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Searching for Novak
No man or woman has won more Grand Slam singles titles than Novak Djokovic, who took his 24th major at the 2023 US Open. Based on fresh interviews with people close to Djokovic - including his friends and mentors, along with his former coaches and his rivals - this is an in-depth exploration of the psyche of one of the most fascinating and controversial sporting characters ever. From a bomb shelter in Belgrade to an immigration detention centre in Melbourne, and everywhere in between, this book uncovers his relentless pursuit of perfection and the unconventional beliefs that have propelled him to greatness.
Rage. Forgiveness. Shame. Pride. Love. Searching for Novak examines the psychological and emotional side of rewriting tennis history.
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Avicii: The life and music of Tim Bergling
ow can you tell when a new star is born?
When Tim Bergling, better known as Avicii, struck an iconic pose with his arm in the air, he did more than get the crowd to dance - he redefined electronic music. This official photo book pays tribute to Tim Bergling's musical career and traces his life in almost 200 images from his childhood to some of his biggest gigs, including rare personal moments behind the scenes.
During his short life, Avicii became one of the biggest stars of his time. He began his career at the age of 16 by posting remixes on internet forums, which eventually led him to sign with a record label. His breakthrough came in 2011 with the song Levels, which became an international super hit. He staged more than 800 concerts all over the world and worked with stars including Madonna, Coldplay, Lenny Kravitz and Robbie Williams. When he died in 2018 at the age of 28, he had forever changed the musical landscape.
The book also includes an essay written by Mans Mosesson, the official biographer of Tim Bergling.
Svätý Augustín: Životopis, spiritualita a texty
Nevšedný, mnohovrstevný a po každej stránke obohacujúci je nový životopis svätého Augustína, ktorým vydavateľstvo Postoj Media otvára novú edíciu moderných biografií veľkých svätcov.
Svätý Augustín z Hippo nie je len slávnou postavou z histórie. Keď sa priamo stretávame s jeho spismi, zisťujeme, že je skutočným svetlom dnes.
Augustín je učiteľom, pravdivým sprievodcom pre človeka všetkých čias, ktorý túži nájsť pravdu. Augustín je človek s nepokojným srdcom, ktorý sa neuspokojí s priemernosťou pseudonáuk. Tie v priebehu dejín iba menia svoj vzhľad, ale nikdy nezmiznú. Augustín je ten človek, ktorý hľadí na horizont sveta a chce ho zachytiť jediným zbežným pohľadom alebo konečnosťou prchavého objatia. Priblížiť sa k osobe alebo spisom cirkevného učiteľa z Hippo je ako otvoriť dvere rannému svetlu alebo si podvečer vychutnávať čerstvý vzduch po horúcom dni; je to ako pohár vody pre smädného alebo dobrý odpočinok pre unaveného na ceste.
† Robert kardinál Prevost, OSA prefekt dikastéria pre biskupov
G-Man
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2023
Winner of the 2022 National Book Critics Circle Award in Biography
Winner of the 2023 Bancroft Prize in American History and Diplomacy
Winner of the American History Book Prize
Shortlisted for the 2023 PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for Biography
Longlisted for the CWA ALCS Gold Dagger for Non-Fiction
When he became director of the FBI, J. Edgar Hoover transformed a failing law-enforcement backwater into a modern machine. He stayed in power for decades, and created a personal fiefdom unrivalled in US history.
In this masterful, multi-award-winning biography, Beverley Gage explores the full sweep of Hoover’s life and career. In Gage’s portrait, Hoover was a man admired by millions, but was also a formidable public figure who intimidated his enemies, excluded minorities from his great American project and created the foundations of the US far right.
G-Man is a dramatic portrait of one of America’s most influential – and controversial – public figures. It is also an engrossing story of the making of modern America.
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Filip Turek: Hranatá legenda
Zákulisní historky ze školy, závodů i současnosti. Proč ještě nemám děti? Co by měl být můj hlavní životní odkaz? Proč vlastně všechno dělám a co mě pohání? Tak to všechno a ještě mnohem, mnohem víc najdete v této hranaté zlaté knize.
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Návštěvy domů slavných - 50 nových příběhů
Čtvrté volné pokračování úspěšné série, v níž nás autorka provází bydlením celé plejády slavných českých osobností. Zmapovala místa, kde žijí nebo žili mimořádní a tvořiví lidé jako Marta Kubišová, Yvonne Přenosilová, Stella Zázvorková, Jana Šulcová, Růžena Šlemrová, Jarmila Smejkalová, Zdeněk Dítě, Miloš Nesvadba, Zdenka Procházková, Marie Podvalová, malíři Ota Janeček a Ludmila Jiřincová, režiséři Karel Lamač, Vladimír Slavínský, Antonín Moskalyk a další. Autorku zajímají především jejich lidské příběhy a zajímavé osudy, spojené s domy a místy, v nichž prožili někdy jen krátký čas, ale mnohdy i celý život. Knihu doprovází množství dobových i současných fotografií.
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Kde domov můj? - Rotterdamský příběh Františka Škroupa
Lidské osudy jsou různé. Některé z nich jsou na očích více, jiné méně.
Jméno Františka Škroupa sice známe, jeho melodii z Fidlovačky si broukáme, ale známe i jeho životní příběh? Román Markéty Dočekalové otevírá pozapomenutou kapitolu českých dějin a s detektivní bravurou sleduje osudy geniálního skladatele.
Škroup, autor hudby k naší hymně, se ocitá v nemilosti národa, který kdysi opěvoval. Praha ho zavrhne a on se vydává za sezónní pracovní nabídkou do Rotterdamu. Tam se ujímá řízení vznikající opery, komponuje, bojuje o přežití a s těžkým srdcem vzpomíná na domov, kam se už nikdy nevrátí...
Kniha vychází u příležitosti 190. výročí prvního veřejného uvedení písně „Kde domov můj“ a je nejen poctou skladbě, která přetrvává věky, ale také velkou snahou, abychom nezapomněli na jeden dávný příběh.
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Question 7
Who loves longer?
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan’s Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows.
By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West’s affair, through 1930s nuclear physics, to Flanagan’s father working as a slave labourer near Hiroshima when the atom bomb is dropped, this daisy chain of events reaches fission when a young man finds himself trapped in a rapid on a wild river, not knowing if he is to live or to die.
Flanagan has created a love song to his island home and his parents and the terrible past that delivered him to that place. Through a hypnotic melding of dream, history, science and memory it shows how our lives so often arise out of the stories of others and the stories we invent about ourselves.
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Under A Rock
At its heart, Under A Rock is a love story. The codependent bond between Chris Stein and Debbie Harry carried Blondie through their many tribulations: terribly misogynistic music scenes, greasy record execs, bitter band mates, gruelling schedules, and hard drug abuse abound, and Chris lays it all bare with blunt sincerity and humour. Ultimately, Chris and Debbie broke up, but their bond never dissipated; they remain closest of friends, and continue to tour and promote their various projects together to this day.
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Naked Portrait: A Memoir of Lucian Freud
Towards the end of the summer of 2016 I found an old diary in a cardboard box, hundreds of typed pages, the first dated 9 September 1989. I put the diary away without reading it; I had lost my father, my mother had died only three months earlier, and it was not the right time to think about anything. I was heartbroken.
As I remembered it the diary was about sitting again, an easy portrait this time, fully clothed, the manuscript mainly a record of my father’s remarkable stories. I imagined all his stories were amusing, uncontentious, but even if that had been true I still would not have been ready. It is unclear to me now how I was able so effectively to distort reality.’
In Naked Portrait Rose Boyt explores her complicated relationship with her beloved father, Lucian Freud, through the diary and other accounts of sitting for him, naked or otherwise. Enthralled by his genius, it was only after his death that she began to question the version of events she had come to accept. The shock of the truth is profound but what emerges is her love and compassion not just for herself as a vulnerable young woman, but for the man himself, who is shown in all his brilliant complexity.
Fénixové: Příběhy emigrantek z Ukrajiny
Kniha zachycuje příběhy lidí (uprchlíků z Ukrajiny), kteří přišli o všechno, museli opustit svou zemi, přátele a sny kvůli ruské vojenské agresi. Přesto v sobě našli sílu znovu žít, a dokonce pomáhat druhým a vytvářet nové krásné věci. Jak válka zasahuje do „obyčejného“ života? Jaké to je, když v jediném okamžiku člověk přijde o vše, co roky budoval? Jak lidé zvládají rozhodnutí navždy opustit svůj domov? Jak se vyrovnávají s neutěšenou přítomností a jak čelí nejisté budoucnosti? Jak se etablují v nové zemi? A jak se z nich stanou fénixové? Jak v sobě naleznou sílu nejen přežít, ale také znovu vybudovat svůj život a stát se užitečnými pro společnost? Tato kniha není aktuální jen v souvislosti s právě probíhající válkou, ale může pomoci všem, kteří hledají inspiraci, jak překonat své dramatické životní překážky a dosáhnout svých snů.
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Good for a Girl
Fueled by her years as an elite runner and advocate for women in sports, Lauren Fleshman offers her inspiring personal story and a rallying cry for reform of a sports landscape that is failing young female athletes
“Women’s sports have needed a manifesto for a very long time, and with Lauren Fleshman’s Good for a Girl we finally have one.” —Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and David and Goliath
One of the most decorated collegiate athletes of all time and a national champion as a pro, Lauren Fleshman has grown up in the world of running. But every step of the way, she has seen how our sports systems—originally designed for men and boys—fail women and girls. Girls drop out of sports at alarming rates once they hit puberty, and female collegiate athletes routinely fall victim to injury, eating disorders, or mental health struggles as they try to force their way past a natural dip in performance for women of their age.
Written with heart and verve, Good for a Girl is Fleshman’s story of falling in love with running, being pushed to her limits and succumbing to injuries, and fighting for a better way for female athletes. Drawing on not only her own story but also emerging research on the physiology and psychology of young athletes of any gender, Fleshman gives voice to the often-silent experience of the female athlete and argues that the time has come to rebuild competitive sports with women at their center.
Stray Kids - Here to STAY
Get to know K-Pop's reigning superstars!
With phenomenal talent and an edgy yet anthemic sound, Stray Kids have topped the Billboard charts, won over fans across the world, and proven they are here to STAY!
This new book, featuring dozens of full-color photos, is a vibrant celebration of Bang Chan, Lee Know, Changbin, Hyunjin, Han, Felix, Seungmin, and I.N. Explore their diverse musical influences while getting to know the band’s individual singers, rappers, dancers, and producers.
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Rebel Girl
An electric, searing memoir by the original riot grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre.
Hey girlfriend I got a proposition, goes something like this: Dare ya to do what you want.
Kathleen Hanna’s rallying cry to feminists echoed far and wide through the punk scene of the 1980s, ’90s, and beyond. Her band, Bikini Kill, embodies this iconic time, and today their gutsy, radical lyrics of anthems like ‘Rebel Girl’ and ‘Double Dare Ya’ are more powerful than ever. But where did this transformative voice come from?
In Rebel Girl, Hanna’s raw and insightful new memoir, she takes us from her tumultuous childhood home, to her formative college years in Olympia, Washington, and on to her first years on tour, fighting hard for gigs and for her band. As Hanna makes blindingly clear, being in a ‘girl band’, especially a punk girl band, in those years was not a simple or a safe prospect. Male violence and antagonism threatened at every turn, and surviving as a singer who was a lightening rod for controversy took limitless amounts of determination.
But the relationships she developed during those years buoyed her – including with her bandmates Tobi Vail, Kathi Wilcox, and Billy Karren; her friendship with Kurt Cobain; and her introduction to Joan Jett – and they were a testament to how the true punk world nurtured and cared for its own.Hanna opens up about falling in love with Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys and her debilitating battle with Lyme disease, and she brings us behind the scenes of her later bands, Le Tigre and The Julie Ruin.
She also writes candidly about the Riot Grrrl movement and its decline, documenting with love its grassroots origins but critiquing its later exclusivity.In an uncut voice all her own, Hanna reveals the darkest, hardest times along with the most joyful – and how it all fuelled her revolutionary art, from the 1980s to today.
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My My!
On the fiftieth anniversary of Waterloo the song, not the battle - one super-fan sits down to listen to the ABBA Gold album from start to finish, looking back over the half-century he has spent in the company of ABBA's music, and attempting to unlock the secrets of its hold on him and on all of us.
Partly a highly personal work of musical criticism, partly a history ABBA told throughcolourfulvignettes, and partly the record of Giles time spent trampling around damply in Sweden,braving the hardcore fans on ABBA Day in the Netherlands and somewhat reluctantly attendinga sing-along screening Mamma Mia, this is Giles mission to get to the very heart of ABBA. Starting out in the glam rock Seventies, its pages will inevitably contain possibly unwise quantities of satin and Spandex, and also descriptions of *trigger warning*cat dresses.
Nineteen tracks yield nineteen chapters, from ';Dancing Queen' to ';Knowing Me, Knowing You', to ';Take A Chance on Me', and onwards, eventually circling back (as all roads from ABBA eventually do) to ';Waterloo', the album's final track. For Giles Smith, listening to each song gives rise to thoughts on pop music and the ways it attaches itself to us (and we to it), autobiographical reflections on the times, and ruminations on ABBA themselves - their story, their phenomenon, and the evolution of their presence in our lives.
It's a book about growing old, and the things that never do. And it's a book about fashion, snobbery, authenticity, critical judgement, the passage of time and the triumphant ability of truly great pop music to transcend all of those things forever.But it's also a book about the development of one of popsgreatest and best-loved albums,and an unabashed tribute to the power of a major-to-minor modulation and a well-placed glissando.
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Literature for the People
From an impoverished childhood in the Scottish highlands to Victorian London, this is the inspiring story of brothers Daniel and Alexander Macmillan who built a publishing empire - and brought Alice in Wonderland to the world. Their remarkable achievements are revealed in this entertaining, superbly researched biography.
Daniel and Alexander arrived in London in the 1830s at a crucial moment of social change. These two idealistic brothers, working-class sons of a Scottish crofter, went on to set up a publishing house that spread radical ideas on equality, science and education across the world. They also brought authors like Lewis Carroll, Thomas Hardy and Charles Kingsley, and poets like Matthew Arnold and Christina Rossetti, to a mass audience. No longer would books be just for the upper classes.
In Literature for the People Sarah Harkness brings to life these two warm-hearted men. Daniel was driven by the knowledge that he was living on borrowed time, his body was ravaged by tuberculosis. Alexander took on responsibility for the company as well as Daniel’s family and turned a small business into an international powerhouse. He cultivated the literary greats of the time, weathered controversy and tragedy, and fostered a dynasty that would include future prime minister Harold Macmillan.
Including fascinating insights about the great, the good and the sometimes wayward writers of the Victorian era, with feuds, friendships and passionate debate, this vibrant book is bursting with all the energy of that exciting period in history.
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One Ukrainian Summer
Autumn 1993. The former USSR. Viv is about to turn 21 and is on a study year abroad, supposedly immersed in the language, history and politics of a world that has just ceased to exist: the Soviet Union.
Instead, she finds herself immersed in Bogdan Bogdanovich - the lead guitarist of a Ukrainian punk rock band. As the temperature drops, he promises that if she can get through the freezing Russian winter, he will give her "one Ukrainian summer." But is he serious about her? Or is she just another groupie?
At parties, gigs and dive bars, Viv and her new friends argue over whose turn it is to buy cigarettes, the best places to find Levi's jeans and whether beer counts as a soft drink. No-one debates the merits of speaking Ukrainian over Russian, the precise location of the border or the undeniable brightness of the future. Of course good times are here to stay. Because the Soviet Union is finished. Isn't it?
A poignant and often comical account of coming-of-age in the time after the Cold War and before Putin, One Ukrainian Summer is a love letter to a unique moment in history.
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Down With the System
The incredible first memoir by System Of A Down frontman Serj Tankian
With nearly 40 million record sales, three albums topping the Billboard charts, a Grammy win and a legion of fans, System Of A Down are one of the biggest metal bands on the planet. At their core has always been Serj Tankian, whose journey from the streets of Beirut to rock superstardom is as remarkable and unlikely as you'll get.
By dint of luck, circumstance, struggle, and more than a little talent, Serj has had the chance to live an extraordinary life. In Down With the System, he retraces this remarkable and unlikely journey, and explores what it's taught him - about music, about art, about activism, and about himself. From teaming up with Tom Morello to push social justice causes on unsuspecting metalheads, arguing with LAPD officers over the best way to quell his rioting fans, and traveling with Anthony Bourdain through Armenia one meal at a time, Down With the System is an immigrant's tale, an activist's awakening, and rock memoir unlike any other.
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The Swans of Harlem
Harlem 1969; it's the height of the Civil Rights era and the community is still reeling from the assassination of Martin Luther King. Arthur Mitchell, the first Black principal dancer at the New York City Ballet, takes his protest to the stage and establishes the Dance Theatre of Harlem. Here begins the story of the five extraordinary women at the heart of this book.
Both a group biography and a story of a particular time, this is a book about ballet, the enduring allure of ballet for young girls, and about how these pioneers broke into a world that was closed to them and changed ideas of what a classical dancer could be. It is about the heart-breaking impact of the AIDS epidemic which claimed the lives of so many of the male dancers. It's about racism and activism through art. And it's about the eternal glamour of ballet; these swans appeared at the grandest opera houses and theatres, dancing at the White House, and even for the Queen. Their fans included Mick Jagger and they performed alongside the likes of Michael Jackson and Josephine Baker. But most importantly it tells the universal story of female friendship, and in particular how these five young women formed a bond - while experimenting with different ways of dying ballet shoes and tights to match their skin tones - which still endures many decades later.
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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.
