Showing results for "John Williams" in Biographies & Memoirs

In John Williams: A Composer's Life, the first biography of the composer, author Tim Greiving offers an engaging account of a man whose body of work is well-known but whose personal life has consistently remained very private.

Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh gives intimate access to the mind of one of the most brilliant dramatists of his century, whose plays reshaped the American theater and the nation's sense of itself. This astute, deeply researched biography sheds a light on Tennessee Williams's warring family, his guilt, his creative triumphs and failures, his sexuality and numerous affairs, his misreported death, even the shenanigans surrounding his estate.

Este libro es una pionera monografía que pretende ofrecer al lector una completa visión acerca de la figura del gran compositor norteamericano John Williams, autor de las bandas sonoras de toda una vida: las sagas de La Guerra de las Galaxias, Indiana Jones, Parque Jurásico o Harry Potter, y de películas inolvidable como E.T., La lista de Schlinder o Lincoln; y también de una importante obra para concierto, menos conocida entre el gran público. Narrado a su vez de forma biográfica para conocer tanto al músico como a la persona y enriquecido además con anécdotas de su vida tanto personal como profesional.

Parece imposible sostenerse como un héroe mítico que camina al mismo tiempo entre los mortales. Pero Messi lo ha logrado, transita entre nosotros y toca nuestras vidas. Desde sus comienzos en los campos de tierra de Rosario, su ciudad natal, su consagración en el FC Barcelona, su paso por el...

Parece imposible sostenerse como un héroe mítico que camina al mismo tiempo entre los mortales. Pero Messi lo ha logrado, transita entre nosotros y toca nuestras vidas. Desde sus comienzos en los campos de tierra de Rosario, su ciudad natal, su consagración en el FC Barcelona, su paso por el...

Friday the 13th was the last time she felt fully in control of all her limbs. At 1 a.m. on Saturday, her world as she had known it ended... She was fully awake and trying not to freak out at the thought of something foreign travelling up into her body to roam around inside her brain? Is there really a purpose to all this pain? She asked, "Where is GOD when I'm suffering during the agonizingly long wait?"

From his school days in Stoke -on-Trent to his years in Take That, his battle with drink and drugs and the song that 'saved his life', this is the most intimate and well balanced portrait of this excitingly unpredictable showman to date. This Sunday Times bestseller has become the definitive account of Robbie Williams life.

This book is about John Williams’s life, and how he faced the many challenges and obstacles throughout his life. Sometimes the choices he made thought out his life, were not always in his best interest, as he would usually find himself in a place where he really didn’t want to be.

William Speirs Bruce was a Scottish nationalist and naturalist who led the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition (1902-04). He also participated in or led many other polar expeditions from 1892 through 1919, particularly to Spitsbergen. But he is now largely forgotten, compared to other explorers like Shackleton, Scott, and Amundsen.

Sonny Bill Williams (SBW) is a once in a hundred-year athlete with immense sporting talent in Rugby League, Rugby Union and Boxing. Sonny Bill has built an incredible career and sporting reputation across the globe. His athleticism has taken him from inner-city Auckland, where he grew up, to the...

A Podcast hosted by John Connors and Tiernan Williams of Cluster Fox Films. Delving into the pit of creativity and psychology with a heady mix of humor and investigative journalism, like no other!

A Stranger’s Story is based on one of the many intriguing, sometimes heartwarming and sometimes not, but always emotionally rich memories of John J.J. Batiste, Sr. He was born in New Iberia, Louisiana, in 1913 to father Eraste and mother Elizabeth. This story takes place circa 1942 when John was traveling to Vancouver, Washington, to start a job in the shipyards in support of the war efforts. It reveals John’s faith, his efforts to share it to support a stranger, and that stranger’s demonstration of what is meant by free will.