Autobiography: general

The story of Islam as never presented beforeKhadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice.

Following the 1953 coup that toppled the democratically elected government of Mossadeq and restored the rule of the Shah in Iran, Mostafa Sho';aiyan became a key figure on the country's militant left.

An honest, radical and moving account of life off the grid.

Mary Wollstonecraft, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, Millicent Fawcett, Emmeline Pankhurst, Constance Markievicz, Nancy Astor They terrorised the establishment.

A BBC History Magazine Book of the Year A writer, soldier, politician, courtier, spy and explorer, Sir Walter Ralegh lived more lives than most in his own time, in any time.

A SPECIAL ANNIVERSARY EDITION TO COMMEMORATE 80 YEARS SINCE THE EXTRAORDINARY EVENTS OF 1943 Sophie Scholl and the White Rose tells the gripping true story of five Munich university students who set up an underground resistance movement in World War II.

From the bestselling author of A History of Britain in 21 Women The history of the world is the history of great women.

For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.

Martin Bell has stood in war zones as both a soldier and a journalist.

A Book of the Year for The Times and the Sunday Times ';The writer is the engineer of the human soul,' claimed Stalin.

WINNER OF THE MARCO POLO OUTSTANDING GENERAL TRAVEL THEMED BOOK OF THE YEAR AT THE 2018 EDWARD STANFORD TRAVEL WRITING AWARDS The story begins in a public square in New Delhi.

In 1841, Nigel Halleck left Britain as a clerk in the East India Company.

Khalil Maleki (19011969) was a selfless campaigner for democracy and social welfare in twentieth-century Iran.

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From the bestselling author of A History of the World in 21 Women They were famous queens, unrecognised visionaries, great artists and trailblazing politicians.

This stimulating book covers all area of the twelfth century Muslim philosopher's life from his transmission of Aristotelian thought to the Western world, to his conflict with the Ash'arite theologians.

The first eye-witness account ever published of life in the Warsaw GhettoMary Berg was fifteen when the German army poured into Poland in 1939.

One of greatest Persian writers of both classical prose and poetry, Sa';di was revered in his time as a man of great wisdom and passion.

In this pioneering biography, Christopher Melchert examines the forefather of the fourth of the four principal Sunni schools of jurisprudence, the Hanbali.

He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels.

This is a behind-the-scenes look at Trump, his cabinet, and an international diplomacy you've never seen beforewritten by someone with no scores to settle, no hidden agenda, no check to cash, and no fucks to give.

Long a hub for literary bohemians, countercultural musicians, and readers interested in a good browse, Kepler's Books and Magazines is one of the most influential independent bookstores in American history.

Named one of the Five Adventure Books You Need to Read This Summer by Backpacker MagazineFor readers of Into Thin Air, riveting high-altitude drama and the passion and drive that inspire outsized mountaineering achievements.

In this intimately penned biography, the only one written about the Golden Bear, author Mark Shaw, with the energy of a lifelong fan, chronicles Nicklauss life from his early days as a young golfer to his final tournaments on the PGA and Champions Tour.

"e;Amul Thapar sets the record straight with this can't-put-down series of stories that reveal the courage, decency, and humanity of the man behind what many are calling the Thomas Court.

Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.

';It takes courage to be an empathetic leader.

Kristen Block examines the entangled histories of Spain and England in the Caribbean during the long seventeenth century, focusing on colonialism's two main goals: the search for profit and the call to Christian dominance.

Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You destroys our complacency about who among us can commit unspeakable atrocities, who is subjected to them, and who can stop them.

On Valentine's Day 2008, Steve Kazmierczak killed five and wounded eighteen at Northern Illinois University, then killed himself.

Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "e;soul food"e; gained common use.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

In this, the liveliest and most accessible one-volume life of Edmund Burke, Russell Kirk ingeniously combines into a living whole the private and the public Burke.

In Almost Free, Eva Sheppard Wolf uses the story of Samuel Johnson, a free black man from Virginia attempting to free his family, to add detail and depth to our understanding of the lives of free blacks in the South.

The ring shout is the oldest known African American performance tradition surviving on the North American continent.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!

This volume gathers more than one hundred letters-most of them previously unpublished-written by Mercy Otis Warren (1728-1814).

Vibration Cooking was first published in 1970, not long after the term "e;soul food"e; gained common use.

The biographical essays in this volume provide new insights into the various ways that South Carolina women asserted themselves in their state and illuminate the tension between tradition and change that defined the South from the Civil War through the Progressive Era.

"e;How is it that I seem to be this Margaret Fuller,"e; the pioneering feminist, journalist, and political revolutionary asked herself as a child.

This biography of Joseph Henry Lumpkin (1799-1867) details the life and work of the man whose senior judgeship on Georgia's Supreme Court spanned more than twenty years and included service as its first Chief Justice.

I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang!