Resultados para "Alice" en Biografías y memorias

La parabola di un uomo che per molti è stato un dio e per tutti un re: Michael Jackson. Dalle origini umili, in una piccola casa di un'America ignorata dalle luci della ribalta, ai palcoscenici di tutto il mondo dove quelle luci erano tutte per lui, il divo, il Re del Pop. Dalle tribolazioni insieme ai famelici fratelli, i Jackson 5, e al padre-padrone, a una carriera fulminante dove i record sono all'ordine del giorno.

Dove abita Satana? Dove risiede il male assoluto? C'è una zona oscura, che si trova tra il carisma di uomini disposti a tutto pur di sentire consenso intorno a loro e le fragilità di persone insospettabili che vengono risucchiate nel cerchio magico dei loro adepti: è lì, da sempre, che si realizza il lato più incomprensibile dell'essere umano e che viene meno la ragione.

From tragic beginnings as an aristocratic orphan to becoming the mother of the New Age spiritual movement, Alice A. Bailey is one of the modern era’s most misunderstood occult figures. Bailey’s journey is a story of faith, from orthodox Christian beginnings, through a protracted spiritual crisis, to a newfound belief in theosophy.

The remarkable, moving story of Prince Philip's mother by eminent biographer Hugo Vickers, updated in this new edition - for fans of Kingmaker and The Lives and Deaths of the Princesses of Hesse Princess Alice, mother of Prince Phillip, was something of a mystery figure even within her own...

Como una de las músicas más reconocidas de nuestro tiempo, Alicia Keys nos ha cautivado con sus letras sentidas, su extraordinario rango vocal y sus conmovedoras composiciones al piano. Y aun así, lejos de los focos, Alicia se ha enfrentado en privado a un gran pesar por la compleja y desafiante relación con su padre, a esa naturaleza de querer complacer a todo el mundo que caracterizó los comienzos de su carrera, la pérdida de intimidad en cuanto a sus relaciones románticas y las expectaciones oprimentes de la perfección femenina.

Oscar Claude Monet, ossia l'impressionismo. Fu lui, infatti che si impose e che delineò con le sue opere, "impressioni su tela" destinate a diventare le capostipiti di una corrente artistica che divenne predominante tra la fine del 1800 e l'inizio del 1900. Di sicuro il dotatissimo ragazzo di Montmartre di origini modeste non poteva immaginare che la sua passione per la pittura, l'avrebbe reso celebre, e che le sue tele sarebbero diventate icone di bellezza in grado di suscitare ammirazione e di emozionare.

The collected memoirs of a 1913 San Francisco sex worker, their effect on society at the time, and where they fit in today’s world.

'Alice Vincent is on song' -KATHERINE MAY 'Stimulating and humane' -AMY LIPTROT 'This book is a quiet and profound kind of miracle' -CLOVER STROUD We’re told women are good at listening, but we rarely examine what they’re listening to, what their worlds sound like, or how it feels to be...

When she was a girl, Alice Vincent loved her grandfather's garden - the freedom, the calm, the beauty of it. When she suddenly finds herself uprooted, heartbroken, living out of a suitcase and yearning for the comfort of home, Alice starts to plant seeds. Mixing memoir, botanical history and biography, Rootbound examines how bringing a little bit of the outside in can help us find our feet in a world spinning far too fast.

Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was born in The Netherlands during the late 19th century to a wealthy family. As she was growing up, her father went bankrupt. During her prime as a teenager, she seduced the headmaster and discovered the power of her sexuality to bewitch men. As a young woman, she responded to an ad by a Dutch army officer and was married to him shortly after. When her marriage failed, she returned to The Netherlands and from there went to Paris and became a cultural icon and an escort for the wealthiest and most influential of men.

On February 20, 1962, John Glenn became a national star. That morning at Cape Canaveral, the small-town boy from Ohio took his place atop a rocket and soared into space. The Last American Hero is a stunning examination of the layers that formed the man: a hero of the Cold War, a two-time astronaut, a veteran senator, a devoted husband and father, and much more.  

In Alice Baber, the artist's fascinating story is finally revealed, despite concerted efforts to consign her to oblivion. Levin's book is a vital corrective to the history of American art and a thrilling opportunity for the next generation experience Baber anew.

Her name is Alicia. She was 13 when she began saving the lives of people she did not know - while fleeing the Nazis through war-ravaged Poland. Her family cruelly wrenched from her, Alicia rescued other Jews from the Gestapo, led them to safe hideouts, and lent them her courage and hope. Even the sight of her mother’s brutal murder could not quash this remarkable child’s faith in human goodness - or her determination to prevail against overwhelming odds. After the war, Alicia continued to risk her life, leading Polish Jews on an underground route to freedom in Palestine.

One hot summer, two young children disappeared from their first-floor apartment in the Kew Gardens neighborhood of Queens, New York. Their mother, Alice Crimmins, reported them missing to the police. Later that day, the body of four-year-old Missy was found in a vacant lot, showing signs of having been strangled. The body of five-year-old Eddie, Jr., was found several days later.

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Alice McDermott "is a genius of quiet observation", said the Los Angeles Times. "One of our finest novelists." McDermott's books include Charming Billy, winner of the National Book Award, and After This.

I Access all areas berättar Anders Tengner för första gången om sitt liv med hårdrockens storheter. Under tjugofem år flög han jorden runt och mötte hundratals rockband, många av dem privat. Hans intervju- och fotoarkiv är helt unikt i sitt slag, och här öppnar han för första gången dörrarna till en rockskatt som till stora delar är tidigare opublicerad. I detta avsnitt möter vi den legendariska ALICE COOPER, föregångare inom såväl glamrock som skräckrock. Personliga intervjuer varvas med detaljerad bandhistorik.

Nikolaj Lenin è stato il leader rivoluzionario più influente dei primi anni del Novecento. Acuto pensatore, spirito libero e uomo di cultura, Lenin capì sin da giovane di avere la vocazione per essere un rivoluzionario di professione. Dopo aver abbracciato gli ideali marxisti, Lenin consacrò la sua intera vita a fare della Russia un paese diverso.

Author Alice Clark Platts joins Robin Morgan in the Audible Studios to discuss her latest novel, The Taken. Alice is a former human rights lawyer, and in this interview she discusses her author journey and the books that have inspired her.

In this fascinating audiobook, Alice Pung writes about one of her deep influences - the much-loved and hugely successful John Marsden. Alice writes: 'I keep coming back to John Marsden. What makes him so fascinating to me is that as a young adult writer, he comes at it with a whole philosophy of what it means to be a teenager - it is embedded in his two schools, but also his early experiences with mental illness and hospitalisation.'