Editors. — DK Children, 2017. — 128 p. — (100 in History). Celebrating the fantastic females who changed history, this reference book for children tells the intriguing life-stories of Joan of Arc, the Suffragettes, Rosa Parks, Oprah Winfrey, J.K. Rowling, Malala Yousafzai, and more. From super scientists like Marie Curie and Rosalind Franklin to clued-up creatives like Emily...
Arcturus Publishing, 2018. — 128 p. — ISBN: 978-1-788883-77-2. Discover the lives of 101 trailblazing women and the remarkable things they achieved. This book is packed with bitesize biographies of scientists, activists, leaders, athletes, artists, explorers, and many, many more. From the celebrated to the overlooked, these women and their stories are sure to inspire young...
Newton, 2014. — 893 p. Eroine nere, sciagurate, perdute e diaboliche Una lista nera di eroine assetate di potere e di sangue, di vendetta e di denaro: maghe, streghe, tessitrici di intrighi, efferate criminali, vedove per vocazione, contesse annoiate e nevrotiche. Dalle regine intriganti alle criminali armate di calibro 38, dalle infermiere assassine alle guardiane naziste, e...
Newton, 2014. — 893 p. Eroine nere, sciagurate, perdute e diaboliche Una lista nera di eroine assetate di potere e di sangue, di vendetta e di denaro: maghe, streghe, tessitrici di intrighi, efferate criminali, vedove per vocazione, contesse annoiate e nevrotiche. Dalle regine intriganti alle criminali armate di calibro 38, dalle infermiere assassine alle guardiane naziste, e...
Pygmalion-Gérard Watelet, 2015. — 128 p. Ce livre aurait pu s’intituler le Dictionnaire des génies. Légendes, icônes, les personnages à qui nous rendons hommage ont, pour la plupart, marqué leur temps grâce à leur art, leur science ou leurs actes. Mais à y regarder de plus près, les choses ne sont pas si simples, car, un jour ou l’autre, ces personnalités hors du commun ont...
Penguin Press. 2017. 841 p. ISBN: 9780525521952. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But these stereotypes don't come close to capturing him, as Chernow shows in his masterful biography, the first to provide a...
Harper Collins, 2009. — 352 p. In an extension of his New York Times best-selling book Blindsided, author Richard M. Cohen depicts one year in the lives of five individuals who are living with serious chronic illness and their families. These "citizens of sickness", as Cohen calls them, were selected for the diversity of their ages, races, socioeconomic positions, illness...
Unbridled. 2009. Language: English. Quality: originally electronic. What happened to the mortal remains of the great ones. Colin Dickey's Cranioklepty attempts to shed light on the post-mortem fates of some of history's most well-known people. Dickey interweaves a series of (sometimes astonishingly) true tales on the theft of famous skulls. Beginning with opening of Haydn's...
Unbridled. 2009. Language: English. Quality: originally electronic. What happened to the mortal remains of the great ones. Colin Dickey's Cranioklepty attempts to shed light on the post-mortem fates of some of history's most well-known people. Dickey interweaves a series of (sometimes astonishingly) true tales on the theft of famous skulls. Beginning with opening of Haydn's...
New York: Mindhunters, Inc., 1997. — ISBN13: 978-0-671-00394-4, ISBN10: 0-671-00394-1, eISBN 13 978-1-439-10781-2. In the #1 New York Times bestseller Mindhunter, John Douglas, who headed the FBI's elite Investigative Support Unit, told the story of his brilliant and terrifying career tracking down some of the most heinous criminals in history. Now, in Journey into Darkness,...
Mindhunters, Inc., 1995. — ISBN: 0-684-86447-9; eISBN 978-0-6848-6447-1. Discover the classic behind-the-scenes chronicle of John E. Douglas' 25-year career in the FBI Investigative Support Unit, where he used psychological profiling to delve into the minds of the country's most notorious serial killers and criminals - the basis for the upcoming Netflix original series. In...
Mindhunters, Inc., 1998. — ISBN: 0-671-01704-7; eISBN: 978-1-439-10740-9; ISBN: 978-0-671-01704-0. In Obsession, John Douglas once again takes us fascinatingly behind the scenes, focusing his expertise on predatory crimes, primarily against women. With a deep sense of compassion for the victims and an uncanny understanding of the perpetrators, Douglas looks at the obsessions...
e LIBRO, – 51 p. – decembro 2000. – ISBN: 91-7303-063-5 Teksto laû la eldono de SAT en 1929 La presita esperanta eldono estas havebla ĉe la Libroservo de UEA Aranĝis Franko Luin. INKO-SE 13542 TYRESÖ-SVEDIO www.omnibus.se/inko Enhavo: I. Zamenhof kaj Zamenhofa mondkoncepto Zamenhofa junaĝo La interna ideo de esperantismo Homaranismo Naciismo kaj ŝovinizmo ĉe Zamenhof (Zionismo)...
Simon & Schuster, 2000. — 304 p. — ISBN: 978-0-743214-37-4. Long before women had the right to vote, earn money, or have lives of their own, "she captains" -- bold women distinguished for courageous enterprise on the high seas -- thrilled and terrorized their shipmates, performed acts of valor, and pirated with the best of their male counterparts. From the warrior queens of the...
DK, 2019. — 322 p. — ISBN10: 1465480331, 13 978-1465480330. Explore the lives and achievements of more than 85 of the world's most inspirational and influential leaders with this innovative and boldly graphic book. Comprehensive in its scope and depth, and fully illustrated, Leaders Who Changed History profiles leaders from inspirational to insidious, those who changed the...
Routledge, 2006. — 780 p. From emperors and queens to artists and world travelers, from popes and scholars to saints and heretics, Key Figures in Medieval Europe brings together in one volume the most important people who lived in medieval Europe between 500 and 1500. Gathered from the biographical entries from the on-going series, the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle...
Ediciones B, 2017. — ISBN10: 8466661611; ISBN13: 978-8466661614. «Antonio Hernández Marín pasó cuatro años y medio encerrado tras las alambradas nazis de Mauthausen. Más de cinco mil quinientos españoles solo pudieron abandonar los campos de la muerte de Hitler a través de las chimeneas de los siniestros crematorios, convertidos en humo y cenizas. La historia de todos ellos fue...
Kalimpong: Tibet Mirror Press, 2002. — 618 p. — ISBN: 99933-732-0-6. Excerpts from Dalai Lama XIV's Foreword to Called from Obscurity: Tharchin Babu-la was a man of many [commendable] qualities and in his long life was an inspiration and example to many other Tibetans. My predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, counted him as a friend and it was my privilege to regard him in...
Kalimpong: Tibet Mirror Press, 2004. — 655 p. — ISBN: 99933-922-0-0. Excerpts from Dalai Lama XIV's Foreword to Called from Obscurity: Tharchin Babu-la was a man of many [commendable] qualities and in his long life was an inspiration and example to many other Tibetans. My predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, counted him as a friend and it was my privilege to regard him in...
Kalimpong: Tibet Mirror Press, 2009. — 1061 p. — ISBN: 978-9937-2-1192-5. Excerpts from Dalai Lama XIV's Foreword to Called from Obscurity: Tharchin Babu-la was a man of many [commendable] qualities and in his long life was an inspiration and example to many other Tibetans. My predecessor, the Thirteenth Dalai Lama, counted him as a friend and it was my privilege to regard him...
John Blake Publishing, 2011. — 220 p. Between them, the three men in the fearsome Pierrepoint dynasty executed over 800 people during a career spanning more than half a century. Henry, his brother Thomas, and his son Albert dispatched some of the most infamous criminals of the 20th century, and in the process earned public notoriety that followed them throughout their eventful...
Fair Winds Press, 2010. — 274 p. — ISBN: 1592334016. For much of history and across most of the world, being born out of wedlock — a love child, a bastard — was a serious impediment to success. Illegitimate offspring were subject to neglect, abandonment, disinheritance, and social exclusion, and often found the usual routes to education, wealth, and status blocked. Surmounting...
Prometheus Books, 2019. — 217 p. — ISBN: 978-0-879758-12-0. During her lifetime, Myra Bradwell (1831-1894) - America's "first" woman lawyer as well as publisher and editor-in-chief of a prestigious legal newspaper - did more to establish and aid the rights of women and other legally handicapped people than any other woman of her day. Her female contemporaries - Susan B....
Harper Collins, 2016. — 903 p. — ISBN: 978-0-06-240997-3. Genghis Khan: The Accidentally Empire Builder (1162 — 1227). Prince Henry: The Explorer Who Made a Science of Discovery (1394 — 1460). Robert Clive: The Rogue Who Captured India for the British Empire (1725 — 1774). Mayer Amschel Rothschild: The Godfather of Global Banking (1744 — 1812). Cyrus Field: The Tycoon Who Wired...
First American Edition. — New York: DK Children, 2012. — 128 p. Where would we be without inventors, philosophers, economists, politicians, explorers, and other "ideas" people? Some of our historical heroes were lone geniuses but many were influenced by other great thinkers and ideas. Full of true-life stories and famous celebrities, 100 People Who Made History contains all the...
Salem Press, 2008. — 5200 p. From Booklist. This set is the eighth installment in the Great Lives series, which is a revision and expansion of the publisher’s 10-volume Dictionary of World Biography (1998–99). The scope of the set is extensive: 1,334 alphabetically arranged essays covering 1,348 individuals. Some 288 of the entries are new, and 166 have been heavily or...
Thames and Hudson, 2018. — 256 p. — ISBN: 978-0500293836. What inspires explorers to push back the boundaries of the known world? Why do they risk their lives in unforgiving conditions far from home? How do they survive at the limits of human endurance? Who are the great pioneers of land, sea and space? Where next? This book charts the great expeditions of forty of the worlds...
Chronicle Books LLC, 2014. — 112 p. — ISBN: 1452114560. This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles. About... Abraham Lincoln, Albert...
Chronicle Books LLC, 2014. — 65 p. — ISBN: 1452114560. This cultural who's-who illuminates 50 famous figures, from Leonardo da Vinci to Coco Chanel, through the fascinating trivia of their lives. Artist James Gulliver Hancock depicts historical icons in quirky annotated portraits surrounded by their associated possessions, baggage, and foibles. About... Abraham Lincoln, Albert...
William Morrow Paperbacks, 2005. — 320 p. — ISBN: 0060585447. Throughout the centuries, royal mistresses have been worshiped, feared, envied, and reviled. They set the fashions, encouraged the arts, and, in some cases, ruled nations. Eleanor Herman's Sex with Kings takes us into the throne rooms and bedrooms of Europe's most powerful monarchs. Alive with flamboyant characters,...
2001 (en) 239 p. Vietnam War: Biographies presents biographies of sixty men and women who participated in or were affected by the Vietnam War. These two volumes profile a diverse mix of personalities from both the United States and Vietnam, including politicians, military leaders, antiwar activists, journalists,authors, nurses, veterans, and civilians who got caught in the...
2001 (en) 239 p. Vietnam War: Biographies presents biographies of sixty men and women who participated in or were affected by the Vietnam War. These two volumes profile a diverse mix of personalities from both the United States and Vietnam, including politicians, military leaders, antiwar activists, journalists,authors, nurses, veterans, and civilians who got caught in the...
Princeton University Press, 2010. — 235 p. Love it or hate it, celebrity is one of the dominant features of modern life--and one of the least understood. Fred Inglis sets out to correct this problem in this entertaining and enlightening social history of modern celebrity, from eighteenth-century London to today's Hollywood. Vividly written and brimming with fascinating stories...
4th Edition. — Published by ANU (Australian National University) Press, 2017. — 940 p. — ISBN: 9781760461256 (paperback) 9781760461263 (ebook). In the mid-1950s I had been puzzled that no comprehensive biographical dictionary was available in paperback and I determined to fill the gap. I wrote to Penguin Books in London/Harmondsworth and received a thoughtful and encouraging...
5th edition. — Acton: Australian National University Press, 2018. — 952 p. — ISBN: 9781760462185; ISBN: 9781760462192. I was careful about the relative balance of entries. Certain categories were automatically included: most popes, all British sovereigns and prime ministers, French and German kings and presidents, American presidents, prime ministers of Canada, Australia, New...
Bakı: Zərdabi LTD MMC, 2014. — 96 səh. Fars dilindən tərcümə edən: Rüstəmova Afət. Şimali Azərbaycan yenidən müstəqilliyinə qovuşandan sonra qonşu və dost İran İslam Respublikası, eləcə də onun tərkib hissəsi olan Cənubi Azərbaycanla keyfiyyətcə yeni münasibətlər yarandı. Bu münasibətlər ictimai, iqtisadi, siyasi, elmi və mədəni əlaqələrin bütün sferalarını əhatə edir və...
Ankara: Muradiye Eğitim ve Kültür Vakfı, 2010. — 320 p. Kilych Dzhevdet. The great thinker Muhammad Iqbal: personality, life path, ideas (in Turkish) Bu zamana kadar, İkbal hakkında dünya dillerinde pek çok eser yazılmıştır. Bunun yanında, bugüne kadar yazılan makaleler, düzenlenen konferanslar ve sempozyumlar, yapılan tezler ve etüdlerin sayısı ise sayılamayacak kadar çoktur....
Un agghiacciante catalogo degli orrori che gli esseri umani sono in grado di commettere. — Newton, 2012. — 695 p. Il male fa parte della vita. È un fatto. Si manifesta non solo sotto dittature efferate come quelle di Hitler o di Stalin ma nella vita di tutti giorni: uccisioni, rapine, stupri, crimini violenti di tutti i generi. Per non parlare dei milioni di persone che hanno...
Un agghiacciante catalogo degli orrori che gli esseri umani sono in grado di commettere. — Newton, 2012. — 695 p. Il male fa parte della vita. È un fatto. Si manifesta non solo sotto dittature efferate come quelle di Hitler o di Stalin ma nella vita di tutti giorni: uccisioni, rapine, stupri, crimini violenti di tutti i generi. Per non parlare dei milioni di persone che hanno...
Boston, J.E. Tilton and co.,1858 - 160 p. A humorous description of the author's own experiences and beliefs on a variety of unrelated topics. The privately printed book is famous for its lack of punctuation. The author responded to critics by including one page of miscellaneous punctuation marks at the end of the second edition so that readers could "pepers and solt it as they...
Britannica Educational Publishing, 2009. — 359 p. — (The Britannica Guide to the World's Most Influential People). Through the ages, women have had to fight to be taken seriously, have their work accepted, and be considered the equal of men. This book tips its hat to women such as Cleopatra, Joan of Arc, Sojourner Truth, and Princess Diana, who have made their mark. Readers...
Author Erik Larson imbues the incredible events surrounding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair with such drama that readers may find themselves checking the book's categorization to be sure that 'The Devil in the White City' is not, in fact, a highly imaginative novel. Larson tells the stories of two men: Daniel H. Burnham, the architect responsible for the fair's construction, and...
Dorling Kindersley Publishing, 2019. — 130 p. In this kids' biography, discover the inspiring story of Helen Keller, who overcame the odds by learning to understand and communicate with the world. Helen Keller lost her sight and hearing due to an early childhood illness and spent the first six years of her life unable to interact with other people. She remained isolated from...
Transl. by Kenneth Burke. — New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1927. — 376 p. The nature of a man is summarized in his portrait — and the great portrait-painters with pen or brush have all been great physiognomists. So that pictures, these silent betrayals, provide the biographer with material as valuable as letters, memoirs, speeches, conversations — when the scientific...
Little, Brown and Company, 2013. - 352 p. When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai refused to be silenced and fought for her right to an education. On Tuesday, October 9, 2012, when she was fifteen, she almost paid the ultimate price. She was shot in the head at point-blank range while riding the bus home from school,...
Heyne, 2016. Die außergewöhnliche Geschichte der Frau, die 2500 Kinder aus dem Warschauer Ghetto rettete.Am ersten September 1939 beginnt für die Bevölkerung Polens das Grauen des Zweiten Weltkriegs und die Terrorherrschaft der deutschen Nationalsozialisten. Die selbsternannten Herrenmenschen errichten ein Regime des Hasses, der Zerstörung und des massenhaften Mordes. Bis...
Thomas Nelson, 2015. — 155 p.— ISBN10: 0718021835;ISBN13: 978-0718021832 In his eagerly anticipated follow-up to the enormously successful Seven Men, New York Times best-selling author Eric Metaxas gives us seven captivating portraits of some of history’s greatest women, each of whom changed the course of history by following God’s call upon their lives — as women. Each of the...
Harper Collins, 2011. — 400 p. They were teachers, students, chemists, writers, and housewives; a singer at the Paris Opera, a midwife, a dental surgeon. They distributed anti-Nazi leaflets, printed subversive newspapers, hid resisters, secreted Jews to safety, transported weapons, and conveyed clandestine messages. The youngest was a schoolgirl of fifteen who scrawled "V" for...
Feltrinelli, 2018. — 246 p. Romanzo vincitore del Premio Campiello 2018. - Vincitore del Premio Wondy di letteratura resiliente 2019 - Finalista Premio Letterario nazionale Chianti 32ma edizione. Con una rara capacità di dare conto alle ambiguità dell'animo umano, Rosella Postorino, ispirandosi alla storia vera di Margot Wölk (assaggiatrice di Hitler nella caserma di...
e LIBRO, – 114 p. – septembro 2001. – ISBN: 91-7303-127-5. Lingve reviziita en 2001. La libro estas havebla ĉe la Libroservo de UEA aû vialanda libroservo. Aranĝis Franko Luin. INKO-SE 13542 TYRESÖ-SVEDIO. www.omnibus.se/inko. La libro celas skizi la vivon kaj la pensojn de Ludoviko Zamenhof kiel la kreinto de la internacia lingvo Esperanto. La zorgo ne estis, ĉu ĝi plaĉos al...
Springer, 2018. — 150 p. — (Springer Biographies). This biography tells the story of Theo van Boven’s dynamic and courageous leadership to develop UN protection. Van Boven has been a life-long scholar and practitioner of human rights. He served in the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs, represented The Netherlands in the UN Commission on Human Rights, served as an expert in its...
Lietuvos politinių kalinių ir tremtinių sąjunga, 2007. — 294 p. — ISBN: 978-9986-577-57-7 Ši knyga - Laisvės Karţygio biografija. Joje nedaug teorinių samprotavimų bei analizės: šią dalį galima palikti ateičiai. Tuo tarpu pokario laikų įvykiai grimzta uţmarštin, o išlikę jų dalyviai vis palieka gyvenimą, kurio - uţtikrinto ir ramaus - jie neturi nė šiandien, Dėmesys nesenai,...
Lietuvos gyventojų genocido ir rezistencijos tyrimo centras, 2000. — 435 p. — ISBN: 9986-757-40-1 Ėjo 1930-ieji metai. „Spalio mėnesio dvidešimt penktoji diena. Respublikos prezidento įsaku esu pakeltas į pirmą karininko laipsnį - jaunesnįjį leitenantą. Kariūnas J. Semaška"
HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. — 368 p. The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were...
HarperCollins Publishers, 2016. — 368 p. The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space. Before Neil Armstrong walked on the moon, a group of professionals worked as 'Human Computers', calculating the flight paths that would enable these historic achievements. Among these were...
Crown Publishing Group, 2010. — 370 p. Intimate in feeling, astonishing in scope, and impossible to put down, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks captures the beauty and drama of scientific discovery, as well as its human consequences. Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer who worked the same land as her slave...
U.S. Department of State, Bureau of International Information Programs, 2010. — 68 p. Stories of African American Achievers is a collection of profiles of remarkable men and women who have made significant contributions to U.S. society from the nineteenth century to the present day. Juan Williams: Looking Back by Juan Williams Black Media Timeline: Freedom’s Message Richard...
Santa Monica Press, 2007. — 337 p. — ISBN10: 1595800174, 13 978-1595800176. The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool profiles over 250 of the most intriguing personalities of the 1960s. The men and women covered in the book include a wide range of celebrities-from well-known superstars (the Beatles, Dustin Hoffman, Muhammad Ali) to lesser-known icons (Nico, Terry Southern, Bo...
Editore: Ilisso Edizioni. Data di pubblicazione: 2001. Luogo di pubblicazione: Nuoro. 214 pagine. ISBN: 88-87825-31-9. Poichè l'amore della terra natale ne accese in cuore la brama di raunare le sparse memorie dei Sardi Illustri, oltre la vaghezza di conoscere gli avvenimenti dell'età trascorse, la quale così facilmente si appiglia agli animi giovanili, solenne conforto era per...
Editore: Ilisso Edizioni. Data di pubblicazione: 2001. Luogo di pubblicazione: Nuoro. 218 pagine. ISBN: 88-87825-31-9. Poichè l'amore della terra natale ne accese in cuore la brama di raunare le sparse memorie dei Sardi Illustri, oltre la vaghezza di conoscere gli avvenimenti dell'età trascorse, la quale così facilmente si appiglia agli animi giovanili, solenne conforto era per...
Editore: Ilisso Edizioni. Data di pubblicazione: 2001. Luogo di pubblicazione: Nuoro. 254 pagine. ISBN: 88-87825-31-9. Poichè l'amore della terra natale ne accese in cuore la brama di raunare le sparse memorie dei Sardi Illustri, oltre la vaghezza di conoscere gli avvenimenti dell'età trascorse, la quale così facilmente si appiglia agli animi giovanili, solenne conforto era per...
Oxford University Press, 2009. - 291 p. ISBN: 0195376137 This is the first major study devoted to the early Arabic reception and adaption of the figure of Hermes Trismegistus, the legendary Egyptian sage to whom were ascribed numerous works on astrology, alchemy, talismans, medicine, and philosophy. Before the more famous Renaissance European reception of the ancient Greek...
Mokslo Aidai, 2007. — 294 p. — ISBN: 978-9955-591-39-9 Vaclovas Voveris-Žaibas nebuvo paskutinis partizanas. Jis su savo kovos draugais, tariamo draugo išduotas už sotaus gyvenimo trupinius, žuvo 1949 m. kovo 7 d. didvyrio mirtimi. Tačiau Jis - vienas pirmųjų, kurio vardą jau ima dengti užmaršties miglos. Dabartinės prievartos dykroj žūsta atmintis.
Ballantine Books, 2000. — 371 p. No one is better poised to write the biography of James Herriot than the son who worked alongside him in the Yorkshire veterinary practice when Herriot became an internationally bestselling author. Now, in this warm and poignant memoir, Jim Wight talks about his father--the beloved veterinarian whom his family had to share with half the world....
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