Take your pick from our list of the best celebrity memoirs, and then take a vicarious journey with some of the world’s most fascinating people. Cher: The Memoir, Part One by Cher. Courtesy.
Walter Isaacson's biography of Leonardo da Vinci is a beautifully written tribute to this ultimate Renaissance man. The book is accessible for a general audience and contains over one hundred color figures of Leonardo's work.
In this stimulating biography, Nancy J. Weiss shows how Young accomplished what Jesse Jackson called the toughest job in the black movement: selling civil rights to the nation's most powerful whites. With race at center stage in American national politics, Young brought the National Urban League into the civil rights movement and made it a.
We put together a cross-section of books that were recommended by authors or other literary experts, as well as critically acclaimed and reader-recommended books that shine a light on some of.
Warren Buffett is an array of paradoxes. He set out to prove that nice guys can finish first. Over the years he treated his investors as partners, acted as their steward, and championed honesty as an investor, CEO, board member, essayist, and speaker.
Byron John Otieno, popularly known as Owago Onyiro, just a few years ago packed his bags and moved to the US. The talented comedian’s ambition was to take a slice of the American dream. In this article, WoK brings you the story of Owago Onyiro and how he is making a success of his life in the United States of America (USA).
In the list of biographies of Swami Vivekananda published by us, we have one which extensively narrates his life, and also one which presents him very briefly. The present book stands midway between these extremes.
So you’re interested in learning more about Charles Spurgeon but don’t know where to begin. Here are ten must-read biographies to get you started: 1. Peter Morden, C. H. Spurgeon: The People’s Preacher. Written by a leading British scholar, this introduction is easy to read and contains helpful illustrations.
Pulitzer Prize-winning historian John Toland’s classic, definitive biography of Adolf Hitler remains the most thorough, readable, accessible, and, as much as possible, objective account of the life of a man whose evil affect on the world in the twentieth century will always be felt.
Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer. In his lifetime he published numerous works, including books, plays, poems, and polemics. His most famous works included the fictitious Lettres philosophiques () and the satirical novel Candide ().
Bulgarian virtuoso violin player Prof. Mincho Minchev celebrated his 60th anniversary with a series of concerts and a new album, recorded at the First Studio of the Bulgarian National Radio. We offer you some of the new recordings through the next minutes and also information on the recent concert tour.
Alfie Browne-Sykes was born on the 8th of November, He is famous for being a Soap Opera Actor. His Hollyoaks mother was portrayed by Gillian Taylforth. Alfie Browne-Sykes’s age is Notable for his portrayal of Jason Roscoe on the popular British soap opera Hollyoaks, Browne-Sykes first appeared on the series on .
Zimbabwe-born, NYC-based blogger and writer Makho Ndlovu is starting to change that with her new weekly column for Russell Simmons' hip hop and pop culture news website Global Grind.
Sir David Frederick Attenborough is a naturalist and broadcaster, who is most well-known for writing and presenting the nine "Life" series, produced in conjunction with BBC's Natural History Unit.
Tariq al-Hashimi () was Vice-President of Iraq from 22 April to 10 September , succeeding Ghazi al-Yawer and Adil Abdul-Mahdi and preceding Nouri al-Maliki.
Obaidullah Baig was an eminent scholar, Urdu writer/novelist, columnist, media expert, and most notably a documentary filmmaker from Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan. Born in Rampur, India in , Obaidullah Baig migrated to Karachi with his family in the early '50s following independence of Pakistan in , and settled in Karachi, Pakistan.
Luiz Ejlli (born 12 July ) is an Albanian singer, songwriter, actor, musician, ex-diplomat, reality show star and TV personality. A former winner of the 44th edition of Festivali i Këngës, he also represented Albania in the Eurovision Song Contest.
She has published extensively in philosophy of religion, contemporary metaphysics, and medieval philosophy. Her books include Aquinas (Routledge, ), Wandering in Darkness: Narrative and the Problem of Suffering (Oxford, ) and Atonement (Oxford, ).
The story of Daniel Boone is the story of America—its ideals, its promise, its romance, and its destiny. Bestselling, critically acclaimed author Robert Morgan reveals the complex character of a frontiersman whose heroic life was far stranger and more fascinating than the myths that surround him.
A list of notable books written by CEOs, about CEOs and business. Father, Son & Co.: My Life at IBM and Beyond. ^ "Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie". ^ "Bloomberg by Bloomberg, Revised and Updated". ^ "The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company".
The Vancouver Olympics in were the third Games held in Canada, but during the two previous editions, no Canadian athlete had won a gold medal. In Vancouver, they won
The Namesake is the story of two generations of the Gangulis, a family of Indian immigrants to the United States. When we first meet Ashoke and Ashima Ganguli they are living in a small apartment in Cambridge, Massachusetts, about to welcome their first child into the world.
A lively and revealing biography of Andy Griffith and Don Knotts, celebrating the powerful real-life friendship behind one of America's most iconic television programs. Andy Griffith and Don Knotts met on Broadway in the 1950s.
Actress Choi Eun-hee, who was abducted with her then divorced husband and director Shin Sang-ok by North Korea, died from illness at the age of 92, Monday, according to her family. Choi.
Previously, Verveer was the Chair and Co-CEO of Vital Voices Global Partnership, which she co-founded with Hillary Clinton in During the Clinton Administration, she was appointed Assistant to President Bill Clinton and Chief of Staff to the First Lady Hillary Clinton.
Lucille Ball was worth $60 million when she died in , but her estate sparked a war among her children and her second husband Gary Morton. Learn how the dispute over her personal items ended and who inherited her fortune.
Susan Attenborough and Robert Attenborough are the children of David Attenborough and his late wife Jane Elizabeth Ebsworth Oriel. Susan and Robert’s father Attenborough is an English broadcaster, biologist, natural historian, and author.