Zbirka: Biografije: splošno
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Cycle of Lies(2014) MACUR, JULIETA fly-on-the-wall account of the greatest drama in modern sporting history by the New York Times cycling correspondent.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
My Feudal Lord(1996) DURRANI, TEHMINABorn into one of Pakistan's most influential families, Tehmina Durrani was raised in the privileged milieu of Lahore high society. She was expected to marry a wealthy Muslim, bear him children and lead a sheltered life of leisure. This is the story of TehVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Everything Is Connected(2009) BARENBOIM, DANIELA memoir by the master pianist, conductor and internationalist Daniel Barenboim - 'the closest thing that classical music can offer to Nelson Mandela' [THE TIMES]Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Screwed(2008) THOMPSON, RONNIEWhat really goes on behind bars - the truth about life as a prison officerVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Knife Man(2006) MOORE, WENDYWINNER OF THE MEDICAL JOURNALISTS' OPEN BOOK AWARD 2005Revered and feared in equal measure, John Hunter was the most famous surgeon of eighteenth-century London.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
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Playing the Moldovans at Tennis(2007) HAWKS, TONYNone of them sounded to me like they were any good at tennis ...'An eccentric wager finds Tony Hawks, a man who loves an unusual challenge, bound for the little-known Eastern European state of Moldova.Vezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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Colonel of Tamarkan(2006) SUMMERS, JULIEThe gripping and fascinating story of the man who was really in charge of the construction of the infamous bridge on the river Kwai, by his granddaughter.Vezava: Mehka36,44 € -
Jonny: My Autobiography(2012) WILKINSON, JONNYJONNY is the unrelenting, brutally honest account of one of the most revered, successful and complex athletes ever to play rugby for England.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Green Fool(2001) KAVANAGH, PATRICKPresents an account of the author's Irish rural upbringing that describes a patriarchal society surviving on the edge of poverty, sustained by the land and an insatiable love of gossip. This title includes tales of schoolboy skirmishes, blackberrying andVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
My Invented Country(2004) ALLENDE, ISABELThe life story of Isabel Allende – one of the world's favourite writers – is as exotic, passionate and inspiring as one of her novels.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
It Is What It Is(2008) COULTHARD, DAVIDThe stunningly honest and revealing autobiography of the most successful British Grand Prix driver of all timeVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Karl Marx(2000) WHEEN, FRANCISA major biography of the man who, more than any other, made the twentieth century. Written by an author of great repute.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rage To Live(1999) LOVELL, MARY S.*A fascinating 'dual' biography of Richard and Isabel Burton.Vezava: Mehka28,03 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(2009) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKFrederick Douglass's Narrative recounts his life as a slave in Maryland and escape to freedom in 1838. An important slave autobiography, it is significant both for what it tells us about slave life and about its author. It is here reprinted with contexualVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Lise Meitner(1997) SIME, RUTH LEWINLise Meitner (1878-1968) was a pioneer of nuclear physics and co-discoverer, with Otto Hahn and Fritz Strassmann, of nuclear fission. This book tells the story of this brilliant woman whose extraordinary life illustrates not only the dramatic scientific pVezava: Mehka50,09 € -
Ma, I've Reached for the Moon an I'm Hittin the Stars(2013) LONG, MARTHAAfter a failed suicide attempt and recovery in the mad house, Martha is heading for France to be reunited with the one true love of her life. Father Ralph Fitzgerald rescued her from the streets when she was sixteen and was the first person to show MartVezava: Mehka22,42 €
