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History remembers her as the gracious wife standing beside Lyndon B. Johnson, but Lady Bird Johnson was much more than just the period of time that she spent at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in the White House. Born in the piney woods of East Texas to a wealthy but troubled family, Lady Bird overcame tragedy to become one of the most accomplished women of her generation. By age 22, she had earned two college degrees and harbored dreams of becoming a globe-trotting journalist.

அமெரிக்காவின் புகழ்பெற்ற அதே சமயம் மிகுந்த சர்ச்சைக்குரிய புலனாய்வு அமைப்பு FBI. அமெரிக்காவைக் கடந்து உலகம்...

Los malos de la historia: Malinche «Empezaré por una advertencia. Si el lector busca entre estas páginas una biografía del tipo: "La Malinche nació en el año tal, cursó sus estudios en la escuela primaria Herederos de Chimalpopoca, se graduó con honores, amó con pasión incondicional y...

Winston Churchill was born into a wealthy aristocratic family. He grew up with stories of his ancestor, John Churchill, First Duke of Marlborough, who led the British army to triumph against the French and Bavarians in the War of the Spanish Succession.

Det er fortællingen om den viking, der senere blev dansk konge efter en magtkamp med faderen, Harald blåtand (som han myrdede!), og grundlagde Danmark. Han indtog dele af Norge og Sverige og hele England, hvor han i 1013 - året før sin død - blev anerkendt som kongen over alle engelske. Romanen er resultatet af flere års research og må betragtes som det første opgør med den historieopfattelse, ifølge hvilken Sven Tveskæg kun var en brutal parentes i dansk og nordeuropæisk historie.

In this compelling, eye-opening story of six women who exercised power against the odds-and one, Jane Grey, who never got the chance-acclaimed historian Helen Castor explores the provocative subject of women and power in England. “The boy in the bed was just fifteen years old. He had been...

El enigma detrás del poder: la historia del arquitecto del triunfo electoral de Milei. El viernes 26 de enero de 2024, el Gobierno oficializó la contratación de Santiago Caputo como "asesor presidencial". El joven gurú se había acercado a Javier Milei y en muy poco tiempo había ganado su...

Nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag auf der Suche nach sich selbst, spürt die Autorin den Erinnerungssplittern ihrer Kindheit nach, beobachtet sich selbst beim Heranwachsen. Szenisch und eindringlich schildert sie den Überlebenskampf ihrer Familie, mal tragisch, mal komisch.

From Sicily to the South is a heartfelt and historically grounded family memoir that traces the journey of Giuseppe Murana, a young Sicilian boy who left everything he knew behind in 1904 to begin a new life in America. At just five years old, Giuseppe arrived at the port of New Orleans with his parents aboard the S.S. Liguria—unaware that his journey would one day shape generations to come.

உலகறிந்த அரசர், போர் வீரர், தலைவரான நெப்போலியனின் வாழ்க்கை வரலாற்றை என். சொக்கனின் சுவையான மொழியில் வழங்கும்...

In the aftermath of World War II, Germany lay in ruins—its cities bombed, its people starving, its identity fractured. In German Autumn, Swedish journalist Stig Dagerman delivers a raw and unfiltered account of life in occupied Germany during the fall of 1946.

Step into the life of one of history’s greatest thinkers and discover how a curious boy from a small village in Italy changed the world forever. From the delicate brushstrokes of the Mona Lisa to the engineering marvels scribbled into secret notebooks, Leonardo da Vinci didn’t just create art—he imagined the future. In this richly detailed and accessible biography, listeners young and old will explore ten fascinating aspects of Leonardo’s genius. Each chapter unlocks a new side of the man whose mind refused to be confined by any single label.

Plutarch: Alexander is the essential companion to Plutarch's Caesar, the life paired with Alexander in Plutarch's Parallel Lives. This new English version of Alexander is followed by an Afterword about Plutarch’s Parallel Lives by the translator, Christopher Pelling, Emeritus Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford University.

Eine liebevolle, oft auch ironische Zeichnung der ostjüdischen Kultur, vor allem aber auch des Elends, das so viele in die Welt hinaustrieb, und eine fesselnde Beschreibung der neuen Heimatorte, der Judenviertel in Wien, Berlin, Paris und New York. Inhalt: Ostjuden im Westen Das jüdische Städtchen Die westlichen Gettos: Wien, Berlin, Paris Die Schilderung: Ein Jude geht nach Amerika Die Lage der Juden in Sowjetrussland Nachwort Vorrede zu einer geplanten neuen Auflage

Michel Franceschi en Ben Weider keren terug naar het einde van de 18e eeuw en bieden een andere kijk op deze periode en de meest opmerkelijke persoon die het voorbracht. Ze presenteren Napoleon als kind van de revolutie en voorvechter van de democratie. Hun Napoleon is een man die nooit zelf een oorlog verklaarde, maar zo'n bedreiging vormde voor de gevestigde orde dat grootschalig conflict onvermijdelijk was.

«Вчерашний мир» — последняя книга знаменитого австрийского писателя Стефана Цвейга, созданная в изгнании, в самый разгар Второй мировой войны. Прежде всего, это книга-прощание. Последний раз Стефан Цвейг оглядывается на величественное здание европейской культуры, приговоренное к сносу немецкими войсками. Перечисляет названия книг, городов и улиц, счастливые и печальные события, из которых сложилась первая половина ХХ столетия, с любовью пишет о людях, знакомством с которыми гордится.

Arguably the most intellectual, creative, cosmopolitan, and curious of the Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin is the only top-tier Founder not to have served as president. Despite not becoming the Chief Executive, Franklin played an active role in American politics and served the aspiring and young United States in the key European capitals. His prodigious reading and appetite for learning are epic. As he did in works about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington, Kevin J. Hayes interprets the life and mind of Franklin through what he read.

Richard III is one of the most mysterious figures in English history, and as such is the source of perennial fascination. Comparatively little is known of his early life, his appearance, his interests, for up to 1483 he played second fiddle to his more glorious older brothers, Edward 'this sun of York', and the feckless Clarence. This new edition of a classic royal biography includes an account of the discovery of Richard’s remains in a Leicester car park in September 2012 and what his skeleton revealed about the physical condition of the last Plantagenet and the manner of his death.

This isn't a book about finding Amelia Earhart. it's about her finding me, and guiding, directing, nudging, cajoling me along the way. It's a mind bending adventure told in third person, then in first person, then with eyewitnesses, then with a variety of mediums who I've known for decades, answering my incessant questions.

In September 2022, twenty-two-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman Mahsa Jina Amini is killed by Iran’s morality police in Tehran for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely. Outrage triggers nationwide protests. Women rip off their headscarves, setting them afire. Others cut their hair in open defiance. Key industries are brought to a standstill, and once-revered banners of the country’s Supreme Leader are incinerated. It’s the greatest challenge to the Islamic Republic of Iran in its forty-six-year history—not coming from a foreign adversary but from their own freedom-seeking women.