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Castro and Cuba, Lockwood
The real Fidel This is a telling portrait of Cuba and its enigmatic leader. In December of 1958, Lee Lockwood, then a young photojournalist, went to Cuba to cover what looked to be the end of Batista's regime. He arrived the day before Fidel Castro took power and spent a week canvassing the island before finally coming into contact with his subject. In the following decade, Lockwood returned to Cuba a dozen times. Early on Castro began to trust him as a fair-minded and balanced reporter, and granted him access not just to photograph him, but also to conduct a marathon seven-day interview in 1965 that remains to this day one of the most penetrating portraits of the Cuban leader. The interview, together with Lockwood's own writings and photographs, were published in the 1967 book "Castro's Cuba, Cuba's Fidel", a book so radical in its message, that Franco banned it in Spain. This new edition, which brings that long out-of-print book back to life, features a large number of never-before-published color photographs, including intimate scenes from the weeks Lockwood spent travelling with Castro, from military encampments in the Sierra Maestra Mountains to the Jefe's compound on the Isle of Pines. TASCHEN's new edition also includes expanded coverage of Cuba in the '60s - people at work in fields and factories, at play in Havana's dance halls and streets, and at political rallies and marches. Also included is an audio CD with excerpts from the Castro-Lockwood interviews, edited from the original reel-to-reel recordings.
When Pride Still Mattered
In this groundbreaking biography, David Maraniss captures all of football great Vince Lombardi: the myth, the man, his game, and his God. More than any other sports figure, Vince Lombardi transformed football into a metaphor of the American experience. The son of an Italian immigrant butcher, Lombardi toiled for twenty frustrating years as a high school coach and then as an assistant at Fordham, West Point, and the New York Giants before his big break came at age forty-six with the chance to coach a struggling team in snowbound Wisconsin. His leadership of the Green Bay Packers to five world championships in nine seasons is the most storied period in NFL history. Lombardi became a living legend, a symbol to many of leadership, discipline, perseverance, and teamwork, and to others of an obsession with winning. In "When Pride Still Mattered, " Pulitzer Prize-winning author David Maraniss captures the myth and the man, football, God, and country in a thrilling biography destined to become an American classic.
Stopy paměti
Jejich rodiny a doba, ve které vyrostli, jim vštípily pevnost charakteru, smysl pro čest, lásku k vlasti a další v té době samozřejmé hodnoty, kterých se odmítli vzdát a po kterých dnes tak často voláme. Svým vyprávěním otevírají nezřídka nečekaný a neznámý vhled do temnějších období naší nedávné historie, jakými byly nástup nacismu, druhá světová válka a nástup komunismu...
Vyprávění Sokolů, Skautů, válečných veteránů, ale i sudetské Němky, zemědělce na samotě nebo emeritního profesora Yaleské univerzity doplňují jejich fotoportréty a unikátní fotografie z rodinných archivů. Stopy paměti je projektem sdružení novinářů a historiků, který shromažďuje vzpomínky odpůrců a lidí postižených nacistickou a komunistickou totalitou na Střední Moravě.
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Hyde Park Civilizace
Vítejte ve světě vědy a otázek současné společnosti. Ptáme se významných vědců a osobností naší civilizace. Vítejte v Hyde Parku Civilizace. Stejně jako oni, i my hledáme odpovědi. Pořad a kniha pro ty, co ví, že chtějí vědět.Nositelé Nobelovy ceny, lidé, kteří mění svět. V této knize rozhovorů s hosty Hyde Parku Civilizace se dozvíte, co patnáct z nich dokázalo, s čím si museli poradit, jak zvládli vyhrocené situace i jaké jsou jejich osobní příběhy. Při čtení se dostanete od medicíny, přes architekturu, fyziku, cesty do vesmíru až do světa filmu, fotografie a sportu.
Daniel Stach hovoří v knize s následujícími osobnostmi:
Bohdan Pomahač - plastický chirurg
Scott Parazynski - astronaut, NASA
Tomáš Radil - bývalý vězeň koncentračního tábora Osvětim
Lawrence Krauss - teoretický fyzik, kosmolog
Philip Zimbardo - psycholog, autor Stanfordského vězeňského experimentu
Eva Jiřičná - architektka
Rick McCallum - producent Hvězdných válek
Jan Šibík - fotograf
Natalia Gorbaněvská - disidentka
Jerome Friedman - nositel Nobelovy ceny za fyziku
Jiří Markovič - bývalý šéf pražského oddělení vyšetřování vražd
Jiří Ježek - hendikepovaný cyklista
Jan Říha - nevidomý horolezec
Adam Dolník - odborník na terorismus
Paul Nurse - nositel Nobelovy ceny za fyziologii
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The Munich Art Hoard
In February 2012, in a Munich flat belonging to an elderly recluse, German customs authorities seized an astonishing hoard of more than 1,400 paintings, drawings, prints and sculptures. When Cornelius Gurlitt's trove became public in November 2013, it caused a worldwide media sensation. Catherine Hickley has delved into archives and conducted dozens of interviews to uncover the story behind the headlines. Her book illuminates a dark period of German history, untangling a web of deceit and silence that has prevented the heirs of Jewish collectors from recovering art stolen from their families more than seven decades ago by the Nazis. Hickley recounts the shady history of the Gurlitt hoard and brings its story right up to date, as 21st-century politicians and lawyers puzzle over the inadequacies of a legal framework that to this day falls short in securing justice for the heirs of those robbed by the Nazis.
Bydlení slavných - Postřehy z domovů hvězd
Každý bydlí. Otázkou je jak. Autor knihy využil svých nadstandardních vztahů s řadou českých celebrit a navštívil je v jejich soukromí. Kam utíkají před světem? Kde odpočívají, rozjímají nebo v tichu pracují?
Exkluzivní fotografie a doprovodné komentáře zachycují kuchyně a obývací pokoje, jídelní stoly i pracovní kouty, ložnice a dokonce koupelny či toalety slavných. Výpravná publikace však osoby autorova zájmu neskandalizuje, ale - s odkazem na lidovou průpovídku „Můj dům, můj hrad“ – leccos naznačuje o jejich praktičnosti a vkusu. Bydlení slavných je systematicky sestavované album, které čtenářům přibližuje osobnosti české kultury v jejich nejpřirozenějším prostředí a zároveň je může inspirovat při tvorbě či úpravách domova vlastního.
Stalins Daughter
'Compassionate and compelling, this is not a political story but a quest for love in the heart of darkness' Simon Sebag Montefiore 'A biography on an epic scale, with a combination of tragedy and history worthy of a Russian novel' Independent 'Superbly well told' Sunday Times Who was Svetlana Alliluyeva? A little girl, her father's only daughter, his "little sparrow"; instructed to bury her secrets in her heart by her mother, who shot herself soon after. An observer as her relatives were mercilessly killed and her first love exiled. A woman who tore through relationships with men, joined and abandoned various religions, and became the most famous defector to the United States. The victim of an inescapable truth: "You are Stalin's daughter...You can't live your own life. You can't live any life. You exist only in reference to a name."
Velazquez
Master of illusion: Velazquez, virtuoso of the Spanish Golden AgeCourt painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated masters in all Western art history. Monet and Renoir, Corot and Courbet, Degas and Dali all hailed his influence. Picasso was so inspired by his masterpiece Las Meninas that he painted 44 variations of it.Velazquez s importance is found particularly in his naturalist approach, in contrast to the more ubiquitous idealized manner of his age. Early works included numerous bodegones, genre scenes of everyday life in early 17th century Spain, in which warm, rich tones and textures set off the most ordinary of subjects and humble of faces, such as Old Woman Frying Eggs.Later, his portraiture for the Royal Court brought the same naturalism to the highest echelons of society, marking a profound shift in the depiction of royalty with softer, more relaxed poses that offered his subjects a human warmth and character as much as a sense of grandeur. Velazquez s most famous work, Las Meninas, was also painted in the royal court, but in its enigmatic composition raises many broader questions about reality and illusion and the relationship between the painter, painting, and viewer.This fresh TASCHEN Basic Art 2.0 edition introduces Velazquez through key works from throughout his career. From humble genre scenes to the royal portraits, the exquisite Rockeby Venus nude, and the ever-mysterioius Las Meninas, we explore his exceptional attention to composition, masterful handling of tone, and his remarkable influence as, in Manet s words, the greatest painter of all. About the series: Each book in TASCHEN s Basic Art series features: a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance a concise biography approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions".
Eric Clapton - Motherless Child - Biografie
Biografie Motherless Child vykresluje Erika Claptona jako jednoho z nejvlivnějších umělců své generace, živoucí hudební legendu a jednoho z nejlepších kytaristů všech dob. Obsahuje dosud nepublikované detaily z jeho komplikovaného, ale fascinujícího života posbírané od blízkých přátel a spolupracovníků. Kniha sleduje Claptonovu více než padesátiletou kariéru od začátků ve skupině Yardbirds, přes spolupráci s Johnem Mayallem, slávu superskupiny Cream, kapel Blind Faith a Derek and the Dominos až po sólovou kariéru. Clapton se vždy viděl jako osamělý hráč blues, muž s kytarou proti celému světu. Blues pro něj zůstávalo konstantou, jádrem, ze kterého vycházel. Právě on byl vyvolený pokračovat v tradici hudby starých bluesmanů z delty Mississippi. Paul Scott se zaměřuje také na Claptonův soukromý život, kde se jeho mimořádný talent prolínal s nepochopitelnou sebedestrukcí. Nikdy se netajil problémy s drogami a alkoholem, ani svým bohémským životem, který ho několikrát zavedl až na hranu smrti. Bez občasných osobních pádů by ale nikdy nemohl vystoupat na hudební olymp a získat si uznání milionů fanoušků po celém světě. Jeho příběh lze tedy také číst jako dlouhou, ale úspěšnou cestu ke střízlivosti, vykoupení a konečně i ke štěstí. Motherless Child doplněná fotografiemi je nezbytným kusem pro každého Claptonova fanouška.
Paul Scott je britský spisovatel a žurnalista. Píše pro Daily Mail a další deníky. Na kontě má úspěšnou biografii Robbieho Williamse. Je celoživotním fanouškem Erika Claptona.
Památná místa Járy Cimrmana
Objevte nejzajímavější kouty naší vlasti, která nejslavnější Čech proslavil, a pronikněte do hlubin velikánovy osobnosti. Vydejte se na místa, kde zanechal výrazné stopy a důležité odkazy nejslavnější český génius – Jára Cimrman
Muž bez tváře
Když se v roce 1999 lidé kolem Borise Jelcina snažili najít náhradu za svého chřadnoucího a čím dál méně oblíbeného prezidenta, padla jejich volba na tehdy téměř neznámého Vladimira Vladimiroviče Putina, muže bez tváře, o němž si mysleli, že se jim snadno podaří dotvořit jej podle vlastních představ. A skutečně, Rusko i poblázněný Západ byly rozhodnuty vidět v něm progresivního vůdce svých snů, dokonce i tehdy, když Putin nemilosrdně rozprášil ruská média, vyrval moc i bohatství z rukou byznysmenů a zlikvidoval křehce se rodící demokratické mechanismy. Během několika let byly odstraněny všechny překážky, jež by mu jakkoliv bránily v uplatnění nekontrolovatelné moci: opoziční hlasy byly umlčeny, političtí protivníci a kritici vyhnáni do exilu nebo zavražděni. Masha Gessenová tento příběh zažila na vlastní kůži a podle toho o něm také hovoří. Její fascinující vyprávění o Putinově vzestupu a vládě je vynikajícím dílem žurnalistické literatury a českému čtenáři přinese nejedno překvapení.
Masha Gessenová (nar. 1967) je rusko-americká novinářka, spisovatelka a politická aktivistka. Patří k nejhlasitějším a nejvýznamnějším odpůrcům ruského prezidenta Vladimira Putina v západních médiích. Narodila se v moskevské židovské rodině, roku 1981 se s rodiči přestěhovala do Spojených států a v roce 1991 přesídlila zpět do Ruska, kde v následujících dvou desetiletích pracovala pro řadu novin, časopisů a televizních stanic, nejprve jako reportérka a postupně na čím dál vyšších pozicích. Mimoto byla jednou z nejvýraznějších představitelek gay a lesbického hnutí v Rusku. Po nástupu Vladimira Putina k moci čelila v pracovním i osobním životě čím dál větším potížím. Koncem roku 2013 se rozhodla k návratu do Spojených států, především kvůli obavám, že by jí v rámci všeobecného tažení proti homosexuálům mohly být odebrány její adoptované děti. Přispívá do řady významných novin a časopisů, například The New York Times, The Washington Post, New Statesman, Vanity Fair a Harper’s Magazine. Je autorkou několika knih, vedle Muž bez tváře (2012) například Words Will Break Cement. The Passion of Pussy Riot (Slova prorazí cement. Vášeň Pussy Riot, 2014) či The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy (Bratři. Cesta k americké tragédii, 2015) o bratrech Carnajevových.. Muž bez tváře byl dosud přeložen do více než dvaceti jazyků.
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Born To Run
The international Number One bestseller. Over a million copies sold in the English language. Published in 23 foreign languages. `A heartfelt memoir . . . there is a fearlessness to his prose, a willingness to engage with his past, that chimes with his songwriter's desire to give voice to the people around him' Sunday Times "Writing about yourself is a funny business...But in a project like this, the writer has made one promise, to show the reader his mind. In these pages, I've tried to do this." -Bruce Springsteen, from the pages of Born to Run In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl's halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That's how this extraordinary autobiography began. Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs. He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as "The Big Bang": seeing Elvis Presley's debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song "Born to Run" reveals more than we previously realized.Born to Run will be revelatory for anyone who has ever enjoyed Bruce Springsteen, but this book is much more than a legendary rock star's memoir. This is a book for workers and dreamers, parents and children, lovers and loners, artists, freaks, or anyone who has ever wanted to be baptized in the holy river of rock and roll. Rarely has a performer told his own story with such force and sweep. Like many of his songs ("Thunder Road," "Badlands," "Darkness on the Edge of Town," "The River," "Born in the U.S.A.," "The Rising," and "The Ghost of Tom Joad," to name just a few), Bruce Springsteen's autobiography is written with the lyricism of a singular songwriter and the wisdom of a man who has thought deeply about his experiences
Speer - Hitler's Architect
A new biography of Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and trusted confidant, reveals the subject's deeper involvement in Nazi atrocities In his best-selling autobiography, Albert Speer, Minister of Armaments and chief architect of Nazi Germany, repeatedly insisted he knew nothing of the genocidal crimes of Hitler's Third Reich. In this revealing new biography, author Martin Kitchen disputes Speer's lifelong assertions of ignorance and innocence, portraying a far darker figure who was deeply implicated in the appalling crimes committed by the regime he served so well. Kitchen reconstructs Speer's life with what we now know, including information from valuable new sources that have come to light only in recent years, challenging the portrait presented by earlier biographers and by Speer himself of a cultured technocrat devoted to his country while completely uninvolved in Nazi politics and crimes. The result is the first truly serious accounting of the man, his beliefs, and his actions during one of the darkest epochs in modern history, not only countering Speer's claims of non-culpability but also disputing the commonly held misconception that it was his unique genius alone that kept the German military armed and fighting long after its defeat was inevitable.
Gorbachev - His Life and Times
' ... deeply penetrating history and engrossing psychological study.' Robert Legvold, Foreign Affairs MagazineFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era 'An engaging, poignant portrayal of one of the most significant of Russian leaders.' Kirkus review. 'William Taubman's Gorbachev, like his Khrushchev, is an extraordinary achievement, full of new information, filled with shrewd judgments, a two-in-a-row triumph in the writing of great lives.' - John Lewis Gaddis, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of George F. Kennan: An American Life `Nobody before Taubman has achieved an in-depth psychological portrait...what made Gorbachev tick, as a man and a leader, has always been hooded in speculation...A highly readable, reliable and accurate work, one that will be used by all future generations of historians... This monumental biography will become the standard personal portrait, especially of the years before Gorbachev became party secretary. Taubman has charmed more out of him than any of his subordinates ever managed to' Robert Service, Literary Review `Impressive... full of fascinating detail' Peter Conradi, Sunday Times `Comprehensive and immensely readable' The Economist This is the definitive biography on one of the most important and controversial figures of the 20th century. Drawing on interviews with Gorbachev himself, transcripts and documents from the Russian archives, and interviews with Kremlin aides and adversaries, as well as foreign leaders, Taubman's intensely personal portrait extends to Gorbachev's remarkable marriage to a woman he deeply loved, and to the family that they raised together. Nuanced and poignant, yet unsparing and honest, this sweeping account has all the amplitude of a great Russian novel.90 illustrations When Mikhail Gorbachev became its leader in March 1985, the USSR was still one of the world's two superpowers. By the end of his tenure six years later, the Communist system was dismantled, the cold war was over and, on 25th December 1991, the Soviet Union itself ceased to exist. While not solely responsible for this remarkable upheaval, he set decisive changes in motion. Assessments of Gorbachev could not be more polarised. In the West, he is regarded as a hero. In Russia, he is widely hated by those who blame him for the collapse of the USSR. Admirers marvel at this vision and courage. Detractors, including many of his Kremlin comrades, have accused him of everything from naivete to treason.
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The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise
SHORTLISTED FOR THE PENDERYN MUSIC BOOK PRIZE 2017. The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise is the extraordinary story, in her own words, of Brix Smith Start. Best known for her work in The Fall at the time when they were perhaps the most powerful and influential anti-authoritarian postpunk band in the world - This Nation's Saving Grace, The Wonderful and Frightening World Of...Brix spent ten years in the band before a violent disintegration led to her exit and the end of her marriage with Mark E Smith. But Brix's story is much more than rock 'n' roll highs and lows in one of the most radically dysfunctional bands around. Growing up in the Hollywood Hills in the '60s in a dilapidated pink mansion her life has taken her from luxury to destitution, from the cover of the NME to waitressing in California, via the industrial wasteland of Manchester in the 1980s. What emerges is a story of constant reinvention, jubilant highs and depressive ebbs; a singular journey of a teenage American girl on a collision course with English radicalism on her way to mid-life success on TV and in fashion. Too bizarre, extreme and unlikely to exist in the pages of fiction, The Rise, The Fall, and The Rise could only exist in the pages of a memoir.
V prvom roku nového tisícročia
Autor prináša čitateľovi ďalšie voľné pokračovanie literárneho spracovania jeho denníkových záznamov, zachytávajúcich jeho vnútorné prežívanie prvého roku tohto tisícročia.
Titul voľne nadväzuje na pred časom vydané tituly autora:
V dotyku s Pavlom Straussom VII.,
V dotyku s Pavlom Straussom X.,
Posledný rok,
V jubilejnom roku 2000.
Dielo autor venoval nadchádzajúcim nedožitým 90-tým narodeninám Milana Rúfusa a Závažnej Porube „...ktorú nám on urobil Naveky Závažnou.“.
Průkopník letecké dopravy Josef Sedlář
Zakládající kádr pilotů Československých státních aerolinií nebyl příliš široký, první zmínky o budoucích pilotech lze nalézt v březnu 1923, kdy velitelé leteckých pluků dostali úkol nominovat po šesti zkušených a spolehlivých rotmistrech. Z návrhů velitelů pluků major Holeka vybral celkem 19 pilotů, kteří přicházeli v úvahu pro provozování letecké dopravy. V pravidelném provozu ČSA koncem roku 1923 potom najdeme šest pilotů, jmenovitě rotmistry Josefa Sedláře, Tomáše Galinovského, Karla Brabence, Františka Výborného, Bohuslava Hrazdila a Karla Dovolila.
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The Autobiography of Malcolm X
Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern Classics.From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought hope and self-respect. This autobiography (written with Alex Haley) reveals his quick-witted integrity, usually obscured by batteries of frenzied headlines, and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism.Vilified by his critics as an anti-white demagogue, Malcolm X gave a voice to unheard African-Americans, bringing them pride, hope and fearlessness, and remains an inspirational and controversial figure.Malcolm X (1925-65), born Malcolm Little in Omaha, and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, lost both his parents at a young age. Leaving school early, he soon became part of Harlem's underworld, and in 1946 he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. It was in prison that Malcolm X converted to Islam. Paroled in 1952, he became an outspoken defender of Muslim doctrines, formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1963, and had received considerable publicity by the time of his assassination in 1965.If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Malcolm X, you might like Nelson Mandela's No Easy Walk to Freedom, also available in Penguin Modern Classics.'This extraordinary autobiography is a brilliant, painful, important book'The New York Times
Believe Me
As heard on BBC Radio Four - Book of the Week . . . A memoir of love, death and jazz chickens, Eddie Izzard's fabulous Believe Me is his one and only autobiography . . .'I know why I'm doing all this,' I said. 'Everything I do in life is trying to get her back. I think if I do enough things . . . that maybe she'll come back.'When Eddie Izzard was six, he and his brother Mark lost their mother. That day, he lost his childhood too. Despite or perhaps because of this, he has always felt he needed to take on things that some people would consider impossible. In Believe Me, Eddie takes us on a journey which begins in Yemen (before the revolution), then takes us to Northern Ireland (before The Troubles), England and Wales, then across the seas to Europe and America. In a story jam-packed with incident he tells of teddy bear shows on boarding school beds, renouncing accountancy for swordfighting on the streets of London and making those first tentative steps towards becoming an Action Transvestite, touring France in French and playing the Hollywood Bowl. Above all, this is a tale about someone who has always done everything his own way (which often didn't work at first) and, sometimes almost by accident but always with grit and determination, achieving what he set out to do. Brimming with the surreal humour and disarming candor of his shows (with occasional digressions), Believe Me tells the story of a little boy who lost his mother yet who has risen to become a star of comedy and drama, a leading advocate of total clothing rights, a British European and extreme runner of marathons, who bestrides the world stage as a world stage bestrider. 'King of the Universe . . . Comic genius . . . Entertainment incarnate' Telegraph
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.
