Donald Windhams Erinnerungen an seine Freundschaften mit Truman Capote und Tenessee Williams sind ein einzigartig intimer und ehrlicher Blick auf die Literaturwelt seiner Zeit und auf zwei der beruhmtesten Schriftsteller der USA.
Ein historisches Werk, das seinesgleichen sucht: Nikolaus Wachsmanns monumentale Geschichte der Konzentrationslager von den improvisierten Anfangen 1933 bis zu ihrer Auflosung 1945 - jetzt in einer aktualisierten Neuausgabe.
A través de los recuerdos de 20 entrevistados que conocieron al Che durante sus años de infancia y adolescencia en Alta Gracia (entre los que se encuentran los compañeros de los dos viajes por América Latina), y valiéndose de una minuciosa investigación histórica, La infancia del Che va sacando a la luz al ser humano que era Ernesto Guevara antes de convertirse en el popular revolucionario.
No seu aniversário de treze anos, Anne Frank ganhou um caderno de seu pai e decidiu que iria usá-lo como diário, e começou a escrever quase que imediatamente.
In the Rust Belt of the 1960s, a blue-collar father works double shifts, chasing elusive dreams: a good nights sleep, eternal life, a cabin in the Allegheny Mountains where he can hunt and fish.
Scientific breakthroughs that changed the way we understand the worldand the fascinating stories of the scientists behind them Some of the most significant breakthroughs in science don't receive widespread recognition until decades later, sometimes after their author's death.
The polymath Michael Polanyi first made his mark as a physical chemist, but his interests gradually shifted to economics, politics, and philosophy, in which field he would ultimately propose a revolutionary theory of knowledge that grew out of his firsthand experience with both the scientific method and political totalitarianism.
In this classic memoir of rural life in the Scottish Highlands, a shepherd chronicles his years in a remote glen before the introduction of electricity.
Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.
From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians.
In this pioneering biography, Christopher Melchert examines the forefather of the fourth of the four principal Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Hanbali.
This stimulating book covers all area of the twelfth century Muslim philosopher's life from his transmission of Aristotelian thought to the Western world, to his conflict with the Ash'arite theologians.
Following the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadeq and restored the rule of the Shah in Iran, Mostafa Sho';aiyan became a key figure on the country's militant left.
A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time.
