George Mikes Libros Populares
George Mikes Biografía y Hechos
George Mikes, (Pronunciado Míquesh, Originalmente: György Mikes) (Siklós, 15 de febrero de 1912 – Londres, 30 de agosto de 1987) fue un escritor, humorista y periodista húngaro de origen judío. Biografía Se diplomó en derecho en la Universidad de Ciencias de Budapest, pero en vez de su carrera comenzó la periodística en la revista Reggel ("Mañana"). Por un tiempo redactó para Színházi Élet ("Vida Teatral") la columna Pista Intim. En 1938 fue enviado a Inglaterra como corresponsal de Reggel y 8 Órai Ujság. Debido a su origen judío, prefirió permanecer en Inglaterra para evitar el nazismo. Hasta el fin de la guerra, trabajó en diversos periódicos y revistas británicas, entre ellos la sección húngara de la BBC. Desde 1975 hasta su muerte, apareció sistemáticamente en las emisiones húngaras de Szabad Európa Rádió ("Radio Europa Libre"), siendo al mismo tiempo presidente del grupo londinés de "Hontalan Írok PEN". Tras la guerra, permaneció en Inglaterra y empezó a escribir libros. El primero, How to be an alien, publicado en 1946, caricaturizaba a los ingleses al estilo de Frigyes Karinthy. Tuvo un gran éxito. Los ingleses recuerdan bien el capítulo "Vida sexual" del libro, que consta de una única frase. “Los europeos continentales tienen vida sexual, los ingleses en cambio se llevan a la cama botellas de agua caliente”. El 15 de septiembre de 1991 descubrieron en su honor una placa conmemorativa en la fachada de su casa natal de Siklós. Libros Durante su gira mundial, observó atentamente los caracteres locales y con sorprendente humor e ironía describió sus características. Publicados también en húngaro How to be an Alien (Anglia papucsban) (Budapest, 1947, ISBN 0-582-40186-0 ); How to Scrape Skies (Amerika papucsban) (Budapest, 1948); Milk and Money, The Prophet Motive (Ígéret földje) (Nueva York, 1953); The Hungarian Revolution (Londres, 1957, 1958); Talicska (humorístico, Londres, 1958); How to Tango (Dél-Amerika papucsban) (São Paulo, 1962); How to be Seventy (memorias, Londres, 1982); Arthur Koestler (Londres, 1983). En inglés How to be an Alien(1946, ISBN 0-14-081675-5) How to be Inimitable – (1960, ISBN 0-233-95577-1 ) How to Unite Nations – Sobre la ONU (1963, ASIN B000GRCPFU ) Boomerang – Sobre Australia (1968, ISBN 0-233-96041-4 ) The Land of Rising Yen – Sobre Japón (Harvard Common Press, 1970, ISBN 0-87645-026-5 ), How to be Decadent – Sobre los ingleses (André Deutsch, 1977, ISBN 0-233-96932-2 ) George Mikes Introduces Switzerland – (Transatlantic Arts, 1978, ISBN 0-233-96757-5 ) Tsi-Tsa: The Biography of a Cat – (Sobre su gato) (André Deutsch, 1978, ISBN 0-233-97063-0 ) How to be a Brit – (Penguin Putnam, 1984, ISBN 0-14-008179-8 ) How to be a Guru – (David & Charles, 1984, ISBN 0-233-97707-4 ) How to be Poor – (David & Charles, 1984, ISBN 0-233-97541-1 ) How to be God – (André Deutsch, 1986, ISBN 0-233-97966-2 ) Enlaces externos Su biografía en la Enciclopedia Biográfica Húngara (en húngaro). Biografía de George Mikes por Penguin Readers (en inglés).. Descubre los libros populares de George Mikes. Encuentra los 100 libros más populares de George Mikes
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Four Kings
George KimballSports fans and boxing enthusiasts alike will love this compelling study of the resurgence of boxing in the early 1980s and the four 'greats' who effected that change. Four Kings ...
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Balancing Acts
Nicholas HytnerThe Sunday Times BestsellerThis is the inside story of twelve years at the helm of Britain’s greatest theatre.It is a story of lunatic failures and spectacular successes such as Th...
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Blonde Roots
Bernardine EvaristoFROM THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2009 WINNER OF THE ORANGE YOUTH PANEL AWARD 2009 FINALIST FOR THE HURSTON WRI...
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Follow the Money
Dan BonginoAs seen on The Ben Shapiro Show!Follow the Money exposes the labyrinth of connections between D.C.’s slimiest swamp creaturesDemocrat operatives, lying informants, desperate a...
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Game of My Life Cincinnati Reds
Lew FreedmanIn this compilation of stories from members of the Cincinnati Reds, baseball’s first professional team, Lew Freedman takes readers through decades of Reds baseball. In these firsth...
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Changeling
Mike OldfieldBorn without social instincts many people take for granted, brought up in a troubled environment and possessed with an extraordinary musical talent, Mike Oldfield was thrust into t...
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Frank and Fearless
Frank WarrenThe story of my life would be a bloody sight shorter if the man who tried to murder me outside the Broadway Theatre in Barking on a winter's evening in 1989 had succeeded. He nearl...
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The Afterlives
Thomas Pierce'Ridiculously good' (New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a brilliantly dazzling and poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lot...
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Someone's Got a Screw Loose
Nancy Krulik, Amanda Burwasser & Mike MoranLogan’s surprised when the Silverspoon Twins invite Java and him to their birthday party. They say it’s going to be the biggest, most incredible party ever. The local newspaper is ...
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In Search of the English Eccentric
Henry HemmingThe English eccentric is under threat. In our increasingly homogenised society, these celebrated parts of our national identity are anomalies that may soon no longer fit. Or so it ...
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The Everything Kids' Baseball Book, 11th Edition
Greg JacobsThis newest edition to the longrunning Everything Kids’ Baseball series updated with current information on the 2018 and 2019 baseball seasons, refreshed bios, and an expanded look...
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The Footballer Who Could Fly
Duncan Hamilton'Without football, we were strangers under a shared roof. With it, we were father and son.’Inspired by his father’s devotion to Newcastle United and the heroes of yesteryear, Dunca...
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Poison (A Roald Dahl Short Story)
Roald DahlPoison is a short, sharp, frightening story from Roald Dahl, the master of the shocking taleIn Poison, Roald Dahl, one of the world's favourite authors, tells a sinister story abou...
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Twice Bitten
George WillisOn 28 July 1997, in the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield engaged in what would become the most infamous fight in boxing history. After the third round of a ...
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History of Wolves
Emily Fridlund'A writer with a great future ahead of her...her prose is exquisite' LOUISE DOUGHTY, author of APPLE TREE YARDHow far would you go to belong? Fourteenyearold Linda lives with her p...
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Spoken from the Heart
Laura BushIn this brave, beautiful, and deeply personal memoir, Laura Bush, one of our most beloved and private first ladies, tells her own extraordinary story. Born in the boomandbust ...
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Worst Ideas Ever
Daniel B. Kline & Jason TomaszewskiFrom memorable disasters such as New Coke, the XFL, and Tiger Woods’ marriage to lessremembered failures such as Yugo, Cop Rock, and Microsoft’s BOB, Worst Ideas Ever revisits hist...
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Nothing...Except My Genius
Oscar Wilde'I have nothing to declare', Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius'. A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wi...
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Legends of Alabama Football
Richard Scott, Jason Mayfield & Jay BarkerWith 15 national championships and a tradition of national achievement that dates back to the 1920s, the University of Alabama has secured its spot as one of the most successful at...
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Untangling Religion from Spirituality
Mike GeorgeSome people say, “I am spiritual but not religious”.Others say, “I am religious and my spirituality is based on my religion”.And a few say, “My religion is my spirituality”.Then th...
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State of Emergency
Tamika D MallorySocial justice leader Tamika D. Mallory states her case for action and reveals “the power we all have to win transformative change” (Marc Lamont Hill, New York Times bestselling au...
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While You Were Reading
Ali Berg'THE PERFECT WEEKEND READ' heat, 5reviewWords are messy. Love is messier. Meet Beatrix Babbage, a 29yearold dogearer of books and accidental destroyer of weddings. Afte...
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The Inner Light
Susan ShumskyThe hidden meanings of the Beatles’ most esoteric lyrics and sounds are revealed by a rare insider who spent two decades with the man who made “meditation,” “mantra,” and “yoga” ho...
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Presidents' Day
Margaret McNamaraMrs. Connor’s class knows they have a holiday in February, but do they know what it really means? They will after they learn all about Presidents’ Dayand why it’s more than just a ...
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Ben & Me
Eric WeinerNew York Times bestselling author Eric Weiner follows in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin, mining his life for inspiring and practical lessons in a book that’s part biography, pa...
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Being Beyond Belief
Mike GeorgeThe moment we 'arrive' we inherit and assimilate a matrix of beliefs from parents, teachers and society at large. Many of those beliefs will lead us down blind alleys and dead ends...
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Old Mars
George R.R. Martin, Gardner Dozois, Michael Moorcock, Joe R. Lansdale & James S. A. CoreyFifteen allnew stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multipleaward winning editor Gardner Dozois Burroughs’s A Pr...
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Kingdom of Fear
Hunter S. Thompson'Hot damn! Let us rumble, keep going and don't slow down . . . let's have a little fun . . .'In his muchanticipated memoir, Hunter S. Thompson looks back on a long and productive l...
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Liberating Leadership
Mike GeorgeIf you are seeking stories of so called ‘great leaders’, their strategies and how they did it, then this book is not for you. It goes deeper than that. We are all leaders by virtue...
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At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing
Various Authors, George Kimball & John SchulianA collection of essays by James Baldwin, Norman Mailer, and other beloved American writers on the primal contest in the boxing ringand the crazy carnival world outsi...
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Shine/Variance
Stephen Walsh"Great, beautiful little studies of unspoken fear and longing and love, told with a surefooted delicacy rare in a debut" Sarah Moss, Irish Times"An exciting, original, and very wel...
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Valentine's Way
Bobby Valentine & Peter GolenbockA frank and often hilarious account of the baseball life from one of the game’s great iconoclasts.“…the most entertaining baseball book of the year!” Baseball AlmanacFrom his first...
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The Wisdom of Personal Undevelopment
Mike GeorgeYou can develop new skills and you can refine your talents, but can you develop your self? You can learn to create new concepts and develop new theories but can you learn to develo...
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What Remains
Carole RadziwillA stunning, tragic memoir about John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette, and his cousin Anthony Radziwill, by Radziwill’s widow.What Remains is a vivid and haunting memoir a...
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Forever Rumpole
John MortimerForever Rumpole a hilarious new selection of the very best Rumpole stories by John MortimerHorace Rumpole lives alongside Mr Pickwick and Bertie Wooster as one of the immortal com...
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Old Venus
George R.R. Martin & Gardner DozoisSixteen allnew stories by science fiction’s top talents, collected by bestselling author George R. R. Martin and multipleawardwinning editor Gardner Dozois From pulp adventu...
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The Soul Of A Butterfly
Hana Yasmeen Ali & Muhammad AliIn this poignant, moving book, Muhammad Ali shares the beliefs he has come to live by and which he has passed on to his children. Some of the wisdom is his own; some comes from the...
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Mozart and His Operas
David CairnsDavid Cairns weaves a brilliantly engaging narrative which puts Mozart’s operas in the context of his life, showing how they illuminate his creativity as a whole. Mozart’s unusual ...
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My Robot Ate My Homework
Nancy Krulik, Amanda Burwasser & Mike MoranLogan better study up on his geography facts so he doesn’t flunk out!Thirdgrader Logan Applebaum has the perfect solution to finding time for all that pesky homeworkjust have his c...
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The Third Policeman
Flann O’BrienA masterpiece of black humour from the renown comic and acclaimed author of ‘At SwimTwoBirds’ – Flann O’Brien.A thriller, a hilarious comic satire about an archetypal village polic...
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Shepherds for Sale
Megan Basham“This may just be the single most important book on modern Evangelicalism in recent years. It is bold, clear, and very wellresearched.”John MacArthurHow deeply have leftist billion...
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The Woman Destroyed
Simone de BeauvoirFirst published in 1967, this book consists of three short novellas on the theme of women's vulnerability – in the first, to the process of ageing, in the second to loneliness, and...
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Around the World in 80 Fights
Steve BunceAn autobiographical whiteknuckle ride around the global fight game by the legendary Steve Bunce: the voice of the sport who is celebrating four decades of writing and talking about...
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BEING Your Self: Seeing and Knowing What's IN the Way IS the Way!
Mike GeorgeIt’s not easy to BE your self when we are surrounded and ambushed every day by a thousand images and voices calling us to invest our identity in their product, their brand, their l...
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Darragh
Darragh Ó SéFor 16 years, Darragh Ó Sé wore the number 8 jersey for Gaelic football's most celebrated county, stoking the fires in Kerry's engine room. With six All Ireland medals, he is the m...
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The Shift in the Sense and Constitution of British Identity
Robert StoltIn the course of this essay the two books, How to be an alien by George Mikes and Empire of the Mind by Iqbal Ahmed, shall be carefully examined by placing an emphasis on how th...
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Once More to the Sky
Scott Raab & Joe WoolheadThe powerful story of the rebuilding of the World Trade Center, featuring dozens of neverbeforeseen color photos by the official site photographer.In late 2014, One World Trade Cen...
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Phillies 1980!
Lew FreedmanHow the 1980 Philadelphia Phillies Won the First World Series Championship in Franchise History The road was rocky and the suspense intense as a makeorbreak 1980 baseball season un...
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The Immune System of the Soul
Mike GeorgeThe health of your body and the wellness of your being are different. Each has their own 'immune system'. While the body develops many kinds of pain, which we call disease, the sou...