Zbirka: Biografije: splošno
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Rebel King(2018) BOWER, TOMNo. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller Bestselling author Tom Bower reveals the making of a monarch – King Charles IIIVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
World I Fell Out Of(2021) REID, MELANIEThe Sunday Times Bestseller From the award-winning writer of The Times Magazine's 'Spinal Column': a deeply moving, darkly funny, inspirational memoirVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
House Full of Daughters(2017) NICOLSON, JULIETIn the nineteenth-century slums of Malaga, the salons of fin-de-siècle Washington DC, an English boarding school during the Second World War, Chelsea in the 1960s, these women emerge for Juliet as people in their own right, but also as part of who she isVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Mitterrand(2014) SHORT, PHILIPAesthete, sensualist, bookworm, politician of Machiavellian cunning: François Mitterrand was a man of exceptional gifts and exceptional flaws who, during his fourteen years as President, strove to drag his tradition-bound and change-averse country into thVezava: Mehka23,82 € -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave(2015) DOUGLASS, FREDERICKAn autobiography of author who was born into slavery in Maryland in 1818. He describes his life as a slave - the cruelty he suffered at the hands of plantation owners; his struggles to educate himself in a world where slaves are deliberately kept ignorantVezava: Mehka12,61 € -
With Stars in Their Eyes(2022) BRECKINRIDGE, JAMES B. (ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, COLLEGE OF OPTICAL SCIENCES, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA),PRIDGEON, ALEC M. (FORMER SAINSBURY ORCHID FELLOW, FORMER SAINSBURY ORCHID FELLOW, ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS, KEW)Vezava: Trda58,68 € -
Autobiography of William Sanders Scarborough(2021) SCARBOROUGH, WILLIAM SANDERSTraces Scarborough’s path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce University. Despite the racism he met as he struggled to establish a place in higher education for African AmericVezava: Mehka44,47 € -
Pops: Fatherhood in Pieces(2019) CHABON, MICHAELMichael Chabon, author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Manhood for Amateurs and Moonglow, returns with a collection of heartfelt, humorous and insightful essays on the meaning of fatherhood.Vezava: Mehka12,61 € -
Mistresses of Cliveden(2016) LIVINGSTONE, NATALIE'It covers three centuries of high living, high politics and high drama [...] it is so fascinating' MEL SYKES_____________________________A Sunday Times bestsellerFive women.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Story of Alice(2016) DOUGLAS-FAIRHURST, ROBERTSHORTLISTED FOR THE 2015 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDThis is the secret history of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Wonderland is part of our cultural heritage. But beneath the fairy tale lies the complex history of the author and his subject.Vezava: Mehka18,21 € -
My Life in Houses(2016) FORSTER, MARGARET‘I was born on 25th May, 1938, in the front bedroom of a house in Orton Road, a house on the outer edges of Raffles, a council estate. I was a lucky girl.’ So begins Margaret Forster’s journey through the houses she’s lived in, from that sparkling new coVezava: Mehka18,21 € -
Bughouse(2018) SWIFT, DANIEL‘An extraordinary book of real passionate research’ Edmund de WaalIn 1945, Ezra Pound was due to stand trial for treason for his broadcasts in Fascist Italy during the Second World War.Vezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Eminent Hipsters(2014) FAGEN, DONALDPresents an autobiographical portrait that touches on everything from the cultural figures that mattered the most to him as a teenager, to author's years in the late 1960s at Bard College, to an account of a recent tour he made with Boz Scaggs and MichaelVezava: Mehka15,41 € -
Romantic Outlaws(2016) GORDON, CHARLOTTE***AS READ ON BBC RADIO 4***NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER'A gripping account of the heartbreaks and triumphs of two of history's most formidable female intellectuals, Mary Wollstonecraft and Mary Shelley.Vezava: Mehka16,81 €
