Biography and non-fiction prose

Emancipator of the Seamen explores the life and impact of Andrew Furuseth, a Norwegian-born seaman who became a defining figure in the American labor movement through his dedication to the Sailors Union of the Pacific (SUP).

Leonard Kaufmann was born in Germany in April 1935.

An impassioned meditation on American identity and its ebb and flow through the Capitals great waterwayAs she walks the length of the Potomac River, clambering up its banks and sounding its depths, Charlotte Taylor Fryar examines the geography and ecology of Washington, D.

In the early hours of 22 November 1970, six Portuguese warships surrounded Conakry, the capital of the Republic of Guinea, on the West African coast.

An insight to the often unseen civilian life in a modern war zone.

From the New York Times bestselling author of A Three Dog Life, a witty and irreverent look at aging and the writing life, delivered with trademark brevity, humor, and wise wit.

An insight to the often unseen civilian life in a modern war zone.

Theoderich der Große, König der Ostgoten, steht als eine der faszinierendsten Persönlichkeiten der Spätantike und des frühen Mittelalters im Mittelpunkt einer Epoche des Wandels.

It began with George Mullerrebellious, absorbed in the world and its pleasures.

La vida de Thomas Buergenthal fue un duro camino desde que nació en 1934, de padres judíos alemanes, hasta convertirse en juez de la Corte Internacional de Justicia en el año 2000.

Cronicas acerca de tres asesinatos y los testimonios de tres mujeres que transitan el pedregoso camino de su lucha por verdad y justicia.

The important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 21st century.

The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic.

On to the Sanumas is a firsthand account of Don and Barb Borgman's forty-year effort and achievement to place the word of God into the hands of the Sanumas, a tribe of the Yanomami people of Brazil.

The important story of an interracial family that can be traced through multiple generations and into the 21st century.

The Communist revolution promised Chinese women an end to thousands of years of subjugation, an equality with men in all matters legal, political, social, and economic.

In the tenth volume of Mikhail Vostryshev's series, dedicated to the first decade of Leonid Brezhnev's rule, the author examines in detail the period when the Soviet Union continued to strengthen its position as a world power.

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Diese als wissenschaftliche Arbeit eingereichten Untersuchungen über Hedwig (von Friedländer-) Abel (1870–1930) stellen die erste ausführliche Beschäftigung mit einem Teil des umfangreichen Korpus an Texten der ersten Wiener Musikkritikerin dar.

Leo Tolstoy, the famous Russian writer, one of the giants of world literature.

Writer Susan Tweit and her economist-turned-sculptor husband Richard Cabe had just settled into their version of a "e;good life"e; when Richard saw thousands of birds one day-harbingers of the brain cancer that would kill him two years later.

After both her parents die, Linda Murphy Marshall, a multi-linguist and professional translator, returns to her midwestern childhood home, Ivy Lodge, to sort through a lifetime of belongings with her siblings.

The 'War on Terror' ushered in a new era of anti-Muslim bias and racism.

Sheep are marginalised in literary criticism and in discussion of pastoral literature.