Libros de Biografías y memorias 2412 resultados

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...

Juliet Macur

The definitive account of Lance Armstrong's spectacular rise and fall.In June 2013, when Lance Armstrong fled his palatial home in Texas, downsizing in the face of multimillion-dollar lawsuits, Juliet Macur was there—talking to his girlfriend and children and listening to Armstrong's version of the truth. She was one of the few media members aside from Oprah Winfrey to be grant...

Francis Wheen

La biografía más humana, cercana y amena de uno de los filósofos más influyentes de todos los tiempos. Las ideas de Karl Marx son probablemente las que más han influido en el mundo después de las de Jesucristo. En esta apasionante y en ocasiones muy divertida biografía se nos presenta por primera vez a Karl Marx en su fa ceta más humana. Un apasionado agitador, que pasó casi to...

Reiner Stach

Entre 1910 y 1915 el joven, libre e influenciable Kafka se transforma en un funcionario responsable y a la vez en el maestro de la pesadilla precisa y del humor kafkiano. En poco tiempo escribe La condena, La metamorfosis, El desaparecido y El proceso, y durante estos años también se establecen todas las directrices que determinarán el camino de Kafka hasta el final: el encuent...

Clinton, Hillary

Hillary Rodham Clinton's inside look at the choices and challenges she has faced is "a subtle, finely calibrated work...with succinct and often shrewd appraisals of the complex web of political, economic, and historical forces in play around the world" (The New York Times).In the aftermath of her 2008 presidential run, Hillary Rodham Clinton expected to return to the United Sta...

Lee, Stan / Peter A. David / Colleen Doran

In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. The most legendary name in the history of comic books, he h...

H. W. Brands

Ronald Reagan today is a conservative icon, celebrated for transforming the American domestic agenda and playing a crucial part in ending communism in the Soviet Union. In his masterful new biography, H. W. Brands argues that Reagan, along with FDR, was the most consequential president of the twentieth century. Reagan took office at a time when the public sector, after a half c...

Harriet Jacobs

Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl is one of the most compelling accounts of slavery and one of the most unique of the one hundred or so slave narratives -- mostly written by men -- published before the Civil War.The child and grandchild of slaves -- and therefore forbidden by law to read and write -- Harriet Jacobs was defiant in her efforts to gain freedom...

Mario Onaindia

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. ...

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...