Resultados Editorial "Audible Studios" en Biografías y memorias

"What would you like to be remembered for? You have to evolve yourself and shape your life. You should write it on a page. That page may be a very important page in the book of human history. And you will be remembered for creating that one page in the history of the nation - whether that page is the page of invention, the page of innovation or the page of discovery or page of fighting injustice...."

Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, The Imaginary Girlfriend is John Irving's candid memoir of his twin careers in writing and wrestling. The award-winning author of best-selling novels from The World According to Garp to In One Person, Irving began writing when he was 14, the same age at which he began to wrestle at Exeter. He competed as a wrestler for 20 years, was certified as a referee at 24, and coached the sport until he was 47.

I hate every wave of the ocean', the seasick Charles Darwin wrote to his family during his five-year voyage on the H.M.S. Beagle. It was this world-wide journey, however, that launched the scientists career.

Selvatico. Avido. Fragile. Ossessionato dall'arte, nella quale convogliava tutta la sua straripante energia, Michelangelo fu segnato dal fuoco della genialità e attraversò la magnifica stagione del Rinascimento italiano. Con raro talento letterario, Forcellino fa rivivere l'uomo e i suoi anni. Antonio Forcellino è tra i maggiori studiosi europei di arte rinascimentale. Ha realizzato restauri di opere di valore assoluto, come il Mosè di Michelangelo e l'Arco di Traiano.

Il 'delitto Matteotti', di cui quest'anno ricorrono i cento anni, è stato senza dubbio il più grande 'caso' della storia italiana. All'inizio dobbiamo analizzare la scena del crimine, sul lungotevere di un afoso pomeriggio romano, e descrivere la meccanica del delitto.

We all know Dorothea Lange's iconic photos - the Migrant Mother holding her child, the shoeless children of the Dust Bowl - but now renowned American historian Linda Gordon brings them to three-dimensional life in this groundbreaking exploration of Lange's transformation into a documentarist. Using Lange's life to anchor a moving social history of 20th-century America, Gordon masterfully re-creates bohemian San Francisco, the Depression, and the Japanese-American internment camps.

Die Familie Thomas Mann hat ein Haus am Tegernsee gemietet. Die Kinder schwimmen und angeln Rotaugen, der Vater rudert, geht spazieren und besteigt erstmals einen Berg, die Mutter kümmert sich um das neue Baby, und Bauschan, der Hund, döst im Schatten, während ihn Thomas Mann gerade zum Helden seiner Erzählung »Herr und Hund« macht. Den Schriftsteller plagen Sorgen. Die deutsche Niederlage im Ersten Weltkrieg steht bevor, Revolution liegt in der Luft, und mit seinem antidemokratischen Manifest »Betrachtungen eines Unpolitischen« sitzt Thomas Mann historisch auf dem falschen Dampfer.

Hay escritores con manías dignas de un loquero y vidas tan asombrosas que hacen palidecer a las de sus propios personajes. Novelistas incapaces de escribir una página sin tener una copa en la mano o tan prolíficos que acabaron asfixiados en su propio ego. Un Hemingway yéndose al otro mundo en circunstancias exactas a la que eligió su padre, dos de sus hermanas y una nieta. Un Scott Fitzgerald que entraba a los casinos a cuatro patas o una Virginia Woolf que no soportaba leer sus textos.

Martí Perarnau was given total access to Bayern Munich during season 2013-14. This audiobook represents the first time in the modern era that a writer has got this close to one of the elite teams of world football. At the invitation of Pep Guardiola, he shadowed the Catalan, his staff and his superstar players during training and on matchdays. Bayern smashed domestic records on their way to the double, but were humiliated by Real Madrid in the Champions League semi-final.

María Antonieta. Los frutos de la frivolidad se analiza la historia de aquella reina francesa de origen austriaco con “un gran destino malogrado”, cuyo mayor error, si acaso, fue no entender los signos de los tiempos y a un pueblo oprimido y empobrecido. Sin ser una tirana ni del todo culpable como la representa la historia, resultó ser víctima de su propia frivolidad y capricho.

El célebre autor Ta-Nehisi Coates vuelve con un oportuno libro sobre sus viajes a tres lugares en conflicto —Dakar, Carolina del Sur y Palestina— en el que explora cómo las historias que contamos, y las que no, conforman nuestras realidades.

For half a century, Bob Brown has been standing up to the powerful interests who would put profit before planet. In Defiance, he draws on this experience to inspire a new generation of individual and collective action. He reflects on the people and places that have shaped him, celebrates the irreplaceable beauty and value of nature and shares what motivates him to keep fighting.

Sinônimo de eficiência e seriedade, a Polícia Federal faz tremer os mais temidos e audazes criminosos, como mostra Luiz Antonio da Cruz Pinelli aqui em sua autobiografia, Agente 114, o Caçador de Bandidos. Com 40 anos de intensa e exemplar atuação na PF, ele tem muitas histórias extraordinárias para contar. Policial incorruptível, Pinelli atuou, nas últimas décadas, na solução dos mais difíceis, delicados e cinematográficos casos de tráfico de drogas, sequestros e roubos no País, como no Banco Central em Fortaleza.

2023 stehen wohl zum letzten Mal mutmaßliche NS-Täter und Täterinnen vor Gericht. In dieser packenden Audio-Dokumentation begleiten wir den Anwalt und Nazi-Jäger Thomas Walther bei seinem Versuch, die letzten Nazis der NS-Zeit ausfindig zu machen und in Deutschland vor Gericht zu stellen. Diese Menschen sind über neunzig Jahre alt; sie hören schlecht und sitzen im Rollstuhl. Aber warum finden diese Prozesse erst heute statt? Wieso wurden sie nicht schon vor Jahrzehnten geführt? Und: Brauchen wir sie heute überhaupt noch – ist es nicht viel zu spät?

The legendary Frank Zappa, one of the most influential, innovative and controversial musical artists for the past 20 years, takes us on a wild, funny trip through his life and times. Along the way, Zappa offers his inimitable views on many things such as art, politics, and beer.

Makoto Saigo is half-American and half-Japanese in small-town Japan with a set of talents limited to playing guitar and picking fights. With rock stardom off the table, he turns toward the only place where you can start from the bottom and move up through sheer merit, loyalty, and brute force―the yakuza. Saigo, nicknamed “The Tsunami”, quickly realizes that even within the organization, opinions are as varied as they come, and a clash of philosophies can quickly become deadly. One screw-up can cost you your life, or at least a finger.

Lee, the founding father of modern Singapore and its prime minister from 1959 to 1990, has honed his wisdom during more than fifty years on the world stage. Almost single-handedly responsible for transforming Singapore into a Western-style economic success, he offers a unique perspective on the geopolitics of East and West. American presidents from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama have welcomed him to the White House.

Di cosa è fatta la bellezza di una casa, se non della vita di chi la abita? Ma quando accade che un intero popolo si trovi all'improvviso espropriato delle sue dimore, la domanda che passa, amara, di bocca in bocca è soltanto una: che fine fa quella bellezza, e che fine fa l'anima di chi in quelle case, in quei palazzi, in quei giardini, ci ha vissuto, ci ha pianto e ci ha gioito, per una vita intera? Questa storia ha inizio nel 1948, quando gli inglesi, partendo da Israele, lasciarono due popoli in lotta.

In The Lives of Michel Foucault, David Macey quotes the iconic French philosopher as speaking “nostalgically...of 'an unforgettable evening on LSD, in carefully prepared doses, in the desert night, with delicious music, [and] nice people'". This came to pass in 1975, when Foucault spent Memorial Day weekend in Southern California at the invitation of Simeon Wade - ostensibly to guest-lecture at the Claremont Graduate School where Wade was an assistant professor, but in truth to explore what he called the Valley of Death.

Nace un tejedor de sueños es el despertar de un escritor y es la liberación de un pueblo. Mientras Ngũgĩ va a estudiar a la Universidad de Makerere, en Uganda, su pueblo se defiende del Imperio británico. En aquellos tiempos convulsos es cuando nace uno de los intelectuales más importantes de nuestra época, formándose como periodista, escritor de cuentos, dramaturgo y novelista.