Biography: general

This book contains papers presented in an International Conference Jointly organised by the Council for Social Development and All India Womens Conference, New Delhi on September 2-3, 2013.

By all measures, the late twentieth century was a time of dramatic decline for the Islamic world, the Ummah, particularly its Arab heartland.

A wide-eyed South African conscript relates his small share of the war in Angola and Namibia in the 1980s.

In this landmark text, Gilbert Rist provides a comprehensive and compelling overview of what the idea of development has meant throughout history.

"e;This book will find a place with the world War II remembrances of Tom Brokaw and Stephen Ambrose and the film Saving Private Ryan .

Ein literarischer Schatz wird gehoben.

Edgar Award Finalist: The hunt for Ronnie Shelton, Cleveland’s West Side Rapist, and the victims who united for justice—“Groundbreaking” (Ann Rule).

Bestselling author Michelle McKinney Hammond encourages women to look beyond their daily activities and accomplishments to find true and lasting happiness by focusing on God's priorities.

Beneath the commonplace affirmation that Jesus “paid for our sins” lie depths of implication: did God demand a blood sacrifice to assuage divine anger?

It introduces a religious dimension to the study of ethnic identity and globalization in the provinces of the Roman Empire.

1944 auf dem italienischen Kriegsschauplatz.

Benjamin Franklin Butler was one of the most important and controversial military and political leaders of the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.

Presenting the life and professional career of The Dean of Afro-American Composers, this is the first comprehensive book on the writings by and about Still, the compositions with manuscript sources, the performances of Still's works, and the reviews of those performances.

A self-taught culinary virtuoso, Francesco Bracali is one of Italy's top chefs.

Feminist philosophers Barrett Emerick and Audrey Yap bring theoretical arguments about personhood and moral repair into conversation with the work of activists and the experiences of incarcerated people to make the case that prisons ought to be abolished.

Jack McKeon, who in 2003 became the oldest manager to ever lead a team to the World Series championship, proved that old doesn't mean you're over, and these stories offer a look into his storied career, from baseball's forgotten fields to the World Series.

This concise biography of the world famous revolutionary Che Guevara provides the most up-to-date and comprehensive account available of his remarkable life, tragic death, and enduring political legacy.

The recent News Corporation scandal has catapulted Murdoch and his global media empire into the public eye as perhaps never before.

A farm boy from the mountains of North Carolina, Rufus Edmisten could not have been prepared for the halls of power in Washington, D.

In the years following World War II many multi-national energy firms, bolstered by outdated U.

The present work is English Translation of an award winning Hindi book-Bharatiya Samaja Mein Nari Adarshon ka vikasa, written by late Pt.

Mapping Modernisms brings together scholars working around the world to address the modern arts produced by indigenous and colonized artists.

Keine ausführliche Beschreibung für "Nationale Minderheiten und staatliche Minderheitenpolitik in Deutschland im 19.

Eva Per n remains Argentina's best-known and most iconic personality, surpassing even sporting superstars such as Diego Maradona or Lionel Messi, and far outlasting her own husband, President Juan Domingo Per n - himself a remarkable and charismatic political leader without whom she, as an uneducated woman in an elitist and male-dominated society, could not have existed as a political figure.

Napoleon Lajoie was the sixth player, and the first second baseman, to be elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Philosophical controversy over non-human animals extends further back than many realize -- before Utilitarianism and Darwinism to the very genesis of philosophy.

Though widely recognized as one of the Industrial Workers of the World's leading members and one of its most prominent militants, this is the first book-length biography of Frank Little.

In India, a woman is traditionally regarded as an honorable and dignified personality.

Internationally renowned actress Ingrid Bergman was of Swedish and German descent, though she was known by the majority as Swedish.

Now a major motion picture starring Eddie Redmayne and Oscar-winning Alicia Vikander'An enthralling read' THE TIMES'Heartbreaking and unforgettable, it is a complete triumph' BOSTON GLOBE'Beautifully written.

Modern Russia's turbulent relations with its Muslim frontiers date back centuries.

Over 2 million copies sold in The Word Biblical Commentary series.

New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation.

This book sheds light on the career of Samuel Prideaux Tregelles, and in doing so touches on numerous aspects of nineteenth-century British and European religious history.

Written by eleven leading anthropologists from around the world, this volume extends the insights of Fredrik Barth, one of the most important anthropologists of the twentieth century, to push even further at the frontiers of anthropology and honor his memory.

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The posthumous diagnosis of Winston Churchill as manic-depressive has been drawn entirely from biographical information, which, though significant to understanding his life and mind, has often been misused or misunderstood.

From Americas premier sportswriter, the definitive, #1 New York Times bestselling biography of Joe Paterno and the story of Americas love affair with football.

From the author of The Coach Approach: A story of lacrosse and leadership with a “powerful message [that] extends far beyond the athletic field” (Jon Gordon, Wall Street Journal–bestselling author of The Energy Bus).

Since the publication of his first novel, The Intuitionist, in 1999, Colson Whitehead (b.

Oliver Cromwell, a pivotal and often contentious character, has long been the focus of many historical works that chart his meteoric rise from being a middle-aged farmer from East Anglia with no previous military experience, who rose to command the army and become one of England's greatest generals.

'My struggle is not merely political.

This in-depth series of literary portraits studies celebrities who died in famous and tragic ways-ways that still resonate as archetypal death scenarios in present day.

In The Power of the Steel-tipped Pen Noenoe K.

"e;[This] richly documented book is the definitive study of the decisive role mountain men played in the exploration and expansion of the Western frontier.