mai - Biography & Memoir 2

Se lhe fosse dada a oportunidade de viver até os seus noventa anos, o que você pediria, em primeiro lugar? Com certeza, lucidez para poder continuar se relacionando com o mundo ao seu redor, não? E ……続きを見る

PEN/West Award Finalist " Told with energy, perception and great charm. . . . For anyone who wants to . . . gain insight into the great cultural and political richness of Iran, past, present and fut……続きを見る

The true story of how I scrapped my way up the ranks of Cydcor/DS-Max, a notorious door-to-door sales organization, and gave it everything I had trying to make it rich. This story explains how the b……続きを見る

Accompany Daniel Freeman as he travels deep within the Underworld of drugs, crime and immorality. Witness Dan's struggle to make difficult choices. Feel the pressure as Dan becomes ensnared in the t……続きを見る

A comprehensive biography of author and broadcaster Breandán Ó hEithir. The uathor, Liam Mac Con Iomaire, discusses Breandán's background, his travels abroad and also the Ireland in which Breandán l……続きを見る

An extraordinary biography of the legendary screen star Marilyn Monroe (originally published in 1973) by Norman Mailer, one of America's most important writers of the second half of the Twentieth Ce……続きを見る

Wilfred Thesiger, the last of the great gentlemen explorer-adventurers, became a legend in his own lifetime. This authorised biography by a longstanding friend and associate delves into his little-k……続きを見る

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE GLOBE AND MAIL Norman Mailer was one of the towering figures of twentieth-century American letters and an acknowledged master of the essay. Mind of an ……続きを見る

The biography of legendary folk singer Seosamh Ó hÉanaí, or Joe Heaney. This is a fascinating book for anyone with an interest in music and includes extracts from interviews (in English and Irish) w……続きを見る

Reflecting on his accomplishments, his colleagues, and the future of baseball, Andre Dawson tells the story of his four-decade career as a player and executive in this intimate memoir. Seriously inj……続きを見る

'Genius' The New York Times In 1973, Norman Mailer published Marilyn, his celebrated in-depth account of the life of Marilyn Monroe, as a glossy, fully illustrated coffee-table tome. His work was im……続きを見る

On a pier in Marseille in 1942, with desperate refugees pressing to board one of the last ships to escape France before the Nazis choked off its ports, an 18-year-old German Jewish girl was pried fr……続きを見る

Known to fans as 'Micky O', Michael O'Loughlin is a legendary figure in AFL and one of the Sydney Swans' favourite sons. This is the candid and inspiring story of the boy who became one of AFL's gre……続きを見る

Jamaica Kincaid's brother Devon Drew died of AIDS on January 19, 1996, at the age of thirty-three. Kincaid's incantatory, poetic, and often shockingly frank recounting of her brother's life and deat……続きを見る

After a noisy upbringing as one of six children, and adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, Sara Maitland began to crave silence. Over the past five years, she has spent periods of silence in the……続きを見る

On a moonlit night shining with mystery and wonder, four-year-old Diem Ai Nguyen tastes a sparkling pebble from the ground…and unknowingly takes into her body the seeds of polio, which changes her l……続きを見る

A succinct and readable account of the Prophet (SAAS)’s life based reliably on the earliest sources. It describes his difficult yet successful struggle to spread Islam and reveals his excellent……続きを見る

According to Wikipedia: "Jean Jacques Rousseau (Geneva, 1712 Ermenonville, 2 July 1778) was a major philosopher, writer, and composer of the eighteenth century Enlightenment, whose political philoso……続きを見る

A genuine literary eventーan illuminating collection of correspondence from one of the most acclaimed American writers of all time Over the course of a nearly sixty-year career, Norman Mailer wrote ……続きを見る

The king transferred to them his claims on some of the more opulent recusants, against whom they were at liberty to proceed by law, in his name, unless the sufferers should submit to compound, by th……続きを見る

Die Memoiren einer Journalisten-Legende Er war der Grandseigneur des politischen Journalismus in Deutschland, ebenso gewitzter wie scharfsinniger Insider des Politikbetriebes, dreißig Jahre lang war……続きを見る

A taut and beautifully written debut novel by an exciting and accomplished new author. Motherless, rootless and unprotected, Jude Williams' childhood is fractured by the horror and experience of sex……続きを見る

Loin des stéréotypes de Fifty Shades of Grey, entrez dans l'univers de Diane, maîtresse SM... Suite au succès de Cinquante nuances de Grey, les médias bruissent, les livres se vendent, les langues s……続きを見る

An inspiring personal story by the most prominent Muslim woman activist and legislator for women’s rights in Pakistan. In the fall of 2001, a newlywed English professor took on a job editing the “wo……続きを見る

In perhaps his most important literary feat, Norman Mailer fashions an unprecedented portrait of one of the great villainsーand enigmasーin United States history. Here is Lee Harvey Oswaldーhis fami……続きを見る

For many, the moon landing was the defining event of the twentieth century. So it seems only fitting that Norman Mailerーthe literary provocateur who altered the landscape of American nonfictionーwr……続きを見る

Découvrez enfin tout ce qu’il faut savoir sur James Cooks et l’exploration du Pacifique en moins d’une heure ! Le 25 août 1768, un charbonnier d’apparence banale quitte le port de Plymouth. À son bo……続きを見る

A memoir of a love affair with the forest and her native Australia, White Beech is Germaine Greer's most personal book yet 'A powerful account of Greer's attempt to reverse the calamitous environmen……続きを見る

From profanity-laced clubhouse tirades and outspoken opinions on the state of the game to tears at an emotional funeral for his murdered granddaughter, Dallas Green tells his story for the first tim……続きを見る

In the 1920s, Karl Amson Joel and his wife Meta founded a mail-order linen goods company in Nuremberg, Germany. The business flourished, and it could have turned out to be a picture-book success sto……続きを見る