Popular Biographies

Kelly Osbourne is the child of one of the best documented - and least ordinary - families in Britain and life under the spotlight means she has had to learn from her mistakes the hard way. Fierce takes us from Kelly's first period to her first night in Chicago. From depression and dealing with alcohol and drugs, to coping with the ultimate embarrassing dad, this book is totally honest and totally Kelly.

Look inside the lives of five successful people and their lessons for success and how you can use them to make your own world better. In this book, you’ll find the stories of five powerful and inspirational people, whose lives and struggles demonstrate the power of motivation, discipline, and hard work. While each came from different places and achieved different things, the same key mindsets and attitudes underpin them all.

This is the first biography of Greer for two decades, drawing on unprecedented access to her extensive personal archive, opened at Melbourne University in 2016. Kleinhenz has interrogated Greer's personal and professional files, spoken to people who have known her from her school days onwards, and read every word written by and about her. Beginning with Greer’s troubled early life in 1940s Melbourne, it traces her career, relationships with men and women, her travels and her home life and examines Greer’s work and ideas from The Female Eunuch to the #MeToo movement.

This is the first biography of Ralph Peer, the adventurous - even revolutionary - A&R man and music publisher who saw the universal power locked in regional roots music and tapped it, changing the breadth and flavor of popular music around the world. It is the story of the life and 50-year career, from the age of cylinder recordings to the stereo era, of the man who pioneered the recording, marketing, and publishing of blues, jazz, country, gospel, and Latin music.

Néstor Kirchner asumió como presidente de Argentina en 2003. Su alineación política, considerada dentro de Argentina como centro-izquierda estaba caracterizada por un fuerte sentido de justicia social y el empoderamiento del pueblo. Entre sus mandatos más reconocidos están la abolición de las leyes de obediencia debida y punto final, las cuales dejaban impunes a los involucrados en las desapariciones y otros crímenes cometidos en la dictadura militar de 1974 a 1983.

Sprightly swing music spills across the dimly lit club. The grayish curtains of cigarette smoke part every once in a while to reveal a sparkling stage and tables upon tables of patrons, some incurably inebriated and others high on the fast-paced nightlife. Fabulous flappers in shimmery cocktail dresses and stylish feather headbands throw their hands up and stomp their feet to the addictive beat on the dance floor. Smartly dressed men, their hair neatly parted and slicked back, toss fistfuls of dice onto the plush green baize of the craps tables.

El 25 de mayo de 2003 Néstor Kirchner asumía como presidente de la Nación Argentina. Desde el primer momento encaró con decisión la compleja situación del país e impuso un ritmo vertiginoso a las medidas que fueron cambiando el rumbo de la Argentina: la revisión de las políticas económicas neoliberales, los derechos sociales, el fortalecimiento del rol del Estado, la derogación de las leyes de Obediencia de Vida y Punto Final y el enfoque sobre las causas de lesa humanidad, entre otros.

Whether you hate him or just feel disgusted with him, the fact is that Ted Bundy remains one of the most discussed serial killers even 27 years after his execution. Even now, anything even remotely connected to Bundy makes headlines. Bundy may have been charged for the murders of 36 women, but most people know that the count of his victims is actually higher than 100. He may have been executed in 1989 in an electric chair, but his charm, intelligence, and communication skills made him a celebrity.

Science often entails continuous studies, discoveries and innovations. Before, everything in this world seems vague, as to how everything works, how things are formed and how they exist. However, this changed because of our skillful scientists, who spent years to investigate and come up with theories about certain aspects of this world. One of the great scientists, who has influenced and continues to inspire people, is Albert Einstein.