At the Birth of Bowie - Life with the Man Who Became a Legend (Lancaster Phil)(Pevná vazba)

At the Birth of Bowie - Life with the Man Who Became a Legend (Lancaster Phil)(Pevná vazba)

A new, personal look at the genesis of a music legend by the drummer in Bowie's first

Roy Lancaster: My Life with Plants (Lancaster Roy)(Pevná vazba)

Celebrated plantsman Roy Lancaster's birth on December 5, 1937 was the start of something big for plants and horticulture. His chance find of a Mexican tobacco plant in a local allotment brought him fame as a schoolboy and sowed the seeds of his future career. This book is the story of his

The Tao of Bowie: 10 Lessons from David Bowie's Life to Help You Live Yours (Edwards Mark)(Pevná vazba)

What would David Bowie do? When life gets tough, who can we turn to for help? Who will help us find happiness, meaning and purpose? The Tao of Bowie suggests that we turn to David Bowie for guidance - and use his amazing journey through life as a map to help us navigate our own. Buddhism was

Biographic Bowie (Flavell Liz)(Pevná vazba)

The Biographics series presents an instant impression of David Bowie's life, work and fame, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the artist behind the

The Story of Tutankhamun: An Intimate Life of the Boy who Became King - Garry J. Shaw

A lively new biography of Tutankhamun―published for the hundredth anniversary of his tomb’s modern discovery   The discovery of Tutankhamun’s tomb in 1922 sparked imaginations across the globe. While Howard Carter emptied its treasures, Tut-mania gripped the world―and in many

Gunner: My Life in Cricket (Gould Ian)(Pevná vazba)

Gunner: My Life in Cricket is the revealing and absorbing story of Ian Gould, who became one of the best umpires in the world after playing for England, Middlesex and Sussex. He had a close-up view of the best players and biggest controversies during 13 years at the top, including the infamous

Who Dares Wins - The sequel to BORN FEARLESS, the Sunday Times bestseller (Campion Phil)(Pevná vazba)

The sequel to Born Fearless, the Sunday Times bestseller from SAS legend Phil

Jane Goodall: A Champion of Chimpanzees (Albee Sarah)(Pevná vazba)

Learn about the life of Jane Goodall, a pioneering scientist who became the world expert on chimpanzees, in this early reader biography.Jane Goodall was the first person to study wild chimpanzees up close in a rain forest. She befriended the chimps and discovered amazing facts about their

Michael Collins - A Biography (Coogan Tim Pat)(Paperback / softback)

Presents the life of a man who became a legend in his own lifetime, whose idealistic vigour and determination were matched only by his political realism and supreme organisational abilities. This book provides an insight on Michael Collins life and

Endurance: Winning Lifes Majors the Phil Mickelson Way (Magee David)(Pevná vazba)

ENDURANCE Winning Life's Majors the Phil Mickelson Way For the first twelve years of his career, Phil Mickelson was one of the world's most skilled, successful, and beloved professional golfers. He also spent most of that period under the cloud of a different title--''The best golfer never to win a

The Marvel Art of Adam Kubert (Harrold Jess)(Pevná vazba)

The son of an industry pioneer who became a comic book legend in his own right, Adam Kubert's momentous contribution to the Marvel Universe is celebrated in this lavishly illustrated art book! Follow his career from the WOLVERINE and UNCANNY X-MEN runs that made him a fan-favorite through his

Duty, Honor, Country: The Life of Arthur MacArthur Jr. (Brackob A. K.)(Pevná vazba)

On September 15, 1906, Arthur MacArthur Jr. became the twelfth man in the history of the United States Army to be awarded the rank of Lieutenant General, the highest rank in the Army up to that time. This great honor, which marked the culmination of MacArthur's brilliant military career, included

The Imaginative Life Tableau: The Spiritually Perceived Story of Our Life Between Birth and Death: Meditative Knowledge Out of Childhood Forces (Steiner Rudolf)(Paperback)

Many will be familiar with the notion that people, at the point of death, see their life 'flash' before them. Rudolf Steiner describes how--when the spiritual bodies separate from the physical body--the etheric body one who is dying is revealed, giving a panoramic overview of one's earthly life

Peacock and Vine - Fortuny and Morris in Life and at Work (Byatt A S)(Pevná vazba)

Here he worked alongside the French model who became his wife and collaborator, including on the 'Delphos' dress - a flowing gown evoking classical Greece. Morris's Red House, outside London, with its Gothic turrets and secret gardens, helped inspire his stunning floral and geometric

The Nurse Who Became a Spy: Madge Addy's War Against Fascism (Hall Chris)(Pevná vazba)

The life story of Madge Addy, a working-class Manchester woman who volunteered to fight Fascism and Nazism in two major wars, is a truly remarkable one. Madge left her job and her husband to serve in the Spanish Civil War as a nurse with the Republican medical services. In Spain she was wounded in

The Gambler Wife: A True Story of Love, Risk, and the Woman Who Saved Dostoyevsky (Kaufman Andrew D.)(Pevná vazba)

An intimate new portrait of the bold and determined woman who saved Dostoyevsky's life--and became a pioneer in Russian literary history In the fall of 1866--against the backdrop of Russia's first feminist movement--an independent-minded young stenographer named Anna Snitkina went to work for a

The Genius of Jesus: The Man Who Changed Everything (McManus Erwin Raphael)(Pevná vazba)

A groundbreaking manifesto decoding the phenomenon of genius through the life of Jesus of Nazareth, revealing the untapped potential within every human being--from the bestselling author of The Artisan Soul, The Last Arrow, and The Way of the Warrior. 'IF ALL GENIUS IS TOUCHED BY MADNESS, THEN IT

The Woman Who Stole Vermeer: The True Story of Rose Dugdale and the Russborough House Art Heist (Amore Anthony M.)(Pevná vazba)

The extraordinary life and crimes of heiress-turned-revolutionary Rose Dugdale, who in 1974 became the only woman to pull off a major art heist. In the world of crime, there exists an unusual commonality between those who steal art and those who repeatedly kill: they are almost exclusively male

The Battle of Tsushima (Carradice Phil)(Pevná vazba)

In 1905, Japan and Russia were at war. With the Russian Far East Fleet destroyed, the Czar decided to send his Baltic Fleet half way around the world to exact revenge. This mammoth journey took many months and was, in itself, an amazing feat of seamanship. But, at the end of this epic adventure,

Spitfire: The History of a Legend (Lepine Mike)(Pevná vazba)

It was during the Battle of Britain in 1940 that the Spitfire became an enduring legend and a symbol of the British fighting spirit, partnering with the Hawker Hurricane to defeat the might of Hitler's Luftwaffe and prevent invasion. Highly illustrated with the pick of historic photographs,

Shadowplay (O'Connor Joseph)(Pevná vazba)

Discover the thrilling life of Bram Stoker, the man who created Dracula, in this immersive historical novel. **Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award **1878: The Lyceum Theatre,

Berthold Wolpe - The Total Man (Cleaver Phil)(Pevná vazba)

Thomas Hardy - The Time-torn Man (Tomalin Claire)(Paperback / softback)

Paradox ruled Thomas Hardy's life. His birth was almost his death; he became one of the great Victorian novelists and reinvented himself as one of the twentieth-century's greatest poets; he was an unhappy husband and a desolate widower; he wrote bitter attacks on the English class system yet prized

The Sorrows of Work (The School of Life)(Pevná vazba)

Work can be a route to creativity, excitement and purpose. Nevertheless, many of us also end up at points confused, discouraged and beaten by our work.The temptation is to blame ourselves narrowly - and to feel privately ashamed and guilty. However, as this book lucidly explains, there are a range