Biography: general

A definitive biography of the French aristocrat who became one of democracy's greatest championsIn 1831, at the age of twenty-five, Alexis de Tocqueville made his fateful journey to America, where he observed the thrilling reality of a functioning democracy.

Mark Twain is America's-perhaps the world's-best known humorous writer.

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications.

The presidency of George W.

John Wesley boasted that he was a "e;man of one book,"e; but he was also a thoughtful student throughout his life and an author of many books.

Featuring prominent figures in education, religion, science, and war, Eminent Victorians is a fascinating collection of Victorian biographies.

Albert Brooks: Interviews brings together fourteen profiles of and conversations with Brooks (b.

Enjoy some encouragement, laughter, and philosophical-ish musings on connection, creativity, loss, love, faith, and more!

This book discusses how Romantic-age writers and new cultural institutions transformed ideas of knowledge inherited from the early-modern period.

Combining autobiography and ethnography, Damrong Tayanin examines the lifestyles, customs, practices, and beliefs of the Kammu people by describing his own early experiences.

A collection of the influential ethical writings of medieval philosopher William of Ockham, published in English for the first time.

This is a fully annotated edition of selected letters by (and in some cases to) Sir J.

New TED talk based on the book out now!

Tawfiq Zayyad (1929-94) was a renowned Palestinian poet and a committed communist activist.

Tell Me A Storyis breathtakingly tender, heartbreakingly true.

Empire of Liberty takes a new look at the public life, thought, and ambiguous legacy of one of America's most revered statesmen, offering new insight into the meaning of Jefferson in the American experience.

This book deals with adoption laws and practices in small island developing states in the Pacific.

The hilarious memoir from the funniest man in football!

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Gary Yamasaki explores how the visual art of filmmaking works to establish perspective and point of view to guide the viewer into a film's story.

Julian Hawthorne (1846-1934), Nathaniel Hawthorne's only son, lived a long and influential life marked by bad circumstances and worse choices.

This is the first analysis of periodicals' key role in U.

For well over a decade, Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne have produced highly original and ethically charged films that immerse their audiences in an intense and embodied viewing experience.

This is the fourteenth volume in the series of Memorial Tributes compiled by the National Academy of Engineering as a personal remembrance of the lives and outstanding achievements of its members and foreign associates.

This book traces the feminine soul of Afrobeat from tumultuous colonial (her)stories through to the vibrant heterotopias of the urban spaces and times of Black British youths of African racial heritage.

This ebook is now available from Bloomsbury Academic.

If you know anything at all about mixed martial arts and the UFC, then you know the name Matt Hughes.

Edmund Husserl, founder of the phenomenological movement, is usually read as an idealist in his metaphysics and an instrumentalist in his philosophy of science.

Allison Davis (1902-83), a preeminent black scholar and social science pioneer, is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking investigations into inequality, Jim Crow America, and the cultural biases of intelligence testing.

More antics from the much-loved TOP GEAR presenter, and the No.

A faith-based journey of the heart as a woman seeks healing from a troubled past by looking to one of the Bible’s most misunderstood characters.

Guru Nanak, the founder of the Sikh religion, walked the earth to restore love and humanity lurking in the doldrums.

He became famous with Genesis but simply to call Peter Gabriel a pop star would be to sell him very short indeed.

"e;The gripping and deeply moving account of a man's lifelong struggle to reach freedom, driven by an indomitable will to survive in Mao's China.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.

The moving, gripping, and tell–all autobiography of Traci Elizabeth Lords, a former child porn queen, electronica maven, and cult movie and TV star.

Christian Communist, leader of the Diggers movement and bete noire of the landed aristocracy, Gerard Winstanley (1609-1676) was one of the founders of a movement which fought for the redistribution of land and the abolition of wages and property under Oliver Cromwell.

This book examines Harold Laski's relationship to Marxism.

As a first lieutenant in Bravo Company of the Third Battalion, 187th Infantry, Frank Boccia led a platoon in two intense battles in the Vietnamese mountains in April and May 1969: Dong Ngai and the grinding, 11-day battle of Dong Ap Bia--the Mountain of the Crouching Beast, in Vietnamese, or Hamburger Hill as it is popularly known.

This book explains how the brightest thinkers judge the ways we decide, argue, solve problems, and tell right from wrong.

By the late 1960s, in a Europe divided by the Cold War and challenged by global revolution in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, thousands of young people threw themselves into activism to change both the world and themselves.

Bill Yenne brings to life the untold story of Lidiya Vladimirovna, Russia's World War II flying ace, who lit up the skies over Germany and Russia while flying 66 combat missionsOf all the major air forces that were engaged in the war, only the Red Air Force had units comprised specifically of women.

In this first-ever biography, historian Robert Thompson tells the dramatic story of the life and death of William Crawford, a legendary figure from the violent world of the American colonial frontier, and a man recognized as a martyr by many Americans.

In the age of social media, life writing is ubiquitous.

Capitalism in the western world is currently facing a crisis of legitimacy in the face of growing inequality.

The life story of the Kentucky-born son of immigrants who became part of American history in 1916 as the first Jewish Supreme Court justice.

Eine unbekannte Freundschaft des großen PreußenkönigsAlbert von Hoditz war ein Genießer und Lebensreformer, der sein Schloss an der umkämpften Grenze zwischen Österreich und Preußen zu einem »Arkadien in Mähren« machen wollte.

This book is a fascinating and detailed chronicle of over two years spent in the American merchant service during the early 1800s.