Название: Королев. Главный конструктор глазами космических академиков
Автор: Владимир Губарев
Язык: русский
Издательство: Родина
Год: 2022
Страниц: 250
Формат: pdf
Размер: 11,5 Мб

Владимир Степанович Губарев ушёл из жизни в год юбилея своего великого героя – Главного конструктора Сергея Павловича Королёва, 25 января нынешнего 2022 года… Историк науки и покорения космоса, автор и сам по себе фигура легендарная. В апреле 1961 года именно Владимир Губарев написал первый газетный репортаж, в котором сообщил о полете Юрия Гагарина…

Название: А. В. Тыркова-Вильямс по ее письмам и воспоминаниям сына
Автор: Борман А.
Издательство: Издание автора
Год: 1964
Формат: pdf+djvu
Страниц: 336
Размер: 10.2 Мб
Язык: русский

Книга издана сыном Ариадны Владимировны Тырковой-Вильямс, известной политической деятельницы и писательницы, вскоре после ее смерти в 1962 году. С 1918 года Тыркова-Вильямс, русская аристократка, потомственная дворянка, активистка партии кадетов, жила в эмиграции - в Англии, затем в США. Тыркова-Вильямс - автор известного биографического романа `Жизнь Пушкина`.

Название: The Meaning of Mariah Carey
Автор: Mariah Carey
Издательство: Andy Cohen Books
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 39 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller
The global icon, award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, actress, mother, daughter, sister, storyteller, and artist finally tells the unfiltered story of her life in The Meaning of Mariah Carey. It took me a lifetime to have the courage and the clarity to write my memoir. I want to tell the story of the moments - the ups and downs, the triumphs and traumas, the debacles and the dreams, that contributed to the person I am today. Though there have been countless stories about me throughout my career and very public personal life, it’s been impossible to communicate the complexities and depths of my experience in any single magazine article or a ten-minute television interview. And even then, my words were filtered through someone else’s lens, largely satisfying someone else’s assignment to define me.

Название: Лубянский долгожитель. Юрий Андропов на фоне эпохи
Автор: Олег Хлобустов
Язык: русский
Издательство: Родина
Год: 2022
Страниц: 460
Формат: pdf
Размер: 10,2 Мб

Юрий Владимирович Андропов 15 месяцев возглавлял Советский Союз. В то же время, он остался в исторической памяти народа, прежде всего, как Председатель КГБ СССР, которым он руководил с мая 1967 по май 1982 года. Автор посвятил свою книгу раскрытию этого уникального феномена Андропова. За прошедшие со дня его смерти годы, исследователям стал доступен большой корпус архивных документов о его жизни и деятельности.

Название: Mozart: The Reign of Love
Автор: Jan Swafford
Издательство: Faber & Faber
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 28 Мб
Язык: английский / English

From acclaimed composer and biographer Jan Swafford comes the definitive biography of one of the most lauded musical geniuses in history, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. From his earliest years it was apparent that the singular imagination of Wolfgang Mozart was tirelessly at work. He hated to be bored and hated to be idle, and he responded to these threats with a repertoire of antidotes mental and physical, going at every part of his life with tremendous gusto. His circle of friends and patrons was wide, encompassing anyone who appealed to his boundless appetites for music and all things pleasurable and fun.

Название: Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography
Автор: Laurie Woolever
Издательство: Ecco
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 53 Мб
Язык: английский / English

An unprecedented behind-the-scenes view into the life of Anthony Bourdain from the people who knew him best When Anthony Bourdain died in June 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man who had dedicated his life to traveling nearly everywhere (and eating nearly everything), shedding light on the lives and stories of others. His impact was outsized and his legacy has only grown since his death. Now, for the first time, we have been granted a look into Bourdain’s life through the stories and recollections of his closest friends and colleagues. Laurie Woolever, Bourdain’s longtime assistant and confidante, interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tony’s orbit—from members of his kitchen crews to his writing, publishing, and television partners, to his daughter and his closest friends—in order to piece together a remarkably full, vivid, and nuanced vision of Tony’s life and work.

Название: Let Love Rule
Автор: Lenny Kravitz, David Ritz
Издательство: Sphere
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 34 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Let Love Rule covers a vast canvas stretching from Manhattan's Upper East Side, Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant, Los Angeles's Baldwin Hills, Beverly Hills, and finally to France, England and Germany. It's the story of a wildly creative kid who, despite tough struggles at school and extreme tension at home, finds salvation in music. We see him grow as a musician and ultimately a master songwriter, producer, and performer. We also see Lenny's spiritual growth-and the powerful way in which spirit informs his music. The cast of characters surrounding Lenny is extraordinary: his father, Sy, a high-powered news executive; his mother, Roxie Roker, a television star; and Lisa Bonet, the young actress who becomes his muse. The central character, of course, is Lenny, who, despite his great aspirational energy, turns down record deal after record deal until he finds his true voice.The creation of that voice, the same voice that is able to declare 'Let Love Rule' to an international audience, is the very heart of this story.

Название: Whipping Boy: The Forty-Year Search for My Twelve-Year-Old Bully
Автор: Allen Kurzweil
Издательство: Harper
Год: 2015
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 17 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The true account of one boy’s lifelong search for his boarding-school bully. Equal parts childhood memoir and literary thriller, Whipping Boy chronicles prize-winning author Allen Kurzweil’s search for his twelve-year-old nemesis, a bully named Cesar Augustus. The obsessive inquiry, which spans some forty years, takes Kurzweil all over the world, from a Swiss boarding school (where he endures horrifying cruelty) to the slums of Manila, from the Park Avenue boardroom of the world’s largest law firm to a federal prison camp in Southern California.

Название: Napoleon: The Man Behind the Myth
Автор: Adam Zamoyski
Издательство: William Collins
Год: 2018
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 88 Мб
Язык: английский / English

A landmark new biography that presents the man behind the many myths. The first writer in English to go back to the original European sources, Adam Zamoyski’s portrait of Napoleon is historical biography at its finest. Napoleon inspires passionately held and often conflicting visions. Was he a god-like genius, Romantic avatar, megalomaniac monster, compulsive warmonger or just a nasty little dictator? While he displayed elements of these traits at certain times, Napoleon was none of these things. He was a man and, as Adam Zamoyski presents him in this landmark biography, a rather ordinary one at that. He exhibited some extraordinary qualities during some phases of his life but it is hard to credit genius to a general who presided over the worst (and self-inflicted) disaster in military history and who single-handedly destroyed the great enterprise he and others had toiled so hard to construct. A brilliant tactician, he was no strategist.

Название: Garbo
Автор: Robert Gottlieb
Издательство: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Год: 2021
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 178 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Award-winning master critic Robert Gottlieb takes a singular and multifaceted look at the life of silver screen legend Greta Garbo, and the culture that worshiped her. “Wherever you look in the period between 1925 and 1941,” Robert Gottlieb writes in Garbo, “Greta Garbo is in people’s minds, hearts, and dreams.” Strikingly glamorous and famously inscrutable, she managed, in sixteen short years, to infiltrate the world’s subconscious; the end of her film career, when she was thirty-six, only made her more irresistible. Garbo appeared in just twenty-four Hollywood movies, yet her impact on the world―and that indescribable, transcendent presence she possessed―was rivaled only by Marilyn Monroe’s. She was looked on as a unique phenomenon, a sphinx, a myth, the most beautiful woman in the world, but in reality she was a Swedish peasant girl, uneducated, naïve, and always on her guard. When she arrived in Hollywood, aged nineteen, she spoke barely a word of English and was completely unprepared for the ferocious publicity that quickly adhered to her as, almost overnight, she became the world’s most famous actress.