Biography: general

Famous and seductive, female stage performers haunted French public life in the century before and after the Revolution.

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

One of the increasing number of people diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome in adulthood, New Zealand-born Jen Birch relates her story with humour and honesty, taking us through the years of frustration and confusion that led to her diagnosis in 1999.

William Jervois was a military engineer who rose to prominence as a result of Lord Palmerston's extensive programme of fortification against a feared French invasion in the middle years of the nineteenth century.

In the steamy summer of 1787, as America's founding fathers fashioned their Constitution, they told the most powerful institution in their new nation what it must not do: "e;Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion.

This accessible text on social research methodology teaches students of sociology and related disciplines how standard methods can be adapted toward critical ends.

The childhood and early life memoir of Antonia Fraser, one of our finest narrative historians.

In this book, world-renowned theatre artist Pamela Howard OBE shows how her life has always been part of the art of making theatre.

';The gold standard for Tesla biography.

'I had arrived at the Greek view of nature.

Dean Acheson was one of the most influential Secretaries of State in U.

More than four decades after the premiere of his first film, Steven Spielberg (b.

In The Syndicate of Twenty-two Natives, Lindiwe Sangweni-Siddo offers an elegy to her father, the late Professor Stan Sangweni, which explores the personal saga of a family's lineage rooted in Zuka on Suspence Farm, Newcastle, in what is now northern KwaZulu-Natal.

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

In the late nineteenth century, as Americans debated the "e;woman question,"e; a battle over the meaning of biology arose in the medical profession.

This volume highlights and offers different perspectives on the controversies provoked by this central text of Western philosophy.

In the seventeenth century, English Baptists existed on the fringe of the nation's collective religious life.

From Oceania to North America, Indigenous peoples have created storytelling traditions of incredible depth and diversity.

It is often said that the devil has all the best tunes.

Claudia Hammerschmidt basa su estudio sobre Guillermo Cabrera Infante en la simultaneidad de vaciamiento y remotivación de la lengua; en la de la pérdida y recuperación del control sobre las fuerzas que operan en todo acto de habla; en la de la carencia de poder autorial y la reapropiación retrospectiva del propio texto.

The longer the distance run, the more women have an edge over their male competitors.

Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28.

In one of the most illuminating portraits of police work ever, Chief Charles Campisi describes the inner workings of the world's largest police force and his unprecedented career putting bad cops behind bars.

Master of Deception is a biography of Peter Fleming, elder brother of Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond.

HOW TO BUILD A GREAT BUSINESS IN TOUGH TIMES is the inspiring entrepreneurial from-the-kitchen-table-to-supermarket-shelf story.

Religious diversity is a persistent theological predicament for Christian thinkers.

The poet and author’s “beautiful .

«Depuis longtemps, je ruminais l’idée de publier un livre à propos de l’UPAC.

Witchcraft: The Basics is an accessible and engaging introduction to the scholarly study of witchcraft, exploring the phenomenon of witchcraft from its earliest definitions in the Middle Ages through to its resonances in the modern world.

Growing up in an aristocratic family that seems almost to have stepped out of the pages of The Leopard, Leoluca Orlando entered law and politics in the late 1970s as one of the young idealists identified with the Catholic Church who were challenging the Mafias control of Sicilian life.

When he was seventeen years old, Audie Murphy falsified his birth records so he could enlist in the Army and help defeat the Nazis.

What is the ending to the human drama?

In Royal Sisters, Anne Edwards, author of the best-selling Vivien Leigh: A Biography and Matriarch: Queen Mary and the House of Windsor, has written the first dual biography of Elizabeth, the princess who was to become Queen, and her younger sister, Margaret, who was to be her subject.

"e;This is a celebratory meld of memoir, biography and travelogue, intensely personal and all the better for it.

El presente volumen analiza la autoría y autoridad literarias femeninas en el contexto del monacato hispánico, trazando un amplio panorama de la antropología cultural, política y religiosa de los Siglos de Oro.

One of the Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction Books of the Twentieth Century: The great American writer tells his own story.

Zvi Preigerzon wrote memoirs about his time in the Gulag in 1958, long before Solzhenitsyn and without any knowledge of the other publications on this subject.

THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S BEST BOOKS OF 2019THE TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2020LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2019A FINANCIAL TIMES, OBSERVER, DAILY TELEGRAPH, WALL STREET JOURNAL AND TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'Dalrymple is a superb historian with a visceral understanding of India A book of beauty' Gerard DeGroot, The TimesIn August 1765 the East India Company defeated the young Mughal emperor and forced him to establish a new administration in his richest provinces.

What were Prince's politics?

What is the history of knowledge?

'Mischievous and measured, Joanna Lumley gives us a remarkable portrait of a groovy life' The Times'Captures perfectly the mixture of poshness and larkiness that has captivated Joanna Lumley's audiences.

In Once I Was a Princess, Jacqueline Pascarl related the gripping story of her abusive childhood and her subsequent teen marriage to a prince.

Spiritual trailblazer Huston Smith has written comprehensive books about religion and a memoir of his own life, but nowhere has he merged the two elements of seeking and experience with such storytelling flair as he has in these pages.

Prodigy.

This volume contains thirty new essays by leading experts on British philosophy in the nineteenth century, and provides a comprehensive and unrivalled resource for advanced students and scholars.

In the #1 New York Times bestseller, the former Assistant to the President and Director of Communications for the Office of Public Liaison in the Trump White House provides an eye-opening and ';explosive' (The Boston Globe) look into the corruption and controversy of the current administration.