Biography & Memoir 29

Memoirs of a Misfit: I was Conceived during the Battle of Britain, eyewateringly circumcised at birth, bombed by a Dornier 17, incendiaries, doodlebugs and the odd V2 rocket, frozen by the winter of……続きを見る

Recard in The U.S of Eh is a story about struggling with severe mental illness, at the same time as you're away in a foreign country half way round the world, and forced to labour. When you're not p……続きを見る

“Lately, I can’t muster a single vision of grandeur. After decades spent scrawling dreams in ink, my pen gasping of breath between ideas, I feel flat and floating like a receipt caught high in the w……続きを見る

The Life of Florence Nightingale is a two volumes biography of a famous founder of modern nursing, written by English man of letters Sir Edward Tyas Cook. Florence Nightingale was an English social ……続きを見る

Conheça os bastidores não oficiais da história da Disney! Você vai descobrir o que Walt realmente pensava sobre religião, seu desentendimento com o FBI, o incidente do primeiro-ministro soviético Kh……続きを見る

Ivonne Cervantes Corte habla de las diferencias y malentendidos que tiene con una amiga acerca de la existencia de Dios. Diferencias que parecen ser irreconciliables a partir de la discusión generad……続きを見る

Descubra por primera vez la misteriosa vida de Mariano Meléndez y Muñoz, autor visionario de la novela que se adelantó a su tiempo, El misterioso (1836), primera novela de aventuras publicada en Méx……続きを見る

Neste quase romance, a autora narra sua história familiar a partir de cartas trocadas entre seus pais durante um longo e obrigatório período de separação. Como os acontecimentos ocorreram nos primei……続きを見る

Qualquer brasileiro que tenha estudado a língua japonesa passou pelos dicionários japonês-português de Noemia Hinata. Nascida no Brasil, filha de japoneses, vive no Japão desde 1974, onde lecionou l……続きを見る

I purchased two Packard motor cars, one large and one huge! Then I did most of my driving in a tiny Volvo PV-544. This story tells how these cars were purchased and how the family used them. 続きを見る

Rick Bonadio iniciou sua carreira 1986, aos 17 anos, quando gravou um disco, porém foi na mesa de som, produção e composição que ele se consagrou. É atualmente o produtor musical mais conhecido do B……続きを見る

I completed my Degree course in Biblical Studies with Education at African Bible University in 2012. This Book- is a collection of pictures that depict the life of students and staff at African Bibl……続きを見る

"The Great Escape" is a story of how Kon, who commits a crime that everyone else is too afraid to commit. With the police on his trail, he runs. his car into a tree, but meets an unsung hero. "Dange……続きを見る

"Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs" is a collection of biographies of the influential and notable Native Americans starting with Cofachiqui, the Indian princess. This book brings numerous thrilling and ……続きを見る

Fifty years ago Joy Adamson first introduced to the world the story of her life alongside Elsa the lioness, whom she had rescued as an orphaned cub, and raised at her home in Kenya. But as Elsa had ……続きを見る

Raising the Tents follows one woman as she plumbs her depths, and retrieves her own voice on her journey to find meaning and wholeness. Adler’s personal mythology evolves from a belief in the possib……続きを見る

The job interviewer asked me if I knew anything about computers. I said yes. This was a lie. I had not meant to lie. The interviewer hired me based on the fact that I had just declared. The fact is ……続きを見る

（Simplified Chinese version) The author was born thanks to his parents being alive and got married. This condition means nothing for most Japanese today, but in his case, Mother experienced A-bomb ……続きを見る

What counts as 'indigenous religion' in today´s world? Who claims this category? What are the processes through which local entities become recognisable as 'religious' and 'indigenous'? How is all o……続きを見る

Michael Joseph Jackson, né le 29 août 1958 à Gary (Indiana) et mort le 25 juin 2009 (à 50 ans) à Los Angeles (Californie), est un chanteur, danseur-chorégraphe, auteur-compositeur-interprète, acteur……続きを見る

May Picqueray (1898–1983) missed none of the major events in history during her lifetime. In 1921, she sent a parcel bomb (it exploded without casualties) to the US ambassador in Paris, to protest a……続きを見る

If you desire to heal yourself then you must take a hard look at your past and fully accept and forgive the person you have been. The best book to read is your own book – a story of humanity and sel……続きを見る

Max Ungar (1850-1930) was the son of an Orthodox Jew born in Boskovice, Moravia, and pursued a scientific career in Vienna University after which he took over the failing family business. He returne……続きを見る

In the Bible we are told of how man and animals were intended to live amongst each other in peace, and how Bible prophecy promises that in a post-apocalyptic world this will come to be. Perhaps some……続きを見る

A Brené Brown “Nightstand” Pick For women everywhere, a collection of fierce and often funny personal essays on finding ‘enough’ーfrom the James Beard Award-winning author of the Gluten-Free Girl co……続きを見る

An inspiring true story of a young boy and his fight against bone cancer. 続きを見る

"The day your boat comes in, you will be at the airport to meet it" is how a work colleague summed up my life. From a very early age I have been in the wrong place at the right time or vice versa. I……続きを見る

A obra descreve a trajetória de vida de Júlio Fernando Cabizuca, com episódios que vão desde sua infância, quando andava de velocípede no Beco do Bonésio, em Três Corações (MG), até o marco de seus ……続きを見る

From Mary Shelley's Frankenstein to Shirley Jackson's psychological masterpieces, women have been shaping horror, Gothic fiction, ghost stories, and speculative literature for centuries. Yet many of……続きを見る

Fall Line is a memoir about adjusting to life's missed goals. Research suggests that a third of us will look back on our lives and realize that we never accomplish what we most hoped to achieve. We ……続きを見る