Biography: general

Die deutsche Ausnahmeturnerin Kim Bui schildert ihren Weg zum Leistungssport ab dem zehnten Lebensjahr.

Trained as a cultural historian, Thomas R.

From its inception what came to be known as the Oxford Movement was always intended to be more than just an abstruse dialogue about the theoretical nature of Anglicanism.

An engaging study of authorship, ethics, and book publishing in 18th- and 19th-century America, The Grand Chorus of Complaint considers the uneasy relationship between art and commerce with readings of correspondence, newspaper articles, and works by Thomas Paine, Herman Melville, and Fanny Fern.

Wish to die statements are becoming a frequent phenomenon in terminally ill patients.

'[A] vivid, inquiring memoir.

I defy any woman to flick through Modestly, through Dina s musings on bullying, eating disorders, maternity wear, contouring and feminism, and not find something they can relate to METRO This is the story of my life.

I am here.

A powerful collection of 30 Bible stories about people whose faith in God brought them their finest hour.

This book introduces readers to the "e;Trial of the Century,"e; revealing how the trial originated, what caused and happened during and after the trial, what happened to the trial's participants, and why the trial still matters nearly 100 years later.

Cindy in Iraq is Cynthia Morgan's hair-raising yet jubilant chronicle of her perilous year in war-torn Iraq as a truck driver -- the most dangerous civilian job in the war zone.

Preeminent Shakespeare scholar James Shapiro, author of Shakespeare in a Divided America, shows how the tumultuous events in 1606 influenced three of Shakespeare's greatest tragedies written that yearKing Lear, Macbeth, and Antony and Cleopatra.

Heraclitus is the first English translation of Volume 55 of Martin Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe.

Party-girl supreme and queen of street fashion, supermodel and millionairess, Kate Moss is as familiar in headlines as on the catwalk as the twin narratives of lurid tabloid stories and continuing adulation of the fashion industry demonstrates to all the paradox of fame.

The essays in this Handbook, written by leading scholars working in the rapidly developing field of witchcraft studies, explore the historical literature regarding witch beliefs and witch trials in Europe and colonial America between the early fifteenth and early eighteenth centuries.

A young thirteen-year-old girl wants to become a Religious.

Many female figures in recent fiction, film, and television embody the Artemis archetype, modeled on the Greco-Roman goddess of the hunt.

Owain Glyndwr is a towering figure in Welsh history.

By the time of his death in 1988, Romare Bearden was most widely celebrated for his large-scale public murals and collages, which were reproduced in such places as Time and Esquire to symbolize and evoke the black experience in America.

Große multinationale Unternehmen beeinflussen, meist ohne dass wir es merken, wie wir leben, was wir essen, wie wir unsere Zeit verbringen, wen wir treffen, wie wir uns fortbewegen und sogar was wir denken.

Además de uno de los futbolistas con más talento y carisma del fútbol británico de todos los tiempos —en la memoria de muchos ingleses quedan sus hazañas deportivas, como la primera Copa de Europa que ganó el Manchester United en 1968—, George Best fue un enfant terrible que conmocionó al mundo del fútbol y a la sociedad británica de los sesenta y setenta.

In Lincoln Illuminated and Remembered, venerated Lincoln scholar William C.

Escape into Danger tells the remarkable story of a young girl's perilous adventures and coming of age during World War II.

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.

I've told my kids for years that God doesn't make mistakes," writes Mary Beth Chapman, wife of Grammy award winning recording artist Steven Curtis Chapman.

In his eulogy of saxophonist Johnny Hodges (1907-70), Duke Ellington ended with the words, "e;Never the world's most highly animated showman or greatest stage personality, but a tone so beautiful it sometimes brought tears to the eyes--this was Johnny Hodges.

';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.

Written with wit, wisdom, and a grateful heart, A Tender Distance presents fifteen finely-crafted vignettes that explore the perils and joys of raising two fearless boys from toddlerhood to young men.

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.

The most complete and up-to-date resource on the powerful benefits of nutritional supplements for the treatment and prevention of Alzheimer's disease *; Provides an easy-to-follow program of supplements to optimize the benefits of Alzheimer's treatment and maximize the impact of prevention strategies *; Shows how standard treatments do not counteract the oxidative stress and chronic inflammation at the source of Alzheimer's *; Also addresses related complications and symptoms such as altered sleep patterns, memory impairment, and behavior changes like depression and anger In this practical scientific guide, leading researcher in cancer, heart disease, and diabetes prevention Kedar N.

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.