Biography: historical, political and military

An important new biography of America's founding religious father.

Immenses Vermögen, transnationale Mobilität, ein globales Familiennetzwerk und erbitterte Konflikte sind die Kennzeichen der Familie Thyssen im 20.

The first full-length biography of the longtime secret love of the celebrated poet T.

Over 60,000,000 people died worldwide during the course of the Second World War and, in contrast to those slaughtered in The Great War, it was civilian populations that bore the brunt.

Imagine raising six spirited kids on a grass farmtoday.

2016 Speaker's Book Award - ShortlistedFormer Ontario premier Dalton McGuinty shares the story of his life in politics and the leadership lessons he has learned.

Recent American political developments, including the election of Donald Trump, reveal profound disquiet with the highly centralized political regime based on discretionary allocation of funds and powers to interest groups that has developed since the creation of emergency institutions after America's entry into World War I.

"e;A bittersweet modern love story [that] reads as easily as a novel.

For half a century Lydia Maria Child was a household name in the United States.

It's beenfifty years since JFKs assassination and nearly twenty since Ronald Reagan disappeared from public life.

This book explores why the metaphor of the church as a family is insufficient.

An introduction to book clubs as a distribution channel and cultural phenomenon.

Alongside Georges Clemenceau and David Lloyd George, Giovanni Giolitti (1842-1928) stands out as one of the major liberal reformers of late 19th- and early 20th-century Europe.

Henry de Monfreid stammte aus bestem Hause, war befreundet mit Matisse, Gauguin, Cocteau und Teilhard de Chardin.

Amidst political upheaval and the decline of the Ottoman Empire, the State of Kuwait emerged as an independent country under British protection in 1899, with Sheikh Mubarak Al Sabah widely accredited as the instrument of its foundation.

During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents.

An evaluative examination that challenges the media to rise above the systematic racism and sexism that persists across all channels, despite efforts to integrate.

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A groundbreaking history of how the US Post made the nineteenth-century American West.

In November 1758 Brigadier General John Forbes's army expelled the French army from Fort Duquesne at the forks of the Ohio River.

The bundle of 31 letters, the pages of which had long yellowed with age, had lain hidden in the attic where they were found for over a century.

Ana Montes appeared to be a model employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Maud Gonne has long been viewed merely as a contemporary of more prominent literary, political and legal figures who played a role in Irish politics of the early twentieth century.

This work probes into the socio-political and cultural setting in South Texas (1915-1992) via data found in the private archival collection of Adela Sloss-Vento; it focuses on her role as an activist, writer and civil/human rights pioneer.

When a senior army officer is killed in action holding off an enemy attack threatening to overrun his outpost, the confidence of his comrades is rocked.

James Polk was President of the United States from 1845 to 1849, a time when slavery began to dominate American politics.

Journalism used to be a thing.

This seaman's journal recounts a twenty-month voyage from Boston to the African coast to intercept slave-trading vessels as America approach the Civil War.

This book introduces readers to Catholic social teaching, the Church's long tradition of reflection on the meaning of social justice and how to enact it.

This collection assembles essays by eleven leading Catholic and evangelical theologians in an ecumenical discussion of the benefits and potential drawbacks of today s burgeoning corpus of theological interpretation.

'We jumped in at the deep end and bought a farm!

Werner D'Inka und Peter Lückemeier haben Volker Bouffier auf den Zahn gefühlt, und zwar gleich mehrfach.

Amidst all of the criticisms of America's war in Iraq, one essential voice has remained silent .

The bomber pilot whose bravery in the Battle of Midway changed the course of WWII recounts his story in this extraordinary memoir: "e;An instant classic"e; (Dallas Morning News).

Clorinda Matto de Turner was the first Peruvian novelist to command an international reputation and the first to dramatize the exploitation of indigenous Latin American people.

Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals,” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj Mahal.

In this Christian Encounter Series biography, author Mitch Stokes explores the life of Isaac Newton, the man behind the atomic theory.