Michael - Biography & Memoir 1

'The book is great: moving but also properly funny.' Hadley Freeman, The Guardian 'A memoir with an unusual sense of purpose. . . pithy, highly readable' The Times The entire world knows Michael J. ……続きを見る

Defining 70s music is a challenge. Spinning out of the Motown sound, funk, soul, and R & B influenced the burgeoning soft and hard rock genre. Smooth jazz replaced the big band sound popular since W……続きを見る

**#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of t……続きを見る

A funny, highly personal, gorgeously written account of what it's like to be a 30-year-old man who is told he has an 80-year-old's disease. "Life is great. Sometimes, though, you just have to put up……続きを見る

So much has been left unsaid about the passing of legendary music innovator Prince Rogers Nelson. Prince, a prolific musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits “1999,” “Li……続きを見る

Prince Rogers Nelson, a musician from Minneapolis, started a musical revolution with the hits “1999,” “Little Red Corvette,” “When Doves Cry,” “Purple Rain,” “Batdance,” and more, challenging even t……続きを見る

A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks. Michael G……続きを見る

'Back to the Future super-fans are predictably well served here ... Fox's evocative descriptions of a lost Hollywood - pre-word processor, never mind pre-internet - will also interest a more general……続きを見る

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows M……続きを見る

It is necessary for a prince wishing to hold his own to know how to do wrong, and to make use of it or not according to necessity. ーNiccolò Machiavelli, The Prince Greed. Lies. Corruption. These ar……続きを見る

Now in paperback, the national bestselling riches-to-rags true story of an advertising executive who had it all, then lost it allーand was finally redeemed by his new job, and his twenty-eight-year-……続きを見る

Dit is een verhaal wat mij 80 jaar gekost heeft om het naar buiten te brengen. Het gaat over mijn kinderjaren gedurende de tweede wereldoorlog, maar vooral over de jaren daarna, die veel erger waren. 続きを見る

Wilhelmina was a young child when Germany invaded The Netherlands in 1940 and then occupied the country for five years. By the end of the war, her mother was imprisoned in a labour camp and her fath……続きを見る

You ain't nothing but a "Hound Dog" ... with these words shouted into the microphone she will always be remembered: Big Mama Thornton. Who is this woman who sang the megahit "Hound Dog" before Elvis……続きを見る

Marianne grew up in a small German town during WW2. After meeting an Englishman on a cruise ship, she eloped to Australia and began her own family. Now aged 90, she lives in Queensland. 続きを見る

This is the definitive, the official, the most lavish, the completely-different-to-anything-done-before Pythons' autobiography, reissued to coincide with the eagerly-anticipated live shows. Over for……続きを見る

“In June a few years ago I set out to visit some of the World War One battlefields of Europe – the slope and valley and river and plain that the Newfoundland Regiment trained on, and fought over and……続きを見る

*From the author of the New York Times No.1 bestseller The Untethered Soul comes the astonishing true-life story about what happens when you just let go* The extraordinary story of what happened whe……続きを見る

O que é necessário para levar uma equipe ao máximo sucesso e mantê-la no topo por um bom tempo? Sir Alex Ferguson é um dos poucos líderes que sabem de fato a resposta a essa pergunta. Nos 38 anos em……続きを見る

Looking back to 1964, the Girty family appeared to be a typical lower-middle-class Detroit family, with two hardworking parents and three children living in the home. The family went to church every……続きを見る

A romantic and adventurous journey to the hidden islands and lagoons beyond Papua New Guinea and north of Australia. East of Java, west of Tahiti and north of the Cape York peninsula of Australia li……続きを見る

Birmingham's Front Line offers a fascinating and unique insight into police culture and the problems faced by those on the thin blue line during a tumultuous time in Britain’s second city. Containin……続きを見る

What does it mean to make the hardest decision of your life? Of having to choose immediate sacrifice in order to avoid a pain that is everlasting? Deferred is a journey that answers these questions ……続きを見る

Shortly after his mother dies of breast cancer when he is ten years old, Michael Blumenthal discovers that she was not his biological mother, and that his aunt and uncle, immigrant chicken farmers l……続きを見る

Franz Kafka: Subversive Dreamer is an attempt to identify and properly contextualize the social critique in Kafka’s biography and work that links father-son antagonisms, heterodox Jewish religious t……続きを見る

Sir Michael Wood was born on January 28, 1918 in the UK. He studied medicine, and in 1943 he qualified as a surgeon and soon after was married to Susan Buxton. Susan’s deep-rooted interest in Africa……続きを見る

A TELEGRAPH BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar – about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforg……続きを見る

Come walk along the corridors of a Pennsylvania state prison and find out what really happens behind these walls.......if you dare! It starts out innocently enough and then takes on a seedy trail of……続きを見る

Trapped in a Happy Life by Michael F. Duffy In his memoirs, Trapped in a Happy Life, Michael F. Duffy reflects fondly and funnily upon his formative years in Philadelphia. Between the dangerous game……続きを見る

**Finalist - Sigurd F. Olson Nature Writing Award Finalist - Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment Creative Book Award Finalist - Evans Biography and Handcart Award An ode the ……続きを見る