New Biographies Memoirs

Anatolij Fedorovich Koni, znamenityj yurist, pisatel', obschestvennyj deyatel'. S 1900 goda - pochetnyj akademik. Koni stal shiroko izvesten posle dela V. I. Zasulich, na kotorom pod ego predsedatel'stvom ej byl vynesen opravdatel'nyj prigovor.Koni byl v druzheskih otnosheniyah so mnogimi pisatelyami. On horosho znal Dostoevskogo. Vospominaniya o Dostoevskom legli v osnovu etoj knigi.

Mudrost' legendarnogo biznesmena, stoyavshego u istokov avtopromyshlennosti! Sozdanie udobnogo i dostupnogo avtomobilya - vot, pozhaluj, odno iz glavnykh dostizhenij Genri Forda. Vnedrenie konvejernoj sborki v proizvodstvo pozvolilo naladit' massovyj vypusk mashin, tem samym uluchshiv zhizn' mnozhestva lyudej vo vsem mire. Blagodarya innovatsionnym dlya svoego vremeni ideyam Genri Ford navsegda voshyol v istoriyu mirovogo predprinimatel'stva.

Introduced, annotated and edited by Dickens scholar Michael Norris, here we have insightful, vivid, first-person accounts of Charles Dickens by the people who knew him best, including sons Henry Fielding Dickens and Charles Dickens Jr., daughters Mamie and Kate Dickens, colleague and authorized biographer John Forster, and others. Taken together, these writings provide a stunning portrait of Dickens as a living breathing man: friend, father, collaborator and citizen.

In Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, veteran technology journalist Ashlee Vance provides the first inside look into the extraordinary life and times of Silicon Valley's most audacious entrepreneur. Written with exclusive access to Musk, his family, and his friends, the book traces the entrepreneur's journey from a rough upbringing in South Africa to the pinnacle of the global business world.

Mikhail Bulgakov - a great writer and hoaxer, author of classic prose and dramatic works of Russian literature, famous throughout the world for his works. This life and love story writer cannot leave anyone indifferent, and literary works capture readers around the world to this day.

Some researchers have speculated that Thornley may have associated with both Lee and Marina while in New Orleans. There is even the claim that Thornley and Marina were having an affair. Whatever the truth, there is no doubt that Thornley was close to certain assassination players.

Some call him the charlatan of the century, others - a genius. Elon Musk, who at the age of 27 became a millionaire, is an ambiguous figure. But everyone agrees that he has had incredible success in business, creating companies that earn billions. What distinguishes him from other rich people is his ambitious ideas and incredible plans in the field of space research, the dissemination of alternative forms of energy and transport, even in the creation of artificial intelligence.

Jeta kniga ne pretenduet na status nekoego ob#ektivnogo oficial'nogo rejtinga kinoakterov mira. Sozdavaja ee, my opiralis', prezhde vsego, ne na kolichestvo nagrad, ne na summy akterskih gonorarov i zarabotkov ot prokata fil'mov. I dazhe ne na izvestnost' akterov v mirovyh masshtabah. Zdes' sobrany te zvezdy kino, kotorye priobreli naibol'shuju izvestnost' i populjarnost' imenno u nashego zritelja. Esli vy ljubite i chasto smotrite kino, to prakticheski, ne vstretite na stranicah neznakomyh lic.

Kniga odnogo iz talantlivejshih potov Serebryanogo veka Mihaila Kuzmina - zahvatyvayuschee povestvovanie o zhizni i priklyucheniyah grafa Kaliostro - samoj tainstvennoj i neodnoznachnoj lichnosti XVIII veka. Eta biografiya dolzhna byla stat' chast'yu zadumannoj, no ne osuschestvlennoj avtorom serii zanimatel'nyh zhizneopisanij “Novyj Plutarh”.

Erih Mariya Remark - velichayshiy prozaik 20-ogo veka, samyiy yarkiy iz predstaviteley tak nazyivaemogo "poteryannogo pokoleniya". Ego knigi "Triumfalnaya arka", "Na Zapadnom fronte bez peremen", "Tri tovarischa" i mnogie drugie schitayutsya klassikoy literaturyi i perevedenyi na pyatdesyat yazyikov vo vsem mire. Kem byil etot potryasayuschiy chelovek? Kak on zhil, pisal, lyubil? Vse taynyi i sekretyi velikogo pisatelya myi popyitaemsya raskryit v etoy knige.

Samye yarkie i kharakternye tsitaty odnogo iz velichajshikh politikov i myslitelej ?vraama Linkol'na. 16-yj prezident SSH?, osvoboditel' amerikanskikh rabov, navsegda voshyol v mirovuyu istoriyu kak interesnyj i kharizmatichnyj gosudarstvennyj deyatel' i chestnyj chelovek, dostojnyj primer dlya podrazhaniya. Sokhranilas' obshirnaya perepiska ?vraama Linkol'na. V ego pis'makh my nakhodim udivitel'nye primery mudrosti i serdechnogo velikodushiya i blagorodstva ehtogo deyatelya.

Samye ehffektnye i ubeditel'nye tsitaty osnovatelya korporatsii Microsoft Billa Gejtsa! Pozhaluj, ne najdyotsya v tsivilizovannom mire cheloveka, kto ne znal by o Bille Gejtse. On vozglavlyal spiski samykh bogatykh lyudej mira mnogo let. Talantlivyj biznesmen, filantrop, innovator, obladatel' rytsarskogo titula Velikobritanii. V ehtoj audioknige sobrany samye interesnye vyskazyvaniya Billa Gejtsa.

Lachlan Macquarie is credited with shaping Australia's destiny, transforming a harsh, foreboding penal colony into an agricultural powerhouse and ultimately a prosperous society. He also helped shape Australia's national character. An egalitarian at heart, Macquarie saw boundless potential in Britain's refuse, and under his rule many former convicts went on to become successful administrators, land owners and businesspeople.

This story tells of my pioneer colonist forebears and their arrival and settlement in Adelaide, South Australia, in 1838 after many difficult months at sea. They landed only a year after the proclamation of the city of Adelaide. At this time houses were made from reeds from the banks of Adelaide's Torrens River, the port of Adelaide was surrounded by swamp with the area referred to in those early days as "Mudholia" or "Dustholia".

March 1942: The world is at war. Too old to fight and with jobs scarce at home, Tom Phelps found work as a carpenter in the goldfields of the New Guinea Highlands. No one expected the Japanese to attack in the Pacific. But they did. Tom and his mates weren't going to hang around and wait to be killed. With escape routes bombed by the Japanese, their only option was to try to reach safety by foot, through some of the most rugged terrain on Earth - the Bulldog Track. Back home in Sydney, Rose Phelps, their son, George, and three daughters, Joy, Shirley and Ann, waited for news of Tom's fate.

History colliding with the now. These are just some of the stories and personalities featured in the Grave Tales series. Grave Tales: Sydney visits cemeteries to feature people who willingly, or unwillingly, were participants in events that made local and national headlines. They may have lived in the same suburbs, streets, and even the same houses as exist now, or unexpectantly came to rest, in Sydney, Australia.

The Truro Murders presents the shocking true story of Christopher Worrell and his accomplice, James Miller. The events in this audiobook unveil one of the worst serial killing sprees in Australian history. Over the course of two months 1976-1977, seven young women were brutally raped and murdered. Worrell and Miller met in prison and upon release developed a dominant and submissive relationship that centered around feeding Worrell's sadistic urges towards women.

The ultimate collection of Australia's craziest cons and mad schemes from a master storyteller. Australia is the birthplace and setting of some of the wildest, craziest and least-likely-to-succeed cons and rorts in history. From the cleverest double-crosses to the most unlikely and maddest schemes, master storyteller Jim Haynes reminds us that we've never been shy of pulling a trick or two.

Navigating the Spanish Lake examines Spain's long presence in the Pacific Ocean (1521-1898) in the context of its global empire. Building on a growing body of literature on the Atlantic world and indigenous peoples in the Pacific, this pioneering book investigates the historiographical "Spanish Lake" as an artifact that unites the Pacific Rim (the Americas and Asia) and Basin (Oceania) with the Iberian Atlantic.

Entrepreneur Stuart Skorman, the founder of Elephant Pharmacy, Hungryminds.com, Reel.com, and Empire Video, grew up in a retailing family in Ohio. He worked every kind of job, from cab driver to professional poker player to CEO. In this entertaining, personal account of his coming-of-age in the business world, Skorman gives an insider's view of what it takes to start a business from the ground up.