Autobiography: general

When in 1895 twenty-one-year old Guglielmo Marconi made his first wireless transmission over land, he became the boy wonder of the world.

Here is an entertaining collection of John Muirs most exciting adventures, representing some of his finest writing.

Frankenstein was first released in 1818 anonymously.

As the only French woman among some 11,000 defenders at Dien Bien Phu, Genevive de Galard had a unique perspective of the siege and fall of the French fortress.

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Holmes Rolston III has long been recognized as the father of environmental ethics.

Many of us will have to face illness at some point in our lives.

440 pages, 603 images, with 31 contributorsMedical Response to Child Sexual Abuse: A Resource for Professionals Working with Children and Families features a completely pediatric focus as a part of the Sexual Assault line and adds an illustrative multimedia component.

To cite an old Egyptian clich, Nasser (1918-1970) was the ';first Egyptian to rule Egypt since Cleopatra.

Sir Edward Heath’s Private Secretary didn’t take retirement sitting down… At age 60 Eugene Barter, along with her sister and brother-in-law, moved to a house in the foothills of the Pyrenees to start an auberge.

From her fairytale childhood to her impressive array of movies and marriages, Elizabeth Taylors life, both on and off the screen, has enchanted, saddened, appalled, and entertained us for the past seven decades.

This book contains several introductory texts concerning the main directions in the theory of evolutionary partial differential equations.

No Return Address is a vivid memoir of a life in exile and a poignant meditation on pleasure and loss, repression and transgression, and the complexities of love under harsh human conditions.

The Bookmarked series focuses on a famous work of literature that left a powerful impression on an author (hence the name, Bookmarkeda book that left its mark).

The Leadership of Muhammad is a very personal study of the life-story and leadership skills of the Prophet.

A number of books have been written on the death camp of Treblinka, but The Treblinka Death Camp: History, Biographies, Remembrance is unique.

A French historian chronicles his meticulous efforts to document the lives of his Polish Jewish grandparents who were killed in the Holocaust.

This new collection of essays shares insights drawn from more than fifty years of traveling.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

In 1994, as his country descended into the madness of genocide, Anglican Bishop John Rucyahana underwent the mind-numbing pain of having members of his church and family butchered.

The present work is a pioneering effort to highlight life and works of the choicest great English novelists.

I could not ignore the tiny spark of hope that whispered to me that there might be someone with whom I could be vulnerable and real, and that this time they might just not let me down.

Of course, we have had excellent dictionaries, and authoritative encyclopedias, of the traditional sort.

America's Civil War took a dreadful toll on human lives, and the emotional repercussions were exacerbated by tales of battlefield atrocities, improper burials and by the lack of news that many received about the fate of their loved ones.

Christian Encounters, a series of biographies from Thomas Nelson Publishers, highlights important lives from all ages and areas of the Church.

King of the Empty Plain is familiar to every Tibetan yet nearly unknown in the rest of the world.

The scientific study of all forms of human and animal behaviour, sometimes concerned with the methods through which behaviour can be modified is collectively known as psychology.

This encyclopaedia presents biographical entries on internationally renowned scientists-biologists, chemists, physicists and mathematicians, who have made important contribution to science.

Volume Eight of the project documenting Thomas Jefferson's last years presents 591 documents dated from 1 October 1814 to 31 August 1815.

Jewish tradition is rich in stories, many of which center around the lives and work of the great chasidic rabbis, known as rebbes.

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Victoria Woodhull, Mary Wollstonecraft, Aimee Semple McPherson, Edwina Mountbatten, Margaret Argyll and Chanel were all women who dared.

This impressive edited collection investigates the relationship between British Pop Art pioneer Eduardo Paolozzi and the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

From the Files of a Security Expert Witness guides the reader through the experience of testifying in court on security issues in civil litigation.

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Rural Odyssey is a story that follows the family and life of a young man who grew up in rural America.

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A leading writer and researcher on Tibet, Sam van Schaik offers an accessible and authoritative introduction to Tibetan Buddhism by examining its key texts, from its origins in the eighth century to teachings practiced across the world today.

What is empiricism and what could it be?

Romanian exile Norman Manea’s internationally acclaimed memoir/novel, now available to English-language readers At the center of The Hooligan’s Return is the author himself, always an outcast, on a bleak lifelong journey through Nazism and communism to exile in America.

In this sequel to the enormously successful Seven Men, #1 New York Times bestselling author Eric Metaxas offers more captivating stories of some of the most inspiring men in history.

William Augustus Bowles -- a British Loyalist during, and for a quarter century after, the American Revolutionary War.

Lessons learnt for over 35 years from the battlefield of soldiering to the hidden battlefield of life.

Biblical Guidance for Ministering God's Love in a Sexually Diverse Culture In a time when sexual norms are changing rapidly, how can a local church be a place of gracea loving community for all kinds of peoplewhere everyone can flourish and disagreements are overcome in a Christlike spirit while at the same time stay true to biblical standards?

The powerful writings and art of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto Hidden in metal containers and buried underground during World War II, these works from the Warsaw Ghetto record the Holocaust from the perspective of its first interpreters, the victims themselves.

The Miraculous Story of a Hugely Successful New Age Teacher's Conversion to ChristianityIn this brilliant, utterly captivating memoir, Doreen Virtue chronicles her journey in discovering everything she believed in was a lie.