Biography: historical, political and military

'Charles Guthrie has been one of Britain's foremost soldiers as well as a terrific personality throughout his remarkable life.

In the 1930s, Rabbi Roland Gittelsohn was a distinguished scholar and vocal pacifist.

In Empire and Ireland, Roy MacLaren recounts the life and political career of Hamar Greenwood, a young man from rural Canada who reached the imperial pinnacle of the British cabinet.

How do religious traditions create strangers and neighbors?

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o és estudiant a una prestigiosa escola de Nairobi quan el Mau-Mau reclama la independència de Kenya.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.

Ein Leben gegen die Ungerechtigkeit –Kubanisches Tagebuch.

For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitfield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in the 1700s.

For the first time in paperback, New York Times best-selling author Roger Stone's insider tell-all about the presidential campaign that shocked the world.

Clement Attlee - the man who created the welfare state and decolonised vast swathes of the British Empire, including India - has been acclaimed by many as Britain's greatest twentieth-century Prime Minister.

Born and raised on the windswept prairies of northwest Wyoming, Alan Swallow (1915-1966) nurtured a passion for literature and poetry at an early age.

This book considers how the non-religious self is performed publicly online, and how digital culture and technology shapes this process.

Packed with customizable editing tools-this practical, up-to-date reference includes the latest on writing and editing onlineThe McGraw-Hill Desk Reference for Editors, Writers, and Proofreaders is an indispensable resource for writers, editors, proofreaders, and virtually everyone responsible for crafting clear, polished writing.

A revealing look at Jewish men and women who secretly explore the outside world, in person and online, while remaining in their ultra-Orthodox religious communities What would you do if you questioned your religious faith, but revealing that would cause you to lose your family and the only way of life you had ever known?

This 2000 study explores the origins and development of classical Arabic biography.

In this landmark volume, a rich array of voices make the case that religion is not partitioned off from the secular in the Global South the way it is in the Global North.

John Howard Yoder is one of the best-known Mennonite thinkers on peace.

Writing the Empire is a collective biography of the McIlwraiths, a family of politicians, entrepreneurs, businesspeople, scientists, and scholars.

This absorbing book explores the tensions within the Roman Catholic church and between the church and royal authority in France in the crucial period 1290-1321.

This collection of new essays about the earl of Essex, one of the most important figures of the Elizabethan court, resituates his life and career within the richly diverse contours of his cultural and political milieu.

"Du liegst nun schon viele viele Jahre unbeschrieben in meinem Regal und wartest geduldig darauf, dass du beschriftet wirst.

The suffragettes outraged Victorian society but their personal lives were just as dramatic as their public actions.

After he was selected to be NATO's sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander, The New York Times described Jim Stavridis as a "e;Renaissance admiral.

For thirteen years, during a time of Democratic congressional dominance in Washington, Dan Rostenkowski became one of the most influential American legislators of the twentieth century.

In this fascinating biography of the Indian revolutionary M.

This book looks at how Christians can think about their own theology in a manner that will allow them to not only be more open to interfaith dialogue but also to see that conversation as essential to what it means to be a Christian.

In an era dominated by male rulers, one woman's extraordinary rise to power left an indelible mark on Chinese history.

The definitive biography of FDR's leadership during WWII, presented here in a single volume-"e;splendid .

Drawing on Scripture, church history, and his own story, Shane Claiborne explores how a passion for social justice issues surrounding life and death--such as war, gun ownership, the death penalty, racial injustice, abortion, poverty, and the environment--intersects with our faith as we advocate for life in its totality.

Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "e;Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia.

The first biography in English of an extraordinary polymath whose great genius was stifled and finally extinguished by the Soviet Union.

Southern Conference on African American Studies, Inc.

When Claire Bien first began hearing voices, they were infrequent, benign and seemingly just curious about her life and the world around her.

This title was originally published in 1959.

Much like the rest of the country, American Catholics are politically divided, perhaps more so now than at any point in their history.

All the more desirable coastal land of the New World had been acquired by the 1840s and ';50s.

An entertaining account of an extraordinary cultural and historical event: - the establishment by one highly intelligent woman of a salon of the arts in a beautiful country house in Northumberland.

On March 16, 1621, Samoset, a sagamore of the Wawenock, cemented his place in history.

'Compulsively readable .

A heartrending and beautiful memoir of sudden loss and a journey to peace, from the bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Horse.

Illuminates Britain''s literary field during the 1820s as a decade of improvisation, speculation and rapid cultural change.

With a blinding flash in the New Mexico desert in the summer of 1945, the world was changed forever.

As sister of Henry III and aunt of the future Edward I, Eleanor de Montfort was at the heart of the bloody conflict between the Crown and the English barons.

This book explores the relational dynamic of religious and nonreligious positions as well as the tensions between competing modes of nonreligion.

A “brilliant” look at America’s sixteenth president by the New York Times–bestselling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lincoln (American Historical Review).

"e;Rick Kaiser was a legend in the SEAL Teams for his courage, his leadership and his unparalleled professionalism.