In the field of popular culture, a handful of artists enjoy a status that is beyond stardom - they are true icons whose life and art remain an inspiration to millions around the world.
When North Korean forces invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950, Otto Apel was a surgical resident living in Cleveland, Ohio, with his wife and three young children.
Mike Daka,s story is a fascinating account that is at once the story of an extraordinary journalist, and rich insight into the history of the media and journalism in Zambia and Southern Africa.
En "La Belleza de las Heridas" Gabriela Lavalle nos lleva en primera persona por una travesía vital donde el autoconocimiento, el amor y el arte nos redimen y ayudan a atravesar los momentos complejos con dignidad, acopio de coraje y nuevos valores.
"Avanzamos en la vida y surgen puertas frente a nosotros, abrimos una para encontrar una solución, la salida, pero cada puerta da a un pasillo a su vez lleno de puertas y hay que avanzar, elegir, continuar… aunque en el fondo en eso consiste estar vivo: en hacerse preguntas.
Criado en el argentino concepto de que las cosas hay que hacerlas aunque sea mal, Juan Carlos Mesa hizo de todo y, desafiando el aserto, las hizo casi todas bien, en especial porque de cada una, aun de las fallidas, aprendió un poco.
Roni Mahler spent her formative years in a ballet studio under the tutelage of Madame Maria Yurieva Swoboda and at Yankee Stadium, where she cheered for her idol, Mickey Mantle.
Back in January 1995 in Los Angeles, California, a Singaporean pornstar named Annabel Chong took cultural rebellion to an extreme, on terms that had never been negotiated before.
En esta reveladora novela de no ficción Daisy Hernández hace un recuento de lo que las mujeres de su familia colombo-cubana le enseñaron acerca del amor, el dinero y la raza.
The motivation for this volume arose from a desire to bridge the gap between artists and their audience, facilitating a deeper understanding of the artists purpose and process.
La sociedad racionalista de la segunda mitad del siglo diecinueve y comienzos del veinte hizo de los nuevos conocimientos una demostración de poder y dominio de las fuerzas naturales por parte del ser humano, nunca antes alcanzado.
Drawing its wisdom from Hindu, Judaic and Islamic philosophies, this is the multicultural, multifaceted saga of Parikshat Sahnis journey from being a film student in Soviet Russia to surrendering Stanislavski for Indian cinema.
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer turns his eye to the seventeenth-century Dutch Golden Age Twenty years ago, Benjamin Moser followed a love affair to an ancient Dutch town.
Love him or loathe him, you cannot ignore him: Motoring aficionado, comic writer, TV presenter, engineering buff, journalist, author and unapologetic bon viveur, Jeremy Clarkson is one of Britain's most controversial personalities, and in this riveting and entertaining biography, frank views and hilariously candid anecdotes appear alongside the life story of the self-confessed Eurosceptic, chain-smoking petrol head.
V&S Publishers, with a view to help people in their need to save time and yet read to learn, has put forth, 75 popular quotes, anecdotes or sayings in this one of a kind unique book 75 Ways to Rich, in which every Tip/Hack on each page is supported by a caricature type illustration.
The Noble Peace Prize has been awarded 92 times to about 124 Noble Laureates between 1901 and 2011 - 99 times to individuals and around 23 times to organizations.
Ian Stuart, like so many young men dreamed of a career in rock'n'roll but when in 1977 he formed Skrewdriver, a punk group based in North West England, no-one could have predicted the roller-coaster ride that he was about to endure.
