CK - Biography & Memoir 98

Karl Marx: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works covers all aspects of his life and works. Marx was a philosopher, a crusading journalist, as well as a political organizer and activist advocating ……続きを見る

Love Thy Neighbor II, the sequel to Love Thy Neighbor, will lead you to fall in love with people the media has told you are enemies. The stories show the delight of not taking oneself too seriously,……続きを見る

With this book, Craig takes us into deep green forests, beside fast silver waters where trout rise, on long hikes over hills flamed by autumn and along slopes of tall, sharp mountains. He takes us i……続きを見る

This book is a "journey book." Sitting down at a computer and producing the story has been a grand trek. I have learned that there is a principle in nature that some things need to mellow, calm down……続きを見る

Thoughts on issues of character, leadership, integrity, personal and public virtue, and ethics, the selections in this volume converge around the central theme of how man can rise with dignity to pr……続きを見る

According to Professor Riehl of Berlin, the most widely read of serious writers in Germany today is Nietzsche. German ideas require time to cross the Channel and still more time to reach America; bu……続きを見る

The affection Joy Lennick nee Mansfield felt and feels for Wales is immediately evident in this charming memoir. Separated in World War 11 from her parents - with her father serving in the Royal Air……続きを見る

One. Lee D. Beck counted the first wave and waited for the second, knowing that he'd have a chance of surviving if he could hold his breath, maintain his composure, and count to six, the number of w……続きを見る

"Robert Wicks has achieved the near-miracle of presenting the whole of Hegel's thought in a way that will both enlighten the novice and be of great interest to seasoned Hegel buffs for its originali……続きを見る

To say that this is Dickens bovrilised and peptonisedーit is, as it were, all the biographies and Dickensiana subjected to some Chicagoan literary sausage-machineーis not to belittle Professor Leaco……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All Over but the Shoutin', the warmhearted and hilarious story of how his life was transformed by his love for a ……続きを見る

Em junho de 2019, quando comandava o navio de salvamento humanitário Sea-Watch 3, Carola Rackete tomou a corajosa decisão de ignorar a proibição do governo italiano e levar 40 pessoas resgatadas do ……続きを見る

The magnificent American master had the most extraordinary brain that anybody has ever had for chess. Technique, strategy, tactics, knowledge which is inconceivable for us; all that was possessed by……続きを見る

From 1933 when President Franklin Roosevelt established diplomatic relations with the USSR, the American ambassador has lived and entertained guests in a mansion located on Spasopeskovskaya ploshcha……続きを見る

'They were not just reporters; they were also pioneers, and Judith Mackrell has done them proud.' –Spectator Going with the Boys follows six intrepid women as their lives and careers intertwined on ……続きを見る

Janvier 1942, Robert Leckie s’engage dans les marines. Quelques mois d’entrainement suffiront à lui faire rejoindre les rangs de la Première Division des Marines qui sera plongée, plus qu’aucune aut……続きを見る

This is a compelling story of mother’s journey of raising a son with autism and how she refused to accept the limitations that were explained to her from his diagnosis. This inspiring story will sho……続きを見る

Babblings from a Battered Brain contains the thoughts, observations, experiences, ramblings and inspirational thoughts of Alan Onickel as he attempts to rebuild his life and body after a MVA he sust……続きを見る

En utrolig, men sand livsberetning om damefrisøren fra Skagen, der kom til salonen på D'Angleterre og siden til Elisabeth Ardens skønhedsklinik i Washington, hvor hun ordnede hår på Kennedy-fruerne.……続きを見る

La ruggente leonessa d’Inghilterra! Con la sua discendenza reale normanna, sassone e scozzese Matilde, nata nel 1102 da re Enrico d’Inghilterra e dalla regina Edith Matilde di Scozia, era destinata ……続きを見る

As the nation came together to mourn, to support, and to rebuild in the aftermath of 9/11, Virginia Buckingham was singled out for blame. As the head of Boston’s Logan International Airport, the lau……続きを見る

Smaller... smaller... smaller... Using poetry and personal essay style, Rex Emerson Jackson presents a memoir of a man who has battled against eating disorders for a major part of his life. Using ve……続きを見る

Sunday Times bestseller Lessons to live by, without getting up with the lark Hannah Jackson (aka The Red Shepherdess) grew up in the Wirral, and hadn't set foot on a farm until she was 20-years-old.……続きを見る

This complex memoir shows what it was like growing up in the shadow of a literary father and a neglectful mother, getting thrown out of boarding school after being seduced by a teacher, and all of t……続きを見る

Justice is blind to the truth. If you think that the good and honest citizens win their lawsuits most of the time against the crooks and the liars, you need to read this book. You will learn how une……続きを見る

Außergewöhnlich ist Bernd R. Hocks Leben schon immer. Durch seine verkürzten Arme und verkrümmten Hände fällt er auf. Trotzdem strahlt Bernd eine gehörige Portion Lebensfreude aus. Und sein Humor ve……続きを見る

This book follows the career events of a group of young people hired in 1965 to be Auditors for the Army. They go to Army schools and seminars, they learn on the jobs and then they do whatever it ta……続きを見る

Accompany Lt. Carl H. Albright as he pilots a B-24 heavy bomber on 35 missions over Germany. Read the diaries of the crew and learn of the close calls, tragedies and camaraderie these men experience……続きを見る

An incredible life that spanned for nearly a century... Robert Collins Blackmore, or ‘Blackie’ as he was known in the RAF, grew up as a sickly child, but would soon become one of the unsung heroes o……続きを見る

Using memoir as a vehicle, In Search of Landfall is about one man’s search for answers to some of the most important questions we are all faced with: who are we, what are we doing here, and where ar……続きを見る