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.
Dieses Buch lädt Sie ein, die Summe der Erfahrungen, Gefühle und Geschichten eines besonderen Lebens zu erkunden, das 1943 beginnt und nach 80 Jahren autobiographisches Erinnern mit tiefgreifendem Assoziieren verwebt.
THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Epic, moving and important' ROBERT HARRIS'I'm not sure I've ever come across quite such a revelatory account of the Holocaust and yet despite the horror and the sadness it's also a 'memoir of miraculous survival'.
'A brutally honest account of power, politics, race and class, written by a politician with a remarkable backstory and destined for bigger things' - David Olusoga, author of Black and British In 2016, Marvin Rees was elected as mayor of Bristol, the first time a major European city had elected a mayor of Black African heritage.
Eisenhower Babies takes readers on a journey to a time when World War II memories were still relatively fresh, space exploration was becoming more than just fantastical subject matter for science fiction, and television had barged its way into American homes, taking up permanent residence in a hallowed spot in front of the living room sofa.
Raw and unflinchingThis is a mother's account of her daughter's lifeAnd of Katie Price and her turbulent rise to fameThe Sunday Times bestselling memoir from Amy Price.
'I can't recommend it highly enough' STEPHEN FRY | 'Everyone needs to hear his voice' MARK HADDONI'm a man on a mission to show that life with Down syndrome can be exciting and is worth living, so that other people understand and give us the chance to live life to the full and to be fulfilled.
Claudia Apablaza, en su libro "Diario de las especies", se acerca a la verdad, mostrándola, de esa aseveración de Virginia Woolf: "Todos somos por dentro, aproximadamente 4,000"; ella avista esta certidumbre contándonos el cuento de su novela, haciéndose mientras la leemos, pero esto es sólo el logro de su voluntad, es el mero hecho de haber sido hechizados a fuerza de seguirla entre los renglones, salpicados, eso sí, de historia reciente latinoamericana, de nombres reconocibles en el ámbito de la literatura, ¿es ella la que se busca en las voces, es ella la sufriente, la errante, la erótica que se vale de su retórica para laberínticamente desdoblarse en múltiples (¿o acaso sólo dos?
Die Memoiren des Jürgen Flimm – eine Theaterlegende, die kulturelle Geschichte geschrieben hatEs begann sehr früh: Schon als kleiner Junge saß Jürgen Flimm neben seinem Vater, einem Theaterarzt, im Publikum und ließ sich vom Geschehen auf der Bühne begeistern.
AN INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERSHORTLISTED FOR THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2023 and THE SPORTS BOOK AWARDS 2024 AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF THE YEAR'Reading this is like watching an O'Sullivan break: hypnotic, dazzling and impossible to tear yourself away from.
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between themand their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American historythe novelist and poet Herman Melville (18191891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (18951990).
Eine Großstädterin taucht ins Landleben einAls Karin Michalke zum ersten Mal als Teilzeit-Sennerin auf einer Alm anheuert, hat sie wenig mehr vorzuweisen als einen Crashkurs im Melken bei ihrer Tante und ihre Liebe zum Fleckvieh.
A Sunday Times Book of the Year As featured on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club Dr James Barry: Inspector General of Hospitals, army surgeon, duellist, reformer, ladykiller, eccentric.
Acclaimed Japanese poet Yorifumi Yaguchi has turned his writing attention to telling what he experienced as a child growing up on the island of Honshu in the late 1930s and '40s.
Conus is the largest genus of animals in the sea, occurring throughout the world's tropical and subtropical oceans and contributing significantly to marine biodiversity.
In this collection of recent and unpublished essays, leading analytic philosopher Scott Soames traces milestones in his field from its beginnings in Britain and Germany in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, through its subsequent growth in the United States, up to its present as the world's most vigorous philosophical tradition.
When Sarah Taylor suspected that her four-year-old daughter, Nadia, had been kidnapped by Fawzi, her abusive ex-husband, Sarah's whole world was turned upside down.
Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to Japan and the United States in the late '90s, by which point the band were one of the biggest on the planet.
How an eccentric spiritualist from Trenton, New Jersey, helped create the most famous text of Tibetan BuddhismThe Tibetan Book of the Dead is the most famous Buddhist text in the West, having sold more than a million copies since it was first published in English in 1927.
