The Nine Magazines of Kodansha (1934) is the autobiography of the Japanese publisher Seiji Noma, owner of the Kodan Company, publishing several million-selling magazines and a daily paper. He details his upbringing in post-feudal Japan, and the mode...Loe edasi...
First published in 1924, Memoirs of a Positivist is both an autobiography of the author and a history of the English Positivist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....Loe edasi...
First published in 1974, Muriel Jones tells of how she came to start her married life in her 40s in Melanesia, of the impact of Christianity on a pagan people, and of their changing way of life. Her story takes one about as far as it is possible to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2022, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781003297215)
A searingly honest, unvarnished personal history of one of the UKs most versatile designers Nigel Coates. Spanning lost loves and a prolific design career: from Tokyo bars and Liberty to the Body Zone at the Millennium Dome....Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1957, this book was a new departure in autobiographies. It is both enlightening and entertaining. From childhood to professional maturity it proceeds through economic difficulties, love and tribulation to science and general...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2021, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781003212799)
Peter Cook has been a pivotal figure within the architecture world for over half a century. He first came to international renown in the 1960s as a founder of the radical, experimental group Archigram, winners of the 2002 RIBA Royal Gold Medal....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Aug-2021, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003722878)
This narrative follows the journey of a Romanian-born, Hungarian-speaking Jewish professor who emigrates from Vienna to Columbia and Harvard, navigating a life of rootlessness across five decades, two continents, and significant political and cultur...Loe edasi...
A complete autobiography of Evalina Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), a woman of immense spiritual strength who fought for the arts against the background of war. She contributed impressively throughout her life to the revival of interest in classical...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Oct-2020, Kirjastus: RIBA Publishing, ISBN-13: 9781003106388)
Terry Farrell is one of Britains most influential architects of the twenty-first century. Offering a compelling personal account of his life in architecture as an influential postmodern designer, architect-planner and principal of a leading global p...Loe edasi...
Why do we endlessly tell the stories of our lives? And why do others pay attention when we do? The essays collected here address these questions, focusing on three different but interrelated dimensions of life writing....Loe edasi...
The image of Robert Boyle owes much to a series of evaluations of him written shortly after his death by men who had known him well, such as John Evelyn, Gilbert Burnet and Sir Peter Pett. This book includes a selection of these previously unpublish...Loe edasi...
As I Run Toward Africa is Molefi Kete Asantes memoir of his extraordinary life. He takes the reader on a journey from the American South to the homes of kings in Africa....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 10-Jun-2011, Kirjastus: John Wiley & Sons Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781119200376)
A collection of insightful, poignant, and humorous stories from Joseph Wells, the worlds foremost fraud expertwith gutsy revelations of his own past mistakes From Joseph Wells dysfunctional childhood in rural Oklahoma; his service in the U.S....Loe edasi...
In this humorous and decidedly charming autobiography, Russell offers readers the story of his life introducing the people, events and influences that shaped the man he was to become. Autobiography is a revealing recollection of a truly extraordina...Loe edasi...
Natalija Matic-Zrnic, Janja Pavetic-Dickey, Jill A. Irvine, Carol S. Lilly
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Nov-2008, Kirjastus: Central European University Press, ISBN-13: 9781003720928)
Presents the life story of a Serbian woman named Natalija spanning over 70 years through memoirs, letters, and diaries, covering extraordinary Balkan turbulence including five wars (two world wars) and four different ideologies as Serbia carved out...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-May-2008, Kirjastus: Left Coast Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9781315416298)
Communication scholar Tom Frentz uses the survival strategies of Native American iconic emotional autoethnography of striving for quality through the worlds of academia and medicine....Loe edasi...
