Biography: general

Step into the opulent and often-misunderstood world of the Achaemenid Empire, where power was not solely wielded by kings.

Alan Fenwick left Sydney for a year on the road.

What if leaving was not an escape but the beginning of listening to yourself again?

Break the Illusion.

Who works for the government and why does their work matter?

Simon Yates is 'the one who cut the rope' in Joe Simpson's award-winning account of their epic struggle for survival in Touching the Void.

In a small town in India, far from the world's greatest universities, a young boy quietly fell in love with numbers.

From Cleopatra to Grace Kelly, an epic new history of royal women that shatters the myths we have built around them.

In this memoir, based on diary entries written in the summer of 1969, the author describes how he took a summer job in an agricultural camp in Cambridgeshire, finding back-breaking field work, rowdy friendships, and fleeting first love.

"e;This book is dedicated to my maker who brought me out of a stormy childhood.

Not every child has a childhood.

For over 250 years, while America's men answered the call to arms, its women carried a different but equally vital burden.

Every platform has a Clause 47.

On September 25, 2011, I was nine years old and on my way to a dance rehearsal at the Mandir when I stepped off a curb without looking.

What happens when ordinary people say yes to an extraordinary God?

What if one question could change the way we understand the universe?

Laughter in the Sadness of my Heart captures events from the author's childhood growing up in post-plantation, and pre-independent Jamaica.

A multi-millionaire on a computer screen.

In the wild heart of Africa, one man's fight to save the land nearly  cost him everything.

Querido potencial lector: Hoy tienes en tus manos un libro que no solo ha profundizado en la historia de esa heroica orquesta que prefirio distraer y calmar a los angustiados pasajeros del Titanic accidentado, renunciando asi a la posibilidad de salvarse.

Sexualidad v4.

For over forty years, a family secret lay hidden – shrouded in silence, shame, and unanswered questions.

They saved six hundred people.

San Daniel reflects on his past when he engages in conversation with his alter ego.

Former University of Texas at San Antonio Athletics Director Lynn Hickey calls it "e;a God thing.

"e;Poker with Michael and Guitar with the Boston Symphony"e; is the remarkable autobiography of Ron Steele — a recording engineer, guitarist, producer, and studio pioneer whose 70-year career placed him alongside some of the biggest names in music history.

Teoricas, vivencias y anecdotas desarrolladas en varios paises se combinan de forma armoniosa en esta autobiografia del intelectual cubano Pablo Guadarrama Gonzalez.

Pep Guardiola: Redefining FootballBefore the trophies, before the touchline celebrations, and before becoming one of football's most influential minds, Pep Guardiola was simply a boy from the small Catalan town of Santpedor with a football at his feet and questions in his mind.

This work, Volume 2 in the series is separated into two parts: Part 1 presents the discursive concepts and the order of power of Qur'anic discourse which ensured that it could NOT be made manifest within the ambit of the discourse of and the order of power of the Age of Prophethood, for only the Qur'an is the Manifest Book.

What I Did As A Kid peels back the layers of consciousness to reveal the profound world of early childhood.

A lyrical, haunting, multi-generational memoir of one family's tempestuous century in Iraq from 1900 to the present.

A biography of an unsung Victorian hero, Joseph Paxton was the man behind the garden design at Chatsworth and the Crystal Palace at the Great Exhibition of 1851.

This edition does not include illustrations.

Have you ever wondered about the profound cultural landscape that shaped one of history's most influential thinkers?

She was a philosopher, mathematician, teacher, and one of the most extraordinary women of the ancient world.

Dive into the untold story of one of America's most influential, yet controversial, figures.

Discover the profound significance of Allah, the one God worshipped by billions of Muslims around the world.

Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.

From the author of 'Seven Wonders of the Industrial World', the ebook edition of the TV tie-in charting the shocking but true story behind the space race - and the ruthless, brilliant scientists who fuelled it.

'Detailed and impeccably researched.

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER A celebration of one of the most electric and magnetic hockey players of all timethe incomparable Guy Lafleurin the words of his peers and admirers, from Joe Sakic to Chris Nilan.

Micky Vann is one of the world's top boxing referees.