Forfatteren undersøker det avgjørende øyeblikket der populærkulturen og massemotstanden...
I løpet av 1960-tallet overrasket Bob Dylan sine tilhengere med en rekke stilistiske, politiske og personlige hamskifter. I denne boka...
Den tysk-jødiske filosofen og Edmund Husserl-eleven Edith Stein (f. 1891) valgte i 1922 å konvertere til katolisismen. I 1934 trådte hun inn i...
An intimate memoir by the award-winning author of The Corrections describes growing up in a family of all boys in...
Band II av Edvard Hoems store Bjørnson-biografi begynner da Bjørnson med familie flytter inn på Aulestad i 1875. På nokre...
Ved inngangen til 1890-talet måtte Bjørnson konstatere at dei store kampsakene han hadde slåst for...
Edgar Allan Poe began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron. Poe has been claimed as the forerunner of modern fantasy. This...
Could one see a magazine deciding that Julia Roberts or Jennifer Lopez or Angelina Jolie were 'intriguing'? There is something mysterious and not...
An intimate and endearing portrait of the early life of one of the last century’s most important political...
När Mannonis Freud utkom ansågs den snart av många vara den bästa freudbiografin i det mindre formatet. Den är en enkelt skriven introduktion...
Otto Preminger was one of Hollywood’s first truly independent producer/directors. Blazing a trail in the examination of controversial issues...
By 1987 Swaggart was one of the most popular video preachers in the world, with a weekly television audience of 2.1 million in the US and a worldwide...
Daughter of a white German woman and an African-American serviceman stationed in Germany after World War II, Ika Hngel-Marshall tells her troubling...
A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on...
A Book of Hours is a departure for Father Lee: a personal memoir, cast in the form of a secular breviary, that recreates a year Father Lee spent...
A political and intellectual biographical study of Lenin which focuses on those aspects of his thought and political activities that had a bearing on...
In this fascinating autobiography Kung gives a frank account of the first four decades of his life. Of his youth and his decision to become a priest;...
George Shearing og Alyn Shipton (red.)
Pianist George Shearing is that rare thing, a European jazz musician who became a household name in the US, as a result of the “Shearing...
Antony Beaumont has written a penetrating study of the composer and conductor Alexander Zemlinsky (1871-1942). 'Zemlinsky - all hail to you!',...
This is the definitive book about the man who revolutionised English drama and English poetry - and was murdered in his...
Cardinal Newman (1801-1890) was one of the most eminent and controversial figures of the 19th Century. His conversion...
Twenty-five years ago in his hit song, "Sir Duke," Stevie Wonder sings: "Music knows it is and always will be one of the things that...
This beautifully designed volume contains 250 rare photographs of Fromm, his family, and associates. The literary executor of the Fromm estate has...
‘An excellent, very readable summary of Cardinal Newman’s intellectual achievement - Ker’s most...
This is the first complete biography of John Spargo, a key popularizer of evolutionary socialism in the Socialist Party...
Instead of simply narrating the life of the saint, Robson looks at Francis through the thoughts and writings of those who knew him: his parents, the...
Best known for his efforts to end World War I, Benedict XV was the first contemporary pope to assume the role peacemaker, a role that has persisted...
Dr. Albert Shelton was a medical missionary who spent nearly twenty years in the Tibetan borderlands at the start of the last century. Raising his...
Erich Fromm og Rainer Funk (red.)
Fromm's essential writings, some never before published, in a compact volume. Selections include: "Human Alienation," "Origins of the...
This is the biography of the Gothic novelist, Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823), author of "The Mysteries of Udolpho", the world's first ...
Justus George Lawler's critically acclaimed study of the work of the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889) is, once again,...
Jakob Littner og Kurt Nathan Grübler
In 1948, a Holocaust memoir was published in German under the title Notes from a Bunker and the authorship of Jakob...
750,000 copies sold worldwide. The methodology of the late Paulo Freire, once considered such a threat to the established order that he was...
Based on interviews with over 100 friends and colleagues who worked with Gielgud, this biography covers Gielgud's...
This classic work is the definitive study of Bob Dylan's 40-year body of songs and recordings. This latest edition...
Leni Riefenstahl achieved fame as a dancer, actress, photographer, and director, but her entire career is colored by her association with the Nazi...
The first authorised biography of one of the foremost novelists of the twentieth century. William Golding was born in 1911 and educated at his local...
Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Lonesome George has come to embody the complexity and fragility of the unique Galapagos...
One night in 1974, a young Frenchman secretly - and illegally - rigged a tightrope between the twin towers of the World Trade Center. At daybreak,...
Despite professing a dislike of having his portrait taken, John Ruskin's footsteps were dogged by portrait painters,...
