Libros de Biografías y memorias 2368 resultados

Nikola Tesla

Famous for his pioneering contributions to the electronic age, his lifelong feud with Thomas Edison, and his erratic behavior, Nikola Tesla was one of the most brilliant and daring inventors and visionaries of his time. My Inventions is Tesla's autobiography, with meditations on his major discoveries and innovations, including the rotating magnetic field, the magnifying transmi...

C. S. Lewis

First published in 1955, C. S. Lewis's autobiographical "Surprised by Joy "has become a deeply important book for those concerned with the compatibility of the rational and the spiritual. It is an honest and intimate account of his own spiritual journey to confident Christianity. In "The Four Loves," he reflects on the four basic kinds of human love--affection, friendship, erot...

Joan Reardon

Culinary historian, cookbook author, and biographer Joan Reardon is the author of M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, and Alice Waters: Celebrating the Pleasures of the Table, M.F.K. Fisher Among the Pots and Pans, Poet of the Appetites: The Lives and Loves of M.F.K. Fisher, and Oysters: a Culinary Celebration. Reardon, who has a PhD in English literature, won an IACP Award for culinar...

Masha Gessen

El hombre sin rostro de Masha Gessen:El hombre sin rostro es el relato escalofriante de cómo un espía mediocre y cerrado de miras de la KGB ascendió a la presidencia de Rusia y de la noche a la mañana echó por tierra años de progreso convirtiendo a su país una vez más en una amenaza para su propio pueblo y para el mundo entero. Cuidadosamente elegido como sucesor por la «famili...

John Gunther

Johnny Gunther was only seventeen years old when he died of a brain tumor. During the months of his illness, everyone near him was unforgettably impressed by his level-headed courage, his wit and quiet friendliness, and, above all, his unfaltering patience through times of despair. This deeply moving book is a father's memoir of a brave, intelligent, and spirited boy. ...

Mark Blake

Queen's success in the 1970s was accompanied by a taste for musical and non-musical excess. Is This the Real Life? draws on eyewitness testimonies--former producers and managers, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends--to create a complete picture of one of the world's most ambitiously driven rock bands at work and at play. Revealing Queen's complex dynamic, Blake also explores how Fred...

Larry King

Truth Be Told is a revealing and irresistibly entertaining look back on Larry's remarkable run at CNN, and an honest look at Larry's own life behind the scenes. After more than a half-century of asking questions, Larry King suddenly found everyone wanted answers from him. Was Larry King Live, CNN's highest rated program, ending after three decades? Was Larry getting divorced ag...

Rita Levi-Montalcini

Rita Levi-Montalcini ha aspirado siempre a conciliar dos aspiraciones irreconciliables (según el gran poeta Yeats): la perfección en la vida o la perfección en el trabajo. Lo logró optando por cierta imperfección en la vida y en el trabajo. Y al descubrir el placer que le procuraban ambas actividades, descubrió que eso, la imperfección, era lo que más se ajustaba a la naturalez...

Ergun Caner

Esta obra magnifica, escrita por mujeres cristianas quienes conocen de manera intima el mundo del islam y la mujer musulmana, es una mirada a la verdadera experiencia de las mujeres musulmanas. ...

Fue sobreviviente de un genocidio y maltratado por su padre; analfabeto y vendedor callejero. Sin embargo, Martín Karadagián tuvo un sueño, y por cumplirlo edificó un imperio que durante más de cuarenta años conquistó desde la televisión el corazón de grandes y chicos, donde se confundieron deporte y espectáculo, realidad y ficción. Karadagián pasó a ser a partir de entonces ‘e...

José Eulalio Samayoa

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Celia Cruz

Cuando murió Celia Cruz, el 17 de julio del 2003, más de medio millón de personas --en Miami y en Nueva York-- esperaron en fila durante horas para presentarle sus últimos respetos. Varios millones más, le rindieron homenaje en pequeñas celebraciones conmemorativas, organizadas en sus propias casas y en festivales callejeros a través del mundo entero.De su modesta infancia en C...

Ceferino Reato

En este libro Videla explica por primera vez y en detalle la Disposición Final (DF), el método por el cual la dictadura detuvo y secuestró a miles de argentinos, los mantuvo cautivos en lugares secretos y clandestinos, los mató e hizo desaparecer sus cuerpos. ...

Frank Langella

Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight in a small Mexican village; Elizabeth Taylor devouring homemade pasta and tenderly wrapping him in her pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York City street.Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank ...

Colin Powell

It Worked for Me is filled with vivid experiences and lessons learned that have shaped the legendary public service career of the four-star general and former Secretary of State Colin Powell. At its heart are Powell's "Thirteen Rules"—notes he gathered over the years and that now form the basis of his leadership presentations given throughout the world. Powell's short but sweet...

Dorothy Wordsworth

Mitchell Zuckoff

On May 13, 1945, twenty-four American servicemen and WACs boarded a transport plane for a sightseeing trip over "Shangri-La," a beautiful and mysterious valley deep within the jungle-covered mountains of Dutch New Guinea. Unlike the peaceful Tibetan monks of James Hilton's bestselling novel Lost Horizon, this Shangri-La was home to spear-carrying tribesmen, warriors rumored to ...

Amos Oz

Tragic, comic, and utterly honest, this extraordinary memoir is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation and lived through its turbulent history.It is the story of a boy growing up in the war-torn Jerusalem of the forties and fifties, in a small apartment crowded with books in twelve languages and relatives speaking...

Joelle Herr

Celebrate the bicentennial birthday of Charles Dickens with this Miniature Edition packed with witty summaries of the novels of one of history's most beloved storytellers. All fans of great literature can enjoy these perfectly portable renditions of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, and all the Dickensian classics. Featuring synopses, ch...

Alonso Salazar J

De Pablo Escobar, el famoso narcotraficante colombiano, hemos oído hablar miles de veces por su infinita capacidad para ejercer el mal, que llevó a organismos como la dea a calificarlo como uno de los más grandes criminales de la historia. Sin embargo, poco se habla de sus orígenes familiares y sociales, de sus dimensiones humanas y de la manera como su personalidad fue evoluci...

Helen Keller

Helen Keller' striumph over her blindness and deafness has become one of the most inspiring stories of our time. Here, in a book first published when she was young woman, is Helen Keller's own story- complex, poignant, and filled with love. ...

Erin Siegal

The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the last decade, nearly 200,000 children have been adopted into the United States, 25,000 of whom came from Guatemala. Finding Fernanda, a dramatic true story paired with investigative reporting, tells the side-by-side tales of a...

Caparrós, Martín

¿Es posible contar un país? ¿Se puede poner en palabras esa suma de confusiones, variedades, diferencias, inquinas y querencias, un himno, una bandera, una frontera, mismos jefes y, a veces, mismos goles? que llamamos país?No hay mayor desafío. El Interior es un país enorme, el octavo del mundo en extensión, poblado por 22 millones de personas. Martín Caparrós decidió aceptar e...

Tina Fey

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.She has seen both these dreams come true.At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful...

Temple Grandin

Para la mayoría de nosotros, será difícil imaginar lo que es desear ser abrazado y sin embargo, sentir todo contacto como una agresión. oír las suaves olas que rompen en una playa como un ruido espantoso. no ver un jardín, sino trozos sueltos de flores. ser incapaz de reconocer a una persona si no se la ha visto antes quince veces. Para los autistas, no obstante, ésta es su rel...

Rafael Cerrato

¿Murió el Che Guevara en una emboscada? ¿Cuáles fueron sus últimas palabras? ¿Quién lo ejecutó? ¿Qué pasó con sus restos? ¿Cuántas mentiras se han escrito en torno a su figura? Qué responsabilidad correspondió a Fidel Castro en la muerte del Che? ¿Cayó una maldición sobre los hombres que intervinieron en su muerte o fueron asesinados? Estas y otras numerosas preguntas tienen su...

Anthony Bourdain

A deliciously funny, delectably shocking banquet of wild-but-true tales of life in the culinary trade from Chef Anthony Bourdain, laying out his more than a quarter-century of drugs, sex, and haute cuisine—now with all-new, never-before-published material. ...

Mario Alberto Carrera