Biography: general

This timely book provides new insights into debates around the relationship between women and film by drawing on the work of philosopher Luce Irigaray.

Choice Outstanding Academic Title 2023For readers of Prairie Fires and The Peabody Sisters, a fascinating, insightful biography of the most famous sister novelists before the Brontes.

Clive Wearing has one of the most extreme cases of amnesia ever known.

The first book-length study of Sartre as philosopher of the imaginary and the development of his philosophical, literary, aesthetic and political thought.

Robert Hughes, one of the most illuminating minds ever to have taken on the subjects of art and culture, uses his same critical abilities to give us a brutally intimate account of his early life, up until the time he quit Australia for the United States.

The recent high-profile murders of George Floyd, and other African American individuals, along with the prevailing coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic have reinforced the notion that certain marginalized populations have worse health outcomes than other populations, likely due to unequal and unjust policies and practices.

For Lewis Carroll, a deacon in the Church of England, faith in Christ and belief in a loving God stood at the core of his being, but little has been written about what the church or faith meant to the celebrated author of the Alice books.

On July 11, 1942, the USS North Carolina steamed into Pearl Harbor.

This study examines the process of unionizing domestic workers in Lebanon, highlighting the potentialities as well as the obstacles confronting it, and looks at the multiple power relations involved through axes of class, gender, race, and nationality.

In the late sixteenth through seventeenth centuries, England simultaneously developed a national market and a national literary culture.

The Pogues injected the fury of punk into Irish folk music and gave the world the troubled, iconic, darkly romantic songwriter Shane MacGowan.

Cet ouvrage décrit la rencontre d'une population en survie avec l'équipe d'un service d'urgence composé d'éducateurs et d'éducatrices spécialisés.

How did America become a nation obsessed with race?

This book examines the 'window' in the life and work of the seminal architectural thinker Christian Norberg-Schulz (1926 – 2000).

Stalinism, that particularly brutal phase of the Communist experience, came to an end in most of Europe with the death of Stalin in 1953.

In the presidential elections of 1980, 1984, and 1988, the three Democratic nominees won an average of about 10 percent of the Electoral College votea smaller share than any party in any three consecutive presidential elections in US history.

A groundbreaking study of the foundations of nationalism, exposing its antiquity, strong links with ethnicity and roots in human nature.

After the Great War some texts by British Army veterans portrayed the Anglican chaplains who had served with them in an extremely negative light.

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Rich Fritzky poses five questions to forty-five individuals who have devoted much, if not all of their lives, to Abraham Lincoln.

Gender equity can't happen without racial equity.

Auberon Waugh was a philosopher savage, eccentric, but a philosopher nonetheless.

Die Begegnung Stefan Georges mit Stéphane Mallarmé stellte für ersteren geradezu eine Einweihung in die Poesie dar.

American Indian Education/indigenous education is still faltering today and is not producing significant differences in results where school practices follow those for the dominant culture.

Founded as a local college ministry in 1951, Campus Crusade for Christ has become one of the world's largest evangelical organizations, today boasting an annual budget of more than $500 million.

Former special agent and assistant director of the FBI, Ray Wannall, writes a comprehensive, insider's commentary regarding one of the most powerful, but enigmatic personalities of our time.

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility.

This book assesses whether a new category of religious actors has been constructed within international law.

This biography analyzes Astor's rise from poor German immigrant in 1784 to the first modern millionaire--he was one before the term "e;millionaire"e; entered the English language.

"e;Simon Fairlie is possibly the most influential-and unusual-eco-activist you might not have heard of.

This book considers in unprecedented detail one of the most confounding questions in American racial practice: when to speak about people in racial terms.

From his enslavement to freedom, Frederick Douglass was one of America's most extraordinary champions of liberty and equality.

Ce livre est un livre historique sur un des sports les plus populaires : le JUDO.

'My name is Arthur Smith, unless there's anybody here from the Streatham tax office.

How is hate shaping our society?

A new history of how the Nazi era upended German-Jewish experiences of space and time from eminent historian Guy Miron.

Celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Backstreet Boys with the ultimate tribute bookfilled with amazing tour photography, band-member profiles, fan memories, and more.

On 1 November 1920, eighteen-year-old UCD medical student Kevin Barry was hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Jail for his role in a bungled IRA operation in which three British soldiers were killed.

A bright portrait of modern Africa that pushes back against harmful stereotypes to tell a more comprehensive story.

At the turn of the century, America is both retrenching and expanding, becoming more restrictive and more expansive, more utilitarian and, more value- and religion-oriented.

A behind the scenes look at 50 years of US diplomacy.

Survivors from London's ganglandThe third and final chapter in Bobby and David Teale's powerful true story focuses on the shattering consequences of Bobby's secret decision to inform on the Krays, putting himself and his brothers David and Alfie in mortal danger.

'This is an utter tonic.