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Mi, magyarok - 51 hihetetlen történet a nagyvilágból
Minden ember élettörténete izgalmas, de különösképpen érdekes, amikor valaki minden nehézség ellenére képes maradandót alkotni. A 20. században sok tehetséges magyar hagyta el kényszerűségből Magyarországot, hogy külföldön aztán elképesztő sikereket érjenek el. Ki jobban, ki kevésbé ápolta magyar gyökereit, az utókor azonban sokszor nincs tisztában származásukkal.
A Facebookon hihetetlen népszerűségnek örvendő Újságmúzeum oldal szerkesztője, Sal Endre szenvedélyesen kutatja ezeknek az elismert és elfeledett magyar származású hírességeknek az életét. Könyvéből, a Mi, magyarokból kiderül, hogy ezek a tehetséges emberek milyen sok árnyalattal színesítették a világot. Van, akinek a Volkswagen Bogarat, másnak a színes televíziózást köszönhetjük, mégsem hallottuk a nevét, s akad olyan is, aki New York leghíresebb felhőkarcolóit tervezte, itthon mégis szinte ismeretlen.
Megannyi felemelő, megrázó és érdekfeszítő történet, amelyet gazdag képanyag és sok kitekintő kiegészítés tesz még lenyűgözőbbé.
Notes to John
A previously unpublished work from one of America's most iconic writers, Joan Didion.
In November 1999, Joan Didion began seeing a psychiatrist because, as she wrote to a friend, her family had had 'a rough few years'. She described the sessions in a journal she created for her husband, John Gregory Dunne.
For several months, Didion recorded conversations with the psychiatrist in meticulous detail. The initial sessions focused on alcoholism, adoption, depression, anxiety, guilt, and the heartbreaking complexities of her relationship with her daughter, Quintana. The subjects evolved to include her work, which she was finding difficult to maintain for sustained periods. There were discussions about her own childhood – misunderstandings and lack of communication with her mother and father, her early tendency to anticipate catastrophe – and the question of legacy, or, as she put it, 'what it’s been worth'. The analysis would continue for more than a decade.
Didion’s journal was crafted with the singular intelligence, precision, and elegance that characterize all of her writing. It is an unprecedently intimate account that reveals sides of her that were unknown, but the voice is unmistakably hers – questioning, courageous, and clear in the face of a wrenchingly painful journey.
Tomáš Řepka - Hříšník
Osobní, syrová a bilanční zpověď fotbalové legendy Tomáše Řepky. Prolíná se v ní Sparta, osobní život i nová trenérská kapitola a pohled na současný fotbal. O některých tématech ve svých předchozích knihách Řepka nikdy nemluvil. Nemohl, ať už díky tehdejším smlouvám, nebo díky tomu, že respektoval citlivost určitých témat. Od té doby, ale uplynulo dost vody a v současnosti je Tomáš Řepka zpátky v plné síle i po zúčtování s osudem. Otevřeně a bez cenzury vypráví o své cestě od zeleného trávníku přes osudové vztahy až po pády, které otřásly jeho životem. Kniha odhaluje nejen jeho slavné sportovní momenty, ale také zákulisí, skandály, nečekané zvraty a niterné zpovědi muže, který se nikdy nebál být sám sebou – i když to znamenalo jít proti proudu. Příběh hříšníka, který zůstal a zůstává bojovníkem do poslední minuty.
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Matkou po čtyřicítce
Tahle kniha není o princeznách, které čekají na záchranu. Je o ženách, jež vzaly život do vlastních rukou. Hanka Třeštíková, pětatřicetiletá žena s rozjetou kariérou ve vysoké politice, si žila svůj vlastní discopříběh. Obklopená přáteli, na večírcích jako doma, v neustálém pohybu mezi prací, cestováním, randěním a zážitky. Žila naplno, bez závazků a s absolutní svobodou. Jenže čas nezastavíš a ona si začíná uvědomovat, že pokud chce mít někdy dítě, musí jednat. A rychle. Když se ukáže, že z jejích současných vztahů žádné rodičovství nekouká, rozhodne se pro odvážný krok: umělé oplodnění s kamarádem. Cesta k vytouženému dítěti je ale mnohem složitější, než čekala, plná emocí, zvratů i těžkých rozhodnutí. Hanka vypráví o svém životě s nadhledem, upřímností a humorem. Nebojí se otevřít a sdílet ani ty nejkřehčí momenty. V knize se seznámíte i s dalšími ženami, které na své mnohdy klikaté cestě za dítětem prokázaly neuvěřitelnou odvahu, sílu a odhodlání. Jejich příběhy spojuje jediné: víra ve šťastný konec.
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Upside-Down Love
With a message of hope that is both timely and timeless, Upside-Down Love is an extraordinary memoir-irreverent, funny, and profoundly uplifting-of an Israeli lawyer, a Palestinian professor, and a love that transcends all division.Osama is a Palestinian professor, originally from Gaza, who cannot leave the West Bank city of Ramallah. Sari is an Israeli-American lawyer and long-distance runner who petitions Israel's Supreme Court for his right to travel freely. When the case began, neither expected to fall in love-and when it was over, nobody expected their love to endure.First published in Hebrew in 2021, Osama and Sari's star-crossed romance-an intimate, vulnerable portrait of an astoundingly resilient Israeli-Palestinian relationship-has since become a beacon of hope in the aftermath of October 7, 2023. Now on its way to becoming an international cult sensation, Upside-Down Love speaks to the unique circumstances of this specific moment in history, while also illustrating a timeless truth: Love will triumph over bigotry and destruction.
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Toyen - Léta erotická
Ve volném pokračování úspěšné knihy Toyen. První dáma surrealismu se její autorka Andrea Sedláčková rozhodla prozkoumat specifickou část malířčiny tvorby. Téměř detektivním pátráním v archivech a v často nikdy nepublikovaných denících a poznámkách pamětníků se jí podařilo rozkrýt a detailně popsat téma prudérním očím dosud skryté – erotickou tvorbu Toyen, Jindřicha Štyrského a dalších autorů v období let 1921–1938. Kniha nabitá fakty nehledá senzace, ale na leckoho může senzačně zapůsobit. A díky poctivému přístupu autorky poodhalit, jak svou sexualitu vnímala sama Toyen i jak pestrá byla škála erotického umění tehdejší doby.
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The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Goodreads Choice Awards Winner
“Come for the Gilmore Girls anecdotes, stay for the revealing truths about what it takes to build a lifelong career in and out of Hollywood” (The A.V. Club) in this candid and captivating memoir from award-winning and beloved actress Kelly Bishop, spanning her six decades in show business from A Chorus Line, Dirty Dancing, Gilmore Girls, and much more.
Kelly Bishop’s long, storied career has been defined by landmark achievements, from winning a Tony Award for her turn in the original Broadway cast of A Chorus Line to her memorable performance as Jennifer Grey’s mother in Dirty Dancing. But it is probably her iconic role as matriarch Emily in the modern classic Gilmore Girls that cemented her legacy.
Now, Bishop reflects on her remarkable life and looks towards the future with The Third Gilmore Girl. She shares some of her greatest stories and the life lessons she’s learned on her journey. From her early transition from dance to drama, to marrying young to a compulsive gambler, to the losses and achievements she experienced—among them marching for women’s rights and losing her second husband to cancer—Bishop offers a rich, genuine celebration of her life.
Full of witty insights and featuring a special collection of personal and professional photographs, The Third Gilmore Girl is a warm, unapologetic, and spirited memoir from a woman who has left indelible impressions on her audiences for decades and has no plans on slowing down.
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Dávné znění / Klopýtání s Gustavem Mahlerem I. + II.
Gustav Mahler je hudební skladatel, který stojí na důležitém předělu mezi tradiční a novou hudbou, konkrétně mezi tonální a atonální kompoziční technikou. Přišel s mnoha novinkami, zůstával však ještě spjat s minulostí – jeho ideálem byl Richard Wagner. Díky původu v inspirativním prostředí jedné z rakouských provincií, kde se mísily vlivy české, židovské a německé kultury, získal Mahler dar neobyčejné citlivosti, která mu umožňovala tušit budoucí zlomy a hrozby a ty intuitivně vkládat do svých děl. To bylo důvodem, proč mu často současníci nerozuměli a proč on sám věděl, že jeho hudba bude pochopena až za padesát let, jak jednou poznamenal. Oblouk, který takto sevřel komplikovaný vývoj nové doby od Gustava Mahlera až po dobu dnešní je v mnoha ohledech plný zajímavých problémů, které se bezprostředně týkají i nás. To poskytuje příležitost podívat se na Mahlerovu tvorbu v širším měřítku, a to s ohledy filosofickými, kulturními a duchovními spíše než úzce muzikologickými. Nabízejí se zde ke konfrontaci otázky po povaze přírody a po našem přístupu k ní v současné technické epoše, po možnostech užívání jazyka k jejímu popisu, po zbožnosti v době vyprázdněných náboženství, po společenských či politických důsledcích lidského jednání, po reakcích na zrod a zánik moderny, po požadavcích na nový styl komponování či myšlení, po osobním vyrovnávání se s podněty složité doby.
Kniha je v českém prostředí první takto komplexně pojatou monografií o Gustavu Mahlerovi.
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Auden
Featured in New Statesman’s Culture Preview 2026: The best non-fiction to read this yearOf all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant. This forthright biography explores the evolution of his poetic voice in tandem with his shifting beliefs – Existentialism, Marxism, Freudianism and Anglo-Catholicism – reflecting the intellectual climate of the century. Rooted in English traditions, Auden’s work reveals both public and personal histories, from the Great Depression and Spanish Civil War to his experiences as a gay man navigating repression and later liberation. The book traces his journeys from Oxford to Berlin, China and America, bringing to life his turbulent era and the inner conflicts of his long relationship with Chester Kallman. This insightful and compelling account by acclaimed historian Peter Ackroyd captures Auden’s genius as both a historical witness and an enduring poetic voice.
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The Mixed Marriage Project
From Dorothy Roberts, author of Killing the Black Body and a writer who “has brilliantly illuminated the Black experience in America for decades” (Bryan Stevenson), comes a spirited and riveting memoir of growing up in an interracial family in 1960s Chicago and a daughter’s journey to understand her parents’ marriage—and her own identity. Dorothy Roberts grew up in a deeply segregated Chicago of the 1960s where relationships barely crossed the “colorline.” Yet inside her own home, where her father was white and her mother a Black Jamaican immigrant, interracial marriage wasn’t just a part of her upbringing, it was a shared mission. Her father, an anthropologist, spent her entire childhood working on a book about Black-white marriages—a project he never finished but shaped every aspect of their family life. As a 21-year-old graduate student, Dorothy’s father dedicated himself to the study of interracial marriage and her mother soon became his full-time partner in that work. Together over the years they interviewed over 500 couples and assembled stunning stories about interracial marriages that took place as early as the 1880s—studying, but also living, championing, and believing in their power to advance social equality. Decades later, while sorting through her father’s papers, Roberts uncovers a truth that upends everything she thought she knew about her family: her father’s research didn’t begin with her parents’ love story—it came long before it. This discovery forces her to wrestle with her father’s intentions, her own views about interracial relationships, and where she fits in that story. Rather than finish the book her father never published, Roberts immerses herself in their archive of interviews to trace the story of her parents and to better understand her own. Though grounded in her parents’ research, it’s Roberts’ captivating storytelling that drives this memoir. In following the arc of her parents’ interviews and marriage, The Mixed Marriage Project invites us into the everyday lives of interracial couples in Chicago over four decades. Along the way, Roberts reflects on her own childhood as a Black girl with a white father, and how those experiences shaped her into one of today’s most prominent public thinkers and scholars on race. Blurring the boundaries between the political and the personal, between memoir and history, The Mixed Marriage Project is a deeply moving meditation on family, race, identity, and love.
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Living Proof
When a hereditary cancer threat echoes her mother’s journey, one woman chooses to rewrite her story—crafting a radiant memoir about embracing life’s precious moments and finding strength in the infinite power of family love. Tiffany Graham Charkosky was eleven years old when her mother, Julie, died. Eighteen years later, she discovers that the genetic mutation that took her mother has been passed down to Tiffany herself. But with this devastating news, Tiffany finds a certain strength in hope, resilience, and knowledge. She will fight for her family’s future. In this intimate memoir, Tiffany shares her challenging journey forward, mapping out a plan for preventative screenings, genetic testing, and surgeries, as well as a reflective journey into the past as traumatic memories of her mother’s illness and death resurface. Memories, too, of an indomitable love that informed Tiffany’s adolescence, and her own motherhood, and would give Tiffany an optimistic understanding of just how precious even the smallest moments in life can be. Now, thriving years beyond the age that claimed her mother, Tiffany embraces each day with fierce intention—her path illuminated by vigilant self-care, deep gratitude, and a family bond that proves the human spirit can transcend its darkest fears.
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Drunk-ish
This ?perfect balance of bold honesty and riotous wit? (Shelf Awareness) from the author of Sippy Cups Are Not for Chardonnay explores Stefanie Wilder-Taylor?s journey to breaking up with alcohol for good. For Stefanie Wilder-Taylor, alcohol was the seasoning that could give almost any activity more flavor?from liquor cabinet concoctions in high school to tequila shots in her early stand-up comedy days to grocery store wine in young motherhood. A drink instantly took the edge off and made even the most difficult adversary (be it a tough crowd in a comedy club or a judgmental PTA mom) not just bearable but fun. As the years go by, Stefanie wonders if her relationship with alcohol is different from other people?s. Is everyone else struggling this hard to moderate? Is it even legal to watch The Bachelor without a glass of white wine? Having spent a lifetime grappling with the question of whether or not she is a ?real? alcoholic, one evening brings Stefanie close to the edge of losing it all. Miraculously unscathed, she decides that she doesn?t need to dive all the way down to a stereotypical rock bottom before deciding to stop drinking; if sobriety will improve her life, that?s a good enough reason to quit. A tender and funny farewell letter to a beloved but toxic friend, Drunk-ish is ?a roller coaster of a book. You will love this candid and funny memoir even if you?re not sober. Trust me? (Jenny Lawson, New York Times bestselling author).
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Slip
Written by journalist and professor at the University of Texas-Austin Mallary Tenore Tarpley, Slip offers a groundbreaking framework for understanding eating disorder recovery and interweaves poignant personal stories, immersive reporting, and cutting-edge science.When Mallary Tenore Tarpley lost her mother at eleven years old, she wanted to stop time. If growing up meant living without her mother, then she wanted to stay little forever. What started as small acts of food restriction soon turned into a full-blown eating disorder, and a year later, Tarpley was admitted to Boston’s Children’s Hospital. With honesty and grace, Slip chronicles Tarpley’s childhood struggles with anorexia to her present-day experiences grappling with recovery. This book tells Tarpley’s story, but it also transcends her personal narrative. A journalist by trade, Tarpley interviewed and surveyed hundreds of patients, doctors, and researchers to provide a deeper understanding of eating disorder treatment. She draws on this original reporting, as well as cutting-edge science, to illuminate what has changed in the years since she was first diagnosed. As Tarpley came to learn, “full recovery” from an eating disorder is complicated. And that idea provides the basis for the groundbreaking new framework explored in this book: that there is a “middle place” between sickness and full recovery, a place where slips are accepted as part of the process but progress is always possible. With new insights and an uplifting message, Slip brings much-needed attention to an issue that affects many. It offers a beacon of hope with its revolutionary perspective on recovery. This inspiring and life-affirming book is a must-read for individuals with eating disorders, their loved ones, educators, medical professionals, and anyone seeking to understand eating disorders and the path to recovery.
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Cult City
The untold story of the intersecting lives of the Reverend Jim Jones and Harvey Milk—marking the 40th anniversary of the Jonestown massacre and Milk's assassination November 1978. The Reverend Jim Jones, the darling of the San Francisco political establishment, orchestrates the murders and suicides of 918 people at a remote jungle outpost in South America. Days later, Harvey Milk, one of America's first openly gay elected officials—and one of Jim Jones's most vocal supporters—is assassinated in San Francisco's City Hall. This horrifying sequence of events shocked the world. Almost immediately, the lives and deaths of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk became shrouded in myth. The distortions and omissions have piled up since. Now, forty years later, this book corrects the record. The product of a decade of research, including extensive archival work and dozens of exclusive interviews, Cult City reveals just how confused our understanding has become. In life, Jim Jones enjoyed the support of prominent politicians and Hollywood stars even as he preached atheism and communism from the pulpit; in death, he transforms into a fringe figure, a "fundamentalist Christian," and a "fascist." In life, Harvey Milk outed friends, faked hate crimes, and falsely claimed that the U.S. Navy dishonorably discharged him over his homosexuality; in death, he is honored in an Oscar-winning movie, with a California state holiday, and with a U.S. Navy ship named for him. His assassin, a blue-collar Democrat who often voted with Milk in support of gay issues, is remembered as a right-winger and a homophobe. But the story extends far beyond Jones and Milk. Author Daniel J. Flynn vividly portrays the strange intersection of mainstream politics and murderous extremism in 1970s San Francisco—the hangover after the high of the Summer of Love. In recounting the fascinating, intersecting lives of Jim Jones and Harvey Milk, Cult City tells the story of a great city gone horribly wrong.
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Walking A Tightrope
The compelling personal account of Dr. Wu Jieping (1917 - 2011), one of China's most prestigious Physicians, who experienced the great revolution of the old China and developed from a former style of intellectual into a national leader of the new China. Dr. Wu established his global reputation in the field of Urology with significant medical achievements. His thought-provoking reflections, shared with his friend the author Olivia Cox-Fill, illustrate the lifestyle and demands of the hierarchy against a background of the conditions experienced by the populus, at a time when people disappeared unaccountably and mistrust became a tool for survival. Relating his journey from Jiangsu province to Beijing via the University of Chicago, the account reveals the ultimate effect on Dr. Wu's family life. This unique insight makes compelling reading for anyone wishing to discover the life of an intellectual at the highest echelons of China in the 20th Century. The new edition concludes with the author's reflections on the experiences of Dr. Wu and invites readers to consider the parallels with life in the 21st Century.
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The Many Names of Robert Cree
A vital account of the life and many names of Robert Cree, and his plan for a peaceful, sincere, and just path to reconciliation in an angry and chaotic world. His mother called him ''Bobby Mountain.'' Elders called him ''Great Man.'' His people called him ''Chief.'' Oil men called him ''Mr. Cree.'' But the government called him ''Number 53.'' Robert Cree was all of these while facing his people''s oppressors and freeing the ghosts of tortured spirits. The Many Names of Robert Cree is his first-person account of survival in a brutally racist residential school system designed to erase traditional Indigenous culture, language, and knowledge. It is also the story of an epic life of struggle and healing, as Cree takes the wisdom of his ancestors and a message of reconciliation to the halls of government and to industry boardrooms. In the storytelling tradition of his people, Cree recounts his early years in the bush, his captivity at a residential school, his struggles with addiction, his political awakening as one of Canada''s youngest First Nation Chiefs, and the rising Indigenous activism of the late 20th and early 21st centuries. He also recounts the oil industry''s arrival on his poverty-stricken reserve and the ensuing struggle to balance economic opportunity with environmental challenges. Throughout, Cree''s leadership is rooted in his unshakable commitment to the sacred traditional teachings of his people. His beliefs give him the strength to focus on hope, dignity, and building a better future for his community. Now a respected Elder and spiritual leader, Cree champions forgiveness as a powerful force that can bring healing and transformation for all.
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The Gambler
As a pioneer in the field of TV betting, Rob thinks he has uncovered the path to untold riches, winning big on Strictly Come Dancing, X Factor, Eurovision - you name it. While millions sat on their sofas watching and wondering who might win or who'd be evicted from their favourite shows that week, Rob would be working out the odds, checking his formulas and gambling big. Rob's book takes readers into the fascinating world of TV gambling and beyond. Surviving the nerve-jangling moments waiting and watching to see if his luck was in or if he'd be on the breadline that week, Rob honed his skills over years to seem almost psychic. And he didn't stop at TV, branching out to take a chance gambling on everything from the mating habits of pandas in a zoo to whether a superstar will sing with their top off on stage. But he soon discovers that cleaning up with the bookies comes at a huge cost. With his trading exploits taking over his every waking thought, and creating a life of desolate solitude Robinson Crusoe would be proud of, he fears his obsessive pursuit of the golden ticket is poised to end unhappily, in lonely bachelorhood. So he decides to take his longest shot yet - heading off into the wilds of provincial Russia, with dreams of a James Bond-style tryst with a mystery woman who could yet turn out to be a vodka-drinking scammer aiming to fleece him out of house and home. Detailing the often weird and downright wacky investments Rob makes over two decades of betting, The Gambler reveals the roller coaster world of someone willing to risk it all on the most outlandish outcomes, including when it comes to seeking romance. Quirky, irreverent and authentic, this is a deeper tale about adventure, taking a leap of faith, and seeking to beat the odds.
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Virginia Giuffre
Virginia (Roberts) Giuffre''s all-American childhood came to an abrupt end by sexual abuse at the age of 7. After her mother exiled her to a school for troubled youth, she ran away to a life on the streets. The FBI rescued her when she was 14 from a violent pedophile and her life seemed to return to normal with a job as spa attendant at Donald Trump''s exclusive Mar-a-Lago in Florida. It was there that the teenager was approached by the elegant jet-setter Ghislaine Maxwell who said her millionaire partner Jeffrey Epstein would like to sponsor her to become a professional masseuse... This is the first book to tell Virginia''s own extraordinary, tale as an abused penniless high-school drop-out and how she was able to outsmart her rich underage-sex predators and forced an end to their crimes.
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A Bushel of Beans and a Peck of Tomatoes
The life story of the “Funniest Man in America” as only he could tell it.James Gregory is beloved by millions…but the story of his astonishing rise to success has never been told—until now.One of the most successful nightclub and theater comedians in America started out a long way from the stage, in the tiny farming community of Lithonia, Georgia. James was born into a family with lots of love but little money. His parents paid the doctor for his delivery with “a bushel of beans and a peck of tomatoes.”Before he became “The Funniest Man in America,” James was a successful salesman of everything from encyclopedias to log homes. His philosophy: take care of yourself so nobody has to take care of you. When he started over as a comedian, this commitment to hard work and honest dealing would be the key to his “business” of comedy. James loves working people—because that’s what he is, too.James was quickly discovered—not just in the South, but across America—by folks who love down-home, wholesome humor. He became the court jester of country music royalty, too, from Randy Travis to “Whispering” Bill Anderson to the Possum himself, George Jones.Whether it’s entertaining our troops in the Persian Gulf after 9/11, working the road with greats like Steven Wright and Jay Leno, or facing a heart-stopping emergency that sent him into a coma, James has squeezed a dozen lifetimes into a half-century of comedy. This book is the best James Gregory story yet—as only he can tell it.
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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.
