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Sócrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira. Um nome longo e improvável, mas bastante apropriado para um personagem tão múltiplo e fascinante. Sócrates foi em seu tempo um dos símb……続きを見る

Há quem defenda a tese de que por trás de todo gênio existe certa dose de loucura. No caso de Marcelo Bielsa, foram doses nada moderadas dessa condição que moldaram a sua forma de enxergar o futebol……続きを見る

682, c'est le nombre de jours que Roselyne Bachelot a passés au ministère de la Culture sous la présidence d'Emmanuel Macron. Dans ce journal d'une ministre, Roselyne Bachelot fustige le bal des hyp……続きを見る

Eminent Victorians is a book by Lytton Strachey, consisting of biographies of four leading figures from the Victorian era. Its fame rests on the irreverence and wit Strachey brought to bear on three……続きを見る

The woman who ruled a nation and framed an Era. Alexandrina Victoria was conceived in a race between two disreputable, aging princes to beget an heir to the throne of England. She was only eighteen ……続きを見る

Blazing My Trail is the sequel to The Uncharted Path: My Journey with Late-Diagnosed Autism, Ms. Cohen-Rottenberg's moving memoir about her childhood on the autism spectrum and her life after diagno……続きを見る

“For a real insider’s look at life in modern China, readers should turn to Rachel DeWoskin.”ーSophie Beach, The Economist Determined to broaden her cultural horizons and live a “fiery” life, twenty-……続きを見る

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Discover the previously uncollected works of the author of the environmental classic Silent Springーconsidered one of the best nature writers of the 20th century. "Lyric, descriptive, informative, a……続きを見る

When Rachel Bertsche first moves to Chicago, she’s thrilled to finally share a zip code, let alone an apartment, with her boyfriend. But shortly after getting married, Bertsche realizes that her new……続きを見る

A vivid and elegant account of a family's season abroad by one of our finest contemporary authors Casting off a northern winter and an orderly life, a family decides to sell everything and go to Ita……続きを見る

Set in the mid 1850s, the story of Rachel Henning's voyage to Australia is told through the letters she writes to family and friends. Rachel Henning (1826–1914) was born in England. In 1854 she went……続きを見る

A true icon of America at a turning point in its history, Gypsy Rose Lee was the firstーand the onlyーstripper to become a household name, write novels, and win the adulation of intellectuals, banke……続きを見る

"I was born in southern China in 1962, in the tiny town of Yellow Stone. They called it the Year of Great Starvation." In 1962, as millions of Chinese citizens were gripped by Mao Zedong's Cultural ……続きを見る

Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor. 'The whole place seemed co……続きを見る

Edmund Zavitz (1875–1968) rescued Ontario from the ravages of increasingly more powerful floods, erosion, and deadly fires. Wastelands were talking over many hectares of once-flourishing farmlands a……続きを見る

On 23 October 2009, British couple Paul and Rachel Chandler were kidnapped from their sailing boat in the archipelago of the Seychelles. Their yacht, Lynn Rival, was recovered six days later by nava……続きを見る

Vision4Media Inc., a Brea, CA-based film production company, just signed a deal to develop a documentary based on Pacheco's work. V4M co-founder David Bojorquez, who will direct the film, said. "Wha……続きを見る

Eminent Victorians marked an epoch in the art of biography; it also helped to crack the old myths of high Victorianism and to usher in a new spirit by which chauvinism, hypocrisy and the stiff upper……続きを見る

The story of one of the most compelling religious leaders of modern times From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneersonーrevered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbeー……続きを見る

1969, a time of rebellion. I joined the Barons MC. This is that story through the 1970’s, the men, the women, and the cops. We stopped the feds from blackmailing the states into requiring helmet law……続きを見る

Rachel Felix (1821-58), the homely daughter of poor Jewish peddlers, was the first stage actress to achieve international stardom - and the last person one would have expected to resurrect the cultu……続きを見る

* Illustrated * Author Biography * Interactive Table of Contents * Free Audiobook Download Queen Victoria [Illustrated] [ Free Audiobooks Download ] Strachey's 1921 biography of Queen Victoria ……続きを見る

Rachel Friedman has always been the consummate good girl who does well in school and plays it safe, so the college grad surprises no one more than herself when, on a whim (and in an effort to escape……続きを見る

An unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family’s experience with mental illness. “A haunting, poignant story of a son’s life with, and without, his father. A rare and moving portrait of o……続きを見る

The publisher's special commentary chapter and the author's biography are included in this version. Lytton Strachey’s Queen Victoria is one of the biographies of famous people in history. He wrote t……続きを見る

A memoir of Trinket, a beautiful dachshund with a passion for hunting snakes. In memory of Trinket, my pretty little girl. 続きを見る

This is a compilation of tributes to a gentleman who has impacted the field of biomedical engineering and musculoskeletal science for four decades through his research, his guidance and mentorships,……続きを見る

Jason Statham' is an English performer, producer, soldierlike creator, and erstwhile plunger. He is familiar for his parts within the Guy Ritchie felony features Revolver (2005 film)|Revolver, Snatc……続きを見る

Menachem Begin was run out of Poland by the Nazis, imprisoned by the Soviets, hunted by the British and nearly murdered by the Jews. To have survived would have been impressive enough. To have flour……続きを見る