D - Biography & Memoir 1

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER / OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD THE AMERICAN VICE PRESIDENT'S ORIGIN STORY ‘Essential reading for this moment in history’ New York Times 'You will not read a more important……続きを見る

Députée à 29 ans puis ministre à 31 ans dans le gouvernement de Berlusconi, Giorgia Meloni s’est lancée dans la politique à l’âge de 15 ans et elle n’a cessé de s’investir depuis. À la tête des cons……続きを見る

"The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son" offers an intimate and profound glimpse into the extraordinary mind and life of one of history's most influential figures, John D. Rockefeller, as h……続きを見る

Hillbilly Elegy recounts Vice President J.D. Vance's powerful origin story... From a former marine and Yale Law School graduate now serving as the Vice President of the United States, an incisive ac……続きを見る

Esta obra apresenta, apenas, fragmentos de memórias do grande mestre, professor e pensador Ubiratan D'Ambrósio. Eles não caminham por nenhum método. Caminham pelas vias de uma 'dispersão' que intent……続きを見る

In "Random Reminiscences of Men and Events," John D. Rockefeller presents a captivating and intimate memoir that serves as both a personal reflection and a historical narrative of the late 19th and ……続きを見る

Thirty Years a Slave & Narrative of the Life of J.D. Green, A Runaway Slave, is an anthology that encapsulates the harrowing experiences and indomitable spirit of those who endured and resisted the ……続きを見る

Three hundred prisoners are marched out of Auschwitz, only one returns. This is a factual story about a death march endured by a prisoner of Auschwitz during World War II. It was told to the author ……続きを見る

What counts as 'indigenous religion' in today´s world? Who claims this category? What are the processes through which local entities become recognisable as 'religious' and 'indigenous'? How is all o……続きを見る

Farming in the Canadian backwoods in the late 1800s was a prospect that enticed many young Englishmen to cross the Atlantic. One such fellow was Frederick de la Fosse, whose well-meaning uncle paid ……続きを見る

This is a companion book to "Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Oh My!" in the Alexander Co. Abroad series. A book filled with photos from Italy as we explored Venice and Rome, one of our first trips abroad afte……続きを見る

The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by e……続きを見る

True story. Description of an event of June 14, 2015 at aprox 21:35, driving on interstate 75S in Detroit, MI. Non-Fiction 続きを見る

New, blistering, darkly funny essays breaking bones. And fixing them. And the seamy underside of life in the emergency room, with its cornucopia of crazy cases, not just bone-centred ones. For examp……続きを見る

Posing as jewel thief "Donnie Brasco," FBI agent Joseph D. Pistone carried out the most audacious sting operation ever, working undercover for six years to infiltrate the flamboyant community of maf……続きを見る

Sehr persönliche Erinnerungen, geschrieben mit der Offenheit, die ihn als Psychotherapeuten so besonders und letztlich weltberühmt machten. Irvin D. Yalom widmete sein Leben dem seelischen Leid ande……続きを見る

Set in a seaside Resort Town on the Queensland Coast of Australia amid the glitz and glamour of a millionaire's playground, a tale of exploitation by the wealthy of the disenfranchised, the homeless……続きを見る

Field Man is the captivating memoir of renowned southwestern archaeologist Julian Dodge Hayden, a man who held no professional degree or faculty position but who camped and argued with a who's who o……続きを見る

Tenzin Phuntsok was brought to India from his homeland, Tibet, at the tender age of nine. He respects this decision of his elders, though he has left his mother back home, and has never been able to……続きを見る

Stalked by her abusive ex-husband and in fear for her life, Leah Gray plans an escape. Leah's faith in God and in humanity shattered, when she is forced out of her comfort zone, she secretly purchas……続きを見る

Dans une mare de sang, la belle jeune fille était étendue, les cheveux dénoués, la gorge nue. L’ombre hostile du soir s’appesantissait déjà sur les hauts arbres, tandis qu’au carrefour des chemins, ……続きを見る

Le premier journal l'Endehors est fondé par Zo d'Axa écrivain libertaire, en mai 1891. C'est un hebdomadaire dans lequel vont pouvoir s'exprimer les écrivains contestataires de l'époque. P……続きを見る

Scènes d’un naufrage ou La Méduse, écrit par le militaire français, un des rescapés du naufrage de La Méduse, Paulin Étienne d’Anglas de Praviel (1793 – 1872). Ce livre numérique présente l'édition ……続きを見る

From childhood, D.L. Mayfield longed to be a missionary, so she was thrilled when the opportunity arose to work with a group of Somali Bantu refugees in her hometown of Portland, OR. As the days, mo……続きを見る

Nineteenth-century newspaper editor Jane Grey Swisshelm (1815–1884) was an unconventionally ambitious woman. While she struggled in private to be a dutiful daughter, wife, and mother, she publicly c……続きを見る

Slavery Remembered is the first major attempt to analyze the slave narratives gathered as part of the Federal Writers’ Project. Paul Escott’s sensitive examination of each of the nearly 2,400 narrat……続きを見る

This edition does not include photographs. The biography of Kiri Te Kanawa, one of the most well-known and well-loved personalities in music, revealing for the first time the dramatic story of her o……続きを見る

"What do you do when the world believes you were better off dead?" The Biographies Series is a collection of images. Drawn and inspired by individuals who find themselves in the heart of the justice……続きを見る

Extrait : Il ne faut pas s’y tromper, les habitudes de la pensée sont inexorables, et on ne fait pas impunément la même chose quand on la répète constamment ; il se trouve qu’au bout d’un certain te……続きを見る

**A National Bestseller An “astounding and miraculous ” (Madeline Levine) medical memoir by one of our nation’s leading pediatric surgeons-- the visionary head of Children’s National** Anyone who ha……続きを見る