Biographien, Tagebücher, Briefe

Revolutionaries of the Cosmos

Ian Glass

Emerson Brothers

Ronald A. Bosco

Political Biography of Daniel Defoe

Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe's political career, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist and secret agent. They argue that this remarkable career ca...

Political Biography of Daniel Defoe

Furbank and Owens attempt to disentangle the story of Daniel Defoe's political career, as journalist, polemicist, political theorist and secret agent. They argue that this remarkable career ca...

Emerson Brothers

Ronald A. Bosco

Representing Agrippina

Judith Ginsburg

Electric Dreams

Ted Friedman

<p><b>Electric Dreams</b> turns to the past to trace the cultural history of computers. Ted Friedman charts the struggles to define the meanings of these powerful machines over m...

A. Philip Randolph

Cynthia Taylor

<p><b>Important insights into the life and mind of one of the most significant civil rights leaders of the twentieth century</b><br><br>A. Philip Randolph, founder of...

Thurman Arnold

Spencer Weber Waller

<p>Thurman Arnold (1891-1969) was a major iconoclast of American law and a great liberal of the 20th century. In this first biography of Arnold, Spencer Weber Waller traces Arnold's life...

Fortresses to Build and to Destroy

Alexis Morgan

The author first conceived the title of this book about 30 years ago, when she became convinced that her obesity had a purpose, and that understanding the emotional issues driving her tendency tow...

This Path I Took

Gerald Ribeiro

This Path I Took is an illuminating story of one man's recollection of his early years of how a young Cape Verdean boy struggled with discrimination, loneliness and poverty, how it manifested ...

A Christopher Marlowe Chronology

L. Hopkins

This new Chronology offers a unique and accessible overview of key dates relevant to Christopher Marlowe's life and works, and enables readers to navigate their way through the various pieces ...

Running The Rapids

Kildare Dobbs

<p>Poet, travel writer, teacher, quiz-show presenter, broadcaster, adventurer - Kildare Dobbs has played many parts, met many people, and been many places. His life journey, marked by freque...

J. D. Bernal

Andrew Brown

J. D. Bernal

Andrew Brown

Cabin

One hundred years ago, a young doctor from Cleveland by the name of Robert Newcomb, travelled north to a place called Temagami. It was as far north as one could travel by any modern means. Beautif...

The Road from Spink

Marjorie Klemme Flados

M.L. Flados has a gift for making the meaningful and the mundane come alive in this retrospective of growing up Norwegian and Lutheran during the Great Depression. Her vivid narration of a former ...

Tyburn

David Brandon / Alan Brooke

Tyburn is synonymous with the idea of execution. The authors tell the story of how Tyburn came to be the place of execution and of the rituals and spectacle associated with the deaths of many peop...

Asperger's Syndrome and High Achievement

Ioan James

<p>This book describes the lives and personalities of 20 remarkable people from the past, who may well have had Asperger's syndrome (AS). Famous in the fields of art, literature and scie...

Glasgow Crimefighter

Les Brown / Robert Jeffrey

For decades, a war to control Glasgow's streets has been waged. On one side are some of the most violent and dangerous criminals in the world and, on the other, a police force with officers as...