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My Pretty Baby
For fans of Educated and The Glass Castle, a former music industry insider’s journey of healing—from childhood trauma through spiritual practices and self-discovery to a place of peace—with some incredible celebrity encounters along the way.Wendy Correa’s childhood is characterized by various traumas: the death of her father, emotionally distant siblings, a frequently neglectful mother, and a violent, alcoholic stepfather. After escaping that turbulent life, Wendy’s path of self-discovery takes her through Buddhism, meditation, plant medicine, yoga, Native American spirituality, 12-Step programs, and psychotherapy. Native American sweat lodge and vision quest ceremonies further strengthen her sobriety and mental well-being. As her inner world begins to open up, so does her outer world. Wendy finds herself regularly encountering extraordinary circumstances: singing on stage with rock ’n’ roll royalty at the 1982 inaugural Peace Sunday concert, attending AA meetings with legendary musicians, working at A&M and Geffen Records, and spending time with her musical hero, Joni Mitchell. Wendy’s life takes a new turn when she moves to Aspen and becomes a radio DJ and assistant to gonzo writer Hunter S. Thompson. There, she meets her future husband and begins to build the family she’s always longed for—but despite her newfound peace, she is repeatedly drawn back into her family of origin’s dysfunction. It’s only after her mother’s death that Wendy uncovers a painful family secret that finally answers her lifelong question: What really happened to my family?
From Sexless Marriage to Sex Goddess
For fans of Eat Pray Love and Maybe You Should Talk to Someone, a therapist''s tale of mid-life sexual awakening as she bravely explores relationships, sex, and pleasure - and learns that it''s never too late to desire and be desired. Is it ever too late to connect to the sexual part of yourself? At forty-eight years old, after her husband announced he had fallen in love with a man, Alisa Kriegel was determined to finally figure out this essential part of herself. As a psychologist, she had the tools to help others; now, it was time to help herself. Alisa''s bold and vulnerable story told with honesty and humour, shows us that it''s possible to have a sexual awakening - and to experience the thrill of feeling desired - at any age. Letting go of decades of shame and giving herself permission for pleasure was just the beginning of jumping into a series of adventures in online dating, sex, and romance. From sex clubs in New York City to a canoe trip in the Canadian wilderness, this memoir offers readers an insight-filled journey into one woman''s mid-life discoveries about sex, love, and relationships - and a behind-the-scenes, in-depth analysis of women''s sexuality.
Finding Ella Briggs
The first biography of an extraordinary woman and architect who left her mark on world capitals and reshaped modern designElla Briggs (1880–1977) was a talented architect, designer, and writer whose influence was felt on both sides of the Atlantic. She trained with the Viennese Secessionists and brought their radical ideas to Gilded Age New York. She designed modernist housing for the masses in Austria, was jailed as a suspected spy in Mussolini’s Italy, and thrived in Weimar Germany before suffering persecution under the Nazis. Fleeing to London, she contributed to England’s postwar reconstruction. Yet despite a long and prolific career, her name is largely forgotten today. Finding Ella Briggs restores Briggs to her rightful place in the history of modernist design. Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira bring together an international team of historians to provide the defining biography of this boldly unconventional designer. Whether she was fighting for integration at Europe’s architecture schools or writing about innovative houses for American women’s magazines like Good Housekeeping, Briggs embodied the transatlantic flow of modernism. This panoramic book uncovers new findings about Briggs, her networks, and projects, recovering the many facets of a life that spanned global borders and cultures. Beautifully illustrated and drawing on a wealth of previously unpublished research from archives around the world, Finding Ella Briggs is the inspiring story of a woman who defied all obstacles to pursue her dream of designing for the modern client. With contributions by Megan Brandow-Faller, Celina Kress, Dörte Kuhlmann, Ulrike Matzer, Christine Oertel, Eva B. Ottillinger, Barbara Penner, Sabine Plakolm-Forsthuber, Monika Platzer, Ursula Prokop, Sabrina Rahman, Katrin Stingl, Carmen Trifina, and Christine Zwingl.
The Luckiest
From USA Today bestselling author Kelly Cervantes, this deeply personal memoir explores the growth and perspective gained while navigating life’s unexpected asteroids and the craters they leave behind. After moving from a conservative Midwestern suburb to New York City to pursue an acting career, Kelly never could have imagined what life had in store for her—or how much she would fundamentally change along the way. The Luckiest is her emotional journey through the pain of unrealized dreams, navigating her husband’s Broadway spotlight, fighting for her child’s life, finding purpose after loss, and rebuilding her life and marriage. Inspired by author and poet Maggie Smith’s quote, “We are all nesting dolls, carrying the earlier iterations of ourselves inside,” Kelly shares the many layers that shaped who she is today. But how many of those layers were shaped through the control she desperately sought versus the luck she struggled to reconcile? Are we lucky if we escape life with soft skin and minimal layers? Or are we lucky to have the battle scars that show a life of survival—of fullness, and meaning? The Luckiest is a tale of motherhood, in all its heartbreak, joy, fits, and false starts. It follows Kelly’s wildly unpredictable journey and allows her to reflect on the role luck has played in her life, both good and bad. It is one woman’s ongoing quest for self-discovery that is beautiful and complicated, and hopefully always becoming the next spectacularly painted wooden doll in the series of her life.
Wings - The Story of a Band on the Run
This is the story, in their own words, of a band that came to define a generation. Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run tells the madcap history of Paul McCartney and his newly formed band, from their humble beginnings in the early 1970s to their dissolution barely a decade later. Drawn from over 500,000 words of interviews with McCartney, family and band members, and other key participants, Wings recounts the musical odyssey taken by a man searching for his identity in the aftermath of The Beatles’ breakup. Soon joined by his wife – American photographer Linda McCartney – on keyboard and vocals, drummer Denny Seiwell and guitarist Denny Laine, McCartney sowed the seeds for a new band that would provide the soundtrack to the decade.
Organised chronologically around McCartney, RAM and nine Wings albums, the narrative begins when a twenty-seven-year-old superstar, rumoured to be dead, fled with his new wife to a remote sheep farm in Scotland amid a sea of legal and personal rows. Being there gave McCartney time to create and was where this new band emerged. Wings then follows the group as they play unannounced shows at university halls, tour in a sheared-off double-decker bus with their children, survive a robbery on the streets of Nigeria, and eventually perform blockbuster stadium shows on their world tour, all while producing some of the most enduring music of the time.
With extraordinary recollections collected by Oscar-winning director Morgan Neville and edited into a genre-defining oral history by Ted Widmer, Wings transports the reader to the grit and glamour of the 1970s. Introduced with a heartfelt foreword by McCartney, Wings: The Story of a Band on the Run contains 150 black-and-white and colour photographs, many previously unseen, as well as timelines, a gigography and a full discography, in an art form all its own.
Notes on Being a Man
Bestselling author, NYU professor, and cohost of the Pivot podcast, Scott Galloway offers a path forward for men and parents of boys. Boys and men are in crisis. Rarely has a cohort fallen further and faster than young men living in Western democracies. Boys are less likely to graduate from high school or college than girls. One in seven men reports having no friends, and men account for three of every four deaths of despair in America. Even worse, the lack of attention to these problems has created a void filled by voices espousing misogyny, the demonization of others, and a toxic vision of masculinity. But this is not just a male issue: women and children can’t flourish if men aren’t doing well. As we know from spasms of violence, there is nothing more dangerous than a lonely, broke young man. Scott Galloway has been sounding the alarm on this issue for years. In Notes on Being a Man, Galloway explores what it means to be a man in modern America. He promotes the importance of healthy masculinity and mental strength. He shares his own story from boyhood to manhood. He explores his parent’s difficult divorce, working through his anger and depression issues, trying to make money, and raising two boys. He shares the sometimes funny, often painful, lessons he learned along the way. Some of these lessons include: Being a good dad means being good to their mother. Action absorbs anxiety. Find what you’re good at—follow your talent. Get out of the house. Take risk and be willing to feel like an imposter. This is a key to professional success—and masculinity. Acknowledge your blessings—and create opportunities for others. Be of surplus value. Be kind. That’s the secret to success in relationships. With unflinching honesty, Scott Galloway maps out an enriching, inspiring operator’s manual for being a man today.
The Philosopher in the Valley
In the age of big data, no company embodies its promise and its perils more than Palantir. This software firm sells some of the most powerful and dangerous technology in the world, ingesting huge quantities of data and spotting patterns, trends, and connections that would likely elude most people. Apart from Facebook, you’d be hard-pressed to find another tech company that’s making as big of a splash – or fraught with more potential pitfalls. Founded in 2003 to help the US government in the war on terror, Palantir now has more than thirty federal agencies as clients. From climate change and terrorism to poverty to immigration, money laundering, and the future of warfare, Palantir is at the nexus of the most critical issues of the 21st century. At its helm is cofounder and CEO Alex Karp, an atypical tech boss with a law degree from Stanford and a doctorate in social theory from Germany’s Goethe University, yet no background in either computer science or business. Now, in The Philosopher in the Valley, journalist Michael Steinberger delves deeply into Karp and the company he’s leading, highlighting the risks to privacy and civil liberties that come with big data. Can we get the good without the bad and if not, what are the trade-offs? Karp’s unique political and philosophical views put him and the company at odds with fellow cofounder Peter Thiel, a big supporter of Donald Trump in Silicon Valley. The technology they created has the potential to shape the global power dynamic and the way individuals interact with governments. Urgent and important, this illuminating work shows us what this future might look like.
No Longer That Girl
For fans of No Matter Our Wreckage, this memoir explores the emotional impact of sexual abuse and how this debut author not only faces it but recovers from the trauma.Stephanie Maley’s life is beautiful. She has her husband of thirty years and two sons—all healthy and making their way in the world. Other than the unwelcome memories of the past that flash in her mind like blinding television ads, things couldn’t get much better. But when COVID-19 comes to the United States in 2020, Stephanie is seized by a deep panic, certain that she is going to die. Suddenly, her newfound fear of death triggers memories of the past she’s fought so long to repress: she was molested at a young age, groomed by two different men, and still feels the void left by her birth father and stepfather’s absence. In the face of a chaotic world wrought with both physical and mental illness, Stephanie must embark on a journey of healing. With the help of her therapist, her husband, and the solace she finds in writing, Stephanie discovers that she doesn’t have to be defined by the pain and abuse she’s suffered. No Longer That Girl is a touching memoir about a woman who bravely faces health issues, betrayal, and abandonment—and proves that no matter the obstacle, we too can overcome our trials and become more resilient souls.
The Bigger Picture
Jon Landau, the Academy Award-winning film producer behind Titanic, Avatar, Alita: Battle Angel, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and Dick Tracy, knew two things well: how to tell an unforgettable story and how to find solutions. So, when he found himself confronting his fate, a diagnosis of improbable odds, he began to problem solve, ensuring that everything he learned behind the camera would live on after he was gone. In his retrospective and advice-driven memoir, Landau shares behind-the-scenes stories about some of the greatest movies of our time and advice on how to live well while working in a notoriously all-consuming job by centring the things that mattered to him most - his love for his family and his dedication to his friends and creative partners - turning his own story into another blockbuster hit. The Bigger Picture is at once a deeply poignant memoir, a tribute to storytelling in its many forms, and a celebration of a life well lived, told from the third act. Imbued with Landau''s trademark compassion, humanity, and humour, the stories he shares and the wisdom he imparts in The Bigger Picture will inspire, delight, and touch the hearts of readers for years to come.
Marc Márquez - Mindent vagy semmit
Marc Márquez neve nem ismeretlen a gyorsasági motorversenyzés világában jártas közönség számára: a fiatal, többszörös világbajnok versenyző kreatív versenyzési stílusával, megalkuvást nem ismerő hozzáállásával megreformálta a MotoGP világát.
A lebilincselő életrajzot, amely bemutatja a motorsport legfényesebb csillagának történetét, elsöprő sikerének titkát, életének legfontosabb eseményeit, most a magyar olvasóközönség is megismerheti. Ehhez kiváló alkalmat teremt, hogy a harminchárom év után újra megrendezett Magyar nagydíjat fölényesen Marc Márquez nyerte meg 2025 nyarán, a Balaton Park versenypályán.
Holocaust Hero
Holocaust scholar Raul Hilberg declared there were only two great Holocaust heroes - the leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (Mordechai Anielewicz) and Rudolf Vrba. After he escaped from Auschwitz-Birkenau in April of 1944, Vrba and his co-escapee Alfréd Wetzler co-authored the Vrba-Wetzler Report, credited with saving 200,000 Hungarian Jews. "No other single act in the Second World War," according to World War II historian Sir Martin Gilbert, "saved so many Jews from the fate that Hitler and the SS had determined for them." As one of the 20th century''s most important whistleblowers, Vrba also stands out in Claude Lanzmann''s Shoah as a handsome, charismatic and cheerful iconoclast.This is the introductory volume for a biography project to examine the remarkable life of Rudolf Vrba; including his decorated service with the partisans, his love affairs, his two marriages, his accomplishments as a Nazi hunter and his iconoclastic stamina to always speak the truth about the Holocaust. Compiled over a five-year period by a journalist who knew him, Holocaust Hero provides previously unrevealed information about Vrba based on research at the FDR Presidential Library in New York and interviews with those who knew him, including Robin Vrba, his wife of 31 years, who speaks candidly about her husband for the first time."Rudi was gorgeous and totally charismatic. And he was funny. I remember we were in Auschwitz for a documentary. We were doing the film inside the camp. Then it was about 5:30 and it was time to leave. We were trying to get out. The gate had been locked. It was really muddy. Everybody started to really fret. How are we going to get out? And Rudi said, loudly, so everyone could hear, ''Never mind. I know another way out!''"-- Robin Vrba
Fahrenheit-182
Mark Hoppus – baskytarista, zpěvák a zakládající člen legendární kapely blink-182 – vypráví otevřeně o tom, jak se z úzkostlivého kluka z pouště stal tvůrce hudebních hitů. Vzpomíná na rozvod rodičů, neustálé stěhování a hledání vlastní identity. Popisuje osudové setkání s nejlepším kamarádem Tomem DeLongem, s nímž založili jednu z největších kapel své doby. Fahrenheit-182 je knížka osobních vzpomínek na dospívání – na éru skateboardů, punk rocku, MTV, ale i zmatku a nejistoty. Mark Hoppus zároveň bez obalu popisuje život na turné, rozpad kapely, ale i boj s depresí a rakovinou. Hoppusova kniha potěší nejen fanoušky kapely blink-182, ale i všechny, kdo mají rádi upřímné příběhy o dospívání, přátelství, hudební kariéře a o tom, jak se nevzdat, i když všechno vypadá zcela beznadějně.
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Művészek és pszichopatológia
Nem elég, ha ismerjük egy művész munkáit. Azt is tudni kell, mikor csinálta, miért, hogyan, milyen körülmények között. Egyszer majd biztosan kialakul egy új tudomány, talán embertudománynak fogják hívni, amely arra törekszik, hogy az alkotó emberen keresztül mélyebben behatoljon az emberbe.
Pablo Picasso
Churchill a Orwell
Churchill a Orwell se z nepříliš známých postav tehdejšího dění záhy stali jedni z určujících aktérů západního myšení. Jejich díla jsou živá i platná dodnes a o jejich vzniku i aktuálnosti se můžete přesvědčit v této brilantní knize. George Orwell i Winston Churchill byli bezesporu jedněmi z nejdůležitějších mužů své doby. Churchill sehrál v porážce Hitlera a Osy výraznou roli a Orwellovo zobrazení autoritářské vlády ve Zvířecí farmě a v 1984 dodnes inspiruje bojovníky za svobodu.
Jejich životy jsou důkazem síly morálního přesvědčení, odvahy a předvídavosti, že vláda, ať už je zabarvena jakkoli, která upírá lidem základní svobody, je totalitní hrozbou a je třeba se ji bránit, lhostejno zdali zprava či zleva.
Angyalok kenyere
Patti Smith, a nagy sikerű Kölykök szerzője új memoárjában mesél a munkásosztálybeli Philadelphiában és Dél-Jersey-ben töltött gyerekkoráról, amely tele volt eltűnő szomszédokkal, véget nem érő betegségekkel, és könyvekkel, amelyek megnyitották előtte egy fantáziavilág kapuját. Felidézi kamaszéveit, amikor legnagyobb hősei Arthur Rimbaud és Bob Dylan voltak. Beszél házasságáról "élete szerelmével", Fred 'Sonic' Smithszel, akivel két gyerekük született, közös életükről Michiganben és a gyászról férje halála után. Az első lemeze, az 1975-ös Horses megjelenését megelőző időkről, majd a stúdiózásokról, az úton levés élményéről, a művészi szabadságról és a képzelet erejéről, amely segít a hétköznapit csodálatossá, a fájdalmat pedig reménnyé alakítani. Az Angyalok kenyere Patti Smith eddigi legszemélyesebb könyve.
Stephen Hawking
Explore the life and scientific legacy of Stephen Hawking - the brilliant theoretical physicist who changed the way we look at time and space.Stephen Hawking''s contributions to physics and cosmology literally changed our understanding of the universe. This captivating biography introduces his life and greatest scientific contributions, with accessible explanations on his theories surrounding general relativity, quantum mechanics, the science of black holes, and his pursuit of the ''Theory of Everything''. With black and white photographs throughout, this biography is gives wonderful insight into Hawking''s extraordinary achievements and how his attitude to life and work were the true driver of his success.This full-colour edition includes more than 50 images, a beautiful hardback binding and luxurious thick paper.
Katherine Mansfield
One of The Guardian’s Best Biographies of 2025. This biography explores the life and work of Katherine Mansfield, one of literary modernism’s most significant writers. On the fringes of Bloomsbury, and friends with D. H. Lawrence, Aldous Huxley, T. S. Eliot and many others, Mansfield was at the heart of literary London at its most experimental. By the time of her death in 1923, aged just 34, she had broken boundaries and created new ways of writing that led her literary sparring partner Virginia Woolf to later admit that Mansfield’s ‘was the only writing I was ever jealous of’. Based on compelling new research, Gerri Kimber challenges previous conceptions surrounding the author’s life, uncovers friendships and relationships formerly barely acknowledged and offers innovative readings of Mansfield’s most celebrated stories.
Miért Mahler? - Így változtatta meg a világunkat egy ember és tíz szimfónia
„A legmagávalragadóbb életrajz, amit valaha olvastam” – idézte az Amazon Norman Lebrecht könyvének egyik lelkes olvasóját. A könyvet ugyan nemzetközileg elismert szakértő zenekritikus jegyzi, de nem kétséges, hogy a szakmai tudás ezesetben lebilincselő íráskészséggel és egy kétségkívül különleges karakter eseménygazdag életútjának izgalmakkal teli leírásával párosul.
Ugyanígy minden korábbi határon túllép a szerző azzal a napjainkban egyre elfogadottabb állításával, hogy Gustav Mahler személyében Beethoven óta a zeneművészet legnagyobb alkotója született. Lehet, hogy Mahler kevésbé elragadtatott kritikusainak is megvan a maga igaza, az viszont megintcsak bizonyos, mert tényekkel igazolható, hogy Mahler napjaink legtöbbet játszott szerzője a nemzetközi komolyzenei világban.
Életrajza már csak azért is kötelező olvasmány minden zenerajongó számára, mert tele van magyar vonatkozásokkal a Magyar Állami Operaház élén eltöltött évektől a hazai zenei élet szinte minden prominensének érintettségéig Solti Györgytől Fischer Ivánig.
Kogutowitz - A boldog békeidők atlasza
A boldog békeidőkben, a 20. század elején az iskolai földrajz- és történelemórákon és a polgári otthonokban a térkép már egyet jelentett a "Kogutowicz" névvel. A könyvben Kogutowicz Manó, a Magyar Földrajzi Intézet alapítójának életrajzán - és lenyűgöző térképein - keresztül bepillanthatunk a térképészet izgalmas történetébe, felfedezhetjük a magyar polgári térképkiadás fénykorát.
Hogyan lett egy galíciai származású, morvaországi születésű, korábbi osztrák katonatisztből szerelmes leányszöktető, majd soproni tanár, végül magyar térképész Budapesten?
A regényes formában megírt kötetben a szerző több évtizedes kutatásai alapján kelti életre a legendás térképész szellemét. Kogutowicz Manó ezután maga is megszólal: történeteket mond el életéről, beszélget az íróval a térképekről, sőt, az érdekes és tanulságos történeteket sajátos, fanyar humorú megjegyzéseivel fűszerezi.
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.
