Resultados para "Bernard" en Biografías y memorias

Britain's most chilling crimes are brought sensationally to life in this compelling new series, using court room transcripts, police interviews, 999 calls, secret audio recordings and eye witness testimony.

En el piso de abajo son las memorias de una mujer sedienta de educación que no comprende por qué, cuando pedía un libro de la biblioteca de sus señores, éstos la miraran incrédulos y espantados. Con el tiempo, aprendió por su cuenta y en 1968 publicó este libro, que ha sido la fuente reconocida de inspiración de series como Arriba y abajo y Downton Abbey, pero mucho más incisiva e intencionada que ellas.

En Indonesia, Sudamérica y Europa están los escenarios donde se desarrolla la trama de este libro, que tienen relación estrecha con el proceso de escritura de una de las mayores obras de la poesía castellana del Siglo XX: Residencia en la tierra. Es la historia de dos seres casi espectrales...

In questo testo inedito, scritto in occasione della laurea honoris causa ricevuta dall'Università di Parma nel 2014, Bernardo Bertolucci ricostruisce la sua autobiografia artistica, tra cinema e memorie private. Pagine di sfolgorante e semplice grazia, ritrovate dalla moglie Clare Peploe e da Michele Guerra, in cui il regista premio Oscar, autore di capolavori acclamati in tutto il mondo, fa luce su se stesso, sulla propria personalità, sulla propria arte.

Activists and change agents, restorative justice practitioners, faith leaders, and anybody engaged in social progress and shifting society will find this mindful approach to nonviolent action indispensable.

Bernard Thurnheer ist seit vierzig Jahren im Medienbusiness tätig. Die Bezeichnung "Schnurri der Nation" hört er ungern...

To the outside world, Henry Bernard was a hard-working and beloved family doctor in Sydney. He was also a Holocaust survivor who was profoundly affected by his past. But Henry had a bigger secret and a deeper shame about what he had done during the war. He suffered privately until he began returning to Germany and Poland to confront his past. Tony Bernard, Henry's eldest son, went on a 40-year journey with his father to solve the mystery of why Henry was the way he was and how he came to understand the desperate choices Henry had made to try to keep himself and his family alive.

Véritable légende de la boxe en Afrique et en France, Jean-Marie Emébé a été champion d’Afrique et a rencontré les plus grands boxeurs dans sa catégorie.Il a représenté le Cameroun puis la France au niveau mondial dans son sport, la boxe. Beaucoup l’ont admiré, l’ont craint et l’ont même utilisé, mais ce n’est pas là où les coups pleuvent que son destin s’est joué !Ce livre est son histoire, le récit de sa gloire, celle d’un boxeur indépendant, brillant qui a côtoyé les sommets sans jamais perdre son idéal.

Bernard Cribbins's life has been an eventful one. In 1943, he left school aged fourteen and joined Oldham Repertory Company where he earned fifteen bob for a seventy-hour week. After being called up for National Service in 1946 he became a paratrooper and spent several months in Palestine being shot at. On returning home, and to the theatre, Bernard was eventually approached by George Martin, then an A&R man for Parlophone Records, who suggested he made a record.

French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy joins Sam Tanenhaus, senior editor of The New York Times Book Review, to talk about his most recent book, Left In Dark Times. Levy argues for a new "left" based on universal values and ethical commitments. Topics include left-wing anti-Zionism, domestic anti-Americanism and the global effects of both.

Extraordinario director de cine italiano, sus películas 'Il conformista', 'The Sheltering Sky (El cielo protector), Little Buddha (Pequeño Buda) y especialmente, The Last Emperor (El último emperador) que ganó nueve premios Óscar en 1988, son el corolario de un tipo de cine caracterizado por un esmerado uso de la cámara y del montaje, y el trabajo de la fotografía con finalidades simbólicas.

« J’ai eu dans ma vie beaucoup de richesses qui n’avaient rien à voir avec l’argent… Lorsque je quitterai ce monde, je sais que je laisserai à mon peuple tant chéri une autre richesse, impalpable, mais réelle : celle d’un pays possible, mais tout de même d’un pays à faire. »

Bernard Brogan’s life story is one of the most keenly anticipated Irish sport autobiographies in years. For much of the past decade Bernard Brogan was the headline act of Gaelic football for his remarkable forward play, scoring feats and role in helping transform Dublin from contenders into the most dominant team the sport has ever known. Yet despite reaching the pinnacle of the sport, Brogan has encountered his fair share of setbacks. He suffered two cruciate ligament injuries and only broke onto the Dublin senior team when he was 23.

Few Christian thinkers have brought such an array of intellectual, scientific, spiritual, and religious resources to bear on faith and society as Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984). A Jesuit philosopher and theologian, Lonergan worked to integrate faith with the promotion of justice. Taught by one of the world’s leading experts on Lonergan, this 12-lecture course introduces you to the breadth of Lonergan’s thought. You will focus on his method of better knowing yourself through your web of natural, social, and religious “ecologies”.

An exposé on the depths of the internet. From sex trafficking and fraud to government secrets and anonymous hacking groups.

George Bernard Shaw has been called the second greatest playwright in English (after William Shakespeare) and one of the inventors of modern celebrity as the most famous public intellectual of his time. Beginning in the 1880s, as a critic and as a playwright, he transformed British drama, bringing to it intellectual substance, ethical imperatives, and modernity itself, setting the theatrical course for the subsequent century. That his legacy endures 70 years after his death is testament to the prescience of his thinking and his prolific creativity.

Se recopilan en estas páginas memorias basadas en documentación, investigaciones y apuntes personales que dan cuenta de un caso más sociológico que criminal, un caso que seguramente pasará a formar parte del falso acerbo de la mitología nacional y mundial, y que develará el decadente...

It was a crime that captured national attention. In the idyllic suburb of Glen Ridge, New Jersey, four of the town's most popular high school athletes were accused of raping a retarded young woman while nine of their teammates watched. What went wrong in this seemingly flawless American town? In search of the answer, Bernard Lefkowitz takes the listener behind Glen Ridge's manicured façade into the basement that was the scene of the rape, into the mansions on "Millionaire's Row", into the All-American high school, and finally into the courtroom where justice itself was on trial.

In the early hours of March 22, 1989, two friends-career criminals with violent felony convictions-drove around the eastern Kansas City area in a stolen car committing a series of crimes. The weather was mild for late March in Kansas City; the sky was clear, and there was the pale remnant of a Full Moon that bore the dubious name of Death Moon, the last full moon of winter.

Rookie cop Carrie Santero has always been fascinated by serial killers. As a teenager, she wrote a letter to Charles Manson in prison - and received a chilling reply. Then she came face to face with a child murderer in her small Pennsylvania town, an encounter that haunts her to this day. Now, as a detective in training, she finally has her chance to make a difference; to hunt down a psychopathic sadist who embodies the very nature of evil itself.