Paul: 20516 books

Success is a simple thing that most people believe to be something mysterious and complicated - the reality, according to Paul Bassi, is something completely different. In the vast majority of cases, the people at the top have got there by following disciplines that open to everyone. The truth about...

Paul Poiret’s autobiography tells the extraordinary story of

Paul Lisicky remembers being not much like other boys his age, but rather the awkward thirteen-year-old with "arms thick as drinking straws," who composes tunes in his head that he might later send to Folk Mass Today or to the producers of The Partridge Family. Born into a family whose incremental...

Plateau-Stiefel, ausgefallene Kostüme und viel Schminke Die faszinierende Chronik der Entstehung von KISS Kaum zu glauben: Der erste Auftritt von KISS fand am 30. Januar 1973 vor gerade einmal drei zahlenden Zuschauern im PopcornClub in New York statt. Jedes Bandmitglied hatte eine eigene, festgelegte...

On Boxing day 2004, Rob, Paul, Mattie and Rosie Forkan tragically lost their parents in the Boxing Day Tsunami that devastated Sri Lanka. Aged from 8 to 17, they subsequently faced a harrowing and solitary 200km trek across the decimated country to get home to safety. The bravery, ingenuity and resilience...

I was born into poverty, ignorance, and crime. And for a while, I did exactly what most other kids like me do: I succumbed.   One day I saw a bridge and took it. For a kid from Burngreave in Sheffield, England, this road was as unlikely as it could be.   Today I live in affluence, with a wonderful...

NEW YORK TIMES and INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER In Face the Music, Paul Stanley—the co-founder and famous “Starchild” frontman of KISS—reveals for the first time the incredible highs and equally incredible lows in his life both inside and outside the band. Face the Music is the shocking,...

Eminent historian Paul Johnson dazzles with a rich, succinct portrait of Mozart and his music As he’s done in Napoleon, Churchill, Jesus, and Darwin, acclaimed historian and author Paul Johnson here offers a concise, illuminating biography of Mozart. Johnson’s focus is on the music—Mozart’s...

La vie d'un homme racontée au travers de ses publications sur FacebookUn homme de quarante ans, musicien, père d'un petit garçon, et d'un petit chien blanc, évoque son quotidien au fil de ses posts Facebook. Suivez l’histoire du trio qui a su attendrir des amis de la toile toujours plus nombreux....

Schon von Anfang an erkannte man etwas teuflisches an Brian Jones. Und wie wir wissen, spielt der Teufel die besten Songs. "Nimm nur einen, auf keinen Fall beide", riet der Blues-Impresario Alexis Korner dem jungen Brian Jones, als der für seine aufstrebende Band zwei neue Mitglieder...

From New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bonaparte In an ideal pairing of author and subject, the magisterial historian Paul Johnson...

In The Lees of Virginia, Paul Nagel chronicles seven generations of Lees, from the family founder Richard to General Robert E. Lee, covering over two hundred years of American history. We meet Thomas Lee, who dreamed of America as a continental empire. His daughter was Hannah Lee Corbin, a non-conformist...

Sir Richard Rodney Bennett, in the enormous diversity of his activities, is arguably the most complete musician of all time. Not only does he have a remarkable 300 commissioned concert works to his credit, which have established him among the leading British twentieth-century composers, yet at the...

Paul Auster's most intimate autobiographical work to date In the beginning, everything was alive. The smallest objects were endowed with beating hearts . . . Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster...