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.
On a cold February day two months after his 20th birthday, Henry Cockburn waded into the Newhaven estuary outside Brighton and tried to swim across, almost drowning in the process.
Isaiah Berlin refused to write an autobiography, but he agreed to talk about himself - and so for ten years, he allowed Michael Ignatieff to interview him.
As heard on Radio 4's Free ThinkingThe first English-language biography of Henri Bergson, the philosopher who defined individual creativity and transformed twentieth century thought.
A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.
';Anne Truitt's frankness and intellectual curiosity about the hows and whys of a working artist's life' (Megan O'Grady, The New Yorker) are compiled in this one e-volume of all three of her journals, the illuminating, inspiring record of reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life.
Full of never-before-seen illustrations, Life Sketches is an inspiring and elegant portrait of Robert Batemans life as an artist and of his belief that Nature is an infinite source of reason, imagination, and invention.
With a new chapter on the birth of the royal baby and 17 new photos, the complete story of the romance and marriage of William and Kate and their son, George Alexander Louis Windsor, His Royal Highness Prince George of Cambridge, as told by #1 New York Times bestselling author Christopher Andersen.
The heartwarming memoir of beloved television actress Valerie Harper, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on Rhoda.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Without her alter-ego Erika Jayne, Erika Girardi says she'd just be ';another rich bitch with a plane'so get ready for the dishy, tell-all memoir from show-stopping performer, model, singer, and beloved star of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Erika Jayne.
In this eagerly anticipated memoir, former Vice President Dick Cheney delivers an unyielding portrait of American politics over nearly forty years and shares personal reflections on his role as one of the most steadfast and influential statesmen in the history of our country.
Die große Denkerin und ihr Werk - auf Basis neuer Quellen»Meyer ist eine völlig überraschende Biografie einer intellektuellen Ikone gelungen, der man im Ringen um das Leben anderer so schmerzlich nahekommt wie noch nie.
In her eminently readable memoir about turning darkness back into light (People), the nationally bestselling author of Good Hair candidly shares her journey from having it all to plunging into a deep depression after her beloved mothers deathand finally climbing back out.
Ivan Doigs companion memoir to his bestselling This House of Skyinspired by the letters his mother wrote during World War IIis a lyrical evocation of the Doigs gallantly hardscrabble existence and love for the unforgiving Montana mountains (San Francisco Chronicle).
A ';deeply, darkly funny' (Ali Wong, comedian and New York Times bestselling author) collection of insightful and razor-sharp essays on motherhood in our post-apocalyptic world from comedian Natasha Leggero.
A brilliant and defiant celebration of driving as a unique pathway of human freedom, by "e;one of the most influential thinkers of our time"e; (Sunday Times)"e;Why We Driveweaves philosophers, thinkers, and scientific research with shade-tree mechanics and racers to defend our right to independence, making the case that freedom of motion is essential to who we are as a species.
From Academy Awardwinning actress and bestselling author Shirley MacLaine, a collection of imaginative ruminations: Fun and thoughtful by turns and told in MacLaines feisty, funny voice, this should appeal to fans and doubters alike (Booklist).
Gray has managed to do the virtually impossible, and that is to say something new and perceptive about Winston Churchill and Franklin DelanoRoosevelt Margaret MacMillan, author of Paris 1919A fascinating two-way mirror onto a world of privilege Country Life Jennie Jerome and Sara Delano: two remarkable, often overlooked individuals who were key in shaping the characters of their sons, Winston Churchill and Franklin D.
Der Praktiker, Forscher und Autor Jochen Schweitzer erzählt in persönlichen Geschichten 45 Jahre Systemische Therapie und Beratung in Deutschland: Was ist wann wie entstanden?
Cindy in Iraq is Cynthia Morgan's hair-raising yet jubilant chronicle of her perilous year in war-torn Iraq as a truck driver -- the most dangerous civilian job in the war zone.
A hilarious and candid essay collection about living a normal life in Hollywood, where life is anything but normal, from mom, actress, and #1 New York Times bestselling author Tori Spelling.
In 1975, at the age of forty, Richard Raskind, a renowned eye surgeon and highly ranked amateur tennis player, "e;died,"e; and Rene Richards was "e;born,"e; in what was to become the most public and highly scrutinized sex reassignment to date.
An original, unified reconstruction of Mill's moral and political philosophy-one that finally reveals its consistency and full powerFew thinkers have been as influential as John Stuart Mill, whose philosophy has arguably defined Utilitarian ethics and modern liberalism.
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick (1950–2009) gehört zu den Begründer:innen der Queer-Theory und wurde insbesondere mit »Epistemology of the Closet« (1990) bekannt.
**From the author of the 2023 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction winning Fire Weather**'An unbelievable tale, expertly told' Patrick Radden Keefe, author of Empire of Pain'A superb book ' Daily Mail 'Masterful .
In this memoir, iconic singer Linda Ronstadt weaves together a captivating story of her origins in Tucson, Arizona, and her rise to stardom in the Southern California music scene of the 1960s and 70s.
A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth centuryEdmund Burke (1730-97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history.
"Paladín de la modernidad" y "maestro de la comunicación", "polemista de Fráncfort" y "conciencia moral pública de la cultura política": tales son algunos de los epítetos de los que se ha hecho merecedor Jürgen Habermas.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From Erin French, owner and chef of the critically acclaimed The Lost Kitchen, comes a life-affirming memoir about survival, renewal and the pleasure of bringing joy to people through food.
