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How Korean Corn Dogs Changed My Life
An addictive, tell-all memoir about what happens when you try to make your dreams come true - as well as a love letter to Korea.
Aged twenty-one, fuelled by a love of K-dramas and a need to find herself, Alice Amelia moves to Seoul. She knows no one in her adopted country, doesn't speak the language, and hasn't tried kimchi, let alone grilled cow intestines or Korean corn dogs.
But she soon realises that real-life Seoul isn't the romanticised city she'd watched on television - and it doesn't have subtitles.
Determined to follow her dream, Alice becomes everything she wasn't in England: adding spicy gochujang sauce to every meal, dancing in K-pop videos, dating famous models, and even injecting salmon sperm into her eye bags. But as she breaks into the Korean entertainment industry which she idolised from afar, and finds a group of new friends as well as a chance at love, her life spirals in ways she never could have imagined. Wanting to stay true to herself, she wonders, will she ever belong in Korea? And what price will it cost her to stay?
Valamikor, valami kor
Könyvem az 1957-től 1982-ig terjedő idő visszaidézése, szakmai és személyes emlékeim. Nem vagyok szakember, nem olvastam Peter Brook elmélkedéseit, sem senki más nagyra becsült, olykor egekig magasztalt kritikáit és magyarázatait az elmúlt kor színházi jelenségeiről, nem vagyok Apostol. Reményekkel, de bátor elszántsággal, úgy is mondhatnám, szent, tiszta vágyakkal érkeztem a főiskolára, hogy itten majd "az Igazsággal beszélgethetek". (...) Mint a gyökerek. Kitépsz egy növényt, de egy hajszál elég, ami megmaradt és újra hajt... Az az alaktalan massza újra és újra előre tör majd, minden jövendő cselekedetünkbe beleszól, emlékeztet, helyet kér, és nem tudunk szabadulni tőle soha már. Hatvan év múltán is szívszorongva nézem a lányt, aki zavartan áll a Vas utcai porta előtt, és sejtelme sincs róla, mit kezdjen az életével. A 3000 közül kiválasztott! A győztes!
BEYOND THE STORY – A BTS tízéves története
AZ ELSŐ HIVATALOS KÖNYV -- amely a BTS tizedik születésnapjára jelenik meg, olyan történetekkel, amelyek túlmutatnak azon, ami már tudható a BTS-ről, köztük korábban nem látott fotókkal, videók QR kódjaival és minden információval az albumokról.
A BTS 2013. június 13-án kilépett a nagyvilágba, és most, 2023 júniusában a tizedik évfordulóját ünnepli. Azóta ikonikus, nemzetközi előadókká váltak és a csúcsra jutottak, ebben a jelentőségteljes pillanatban az első hivatalos könyvben visszatekintenek az idáig vezető eseményekre. Ennek során a BTS tovább táplálja a fényesebb napokhoz vezető erőt, és újabb lépést tesz meg az úton, amelyen senki más nem járt előtte.
A BTS eddigi utazásának személyes, színfalak mögötti történeteit interjúkon és Kang Myengseok - aki a több médiafelületen írt a K-popról és a koreai popkultúráról - több mint három éven át írt mélyreható riportjain keresztül meséli el. Hét - kronológiai sorrendbe rendezett - fejezetben, a BTS debütálását megelőző időktől kezdve a jelenig, a tagok friss hangja és véleménye egymással harmóniában mesél el egy őszinte, élettel teli és intenzív történetet. A kamera és külsőségek nélkül lefolytatott személyes interjúkban több szempontból mutatják be zenei útjukat és beszélnek annak jelentőségéről.
A könyvet a BTS tagjait egyenként és művészként bemutató portrék nyitják meg, és számos művészi fotó, a korábbi albumok dallistái és több mint 330 QR kód található benne.
A BTS digitális előadóként az interneten keresztül kommunikált a világgal, és ez a könyv lehetővé teszi az olvasók számára, hogy azonnal hozzáférjenek az előzetesekhez, zenei videókhoz és egyéb online tartalmakhoz, amelyek elmélyítik a BTS-sztori kulcsmomentumainak megértését. A főbb mérföldköveket tartalmazó idővonallal kiegészülve a BEYOND THE STORY lenyűgöző archívum -- valóban mindent tartalmaz a BTS-ről, egyetlen kötetben.
The House of My Mother
From eldest daughter Shari Franke, the shocking true story behind the viral 8 Passengers family vlog – now the subject of a new Disney+ docuseries – and the hidden abuse she suffered at the hands of her mother, and how, in the face of unimaginable pain, she found freedom and healing.
Shari Franke’s childhood was a constant battle for survival. Her mother, Ruby Franke, enforced a severe moral code while maintaining a façade of a picture-perfect family for their wildly popular YouTube channel 8 Passengers, which documented the day-to-day life of raising six children for a staggering 2.5 million subscribers. But a darker truth lurked beneath the surface – Ruby’s wholesome online persona masked a more tyrannical parenting style than anyone could have imagined.
As the family’s YouTube notoriety grew, so too did Ruby’s delusions of righteousness. Fueled by the sadistic influence of relationship coach Jodi Hildebrandt, together they implemented an inhumane and merciless disciplinary regime.
Ruby and Jodi were arrested in Utah in 2023 on multiple charges of aggravated child abuse. On that fateful day, Shari shared a photo online of a police car outside their home. Her caption had one word: 'Finally'.
For the first time, Shari will reveal the disturbing truth behind 8 Passengers and her family’s devastating involvement with Jodi Hildebrandt’s cultish life coaching program, 'ConneXions'. No stone is left unturned as Shari exposes the perils of influencer culture and shares for the first time her battle for truth and survival in the face of her mother’s cruelty.
Leonardo élete - Egy fiú Vinciből - A polihisztor - A bolyongó
A szerte a világban megjelent, hatalmas Leonardo-irodalomból mind ez idáig teljesen hiányzott a művész-tudós teljes és megbízható életrajza. Carlo Vecce a legújabb kutatások alapján pótolja ezt a hiányosságot, megírva az első, szinte napról napra haladó beszámolót Leonardo életéről. A kézirataira, valamint grafikai és festészeti munkásságára vonatkozó, eddig elhanyagolt részletek megvilágítása új távlatokat nyit a firenzei mester életének megismeréséhez. A kortársak emlékei is felidéződnek: dokumentumok, családtagjainak iratai, szerződések, levelek, leírások, adóbevallások, feljelentések, perek, követek beszámolói, művészek és mérnökök jegyzetfüzetei, költők, udvaroncok vagy különféle hatalmasságok titkárainak a dicséretei segítenek abban, hogy minél közelebb hozzák korunkhoz e lángelme legendás alakját.
Over the Rainbow
A raucous, behind-the-scenes account of the year Blur got back together
'There is nothing that can touch the sound made by a close-knit group of people who have been playing together for years and years and years, playing as though their lives depended on it. For many years, all our lives did, and actually, I'd suddenly realised, they did still.'
One winter's night, Alex James received an unexpected call. Blur had been invited to play their biggest gig ever: Wembley Stadium. The only trouble was, he and his bandmates hadn't spoken to - or even shouted at - each other for years. And he now had five children, an out-of-control menagerie of cats, and a sprawling farm to run.
This is the story of what happened next. Taking us behind the scenes of a raucous, rollercoaster year, Alex describes how the band made a surprise - and emotional - return, recording an acclaimed album and playing sold-out shows around the world, from Colchester to Colombia and beyond. Plus: how he went on a crash diet to fit back into his 'Britpop Trousers,' somehow organised an entire festival of his own, and tried to perfect the recipe for a giant Frazzle.
Over the Rainbow is a heartfelt and hilarious account of what it feels like to be catapulted back into the limelight with one of the world's biggest bands. It is a love letter to Blur, to friendship and to music. And it shows us all that, however old - or hungover - we might feel, nothing's ever truly over: it's always just the start of the next thing.
Strong Roots
I am writing this story without knowing its end: it begins long before I was born and will continue long after I die. I am writing this story to help myself heal and to make you understand.
Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family. It takes us from years of Russification, to Olia's grandmother's deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin, to her Aunt Zhenia's school protest, to her own parents' flight from Ukraine when their town was occupied in 2022.
This is an ode to the land, to ideas of home and belonging, and to family stories and recipes passed down the generations - the tang of sour cherries, the best way to make borsch. It is an account of resilience in the hardest of circumstances.
Strong Roots brims with hope and grief. It lays bare the compromises and betrayals of generations struggling and surviving through war, peace, invasion and exile. It is an uplifting reminder of how much the human spirit can endure when born from a land rich with strong roots.
Utazás az íróasztalom körül - Janikovszky Éva-emlékkötet
Janikovszky Éva születésének 100. évfordulójára jelenik meg ez a gazdagon dokumentált portrékötet, tisztelgésként egy olyan életmű előtt, amely generációk gondolkodását formálta. A válogatás vezérfonalát az író 1986-os, eddig publikálatlan kézirata adja, emellett a hagyatékban talált, eddig ismeretlen személyes írások, önéletrajzi ihletésű szövegek, levelek, esszék teszik ki a kötet anyagának nagy részét.
A kötet alkotó szerkesztője Vojnics-Rogics Réka irodalomtörténész dolgozta fel az író hagyatékát, ennek köszönhetően betekintést kapunk abba, hogy miként születtek meg azok a művek, amelyek egyszerre szólnak gyerekekhez és felnőttekhez itthon és a világ számos országában; s az is jól látható, hogy Janikovszky Éva szerkesztői, irodalomszervezői munkásságának milyen sokat köszönhet a magyar gyerekirodalom. A könyv nemcsak az irodalomtörténet iránt érdeklődő olvasókhoz szól, hanem mindazokhoz, akik ismerik és szeretik Janikovszky Éva műveit - nemcsak emlékezés, hanem párbeszédlehetőség is egy máig érvényes életművel.
Puskás Ferenc - Két világ bajnoka
Claudio Minoliti kötete Puskás Ferenc pályafutásának általános bemutatása mellett annak egy idehaza még ma is alig ismert időszakát vizsgálja mélyrehatóan: a sorsfordító, nagy részben Olaszországban töltött hónapokat az 1956-os magyar forradalom után, azt követően, hogy a világhírű magyar labdarúgó visszatért Európába a Honvéd dél-amerikai "fekete" túrájáról, és feleségével meghozta a nehéz döntést: nem tér haza Magyarországra, ahol a szovjet hadsereg vérbe fojtotta a magyar szabadságharcot. Minoliti olyan dokumentumokat, levelezéseket, korabeli újságcikkeket és interjúkat von be, amelyek nemcsak pontosítják a Puskás által bejárt utat, hanem árnyalják a személyiségét, küzdelmeit. Bevallom magam is újdonságként kaptam fel a fejem például arra, hogy a FIFA későbbi brazil elnöke, Joao Havelange is kulcsszerepet játszott a Honvédjátékosok nemzetközi eltiltása, így Puskás pályafutásának alakulása körüli politikai, jogi huzavonában. Ez a könyv tudatosítja bennünk, hogy a magyarok, a spanyolok, a görögök mellett például az olaszoknak is van egy saját Puskása...
Nezlomený diablom, 3. vydanie
Dal by Pán, aby toto skromné dielo prispelo k oživeniu duchovného života čitateľov a k uvedomeniu si, že zrodením všetci spejeme k večnosti, a pre jej blaženosť máme urobiť na tomto svete všetko, čo je v našich silách. To pokladal aj pán Vlk za prioritu nad všetkým ostatným.
"Je isté, že dosiahnuť blaženosť nie je také ľahké, ale nie nemožné. Každý dostal od Pána Boha tolko schopností, že môže večnú blaženosť dosiahnuť. Každý dostal tolko sily a milosti, žeby mohol dosiahnuť aj najvyššiu dokonalosť. Tu na zemi je na to čas. Po prekročení prahu smrti už to možné nie je, už je neskoro. Keď budeme tu na zemi na túto skutočnosť myslieť, iste sa budeme rýchlejšie polepšovať. Avšak naše polepšenie závisí od nás. Od nášho sebazapierania závisí výška našej dokonalosti... Netreba sa báť, ale treba ihneď začať. Keď začneme a budeme stále postupovať v sebazapieraní, iste sa k dokonalosti dopracujeme".
"Áno, cesta sebazaprenia je bolestná, ale je istá a prináša mnoho duševného pokoja a radosti. A tie sú veru vždy krajšie a príjemnejšie, aj keď trvajú len okamih, ako všetky radosti sveta, po ktorých prichádza len sklamanie, nenávisť a strach".
"Tu na svete utrpeniu neujdeme. Alebo sa budeme dobrovoľne zapierať a budeme mať duševný pokoj, alebo budeme užívať radosti sveta a potom budeme cítiť vo svojej duši a v srdci nepokoj a strach. No akákoľvek bolesť a utrpenie s pokojným svedomím je nič v porovnaní s utrpením duševným, ktoré nám pôsobia naše hriechy".
"Teraz si môžeme vybrať, či trpieť s láskou a pokojom, alebo trpieť nepokojne a so strachom. Snažme sa sami vyhľadávať si utrpenie a sebazaprenie, ktoré nie je nikdy také strašné, ako hryzenie svedomia po hriechu. Dávajme dobrovoľne náhradu Pánu Bohu za svoje hriechy. Keď budeme takto robiť, je isté, že sa dostaneme do krásneho neba, kde sa budeme tešiťnaveky".
(Z príhovorov Štefana Vlka)
I Wanna Be Loved By You
Dreamer. Bombshell. Icon.
Featuring a wealth of unpublished material, Andrew Wilson’s biography of Marilyn Monroe presents the actress in a startling new light.
Born Norma Jeane Mortenson, she had an uncertain and unforgiving upbringing with a mentally ill mother, an absent father and cruel foster parents. She grew up in Los Angeles and would dream about Hollywood, believing that acting would be her one-way ticket to happiness. Her dream was so powerful that she transformed herself into the ultimate goddess of the silver screen, and her image has been branded into the collective consciousness. Men lusted after her, and women wanted to be her. All her life, she just wanted to be loved.
Told through 100 captivating snapshots, we are thrown into the glamorous but dangerous world of old Hollywood. We see a young Marilyn navigating the highs and lows of the studio system as she attempts to free herself from the constraints of Twentieth Century-Fox and forge her own path. We also go behind the scenes of her marriages to teenage sweetheart Jim Dougherty, baseball star Joe DiMaggio and famous playwright Arthur Miller. We hear the voices of friends, lovers – and enemies.
Marilyn Monroe was more than just a goddess of the screen. She was highly intelligent and well-read, and formed long-term friendships with poets, philosophers, playwrights and political activists, such as with the avant-garde poet Edith Sitwell. After training with Lee Strasberg at the Actors Studio, she worked hard to dismantle the common perception that she was nothing but a dumb blonde.
In the concluding chapters, Andrew Wilson unpicks what happened on the night Marilyn died after a suspected drug overdose – and investigates the rash of conspiracy theories that surround the star’s final moments. Were the Kennedys involved, or was she just let down by those closest to her?
I Wanna Be Loved By You is a revealing and nuanced portrait of the life, death and afterlife of an icon who still fascinates us today.
Unseen
From social media star and change-maker Molly Burke, a vulnerable, honest, and darkly humorous memoir on navigating the challenges of being a blind woman in a sighted world When Molly Burke was four years old, she was diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, a rare degenerative eye disease that leads to eventual blindness, forcing her to see the world through new eyes—literally. Growing up disabled didn’t stop her from playing sports, becoming a rock-climbing instructor, or winning a beauty pageant, but other people’s narrow perceptions of her held her back. Years of relentless bullying, toxic work environments, a rodent-infested apartment, and life’s lowest moments were juxtaposed with red carpets, first-class flights, and personal and professional achievements.
Throughout her life, Molly has learned to appreciate the duality, and, most importantly, she’s learned the beauty of being unapologetically yourself and standing up for what you truly believe in. In Unseen, Molly chronicles her journey as a disabled woman, entrepreneur, and entertainer, illuminating what her experiences have taught her and what she hopes others can learn from her hardship and successes. Part memoir, part rallying cry for a more compassionate and empathetic world, Unseen recounts Molly’s life and experiences fighting against the expectations society set for her and, in doing so, helps readers find their own voice, inner strength, and self-acceptance.
Loud
The empowering, inspiring, patriarchy-smashing first book by the TikTok and Spotify star Drew Afualo.
Drew Afualo is best known as the internet's 'Crusader for Women' and is at the head of a new generation of entertainment's rising stars, with more than nine million followers across her social platforms. She soon realized that men on social media were creating sexist content aimed at disparaging women, and also containing rampant fatphobia, racism, and other forms of bigotry with very real-life consequences. It didn't take long for her to step into the role of unofficial watchdog for misogyny, and her signature laugh is now recognized as a feminist call to arms.
Loud is part manual, part manifesto and part memoir. It is a summoning cry to rid the internet (and our hearts, minds, and lives) of terrible men and create a space to fight outdated patriarchal ideals. Above all, it makes it clear that behind Drew's fearsome laugh is a mission and a life philosophy, a strategy for self-confidence from the inside out, and a pathway to once and for all remove men from the centre of how women and femmes think about themselves.
Other Rivers - A Chinese Education
More than two decades after teaching English in Sichuan Province, Peter Hessler returned to teach China's next generation. In doing so, he is able to tell an intimately unique story about the country's incredible transformation.
Hessler's students embrace the astonishing new opportunities China's boom affords as they navigate governmental restrictions with pragmatism and a sense of irony. And through his own twin daughters' education, he witnesses first-hand the intense pressures of China's extreme meritocratic system.
Other Rivers demonstrates how education is the perfect lens for examining China's past, present and future - one that also shines a mirror onto how we raise our own future generations.
Z Černovej do Žiliny cez Rím, Šanghaj a gulag, 2. vydanie
Páter Vendelín Javorka SJ (* Černová, 1882 – † Žilina, 1966) patrí medzi najvýznamnejšie osobnosti, ktoré dala Spoločnosť Ježišova Slovensku a Cirkvi. Pohnuté osudy zaviedli tohto misionára do mnohých krajín. Na stránkach tejto knihy sa dozviete o jeho neúnavnom ekumenickom úsilí. Ideálom, pre ktorý žil, pracoval a trpel, bolo zjednotenie pravoslávnej a katolíckej Cirkvi. Počas svojho plodného života mal páter Javorka mnoho príležitostí presvedčiť sa, že je to náročný a čisto ľudsky neuskutočniteľný ideál. Začítajte sa do životopisu prvého predstaveného Pápežského ruského kolégia v Ríme (Russicum), misionára na Ďalekom východe a v Šanghaji, väzňa sovietskych pracovných táborov a patróna „beznádejných“ prípadov, ako ho poznajú z jeho posledných rokov v Žiline. Druhé, rozšírené vydanie doplnené o mnohé fotografie vychádza v Jubilejnom roku Vendelína Javorku, ktorý vyhlásila Žilinská diecéza 22. marca 2026 pri príležitosti 60. výročia úmrtia tohto výnimočného jezuitu.
Generation Desperation
One man's journey into the depths of Reddit trading forums chasing the promise of a 'better life': a must-read follow-up for viewers of Louis Theroux's Into the Manosphere'A fantastically compelling personal story that is also the story of a generation . . . Told with perfect timing.' - SIMON KUPER 'Searing insights into the challenges of coming of age in the 21st century . . . an instructive tale about a smart young man looking to grow up in the precariousness of our time.' - BLOOMBERGAS FEATURED IN THE SUNDAY TIMES--------AFTER THE RISE, THERE COMES A FALL. In 2020, Alexander Hurst was 29 years old and broke, living as a writer in a cramped Paris flatshare. There were murmurs that a global pandemic was coming. Financial stability seemed unattainable, so far removed from his reality - the reality of the generation who came of age during the 2008 financial crisis. On a whim, he poured his meagre savings into highly risky options trading. Within a year this small set of stocks was worth $1.2 million. Enough to turn his life on its head - but not in the way he had imagined, as he began a slow-motion descent into losing it all. In exploring Alexander's remarkable rise and fall from wealth, Generation Desperation grapples with the vital questions of our age: what do class and status mean in a late-stage capitalist society? Can everyone really build the life they want? Or is there a cost to pursuing money above everythin? eneration Desperation is an urgent, unmissable fable for our times. ---------'Has an appealing timelessness . . . Hurst weaves the personal and the generational together with seamless ease in a thrilling book.' - SEB EMINA'A riveting, tender, and painfully timely epic about what really matters.' - ANGELICA FERRARA'Clever and brutally honest.' - LINDSEY TRAMUTA
The Motherload
NATIONAL BESTSELLER Belletrist Book Club Pick * The Times (London) Book of the Week “Essential reading for anyone who’s felt failed by the parental canon.” —Town & Country “An honest and refreshing take on motherhood.” —Today “With blistering honesty” (Oprah Daily), this nationally bestselling motherhood memoir dares to ask what happens when “what to expect when you’re expecting” turns out to be months of rage, anguish, brain fog, and a total surrender of sex, career, and identity. Like most of us, Sarah Hoover grew up imagining a certain life for herself, and when she moved from Indiana to New York City to study art history, the life she’d imagined began falling into place. She got her degree in art history, landed a job in a gallery, made friends, and met interesting artists, one of whom became her husband. But when Hoover got pregnant, everything in her life began to unravel. She felt like an imposter in her own body. She grew distant from her friends and husband. Anxiety, fear, guilt, and shame threatened to swallow her. She also experienced trauma at the hands of one of her doctors—a stark trigger. And when her son was born, there was no joy. Her despair was persistent, even with help, therapy, and pills. Grieving a lost identity and angry at the world around her, she found herself despising her baby, her husband, and herself. She was afraid it might not end. With the help of a doctor’s diagnosis, Hoover began to understand the cluster of symptoms that informed her experience—she was drowning in postpartum depression—and that she wasn’t a bad mother or a failed woman. At its core, this “page-turning look at the realities of motherhood and postpartum depression” (Candace Bushnell, New York Times bestselling author) is about learning to forgive yourself. It’s a rejection of the cultural idea of the mother as a perfect being. And it’s a propulsive and whip-smart “welcome moment of truth” (W Magazine) on the vicissitudes of marriage, life, and parenting—a motherhood memoir unlike any other.
Why I Care
A Telegraph Greatest Book of the Year A deeply personal account of life as a carer and a call to support those who care for others 'Ed Davey wants to rewrite British politics – not with the language of crisis, but that of care. … He offers something rare – moral clarity rooted in lived experience.' Guardian 'Caring is how we know we’re alive. The good in all of us has been shaped by care. Hold a mirror up to that, and we’ll realise our potential.' Care is the thread that runs through Ed’s life. Aged only four, Ed lost his father. When his mother also became ill with cancer, Ed and his brothers nursed her at home until she died when Ed was just 15. That formative experience was one of the main inspirations in seeking election, and with it the opportunity to take action. Now, he and his wife care for their son John, who has severe physical and learning disabilities, as well as raising their younger daughter. So Ed has real knowledge of the emotional, physical and financial challenges faced by legions of carers in Britain today. Why I Care is both a deeply personal story, drawing on Ed’s own experiences, and a book that reflects the stories of people everywhere to offer a vision of change. Shedding light on the often-invisible world of carers, he calls for society, our government and our institutions to recognise, support, and lift up the silent carers who form the backbone of our communities. This isn’t just Ed’s story. It's the story of millions.
Liquid Reflections
ONIX Description‘A beautifully written memoir by one of the most important and original artists working today . . . utterly gripping, enraging, entertaining – and important. I can''t recommend it highly enough’ Jennifer HiggieA sparkling memoir and portrait of trailblazing artist Liliane Lijn as a young womanIn 1958, talented and fearless and eighteen years old, Liliane Lijn left her family home and moved to Paris alone to become an artist. Once there, she found an art world filled with the wild energy of creative revolution – peopled and controlled almost entirely by men.In the years that followed, Lijn built a life for herself in the city. She embraced the hectic bohemian spirit of the Left Bank. She befriended artists, painters, poets, gallerists and revolutionaries, as the late Surrealists gave way to a burgeoning Pop Art movement. She had disastrous love affairs with difficult men. She experimented boldly, creating ground-breaking sculptures with light, text and movement. And as her profile steadily grew, she was told again and again that there are no great women artists: ‘There never have been.’Liquid Reflections is her memoir of these years of experiment and adventure – years when Lijn was constantly in motion, from Paris to New York to Venice to Athens, from paper and canvas to wax and Perspex to oil and water. In love, she became pregnant but rebelled against the idea that a woman could not be both a great artist and a mother.And she sought – and found – radical pleasure in the act of creative expression and in the living, sensuous world around her.Based on personal diaries from the time, this is a riveting and revelatory account of a singular coming of age: a glittering portrait of the artist as a young woman.''I wrote LIQUID REFLECTIONS because I wanted to take my readers on the journey I made to become an artist. It''s the story of an idealistic, inspired young woman who refuses to accept the prejudices of her time. Becoming an artist was also a search for my own identity…’ Liliane Lijn
Čítanie o slávnych osobnostiach je mnohokrát inšpirujúce. Motivujú nás biografie slávnych umelcov, známych hercov alebo významných politikov.
Absolútne prvou biografiou všetkých čias je zrejme Excellentium Imperatorum Vitae, ktorú napísal grék Cornelius Nepos a opisoval v nej životy viacerých gréckych vojenských generálov. Neskôr mal už skoro každý významný vodca svoju biografiu, vrátane Cicera, Júliusa Cézara alebo Alexandra veľkého.
Pri čítaní životopisných kníh máme jedinečnú možnosť sledovať dlhú cestu, ktorú museli títo slávni ľudia prejsť. Uvidíme množstvo pádov a chýb, kvôli ktorým sa ale tieto osoby nevzdali a zobrali ich ako príležitosť zlepšiť sa vo všetkyćh oblastiach. Mnoho v sebe skrývajú aj úprimné rozhovory, ktoré sú často otvorenými vyznaniami a v tejto kategórii nájdete isto aj knihu o človeku, ktorého považujete za svoj vzor a je pre vás inšpiráciou.
Môžete si vybrať, či budete čítať o danej osobe z pohľadu iného človeka, alebo či siahnete po autobiografii. Obidve možnosti majú svoje čaro.
Je všeobecnou pravdou, že dobrá kniha môže ovplyvniť smerovanie nášho života. Pri biografickej literatúre to platí stonásobne, pretože v ruke držíme príbeh reálneho človeka, z ktorého môžeme čerpať mnoho inšpirácie a tipov.
Nájdete tu biografie z oblasti biznisu, filmu a hudby, histórie, literatúry, športu, mafie a podsvetia, náboženstva, politiky, osobností vedy a umenia.
