Russia in 1839 -Empire of the Czar: A Journey Through Eternal Russia
Автор:
De Custine AstolpheЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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Scar_Tissue_rus
Автор:
Anthony KiedisЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-22Язык книги:
РусскийКол-во страниц:
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Scenes from a life ( Chekhov)
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Bartlett RosamundЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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Sex Pistols - История изнутри
Автор:
Верморел ФредЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-10-25Язык книги:
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Эта книга — близкая к тому, как если бы сами Пистолеты рассказали свою историю — впервые вышла в свет в разгар панк-взрыва. Авторы имели уникальный и постоянный доступ к группе, к семьям участников и их друзьям, к Малькольму Макларену и всем людям его оффиса Глиттербест. Книга собрала бредовые рецензии, была переведена на несколько языков и стала частью легенды Секс...
Slash
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SlashЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-16Язык книги:
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“Wonderfully frank.” (Entertainment Weekly) “Entertaining and educational… a crash course for aspiring rock gods.” (Spin magazine) From one of the greatest rock guitarists of our era comes a memoir that redefines sex, drugs, and rock ’n’ roll He was born in England but reared in L.A., surrounded by the leading artists of the day amidst the vibrant hotbed of music and culture that was the early seventies. Slash spent his adolescence on the streets of Hollywood, discovering drugs, drinking, rock music, and girls, all while achieving notable status as a BMX rider. But everything changed in his world the day he first held the beat-up one-string guitar his grandmother had discarded in a closet. The instrument became his voice and it...
Description
South! tells one of the most thrilling tales of exploration and survival against the odds which has ever been written. It details the experiences of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition which set off in 1914 to make an attempt to cross the Antarctic continent.
Under the direction of Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition comprised two components: one party sailing on the Endurance into the Weddell Sea, which was to attempt the actual crossing; and another party on board the Aurora, under the direction of Aeneas Mackintosh, sailing into the Ross Sea on the other side of the continent and tasked with establishing depots of stores as far south as possible...
Speak, Memory
Автор:
Набоков ВладимирЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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Stalin: A Biography
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Service RobertЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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Overthrowing the conventional image of Stalin as an uneducated political administrator inexplicably transformed into a pathological killer, Robert Service reveals a more complex and fascinating story behind this notorious twentieth-century figure. Drawing on unexplored archives and personal testimonies gathered from across Russia and Georgia, this is the first full-scale biography of the Soviet dictator in twenty years. Service describes in unprecedented detail the first half of Stalin’s life—his childhood in Georgia as the son of a violent, drunkard father and a devoted mother; his education and religious training; and his political activity as a young revolutionary. No mere messenger for Lenin, Stalin was a prominent activist long before the Russian Revolution. Equally...
Stars
Автор:
Ленина ЛенаЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-15Язык книги:
РусскийКол-во страниц:
33
Чтобы написать эту книгу, Лене Лениной - автору пятнадцати книг на русском и французском языках, из которых три бестселлера, пришлось познакомиться со звездами мировой величины и не только познакомится, но и попасть к ним домой. Ведь всем хочется знать, каковы звезды в жизни, с кем они спят, где и как живут, что едят и какого цвета у них туалетная бумага. Итак, герои этой книги: Пьер Ришар, Жерар Депардье, Клод Лелуш, Соня Рикель,...
Steve Jobs: A Biography
Автор:
Isaacson WalterЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-24Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
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Based on more than forty interviews with Jobs conducted over two years—as well as interviews with more than a hundred family members, friends, adversaries, competitors, and colleagues—Walter Isaacson has written a riveting story of the roller-coaster life and searingly intense personality of a creative entrepreneur whose passion for perfection and ferocious drive revolutionized six industries: personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, tablet computing, and digital publishing. At a time when America is seeking ways to sustain its innovative edge, Jobs stands as the ultimate icon of inventiveness and applied imagination. He knew that the best way to create value in the twenty-first century was to connect creativity with technology. He built a company where leaps of the...
Struggles and Triumphs
Автор:
P. T. BarnumДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
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242
Description
Struggles and Triumphs is the autobiography of P. T. Barnum, the celebrated American showman. Though subtitled Forty Years’ Recollections, it covers a period of over 60 years, from his birth in 1810, to the later years of his career in the 1870s.
Barnum has an engaging style, and his autobiography is crammed with many amusing and interesting incidents as he tells how he learned to make money entertaining the public through circuses, “freak shows,” theatrical presentations, concert tours and the like. On the way he builds up an impressive fortune, only to lose it all through a fraudulous speculation perpetrated on him. Then he starts again, pays off...
Struggles and Triumphs
Автор:
P. T. BarnumДата добавления:
2022-03-18Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
242
Description
Struggles and Triumphs is the autobiography of P. T. Barnum, the celebrated American showman. Though subtitled Forty Years’ Recollections, it covers a period of over 60 years, from his birth in 1810, to the later years of his career in the 1870s.
Barnum has an engaging style, and his autobiography is crammed with many amusing and interesting incidents as he tells how he learned to make money entertaining the public through circuses, “freak shows,” theatrical presentations, concert tours and the like. On the way he builds up an impressive fortune, only to lose it all through a fraudulous speculation perpetrated on him. Then he starts again, pays off...
Survival in Auschwitz
Автор:
Levi PrimoЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-30Язык книги:
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In 1943, Primo Levi, a twenty-five-year-old chemist and “Italian citizen of Jewish race,” was arrested by Italian fascists and deported from his native Turin to Auschwitz. Survival in Auschwitz is Levi’s classic account of his ten months in the German death camp, a harrowing story of systematic cruelty and miraculous endurance. Remarkable for its simplicity, restraint, compassion, and even wit, Survival in Auschwitz remains a lasting testament to the indestructibility of the human spirit. Included in this new edition is an illuminating conversation between Philip Roth and Primo Levi never before published in book...
Survivor of the Long March
Автор:
Waite CharlesЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-12-05Язык книги:
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Nothing prepares a man for war and Private Charles Waite, of the Queen’s Royal Regiment, was ill-prepared when his convoy took a wrong turning near Abbeville and met 400 German soldiers and half a dozen tanks. “The day I was captured, I had a rifle but no ammunition.” He lost his freedom that day in may 1940 and didn’t regain it until April 1945 when he was rescued by Americans near Berlin, having walked 1,600 kms from East Prussia. Silent for seventy years, Charles writes about his five lost years: the terrible things he saw and suffered; his forced work in a stone quarry and on farms; his period in solitary confinement for sabotage; and his long journey home in one of the worst winters on record, across the frozen river Elbe, to Berlin and liberation. His story is also about...
Syd Barrett. Bведение в Барреттологию.
Автор:
Кулеш ПетрЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
3Дата добавления:
2013-10-29Язык книги:
РумунскийКол-во страниц:
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Книга посвящена Сиду Барретту, отцу-основателю легендарной группы Pink...
Tail of the Storm
Автор:
Cockrell AlanЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-12-01Язык книги:
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51
Within days of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait in 1990, the far-reaching arm of American airpower sprang into action. Cockrell writes lyrically about flying, and about the emotional and intellectual satisfaction enjoyed by those who fly. His focus is on the people recalled to active duty, who flew thousands of hours, coping with fatigue, cracked wings, missile attacks, and, in some cases, deteriorating businesses and families at home. Illustrated in pencil by MSgt Walter E. Sistrunk, Jr., USAF (ANG,...
Terrible tsarinas
Автор:
Troyat HenriЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Серия:
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2013-11-17Язык книги:
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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Benjamin FranklinДата добавления:
2022-03-19Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
69
Description
Benjamin Franklin is a man who needs little introduction. He wore many hats over the course of his fascinating life, from that of a printer, to an inventor, to a scientist, to a politician, a founding father and statesman, and even a postmaster-general. He was famous for all of these things in his day, but he was also famed for his keen insight into people and human nature, and his sparkling talent as a conversationalist.
Despite his accomplishments, Franklin seemed to keep a down-to-earth demeanor, favoring home-spun sayings and simple, direct, honest prose—the kind of prose that shines in this autobiography.
The autobiography itself has a long and complex...
The Autobiography of Ma-Ka-Tai-Me-She-Kia-Kiak, or Black Hawk
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Black HawkЖанр:
Биографии и Мемуары;Дата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
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66
Description
Black Hawk, so named after the sacred medicine bag he carried with him, was a warrior and a leader of a tribe of Sauk Native Americans in the American Midwest circa 1800. He rose to leadership during a tumultuous time for his people, as they were pressed on all sides by the warlike British, the ruthlessly expansionist Americans, and the grudges and jealousies of neighboring tribes.
He lived as a warrior for much of his early life, when the War of 1812 between the British and the Americans forced the Sauk to take sides and enter the fray. Angered by the Americans’ demands they sign shaky treaties to cede their land, the tribe fought for the British until the toll of the war...
The Autobiography of Mark Twain
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Mark TwainДата добавления:
2022-03-17Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
194
Description
The Autobiography of Mark Twain is a collection of reminiscences and reflections. Twain began dictating them in 1870, and in 1906 he published Chapters from My Autobiography in twenty-five installments in the North American Review. He continued to write stories for his autobiography, most of which weren’t published in his lifetime due to a lack of access to his papers, or their private subject matters. After Twain’s death, numerous editors have tried to organize this collection of published and unpublished autobiographical works, producing various differing editions. The most recent attempt is by the Mark Twain Project at the University of California, Berkeley, which...
