D - Biography & Memoir 4

An in-depth biography of Sir Thomas Lipton, the founder of Lipton Tea-a portrait of a remarkable self-made man and intrepid sailor. Today Lipton means tea. However, in his time Sir Thomas Lipton was……続きを見る

The West was a lawless domain when Jerry Potts was born into the Upper Missouri fur trade in 1838. The son of a Scottish father and a Blood mother, he was given the name Bear Child by his Blood trib……続きを見る

Read Michael D'Antonio's posts on the Penguin Blog From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist comes a revealing biography of "one of the most polarizing figures in baseball history" (The New York Ti……続きを見る

Dr. Kimberly Allison diagnoses breast cancer for a living. But as a 33-year-old healthy new mother, she never expected to find herself looking at her own malignant cells under the microscope. Like m……続きを見る

Presenting ten titles in the Quest Biography series that profiles prominent figures in Canada’s history. The important Canadian lives detailed here are: painters Tom Thomson and James Wilson Morrice……続きを見る

The presidency of John F. Kennedy, the broad-daylight murder of John F. Kennedy, and the public outrage over a sham investigation into that murder are the watershed events of the Twentieth Century. ……続きを見る

John F. Kennedy is killed in Texas; controversies spring up over his remains, his successor’s swearing-in, a dubious autopsy, the arrest of one suspect; large groups attempt to interrogate the suspe……続きを見る

Book III: Disappointment November 25, 1963ーAugust, 1964 Monday, November 25, is a national day of mourning, but only for one of the three funerals held that day; four days later, the new president ……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé.  Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. ……続きを見る

This book deals with the life and career of Bernhard Karlgren (1889-1978), whose research in a great variety of fields, particularly the historical phonology of the Chinese language, laid the founda……続きを見る

When my father--the smart, strong, mostly silent type--got diagnosed with a brain tumor a few months after his 56th birthday, I figured we'd ended up with the worst Christmas present ever. Instead, ……続きを見る

A dog’s life is more than just tail-wagging, treat-begging and butterfly-chasing. In The Butterflies Above My Bed, Mya Mia Happy Michael (as told to her beloved human companion Samantha Michael), ch……続きを見る

The much-anticipated sequel to The German Aces Speak gives voice to four more of WWII’s most noteworthy German pilots. When The German Aces Speak published in 2011, Air & Space/Smithsonian magaz……続きを見る

A Memoir and a Manifesto Positive traces the life of Michael S. Saag, MD, an internationally known expert on the virus that causes AIDS, but the book is more than a memoir: through his story, Dr. Sa……続きを見る

Hay historias que cautivan desde las primeras lineas y esta es una de ellas. Esta novela autobiográfica narra la saga vivida por una chica que podría decirse que es invulnerable. Desde niña confront……続きを見る

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Histoire des salons de Paris - Tome IV Laure Junot d'Abrantès, mémorialiste française (1784-1838) Ce livre numérique présente «Histoire des salons de Paris ……続きを見る

Silent Screams recounts one woman’s painful struggle following a severe psychological crisis. After an attempted suicide reveals the doctor/patient relationship that she has had with her psychiatris……続きを見る

"A very impressive must-read for serious PKD readers...I literally could not put this book down. Reading the interview, you get the uncanny sensation that you're sitting in the room rapping with PKD……続きを見る

Casablanca ~In The Last Days of French Morocco is an autobiographical account with a unique perspective from a young and aspiring member of the Bahá'í Faith during his early years, reconciling his n……続きを見る

This is not just a book about surgery. It is not even just about surgery in a remote jungle station. It is about God and His unpredictable working in the life and ministry of a missionary kid from C……続きを見る

Through the course of almost twenty years of medical experience, Dr. Minh Han has collected in this book over a hundred stories of people and situations that have intersected and affected his life. ……続きを見る

“Scarlet coat to red-tabs It is a common aspect of uncommon men that their lives are so exceptional that they cannot be adequately described in a few words. So much the better then that the author o……続きを見る

“War in the air over the Middle East Mesopotamia, ‘the land of the two rivers’, is deemed the birthplace of civilisation. Now modern day Iraq, it has known warfare throughout the millennia that man ……続きを見る

Even during the horrors of the brutalizing industrialised slaughter of the First World War the Gallipoli campaign stands as a benchmark for the awful conditions and savage fighting that occurred. Th……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé.  Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. ……続きを見る

Ce livre comporte une table des matières dynamique, à été relu et corrigé. Il est parfaitement mis en page pour une lecture sur liseuse électronique. Extrait: « Vous êtes grand, Seigneur, et infi……続きを見る

"A beautifully cadenced work of artーit will remind some readers of Nabokov's classic Speak, Memory."ーJoyce Carol Oates Paris in the 1930sーmelancholy, erotic, intensely politicizedーprovides the p……続きを見る

Edward Connor was barely out of high school when he joined the U.S. Army Air Corps before the beginning of World War II. After Pearl Harbor was attacked, he and thousands of other young men were qui……続きを見る

In Thailand, a condom is called a "Mechai". Mechai Viravaidya, Thailand's Condom King, has used this most anatomically suggestive contraceptive device to turn the conventional family planning establ……続きを見る