Architects Photographers category: 3350 books
All Will Be Well
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children growing up in rural County Leitrim, a childhood was marked by his father’s violent nature and the early...
Prince of Stories
The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2008
Over the past twenty years, Neil Gaiman has developed into the premier fantasist of his generation, achieving that rarest of combinations—unrivaled critical respect and extraordinary commercial success. From the landmark comic book series The Sandman to novels such as the New York Times bestselling...
Limonov
The Outrageous Adventures of the Radical Soviet Poet Who Became a Bum in New York, a Sensation in France, and a Political Antihero in Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures
This is how Emmanuel Carrère, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has...
Library of Luminaries: Coco Chanel
An Illustrated Biography
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel's signature style and revolutionary approach to design changed women's fashion forever. Featuring handwritten text paired with sweet illustrations this ebook sheds new light on the woman behind some of the last century's most iconic designs—from her impoverished...
by Peo Thyren
Language: Swedish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
Language: Swedish
Release Date: November 16, 2012
När Peo Thyren var tolv år bildade han och några kompisar rockbandet Noice. När han var 16 hade de spelat in sin första skiva och när han var 17 var Noice, tillsammans med Gyllene Tider, Sveriges största band. När Peo var 19 splittrades Noice, när de...
The Peace Pole
Poems on War, Peace, Ebola and Hope in Sierra Leone
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2017
'These youths, torn from their homes and forced to commit horrible acts under great duress, effectively became Sierra Leone's lost generation. When peace was finally achieved in 2001, these youths were left without families, direction, or hope.
These poems are a reflection of his own experiences...
by S. G. Goodrich
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016
The reader of these pages will perhaps remark, that the length of the following sketches is hardly proportioned to the relative importance of the several subjects, regarded in a merely historical point of view. In explanation of this fact, the author begs leave to say, that, while he intended to present...
Great Scientists of India
Part II
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2012
This is the second part of the two part series on Indian scientists:
Part II Satyendranath Bose Vikram Sarabhai Birbal Sahani Homibhabha
by Jorge Lucendo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 13, 2018
La historia de los inventores es apasionante, sabemos muy poco de aquellos genios y sus mentes prodigiosas, ellos cambiaron el Mundo y escribieron las páginas más brillantes de la Historia.
Sabían que la bombilla no la inventó Edison, y que la radio no la inventó Marconi, y el teléfono, ¿sabrian...
by Edwin Emery Slosson
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
A few years ago it occurred to me that there were living on the same planet and at the same time as myself some interesting people whom I had never seen and did not know so much about as I should. Since they or I might die at any moment, I determined not to delay longer. So I prepared a list of twelve...
Charlie Chaplin
Greatest Male Screen Legend of all Time
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
The Three Stooges Federico Fellini Milton Berle Peter Sellers Rowan Atkinson Johnny Depp Jacques Tati Mildred Harris Paulette Goddard Oona O'Neill Black Patch Park Smethwick Music hall Hannah Chaplin Sydney Chaplin Romanichal The Eight Lancashire Lads Cuckoo Schools Harry Arthur Saintsbury William...
by Mariele Gioia Papa
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: Italian
Release Date: May 21, 2015
La breve, sofferta e appassionata vita di Fryderyk Chopin testimonia il passaggio nel mondo di un artista senza pari, che fece del pianoforte il caposaldo del suo genio. Schivo, ironico e raffinato, custodì nella musica i tumulti fisici ed emotivi, trasformando le parole in note gremite di poesia....
Denis Diderot
Sa vie, ses oeuvres et sa correspondance
Language: French
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Biographie de Diderot par Albert Collignon. M. Collignon est un grand admirateur de Diderot, qui prend plaisir à nous expliquer le rôle très important de Diderot dans le siècle des Lumières. Denis Diderot est un grand génie français, qui compléta...