Reveals how today's managers can avoid the million-dollar mistakes that many top executives continue to make despite their highly paid consultants and business-school wisdom
The biography Frida Kahlo: A Passionate Life follows the life of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo – from a serious car accident and her artistic maturation to her tumultuous marriage to Diego Rivera and worldwide artistic fame.
Verlag Knaur Nachf., 2002.
German. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
6.24 €
Russian literature • Czech literature • Biography
Ivan Lukaš's novel depicts the tragic love story of the great Russian composer Modest Mussorgsky. The novel follows his unrequited love, artistic struggle, alcoholism, and decline in 19th-century imperial Russia.
Savremena biblioteka, 1940.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover with dust jacket.
9.24 €
Romance Novels • Hungarian literature • Historical novel • Biography
"From Stage to Throne: A Novel of Catherine Schratt" by Job Paal is a romantic-historical story about an Austrian actress who became the mistress of Emperor Franz Joseph I. Light fiction with courtly intrigue and a love plot.
Naklada "Hrvatskog lista", 1940.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
5.64 €
Czech literature • Biography • Interviews
Havel speaks honestly and deeply about his life, his literary journey, his dissident struggle, and his moral responsibility in a totalitarian regime. An intimate autobiographical confession of a dissident facing the "remote interrogation" of the free worl
Irida, 2000.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Paperback.
14.52 €
Picture Books and Fairy Tales • Teen Novels • Biography • Education
Young Tesla is a picture book and biographical work for young readers that depicts Nikola Tesla's childhood, his curiosity, first inventions, and the path to becoming a scientific genius who would mark world history.
Jugoreklam, 1977.
Croatian. Latin alphabet. Hardcover.
14.46 €
Biography • Political journalism • Political-historical essays
Andrija Živković, Josip Andrić, Luka Perinić, Ivo Bogdan, Petar Grgec, Bonifacije Perović
Some Build, Others Destroy: Peace and Order in the World presents accounts of the world's leading political and religious figures of the interwar period and their role in shaping peace, order, and contemporary ideological conflicts.