Libros de Biografías, página 80 de 710

What happens when love doesn t look like the life you planned A bold exploration of desire autonomy and the courage to live truthfully The first time I m afraid of things falling into place of knowing deeply that this is right That all along I ve been fighting a tide that with one wave would wipe out ordinary life Sheffield 2019 Evie and her husband wait in a shopping centre coffee shop for a woman they have only ever spoken with online When she arrives they go to a motorway hotel together and have sex with the casual promise afterwards to meet again sometime When they took their marriage vows they had meant every word So how had they drifted so far from the life they had imagined In her lyrical meditations on the fluidity of desire Evie offers an intimate and unfiltered look into the realities of an open marriage challenging assumptions about love commitment and the societal rules that often confine us Can you truly redefine your individual boundaries without destroying your partnership And what does it mean to find empowerment in breaking the mould Me You Them is a book about the power of the body to unlock the mind It is about want and attraction and what defines them It is a memoir that will dare you to reconsider the very definitions of

Vanessa Nakate continues to teach a most critical lesson She reminds us that while we may all be in the same storm we are not all in the same boat Greta Thunberg An indispensable voice for our future Malala Yousafzai A powerful global voice Angelina Jolie No matter your age location or skin colour you can be an effective activist Devastating flooding deforestation extinction and starvation These are the issues that not only threaten in the future they are a reality After witnessing some of these issues first hand Vanessa Nakate saw how the world s biggest polluters are asleep at the wheel ignoring the Global South where the effects of climate injustice are most fiercely felt Inspired by a shared vision of hope Vanessa s commanding political voice demands attention for the biggest issue of our time and in this rousing manifesto for change shows how you can join her to protect our planet now and for the future Vanessa realised the importance of her place in the climate movement after she the only Black activist in an image with four white Europeans was cropped out of a press photograph at Davos in 2020 This example illustrates how those who will see the biggest impacts of the climate crisis are repeatedly omitted from the conversation As she

David is one of the most courageous men I know His book is one that everyone should read to understand coercive control and what it is like to be a child growing up in a house where there is domestic abuse Melanie Brown MBE aka Mel B Unthinkable stares down horror and heartbreak A story told with unflinching courage and a compelling drive for the truth Laura Kuenssberg Beautifully written and deeply moving I found David s book so compelling I read it in one sitting It is a powerful call to action as much as a very personal memoir Samira Ahmed A devastating portrayal of coercive control as depicted by a son Irish Independent When my mum struck it was with the cumulative rage of thirty years of hurt David Challen grew up in the perfect home with the model family He also grew up inside a house which concealed his father s manipulation and control One Saturday in 2010 David s mother struck more than twenty blows to the back of her husband s head with a hammer after thirty years of abuse She then washed the dirty dishes from the lunch she had just cooked and left the house In those few minutes David s life was changed forever Over the next decade he led the fight to overturn her conviction and in doing so he not only freed his moth

A brilliant and challenging book GORDON BROWNFrom the founder of Britain s leading antifascist organisation HOPE not hate this is an urgent call to resist the forces of extremism on the march in Western societies and how to go about it If you re shocked and disconcerted by the rise of intolerance and hate you re not alone Drawing from 35 years of campaigning and journalism Nick Lowles shows how anti immigration antisemitic and Islamophobic attacks have proliferated in the modern world and how Britain with the likes of Tommy Robinson and the threat of Reform UK has been far from immune from far right politics From HOPE not hate s pioneering campaigns against the BNP in east London to the impact of the manosphere and the issues in Netflix s Adolescence from explorations of the pernicious influence of race science and conspiracy theory to the interplay of deprivation and intolerance in Britain s deindustrialised towns Lowles entwines his inspirational story with hard won lessons from decades of activism His conclusions which do not shy away from awkward truths for campaigners suggest practical ways for the far right to be defeated And he shares powerful examples from a participant led youth club in Hull to Syrian refugees connecting with local p

She Died Young is the literary work of an astonishing mind in which intellect madness art and raw honesty unite It is as far from a celebrity memoir as you can get With humour honesty and a poetic sensibility Brenda Fricker traces a life journey in which her resilience and inner strength shine brightly With luminous memories of happy summers in Kerry where she and her sister Grania got up to hilarious mischief and learned to rebel against Irish orthodoxy she also explores devastating personal challenges She talks frankly of her complicated adult relationships She describes the difficulty of surviving sexual violence and living with mental illness Brenda s contributions to theatre film and television represent an artistic legacy that few can match Her work in films like The Field Swann The Swallow Home Alone 2 and My Left Foot is widely acclaimed and her character Megan in TV series Casualty was a huge success She is the first Irish actress to win an Oscar

From fussy eater to professional food critic Jimi s story is a culinary journey like no other JAMIE OLIVER An insightful engaging and often profound memoir BEE WILSON The Sunday Times Exquisite evocative writing ANDI OLIVER A rich and nourishing story of food and identity ANGELA HUI Shows us that food is never just food it s memory identity and home ASMA KHAN Food is never just food It is freighted with our upbringings our heritage and our sense of self Jimi Famurewa spends his days hunting out the very best food London has to offer and writing about it But as a child he hid gobbets of mash in his pocket at school refused all vegetables and looked forward to Happy Meals in the back of a steamed up car after late night football practice He spent weekends in crowded flats at parties watching his family preserve their Nigerian roots through jollof and fried plantain as well as grow new shoots through American delights like Aunt Jemima s pancake syrup furtively hidden in suitcases But what happens when he grows up stretching beyond the joyful chaos of his mother s kitchen and into the uncharted territory unfamiliar flavours and overlapping identities of the adult world With glorious dollops of nostalgia Picky is as

Join Bobby Bolton and his trusted dog Red as they drive from Wigan across the world and fall in love with life again When Bobby s eleven year relationship broke down he thought he d hit rock bottom Then a bad economic turn and a run of unlucky business deals drove his hard earned construction company into the ground and Bobby discovered what it was to lose all purpose in life Drowning his sorrows in a pub one day Bobby boldly declared that he would turn his life around by driving from his hometown of Wigan all the way to Australia The next day he sold what was left of his business and spent every penny revamping a truck that he would drive and live in with his dog Red A couple of weeks in fate struck when Bobby met a beautiful woman named Marie while hiking in the South of France and fell head over heels in love After just two dates she joined him in his truck to see what might happen next And this was only the start of the adventure Paying corrupt Russian policemen bribes digging out mountain passes in Albania with an old spade getting punched at the Kazakhstan border having a mountain track collapse in Italy being interrogated by the Taliban at a dangerous border crossing or sliding down a snow covered mountain ice axe in hand to r

Show yourself who s in charge using the original art of persuasion backed by contemporary pop culture examples that make transforming your habits and achieving goals easy even fun from the New York Times bestselling author of Thank You for Arguing Rhetoric once sat at the centre of elite education Alexander the Great Shakespeare and Martin Luther King Jr used it to build empires write deathless literature and inspire democracies Here Heinrichs shows us how these persuasive tools honed over more than three thousand years of use persuading others can be turned on our most difficult audiences ourselves Using techniques invented by the likes of Aristotle and Cicero and deployed by some of history s most persuasive characters we see how rhetoric can convert the gloomiest of situations into positive ones Illustrated with examples from history and pop culture Winston Churchill Iron Man Dolly Parton and the woman who serendipitously invented the chocolate chip cookie Aristotle s Guide to Self Persuasion tests the tools of self persuasion and asks Can the same techniques that seduce lovers sell diet books and overturn governments help us achieve our most desired goals Filled with entertaining and scientific studies that showcase the life changing powe

This is an anthology of essays and poetry from more than forty of our best loved nature writers on bogs peat and peatlands stories of nature science history and myth

By the YouTube sensation with more than two million followers the inspiring account of a woman in her thirties who in a moment of personal crisis embarked on an epic transcontinental motorcycle ride and along the way found a new sense of purpose Noraly Schoenmaker was a thirty something geologist living in the Netherlands when she learned that her live in partner had been having a long term affair Suddenly without a place to stay she decided to quit her job and jet off to India in search of a new beginning Her plans were dashed when she fell quickly and helplessly in love with a motorcycle Behind the handlebars she felt alive and free nimble enough to trace the narrowest paths powerful enough to travel the longest of roads She first rode toward the Pacific through the jungles of Myanmar and Thailand then into Malaysia Rather than satisfy her appetite for the open road this ride only piqued it She shipped her bike to Oman at the base of the Arabian Peninsula and embarked on a journey through Iran across Turkmenistan along its border with Afghanistan over the snowy peaks of Central Asia and into Europe all the way back home to the Netherlands She covered remote and utterly unfamiliar territory broke down on impossibly steep mountains and pus

Unschooled is a fierce memoir of a family anda woman navigating the endless travails of motherhood But Caro Giles daughters are educated at home not through lifestyle choice but because thechronically underfunded school system simply does not work for many childrenwith special educational needs and Caro has no alternative

An instant classic NIGELLA LAWSON Sweeping intimate defiant and brimming with love LOUISE KENNEDY It is the roots that keep the trees from falling during a storm Olia Hercules tells us that the same is true for people and nations SERHII PLOKHY I am writing this story without knowing its end it begins long before I was born and will continue long after I die I am writing this story to help myself heal and to make you understand When Russia launched its full scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 Ukrainian chef Olia Hercules decided it was finally time to tell her story Strong Roots is the story of a century in Ukraine told through four generations of one extraordinary family It takes us from years of Russification to Olia s grandmother s deportation to snowy wastelands under Stalin to her Aunt Zhenia s school protest to her own parents flight from Ukraine when their town was occupied in 2022 This is an ode to the land to ideas of home and belonging and to family stories and recipes passed down the generations the tang of sour cherries the best way to make borsch It is an account of resilience in the hardest of circumstances Strong Roots brims with hope and grief It lays bare the compromises and betrayals of generations struggling and survivin

This is the astounding story of the six female aviators who battled to become the first woman to cross the Atlantic Ocean by plane In the early 20th century the dream of crossing the Atlantic by air was as potent as putting a man on the moon would be 50 years later But many people believed women too fragile and lacking in the skills to endure the gruelling conditions of flying long distances In Atlantic Furies Midge Gillies uncovers the stories of Elsie Mackay Lady Anne Savile Frances Grayson Ruth Elder Amelia Earhart and Mabel Boll These courageous rule breaking aviators risked everything to prove that women could fly the Atlantic Some had lied to their families in order not to be stopped others duped the press about their intentions and ultimately three lost their lives but each pushed the boundaries of the possible Atlantic Furies celebrates the bravery panache and drive of these trail blazing aviators who showed the world that it wasn t just men who could conquer the skies

Written in gorgeous sparse prose We Survived the Night reads like a novel A book I ve been waiting my whole life to read Tommy Orange author of There ThereAs an infant Julian Brave NoiseCat s father was found abandoned in a dumpster Against all odds he survived and made it out of his impoverished reservation only to abandon his own son As a young man NoiseCat embarks on an unforgettable journey into his family s past and his people s present Told in the style of a Coyote Story an art form nearly annihilated by colonization this dazzling blend of history and mythology memoir and reportage unravels old stories and braids together new ones NoiseCat grapples with the erasure of North America s First Peoples and the trauma that cascades across generations and illuminates the vital Indigenous cultural environmental and political movements that are reshaping the future Virtuosic compelling and deeply moving this is at once an intensely personal journey and a searing portrait of Indigenous survival love and resurgence

AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW THE POIGNANT STORY OF HOW A GROUP OF ELITE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLERS WENT TO WAR 1914 Britain is slowly becoming football obsessed players are becoming household names attendance is increasing and George V attends the FA Cup Final in May Then the war breaks out In this fascinating work equal parts footballing and military history Christopher Evans explores how once the war began footballers were put under immense pressure to sign up resulting in the formation of Football Battalions in England and Scotland He tells the story of World War I particularly what happened in the trenches of Northern France through the eyes of leading footballers of the day Some would return to leave their mark on the game some would fade into obscurity and some would never make it back Among them are Vivian Woodward an Olympic gold medallist and football s first superstar Frank Buckley who would emerge from the war a hero and go on to redefine the role of a football manager and Walter Tull Tottenham and Northampton hero who faced racism both on the football field and battlefield before becoming the first Black man to win a commission and command a unit in the British Army Deeply researched and drawing on archival material this is a captivati

A fast paced foray through the era that changed British food forever and saw the creation of the now familiar gastropub and the rise of the celebrity chef

El 1948, W&W, Wilhelm i Wolfgang Mommsen van iniciar una forta disputa amb el seu cosí Konrad. Aquest, juntament amb el seu oncle Alfred Weber, havia fet pública una clàusula testamentària de l'a

Jaime I el Conquistador (12081276) es uno de los monarcas más controvertidos; apreciado y respetado en Valencia y Mallorca, mirado con mayor recelo o incluso denostado en Aragón y Cataluña, lo que nadie puede dudar es que sin su reinado la historia europea hubiera sido muy distinta.Cingolani tiene el acierto de trazar la biografia de Jaime I incardinandola en el contexto historico en el que se desarrollo, asi como en la a veces conflictiva red de relaciones personales, familiares y de poder en que tuvo que moverse. Pero sobre todo, su merito es el haber repasado con detenimiento la fuente principal para conocer al rey Jiame, el "Libro de los hechos", para dilucidar no solo cuanto hay de magnificado o de difuminado, sino tambien que hechos fueron interesadamente callados por el monarca y a que intereses respondian estos silencios. Un estudios sugerente, con momentos de suspense interpretativo e incluso con un punto de audacia, pero a la vez impecablemente documentado. Quizas estemos por fin ante el libro definitivo sobre el rey Jaime I, y sin duda ante su biografia mejor planteada y escrita. El octavo centenario del nacimiento de Jiame I es el momento idoneo para dar a conocer este magnifico ensayo de uno de los reyes peninsulares mas importantes.

Jamie Laing s A Z of male vulnerability is the conversation starter the younger generation of today didn t know it needed Based on his personal experiences with mental health and the wisdom he s accumulated from people he s met along the way Boys Don t Cry provides an alternative healthy blueprint for what contemporary masculinity can look like

A True Story Of Risk Resilience and SurvivalAfter a life changing neck injury left him paralysed Ed Jackson defied the odds to walk again Driven by a renewed perspective on life and determination to push his limits Ed set out to climb Himlung Himal a 7 126 meter peak deep in Nepal s Himalayas But as the climb unfolded what began as a daring expedition quickly became a test of survival Joined by fellow climbers Ben Beetle Arron and their guide Bigraj Ed faced extreme conditions treacherous glaciers near misses and snowstorms that prevented the team from summiting When altitude sickness forced Ben to turn back Ed made a fateful decision just meters from the top realising that success wasn t about reaching the summit but knowing when to stop As they descended the true danger revealed itself Stranded on the side of the mountain with no shelter minimal food and water and fading hope the team endured a harrowing night unsure if rescue would ever come Isolated in the freezing wilderness they confronted not only the unforgiving elements but their own fears doubts and vulnerabilities With Bigraj s courageous efforts and a helicopter rescue arriving the next day the climbers narrowly escaped with their lives From the Mountain s Edge is more than a tale