Biography: general books

What does it mean to hold power when you were never meant to? Drawing on her time as Colombia's first Afro-Colombian...  Read More >>

The compelling story of the only German-Jewish translator to work with the psychiatrists in Nuremberg prison   Read More >>

Gives a description of a voyage from the summer capital of British India - Simla, to the capital of China - Peking....  Read More >>

Written in real time during his ambitious trek, this book from 1911 documents British journalist Edwin J. Dingle's...  Read More >>

Originally published in 1898, this book is a record of British army officer Francis Younghusband's adventures from...  Read More >>

In 1901, journalist Francis H. Nichols traveled from New York to China's Shaanxi province to report on the famine...  Read More >>

A compelling memoir tracing Maurice Colgan’s remarkable life, his lifelong devotion to Elvis Presley, and the unlikely...  Read More >>

Ten years in the making, Connecting Possibilities: The Story of Connect4Life, is Melanie Taddeo's newest publication...  Read More >>

Ram Chandra Kak, Kashmiri Pandit PM of Jammu and Kashmir, ousted by Maharaja Hari Singh, imprisoned during India-Pakistan...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln's Personality About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Joseph Amiot Et les Derniers Survivants de la Mission Française à Pékin (1750-1795) About the Publisher...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Lincoln's Gettysburg Address About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln Quotations and Sayings About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Abraham Lincoln About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...  Read More >>

Excerpt from State Normal Magazine About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Acta Victoriana About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and...  Read More >>

Excerpt from Watson's Jeffersonian Magazine About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands...  Read More >>

Excerpt from The Radiant About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic...  Read More >>

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Even in the third decade of the twenty-first century, it is still harder for women to make a career in science than...  Read More >>

SHORTLISTED FOR THE PLUTARCH AWARD FOR BEST BIOGRAPHY WINNER OF THE ASJA AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY/HISTORY A riveting...  Read More >>

WITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD Destined to be a classic, a poet's powerful...  Read More >>

A Daily Telegraph and BBC History Magazine Book of the Year 'Popular history...  Read More >>

'Books like this don't come along very often… a story so compelling and surprising that it feels as if it has been...  Read More >>