Jonathan Eig Knihy

Úplná biografie americké ikony z pera oceňovaného životopisce Jonathana Eiga. Když na LOH v Atlantě v roce 1996 zapalovala slabá, třesoucí se postava Muhammada Aliho olympijský oheň, vyvolala nejslavnější americká sportovní ikona ve třech miliardách televizních diváků novou vlnu zájmu. Muž, jenž kdysi odmítl bojovat za svou zem a neváhal své protivníky zaplavit přívalem urážek, se stal zbožňovaným po téměř celém světě. Z tohoto průlomového Aliho životopisu se čtenář dozví množství zcela nových informací, které autor Jonathan Eig získal na základě detailního bádání, které posledních několik let vedl. Vzniká tak ohromující portrét jednoho z nejvýraznějších sportovců druhé poloviny dvacátého století. Během četby nezavítáme jen do ringu, ale dozvíme se mnohé také o Aliho osobním životě, finanční situaci, víře, ale také o prvních projevech jeho nemoci a zhoršujícím se zdravotním stavu. Ali představoval a dodnes představuje pro mnoho lidí symbol svobody, odvahy a nezlomného ducha.

The first full biography in decades, King mixes revelatory and exhaustive new research with brisk and accessible storytelling to forge the definitive life for our times.

The first truly definitive biography of Muhammad Ali, the most iconic and significant sporting figure of the twentieth century

Another Lola Jones escapade with our book-loving third grader! Lola and her twenty-nine classmates don't understand the words to a traditional song they're meant to sing at the upcoming Winter Concert, so they make up their own, very silly (and very funny) words. Lola's mother and her Grampa get involved too, and we all learn not only the words to the song, but something about global warming, by the time of the concert.

The story of the extraordinary characters behind the invention of the contraceptive Pill

The real story of how the federal government finally apprehended and convicted America’s most notorious criminal, Al Capone. Drawing on recently discovered government documents, wiretap transcripts, and Al Capone’s handwritten personal letters, New York Times bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the dramatic story of the rise and fall of the nation’s most infamous criminal in rich new detail. From the moment he arrived in Chicago in 1920, Capone found himself in a world with limitless opportunity. Within a few years Capone controlled an illegal bootlegging business with annual revenue rivaling that of some of the nation’s largest corporations. Along the way he corrupted the Chicago police force and local courts while becoming one of the world’s first international celebrities. Legend credits Eliot Ness and his “Untouchables” with apprehending Capone, but Eig shows that this wasn’t so. In Get Capone, the man known as “Scarface” emerges as a complex man, doomed as much by his ego as by his vicious criminality. This is the real Al Capone.

The public called him Scarface; the FBI called him Public Enemy Number One; his associates called him Snorky. But Capone is the name most remember. And John Kobler's Capone is the definitive biography of this most brutal and flamboyant of the underground kings—an intimate and dramatic book that presents a complete view of Al Capone and his gaudy era. Here is Capone's story: his violent childhood in Brooklyn, his lieutenancy to Johnny Torrio, his rise in the ranks of the underworld, the notorious St. Valentine Massacre, his eventual control of the entire city of Chicago, and his decline during his imprisonment in Alcatraz. Capone was the ultimate gangster, and Capone is the ultimate in gangster biographies—a classic in the literature of crime.

Lola, with help from Grampa Ed and neighbor Gabriel, figures out a way to show the boys at school that they should be letting girls play soccer with them at recess.

Lola's grandfather does the best pigtails ever. But her principal isn't so sure.

Lola is back! Fresh from her escapades at her school when the principal is not exactly impressed with her very unusual pigtails, and straight from her hard-pressed victory with the boys who don't want to let the girls play soccer, Lola now has to convince her mother that having a dog is a good idea.