Collected biographies

Laura Malosetti Costa aborda la inmensa trascendencia de las figuras de Eva Duarte de Perón, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, Diego Maradona y Lionel Messi a partir del impacto de sus retratos icónicos.

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.

19 wahre Träume von Frieden und Gerechtigkeit Inspirierende Portraits von Friedensheld:innen aus aller Welt – für junge Menschen ab 12Sie stammen aus 17 Ländern, aus Afrika, Amerika, Asien, Europa, und sie sind von verschiedenen Religionen und Kulturen geprägt.

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.

By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre.

This book is second volume of Mary Hays's Female Biography; a scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences, such as those of Elizabeth Bland and Boadecia.

Die Geschichte Frankreichs ist untrennbar mit der Herrschaft des Hauses Valois verbunden, einer Dynastie, die Frankreich durch Jahrhunderte des Wandels führte.

Sir Nevill Mott was Britain's last Winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics.

These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men.

By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre.

Im Herzen des mittelalterlichen Skandinaviens erhebt sich eine Familie, die das Schicksal Dänemarks über Jahrhunderte hinweg prägen sollte: das Haus Estridsson.

Königin Victoria war nicht nur eine prägende Monarchin ihrer Zeit, sondern auch die Matriarchin eines weitverzweigten Netzwerks von Königshäusern, das Europa nachhaltig beeinflusste.

These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.

These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men.

In a brilliant collection of biographies and essays, Daughters of the Eternal City celebrates the enduring impact women had on the political, social, and cultural fabric of Ancient Rome.

More than 850 individuals partly forgotten by name, but sometimes found in historical writings, together with many well known or recently deceased persons are presented in terms of bio-data, short career highlights, and main advances made to the profession with a short biography of the main writings.

Mujeres protagonistas de la historia y mujeres borradas de ella; mujeres que sueñan y mujeres castigadas por soñar; mujeres que sobreviven y mujeres que nos ayudan a sobrevivir.

These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men.

Conversion and Catastrophe in German-Jewish Emigre Autobiography is a collective biography of four German-Jewish converts to Christianity, recounting their spiritual and confessional journeys against the backdrop of the Holocaust and its aftermath.

This book is second volume of Mary Hays's Female Biography; a scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences, such as those of Elizabeth Bland and Boadecia.

These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men.

This book is fifth of the six-volume modern scholarly edition on the stories of real women's experiences.

These memoirs all come from women forced to live lives of impropriety, often after ill-treatment from unscrupulous men.

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of the key thinkers in language studies.

Focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets.

These exhuberant stories of intrigue and scandal paint a vivid and colourful picture of society life.

This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of the key thinkers in language studies.

Shortlisted for the Michel Deon Prize for non-fiction 'Hotel Lux is an unforgettable book, bringing to life not only its protagonists but an entire world, and offering a new glimpse of a vanished past' Sally Rooney'If affection is the first ground of memory, the archive is its late flowering and Hotel Lux its conservatory, Casey's history a tender nurture of pasts we overlook, but which whisper to us all the same' Irish TimesHotel Lux follows Irish radical May O'Callaghan and her friends, three revolutionary families brought together by their vision for a communist future and their time spent in the Comintern's Moscow living quarters, the Hotel Lux.

By the close of the Eighteenth Century, the theatrical memoir had become a popular and established genre.

Across eight volumes, this two-part collection of selected texts focuses on autobiographies and biographies of courtesans, directories of whores, erotic poems dedicated to harlots, jocular descriptions of prostitutes and jest books on strumpets.

Each of the works in this collection documents the extraodinary fortunes of women whose real lives read like fiction.

This book brings together the key events in the lives of 14 ethnically diverse school leaders and members of the NAHT 'Leaders for Race Equality' group through school, university, interviews and promotion.

Features actors who were significant in their development of new and innovative ways of performing Shakespeare.

Ruskin grew up in suburban London; in later life, he settled in the Lake District.

Was macht ein Mönch den ganzen Tag?

Im Jahre 1609 baut Galileo Galilei in Padua ein Teleskop, und Johannes Kepler veröffentlicht in Prag seine Planetengesetze.

Challenging the conception that only men shaped the Holy Roman Empire, this book provides students and general readers with biographies of preachers, nuns, princesses, businesswomen, artists, scientists, writers, and social movers who exercised agency in the Holy Roman Empire.

Beatles fans know the '70s as a bitter time for Lennon and McCartney.

Part of the "e;Lives of Victorian Literary Figures"e; series, this set collects contemporary memoirs, biographies and ephemera relating to Oscar Wilde, Henry James and Edith Wharton.

Capturing the essence of history's most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great economic thinkers are still relevant today.

Paula, la loca flaquita; Caty, la Santa, de flequillo teñido; Gisela, con su nariz fracturada; Sandra, la romántica; Jessica, la heavy, todas condenadas a prisión.

In their own time, Lewis Carroll, Robert Louis Stevenson and Algernon Charles Swinburne were highly successful writers.

That boxing has always attracted colourful, larger-than-life figures is amply borne out by the bizarre collection of true stories gathered together in this fascinating book.

Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation.

Of the forty-four presidents who have led the United States, nine made mistakes that permanently scarred the nation.

This book tells the story of the decline and fall of Ireland's premier aristocratic family - the dukes of Leinster - who, for almost 300 years, lived amidst glorious splendour in their grand Palladian mansion, Carton House, Co.

Elizabeth Gaskell, like her contemporary Emily Bronte, was from the north of England, though based in Lancashire and Cheshire rather than Yorkshire.

Wagemutige Abenteurerinnen überwinden GrenzenIn seinem neuen Buch nimmt uns Armin Strohmeyr mit auf die tollkühnen Wagnisse von zwölf der mutigsten Abenteurerinnen des 16.

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.