ko - Biography & Memoir 6

Au cours d’une navigation sur le lac Ladoga, tandis que nous allions de l’île de Konévetz à celle de Valaam, nous dûmes, pour les besoins du steamer, relâcher dans le……続きを見る

A haunting and often hilarious memoir of growing up in 80s Miami as the son of Big Tony, a flawless model of the great American pot baron. To his fellow smugglers, Anthony Edward Dokoupil was the Ol……続きを見る

Pola Negri (1897–1987) rose from an impoverished childhood in Warsaw, Poland, to become one of early Hollywood's greatest stars. After tuberculosis ended her career as a ballerina in 1912, she turne……続きを見る

" Un livre drôle, émouvant , et tout à fait brillant sur les défis et les perspectives particulières de maladie mentale . Plutôt que de simplement décrire un état clinique , Donna Kakonge évoque soi……続きを見る

From some of today’s most critically acclaimed writers**ーincluding Dennis Lehane, Justin Cronin, Andre Dubus III, and Benjamin Percyー**comes a rich collection of essays on what it means to be a da……続きを見る

Do I really need to vaccinate my baby? When should I worry about a tummy ache? Do all teenagers act like this? And how can my son and daughter be so completely different? Raising children doesn’t ha……続きを見る

This book is your ultimate resource for Gisele Bundchen. Here you will find the most up-to-date 99 Success Facts, Information, and much more. In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and ……続きを見る

Growing up African American in segregated Arkansas in the 1950s, Barbara Hendricks witnessed firsthand the painful struggle for civil rights. After graduation from the Juilliard School of Music, Hen……続きを見る

Au cours d’une navigation sur le lac Ladoga, tandis que nous allions de l’île de Konévetz à celle de Valaam, nous dûmes, pour les besoins du steamer, relâcher dans le……続きを見る

Frida Kahlo stepped into the limelight in 1929 when she married Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. She was twenty-two; he was forty-three. Hailed as Rivera’s exotic young wife who “dabbles in art,” she ……続きを見る

In 1955, Werner I Juretzko was accused of and tried for anti communist activities. He was sentenced to 13 years of incarceration for so-called ”crimes against Article 6 of the Constitution” of the G……続きを見る

For millions of basketball fans in the 1970s, Walt “Clyde” Frazier defined the word cool. An iconic piece of basketball history and sports journalism, this meticulously documented account tells the ……続きを見る

Russian scientist Elie Metchnikoff was a Nobel Prize winner who vastly advanced our understanding of the immune system and is credited with creating the field of gerontology, which is the study of a……続きを見る

The note from my father "Go hide yourselves somewhere even if it is in a hole in the ground, because nobody knows what is happening here" This was the first news we had from him after a nightmare wa……続きを見る

Charlie Chaplin war einmal der wohl berühmteste Mann der Welt. In seiner Paraderolle als kleiner Tramp brachte er sein Publikum in einer Zeit zum Lachen, als das Leben reich an Tragödien war. Auch s……続きを見る

"Vom Bordstein bis zur Skyline" - das ist nicht nur der Titel von Bushidos erstem erfolgreichen Soloalbum, sondern auch eine Metapher für seine Karriere. Kaum ein Künstler polarisiert wie er. Er hat……続きを見る

Von Xero über Hybrid Theory zu Linkin Park - die Band durchlebte in ihrer Karriere bis heute viele Höhen und Tiefen, feierte weltweit Erfolge, war jedoch nicht immer unumstritten. Kaum eine andere B……続きを見る

The arrival of the submarine Deutschland in the harbour of New York in July of 1916 produced one of the sensation of the year. How had a U-Boat sailed all the way from Germany to the United States e……続きを見る

Genna Sosonko lived the first 29 years of his life in Leningrad. He emigrated to Holland in 1972 and was one of the strongest grandmasters in the world. His bestselling book, Russian Silhouettes, wa……続きを見る

Keeping Faith is the biography of a man who has been described as one who has the ability to associate with the good, the bad, and the ugly without being tainted by the inconsistencies of those live……続きを見る

Many books about the medical, scientific, psychological and social aspects of autism have been written. "Behind the Eye Shadow" is not one of them. This book is a poignant and thought-provoking narr……続きを見る

Ted Kooser sees a writer’s workbooks as the stepping-stones on which a poet makes his way across the stream of experience toward a poem. Because those wobbly stones are only inches above the quotidi……続きを見る

In 1990 author Kyoko Mori returned to her native Japan to visit the "landscape of my childhood." There--looking for the house in which her mother killed herself, running on land that was once water,……続きを見る

Groomed for the stage since childhood, Zoya Frank-Paradowski exceeded her mother's expectations. Her raw talent coupled with her beauty lead her to success in ballet, theater, film, and opera under ……続きを見る

New York City Jazz explores many of the haunts and hideaways that have played host to iconic jazz musicians and singers like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, D……続きを見る

Lilibeth und ihre Familie müssen wegen das Bombardements der alliierten das vertraute Berlin verlassen. Sie wird in Ostpreußen eingeschult und ist begeistert von den Wörtern, die sie lernt. Sie beob……続きを見る

The writers who crafted the innovative ideas, characters and worlds that changed our perception of reality and shaped our future are revealed in probing, wide-ranging and provocative interviews that……続きを見る

More than sixty years ago, Tei Fujiwara wrote a memoir 流れる星は生きている (Nagareru Hoshiwa Ikiteiru) about her harrowing journey home with her three young children. But the story of her story is ……続きを見る

Sent to Auschwitz on the first Jewish transport, Rena Kornreich survived the Nazi death camps for over three years. While there she was reunited with her sister Danka. Each day became a struggle to ……続きを見る

Résumant vingt-cinq années de recherches menées par Nikolas Schreck sur le phénomène Charles Manson, ce « Livre des Révélations » met en lumière des aspects inconnus de Manson en tant que philosophe……続きを見る