Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
Эта книга о тех, кому выпала судьба быть первыми лицами московской власти в течение ХХ века – такого отчаянного, такого напряженного, такого непростого в мировой истории, в истории России и, конечно, в истории непревзойденной ее столицы – городе Москве. Авторы книги – историки, писатели и журналисты, опираясь на архивные документы, свидетельства современников, материалы из семейных архивов, дневни…
Эта книга о тех, кому выпала судьба быть первыми лицами московской власти в течение ХХ века – такого отчаянного, такого напряженного, такого непростого в мировой истории, в истории России и, конечно, в истории непревзойденной ее столицы – городе Москве. Авторы книги – историки, писатели и журналисты, опираясь на архивные документы, свидетельства современников, материалы из семейных архивов, дневни…
Эта книга о тех, кому выпала судьба быть первыми лицами московской власти в течение ХХ века – такого отчаянного, такого напряженного, такого непростого в мировой истории, в истории России и, конечно, в истории непревзойденной ее столицы – городе Москве. Авторы книги – историки, писатели и журналисты, опираясь на архивные документы, свидетельства современников, материалы из семейных архивов, дневни…
Учебное пособие посвящается выдающимся врачам и учёным мира, организаторам здравоохранения и медицинским династиям Донского края, которые в разные периоды истории несли своё служение, исполняя свой долг врача и гражданина. Издание является продолжением серии книг («Российская школа бескорыстия», «Деонтология жизни», «50 лет с ALMA MATER», «Наследники духовных традиций медицины», «Милосердие как пр…
A historical novel set in Tuscany in the 18th century, during the enlightened government of Pietro Leopoldo of Hapsburg Lorraine. Autobiographical memories of the Grand Duchess Maria Luisa, his wife and confidante. “Vienna 1792. Maria Ludovica of Bourbon, the Spanish Infanta, for many years Grand Duchess of Tuscany and now Empress of the Holy Roman Empire, watches impotently the sudden death of he…
La “Notte oscura dell’anima” può essere definito come uno sguardo critico ad una fase molto difficile che ognuno di noi prima o poi attraversa. Parla di un periodo propizio alla condanna o, per quanto sembri incredibile, ad una inusuale salvezza della persona. La “Notte oscura dell’anima” può essere definito come uno sguardo critico ad una fase molto difficile che ognuno di noi prima o poi attrave…
Противостоящие силы – это начало саги, полной драмы, ожидания, действия, приключений и романтики. Начинайте читать и влюбляться в каждую сцену, действие и характер.
Confessions of an unconventional modelIsobella Jade is no ordinary model – she is far too short for a start. At ‘almost five foot four’ in heels she found herself shunned by the major agencies and forced to take any job that came her way just to make ends meet.From nude photoshoots for leering amateur photographers to ‘arty’ crotch shots; from sex toy ads to lingerie shows. This is a tale from the…
Previously published as The Great Grisby‘You cannot help but fall in love with Grisby’ Jeffrey MassonIn this charming bestiary of exceptional dogs, Mikita Brottman reflects on the role dogs play in our world, explored through her relationship with her dog Grisby and the dogs of great writers and artists from literature, lore, and life.While gradually unveiling her eight-year love affair with her F…
LONGLISTED FOR THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE 2014‘A symphonic poem about postwar England and Englishness … A masterpiece’ Financial TimesThe 1950s were not grey. In Jonathan Meades’s detailed, petit-point memoir they are luridly polychromatic. They were peopled by embittered grotesques, bogus majors, vicious spinsters, reckless bohos, pompous boors, drunks, suicides. Death went dogging everywhere. Sali…
Star of stage, screen and television, and one of only two people to be awarded two Knighthoods, Sir Derek Jacobi is one of Britain’s most distinguished actors.‘If you want to be an actor, don’t. If you need to be an actor, do.’The world of theatre could not have been further from Derek’s childhood: an only child, born in Leytonstone, London. With his father a department store manager and his mothe…
The one and only Fay Weldon tells the story of her turbulent and controversial life.From the 1930s to the 2000s, Fay Weldon has seen and lived our times. As a child in New Zealand, young and poor in London, unmarried mother, wife, lover, playwright, novelist, feminist, anti-feminist, spag-bol-cook, winer-and-diner, there are few waterfronts that she hasn’t covered, few battles she hasn’t fought. A…
Join Loose Women's Sherrie Hewson on her rollercoaster ride through the laughter, tears and tantrums of an extraordinary life lived on and off the screen.Sherrie Hewson is one of Britain's best loved telly stars. From her dazzling performances in the Carry On films to Russ Abbott's Madhouse, to her favourite character Maureen Holdsworth in Coronation Street to the green hills of Emmerdale, Sherrie…
BODACIOUS: THE SHEPHERD CAT is a heart-warming and charming tale in which Bodacious tells us about life as The Shepherd Cat on Black Sheep Farm.‘I am Bodacious, The Shepherd Cat , and this is my story. I wasn't always called Bodacious. I must have been called something else in my kitten-hood in the nearby city of Kilkenny, but it's all a bit of a mystery to My Human. As far as she's concerned, I a…
The third best-selling volume in the powerful story of Helen Forrester’s childhood and adolescence in poverty-stricken Liverpool during the 1930s.Helen has managed to achieve a small measure of independence. At seventeen, she has fought and won two bitter battles with her parents, the first for the right to educate herself at evening classes, the second for the right to go out to work.Though her p…