Resultados para "Red" en Biografías y memorias

November 2009. Sergei Magnitsky, is led to an isolation cell in a Moscow prison, and beaten to death by eight police officers. His crime? To testify against the Russian Interior Ministry officials involved in a conspiracy to steal $230 million of taxes. Magnitsky’s brutal killing has remained...

In the early 1980s, a series of quiet, targeted killings spread through a criminal underworld. The dead were not innocent. There were men already living outside the law, and their disappearances passed largely unnoticed. For years, the murders attracted little scrutiny. Then forensic evidence began to surface, revealing a pattern that could no longer be ignored. At the centre of it was Werner Pinzner, known as "Mucki." He operated efficiently within a system designed to protect those who ordered the killings and those who carried them out.

Shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards 2020 The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending takes us on a rich, witty tour of Belle Epoque Paris, via the life story of the pioneering surgeon Samuel Pozzi In the summer of 1885, three Frenchmen arrived in London for a few days’...

Una historia que parece de ficción pero no lo es. Lucía Garrido, atrapada en una red de corrupción policial y narcotráfico en el sur de España, sabía que la iban a matar. Buscó ayuda pero nunca halló respuesta. Se cansó de denunciar en el juzgado, en los cuarteles de la Guardia Civil, incluso en las asociaciones de mujeres... pero una y otra vez le denegaron la orden de protección.

A passionate advocate for preserving wilderness and fighting the bureaucratic and business forces that would destroy it, Edward Abbey (1927-1989) wrote fierce, polemical books such as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang that continue to inspire environmental activists.

A guide for Black women to unlock their potential in business and in life. Despite being the fastest-growing group of entrepreneurs in the US, Black women face systemic barriers that threaten to derail their dreams, including lack of funding, racial and gender bias, and a lack of senior...

The quest to uncover the history of a mysterious painting, and a joyous exploration of art in the twentieth century and beyond. While wandering the streets of Paris in 2015, L. John Harris finds an abandoned, unfinished, and strangely compelling painting. The subject: a girl wearing a bright-red...

First dates are a total gamble, especially if your date is a total stranger.

This book is a continuation of my journey to become Red Dog's vet.

Red Dog was dead... A legend, the talisman of the Pilbara... My responsibility... How did I come to be digging his grave. This book is where it began and how I came to be Red Dog's vet.

It’s 1961 and the white heat of the Space Race is making the Cold War even colder. The age of global surveillance dawns. Secret agent Richard Knox has been hung out to dry by someone in MI5 and he needs to find the traitor in their midst. Meanwhile in a closed city outside Leningrad, top...

Packed with jaw-dropping stories of public violence and personal vengeance, vivid insights into the Mafia's way of life, and shocking portraits of America's most wanted crime families, Red Hook is a must-listen for anyone fascinated by the history of organized crime in America.

By the time he was brought to trial in 1992, Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo had killed more than fifty women and children, often sexually abusing them and leaving their bodies mutilated beyond recognition. Although he was initially arrested in 1984, the police lacked enough evidence to pin the unsolved murders on him and he was able to torture and kill dozens more before his eventual conviction. 

Stingray’s memoir vividly shows how the energy of youth culture and an international love affair with rock ‘n’ roll forged alliances among a new generation who brought an end to the U.S.S.R.

Born and raised in rural Mississippi and the even balmier climes of central Florida, Red Barber, at the age of thirty-two, became one of New York City's most influential citizens as the play-by-play announcer for the Brooklyn Dodgers. But behind all the base hits, balls, and strikes lies a compelling story that dramatizes the shifting expectations and roles of a public figure—the sports broadcaster—as he adapted to complex cultural changes throughout the course of twentieth-century American life.

Red Valkyries explores the history of socialist feminism in Eastern Europe. Through the revolutionary careers of five prominent socialist women active in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—the aristocratic Bolshevik Alexandra Kollontai; the radical pedagogue Nadezhda Krupskaya; the polyamorous firebrand Inessa Armand; the deadly sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko; and the partisan, scientist, and global women's activist Elena Lagadinova—Kristen Ghodsee tells the story of the personal challenges faced by earlier generations of radicals.

This book is a continuation of my journey to become Red Dog's vet.

Zwei Jahrzehnte Motorsport-Geschichte: Ein Blick hinter die Kulissen von Red Bull Racing "No Risk, No Fun" lautet einer der Leitsätze von Teamchef Christian Horner für das Red Bull Racing Team. Das beschreibt sehr gut die Motivation und den Weg zum Erfolg der Rennfahrer aus diesem Stall.

Lynn Young’s Red Hot Living is part joyride, part memoir, part zesty recipe, part anthem, and part love letter to life. Discovering wild joy in the most unlikely places, Young connects us to our own desires and yes, to finding unimaginable joy no matter what life dishes up. Laugh-out-loud funny, Red Hot Living is a rollicking, unabashed, irresistible listen that leads us straight home to our joyful selves.

»Wie viel Geld haben wir eigentlich?«, fragte ich mit zehn meinen Vater. »Über Geld spricht man nicht!«, antwortete er. »Und wenn du noch einmal fragst, kriegst ein paar Watschen.« Niki Lauda, der aus einer wohlhabenden Wiener Indus­triellenfamilie stammt, ist Selfmade­-Millionär mit...