Biografiska uppslagsverk (Vem är det)

A list of the one hundred most influential people in history features descriptions of the careers, contributions, and accomplishments of the political and religious leaders, inventors, writers, artists, and others who changed the course of history.

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Beredskap, ransoneringskort, gengas, cellullstyg och mörkläggningsgardiner hörde till den svenska vardagen under krigsåren. I Skåne var man också hotfullt nära krigets verklighet. Nattliga överflygningar av bombarmador, störtande flygplan, sprängd...

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Djokovic is one of the most dominant tennis players in the world. This biography tells the story of how he became one of the best and offers an inside look at his Serve to Win technique. Novak Djokovic is a Serbian professional tennis player who i...

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Written by best-selling author Jean-Pierre Isbouts, Who's Who in the Bible is the ultimate reference guide to the men and women in the Bible, featuring more than 2,000 entries spanning Genesis to Revelation. From the author of In the Footsteps of ...

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Thrash Metal. At first mocked by the Rock traditionalists Thrash would swamp the hard n' heavy world propelling one of it's own - Metallica, to the very pinnacle of Rock's elite. In the early 80s Thrash breathed new life into the Rock scene provid...

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Att med ömhet och styrka trösta, tvätta, träna, mata och vara patienterna nära värderas lågt när sjukvården bantas. Patienter och kommunalarbetare frågar sig dagligen: Hur ska medmänsklighet och omvårdnad försvaras i konkurrens med effektivitet oc...

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Povel Ramel, Hasse & Tage, Lorry, Killinggänget Den faktaspäckade Vem är vem i svensk humor listar det mesta som är värt att veta om Sveriges ledande humorister förr och nu.Boken är sammanställd av Staffan Bjerstedt, journalist och revyförfattare.

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Modeled after the Mack V. Wright 1920 film version, the 1949 western television series The Lone Ranger made Clayton Moore's masked character one of the most recognized in American popular culture. Other westerns followed and by 1959 there wer...

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Akademiens ledamöter och gästförfattare beskriver här en rad särlingar. Bl.a. får vi träffa den färgstarke vaccinationspionjären Eberhard Munck af Rosenschöld.

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En bok om helgon, kungligheter, imposanta härskarinnor, äventyrerskor, glädjeflickor och fixstjärnor från konsternas världar - och alla är de skånskor.

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De var hängivna nationalsocialister och tjänade regimen med entusiasm och fanatism. Ibland också med sitt eget liv som insats. Anna Maria Sigmund skildrar på ett fängslande sätt med färgrika detaljer och stor historisk exakthet de dramatiska öden ...

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April 2020 marks 500 years since Raphael's death, who is featured in this book.

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One hundred colourful portraits of the cricketing characters whom Ian Botham has come into contact with during his eventful career and who have influenced the game for good during this time: from top players, umpires and coaches to pop stars, writ...

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The Times for over 150 years has been providing the most respected and perceptive verdicts on the lives of outstanding individuals. The Times Great Military Lives is an authoritative and fascinating collection of obituaries depicting the great mil...

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One hundred colourful portraits of the cricketing characters whom Ian Botham has come across in his eventful career and who have influenced the game for good in his time: from top players, umpires and coaches to pop stars, writers and philanthropi...

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Dictionary of Surnames is the definitive guide to the origin and meaning of British surnames by one of Britain?s leading authority on names.The essential A?Z companion to the study of names of the British IslesIncludes the oldest varieties of Brit...

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The Times obituaries have given readers throughout the world an instant picture of a life for over 150 years. The Times Great Lives is a selection of 124 of these pieces, each obituary has been updated and reproduced in their entirety, by Anna Tem...

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From sports to innovation, art to politics - meet the incredible women who got there first.Ever heard the saying "e;It's a man's world"e;? Clearly, the speaker had never met Amelia Earhart or Harriet Tubman. Those feisty females, and many ...

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From sports to innovation, art to politics meet the incredible women who got there first, in the incredible girl-o-pedia of astounding achievements! Ever heard the saying Its a mans world? Clearly, the speaker had never met Amelia Earhart or Harri...

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"Biographical entries on Twenty-First-Century African American Poets"--

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This pocket edition of Richard McBrien's "Lives of the Saints" is the perfect concise, handy reference for scholars, students, and general readers.

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"e;A remarkable story of a young man's loss of everything he deemed important, and his ultimate discovery that redemption can be taught by society's most dreaded outcasts."e; —John Grisham "e;Hilarious, astonishing, and deeply mo...

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The iconic Molly Ringwald shares intimate stories and candid advice in this fun, stylish, and sexy girlfriend's guide to lifeTo her millions of fans, Molly Ringwald will forever be sixteen. As the endearing and witty star of the beloved John Hughe...

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What is the price of brilliance?Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive? From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors...

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"e;A deeply moving, often humorous, and beautiful account of what it means to be the hearing child of profoundly deaf parents . . . I have rarely read anything on the subject more powerful or poignant than this extraordinary personal account b...

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In I Didn’t Come Here to Make Friends former Bachelor “villain” and season 16 winner Courtney Robertson shares her story of love and heartbreak, and the reality of appearing on reality TV. For the first t...

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