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This book brings together a collection of photographs and commentary celebrating Elizabeth Taylor's timeless sense of style, both on-screen and off, which ran the gamut from her high glamour Hollywood gowns and jewelry to her extraordinary earthy beauty which transcended every embellishment of fashion. She was a star who was both idolized as a...

In this dramatic first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit the region in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with...

Professor Christian Andree has edited for the first time the complete correspondence of all Virchow#8217;s surviving letters to Theodor Goldst#252;cker, complemented by Goldst#252;cker#8217;s own letters to Virchow.The indologist Goldst#252;cker (K#246;nigsberg 1821-1872 London) was one of the most important scholars of India of the modern age. As...

This book is the record of a struggle between two temperaments, two consciousnesses and almost two epochs." That's how Edmund Gosse opened "Father and Son", the classic 1907 book about his relationship with his father. Seth Lerer's "Prospero's Son" is, as fits our latter days, altogether more complicated, layered, and multivalent, but at its heart...

Biografia Karin Stanek pióra jej wieloletniej przyjaciółki i menedżerki. "Karin nie miała spokojnego, beztroskiego dzieciństwa. Urodziła się w Bytomiu w wielodzietnej rodzinie i po ukończeniu szkoły podstawowej musiała pomóc mamie w wychowaniu młodszego rodzeństwa. Jedynie w wolnych chwilach czytała i marzyła. Ale kiedy pewnego dnia dostała do rąk...

Revered or reviled, Gertrude Bell was a commanding figure: scholar, linguist, archeologist, traveller and 'orientalist'. Belonging to the tradition of the great British Middle East enthusiasts of the early 20th century, she explored the Ottoman Empire during and after World War I and was hugely instrumental in the post-war reconfiguration of the...