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Biografie - ostatné
Film, hudba 
História 
Osobnosti 
Šport 
Literatúra 
Umenie 
Politika 
Náboženstvo 
Veda, vynálezy 
Biznis 
Mafia, podsvetie 
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Ostýchaví přátelé. Dopisy Josefa Škvoreckého a Václava Havla
Václav Havel (1936–2011) a Josef Škvorecký (1924–2012) patřili k nejvýznamnějším osobnostem české poválečné literatury i kulturního života. Oba autory spojoval mj. fakt, že si nikdy nezadali s komunistickou mocí: i na půdě progresivního Svazu československých spisovatelů v druhé polovině šedesátých let působili téměř jako outsideři. Nikdy se však osobně nesblížili. Josefa Škvoreckého možná svazovalo i vědomí, že v postavě světoznámého dramatika Hejla z románu Mirákl Havla příkře zkarikoval, a záhy si uvědomil, že „Dannyho pohled“ v tomto případě nebyl dostatečně pronikavý.
Dopisy, které si vyměňovali od roku 1976 až do prosince 1989, kdy se stal jeden z adresátů prezidentem a druhý na čas jeho poradcem, přesto nejsou nezajímavé. Umožňují nám sledovat přípravu tří publikací, které manželé Škvorečtí Havlovi vydali ve svém nakladatelství Sixty?Eight Publishers, ale můžeme také nahlédnout do Škvoreckého strategických, nejen nakladatelských, ale i společenských, ba politických úvah. Z Havlových dopisů je zase zřetelně patrná postupná proměna zdvořilého disidenta ve velkorysou, ale cílevědomou a z hlediska soudobých dějin republiky nakonec vlastně klíčovou osobnost.
Jak si nabít hubu
Jaké to je opustit zdánlivě ideální manželství, prestižní šéfredaktorský post nebo romantický dům na venkově? Darina Křivánková začínala jako novinářka v divokých devadesátých letech a postupně se od psaní o filmu přesunula k psaní o jídle, pak vařila pro gurmány na staré faře a dnes provozuje se svým o dvacet tři let mladším přítelem restauraci v Českém Krumlově. Pokud hledáte inspiraci k nějaké životní změně, lepší průvodkyně není.
dostupné aj ako:
Štyridsať výstupov na Olymp
Dr. h. c. prof. Štefan Luby, DrSc., slovenský fyzik, sa už dvadsať rokov venuje literatúre faktu. Napísal 17 kníh o vedeckých osobnostiach, cestách za vedou, vydal zbierky aforizmov, bonmotov a esejí. Začal trilógiou Moji intelektuáli o významných vedeckých osobnostiach zo Slovenska i zo zahraničia. Nadviazal na ňu knihou Legendy a inšpirácie a uvedený žáner završuje zväzkom 40 výstupov na Olymp. Venuje sa v ňom desiatim laureátom Nobelovej ceny, ktorí majú korene na Slovensku. Sú to napríklad D. C. Gajdusek, R. Furchgott, D. D. Osheroff a i. V knihe sú aj portréty laureátov, ktorých autor osobne poznal a na dielo ktorých v SAV nadviazali, ako P. Kapica, J. Rotblat, K. von Klitzing alebo A. Zeilinger. Pokračuje príbehmi vedcov, ktorí sú nemenej známi, aj keď najvyššiu vedeckú poctu nezískali. Veď na Slovensku mali predkov iniciátori konštrukcie jadrových zbraní L. Szilard a E. Teller. Poslednou kategóriou sú slovenské osobnosti medzinárodného formátu, ako pars pro toto spomeňme S. Pastorekovú, P. Povinca alebo P. Bieleho. Jednotlivé portréty majú formalizovanú štruktúru, začínajú encyklopedickým heslom, nasleduje spravidla dramatický životný príbeh, po ňom vedecké výsledky, spomienky súčasníkov, výroky portrétovanej osobnosti alebo výroky o nej. Kniha prináša mnoho doteraz nepublikovaných faktov. Autor získal za svoju tvorbu viacero ocenení, predovšetkým Národnú cenu Vojtecha Zamarovského.
Perom a štetcom
Kniha zaznamenáva 25-ročnú históriu významného slovenského vydavateľstva – DAXE. Od vzniku v roku 1999 sa zameriava predovšetkým na vydávanie pôvodnej tvorby pre deti aj dospelých a postupne založilo a vydáva tri časopisy pre deti – Maxík, Zvonček a Enviráčik. Kniha zachytáva dôležité míľniky histórie, sprostredkúva informácie o vydaných knihách, autoroch a ilustrátoroch kníh a časopisov. Zmieňuje sa o oceneniach, ktoré vydavateľstvo získalo počas svojej existencie, ale aj o oceneniach, ktoré každý rok delilo autorom za tvorbu pre deti. Prináša informácie o vedecko-výskumnej činnosti a o stovkách besied pre čitateľov v školách a knižniciach. Kniha prináša dokumentárne fotografie a obrázky.
Hrdinské svedectvo mladosti, 3. vydanie
Tretie, doplnené a upravené vydanie.
Janko Havlík vystupuje z nedávnych dejín Cirkvi na Slovensku ako výnimočný zjav a prototyp mladého človeka, ktorý pre vernosť Kristovi prežil takmer celý život v uránových baniach,
lágroch a žalároch československého gulagu.
Knižka, ktorú držíte v rukách, je svedectvom tých, čo Janka osobne poznali, mali ho radi a spolu s ním trpeli, ako aj autentickou výpoveďou Janka samotného o jeho duchovnom živote.
Výpovede vyznievajú na pozadí oficiálnych dokumentárnych záznamov vtedajšej totalitnej moci a proticirkevných nariadeniach a súdnych procesoch, ktoré znamenali najukrutnejšie a najmasovejšie prenasledovanie kresťanov u nás. Jankovo životné svedectvo v konfrontácii s týmito záznamami nadobúda ráz nadprirodzeného hrdinstva a svätosti.
Metamorphoses - In Search of Franz Kafka
In 2024, exactly one hundred years after his death at the age of 40, readers all over the world will reach for the works of Franz Kafka. Many of them will want to learn more about the enigmatic man behind the classic books filled with mysterious courts and monstrous insects. Who, exactly, was Franz Kafka?
Karolina Watroba, the first Germanist ever elected as a Fellow of Oxford's All Souls College, will tell Kafka's story beyond the boundaries of language, time and space, travelling from the Prague of Kafka's birth through the work of contemporary writers in East Asia, whose award-winning novels are in part homages to the great man himself.
Metamorphoses is a non-chronological journey through Kafka's life, drawing together literary scholarship with the responses of his readers through time. It is a both an exploration of Kafka's life and an exciting new way of approaching literary history.
Harry Styles élete és zenéje
Harry Styles sikeres zenei pályában reménykedve indult el 2010-ben az X-Faktor meghallgatásán, azóta pedig világszerte milliók rajonganak érte. Évekig volt a One Direction, az új évezred legnépszerűbb fiúbandájának tagja, majd szólóénekesként, valamint színészként építette tovább karrierjét, és mostanra valódi XXI. századi ikonná nőtte ki magát.
Hogyan vált a huncut, kölyökképű Styles – akiről első tévés szereplése óta tudjuk, hogy magabiztos, sokoldalú tehetség – Grammy-díjas zenésszé, kritikusok által méltatott színésszé, valamint igazi divatdiktátorrá? A Harry Styles élete és zenéje ennek a rendkívüli életnek és pályafutásnak eddigi állomásait veszi sorra.
The Book of Chalamet
Timothée? Chala... may I?! This book is a celebration of the actor, style-icon and consummate heartthrob we all love!
Timothée Chalamet is a global superstar, award-winning actor and leading heartthrob of his generation. With his androgynous good looks and sweet, humble disposition, he is miles away from the macho superheroes who have been dominating Hollywood - and fans across all genders love him for it. He has played challenging roles, from sensitive portrayals of complex characters to artful humour in comedies, and it turns out he can sing and dance too!
With tips on how to dream even bigger that TC's hair and ways to find your own authentic self, The Book of Chalamet explores Tim's incredible journey to most-sought-after star in the world. It delves into the lessons we can take from his life, his career, his fashion and his principles, and includes quizzes, facts and A LOT of photos!
BIG DUNC
*THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER*They don't make footballers - and football autobiographies - like this anymore. The brutally honest, riotously entertaining story of the much-loved Everton legend and iconic Premier League bad boy. 'A hell of a read. I couldn't recommend it more. Powerful' Gary Lineker‘Pure charisma’ The Times'A legend' Carlo Ancelotti‘One of life's good guys. Kind and generous. As you can imagine, I'd much rather him be a teammate than be an opponent. ' Alan Shearer____________________________________________________________________Praised by Wayne Rooney and Sir Alex Ferguson as one of the greatest and most passionate players to ever play the game, Duncan Ferguson, or Big Dunc as he is known, is larger than life in every sense. Measuring a towering 6 feet 4 inches in height, from the moment the striker emerged in British football in the 1990s, he was front and back page news. On the pitch, fans loved Duncan for his roguish charm, his thrilling goals and his total commitment in every game. Fighting tooth and nail, he was a born leader and took no prisoners. Like his rival Roy Keane, he played close to the limit, and often crossed it. Such as the time he was sentenced to 3 months in Glasgow’s toughest prison for headbutting an opponent – the first and only time a footballer has ever gone to jail for a crime committed on a football pitch. In BIG DUNC: The Upfront Autobiography, Duncan reveals, for the first time, the full story: the truth about his experiences in prison, his partying with African princes and Liverpool gangsters, his fighting with burglars, his making and losing a fortune, and how he turned his life around through his beloved Everton F.C.. In the process, the book sheds light on one of football’s most charismatic but notorious and enigmatic hardmen. He is a pillar of the community in Merseyside, giving back to stricken children who share a similar tough upbringing to his own. Duncan's book takes readers on a rollercoaster ride of humour, drama and redemption. Buckle up. ____________________________________________________________________________‘Duncan Ferguson is an iconic figure for Evertonians as a great number 9...Big Dunc loves the scousers & the scousers love him!’ Jamie Carragher‘Duncan is possibly the most misunderstood man in football. His football IQ and knowledge of the game is second to none, couple that with the person he is and you’ve got nothing but quality.’ Tony Bellew*A Sunday Times Bestseller, May 2025
Agatha Christie's London
‘A fresh look at the author’s enduring grip on our imagination.’ – SUNDAY MIRRORLondon had a special place in Agatha Christie’s heart. In her childhood, she would visit the capital to stay with her Auntie Grannie; as an adult, she owned several homes in the city. A reoccurring location in her stories, London is where Poirot and Hastings, and Tommy and Tuppence reside, and even Miss Marple cannot resist a trip up to town to shop in its department stores. Avoid red herrings, examine the clues to discover several of her former homes, use your little grey cells to detect where she worked during the Second World War, and probe where the former ‘Detection Club’ met. Gather the evidence to reveal the fashionable restaurants, luxury hotels and other locations that she and her characters frequented. On completion of your investigation, your denouement will reveal the final twist: just how important London was to Agatha and her stories.
Sick Animals
Weare all just creatures trying to survive the consequences of beingmisunderstood. In‘SICK ANIMALS’ a much-maligned man tells his story with stark honesty andaching poignancy. One night, at precisely one o’clock in the morning, hecommits an act so small, so seemingly harmless, that it should have passedunnoticed. Instead, it sparks a devastating chain reaction: the blunt force ofthe law, the collapse of a marriage, the splintering of a family, and the slow,merciless unravelling of a life. Moving,darkly humorous, and quietly enraging, this memoir explores the anatomy ofmodern-day unfairness, the way weakness corrodes truth, how judgement replacescompassion, and how easily one human being can become a scapegoat. Inspiredby the raw and relentless notion of injustice, ‘SICK ANIMALS’ is a hauntingmeditation on blame, morality, endurance, and the fragile line betweeninnocence and guilt.
Dear Minnie
From the acclaimed filmmaker and Sunday Times bestselling author comes a frank, insightful and heartwarming exploration of the myriad issues surrounding contemporary motherhood. "It was the first time I’d ever signed ‘Mummy’, and it was a goodbye letter.""I feel so honoured to have carried you both for nine months and delivered you safely into the arms of your parents.""I knew I had to be in that little girl's life. The next time I got out, I never used drugs again.""As a refugee, I say to my daughter, 'You have been born in a safe place. Never take that for granted.'”After having her first child, Stacey Dooley had a new understanding of what family means – but not everyone’s experience of motherhood is the same. In Dear Minnie, Stacey brings her trademark empathy and investigative skill to an entirely new ‘frontline’, exploring the varied perspectives of mothers of all experiences. Using letters that each mother has written to their child as her starting point, Stacey’s frank, honest, and moving inquiry takes in experiences from pregnancy to birth and beyond, uncovering the messy truths and different emotional journeys women take, as well as the common bonds they all share. Dear Minnie shines a light on the quiet selflessness, resilience, pain, trauma, grief, and joy of every kind of mother, to tell a story that transcends culture and geography, and speaks to us all.
A Million Little Pieces
James Frey wakes up on a plane, with no memory of the preceding two weeks. His face is cut and his body is covered with bruises. He has no wallet and no idea of his destination. He has abused alcohol and every drug he can lay his hands on for a decade - and he is aged only twenty-three.
What happens next is one of the most powerful and extreme stories ever told. His family takes him to a rehabilitation centre. And James Frey starts his perilous journey back to the world of the drug and alcohol-free living. His lack of self-pity is unflinching and searing.
A Million Little Pieces is a dazzling account of a life destroyed and a life reconstructed. It is also the introduction of a bold and talented literary voice.
Paper Girl
From one of our most acclaimed chroniclers of the forces eroding the fabric of our shared life, her most personal and powerful work: a reckoning with the changes that have rocked her own beloved small Ohio hometownThe town of Urbana, Ohio was not a utopia when Beth Macy grew up there in the 70?s and 80?s, certainly not for her family. Her dad was an alcoholic who only fitfully worked, and people called him the town drunk, which hurt, as did their poverty. But Urbana had a healthy enough economy, and there were middle class kids at school whose families became her role models. People in Urbana were proud of their schools, and the library, and the history of their town, an important stop on the Underground Railroad. Macy loved Urbana, and though she was able to make it to college on a Pell Grant and then follow a career in journalism that took her far away, she still clung gratefully to the hometown that helped raise her. On the surface it was still picture-postcard cute.But as Macy?s mother?s health began its final descent in 2020, on more frequent visits home to Ohio, she couldn?t shake the feeling that her town had dramatically hardened in ways she couldn?t process. Beth grew up as the paper girl, delivering the local newspaper, which was like civic glue, mirroring the community back to itself. Now there was no local paper, no paper girl, and precious little civic glue. Yes, a lot of the work that once supported the middle class had gone away, along with all that went with it. But that was an old story that didn?t begin to cover the forces turning her town into a poorer and angrier place. High school graduation rates were plummeting as absenteeism soared in the public schools and in the workplace. A mental health crisis gripped the small city, along with a litany of other pathologies. Urbana?s pride in its institutions was withering: parents were opting to home school, or transferring their kids elsewhere, in record numbers. Even more painfully, many of her own family members and old friends had gone down the rabbit hole of conspiracies like QAnon, and worse. What happened to Urbana?This was not an assignment Beth Macy ever wanted to take, but she felt she had no choice. Two years ago, she began to return regularly, to deploy everything she?d learned to figure her hometown out. The result is an astonishment, a book that takes us into the heart of one specific place and through it brings into focus in a new way our most urgent set of national issues.Paper Girl is a gift of courage, empathy and insight, a profoundly generous act. Beth Macy has turned to face the darkest corners in the shared life of her family and community, people she loves wholeheartedly, even the ones she struggles now to like. And in doing so, in facing the truth?in person, with respect?she has found sparks of human dignity that she has used to light a great signal fire, of warning but also of hope.
Ann Shaw
Ann Shaw (1788-1854), the author's ancestor, was hailed by both immigrant and indigenous South Africans as their spiritual mother, the 'Mother of Methodism in South Africa'. However, all accounts of early South African history have erased her influence, including those written by her husband, Rev. William Shaw, the 'Wesley of Africa'. Had something necessitated Ann's removal from the records? With tenacious scholarship, McAlpine-Black discovers Ann's letters, her poetry, and the female threads of the lives that surrounded her-and weaves a family history into an international narrative. Ann Shaw lived at a time when women were discouraged from taking part in church ministry. Despite this, Ann journeyed from the English fens to the African Cape, becoming the most significant female catalyst for Methodism and education in South Africa. Now Methodism is its largest denomination. In addition to the challenges of women's diseases, miscarriage, childbirth, family life, and patriarchy in the early nineteenth century, Ann's story unearths the female roots of Methodism, a fresh and compelling history of South Africa, and the high cost of motherhood.
Black Bear
A dazzling memoir about one woman's coexistence with bears in the boreal forest and a singular meditation on sibling loss. When Trina Moyles was five years old, her father, a wildlife biologist known in Peace River as "the bear guy," brought home an orphaned black bear cub for a night before sending it to the Calgary Zoo. This brief but unforgettable encounter spurred Trina’s lifelong fascination with Ursus americanus—the most populous bear on the northern landscape, often considered a nuisance to human society. As a child roaming the shores of the Peace in the footsteps of her beloved older brother, Brendan, she understood bears to be invisible entities: always present but mostly hidden and worthy of respect. Growing up during the oil boom of the 1990s, the threats in the siblings' hard-drinking resource town were more human, dividing them from a natural reverence for the land, and eventually, from each other. After years of working for human rights organizations, Trina returned to northern Alberta for a job as a fire tower lookout, while Brendan worked in the oil sands, vulnerable to a boom-and-bust economy and substance addiction. When she was assigned to a tower in a wildlife corridor, bears were alarmingly visible and plentiful, wandering metres away on the other side of an electrified fence surrounding the tower. Over four summers, Trina begins to move beyond fear and observe the extraordinary essence of the maligned black bear—a keystone species who is as subject to the environmental consequences of the oil economy as humans. At the same time, she searches for common ground with Brendan on the land that bonded them. Impassioned and eloquent, Black Bear is a story of grief and a vision of peaceful coexistence in a divided world. It captures the fragility of our relationships with human and nonhuman species alike, and the imperative to protect the wild—along with the people we hold closest.
Blueprints
A searing, reflective and truthful collection of essays by award-winning writer, Crystal Jeans, as she explores the struggles of addiction and mental health during the turbulent transition of adolescence into adulthood through to the strains of marriage, childbirth and parenting. Growing up in south Wales, navigating gender and sexuality, Jeans writes about her relationships with others as well as her own body with a frank self-awareness. Fiercely feminist, brutally honest and full of sharp cultural references, Blueprints is not another trauma story but a vital validation of the act of writing about pain and loss while grappling with identity in a troubled world.
Baddest Man
On a defining evening of the 1980s, Donald Trump hosted celebrities and high rollers in a Jersey Shore town to witness 21-year-old Mike Tyson knock out Michael Spinks in just 91 seconds, earning more than the annual payrolls of the Los Angeles Lakers and Boston Celtics combined. Only eight years earlier, Tyson, a troubled child from Brooklyn, was taken under the wing of boxing legend Cus D’Amato in upstate New York. Their story of mutual redemption captivated novelists, screenwriters, and the emerging cable TV industry. Tyson became HBO’s leading man long before Tony Soprano. Despite the immense success, Tyson's story was more complex and darker than it appeared. Over the decades, he has been villainized, lionized, and fetishized—but never fully humanized until now. Acclaimed biographer Mark Kriegel, who first encountered Tyson as a young reporter, explores Tyson's life through what he survived rather than whom he knocked out. Tyson, often compared to Jack Dempsey, was more akin to Sonny Liston—Black, feared, and expected to die young. What made Liston a pariah made Tyson a touchstone for a generation influenced by hip hop and gunfire. Kriegel captures not just Tyson’s rise but his profound impact on the American psyche.
Life Is Rosi
'This is a unique juxtaposition of the shatteringly honest diaries of two Jewish girls fighting to survive — Grandma Rosi in the Holocaust and two generations later Jess in today's grubby showbiz world. It appalled, uplifted and delighted me. I wish I’d written it.' MIRIAM MARGOLYES 'Deeply moving… fascinating' The Mail on Sunday 'I loved every word of it. Funny, fascinating, infuriating and so deeply personal. It's quite the achievement to create something so raw, so funny, and so clever.' ADAM HILLS When Grandma Rosi was 23, she was expelled from Nazi Germany and interned as a refugee in Zbaszyn, Poland. She used her diary to document every detail of her experiences, from being deported by the Gestapo to stolen conversations with her first love. When Jess was 23, she was living in London, struggling with a fledgling acting career, a failed love life and rock-bottom self-esteem. She used her diary to rant about her mum and track her daily calories. Well, it was the noughties… __________ Rapidly approaching her 40th birthday – and, honestly, wanting an EU passport to beat the airport queues – comedian and impressionist Jess Robinson finally digs into the archives of her German Jewish ancestry. With each freshly translated page of her grandmother’s wartime diaries, Jess sets out to discover who Grandma Rosi really was – and maybe learn a thing or two about herself. After all, it’s easy to forget who you really are when you spend every day pretending to be other people… Bravely reopening her own diaries (which had been very securely locked away for nearly two decades), Jess follows the two young women as they navigate life at 23, finding a shared sense of identity despite their entirely different circumstances. Exploring everything from lessons in resilience to the traits we inherit from our matriarchs – and not forgetting trying to make new friends at the German embassy – Life Is Rosi is a warm, witty and wise book that gets to the heart of who we are, wherever we are. __________
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.
