Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
The life of Hollywood’s number one movie actor, the elusive Robert De Niro, who shuns the limelight and rarely gives interviews, written by the leading film critic and biographer of Spielberg, Kubrick, Woody Allen and George Lucas.Robert De Niro is the pre-eminent Hollywood character performer of our time: film portraits like the young Don Vito Corleone in THE GODFATHER II, Jake La Motta in RAGING…
Студия «МедиаКнига» представляет аудиокнигу знаменитого русского писателя Валентина Павловича Свенцицкого «Венок на могилу Льва Толстого». "Лев Толстой 28 октября велел заложить лошадей и вместе с доктором Маковецким уехал в Шокино, откуда по железной дороге отправился на юг. В оставленной на имя жены записке Толстой пишет, что его тяготит обстановка жизни, просит не делать попыток отыскивать его…
Here for the first time is the full horror and madness of sharing a house, told by someone who’s been there. Birmingham pulls no punches: from dead rats in the kitchen to tent-dwelling lodgers in the living room, you’ll run for the safety of living alone.‘A rat died in the living room at King Street and we didn’t know. There was at least six inches of compacted rubbish between our feet and the flo…
Предлагаемые читателю «Записки» Д.А. Оболенского предоставлены для публикации его правнуком А.П. Гагариным. Д.А. Оболенский – видный государственный деятель эпохи Александра II, активный участник подготовки и проведения великих преобразований 60–70-х годов XIX в. в России. «Записки» передают умонастроения и воскрешают внутреннюю жизнь русского общества того времени. Книга предназначена для специал…
Этого врача по праву называют отцом русской хирургии. В 18 лет он окончил Московский университет, а в 26 стал профессором. Ученый-анатом, естествоиспытатель и военный хирург, он побывал на Крымской и Кавказской войнах, спас тысячи жизней, впервые применил эфирное обезболивание и гипсовую повязку. В книгу вошли письма и дневниковые записи, посвященные описанию трудовых будней первого русского хирур…
Леонардо да Винчи – это гений-универсал, ученый, инженер, архитектор, талантливый художник. Как он смог преуспеть во всем сразу? В этой книге – не только история этого неординарного человека и его эпохи, но и секреты успеха. Как знать – может, и в вас дремлет гений, которого нужно лишь вдохновить!
A candid, moving and inspirational memoir about a high-flying business man who is forced to re-evaluate his life and values when he suddenly loses everything and goes to work in Starbucks.Michael Gill had it made. He was educated, wealthy and well-connected. He had a creative and lucrative advertising job, which he loved and which he was good at, and a model family and home life. Then he loses it …
Journalist, presenter, broadcaster, husband, father, vigorous all-rounder: Alan Partridge. Star of action blockbuster Alpha Papa; a man with a fascinating past and an amazing future.I Partridge: We Need To Talk About Alan is the memoir of Alan Partridge, the nation’s favourite broadcaster. It is a work of heart-breaking majesty.Genuinely one of the best books of the last fifteen to twenty years, I…
The long awaited story of one of Britain’s greatest comic legends.'Some people walk on stage and the audience warms to them. You can't explain it, and you shouldn't try. It's an arrogant assumption to say you 'decide' to become a comedian. The audience decides for you.' Eric Sykes, December 2001From his early days writing scripts for Bill Fraser and Frankie Howerd through decades of British radio …
‘A letter is handed to you. In broken English, it tells you that you must now vacate your farm; that this is no longer your home, for it now belongs to the crowd on your doorstep. Then the drums begin to beat.’As the land invasions gather pace, the Retzlaffs begin an epic journey across Zimbabwe, facing eviction after eviction, trying to save the group of animals with whom they feel a deep and end…
An entertaining social and cultural history of cycling in post-war Europe seen through the eyes of a veteran racing cyclist.Written with great literary and historical relish, One More Kilometre examines the spread of cycling’s popularity, how it developed into a sport and how the bicycle has changed people’s lives – all viewed through the eyes of a seasoned 56-year-old racing cyclist/art critic wh…
From the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, a compelling account of her return to the land in which she grew up.In 1956, some seven years after departed for England, Doris Lessing returned home to Southern Rhodesia. It was a journey that was both personal – a revisiting of a land and people she knew – and, inevitably, political: Southern Rhodesia was now part of the Central African Federati…
“I cannot tell you the number of times I’ve wondered, especially after a spicy meal, why evolution wasn’t smart enough to build us with buttholes made out of something more durable? Titanium, perhaps?”From the hilarious Mara Altman, Gross Anatomy unapologetically explores the beautiful, and sometimes not so beautiful, aspects of our bodies, and why they’re worth loving anyway. From hairy chins to …
May 2006. Pilot Ed Macy arrives in Afghanistan with a contingent of the Apache AH Mk1. It’s the first operational tour for the deadly machines and confidence in the cripplingly expensive attack helicopter is low. It doesn’t help that for their first month ‘in action’, Ed and his mates see little more than the back-end of a Chinook.But when the men of 3 Para get pinned down during Op Mutay, reserva…
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works …