D - Biography & Memoir 6

This is the true story of Totò Riina, the Cosa Nostra boss who rose from nothing to become the most powerful man in Sicily. The picture emerges of a bloodthirsty, power-hungry monster who, despite h……続きを見る

Pat Williams has known the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat--both on the sidelines of the basketball court and in his personal life. In this engaging look at his life and career, he tells o……続きを見る

This book provides a rounded biography of Franz (later Sir Francis) Simon, his early life in Germany, his move to Oxford in 1933, and his experimental contributions to low temperature physics approx……続きを見る

This novel aims to capture the life story of a truly remarkable man who survived being a concentration camp prisoner in Auschwitz and Mauthausen and then immigrated to Australia where he continues t……続きを見る

I am not a theologian! I did not study hermeneutics and homiletics in seminary school. I can’t exegete or eisegete text, but I can read! The bible tells me that faith without work is dead! What I’ve……続きを見る

This comprehensive book is designed to serve as a primary text for the Advertising Management course that follows the more general Principles of Advertising course. It can stand alone, or, for instr……続きを見る

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Turkey 1, includes Michael’s own personal travel tales of the sorts of things that can happen to you in your travels in Turkey. Of course, Michael’s Turkey s……続きを見る

The December issue of Travel Tales Monthly samples ‘drug tourism’ ー the quest to achieve the sorts of brain-states that travelers avidly seek out for the purposes of recreating, vegetating, meditat……続きを見る

David D. Allyn has led a life that others can only dream about. Adventurer, traveler, sailor, aviator, explorer, and big-hearted bon vivant, Dave came of age while sailing around the world on the la……続きを見る

The astonishing story of one man’s recovery in the face of traumatic lossーand a powerful meditation on the resilience of the soul On July 23, 2007, Dr. William Petit suffered an unimaginable horror……続きを見る

This wonderful collection is full of the witty anecdotes and stories told by and about Abraham Lincoln. Here's an example: SORRY FOR THE HORSES When President Lincoln heard of the Confederate raid a……続きを見る

Walt Kelly (1913-1973) is one of the most respected and innovative American cartoonists of the twentieth century. His long-running Pogo newspaper strip has been cited by modern comics artists and sc……続きを見る

Extrait : "L'égoïsme domine d'abord en nous. Peu à peu, le choc des autres égoïsmes le ramène à de plus juste proportions, il s'épure par l'amitié, s'ennoblit par l'amour, s'étend à la famille et à ……続きを見る

Rako (The Hormone of Desire.) trains her professional lens inward in her first memoir. Reflecting on her life and the appeal of psychiatry as both career and calmative yields a rich loam of memory a……続きを見る

SEEDS from My Patients shares the priceless seeds of faith, hope and courage that cancer patients have planted in a doctor’s life. These true stories about the power of hope, the importance of laugh……続きを見る

Kennedys Thomas Aquinas and Medieval Philosophy is a wonderful history of the philosophy of the 13th Century, its influence on St. Thomas Aquinas, and vice versa. By no means an exhaustive treatise……続きを見る

When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and fo……続きを見る

"Charley Ellis has written a magnificent portrait, capturing the indomitable spirit of Joe Wilson and his instinctive understanding of the need for and commercial usefulness of a transforming imagin……続きを見る

When a surgeon goes to the operating room, one would never consider that the surgeon might not be the one to come out alive. Dr. Allen barely escaped electrocution while saving a patients life. On t……続きを見る

Biographie de Charles-Augustin Sainte-Beuve par Paul-Gabriel d'Haussonvillede l'Académie française. Alors que la biographie de A.-J. Pons est essentiellement centrée sur les amo……続きを見る

Available at long last, this volume is the posthumous memoir of a peasant from the depths of old Russia who rose to great wealth and influence as his country's most successful publisher. Though neve……続きを見る

Dieses eBook: "Das Feuer (Autobiographischer Roman)" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Das Feuer ist ein Roman des italie……続きを見る

Do you remember your first time away from the influence and control of your parents? Was it when you went away to college or when you moved out of your parent’s home to your own place? Do you rememb……続きを見る

"Up to this year I have always felt that I had no particular call to meddle with this subject....But I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom an……続きを見る

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly Bookazine Issue No. 9 for March 2015 contains among the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of about 10,000 travel tales that he has gathered in i……続きを見る

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota. Ride with horse thieves and cattle rustlers, stagecoach, and train robbers. Duck the bullets of murderers, plot strate……続きを見る

Extrait : "Une partie de nos colonies fut restituée à la France par le traité de 1814 ; nos établissements sur la côte occidentale d'Afrique furent de ce nombre ; mais le gouvernement Anglais ne man……続きを見る

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David Foster Wallace is to contemporary literature what Kurt Cobain is to music. He died young enough for his promise and his achievements to solidify into a legend. For many, he became someone wort……続きを見る

An anthology of the most captivating writings about the wildest town in the West, including excerpts from novels, period newspaper articles, biographies and even song lyrics. 続きを見る