Títulos en Biografías y memorias

يحتوى كتاب "060" على ستين خاطرة كتبها المؤلف محمد زكريا على مدار سنة، مجموعة من الخواطر تتحدث عن مواضيع كثيرة من العشم في الله، إلى صناعة طفرتك الخاصة؛ مرورا بأفكار في جذب المال، والحفاظ على الصحة، وجذب شريك الحياة .

محامٍ شاب آمن بالفكر الماركسي الثوري وسعى لجعله حقيقةً فقام بتأسيس المذهب اللينيني ووهب حياته للدفاع عن الطبقات الكادحة من العمال والثورة ضدّ استبداد الحكومات وتحالفها مع أصحاب رؤوس الأموال، إنّه صاحب الشخصية المثيرة للجدل "فلاديمير لينين" الذي عانى في حياته كثيرًا فقد عاش مُلاحقًا واتُّهم بالخيانة ونفيَ إلى سيبيريا ولم يسلم من محاولات الاغتيال المتكررة التي أودت آخرها بحياته عام 1924.

الكتاب عبارة عن مجموعة من المقالات المتنوعة عن السيدة أم كلثوم، وعن طفولتها ونشأتها وبعض الرجال الذين كان لهم دور في مسيرتها، وعن حفلاتها في كل من السودان وليبيا، وعلاقتها بشاعرها وكاتب أغنياتها أحمد رامي. فهو يتكون من 15 فصلاً تكشف جوانب ثرية ومتنوعة من حياة أم كلثوم، بدءًا من الفصل الأول "لغز أم كلثوم" الذي يرى فيه النقاش أن سبب بزوغ نجم أم كلثوم هو إخلاصها وتفانيها فى خدمة الفن، ورغبتها فى التعلم والإبداع، كما يروي تفاصيل لقائه مع الفنانة عام 1966 لمدة ثلاث ساعات متصلة، ثم يحكي قصة سفره معها

El descalzo es el escritor en su tinta. Pero la tinta de un escritor no es sólo la tinta de su tintero, de su teclado. Es, además, todo eso que lo envuelve como una red y lo apresa y/o contiene y está más allá y más acá de su biblioteca, de sus apuntes, de sus tortuosos borradores, de los laberintos de gestación, de sus hábitos y manías y mañas a la hora de afrontar el desafío de la página en blanco o de la página que rebasa.

Author Denis Leveille, Ph.D. has lived an amazing, often challenging, life: He came to the United States at age ten speaking only French. Later, as a therapist, he became a pioneer in researching and counseling those with some of the most challenging psychological conditions. Yet through it all, Leveille has held love as our most important resource and gift. If we maintain the positives of being human, including our generosity and our validation of others, we can survive life's difficulties.

Nella sala di lettura del British Museum il professor Julius Arnell esala l’ultimo respiro. Sembrerebbe la classica morte per cause naturali. Ma quando dei confetti avvelenati vengono ritrovati nelle sue tasche, all’ispettore Shelley e al suo improbabile compagno di indagini non resterà che usare tutto il loro fiuto per scoprire l’identità del pericoloso omicida.

After her parents' divorce in 1974, Lisa Lucca's idyllic Midwestern childhood is shattered when she learns her father is gay. Sworn to secrecy, she begins carrying the emotions of her family like a cracked bucket, making a mess as she embarks on a life of rebellious choices. Decades later, faced with the aftermath of her father’s death, Lisa revisits the complicated relationship she had with him, delving deeper into the stories she’s held about love, sexuality, and the family she comes from with a shimmering clarity that arises from her grief.

Desde que mi madre murió, lloro en H Mart. H Mart es una cadena de supermercados especializada en comida asiática. La H es por han ah reum, una frase en coreano que podría traducirse como ‘un brazo lleno de comestibles’. Mi madre expresaba su amor por medio de la comida. Por muy crítica o cruel que pudiera parecer no dejaba de presionarme para que colmara sus utópicas expectativas, yo siempre sentía que su afecto irradiaba de los platos que me preparaba exactamente como a mí me gustaban.

Just as with the liberation fighters, socialists, and anarchists of previous volumes, these historical figures lived under great threat, attacking vast forces with little more than courage and the certainty of their beliefs. They stand as the bridge over the cultural change between the middle ages and the renaissance.

O leitor e a leitora têm em mãos a oportunidade de conhecer a vida e obra daquele que ficou conhecido como "pastor de pastores", dada a expressiva influência que até hoje exerce. Winn Collier teve acesso exclusivo ao biografado e a documentos que lhe permitiram produzir um retrato fiel de quem foi Eugene Peterson.

In this masterful account, renowned true-crime historian Harold Schechter takes you into the life and crimes of convicted murderer John Caldwell Colt, drawing parallels between John's rise to notoriety and his brother Samuel Colt's rise to fame as the inventor of the legendary revolver. With a killing that made headlines around the nation, John Colt became a cultural touchstone whose shocking villainy inspired and provoked such writers as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Herman Melville.

In "The Mr. Glass Story, Darrin Andrus opens up about his journey, sharing an honest and hopeful account of escaping the clutches of gangs and addiction. This book is more than just a story-it guides those grappling with similar challenges, offering practical lessons and a path to redemption.

Kathryn Powers’ The Strength of Cara delves into the harrowing realities of the Opioid and Fentanyl epidemic, as it seeks to illuminate the profound impact these drugs have on families and society. It uncovers the distressing absence of laws that facilitate proper care for those affected by mental illness and addiction, resulting in a dire lack of support for these individuals.

The Gallipoli letter is an 8000-word private report written by journalist Keith Arthur Murdoch, with the help of British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, after visiting the Gallipoli peninsula in September 1915. It describes the organization and conditions of the Gallipoli campaign. It was sent to Andrew Fisher (then-Prime Minister of Australia) and Henry Herbert Asquith (then-Prime Minister of the UK). Murdoch’s twenty-eight-page letter helped to establish the idea of Gallipoli as a military disaster.

話題沸騰！ 『赤と青のガウン』の彬子女王殿下が誘うひと味違う究極の京都ガイド。私が京都で暮らす中で、感じ、経験した京都の街の魅力を、ありのままに書き綴ったものである。「京都」という街は、「道」から成る。京都に暮らし、日本美術研究者として活動する三笠宮家の彬子さまが、寺町通、四条通、河原町通など、歴史を刻む道と街並みの醍醐味を親しみやすい筆致で綴る。

戦後最悪の凶行から次々と発覚した、県直営の障害者支援施設による問題。無知、衝突、対話……孤立無援の中で行う改革は闘争と奇跡の連続だった。

Walking Towards Gold tells the story of the author's pioneer colonist forebears who arrived in newly formed Adelaide, South Australia from Portsmouth, in June 1838 and how thirteen years later three of them walked 580 miles from Adelaide to the Victorian goldfields pushing a wheelbarrow.. There are intrepid accounts and interesting descriptions of early Adelaide and life on the Victorian goldfields. This is part of the Downer family's story.

This unique sound history of Mount Everest was produced to celebrate the anniversary of the first ascent of Everest by Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. The story is told first and foremost by Sir Edmund Hillary and many others.

In 1967, by accident, Melba Tolliver was the first Black American to anchor network news. Going on to report and anchor for WABC-TV Eyewitness News, WNBC, and News 12 Long Island, Tolliver became known for her human-interest stories starring everyday people—but she also covered celebrities, musicians and politicians, from Stevie Wonder to Robert Kennedy. Packed with telling detail, Accidental Anchorwoman fills in the backstory of a life that has deeply influenced modern journalism.

After the fairy tale of Happily Ever After ends in heartbreak, what then? From multi-award-winning author River Faire comes an inspiring account of second chances, healing, inexplicable magic, and following the soul's compass.