Titres dans Biographies et mémoires

This book of autobiographies by Korean middle-school students is something that is needed for Korean studies and Korean-American studies, in my opinion. Because this book contains our voices, this book is very powerful. In a sense, we are documenting our own history. Because our lives are like the lives of other middle-school students who are Koreans, I believe that this book contains an important history for everyone who listens to this book.

Some say he was the greatest warrior in history, building an empire that extended from Europe to Africa and on to India and Central Asia. In a stirring narrative, famed historian John Gunther tells the story of Alexander the Great who, at only age 21, became King of Macedonia and set off on a 12-year journey to conquer the known world and extend the boundaries of Greek civilization.

From Chelsea House’s Black Americans of Achievement series comes this biography of the legendary anti-slavery activist.

Marni pulls. Pulls her hair, that is.Unable to deal with the mounting stress at home, in school, and with friends, Marni's compulsion to pluck out her eyebrows, eyelashes, even the hair from the top of her head, helped her to quiet her mind and escape the pressures of the world around her. Marni first began pulling the summer just before entering high school, and she was immediately hooked.

Nicht zu fassen, was so alles in einem Frühstücksei stecken kann! Schneller als eine Eierschale zerbricht, steht Lea im Lissabon des 15. Jahrhunderts. Und wen trifft sie da? Christoph Columbus, den Entdecker der Indianer! Nur dumm, dass dieses Rauhbein weder mit dem Ei des Columbus noch mit den Indianern etwas anzufangen weiss! Auf Lea kommt ein hartes Stück Überzeugungsarbeit zu. Von den Irrungen und Wirrungen am spanischen Königshof ganz zu schweigen.

In this heartwarming and candid memoir, Tim Howard does something he would never do on a soccer field: he drops his guard. As fiercely protective about his privacy as he is guarding the goal for the US national team and for Everton in the English Premier League, Howard opens up for the first time about how a hyperactive kid from New Jersey with Tourette's syndrome defied the odds to become one of the world’s premier goalkeepers.

He remained firmly in the center of the action and at the center of controversy. That's what made General George S. Patton America's most colorful military leader and an endlessly fascinating subject. He's as dynamic in digital audio as he was in life in Alden Hatch's lively, accessible biography, which chronicles Patton from his early days growing up in Southern California to his triumphant march into Germany in World War II.

Hayao Miyazaki is one of the world's most respected Japanese animation filmmakers. He is known for creating compelling characters, engaging stories, and breathtaking animation, all of which have earned him international acclaim while setting box-office records. Miyazaki, who began his career in 1963 as an in-betweener for Toei Doga studio, soon found his true calling as an anime and manga artist, working on classic Japanese features and television series and writing the best-selling manga, Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind.

Mutig sind sie: die Menschen, die sich einsetzen für Frieden, Freiheit und Menschenrechte. Sie riskieren viel, bringen sich dadurch in Gefahr...

As one of the most important and influential leaders of America's civil rights movement, Martin Luther King, Jr., became the catalyst for change in a nation marked by segregation and discrimination. Unlike the civil rights activists who argued for a violent response to segregation and prejudice, King believed that peaceful resistance could bring about great change.

Lea ist im Farbenrausch! Auch wenn sich ihre künstlerische Ader lediglich auf bemalte Ostereier beschränkt. Doch statt auf dem Ostertisch landet ihr prächtigstes Osterei auf dem Familientisch der Familie Jesus, Maria und Joseph! Und die haben von Ostern noch nie was gehört.

Verzweifelt brütet Lea über dem "Bellum Gallicum" - Gaius Julius Cäsars 2000 Jahre alter Kriegsberichterstattung. Zu gern würde sie diesem alten Hau-Drauf-Römer mal so richtig die Meinung sagen - als sie ihm unverhofft Auge in Auge gegenüber steht!

Seldom given the credit she deserves, Sacajawea is one of America's true heroines. Without her help, the Lewis and Clark Expedition would never have crossed the Rockies and reached the Pacific Northwest - and the course of U.S. history would have been changed forever. Master Western storyteller Neta Frazier, author of The Stout-Hearted Seven: Orphaned on the Oregon Trail, tells the story of this courageous Native American.

Matt Groening is a cartoonist, animator, and producer best known for creating The Simpsons, television's longest-running primetime animated series. Although it debuted as a series of cartoon shorts for another television show in 1987, The Simpsons launched on its own in 1989, making the dysfunctional family of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa, and Maggie famous almost overnight.

Tex Avery, considered the father of screwball animation, was one of the most influential animators of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Creator of such classic characters as Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, and Droopy, he directed many cartoons for Warner Bros., MGM, and Walter Lantz Productions and was nominated for six Academy Awards.

Eigentlich soll Lea nur Klavier üben doch plötzlich steckt sie mitten in den Wirren des 5. Jahrhunderts kurz vor der Völkerwanderung! Aber Lea ist nicht nur mehr als 1500 Jahre in die Vergangenheit gestürzt, es ist ausgerechnet Attila, der gefürchtete Hunnenkönig, dem sie vor die Füße fällt! Im Handumdrehen ist Lea in einen Überfall auf die Vandalen verwickelt.

Newbery Medal winner Armstrong Sperry has such an affinity for life on the high seas that his readers will imagine themselves right beside the bold John Paul Jones, luring enemy craft into danger and engaging them in close combat. Jones, a talented young captain, became an invaluable figure in America's fight for independence when he offered his sailing skills to the Continental Navy.

Eben noch sehnte sich Lea nach einer Katze, da landet sie unverhofft bei der schönsten Königin des alten Ägypten - Nofretete! Zwar trennen die beiden mehr als 3.300 Jahre, doch das hält Lea nicht davon ab, mit Nofretete im Nil zu baden und sich über Mode zu streiten...

Kurz, anschaulich und genau spüren wir den Lebensgeschichten großer Komponisten nach. Richard Wagner lebte in seiner Bayreuther Villa...

When Charles S. Stratton was born in 1838, he seemed perfect in every way. But then he stopped growing. At age four, though a happy and mischievous child, he was just over two feet tall and weighed 15 pounds - the exact size he had been as a seven-month-old baby. It was then that P. T. Barnum persuaded Charley’s family to allow him to exhibit their son in his museum and tour him around the world as a curiosity. Tom Thumb, as Barnum dubbed him, was a natural performer.