Biography: historical, political and military

In his career as corporation and constitutional lawyer, Methodist layman, Liberal politician, and internationalist, N.

2016 Ontario Historical Society Joseph Brant Award - Winner * 2017 Speaker's Book Award - ShortlistedA man of two cultures in an era where his only choices were to be a trailblazer or get left by the wayside Dr.

This volume combines 24 essays by a remarkable group of leading Canadian political scientists.

By the end of volume 1 of The Life of William Faulkner ("e;A filling, satisfying feast for Faulkner aficianados"e;- Kirkus), the young Faulkner had gone from an unpromising, self-mythologizing bohemian to the author of some of the most innovative and enduring literature of the century, including The Sound and the Fury and Light in August.

Death of a Rebel tells the story of Charles Andrews Fenton (1919-1960), a charismaticteacher, scholar, and writer who took his own life by jumping from the top of the Washington Duke Hotel in Durham, North Carolina.

Hailed for his decisive victory over a Royal Navy squadron on Lake Erie in September 1813 and best known for his after-action report proclamation We have met the enemy and they are ours, Oliver Hazard Perry was one the early U.

The tragic story of Anne Boleyn has been retold over the centuries, yet two key figures in Anne's life-her father Thomas and brother George- are often relegated to the margins of Henry VIII's turbulent reign.

The text of People from Our Side consists of Peter Pitseolak's manuscript -- originally written in syllabics -- and a narrative drawn from interviews conducted by Dorothy Eber with the help of young Inuit interpreters.

Born into a Quaker family, Nathanael Greene had nothing in his background that pointed to a military career.

With meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolutionthe battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom.

David Livingstone was one of the supreme representatives of the British Empire; yet his career suffered many set-backs during his own lifetime and since his death his reputation has swung between extremes of adulation and dismissal.

Die Stimmung des Fremd-Seins in der Welt ist weit verbreitet in einer Gesellschaft, die die metaphysische Perspektive gerne leugnet.

Volume Two of the daily diaries of the 40th President of the United States, Ronald Reagan.

'Effervescent' New Yorker Best Books Of 2022 So Far'Bursts with colour and incident' FT Best Books of SummerRead this prize-winning historian's "e;immersive"e; ( New York Times) account of the famous writers who, in the run-up to World War II, took on dictators and rewrote the rules of modern journalismThey were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone.

Born in the hamlet of Mount Gilead, North Carolina, Julius Chambers (19362013) escaped the fetters of the Jim Crow South to emerge in the 1960s and 1970s as the nation's leading African American civil rights attorney.

The first book-length biography of John Cruso of Norwich (b.

Can a political leader be effective without being tyrannical?

NUMBER 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERNo one is born a leader.

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It was 1948 when Abner Mikva, fresh out of college, volunteered at the 8th Ward Democratic headquarters in Chicago.

The last few years have seen a remarkable surge of popular interest in the topic of atheism.

An absolute classic of autobiography and history - one of the few books to explore how and why the Germans were seduced by Hitler and Nazism.

The first full-scale biography of Robert Willis, the "e;founding father"e; of architectural history.

Lieutenant John Huddleston Taber was a New Yorker assigned to the 168th "e;Third Iowa"e; Infantry Regiment of the American Expeditionary Force's 42nd "e;Rainbow"e; Division during World War I.

Discover this lyrical, sweeping and powerful book on the Bhutto family, an extraordinary, Kennedy-esque dynasty that is central to the story of modern Pakistan.

For many years historians of the Cuban missile crisis have concentrated on those thirteen days in October 1962 when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war.

Shaykh Mithqal al-Fayiz's life spanned a period of dramatic transformation in the Middle East.

On the morning of 24th February 1944 following a devastating Luftwaffe raid, Donald Wheal and his family were homeless refugees with bulging suitcases and faces blackened by soot blast.

This remarkable and very rare memoir discusses the bloody combat history of the Texas National Guard 36th Infantry Division in World War II, from pre-embarkation training through the capture of Rome.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

Owning the Secular examines three case studies dealing with religious symbols and cultural identity, including two public controversies over the veil in Canada - at the federal level and in the province of Quebec - and an ex-Muslim podcaster rethinking her atheist identity in the era of Donald Trump and the alt-right.

An Archaeology of Disbelief traces the origin of secular philosophy to pre-Socratic Greek philosophers who proposed a physical universe without supernatural intervention.

The life of Gandhi, in his own words.

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, BY THE AUTHOR OF UNLEASHED'A stunning tour de force' - Sunday Telegraph'Genuinely clever.

This work is a highly readable introduction to Shaykh Mufid, the leading Shi'i scholar of his time, and it examines his contributions in the fields of jurisprudence, theology, and sacred history in clear and straightforward language.

Jewelry isnt ordinarily a tool of political persuasion, but in this beautiful book, Madeleine Albright, American ambassador to the United Nations and then the nations first female secretary of state, tells the compelling story of how these small objects became part of her personal diplomatic arsenal.

Many books have been written about the Second World War and the majority of them either concentrate on a particular battle, campaign or unit.

As the oldest still operational written constitution in the world, the U.

Val Webb describes in this book how humans have engaged the Divine across religions and centuries, through rituals, art, sacred places, language and song.

Irene Levin Berman was born, raised, and educated in Norway.

The Lawudo Lama presents two life stories along with an extended introduction laying out their social and cultural context.

Only now can we see Paul Cezanne as the invisible genius at the very inception of modern art.

Der Band, der sich an einen breiten Leserkreis richtet, enthält 39 Porträts wichtiger Persönlichkeiten aus der Geschichte der Seelsorge im 20.

During the Battle of Midway in June 1942, US Navy dive bomber pilot Wade McClusky proved himself to be one of the greatest pilots and combat leaders in American history, but his story has never been told until now.

Au début du IIe siècle avant notre ère, Rome allait s’engager dans un second conflit contre le royaume de Macédoine, marquant de ce fait son intervention de plain-pied dans les affaires du monde hellénistique.

"e;The first full biography of the famous Confederate cavalry leader from Kentucky.