Saroo

Imagina tener cinco años, no haber ido nunca al colegio y no haberte aventurado apenas fuera de los confines de tu barrio, en una ciudad de la India de la que no conoces ni el nombre. Imagina perder de vista a tu hermano mayor en la estación, entrar por error en un tren, viajar en él por un tiempo que se antoja eterno y, al final del camino, verte catapultado a la ciudad más po...

Luis Enrique

Lucinda Hawksley Dickens

Singh, Lilly

Publisher Marketing:#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From the 2017 People's Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star comes the definitive guide to being a bawse a person who exudes confidence, hustles relentlessly, and smiles genuinely because he or she has fought through it all and made it out the other side.Lilly Singh isn't just a superstar. She's Superwoman--which is als...

De Beauvoir, Simone

Este tercer volumen autobiográfico, continuación de Memorias de una joven formal y La plenitud de la vida, narra la existencia de la autora entre los años 1944 ("el momento preciso en que comienza la declinación y aún se siente el calor del pasado") y 1962. La fuerza de las cosas no intenta ser una obra de arte sino un veraz testimonio de opiniones, perspectivas, intereses y co...

Basu, Shrabani

istory's most unlikely friendship--this is the astonishing story of Queen Victoria and her dearestcompanion, the young Indian Munshi Abdul Karim.In the twilight years of her reign, after the devastating deaths of hertwo great loves--Prince Albert and John Brown--Queen Victoria meets tall and handsome Abdul Karim, a humble servant from Agra waiting tables at her Golden Jubilee. ...

Carlos Castilla Del Pino

Pretérito imperfecto es la muy esperada primera entrega de la autobiografía de Carlos Castilla del Pino, uno de nuestros más eminentes psiquiatras, ganador en 1996 del IX Premio Comillas. Premio merecido sin duda, ya que difícilmente encontraremos en la literatura autobiográfica española un testimonio tan veraz y estremecedor como el que nos ofrece Carlos Castilla, protagonista...

Mark Hodgkinson

Universally recognised as the greatest tennis player of all time, and maybe even the greatest athlete, Roger Federer is one of sport's most iconic and popular figures and is adored by millions around the world. In this graphic biography like no other, his genius and astonishing records - no man has won more majors, or spent more weeks as the world number one - are explored and ...

Nelson Mandela / Barack Obama

"Nelson Mandela is one of the most inspiring and iconic figures of our age. Now, after a lifetime of recording thoughts and events, hardships an victories, he has opened his personal archive, which offers unprecedented insight into his remarkable life. ... An intimate journey from the first stirrings of political consciousness to his galvanizing role on the world stage, Convers...

Woolf, Virginia

El 1 de enero de 1915 , ya casada con Leonard Woolf y en su casa de Richmond, Virginia Woolf decidió registrar diariamente sus quehaceres y reflexiones. Era una escritora de genio indiscutible y una mujer atormentada, víctima de una dolorosa depresión que la dejó inerme solo seis meses después del comienzo de aquellas páginas íntimas. No obstante, volvió a ellas en agosto de 19...

Stabler & David Horner, Doogie

Randy Shilts

The Mayor of Castro Street is Shilts's acclaimed story of Harvey Milk, the man whose personal life, public career, and tragic assassination mirrored the dramatic and unprecedented emergence of the gay community in America during the 1970s.Known as "The Mayor of Castro Street" even before he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, Harvey Milk's personal and politi...

Walter Isaacson

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skil...

Keith Stansell / Tom Howes / Marc Gonsalves

Patti Smith

"In lyric essays, a story, poems, and photographs, Smith illuminates the whirl of chance and choice that stokes a writer's imagination, recounting her fascination on the eve of a trip to Paris with Simone Weil and an evocative, accidentally discovered film about Stalin's mass deportation of Estonians. In France, a gravestone, a televised figure-skating competition, a meal, and ...

Frank Harris

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...

Ann Thwaite

After serving in the First World War, Milne wrote a number of well-received plays, but his greatest triumph came when he created Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, Tigger, Eeyore and, of course, Christopher Robin, the adventurous little boy based on his own son. Goodbye Christopher Robin inspired the film directed by Simon Curtis and starring Domhnall Gleeson, Margot Robbie and Kelly Mac...

Jeff Bauman

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAALThe New York Times bestselling memoir of the 27-year-old Boston Marathon bombing survivor. When Jeff Bauman woke up on Tuesday, April 16 th, 2013 in the Boston Medical Center, groggy from a series of lifesaving surgeries and missing his legs, the first thing he did was try to speak. When he realized he couldn't, he asked for a ...

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd nos muestra en estas páginas a un hombre más bien solitario y reservado, celoso de sus conocimientos, incluso vulnerable y suspicaz, pero con una fe inquebrantable en su talento, poseedor de un genio ante el cual los demás jamás pudieron permanecer indiferentes. ...