Libros de Biografías y memorias 2393 resultados

Greif, Mark

The essays in Against Everything are learned, original, highly entertaining, and, from start to finish, dead serious, reinventing and reinvigorating what intellectuals can be and say and do. Key topics are the tyranny of exercise, the folly of food snobbery, the sexualization of childhood (and everything else), the philosophical meaning of pop music, the rise and fall of the hi...

Ulreich, Carry

Varios Autores

Elena Poniatowska ha entrevistado a todo el mundo. En algún momento, lo hizo cada día para varios diarios nacionales, sacando la línea, el aforismo, la declaración emocionada de los hombres y mujeres que le interesaban. Por ello fue muy aficionada a frecuentar la cárcel de Lecumberri en la que, en algún instante, residían pintores, como Siqueiros, escritores como José Agustín o...

Anthony Summers

A New York Times-bestselling author's revealing, "important" biography of the longtime FBI director (The Philadelphia Inquirer). No one exemplified paranoia and secrecy at the heart of American power better than J. Edgar Hoover, the original director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. For this consummate biography, renowned investigative journalist Anthony Summers intervie...

Jorge Ramos Ávalos

"Hay veces en que me siento como un extraño en el país donde he pasado más de la mitad de mi vida. No es por falta de oportunidades, ni una queja. Es, más bien, una especie de desilusión. Jamás me imaginé que después de 35 años en Estados Unidos iba a seguir siendo un stranger para muchos. Pero eso soy."Jorge Ramos, periodista galardonado con premios Emmy, reconocido presentado...

José Ramón Ayllón

Armand D’Angour

An innovative and insightful exploration of the passionate early life of Socrates and the influences that led him to become the first and greatest of philosophersSocrates: the philosopher whose questioning gave birth to the ideas of Western thought, and whose execution marked the end of the Athenian Golden Age. Yet despite his pre-eminence among the great thinkers of history, l...

Kalanithi, Paul

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young neurosurgeon attempts to answer the question What makes a life worth living?NAMED ONE OF PASTE'S BEST MEMOIRS OF THE DECADE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review...

Trevor Noah

The host of The Daily Show, Trevor Noah, shares his personal story and the injustices he faced while growing up half black, half white in South Africa under and after apartheid in this New York Times bestselling young readers' adaptation of his adult memoir. "A piercing reminder that every mad life--even yours--could end up a masterpiece." --JASON REYNOLDS, New York Times bests...

Zweig, Stefan

Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age of literary Vienna?its seeming permanence, its promise, and its devastating fall.Surrounded by the leading literary lights of the epoch, Stefan Zweig draws a vivid and intimate account of his life and travels through Vienna, Paris, Berlin, and London, t...

David Mccullough

John Lahr

Freedman, Russell

Cannon, Joanna

'A few years ago, I found myself in A&E. I had never felt so ill. I was mentally and physically broken. So fractured, I hadn't eaten properly or slept well, or even changed my expression for months. I sat in a cubicle, behind paper-thin curtains...and I shook with the effort of not crying. I was an inch away from defeat... but I knew I had to carry on. Because I wasn't the pati...

Bythell, Shaun

"Do you have a list of your books, or do I just have to stare at them?"Shaun Bythell is the owner of The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. With more than a mile of shelving, real log fires in the shop and the sea lapping nearby, the shop should be an idyll for bookworms. Unfortunately, Shaun also has to contend with bizarre requests from people who don't understand what a shop is,...

Montero, Rosa

Con la característica intuición periodística, la inmensa capacidad de análisis y el talento narrativo extraordinario de la autora, este volumen recupera sus entrevistas más emblemáticas publicadas en El País y nos obsequia cuarenta años de preguntas y respuestas que nos permiten confrontar las verdades que el tiempo ha ido develando.El arte de la entrevista resulta así un fiel ...

Reiss, Mike

Desde la primera emisión de Los Simpson en el año 1989, Mike Reiss ha dedicado su vida entera a esta maravillosa serie como guionista y como productor. Es, sin lugar a dudas, quien mejor conoce a estos frikies de cuatro dedos y sus locuras geniales. ...

Christopher Mcdougall

The astonishing national bestseller and hugely entertaining story that completely changed the way we run.An epic adventure that began with one simple question: Why does my foot hurt? Isolated by Mexico's deadly Copper Canyons, the blissful Tarahumara Indians have honed the ability to run hundreds of miles without rest or injury. In a riveting narrative, award-winning journalist...

Leon Trotsky

Mi vida: un intento de autobiografía (en ruso : ??? ????? ) es el nombre de laautobiografía dellíder comunista revolucionario ruso Leon Trotsky . El libro fue publicado por primera vez en 1930 y fue escrito en el primer año del exilio de Trotsky en Turquía . Cubre el tiempo desde su juventud, hasta la Revolución de 1905 , la Revolución de 1917 , la Guerra Civil Rusa hasta su lu...

Joachim Fest

Manfred, Albert

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

"Heartbreaking and inspiring," Nelson Mandela's Prison Letters reveals his evolution "into one of the great moral heroes of our time" (New York Times).First published to mark the centenary of Nelson Mandela's birth, The Prison Letters of Nelson Mandela sparked celebrations around the globe for one of the "greatest warriors of all time" (O, The Oprah Magazine). Featuring 94 lett...

Helena Hunt

As one of only nine women in a class of 500 at Harvard Law School when she enrolled in 1956 and one of only four female Supreme Court justices in the history of the United States, Ruth Bader Ginsburg is frequently viewed as a feminist trailblazer and an icon for civil rights. Ginsburg has always been known as a prolific writer and speaker. Now, Ruth Bader Ginsburg: In Her Own W...

William Kamkwamba

Now a Netflix Film, Starring and Directed by Chiwetel Ejiofor of 12 Years a SlaveWilliam Kamkwamba was born in Malawi, a country where magic ruled and modern science was mystery. It was also a land withered by drought and hunger. But William had read about windmills, and he dreamed of building one that would bring to his small village a set of luxuries that only 2 percent of Ma...

Orlean, Susan

Susan Orlean's bestseller and New York Times Notable Book is "a sheer delight...as rich in insight and as varied as the treasures contained on the shelves in any local library" (USA TODAY)—a dazzling love letter to a beloved institution and an investigation into one of its greatest mysteries. "Everybody who loves books should check out The Library Book" (The Washington Post).On...

Brad Ricca

"Heroic and inspiring."?The New York TimesGrace Humiston was a lawyer, a detective, and the first female U.S. District Attorney. She was also a society woman who would become one of the greatest crime-fighters in America. This is her story.In 1917, on the day before Valentine's Day, a beloved teenager named Ruth Cruger went missing. When the police gave up on trying to find her...

George Dawson

Feynman, Richard P.