Biographies & Autobiographies books

A renowned researcher takes readers inside the hunt for Wall Street's biggest frauds, revealing the forensic techniques...  Read More >>

Our first day of touring the Auschwitz Concentration Camp had ended. I was present for a five day Bearing Witness...  Read More >>

Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes and Mary Jane Kelly are inextricably linked...  Read More >>

VF Eberle MC joined up on the outbreak of the war in No 2 Field Company Royal Engineers, 48th (South Midland) Division,...  Read More >>

Dava Sobel, acclaimed and bestselling author of Longitude, chronicles the life and work of the most famous woman...  Read More >>

In Composed in Silk, Tak Salmastyan continues his meditation on stillness, presence, and grace. Each work captures...  Read More >>

The authoritative, official inside story of 40 years of Live Aid, from Band Aid to today.  Read More >>

Impact: The Political Killings That Changed Everything A Comprehensive Study of Political Assassinations and Their...  Read More >>

Impact: The Political Killings That Changed Everything A Comprehensive Study of Political Assassinations and Their...  Read More >>

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Each one of the 76 Brieflings in this book is only 500 words long - and fits on one page. That is enough to say...  Read More >>

The first English-language biography in over fifty years to tell the full, vibrant story of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm,...  Read More >>

At age twenty-two, Shigeko Ito immigrated to America to escape Japan's rigid society and a neglectful childhood...  Read More >>

With a priest for a father and a magician for a mother, Emily Sayre Smith was always going to have an interesting...  Read More >>

The memoir of a culinary hero who inspired generations of home cooks and chefs  Read More >>

'A vital call to arms that demands we confront ableism at every level of society.' Sophie Morgan 'I have never...  Read More >>

In 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson,...  Read More >>

The first biography of Zelia Nuttall (1857–1933), a pioneering Mexican-American anthropologist whose work on Aztec...  Read More >>

'The Ring and the Book' has its origins in an 'old yellow book' purchased on impulse by Robert Browning from a Florentine...  Read More >>

Die in diesem Buch enthaltenen wissenschaftlichen Aufsätze, Predigten und anderen Ansprachen aus den letzten zehn...  Read More >>

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Reevaluates Nicolaus Steno's contributions to anatomy and early modern science, examining his interdisciplinary...  Read More >>

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This book doesn't start with hope. It starts with drowning - in a river where no one noticed, in a family where...  Read More >>

Still Standing is a true story of faith, grit, and the will to rise again. When her horse bucked her off at a...  Read More >>