Libros de Biografías y memorias 2397 resultados

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....

Harvey Sachs

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

Camba, Ursula / Rosas, Alejandro

¿Cómo fue el acercamiento con Moctezuma? ¿Cortés es el gran apestado de la historia nacional o tiene posibilidad de redimirse?A través de estas páginas, la doctora Úrsula Camba y Alejandro Rosas no pretenden sacar del infierno cívico de la historia nacional a Hernán Cortés, tampoco buscan reivindicarlo ni elevarlo a un pedestal como solía hacerlo lahistoria oficial con sus muy ...

Westover, Tara

Podéis llamarlo transformación. Metamorfosis. Falsedad. Traición. Yo lo llamo una educación.Nacida en las montañas de Idaho, Tara Westover ha crecido en armonía con una naturaleza grandiosa pero doblegada a las leyes que impone su padre, un mormón fundamentalista convencido de la inminente llegada del fin del mundo. Al igual que sus hermanos, no va a la escuela, ni acude al méd...

Henry Marsh

A punto de poner fin a una dilatada carrera plena de éxitos y reconocimiento, Henry Marsh uno de los neurocirujanos más eminentes de Gran Bretaña ha querido exponer a los ojos del mundo la esencia de una de las especialidades médicas más difíciles, delicadas y fascinantes que existen. El resultado es este volumen que ha cautivado y conmovido tanto a los críticos más exigentes c...

David Garrow

David Garrow

Stan Smith, Richard Evans, Pharrell Williams

Stan Smith is a former world No. 1 American tennis player and two-time Grand Slam singles champion. Richard Paul Evans is a sports journalist and author who has covered the biggest tennis moments since the 1960s. Pharrell Williams is a multi-platinum recording artist, eleven-time Grammy winner, and Stan Smith collaborator. ...

Chateaubriand

François René de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) fundió en las " Memorias de ultratumba " lo individual y lo universal, su vida doméstica y su existencia de estadista. Destinadas a ser publicadas después de su muerte, pudo analizar en ellas con entera libertad su compleja trayectoria literaria, sentimental y política, que incluye una decisiva intervención en 1823 en los asuntos de ...