Biography: general

The classic book that exposed the scandal of the dispossession of native land by American settlersAnd Still the Waters Run tells the tragic story of the liquidation of the independent Indian republics of the Choctaws, Chickasaws, Cherokees, Creeks, and Seminoles, known as the Five Civilized Tribes.

This book provides new and exciting interpretations of Helen Keller's unparalleled life as "e;the most famous American woman in the world"e; during her time.

A positive legacy of the troubled Nixon administration--and one virtually unknown to the American public--is the extensive acquisition of valuable art and antiques for the White House and the redecoration of the executive mansion by Pat Nixon.

What are the real thoughts inside the mind of President Biden?

"e;My Philosophy"e; is a 1949 work by Benedetto Croce containing many of his essays on philosophy together with various writings on the subjects of morality ad politics.

Originally published in 1975, this book chronicles the exciting and tragic rise and fall of Germany's first Social Democratic Chancellor, Willy Brandt.

This book uses the discourse of religious liberty, often expressed as one favoring a separation between church and state, to explore racial differences during an era of American empire building (1750-1900).

The fascinating and insightful biography of one of the most intriguing, thoughtful and controversial figures of the 19th century.

In her first book, Blonde Indian, Ernestine Hayes powerfully recounted the story of returning to Juneau and to her Tlingit home after many years of wandering.

Ein Leben voller bewegender Worte – Gabriel García Márquez' ergreifende RedenGabriel García Márquez, einer der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller des 20.

This wide-ranging survey of the environmental damage to Native American lands and peoples in North America-in recent times as well as previous decades-documents the continuing impact on the health, wellness, land, and communities of indigenous peoples.

United States Poet Laureate and winner of the 2022 Academy of American Poets Leadership Award Joy Harjo examines the power of words and how poetry summons us toward justice and healing "e;Her enduring message-that writing can be redemptive-resonates: 'To write is to make a mark in the world, to assert "e;I am.

Die Biographie zu Heinrich Claß, zwischen 1908 und 1939 Vorsitzender des Alldeutschen Verbandes, widmet sich einem zentralen Vertreter der „nationalen Opposition“ zwischen Kaiserreich und Nationalsozialismus.

A bicentennial celebration of brilliant thinkers from The University of Manchester's history.

First published in 1946, this atmospheric memoir of the Battle of the Atlantic offers one of the most original accounts of war at sea aboard a corvette, escorting convoys in both the North and South Atlantic.

As American classical music struggled for recognition in the mid-nineteenth century, George Frederick Bristow emerged as one of its most energetic champions and practitioners.

Miles on Miles collects the thirty most vital Miles Davis interviews.

';An elegiac yet exuberant new memoir' (The New York Times Book Review)Bill Walton's New York Times bestselling memoir about his recovery from debilitating physical injury and how lessons from John Wooden at UCLA (and the music of the Grateful Dead) inspired his darkest hours.

Patrick Geoghegan re-examines the facts of Emmet's life and draws on new material from archives in Britain, France, the United States, and Ireland to show how Emmet's plans for rebellion, although undermined by internal disagreements, were much more ingenious than previously believed.

The United Kingdom had never seen anything like it, as two rock'n'roll legends rampaged around the country on Britain's first-ever rock tour.

Much of the scholarship on Thomas Jefferson characterizes him as a consummate immoralist.

Today basketball is played above the rim by athletes of all backgrounds and colors.

This compelling volume offers the first full portrait of the life and work of writer Lillian Smith (1897-1966), the foremost southern white liberal of the mid-twentieth century.

This illuminating biography of Robert Stephen Hawker (1803-75) unravels fully the famous Cornish parson-poet's rich personality.

Paul Blaisdell was the man behind the monsters in such movies as The She Creature, Invasion of the Saucer Men, Not of This Earth, It!

Global history locates national histories in the context of broader processes, in which the West is not necessarily synonymous with progress.

One of the most popular Hollywood child stars of the late 1910s, Virginia Lee Corbin was well known to fans worldwide.

Violence against Jews, Roma, and other persecuted minorities in the multiethnic borderlands of Eastern, Central, and Southeastern Europe.

Fifty matches that shaped the career of one of football's greatest managers.

This groundbreaking book analyses premodern whiteness as operations of fragility, precarity and racialicity across bodily and nonsomatic figurations.

Winner of the Holyer an Gof Award 2022 (Leisure and Lifestyle)An illustrated guide to one hundred of the finest early Cornish stone crosses, dating from around AD 900 to 1300.

As a New Testament character of note, the Apostle Paul is second only to Jesus.

The New York Times bestselling true story of an Australian ultramarathon runner and a little dog who formed an unbreakable bond in the middle of the Gobi desert.

The legendary FBI criminal profiler, number-oneNew York Timesbestselling author, and inspiration for the hit Netflix showMindhunterdelves deep into the lives and crimes offour of the most disturbing and complex predatory killers, offering never-before-revealed details about his profiling process, and divulging the strategiesused to crack some of Americas most challenging cases.

This book explores how the publication of women's life writing influenced the reputation of its writers and of the genre itself during the long nineteenth century.

At eighteen, Vermont-native Leath Tonino ventured west to attend college in Colorado.

Sextus Iulius Frontinus is best known as author of the military handbook Strategems but, in addition to writing this and other works (now lost), he also had a varied and surprisingly influential career in military and civil posts around the Roman Empire.

Written near the end of Sadako Sawamura's remarkable life, My Asakusa (Watashi co Asakusa) is a charming collection of autobiographical essays by a truly self-made woman.

This volume, first published in 2003, spans a millennium of thought extending from Augustine to Thomas Aquinas and into the fourteenth century.

Irish Anglican clergymen played an important role in the creation of a nineteenth-century "e;Greater Ireland,"e; a term denoting a diasporic movement in which the Irish transformed into a global people, actively participating in British imperial expansion and colonial nation building.

Highlighting 21 members of this illustrious historically Black fraternity Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc.

Judaic Spiritual Psychotherapy is in the contemporary mode of utilizing the profound insights present in spiritual literature for psychotherapeutic use.

Adams argues that the many significant changes seen in this period were due not to architects' efforts but to the work of feminists and health reformers.