Biography and non-fiction prose

Andy Griffith (1926-2012) is one of North Carolinas most beloved exports, capturing Americas heart as Sheriff Andy Taylor.

Michael Winner, the legendary film director, writer and food critic, is a colourful figure who has led a remarkable life.

Running Made Easy is quite simply the friendliest, most inspiring running book ever written.

The history of the modern riot parallels the development of the modern novel and the modern lyric.

De prijs voor het mensengeluk.

De novelle die niemand wou publiceren.

Born in Lincolnton, North Carolina, in 1837, Stephen Dodson Ramseur rose meteorically through the military ranks.

The primary founder and guiding spirit of the Harvard Law School and the most prolific publicist of the nineteenth century, Story served as a member of the U.

This is what it is to survive.

In a direct, frank, and intimate exploration of Iranian literature and society, scholar, teacher, and poet Fatemeh Keshavarz challenges popular perceptions of Iran as a society bereft of vitality and joy.

A unique collection of more than 150 letters written to an Ohio serviceman during the American Civil War that offers glimpses of women's lives as they waited, worked, and wrote from the Ohio home front.

This critical, historical, and theoretical study looks at a little-known group of novels written during the 1930s by women who were literary radicals.

More than any other musician, Herbie Mann was responsible for establishing the flute as an accepted jazz instrument.

North Carolinas Paul Green (18941981) was part of that remarkable generation of writers who first brought southern writing to the attention of the world.

The explosive sequel to #1 Sunday Times bestseller Bad Blood.

An exquisite and inspiring memoir about one mother's unimaginable choice in the face of oppression and abuse in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 1,7, University of Cologne (Englisches Seminar), course: English Grammar - synchronic and diachronic aspects, language: English, abstract: In Middle English and Early Modern English one could choose either You or Thou (and their respective variants see Simpson et al.

Greasepaint Puritan details the life and work of Bradford Ropes, author of the bawdy 1932 novel 42nd Street, on which the classic film and its stage adaptation are based.

If you haven't yet met Archie the Alpaca now's your chance.

Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots, has long been portrayed as one of history's romantically tragic figures.

"e;Jim was one of the rare players who danced on the edge.

Seminar paper from the year 2002 in the subject American Studies - Miscellaneous, grade: 1,3 (A), Technical University of Braunschweig (English Seminar), course: 9/11, language: English, abstract: Something which was a bomb, a big bomb, has blasted my clever Njurunda coffee tables in the shape of a lime green yin and an orange yang that fit together to make a circle.

In the late 1970s, Robert Brunk discovered the world of auctioneering.

In 2008, the Chinese government cracked down on protests throughout Tibet, and journalist Amy Yee found herself covering a press conference with the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, his exile home in India.

In the world of literary journals and little magazines, the Carolina Quarterly is one of the oldest and most prestigious in the South.

Poet, essayist, chemist, geologist, educator, entrepreneur, publisher--Benjamin Silliman (1779-1864) was one of the virtuosi of the Early Republic and a founder of the American scientific community.

Hootie & the Blowfish's drummer chronicles the band's rise, fall, and rebirth, as well as his path from addiction to recovery and a more fruitful life.

Not Out of Hate-published in Burmese in 1955 and set in 1939-42-was Ma Ma Lay's fifth novel and one that further cemented her status as one of twentieth-century Burma's foremost writers and voices for change.

An Indiana woman shares the story of her abduction, assault, faith, and survival in this inspiring autobiography.

Phu Rieng was one of many French rubber plantations in colonial Vietnam; Tran Tu Binh was one of 17,606 laborers brought to work there in 1927, and his memoir is a straightforward, emotionally searing account of how one Vietnamese youth became involved in revolutionary politics.

Early on a summer morning in 1974, local officials found the jailer Clarence Alligood stabbed to death in a cell in the womens section of a rural North Carolina jail.

With an epic career that spanned two-thirds of the twentieth century, C.

A story with the power to change how people view the last years of colonialism in East Africa, The Boy Is Gone portrays the struggle for Kenyan independence in the words of a freedom fighter whose life spanned the twentieth century's most dramatic transformations.

In this special Southern Lives issue:* Billy Carter dresses for all occasions.

BOOK 12 OF THE LADYBIRD EXPERT HISTORY OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR, FROM AWARD-WINNING HISTORIAN JAMES HOLLANDFeaturing stunning illustrations from Keith Burns, bringing the story to life in vivid detailWhy did Japan decide to attack at Pearl Harbour?

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A woman who has lived with ADHD since childhood shares the coping interventions and insights acquired for success within a spiritual context.

"e;An addictive story of fear, surprise, romance, relationships, and strong faith that could only have been written by someone who had lived it.

Women's status in rural Java can appear contradictory to those both inside and outside the culture.

In many Latin American countries, guerrilla struggle and feminism have been linked in surprising ways.

In 1934, Veza Taubner and Elias Canetti were married in Vienna.

“Women are not supposed to write; yet I write.

"e;Children see and hear what is there; adults see and hear what they are expected to and mainly remember what they think they ought to remember,"e; David Lowenthal wrote in The Past Is a Foreign Country.

Women's writing in Cameroon has so far been dominated by Francophone writers.

The Sacred Door and Other Stories: Cameroon Folktales of the Beba offers readers a selection of folktales infused with riddles, proverbs, songs, myths, and legends, using various narrative techniques that capture the vibrancy of Beba oral traditions.

From the 1960s to the 1990s, seven members of the Quimpo family dedicated themselves to the anti-Marcos resistance in the Philippines, sometimes at profound personal cost.

Witness in Our Time traces the recent history of social documentary photography in the words of twenty-nine of the genre''s best photographers, editors, and curators, showing how the profession remains vital, innovative, and committed to social change.

The name “Aleister Crowley” instantly conjures visions of diabolic ceremonies and orgiastic indulgences—and while the sardonic Crowley would perhaps be the last to challenge such a view, he was also much more than “the Beast,” as this authoritative biography shows.

Born a slave and kept functionally illiterate until he escaped at age nineteen, William Wells Brown (1814–1884) refashioned himself first as an agent of the Underground Railroad, then as an antislavery activist and self-taught orator, and finally as the author of a series of landmark works that made him, like Frederick Douglass, a foundational figure of African American literature.