Zbirka: Biografije: splošno
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Last Royal Rebel(2017) KEAY, ANNAA brilliant history of Britain from the Civil War to the Glorious Revolution, told through the extraordinarily dramatic life and violent death of the Duke of Monmouth - reformer, romantic, rebel...Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Decline & Fall(2011) MULLIN, CHRISOffers an account of a New Labour backbencher. This title features the diaries that provide a snapshot of life in the Westminster village.Vezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Rose For Winter(2003) LEE, LAURIEHe found a country broken by the Civil War, but the totems of indestructible Spain survive: the Christ in agony, the thrilling flamenco cry-the pride in poverty, the gypsy intensity in vivid whitewashed slums, the cult of the bullfight, the exultation inVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Sky Burial(2005) XINRANAs a young girl in China Xinran heard a rumour about a soldier in Tibet who had been brutally fed to the vultures in a ritual known as a sky burial: the tale frightened and fascinated her.Vezava: Mehka14,01 € -
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Country Of My Skull(1999) KROG, ANTJIEAntije Krog's full account of the Commission's work using the testimonies of the oppressed and oppressors alike is a harrowing and haunting book in which the voices of ordinary people shape the course of history. WINNER OF SOUTH AFRICA'S SUNDAY TIMES ALVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Alfred(2013) VAN DER KISTE, JOHNAlfred, Duke of Edinburgh and of Saxe-Coburg Gotha, Admiral of the Fleet, was the second son of Queen Victoria. At 18 he was elected King of Greece, but not allowed to accept the crown. While touring Australia in 1868 he narrowly escaped assassination. HiVezava: Mehka21,02 € -
Desperate Romantics(2009) MOYLE, FRANNYIn conjunction with a major series for BBC2, the scandalous saga of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood.Vezava: Mehka19,62 € -
Still Me(1999) REEVE, CHRISTOPHERThrough his leading role in the three Superman films, Christopher Reeve became so closely identified with the superhero that he wasn't just seen as the actor who played Superman, he was Superman.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Lost In Translation(2008) HOFFMAN, EVAA memoir that evokes with deep feeling the sense of uprootendess and exile created by this disruption, something which has been the experience of tens of thousands of people this century. It tells the story of Jewish post-war experience and the tragediesVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Blue Tattoo(2011) MIFFLIN, MARGOTIn 1851 Olive Oatman was a thirteen-year old pioneer traveling west toward Zion, with her Mormon family. Within a decade, she was a white Indian with a chin tattoo, caught between cultures. The Blue Tattoo tells the harrowing story of this forgotten heroiVezava: Mehka28,26 € -
Boogie Man(2011) MURRAY, CHARLES SHAARA vivid biography of John Lee Hooker, from a critically acclaimed journalistVezava: Mehka26,62 € -
Long Ride Home(2014) ISAACSON, RUPERTRowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantruming, and his inability to make friends - were gone. But a year almost to the day since Rowan's improvementVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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Bob Marley(2010) SALEWICZ, CHRISWhat was it about Bob Marley that made him so popular in a world dominated by rock’n’roll? How is that he has not only remained the single most successful reggae artist ever, but has also become a shining beacon of radicalism and peace to generatVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Lucky Man(2003) FOX, MICHAEL J.In this candid book, with his trademark ironic sensibility and sense of the absurd, he tells his life story - from his childhood in western Canada to his meteoric rise in film and television and, most importantly, the years in which - with the unswervingVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
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Lady Gregory's Toothbrush(2003) TOIBIN, COLMThis sharp and stylish biography redefines the woman George Bernard Shaw once described as ‘the greatest living Irishwoman’ – Augusta Gregory.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
