The 10 Best Books on Michael JordanThere are countless books on Michael Jordan, and it comes with good reason, he is widely regarded as the greatest basketball player of all time, won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls, and helped popularize the NBA around the world in the s and s ; becoming a global cultural icon in the process. ;I;ve missed more than 9, shots in my career.
I recently read Prabha Khaitan;s autobiography A Life Apart, translated from Hindi, Anya se Ananya. Prabha Khaitan was from Calcutta, belonged to a prosperous family but chose to be an entrepreneur, a leather exporter.
nbsp;nbsp; Original Story Byby Arthur LaurentsPublished by Knopf pages, Buy it onlinenbsp;nbsp; nbsp;nbsp;From the Mouths of PlaywrightsReviewed by Sienna Powersnbsp;Alternately catty and witty, warm and distantly damning, playwright, director and screenwriter Arthur Laurents' autobiography, Original Story By, sums up as one of those pesky insider tell-alls. Though, this time, it is in fact an inside job executed by an expert pen.
Swami Tapovan Maharaj ( ; )A Himalayan hermit who, with his penance, imbued Swami Chinmayananda with faith in the scriptures and fire for the Truth. Swami Tapovan Maharaj was that pristine glacier of Self-knowledge through whom flowed the Ganga of Vedantic Wisdom of Swami Chinmayananda, the architect of the Chinmaya Movement.
Poster Monday: Apollos 11 first step on the moon: 50 years. When Jean-Benoit Levy, a Swiss graphic designer living in San Francisco decided to create a poster to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission, he contacted Martin Venezky for the pictorial part of the graphic piece he was planning.
Never Too Old to Write: Claude Choules' Published WWI Memoir at Age The Last of the Last: The Final Survivor of the First World WarChoules' book coverBefore his death at the age of in May , Claude Choules was the last man alive who had served in both WWI and WWII. Claude learned life's lessons during a rural childhood in England and later in the Royal Navy as a boy sailor, before graduating to become an explosives expert in the Australian navy.
SharmilaIndian politician (born )Yeduguri Sandinti Sharmila Reddy (born 17 December ), commonly referred to as Y. Sharmila, is an Indian politician serving as 24th and current president of the Andhra Pradesh Congress Committee,91;193; a unit of Indian National Congress political party.
10 memoir title ideas and why they work so wellGood memoir titles should entice or intrigue the reader, evoke a sense or spirit of the book, and give readers a hint as to the tone of the story theyre going to read. A good memoir title can help sell a book, a bad one can sink it.
Autobiography of My Dead Brother Summary We open on the funeral of Bobby Green, a black teenager who was shot to death as a bystander in a drive-by. From the pastor's eulogy, it's immediately clear that the book is set in a neighborhood plagued by gun violence.
Essay on Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan for Students and Children in WordsIn this article, you will read an essay on Dr Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan for students and children. It includes early life, education, career, awards, personal life and death.
Thomas Cochrane, 10th Earl of DundonaldBritish naval officer, politician and mercenary ()"Le Loup des Mers" redirects here. For the comic book, see The Sea Wolf (comic book).
Football fans, are you ready to read your next football book. I know many of you must have been busy exploring the recent past when you could have stuck to your TV screens and watch Messi and Ronaldo, Mbape and Neymar, De Gea and Stegen and many other footballers compete with each other in free spirit.
Mahatma GandhiI was elected to the Executive Committee of the Vegetarian Society, and made it a point to attend every one of its meetings, but I always felt tongue-tied. Oldfield once said to me, 'You talk to me quite all right, but why is it that you never open your lips at a committee meeting.
Additional details From the PublisherNigel Owens is one of the world's leading rugby referees. Highly respected, he has officiated in many of the sport's key matches, including the Rugby World Cup, two consecutive Heineken Cup finals (one of only two referees to have done so), this year's British and Irish Lions tourof South Africa, and the infamous recent bloodgate scandal' match.
Meena KumariIndian actress and poet ()For other people named Meena Kumari, see Meena Kumari (disambiguation). Meena KumariMeena Kumari in PakeezahBornMahjabeen Bano()1 August Bombay, Bombay Presidency, British India (present-day Mumbai, Maharashtra, India)Died31 March () (aged;38)Bombay, Maharashtra, IndiaBurial placeRahmatabad cemetery, MumbaiOther;namesTragedy QueenOccupationsActresspoetsingercostume designerYears;activeWorksFull listSpouseKamal Amrohi;32;;40;m.
When we at Why Not Bookswere considering titles for the memoirs of the late Carolyn Goodman, mother of slain civil rights worker Andrew Goodman and a civil rights icon herself, we harkened back to a particular story she told:When my youngest son David was seven years old, he came running home from school one day, breathless with excitement. In his hands he held a large piece of construction paper smothered in assorted colors, lines, shapes, and squiggles.