Zbirka: Biografije in resnične zgodbe
12557 rezultatov
-
Murder Inc.(2015) WILLIAMS, PAULPresents an account of how organized crime exploded in Limerick from the 1990s and in the noughties. This book describes the depravity and decadence of the gangs, their deadly rivaliries, and their reigns of terror over the community in which they lived.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Almost the Perfect Murder(2016) WILLIAMS, PAULFor over a year everyone assumed missing Dublin woman Elaine O'Hara had ended her own life. But after her remains were found gardai discovered that Elaine was in thrall to a man who had spent years grooming her to let him kill her. That man was Graham DwyVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Dark Heart(1998) DAVIES, NICK'This all began quite unexpectedly one rainy autumn evening a couple of years ago in a fairground near to the centre of Nottingham...' In amongst the bright lights and bumper cars, Nick Davies noticed two boys, no more than twelve years old, oddly detacheVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Feel Good 101(2017) BLACKERY, EMMAThe long-awaited first book from YouTube star Emma Blackery14,96 € -
Lush(2018) FERNIE, GABRIELLEGabby's Best Friend is Getting Married. It's Time to Grow Up. Isn't It?Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Splendid and the Vile(2021) LARSON, ERIKTHE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER ‘Every time Churchill took to the airwaves it was as if he were injecting adrenaline-soaked courage directly into the British people … Larson tells the story of how that feat was accomplished … Fresh,Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Long Way from Home(2018) GLASS, CATHYThe true story of 2 year-old Anna, abandoned by her natural parents, left alone in a neglected orphanage.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
Jan Tinbergen (1903–1994) and the Rise of Economic Expertise(2021) DEKKER, ERWIN (ERASMUS UNIVERSITEIT ROTTERDAM)This is the first biographical treatment of Jan Tinbergen, the first Nobel Prize Winner in Economics. It analyzes his youthful socialist ideals and involvement in Plan-socialism and how it gave rise to his pioneering econometric models and his seminal theVezava: Trda68,43 € -
Philip Payton(2021) MCGRUDER, KEVIN (ANTIOCH COLLEGE)The Black real estate entrepreneur Philip Payton played a central role in Harlem’s transformation into a Black community in the early twentieth century. In this biography, Kevin McGruder explores Payton’s career and its implications for the history of resVezava: Mehka40,39 € -
There Is Life After the Nobel Prize(2021) KANDEL, ERIC R. (COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER)Neuroscientist Eric R. Kandel recounts his remarkable career since receiving the Nobel in 2000. He takes readers through his lab’s scientific advances as well as his efforts to promote public understanding of science and to put brain science and art intoVezava: Trda27,45 € -
Idi Amin(2021) LEOPOLD, MARKThe first serious full-length biography of modern Africa’s most famous dictatorVezava: Mehka24,70 € -
Only Wonderful Things(2021) HOMESTEAD, MELISSA J. (PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, PROFESSOR OF ENGLISH, UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA-LINCOLN)Drawing on newly uncovered archives, The Only Wonderful Things offers a groundbreaking look at American novelist Willa Cather's creative process by arguing that the writer's life partner, magazine editor Edith Lewis, had a crucial impact on Cather's literVezava: Trda61,76 € -
Epistles, Volume I(1917) SENECAIn 124 epistles Seneca (ca. 4 BC–AD 65) writes to Lucilius, occasionally about technical problems of philosophy, but more often in a relaxed style about moral and ethical questions, relating them to personal experiences. He thus presents a Stoic philosophVezava: Trda44,47 € -
Black Prince of Florence(2017) FLETCHER, CATHERINE‘A spectacular, elegant, brilliant portrait of skulduggery, murder and sex in Renaissance Florence’ Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard, Books of the Year 1531 – after years of brutal war and political intrigue, the bastard son of a Medici Duke and aVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Lives in Writing(2015) LODGE, DAVIDA collection of essays on writers and writing by the Booker-shortlisted novelist and critic. Writing about real lives takes various forms, which overlap and may be combined with each other: biography, autobiography, biographical criticism, biographicalVezava: Mehka18,21 €
