java - Biography & Memoir 7

Quelque part dans l’État de Nevada, il existe une femme à qui j’ai menti sans vergogne pendant deux heures d’affilée. Je ne cherche point ici à faire mes excuses, loin d……続きを見る

Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs. Yet discussions of Asia ……続きを見る

Das persönlichste Buch von Charlotte Link Auf eindringliche Weise berichtet Bestsellerautorin Charlotte Link von der Krankheit und dem Sterben ihrer Schwester Franziska. Es ist nicht nur das persönl……続きを見る

Although the surface thread is autobiographical, "Local DJ" is much more an interwoven narrative on Rock "n" Roll culture from the late 50s through the present times. Perspective is subjectively rec……続きを見る

In After the Dance, one of Haiti’s most renowned daughters returns to her homeland, taking readers on a stunning, exquisitely rendered journey beyond the hedonistic surface of Carnival and into its ……続きを見る

"Du warst katholischer Priester und jetzt bist du evangelischer Pfarrer?" "Sei froh, dass du beides kannst. Warum versuchst du es nicht noch bei den Mormonen, den Zeugen Jehovas, der Heilsarmee oder……続きを見る

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This darkly funny memoir from “one of the next great stars in comedy” (Mike Birbiglia) doesn’t offer help overcoming depressionーjust much-needed comfort, company, and tips for life inside the fog. ……続きを見る

A.J.A. Symons’s life is changed forever when his friend Millard, a dealer in rare books, lends him an old tome and a stack of manuscript letters. The book is Hadrian the Seventh (1904), the work of ……続きを見る

The untold story of the night a divide nation turned to James Brownーand he delivered hope and calm in the form of an immortal concert Since James Brown's death in December 2006, the Godfather of So……続きを見る

It may not be improper to observe, that this Poem was originally offered, as an humble mite from the author, towards the contributions, then collecting, for the purpose of effecting the Abolition of……続きを見る

In a hilariously charming domestic memoir, America’s celebrated master of terror turns to a different kind of fright: raising children. In her celebrated fiction, Shirley Jackson explored the darkne……続きを見る

Banfield’s „Confessions of a Beachcomber,” waarvan dit boekje een verkorte bewerking is, zijn eigenlijk minder bekentenissen in den letterlijken zin des woords dan wel beschouwingen en beschrijvinge……続きを見る

Described as "a harmonious human multitude," Ben Franklin's life and careers were so varied and successful that he remains, even today, the epitome of the self-made man. Born into a humble tradesman……続きを見る

The poems in the text, slight and occasional as they are, depending often for their charm on plays upon words of two meanings, or on the suggestions conveyed to the Japanese mind by a single word, h……続きを見る

Updated and upgraded James Roosevelt. This book is your ultimate resource for James Roosevelt. Here you will find the most up-to-date 98 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read ch……続きを見る

The cinema, like language, can be said to exist as a system of differences. In his latest book the acclaimed philosopher Jacques Ranci�re relates cinema to literature and theatre. With literature, h……続きを見る

"THE PURPOSE OF POLITICS IS NOT TO DEFEAT YOUR OPPONENT AS MUCH AS IT IS TO PROVIDE SUPERIOR LEADERSHIP AND BETTER IDEAS THAN THE OPPOSITION." ーJACK KEMP The late 1970s were miserable for America. ……続きを見る

17 is a biographical account of two years in the life, ages 16 and 17, of an Oklahoma boy starting out as a completely innocent youth and transforming into one of the wildest street running, vagabon……続きを見る

The Salvadoran priest Rutilio Grande, SJ, was killed in a hall of bullets on March 12, 1977, along with two passengers in the car he drove. The impact of this killing transformed his friend and arch……続きを見る

" When the Japanese Imperial Forces invaded the Philippine Islands at the onset of World War II, they quickly rounded up Allied citizens on Luzon and imprisoned them as enemy aliens. These captured ……続きを見る

This book is a focused biographical account of the life of Oscar Winning Hollywood actress, Janet Gaynor. It profiles her early life and how her career took off in Hollywood. This book also highligh……続きを見る

With the nation at war in the 1940s, twenty-two-year-old Jack Valenti flew fifty-one combat missions as the pilot of a B-25 attack bomber with the 12th Air Force based in Italy. In the 1960s, with t……続きを見る

As a senior foreign correspondent for The Times of London, Janine di Giovanni was a firsthand witness to the brutal and protracted break-up of Yugoslavia. With unflinching sensitivity, Madness Visib……続きを見る

WHEN THIS DOCTOR TALKS, YOU SHOULD LISTEN. Thousands of people make an early exit each year and arrive on medical examiner Jan Garavaglia’s table. What is particularly sad about this is that many of……続きを見る

Diana Abu-Jaber’s vibrant, humorous memoir weaves together delicious food memories that illuminate the two cultures of her childhoodーAmerican and Jordanian. Here are stories of being raised by a fo……続きを見る

In this journalistic tour de force, bestselling author Edward Klein, a friend of Jacqueline Onassis's for many years, takes us behind the public image to give us a story that has never been told bef……続きを見る

“Cultures clash, but love conquers, with some fascinating twists and plenty of intimate details.” ーKirkus Reviews James Sullivan's Over the Moat details his travels in Vietnam to bicycle from Saigo……続きを見る

The day Walter White was buried in 1955 the New York Times called him "the nearest approach to a national leader of American Negroes since Booker T. Washington." For more than two decades, White, as……続きを見る

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Ménde……続きを見る