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One Sinha Lifetime
''That night, I''d survived my life flashing before me, with my dignity intact. Yes, this chaotic life has always been a gamble.... But what a gamble.''Paul Sinha is an award-winning comedian, a quizzing mastermind and a happily-married husband. But for much of his life none of these seemed remotely imaginable.As a boy, Paul struggled to find his place in a world where he didn''t quite fit. Who was he? An over-achieving schoolkid with the world''s knowledge at his fingertips? A traditional Bengali son, destined for a career in medicine that he never once craved? A young gay man yearning to breathe freely? Or was he yet another flawed human being on a self-destruct mission?Amid life''s mayhem, it was frequently Paul''s love of facts in which he found solace, whether funding his lifestyle through quiz machines or simply trying to show off to his mates. Stumbling serendipitously into both a career in stand-up and a clandestine network of competitive quizzers introduced him to a new sense of purpose, a new identity, and, eventually, new love...A hilarious and moving coming-of-age memoir of one man''s search for fulfilment, One Sinha Lifetime is an unconventional odyssey through love, family, and the joy of general knowledge.
Ambition Monster
An “intimate, intensely resonant memoir about workaholism, unresolved trauma, and the ‘addictive nature of ambition’” (Harper’s Bazaar), this is an anti-girlboss tale for our times for readers of Drinking: A Love Story and Uncanny Valley.After years of relentlessly racing up the professional ladder, Jennifer Romolini reached the kind of success many crave: a high-profile, C-suite dream job, a book well-received enough that reporters wanted to know the secrets to her success, and a gig traveling around the country giving speeches on “making it.” But beneath this polished surface was a powder keg of unresolved trauma and chronic overwork. It was all about to blow. Ambition Monster is a gutsy and powerful look at workaholism, the lingering effect of childhood trauma, and the failures of our modern rat race. This is a Cinderella story of success and a brutal appraisal of the cost of capitalism—perfect for people pleasers, overachievers, and those whose traumas have driven them to be perfect, no matter the cost. “If you find yourself on the other end of burnout, trying desperately to figure out a new way forward—wow, is this book for you” (Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even).
The Escape
‘A tremendously engaging read’ – The TimesA unique memoir from British cycling’s most fascinating competitorIn the summer of 2020, sportswriter David Walsh invited Pippa York began a series of journeys following the Tour de France. A nostalgic voyage through the world’s most competitive bike race – for Walsh it was the chance to get to know the Tour’s most enigmatic riders. For York, it was a chance to revisit the race she had ridden eleven times as Robert Millar.This book is the result – a unique and captivating sporting odyssey. The Escape blends the details of Pippa and David’s journeys with the iconic landmarks of the Tour de France to explore her early years in working-class Glasgow, her entry into competitive cycling, the psychological demands of the sport, and how they shaped her personality. It recounts her career highs and lows, life after racing, and her transition in her 40s.Touching on doping, gender in sport, and the everyday magic of the Tour, The Escape is an unforgettable travelogue and a candid, one-of-a-kind memoir from one of cycling’s most enigmatic competitors.
Words for My Comrades
''Words for My Comrades ambitiously sets out to transcend the standard pop star biography, carefully knotting the evolution of hip-hop into a sweeping account of 20th-century radical US politics'' - Victoria Segal, THE TIMESBefore his murder at twenty-five, Tupac Shakur rose to staggering artistic heights as the pre-eminent storyteller of the 90s, building, in the process, one of the most iconic public personas of the last half century. In this cultural history and brilliantly researched biography, Dean Van Nguyen reckons with Tupac''s coming of age, fame and influence and how the political machinations that shaped him as a boy have since buoyed his legacy as a revolutionary following the George Floyd uprising. Words for My Comrades crucially engages with the influence of Tupac''s mother, Afeni, whose role in the Black Panther Party, with its dedication to dismantling American imperialism and police brutality, informed Tupac''s art. Tupac''s childhood as a son of the Panthers, coupled with the influence of his militant stepfather Mutulu Shakur, became his own riveting code of ethics that helped listeners reckon with America''s inherent injustices.Drawing upon conversations with the people who bore witness - from Panther veterans and other committed Marxist revolutionaries of 1970s America, to good friends and close collaborators of the rapper himself - Van Nguyen demonstrates how Tupac became one of the most enduring musical legends in hip-hop history and how intimately his name is threaded with the legacy of Black Panther politics. Words for My Comrades is the story of how the energy of the Black political movement was subsumed by culture and how America produced, in Tupac and Afeni, two of its most iconic, enduring revolutionaries.
Rebel Girl
An electric, searing memoir by the original Riot Grrrl and legendary frontwoman of Bikini Kill and Le Tigre
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 band took limitless amounts of grit and bravery.
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.
Long Going
At 50, Sophie Calon''s father was a celebrated lawyer. At 55, he was found dead on a garage forecourt at Christmas. Meanwhile he had pinballed between homeless shelters, prison cells, and dry-out hostels. His story is a lesson in how alcoholism corrodes a person - and a family. Long Going is a powerful, unflinching memoir that sings with Calon''s love for her eccentric, witty father while recounting his drink-fuelled disintegration. In telling his story, Calon explores her family''s instability and pain as well as her own survival. ''Throughout my childhood, our family''s struggles couldn''t be said aloud. I hope that, together with readers, we can all come to deeper understandings about addiction, grief, and how we could break destructive cycles.''
Broken Archangel
''Outstanding'' JOHN PRESTON | ''Extraordinary'' THE TIMES | ''Superb'' ANDREW ROBERTS | ''Vivid and compelling'' IRISH TIMES | ''Psychologically shrewd'' IRISH INDEPENDENT | ''A page-turning finale'' HISTORY TODAYCelebrated reformer and proud nationalist, romantic radical and vilified traitor: this is the story of Roger Casement, one of the 20th century’s most complex and compelling individuals.It was a life caught between fault lines. As a British ambassador, Casement exposed the horrors of the Belgian Congo, pioneering modern human rights. He fought passionately for Irish independence, even as each step led to martyrdom. And, desperate for love but forced to hide his sexuality, his deepest relationship became entangled in espionage and sabotage, isolating Casement and carrying him to an unmarked prison grave.Masterfully drawing on his letters, diaries and new archival material, Broken Archangel uncovers the extraordinary life and legacy of Roger Casement – a fragmented man in a fragmented age, living a life ahead of his time.''Casement is the Odysseus of Roland Philipps''s epic'' DAILY TELEGRAPH''For the stranger to Casement''s life, this is the book to buy'' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Please Live
A RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ''Powerful . . . a coming-of-age story with a twist'' Guardian''Heart-wrenching . . . We need accounts like this haunting, compelling book'' Telegraph''A profound and moving tribute . . . It is Lana''s inside perspective on what it was like to grow up within this society that makes this such a unique and powerful book'' Sunday Times''Wonderfully brave, beautifully written and utterly authentic'' TLS''Haunting'' Radio Times''Please live'' were the last words fifteen-year-old Lana said to her mother. Shortly afterwards Natalia Estemirova was kidnapped outside their apartment block in Grozny, Chechnya. On 15th July 2009, she was murdered for telling the truth. A mountainous sliver of land which creates a natural boundary between Europe and Asia, for centuries Chechnya had been a sharp bone in Russia''s throat. Three years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, frustrated by the continued presence of the independence movement within Chechnya, Russia invaded.It was a war of extraordinary brutality. It turned Lana''s mother, Natalia Estemirova, from a teacher into a human rights investigator. She became a dedicated member of Memorial, intent on exposing the kidnappings, bombings, torture and murders committed by Russian forces and Ramzan Kadyrov, the Kremlin-backed Chechen President. Natalia Estemirova''s life, assassination, and the impunity that followed it, tell the story of Putin''s Russia. This is Lana''s story of growing up in a war. Of the intense bond between a mother and daughter, desperate to be together even though it was so much safer for Lana to live elsewhere, often for months at a time. It is a book both about being brave and about being ordinary in extraordinary times. It''s the fulfilment of a promise Lana made at her mother''s grave.
Lionel Messi – Kompletní příběh
Jak se z Lea Messiho stal fotbalový král.
Osm Zlatých míčů. Deset titulů ve španělské La Lize. Čtyři vítězství v Lize mistrů UEFA. Dvě vítězství v poháru Copa América. Šest Zlatých kopaček. Dva Zlaté míče na mistrovství světa. Rekordní počet gólů, které nastřílel v dresu FC Barcelony i argentinské reprezentace. A k tomu nejvyšší ocenění ze všech v roce 2022 – titul mistra světa. Seznam rekordů, ocenění a úspěchů Lionela Messiho je téměř nekonečný, ale vypráví jen část jeho neuvěřitelného příběhu. Tato publikace vypráví příběh o tom, jak překonal všechny překážky a stal se pravděpodobně nejlepším fotbalistou, jakého svět kdy viděl. Od jeho začátku v Argentině, přes suverénní dobývání Španělska a krátké působení v klubu Paris Saint-Germain, angažmá v USA, kde se stal nejlepším hráčem Interu Miami, až ke splněnému snu – výhře na mistrovství světa v argentinských barvách.
Prožijte společně s Lionelem Messim všechny vzestupy a pády jeho pozoruhodné kariéry. Nahlédněte také do jeho pečlivě střeženého soukromí mimo hřiště, můžete si přečíst zajímavé srovnání s největšími hráči fotbalové historie a připomenout si desítku nejzářivějších momentů jeho fascinující cesty na vrchol. Pojďte si to s fotbalovým králem užít!
Zrodila se hvězda
Messi oslňoval svým zázračným talentem už jako malý kluk
Kdo ovládl Španělsko
Ke světové slávě vystřelilo Lea angažmá v proslulém barcelonském fotbalovém klubu
Messi versus Češi
Fotbalový král několikrát změřil své síly i s českými hráči
Prechádzka v parku
Dvaja odvážni priatelia, jedna neuvážená výzva a pešia odysea dlhá 1207 km srdcom Grand Canyonu.
Kevin Fedarko a fotograf Peter McBride sa rozhodli prejsť tento legendárny národný park od jedného konca k druhému bez akejkoľvek prípravy. Spočiatku to považovali za „prechádzku v parku“, no čoskoro sa ukázalo, že prechod kaňonu patrí medzi najťažšie výzvy na svete. Ich cesta plná utrpenia, nebezpečenstva a nepredvídateľných udalostí odhalila miesto, ktoré je oveľa tajomnejšie, bohatšie a náročnejšie, než si vôbec dokázali predstaviť. Za hranicami známych turistických chodníkov ich čakali skryté kúzla a príbehy, ktoré väčšina návštevníkov nikdy nespozná. S pomocou veteránov diaľkovej turistiky a členov indiánskych kmeňov sa dostali k neznámym zákutiam, ktoré im odhalili novú dimenziu tohto magického miesta. Fedarko navyše čelil nielen divočine, ale aj osobným démonom, keď sa mu v spomienkach vracal umierajúci otec, ktorý mu pred rokmi ukázal krásu tejto krajiny.
Prechádzka v parku je sčasti memoár, sčasti cestopis, sčasti rozsiahla esej o hlbokom zmysle divočiny a zároveň strhujúci príbeh o dobrodružstve, priateľstve, histórii a potrebe chrániť najväčší prírodný poklad Ameriky.
Pápež Lev XIV. Životný príbeh nového pápeža a výzvy, ktorým bude čeliť
Spoznajte nového pápeža Leva XIV. prostredníctvom jeho vlastných slov a podrobného pohľadu na jeho životnú cestu – od skromných začiatkov až na čelo Katolíckej cirkvi.
8. mája 2025 o 18:05, len po štyroch hlasovaniach konkláve, ohlásil biely dym zo Sixtínskej kaplnky zvolenie nového pápeža. Z balkóna Baziliky sv. Petra zaznelo „Habemus papam!“ a svet spoznal Roberta Francisa Prevosta, amerického kardinála, ktorý prijal meno Lev XIV. Predstavil sa v tradičnom pápežskom odeve so slovami: „Mier vám všetkým!“
Kto je tento muž, ktorý vnáša do Cirkvi ducha globalizácie, dôraz na ľudské práva a hlas pre tých, ktorí ho doteraz nemali? V knihe Saveria Gaetu spoznávame jeho životnú cestu, vízie a výzvy, ktorým čelí ako nástupca Františka. Zo stránok sa vynára medzinárodný pastier pozorný k chudobným a ľuďom na okraji spoločnosti, neúnavný obhajca ľudských práv a podporovateľ zjednocujúcej úlohy viery.
Lev XIV. stojí pred kľúčovou misiou: posilniť dedičstvo svojho predchodcu pápeža Františka a viesť Cirkev ako maják nádeje na vlnách súčasného sveta.
Kniha je doplnená o fotografie z kľúčových momentov života nového pápeža.
Zaujímavý je aj dodatok so zoznamom a krátkou charakteristikou pontifikátu všetkých 266 doterajších pápežov od sv. Petra až po Františka.
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Out of the Shadows
The beautiful Anglo-Italian artist Maria Cosway was one of the most talented and dynamic women active in Regency England, but one whose achievements have been largely overlooked. Born in Florence in 1760, she was acclaimed at an early age as both a painter and a musician. She exhibited forty-one paintings at the Royal Academy summer exhibition between 1781 and 1801, and hosted regular musical soirées at the Pall Mall house she shared with her husband, Richard Cosway. They were attended by the political and cultural elite of London.Maria’s extraordinary network of connections to the great and the good of the late-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, included friendships with, among others, Thomas Jefferson, the Prince of Wales, Pasquale Paoli, the artist Jacques-Louis David, the opera singer Luigi Marchesi, the Duchess of Devonshire, the actress and writer Mary Robinson, and members of the Bonaparte family. Estranged from her husband by 1801, Maria Cosway largely gave up painting and reinvented herself as a progressive educator, founding schools for young women: first in Lyon, later in Lodi, Italy. In recognition of her achievements at Lodi, the Emperor of Austria made her a baroness.
Maa Heeraben and Narendra
Do you know why Narendra Modi’s mother, Heeraben, did not go to his sister’s wedding?
Do you know whom among all her children Heeraben loved the most?
Why did she start crying after seeing Modi during the Emergency?
The book you hold in your hands answers these questions and more. It is a vivid portrayal of the relationship between Narendra Modi and his mother, Heeraben, and the role she played in his life building his character. You will get to know how Heeraben always encouraged Narendra and respected his decisions. Whether it was her son’s decision to traverse the Himalayas or his decision to enter politics, she always supported him even though his father, Damodar Das, held a contrary point of view. But she shied the limelight and did not share any stage with Narendra Modi even after he became chief minister of Gujarat or prime minster of India.
Proti prúdu
Kniha o košickom historikovi Ondrejovi R. Halagovi (1918 – 2011) sa vyhýba životopisnému klišé. Nie je klasickou biografiou a nepribližuje život osobnosti od kolísky po hrob. Zameriava sa na kontroverzné úseky historikovho života. Často v rozpore so všeobecnou predstavou o Ondrejovi R. Halagovi sa postupne odhaľuje jeho pôvod a rodinné pomery, približuje štúdium na univerzite a dešifruje záhadná skratka R v jeho mene. Vo viacerých kapitolách sa vysvetľuje, či a do akej miery hatila komunistická štátna moc kariérny rast vedca a neumožnila mu získať vyššie akademické tituly a vedeckú hodnosť doktor vied. Historická obec na Slovensku poznala Ondreja Halagu ako profesora, no tento akademický titul používal neoprávnene. Dozvieme sa viac o fyzickom napadnutí historika v roku 1985 a či za týmto prepadom mohla byť Štátna bezpečnosť. Autor sa na základe výskumu archívnych dokumentov snažil poopraviť obraz o Halagovi, ktorý sa v médiách prezentoval ako vedec uznávaný v zahraničí, ale v socialistickom Československu prenasledovaný štátnou mocou.
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Feeding Ghosts
KIRKUS NONFICTION PRIZE FINALIST, LONGLISTED FOR THE NBCC AWARD AND THE CARNEGIE MEDAL, SHORTLISTED FOR THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST BOOK AWARDNAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY Time, Forbes, NPR, Minnesota Star Tribune, LitHub, Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, Chicago Public Library"Feeding Ghosts reminds us how much the personal is political . . . an audacious, awe-inspiring feat. For me, it was an essential read." ?Ling Ma, author of Bliss MontageAn astonishing, deeply moving graphic memoir about three generations of Chinese women, exploring love, grief, exile, and identity.In her acclaimed graphic memoir debut, Tessa Hulls traces the reverberations of Chinese history across three generations of women in her family. Tessa?s grandmother, Sun Yi, was a Shanghai journalist swept up by the turmoil of the 1949 Communist victory. After fleeing to Hong Kong, she wrote a bestselling memoir about her persecution and survival?then promptly had a mental breakdown from which she never recovered.Growing up with Sun Yi, Tessa watches both her mother and grandmother struggle beneath the weight of unexamined trauma and mental illness, and bolts to the most remote corners of the globe. But once she turns thirty, roaming begins to feel less like freedom and more like running away. Feeding Ghosts is Tessa?s homecoming, a vivid, heartbreaking journey into history that exposes the fear and trauma that haunt generations, andthe love that holds them together.
Memoirs of a Bengal Civilian
. Beames was a man of strong opinions and was often in trouble with the authorities because of his outspokenness. He thought little of Lieutenant-Governors as a class. But his special dislike was reserved for Sir Richard Temple, Lt. Governor of Bengal, whose vanity and self-glorification he couldn't stand. There were instances when Beames stood by the people against tyranny. But, ironically enough, he also shared the casual racism of his peers and did not recognise Indian ICS officers as his academic and cultural equals: he strongly distrusted the Bengali intelligentsia. Beames was a pioneer philologist. A magnum opus of his is the three volume Comparative Grammar of the Modern Aryan Languages of India (1872-79). Other works of his include Outline of Indian Philology (1867) and Grammar for the Bengali Language (1891). He knew a number of languages including Persian, Sanskrit, Urdu, Bengali, Punjabi, and Hindi and had a working knowledge of German, French and Italian. Beames started writing his Memoirs in 1875 but completed the task only after retirement, in England. His outspokenness which held him down in his career is his chief strength as a writer and tremendously enhances the value of his estimates of men and affairs of his time.
That's All I'm Sayin'
Michael Brandon's Journey from Brooklyn to HollywoodFrom the bustling streets of Brooklyn to the bright lights of Hollywood, Michael Brandon's life has been anything but ordinary. In this candid and captivating memoir, he shares the untold stories of his rise to fame, the whirlwind romances with Hollywood's most iconic women and the wild adventures that shaped him. Brandon pulls back the curtain on the golden era of film and television, revealing the highs, the heartaches, and the hard truths behind the glamour. With razor-sharp wit and unflinching honesty, he dives into the reality of working in the industry, the abuse of power behind the scenes, and the moments that defined his extraordinary career. From starring in legendary films to navigating the excesses of fame, from Hollywood sunshine to European escapades and learning to love rainy London, That's All I'm sayin' is a rollercoaster read filled with humour, heart, and the kind of behind-the-scenes stories only an insider can tell. Featuring a foreword by bestselling author Lynda La Plante.
Rekordman Milan Petržela
V nejvyšší české fotbalové soutěži nastoupil do 519 zápasů. V tomto směru se Milanu Petrželovi nikdo nemůže rovnat. On však vždycky vynikal i na hřišti. Rychlonohý křídelník spolehlivě motal hlavy dlouhé řadě obránců, kteří se ho pokoušeli zastavit v jeho cestě za gólem. Hrával za Slovácko, Jablonec nebo německý Augsburg. Největší úspěchy ovšem slavil v dresu Viktorie Plzeň v dobách, kdy dominovala domácí lize a zářila i v evropských pohárech.
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The View from Ninety
Over a span of seven decades, Charles Handy was, variously, a businessman, a writer, a philanthropist and a philosopher. Not even a stroke as he approached the age of 90 dimmed his intellectual curiosity or his immense zest for life.In this, his final book, written from the vantage point of a contemplative old age and drawing on his articles for The Idler, he shares his thoughts on the big questions with which we all grapple. What things really matter? What daily worries should we learn to treat as unimportant? How do we become more accepting of ourselves and of those around us? How do we discover purpose in our everyday existence? How do we cope with grief and loss? Drawing in part on his own experience, in part on the wisdom of others, he sets out the principles of enjoying a fulfilled and contented life, and gently points the way to the practicalities of achieving it.
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.
