Known to millions as simply "e;Sister Jean,"e; the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond.
Neue Übersetzung ins Deutsche:Confessions of an English Opium-Eater - hier in deutscher Übersetzung von 2022 - ist ein autobiografischer Bericht von Thomas De Quincey über seine Laudanumabhängigkeit und deren Auswirkungen auf sein Leben.
A ';captivating' (The Washington Post) true story of ';courage, resolve, and determination' (The Christian Science Monitor), author Ralph White's successful effort to save nearly the entire staff of the Saigon branch of Chase Manhattan bank and their families before the city fell to the North Vietnamese Army.
La Americana is the story of Melanie Bowden Simn, who, at the age of twenty-five, left her job at Tina Browns Talk magazine following the death of her mother and decided to take a vacation in Havana, Cuba, with a friend.
Within this classic volume are the tales, tribulations, and ultimate triumphs behind some of the most spectacular and break-taking aerodynamic feats of early twentieth century aviation.
Craig Glazer was an ordinary college student when he planned and successfully executed his first fake sting to get back at some drug dealers who had robbed him.
The moment Diane Burke, an author and mother of two grown sons, received an unexpected certified letter in the mail, she had no idea her life would be shaken to its core.
The extraordinary life story of the celebrated naturalist who transformed our understanding of evolutionEnchanted by Daphne is legendary ecologist Peter Grant's personal account of his remarkable life and career.
The remarkable and inspirational story of Oksana Masters, who was born with radiation-induced birth defects and suffered appalling abuse as an orphan, before being adopted and moving to the US, where she went on to triumph over her challenges to win ten Paralympic medals in four different sports.
A beautifully written personal account of the discovery of late antiquity by one of the world's most influential and distinguished historiansThe end of the ancient world was long regarded by historians as a time of decadence, decline, and fall.
Michele Audin construye en La senorita Haas una hermosa y potente novela coral con las vidas de trece mujeres, anonimas aunque con un mismo apellido, Haas, y un mismo espacio-tiempo: la Francia que, entre 1934 y 1941, se adentra en la radicalizacion y el ascenso del fascismo, la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la deportacion de judios a los campos de exterminio.
Dies ist die Geschichte einer zufälligen Entdeckung und wie sie nicht nur das Leben von Tony Rinaudo fundamental geändert, sondern auch das Klima und die Lebensverhältnisse von Millionen von Menschen verbessert hat.
Das kleine Dorf Riace in Kalabrien und ihr Bürgermeister Mimmo Lucano (2004–2018) wurden während der humanitären Krise von Lampedusa im Jahr 2009 international bekannt, weil sie 200 Flüchtlingen und Asylbewerbern Unterkunft und Gastfreundschaft gewährten – im Gegensatz zu Mailand, das gerade mal 20 Plätze zur Verfügung stellte.
«Escritos del exilio» ofrece una faceta sorprendente del autor de «Zama» y se presenta como un valioso testimonio de la vida cultural del Madrid de la transición.
'Si no me definiera a mí misma por mí misma, me meterían en las fantasías de los demás para mí y me comerían viva' Una niña negra abre los ojos en el Harlem de los años treinta.
El protagonista se dispone a cumplir el encargo de pintar un mural en San Juan de la Peña, pero la realización de ese trabajo se convierte en la peregrinación hacia el interior de su corazón.
