Michelle Obama is: A Lawyer A Writer An Activist A First Lady of the United States of America. She is a role model and feminist icon. Born and raised in Chicago, she studied and worked hard to become...
Twenty-five years after the Hugo and Nebula Award-winning bestseller Gateway, Frederik Pohl returns with a new Gateway novel. Filled with excitement and the sense of wonder that made Gateway a huge su...
Legend has it that if you take your guitar and stand at a crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He’ll grab your instrument, play a song, and hand it back to you. You’ll walk away an ...
In "Me and the Devil Blues", bluesman Robert Johnson, an American legend, has been completely reimagined. This fictionalized biography takes us deep into the heart of some of the darkest chapters in A...
Rok wydania 2006, stron 472, oprawa twarda, tekst ang. "Nie będę żyła dwarazy" - pisze Anne Leibovitz w przedmowie do kolekcji jej prac z lat 1990 -2005. "Mam jedno życie i zdjęcia prywatne oraz praca...
What happens if you give a mouse a cookie? Why he'll need a glass of milk to go with it! He'll also need a straw, a napkin, a mirror--each item prompts the need for another. When the mouse is hanging ...
Beloved broadcast journalist Jane Pauley tells a remarkable story of self-discovery and of an extra-ordinary life, from her childhood in the American heartland to her three decades in television. Paul...
Life is rough sometimes, and Sharie is learning what that's all about in this easy-read chapter book. She'd rather eat liver and onions than go to piano lessons, and she dreads the thought of playing ...
This volume includes approximately 600 biographies of Americans, both living and deceased - from artists and writers to politicians and criminals - who flourished during the 1960s.
The thoroughly revised New Edition presents definitive coverage of liver disease from over 100 expert contributors. Streamlined to cover the scientific aspects of liver disease only as they apply to i...
In this biography, Roman Frister tells the story of his metamorphosis: from happy child to merciless concentration camp prisoner, from branded to life-thirsty lover and bohemian, who never again will ...
Life of a Poet is devoted to the careful reenactment of the difficult relationship between Rilke's life and his art. In this outstanding biography, Ralph Freedman traces Rilke's extraordinary career b...
Did you know... Helen Keller was the author of 13 books, travelled all over the world and met 12 US presidents? Learn all about Helen's amazing work with fellow deaf and blind people and how her indom...
Written by a leading British careers coach How to Get a Job You'll Love takes a refreshing approach to career planning. Amongst the topics covered are; job search strategies, advice for college leaver...
Surviving the Holocaust is a compelling sociological account of two brothers who survived the Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Poland. One brother, the author’s father, endured several concentration camps, ...
'There is no corner of the world that we cannot access, no fear too large to overcome.' Most people don't realise their full potential. Instead of striving to achieve all they can, they allow themselv...
Angel Crawford is a loser Living with her alcoholic deadbeat dad in the swamps of southern Louisiana, she's a high school dropout with a pill habit and a criminal record who's been fired from more cr...
Wild Green Wonders brings you a selection of twenty years’ worth of Patrick Barkham’s writings for the Guardian, bearing witness to the many changes we have imposed upon the planet and the challenges...
Collects The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #22-26 and material from A Year Of Marvels #4. Squirrel Girl goes savage! When Doreen Green and Nancy Whitehead enter a mysterious programming competition, they d...
Karol Wojtyla's early life experiences were of intense love and intenseloss: born in Poland in 1920, he was eight when his mother died, twelvewhen his older brother died of scarlet fever in the hospit...
Michael Jackson was one of those rare human beings who can truly bedescribed as a legend. As with Elvis and John Lennon, everyone willremember where they were when they heard about the death of Michae...
Volume 2 of Family Life and Family Policies in Europe is a comparative study of family change in Europe and its dependency on social policy regimes. The authors explore family discourse, family law, s...
Presents more than 500 brief biographies of significant American figures, summarizing each figure's family history, education, spouses and marriage history, occupation, cause of death, achievements, a...
This book is about five plays written by someone who likes old television.
Birding can become an addiction. It starts when you hang a bird feeder in the backyard. Then you buy a bird book to identify the birds you see. Then, before you know it, you're keeping a life list and...
Johnson himself wrote in 1782: "I know not that I have written any thing more generally commended than the Lives of the Poets." Always recognized as a major biographical and critical achievement, Samu...
Thousands of students graduate from university each year. The lucky few have the rest of their lives mapped out in perfect detail  but for most, things are not nearly so simple. Armed with your hard-...
The perfect book for anyone who's concerned about saving for retirement, from baby boomers to Generation Y. Most books on retirement investing are either too complex, too superficial, or too gimmicky ...
Sex and love are central to daily life and to all nations. Despite the universality of these sentiments, their expression is largely shaped by the cultures in which they occur. This massive set explor...
Choosing a Better Life in Business Stephen Green - current Chairman of HSBC and ordained priest - believes above all that our lives should be lived with integrity. And more than that: these beliefs s...