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Biografier giver dig adgang til ægte livsfortællinger og skæbner, der har sat deres præg på verden. Her finder du bøger om både nulevende og historiske personer – fra de magtfulde til de misforståede, fra kendte navne til hverdagens helte. Vores udvalg rummer inspirerende historier om mod, passion og vilje, hvor virkelighedens stemmer får plads. Uanset om du søger en biografi med indhold til samlingen, en rørende gave eller blot ønsker at læse om mennesker, der har ændret verden, er der masser at vælge imellem. Find din næste biografi hos WilliamDam.dk og oplev fortællinger, der berører og sætter sig fast.
An intimate intellectual, political and personal portrait of Edward Said, one of the 20th centuries leading public intellectuals
Russian composer, Sofia Gubaidulina has achieved international acclaim for her musical oeuvre which draws on Eastern and Western musical traditions. This biography places her life and the evolution of her work within the cultural and political context of post-Stalin Soviet Union.
The Nine Magazines of Kodansha (1934) is the autobiography of the Japanese publisher Seiji Noma, owner of the Kodan Company,... Læs mere
Horace Walpole (1964) was widely acclaimed when it first appeared as the best life of Walpole yet written. It is scholarly and thorough, and since then there is no reason to believe that it has been displaced.
Every year between 1920 and 1970, almost one million of New York City's Jewish population summered in the Catskills. Hundreds of thousands still do.... Læs mere
Author Victor Grossman was born Stephen Wechsler but changed his name after defecting to the German Democratic Republic in 1952. A child of the Depression era, he fled McCarthyite America and potential prosecution and this memoir offers his view of the Cold War.
While Cuba’s 1940 constitution was among the most progressive in the western hemisphere, few knew its details until political leader Chibás, whose... Læs mere
Prior to his death in 1985, Cratis Williams was a leading scholar of and spokesperson for Appalachian life and literature and a pioneer of the Appalachian studies movement. This book is an edited compilation of Williams' memoirs of his childhood.
Using various sources, including diaries and letters, this book contributes to the study of Gertrude Bell's colourful life - exploring the personal passions, desires and relationships that drove her - and to an understanding of the background behind the creation of modern Iraq.
This memoir evokes a girl’s coming of age in a postwar New York City planned, “utopian” community.