Биографии и Мемуары
Различные книги в жанре Биографии и МемуарыКоролева железного века против Рима
Среди плеяды величайших врагов Древнего Рима, таких как Пирр Эпирский, Митридат VI Евпатор и Верцингеторикс, присутствует всего одна женщина, которую ненавидели и боялись не меньше, чем орд гуннов и военного гения Ганнибала Барки… Это Боудика. Кем она была? И почему заслужила столь неприязненное отношение со стороны римских граждан и историков?
Победители и побежденные. Полководцы СССР и Германии. 1941-1945
Уходит в прошлое Великая Отечественная война, навсегда изменившая представления людей о войне и мире. Герои этой книги – военачальники Восточного фронта – маршалы и генералы РККА, фельдмаршалы и генералы вермахта. Кем же были полководцы Великой Отечественной? Какой они видели войну и как вошли в ее историю? Книга, в которой широко использованы мемуары и архивные документы, позволяет по-иному взглянуть на историю войны с двух сторон фронта и узнать многие ранее неизвестные подробности знаменитых сражений.
Эпидемия. Записки из сумасшедших туров #Туровыебудни
«Вряд ли наши слушатели всерьез полагают, что мы каждый день с утра до вечера ходим в эльфийских нарядах с серьезными лицами, летаем на драконах и пьем только колодезную воду. В первую очередь „Эпидемия“ – это именно рок-группа со всеми вытекающими отсюда последствиями». Эта ироничная и честная книга написана гитаристом метал-группы «Эпидемия» Дмитрием Процко. Если вам интересно, как живут музыканты между концертами, с чем сталкиваются в турах и как придумывают песни, то эти истории вам понравятся! От выступлений в постсоветских ДК до тура по Японии, от настройки аппаратуры до автограф-сессий, от репетиций до длительных переездов и перелетов – здесь всё, с чем приходится сталкиваться каждому рокеру. Также для фанатов подготовлен специальный сюрприз: в книге много уникальных архивных фотографий, а в конце вы найдете целый «Толковый словарь лингвистических терминов и речевых оборотов, используемых музыкантами группы „Эпидемия“ в общении. Призван служить для облегчения межкультурной коммуникации между представителями Homo Sapiens и Homo Epidemicus». В формате PDF A4 сохранен издательский макет.
Last Chance Texaco
This troubadour life is only for the fiercest hearts, only for those vessels that can be broken to smithereens and still keep beating out the rhythm for a new song. Last Chance Texaco is the first ever no-holds-barred account of the life of two-time Grammy Award-winner Rickie Lee Jones in her own words. It is a tale of desperate chances and impossible triumphs, an adventure story of a girl who beat the odds and grew up to become one of the most legendary artists of her time, turning adversity and hopelessness into timeless music. With candor and lyricism, the “Duchess of Coolsville” ( Time ) takes us on a singular journey through her nomadic childhood, to her years as a teenage runaway, through her legendary love affair with Tom Waits and ultimately her longevity as the hardest working woman in rock and roll. Rickie Lee’s stories are rich with the infamous characters of her early songs – «Chuck-E's in Love,» “Weasel and the White Boys Cool,” “Danny’s All-Star Joint,” and “Easy Money”– but long before her notoriety in show business, there was a vaudevillian cast of hitchhikers, bank robbers, jail breaks, drug mules, a pimp with a heart of gold and tales of her fabled ancestors. In this tender and intimate memoir by one of the most remarkable, trailblazing, and tenacious women in music are never-before-told stories of the girl in the raspberry beret, a singer-songwriter whose music defied categorization and inspired American pop culture for decades.
Endpapers
Part family memoir, part lost historical narrative, and part archive of literary and publishing history, Endpapers paints a powerful portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment, and emigration that reaches back in history to the assimilation and anti-Semitism of the early nineteenth century and through the violence of the twentieth century and beyond. Endpapers features the history of a pivotal figure in transatlantic publishing, which is sure to interest reviewers. Kurt Wolff, the author’s grandfather, founded the Kurt Wolff Verlag in 1913 in Germany, where he was the first publisher of many of the works of Franz Kafka, including The Metamorphosis , alongside authors like Émile Zola and Anton Chekhov. When Kurt Wolff emigrated to the United States in 1941, he founded Pantheon Books, which developed a singular reputation for publishing the best European writers, including Boris Pasternak’s Nobel-winning novel Doctor Zhivago, and works by Carl Jung, Giuseppe de Lampedusa, and Günter Grass. Many never-before-recounted details of this publishing history come to life in Endpapers . The Wolff papers have been very closely held by the family for decades, and the author is the first person to investigate them at this level. Much of this literary history has never before been published. Endpapers will appeal to lovers of books that illuminate a historical moment through the lens of a single family, such as New York Times bestseller The Hare with Amber Eyes or My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me by Jennifer Teege. It will also appeal to readers interested in German cultural and intellectual history, fans of books like The Lady in Gold and The Rape of Europa . We will do outreach to known Germanophiles including Jonathan Franzen, who has championed and translated the works of Karl Kraus, one of the most important early authors of the Kurt Wolff Verlag. Alongside Franzen, we hope for support from writers like Ron Chernow, Daniel Mendelsson, Erik Larson, Anna Funder, Alan Furst, Caroline Moorhead, Daniel Kehlmann, Francine Prose, Tom Stoppard, Alexander Waugh, Philippe Sands, Christopher Browning, John Kamper, and authors of The Zhivago Affair Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, among others. We will do outreach to German institutions in the States that work in the literary and cultural spheres, including the administrators of the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translation Prize, awarded each year for a work translated from German into English and published in the USA. We will also do early academic outreach to build on for the paperback. Endpapers contains over fifty family photographs that give faces to the characters in the book, alongside a beautifully illustrated family tree. Grove Press will be publishing in the UK, where the team is already very enthusiastic about the book’s potential, and German rights are under offer. Alexander Wolff served as a staff writer for Sports Illustrated for over thirty years and has written and edited several highly acclaimed and bestselling books on basketball, but this is the first time he is turning to his own family story.
My Country 'Tis of Thee
David Harris is a reporter, a clear-eyed idealist, an American dissident, and, as these selected pieces reveal, a writer of great character and empathy. Harris gained national recognition as an undergraduate for his opposition to the Vietnam War and was imprisoned for two years when he refused to comply with the draft. His writings trace a bright throughline of care for and attention to outsiders, the downtrodden, and those who demand change, and these eighteen pieces of long-form journalism, essays, and opinion writings remain startlingly relevant to the world we face today. This career-spanning collection of writings by an always-independent journalist follow Harris from his early days as a prominent leader of the resistance to the Vietnam War, through regular contributions to many publications, including <i>Rolling Stone</i> and the <i>New York Times</i>, and on into the twenty-first century.<BR><BR>Born in Fresno and elected student body president of Stanford University in 1966, Harris has always had an undeniably Californian point of view—he imagines the future with an open heart and mind and pursues stories out of genuine curiosity, embedding himself among striking farmworkers, marijuana growers, the homeless on LA’s skid row, and occasionally, redwood trees. Inspiring, clarifying, and fearless, his abiding and lucid patriotism insists that our country live up to its own ideals.
All The Young Men
The first and only memoir written by early AIDS activist Ruth Coker Burks, All The Young Men is a heartfelt and personal account of Ruth’s work as an advocate for men with AIDS in Hot Springs, Arkansas in the mid-1980s. It is also an elegy to those on the front lines of the epidemic for whom she cared deeply. Single mother Ruth’s unexpected story of female empowerment and strong women’s activism evokes the stories of Erin Brockovich, Karen Silkwood, Gloria Steinem, and Harvey Milk. All The Young Men will also appeal to fans of the Oscar-winning film, Dallas Buyers Club and Angels in America by Tony Kushner. Ruth is widely admired by journalists and correspondents, namely Gio Benitez on GOOD MORNING AMERICA, and Ann Curry of PBS’ We’ll Meet Again, and has continuously been supported by Bill Clinton since his time as Governor of Arkansas. She was also the subject of a short film based on her life called Ruth (2017), directed by Rose McGowan, who has called her an “American Hero.” An Oscar-winning producer is adapting Ruth’s story for feature film and Dakota Johnson is attached to star as the author. Audible has purchased the audio rights in a sizeable acquisition and will be promoting the book. This is the first time Ruth has given us her own full and detailed portrait of the realities faced by AIDS patients in Arkansas during the 1980s. The depictions of deep discrimination in the conservative south are visceral and informative, as are the silenced voices of the brave men she profiles here. Ruth Coker Burk, also known as the Cemetery Angel, has been honored as an Unsung Hero by the Human Rights Campaign, The World AIDS Museum in Fort Lauderdale, the Gay Men’s Chorus of Florida, the National AIDS Memorial, and her story has been widely shared on media outlets such as NPR, BBC, CBS, Vanity Fair, Elle Magazine, and Katie Couric Media. Kevin O’Leary, Ruth’s co-writer, has written five New York Times bestselling books, including This Is Me with actress Chrissy Metz, and Open Book with singer Jessica Simpson.
The Curse of Oak Island
[b]UPDATED WITH NEW MATERIAL FROM THE AUTHOR In The Curse of Oak Island , longtime Rolling Stone contributing editor and journalist Randall Sullivan explored the curious history of Oak Island and the generations of people who tried and failed to unlock its secrets. Drawing on his exclusive access to Marty and Rick Lagina, stars of the History Channel’s television show The Curse of Oak Island , Sullivan delivers an up to the minute chronicle of their ongoing search for the truth.[/b] In 1795, a teenager discovered a mysterious circular depression in the ground on Oak Island, in Nova Scotia, Canada, and ignited rumors of buried treasure. Early excavators uncovered a clay-lined shaft containing layers of soil interspersed with wooden platforms, but when they reached a depth of ninety feet, water poured into the shaft and made further digging impossible. Since then the mystery of Oak Island’s “Money Pit” has enthralled generations of treasure hunters, including a Boston insurance salesman whose obsession ruined him; young Franklin Delano Roosevelt; and film star Errol Flynn. Perplexing discoveries have ignited explorers’ imaginations: a flat stone inscribed in code; a flood tunnel draining from a man-made beach; a torn scrap of parchment; stone markers forming a huge cross. Swaths of the island were bulldozed looking for answers; excavation attempts have claimed two lives. Theories abound as to what’s hidden on Oak Island. Could it be pirates’ treasure or Marie Antoinette’s lost jewels? Or perhaps the Holy Grail or proof of the identity of the true author of Shakespeare’s plays? In this rich, fascinating account, Sullivan takes readers along as the Lagina brothers mount the most comprehensive effort yet to crack the mystery, and chronicles the incredible history of the “curse” of Oak Island, where for two centuries dreams of buried treasure have led intrepid treasure hunters to sacrifice everything.
Мой Ленинградский горный. Табошар урановый
Настоящее издание – третья по счету книга Виктора Моисеева. В ней, так же, как и в двух первых, автор доводит до читателя в стихотворной форме свои мысли, размышления, обуревающие его и многих других молодых людей в 60-е годы XX века, в период его учебы в Ленинградском горном институте. Это время завершения «хрущевской» оттепели и начала «эпохи застоя», время зарождения диссидентства в стране и расцвета бардовских песен Визбора, Высоцкого, Окуджавы, Городницкого и других, а также появления свободомыслия в лице «шестидесятников». Эта книга также о зарождении атомной промышленности и создании первой атомной бомбы в СССР из урана, добытого в поселке Табошар Таджикской ССР, где после окончания института автору этой книги довелось жить и работать.
Дневник карателя. Эрих фон дем Бах-Зелевский
Дневник, который впервые переведен и публикуется полностью, вышел из-под пера обергруппенфюрера СС, начальника соединений по «борьбе с бандами», приближенного Гиммлера. Бах-Зелевский лично отвечал за карательные операции и этнические чистки на оккупированных Восточных территориях, участвовал в создании Освенцима и в подавлении Варшавского восстания. С неподражаемым цинизмом он описывает истребление гражданского населения Советского Союза и Польши, считая себя «спасителем тысяч женщин и детей», гуманистом и человеком чести. Дьявольская изворотливость помогла Бах-Зелевскому избежать петли. На Нюрнбергском трибунале, где он выступил свидетелем обвинения, взвалив всю вину на других военных преступников. Самое интригующее – что именно Бах-Зелевскому удалось скрыть от правосудия – вы узнаете из предисловия ведущих отечественных военных историков. Их обстоятельное расследование проливает новый свет на чудовищные преступления нацистов в годы Второй мировой войны.