Biography: general

Zwischen Ruhm und Rückschlägen – Die Geschichte eines deutschen TennisidolsMit siebzehn Jahren sorgt Boris Becker mit seinem Wimbledon-Sieg für den Urknall in Tennis-Deutschland.

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At the end of the 1970s, Manchester seemed to be sliding into the dustbin of history.

Renee Mosbacher was born in 1929 in Vienna.

Hildegard Machas Lebensweg ist gepragt von Widerstand, Resilienz und personlichem Wachstum.

In Growing Up Beaner, Francisco Barriga offers a poignant and powerful memoir that traces his journey from the small town of Periquillos in Colima, Mexico, to the rural landscapes of Corning, California.

God Owns My Business is more than a book about a successful businessman.

Imagine a world where Adolf Hitler chose art over hatred, creativity over destruction.

This selection of Bowen's non-fictional writings includes her wonderfully funny, precise recollections of schooldays and childhood experiences, her brilliant evocations of London in wartime and of the Irish 'big house', and penetrating accounts of some of her most famous contemporaries.

Midt i 1500-tallet befandt den katolske kirke sig i en af de mest turbulente perioder i sin historie.

Told as much through images as through words, a young Nepalese mans globe-spanning relationship with the father of American surrealism changes the course of his life and gives him a new set of roots.