Biography: general

Susan Dunne's life changed forever when a chance question from a doctor led her back to horses, an unfulfilled childhood passion.

Read this book and the world's most famous image will never look the same again.

A comparative history of the relocation and removal of indigenous societies in the Greater American Southwest during the mid-nineteenth century Lost Worlds of 1863: Relocation and Removal of American Indians in the Central Rockies and the Greater Southwest offers a unique comparative narrative approach to the diaspora experiences of the Apaches, O odham and Yaqui in Arizona and Sonora, the Navajo and Yavapai in Arizona, the Shoshone of Utah, the Utes of Colorado, the Northern Paiutes of Nevada and California, and other indigenous communities in the region.

Anton Marty (Schwyz, 1847-Prague, 1914) contributed significantly to some of the central themes of Austrian philosophy.

Elena Grosskopf was born in June 1924 and grew up in Merano on the Austrian-Italian border.

In the annals of espionage, one name towers above all others: that of H.

The nationalization of the postal service in Italy transformed post-unification letter writing as a cultural medium.

This early work by Richard Hillary was originally published in 1942 and we are now republishing it.

In 1948, a group of conservative white southerners formed the States' Rights Democratic Party, soon nicknamed the "e;Dixiecrats,"e; and chose Strom Thurmond as their presidential candidate.

The life and works of William Faulkner have generated numerous biographical studies exploring how Faulkner understood southern history, race, his relationship to art, and his place in the canons of American and world literature.

The authoritative biography of the 60s countercultural icon who wrote SCUM Manifesto, shot Andy Warhol, and made an unforgettable mark on feminist history.

The World Turns to War weaves stories of combat veterans into an event-by-event history of the war.

Leonardo Da Vinci's Elements of the Science of Man describes how Da Vinci integrates his mechanical observations and experiments in mechanics into underlying principles.

This book focuses on oil politics and the development of nuclear technology in Iran, providing a broader historical context to understand Iran's foreign relations and nuclear policy.

Rhodri: A Political Life in Wales and Westminster is the political autobiography of Rhodri Morgan.

This 2006 volume provides the broadest and deepest introduction to Kant currently available.

Sex trafficking is not a recent phenomenon.

From the Bestselling Author and Television Producer of Masters of Sex, a True Story ofthe Intrigue and Infighting of Conde Nast, Anna Wintour, S.

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In this book, Daina Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial, ethnic, community, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland.

FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD'Fascinating and intimate' OBSERVER'Lucid, distilled, honest' MAGGIE NELSON'Gorgeous, symphonic, tender' CARMEN MARIA MACHADOHow do you tell the real story of someone misremembered - an icon and idol - alongside your own?

Stanley Cavell was, by many accounts, America's greatest philosophical thinker of film.

More than half a century after his death, Lt Col.

In 2004, Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh was brutally murdered on a busy Amsterdam street.

Hidden among the simple lists of ingredients and directions for everyday foods are surprising stories.

Great business leaders possess more than celebrated traits like charisma and an appetite for risk.

In the early nineteenth century, London publishers dominated the transatlantic book trade.

This classic New York Times bestseller is an illuminating portrait of JFK—from his thrilling rise to his tragic fall—by two of the men who knew him best.

Ilya Ehrenburg: Selections from People, Years, Life covers volumes of the memoirs of Ilya Ehrenburg, a Soviet writer who witnessed the major historical events both at home and abroad or of making the acquaintance of so many of the leading figures.

This pathbreaking book documents the transformation of reproductive practices and politics on Indian reservations from the late nineteenth century to the present, integrating a localized history of childbearing, motherhood, and activism on the Crow Reservation in Montana with an analysis of trends affecting Indigenous women more broadly.

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'An elegant, densely textured work, like a tapestry .

Most philosophical writing is impersonal and argumentative, but many important philosophers have nevertheless written accounts of their own lives.

A SUNDAY TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2017'A brilliant, compelling, propulsively written, magnificent tour de force' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Evening Standard'The second volume of what will surely rank as one of the greatest historical achievements of our age .

The second volume of the extraordinary life of the great music and literary icon Leonard Cohen, in the words of those who knew him best.

This concise biography of the world's most notorious terrorist tells the fascinating story of the evolution of a wealthy businesman's son to the 9/11 mastermind who declared war on America.

If there is one name in the American equestrian story that everyone knows, it is George Morris.

Dies ist die Geschichte einer zufälligen Entdeckung und wie sie nicht nur das Leben von Tony Rinaudo fundamental geändert, sondern auch das Klima und die Lebensverhältnisse von Millionen von Menschen verbessert hat.

A bold new literary history that says women's writing is defined less by domestic concerns than by an engagement with public lifeIn a bold and sweeping reevaluation of the past two centuries of women's writing, At Home in the World argues that this body of work has been defined less by domestic concerns than by an active engagement with the most pressing issues of public life: from class and religious divisions, slavery, warfare, and labor unrest to democracy, tyranny, globalism, and the clash of cultures.

The essays in this book demonstrate the breadth and vitality of American intellectual history.

What are the key 50 events you really need to understand to grasp the developments of our world?

WILD MEDICINE FOR APOCALYPTIC TIMES This Witchs devotional is a collection of nature-inspired prayers, mythic incantations, stories, and pagan poetry that can be enjoyed slowly or all at once.

The definitive one-volume collection of Jung quotationsC.

'Remarkable' Observer'A joy to read' Daily Telegraph'Soaringly beautiful' Sunday Times Magazine'Genuine and persuasive' GuardianAlexandra Heminsley thought she could swim.

The culmination of William Wells Browns long writing career, My Southern Home is the story of Browns search for a home in a land of slavery and racism.