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Paris Hilton is an American socialite, actress and entertainer. She is the great-granddaughter of Conrad Hilton, the founder of Hilton Hotels. Born in New York City and raised in both Beverly Hills, California and New York, Hilton began a modeling career as a teenager when she signed with Donald Trump's...

Jeremy Lin is an American professional basketball player for the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). After receiving no athletic scholarship offers out of high school and being undrafted out of Harvard University, Lin reached a partially guaranteed contract deal...

Dorothy Hodgkin was a British biochemist, credited with the development of protein crystallography. She advanced the technique of X-ray crystallography, a method used to determine the three-dimensional structures of biomolecules. Among her most influential discoveries are the confirmation...

The first ever intimate portrait of Britain’s best-loved, but little known, comedy entertainer. Fully authorised, and written by Cooper’s friend and colleague John Fisher. More than just a comedian, Tommy Cooper was a born entertainer. Working in a golden age of British comedy, Cooper stood –...

Goddess... Legend... Icon...You thought you knew her... but never like this.Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) survived a childhood marked by abuse, neglect, and chaos to become a psychological, cultural, and spiritual phenomenon of the Twentieth Century. Her remarkable life, brilliant film...

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for The Young Man from Atlanta and Academy Awards for the screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird and the original screenplay Tender Mercies, as well as the recipient of an Academy Award nomination for the screenplay of The Trip to Bountiful and the William Inge...

Updated and filled with striking new revelations, the bestselling, "superb" biography that "honors in full a life we thought we knew" (Newsweek) Praised as "remarkable," "meticulous," and "long overdue," Anne Frank: The Biography, originally...

The statements and events in the life story of Derrick Gregory James Sr. were recently spoken of by him to several individuals who had come together to write this biography as a whole. Not until now had Derrick Gregory James revealed to these close individuals what he had denied for eighteen years...

Peter Brook is one of the world's legendary theater directors. His productions are a byword for imagination, energy, and innovation. From his ground-breaking production of Marat/Sade, to his "white box" A Midsummer Night's Dream, to his monumental staging of The Mahabharata and beyond, Brook...

The literature on Boris Yeltsin is vast. Memoirs have been produced not only by politicians - first-hand participants in the events, Yeltsin himself penned three volumes of recollections - but also assistants, press secretaries, political analysts, journalists, MPs, retired members of Gorbachev's...

Ever wondered how Tom Hanks rose to stardom? Tom Hanks is one of the most likeable icon of his generation and the achiever of two Oscars, three Emmys and four Golden Globes. In a line of business, straddling over 25 years, Tom Hanks has paved his place as one of the supreme actors. With a collection...

ABOUT THE BOOK It was 1982. A then-twenty-seven-year-old James Cameron, recently fired by producer Roger Corman from the Rome-based set of schlocky B movie Piranha II: The Spawning, had been staying in an Italian pensione hotel, his pay for the film exhausted, stealing hard rolls from room-service...

Are you a fan of Harry Potter? Can't wait until you get the next book / movie of the Harry Potter series? Now you have the opportunity to learn more about Harry's creator.J.K. Rowling (JK Rowling), aka Joanne Rowling is the "wizard" behind the magic spell that brought Harry Potter...

With over forty years of history, Black Sabbath revolutionized the history of rock giving the initial impetus for creation and propagation of heavy metal. In four decades of success, the band led by Tony Iommi has its recognition with classics in the world of metal, such as “Sabbath Bloody Sabbath...