Libros de Biografías y memorias 2368 resultados

Jones, Dylan

Dylan Jones's engrossing, magisterial biography of David Bowie is unlike any Bowie story ever written. Drawn from over 180 interviews with friends, rivals, lovers, and collaborators, some of whom have never before spoken about their relationship with Bowie, this oral history weaves a hypnotic spell as it unfolds the story of a remarkable rise to stardom and an unparalleled arti...

Karbo, Karen

From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn from the imperfect and extraordinary legacies of 29 iconic women who forged their own unique paths in the world.From Frida Kahlo and Elizabeth Taylor to Nora Ephron, Carrie Fisher, and Lena Dunham, this witty narrative explores what we can learn ...

Scott Kelly

Antes de conquistar Marte, debemos aprender a sobrevivir en el espacio. Un libro ejemplar sobre el triunfo de la imaginación humana, la fuerza de voluntad y las maravillas infinitas de la galaxia. Scott Kelly es el hombre que más tiempo ha pasado en el espacio, 340 días, durante los cuales ha visto y vivido cosas que prácticamente ninguno de nosotros veremos o experimentarem...

Martin Luther King Jr.

In time for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day and Black History Month, a timely collection of pivotal interviews with the most influential leader of the Civil Rights MovementAs the Black Lives Matter movement gains momentum, and books like Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and Claudia Rankine's Citizen swing national attention toward the racism and violence that continue to...

A.n. Wilson

A radical reappraisal of Charles Darwin from the bestselling author of Victoria: A Life.With the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin--hailed as the man who "discovered evolution"--was propelled into the pantheon of great scientific thinkers, alongside Galileo, Copernicus, and Newton. Eminent writer A. N. Wilson challenges this long-held assumption. Contextua...

Mark Eisner

The most definitive biography to date of the poet Pablo Neruda, a moving portrait of one of the most intriguing and influential figures in Latin American historyFew poets have captured the global imagination like Pablo Neruda. In his native Chile, across Latin America, and in many other parts of the world, his name and legacy have become almost synonymous with liberation moveme...

Hogan, Andrew

A blend of Manhunt, Killing Pablo, and Zero Dark Thirty, Andrew Hogan and Douglas Century's sensational investigative high-tech thriller--soon to be a major motion picture from Sony--chronicles a riveting chapter in the twentieth-century drug wars: the exclusive inside story of the American lawman and his dangerous eight-year hunt that captured El Chapo--the world's most wanted...

One of Mandela's three private secretaries and now working for the Nelson Mandela Foundation, "La Grange pays tribute to Nelson Mandela as she knew him: a teacher who gave her the most valuable lessons of her life. The Mr. Mandela we meet in these pages is a man who refused to be defined by his past, who forgave and respected all, but who was also frank, teasing, and direct. As...

George W. Bush

"Forty-three men have served as President of the United States. Countless books have been written about them. But never before has a president told the story of his father, another president, through his own eyes and in his own words ... The book covers the entire scope of the elder President Bush's life and career, including his service in the Pacific during World War II, his ...

Boles, John B

From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sw...

Vargas Llosa, Mario

La autobiografía intelectual del Premio Nobel de Literatura Mario Vargas Llosa. «La doctrina liberal ha representado desde sus orígenes las formas más avanzadas de la cultura democrática y lo que más nos ha ido defendiendo de la inextinguible "llamada de la tribu". Este libro quisiera contribuir con un granito de arena a esa indispensable tarea.» La diferencia entre La llam...

Michelle Obama

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesIn a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African-American to serve in that role--she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White H...

Ann Charters

Now that Kerouac's major novel, On the Road is accepted as an American classic, academic critics are slowly beginning to catch up with his experimental literary methods and examine the dozen books comprising what he called 'the legend of Duluoz.' Nearly all of his books have been in print internationally since his death in 1969, and his writing has been discovered and enjoyed b...

Alexander R. Luría

Alexander Luria es considerado el fundador de la neuropsicología. En este libro nos ofrece un cautivador retrato de la heroica lucha de un hombre por recuperar sus facultades mentales. En 1943, con 23 años, el soldado ruso Zasetski recibe una bala en la cabeza en la batalla de Smolensk. De pronto se descubre en un mundo aterrador: recuerda su infancia, mas no su pasado reciente...

Baird, Julia

The true story for fans of the PBS Masterpiece series Victoria, this page-turning biography reveals the real woman behind the myth: a bold, glamorous, unbreakable queen--a Victoria for our times. Drawing on previously unpublished papers, this stunning new portrait is a story of love and heartbreak, of devotion and grief, of strength and resilience. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS O...

Jennifer Worth

The highest-rated drama in BBC history, Call the Midwife will delight fans of Downton AbbeyViewers everywhere have fallen in love with this candid look at post-war London. In the 1950s, twenty-two-year-old Jenny Lee leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a midwife in London's East End slums. While delivering babies all over the city, Jenny encounters a co...

Jay Woodruff

Robert Coles is a psychiatrist with a novelist's sensibilities. "Of course everything I come up with," he says, "novelists have known beforehand."These twenty-three interviews selected from hundreds that Coles has given disclose not only an illustrious physician trained in pediatrics and psychoanalysis but also a sage whose compassion for children and suffering seems boundless....

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Da Vinci, Leonardo

En muchas ocasiones manifestó Leonardo la voluntad de ordenar sus materiales y escribir un libro del agua, algo que nunca realizó. La presente edición de Patxi Lanceros y Juan Barja no pretende tanto restaurar dicho libro como dar cuenta de un trabajo que se prolongó durante toda la vida de Leonardo. Para ello, rescata y ordena multitud de fragmentos, tramando así una diversida...

Kaufmann, Thomas

Teología y biografía, fe y experiencia, contemplación y acción son inseparables en la persona de Martín Lutero. Por eso la búsqueda de la figura histórica de Lutero habrá de tratar siempre a un tiempo de su vida y de su fe, de su mundo y de su Dios, de la imagen que tenía de sí mismo y de los juicios sobre él. De la personalidad de Lutero son constitutivos tanto el retraimiento...

Pamela Des Barres

Pamela Des Barres was the "Sweetheart of Rock," the reigning queen of L.A.Us wild music scene. A hopeful romantic and the ultimate star-chaser, she lived life in the fast lane. Now she tells everything.This item is Returnable ...

Nelson Mandela / Venter, Sahm / Dlamini-Mandela, Zamaswazi

Arrested in 1962 as South Africa's apartheid regime intensified its brutal campaign against political opponents, forty-four-year-old lawyer and African National Congress activist Nelson Mandela had no idea that he would spend the next twenty-seven years in jail. During his 10,052 days of incarceration, Mandela wrote hundreds of letters to unyielding prison authorities, fellow a...

Walter Isaacson

El aclamado autor de los best sellers Steve Jobs y Einstein nos vuelve a cautivar con la vida del genio más creativo de la historia en esta fascinante biografía. Basándose en las miles de páginas de los cuadernos manuscritos de Leonardo y nuevos descubrimientos sobre su vida y su obra. ...

Maggs, Sam / Woodall, Jenn

A fun and feisty tour of famous girl BFFs from history who stuck together and changed the world.A modern girl is nothing without her squad of besties. But don't let all the hashtags fool you: the #girlsquad goes back a long, long time. In this hilarious and heartfelt book, geek girl Sam Maggs takes you on a tour of some of history's most famous female BFFs, including:* Anne Bon...

Lin, Tao

"While reeling from one of the most creative--but at times self-destructive--outpourings of his life, Tao Lin discovered the strange and exciting work of Terence McKenna. McKenna, the leading advocate of psychedelic drugs since Timothy Leary, became for Lin both an obsession and a revitalizing force. In Trip, Lin's first book-length work of nonfiction, he charts his recovery fr...

Hal Vaughan

This explosive narrative reveals for the first time the shocking hidden years of Coco Chanel's life: her collaboration with the Nazis in Paris, her affair with a master spy, and her work for the German military intelligence service and Himmler's SS.Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel was the high priestess of couture who created the look of the modern woman. By the 1920s she had amassed a ...

Frederick C. Crews

From the master of Freud debunkers, the book that definitively puts an end to the myth of psychoanalysis and its creatorSince the 1970s, Sigmund Freud's scientific reputation has been in an accelerating tailspin?but nonetheless the idea persists that some of his contributions were visionary discoveries of lasting value. Now, drawing on rarely consulted archives, Frederick Crews...

Cea, Robert / Caribe, Roman

Roman Caribe -uno de sus tantos sobrenombres-y sus contactos del FBI, la DEA y la CIA como C. S. 96 (Confidential Source 96). Ésta es la impresionante historia de Caribe, quien operó y coordinó durante años una red de entrega de narcóticos en los Estados Unidos, provenientes de algunos de los cárteles más importantes y mortíferos de México. Con un ritmo trepidante, estas memori...

Yusra Mardini