Книги жанра биографии и мемуары
НЕЗАКОННОЕ ПОТРЕБЛЕНИЕ НАРКОТИЧЕСКИХ СРЕДСТВ, ПСИХОТРОПНЫХ ВЕЩЕСТВ, ИХ АНАЛОГОВ ПРИЧИНЯЕТ ВРЕД ЗДОРОВЬЮ, ИХ НЕЗАКОННЫЙ ОБОРОТ ЗАПРЕЩЕН И ВЛЕЧЕТ УСТАНОВЛЕННУЮ ЗАКОНОДАТЕЛЬСТВОМ ОТВЕТСТВЕННОСТЬ Рассказ показывает своеобразным образом, обычную жизнь "необычного человека". Основная часть текста написана от первого лица, лишь в эпилоге станет ясно "почему". Моменты, ситуации описываемые в рассказе, зас…
В книгу Бориса Константиновича Зайцева (1881–1972) – первого председателя Всероссийского союза писателей, отправленного в 1922 году в добровольно-принудительное изгнание, вошла часть его огромного творческого наследия, в частности мемуарно-биографическая проза. Это написанные в присущей ему поэтической манере беллетризованные биографии «Жуковский», «Жизнь Тургенева», «Чехов», а также мемуарные про…
«Субботней халы аромат» – вторая книга автора представляет собой мемуарно-биографическое откровение о поиске себя, трансформации взглядов от атеизма к вере, от светского образа жизни к ортодоксальному иудаизму. Цель автора – поделиться с читателем личным процессом перехода и объяснить свои духовные достижения. Всё повествование представляет собой цепь реальных историй из жизни в СССР и США, обрисо…
Воспоминания американского предпринимателя-нефтепромышленника и филантропа Джона Дэвисона Рокфеллера, раскрывающие перед читателем историю его успеха, принципы, которыми руководствовался при построении нефтяной империи и обустройстве общественной жизни человек, прошедший путь от ассистента бухгалтера до одного из самых богатых людей за всю историю. Для всех интересующихся историей предпринимательс…
Follow a pioneer's journey from factory floor to CEO Road to Power is the story of how Mary Barra drove herself to the pinnacle of a company that steers the nation's wealth. Beginning as a rare female electrical engineer and daughter of a General Motors die maker, Barra spent more than thirty years building her career before becoming the first woman to ever lead a global automaker. With $155 billi…
Vida Clandestina is the first U.S. publication of the dramatic memoir of an important Cuban revolutionary who led a dangerous double life from 1952 to1959. Educated at University of Miami, then a high-ranking manager and engineer for Shell Oil, Enrique Oltuski was also a leader in the urban guerilla 26th of July Movement in Havana and Santa Clara, risking his life to join forces with Che Guevara a…
Первая Этнографическая экспедиция Лебедева по России. Москва – Владивосток – Москва. Шесть экипажей. Пятнадцать человек. Люди, города и посёлки. Реки, леса, горы и степь. Тихий океан. На обложке фото автора. Содержит нецензурную брань.
An expert on North Korea sheds new light on the enigmatic tyrant From his goose-stepping military parades to his clownish macho swagger, North Korea's Kim Jong-il is an odd amalgam of political cartoon and global menace. In charge of a nuclear arsenal he's threatened to use against the U.S. and Japan, the man, his motives, and the mechanisms of his absolute control over a country of twenty-three m…
The inside story of a maverick reformer with a take-no-prisoners management style Hailed by Oprah as a «warrior woman for our times,» reviled by teachers unions as the enemy, Michelle Rhee, outgoing chancellor of Washington DC public schools, has become the controversial face of school reform. She has appeared on the cover of Time Magazine, and is currently featured as a hero in the documentary «W…
In 1991 Gerald Ratner was booked to make what should have been an everyday speech at the Institute of Directors. Should have been. When the words «total crap» come out of his mouth in connection with a decanter and glasses set sold by his company, H. Samuel, it all turned out slightly different. The Rise and Fall…And Rise Again tells the full story, in Gerald Ratner's own words, of what lead him t…
A fascinating account of a remarkable life that took the author, through hard work and determination, from rural England to the highest ranks of the United Nations Dame Margaret Anstee was born in the 1920s to a poor family in rural Essex. With the support of her parents and through her own determination, she graduated from Cambridge with first class honours, and entered the Foreign Office where s…
In this frank, funny, and often challenging memoir about life in and out of the church, twenty-something Patton Dodd reveals his quest for an authentic experience of God. On his journey he attempts to pinpoint and justify his belief in God, first with the fervent absolutes that characterize a new believer’s faith but then with a growing awareness of the cultural complexities that define his faith …
This is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the nineteenth century – and his discoveries went on to shape the twentieth century.
Praise for In Due Season «Paul Wilkes's memoir is a love story—and also a story of a struggle with the lover, in his case, God. The son of an immigrant, Wilkes felt that he was called to a priestly vocation, indeed a Trappist vocation. God sent him many signals that this was not his calling. So Paul had to settle for what he thought to be a second-best vocation—a very successful writer. God heaved…