Sborník statí českých i zahraničních kolegů, žáků a také dlouholetých přátel historiků byl příznačně nazván Historik zapomenutých dějin. Těžiště odborného zájmu prof. Eduarda Maura totiž spočívá především ve druhé polovině 17. století a v 18. století, tedy v době, která až donedávna patřila k neprávem ...
Mitsuko Aoyama, provdaná ke konci 19. století za rakousko-uherského diplomata hraběte Heinricha Coudenhove-Kalergi, byla jednou z prvních Japonek, jež přicestovaly do Evropy. Hrabě Heinrich, manžel Mitsuko, o 15 let starší než jeho žena, patřil v době na přelomu 19. a 20. století k nejvzdělanějším a ...
Obsáhlá vzpomínková kniha významné české psychoterapeutky v řadě kapitol a na desítkách unikátních fotografií přibližuje čtenářům celý její život plný mimořádných událostí a nevšedních setkání: Nezapomenutelnou ukrajinskou babičku a vzácné venkovské dětství v Jižních Čechách. Studia a atmosféru 60. let ...
What do you do when you wake up in your mid-forties and realize you''ve been living a lie your whole life? Do you tell? Or do you keep it to yourself? Laura James found out that she was autistic as an adult, after she had forged a career for herself, married twice and raised four children. This book ...
All Things Remembered is the story of the man born Clifford J. Price - jungle\''s most streetwise ambassador who went on to collect an MBE from Buckingham Palace. As one of Britain\''s most influential DJs, producers and record-label owners, Goldie\''s contribution to the UK rave scene in the 1990s with ...
Advice for graduates and reflections on staying true to yourself from the beloved Gilmore Girls actress and New York Times bestselling author of the memoir Talking as Fast as I Can and the novel Someday, Someday, Maybe. "If you''re kicking yourself for not having accomplished all you should have by now, ...
A read-aloud introduction to geography for young children that, when opened and folded back, creates a freestanding globe Children are invited to identify and experience the Earth''s amazing geography through rhyming verse and lush illustrations: from rivers, lakes, and oceans deep, to valleys, hills, ...
Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history. Seeking a sense of home and identity, she would discover both while moving from spectator to creator in experiencing ...
It began with a break-in at the Democratic National Committee headquarters in Washington DC, on 17 June 1972. Bob Woodward, a journalist for the Washington Post, was called into the office on a Saturday morning to cover the story. Carl Bernstein, a political reporter on the Post, was also assigned. They ...
From YouTube star vlogger Connor Franta comes an illustrated book that grows out of his massive social media outreach filled with annotated postcards, notes, texts, tweets, journal entries, emails, and letters that chart his coming of age. The front of the postcards feature his photos, both of himself ...
Oficiální biografie Paradise Lost od amerického spisovatele a hudebního publicisty Davida Gehlkeho mapující více než 30 letou dráhu této britské doom/gothicmetalové legendy, přičemž stěžejními body jednotlivých kapitol jsou, jak to u kapelních biografií bývá, studiová alba. Kniha původně vyšla k výročí ...
Discover Amos Oz''s most iconic work in this extraordinary memoir that is at once a great family saga and a magical self-portrait of a writer who witnessed the birth of a nation *OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE* ''A hero of mine, a moral as well as literary giant'' Simon Schama Amos Oz''s remarkable, ...
From bestselling author Bill Bryson comes this compelling short biography of William Shakespeare, our greatest dramatist and poet. Examining centuries of myths, half-truths and downright lies, Bill Bryson makes sense of the man behind the masterpieces. As he leads us through the crowded streets of Elizabethan ...
Candid and brilliantly funny, this is the story of how a tall, shy youth from Weston-super-Mare went on to become a self-confessed legend. En route, John Cleese describes his nerve-racking first public appearance, at St Peter''s Preparatory School at the age of eight and five-sixths; his endlessly peripatetic ...
Penguin: I AM ZLATAN - the explosive, critically-acclaimed memoir of Zlatan Ibrahimovich, one of the world's most gifted and.
#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLERFar more than a superb memoir about the highest levels of professional tennis, Open is the engrossing story of a remarkable life. Andre Agassi had his life mapped out for him before he left the crib. Groomed to be a tennis champion by his moody and demanding father, by the age ...
In September 2012, a YOUGOV poll conducted in Britain found that the person British workers would most like as their manager was Sir Richard Branson. With over 40 years in business, Richard Branson is an inspiring pioneer of humanitarian projects and an iconic business leader. In The Virgin Way: How ...
