Collected biographies

Evan S.

Contained within this rare book is a fascinating treatise on the unsung history of the dog and his place beside man as his best friend, written by the authority on the subject and master of dog-based writing, Albert Terhune.

Plutarch's Lives is one of the most influential works of classical literature, shaping how generations have understood leadership, character, and moral responsibility.

Filled with diverse letters and diary entries from the archives and rich resources across America, Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades sheds new light on the military events, politics, and personal sacrifices experienced during the War Between the States.

Filled with diverse letters and diary entries from the archives and rich resources across America, Don't Hurry Me Down to Hades sheds new light on the military events, politics, and personal sacrifices experienced during the War Between the States.

In Remarkable People, Dan Walker, the host of BBC1's Breakfast, recounts inspiring stories of the courage and selflessness of people he has met throughout his career.

Who would top your list of the fifty people who have done the most to make the modern world a worse place?

WHAT IS YOUR FIRST MEMORY?

';A band of stubborn pioneers rose from the embers of Britain's cities after the war and created the finest automobiles the world had ever seen.

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.

Eight women who changed the worldCaroline Norton * Elizabeth Blackwell * Florence Nightingale * Emily Davies * Josephine Butler * Elizabeth Cady Stanton * Margaret Sanger * Emma GoldmanSignificant Sisters traces the lives of eight women, each of whom pioneered vital changes in the spheres of law, education, the professions, morals or politics: the first woman doctor, the pioneer of birth control, a radical journalist, and suffragists.

Based on the popular Radio 4 series, Great Lives highlights some of the world's most fascinating and influential characters.

'He makes us see a subject we thought we knew so well from a completely different angle; in writing that is deeply researched, but inviting, warm, and full of personality' Katy Hessel'Charlie Porter is a magician' Olivia Laing Why do we wear what we wear?

John Stanley Plaskett was Canada's pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century.

John Stanley Plaskett was Canada's pre-eminent astronomer in the first half of the twentieth century.

In this highly provocative book, originally published in 1974, Sir George Pickering, former Professor of Medicine in the University of London and Regius Professor in the University of Oxford, examines the role of illness in the minds and lives of Charles Darwin, Florence Nightingale, Freud, Proust, Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Mary Baker Eddy.

From Africas first black movie star to a stylish commie revolutionary, showgirls and soccer stars, writers and poets, activists, artists, a pop princess, a prophetess and a cold-blooded killer, Maverick explores the riveting, true tales of women who broke with convention.

From Africas first black movie star to a stylish commie revolutionary, showgirls and soccer stars, writers and poets, activists, artists, a pop princess, a prophetess and a cold-blooded killer, Maverick explores the riveting, true tales of women who broke with convention.

Plutarch defined for all ages the character of Greek and Roman moral identity.

Plutarch defined for all ages the character of Greek and Roman moral identity.

The Lives of the Caesars quite often resembles a modern sensationalized tabloid, stuffed with insinuations, scandal, and royal shenanigans, but it is really much more.

When the first bombs fell on London in August 1940, the city was transformed overnight into a battlefront.

In the course of a long and successful career as a journalist and author, Paul Johnson has known popes, presidents, prime ministers, painters, poets, playwrights, even the foul-mouthed publican Muriel Belcher, who ran the legendary Colony Club.

Two beloved Metaxas classics in a single, compact edition.

Who was the first king of England?

'If I saw further than others it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.

Who am I?

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self.

Early modern men and women represented their lives very differently from twentieth-century autobiographers, sharing none of the current preoccupation with individuality and the unique self.

The middle-aged women described within the chapters of "e;Common Threads"e; are ordinary yet extraordinary.

The middle-aged women described within the chapters of "e;Common Threads"e; are ordinary yet extraordinary.

When Diane Sher Lutovich set out to attain closure of her mother's death she simultaneously discovered how other women address their losses.

When Diane Sher Lutovich set out to attain closure of her mother's death she simultaneously discovered how other women address their losses.

'A mighty, panoramic history Firnhaber-Baker does a real service for those with an interest in France and England alike by providing a dexterous and engrossing account, a treasury for anyone with an interest in the royal, political and religious worlds of the high medieval period' Daily TelegraphThe sweeping story of one of the great epics of Europe's history: the rise and rise of the dynasty that dominated the Middle AgesStarting in the tenth century from an insecure foothold around Paris, the Capetians built a nation that stretched from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean and from the Rh ne to the Pyrenees.

This title was first published 2003.

This title was first published 2003.

Originally published in 1993.

Originally published in 1993.

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In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership ofMother Ann Lee.

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership ofMother Ann Lee.

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership ofMother Ann Lee.

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership ofMother Ann Lee.

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership ofMother Ann Lee.

In the late eighteenth century a small Shaker community travelled to America under the leadership ofMother Ann Lee.

The nine American Jews of whom Milton Konvitz writes are philosophers, jurists, or rabbis, widely known and readily accepted as American Jewish thinkers.

The nine American Jews of whom Milton Konvitz writes are philosophers, jurists, or rabbis, widely known and readily accepted as American Jewish thinkers.

Some of the bravest actions of journalists are unknown, obscured by the passage of time, hidden by veils of anonymity or buried by systematic repression.

Some of the bravest actions of journalists are unknown, obscured by the passage of time, hidden by veils of anonymity or buried by systematic repression.