Biography: general books

Eva Perón: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Works captures Evita’s eventful life, her works, and her legacy. The...  Read More >>

Joseph Stalin: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works captures his life, and legacy. It features a chronology,...  Read More >>

This encyclopedia examines Marie Curie’s life and contributions.  Read More >>

Mud and Khaki: Sketches from Flanders and France, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the...  Read More >>

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1890 Original Publisher: Cassell publishing company...  Read More >>

Sigmund Freud: A Reference Guide to Her Life and Work captures his eventful life, his works, and his legacy. The...  Read More >>

"SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ""Moving and insightful."" -Danielle...  Read More >>

Despite having everything she could ask for, Janet Wilson couldn’t shake a sense of emptiness in her life—or her...  Read More >>

"With no father around, I grew up a bastard child with a single struggling mother. The castaway of my family, the...  Read More >>

Adolf Hitler: A Reference Guide to His Life and Works captures Hitler’s life, his works, and his legacy. The volume...  Read More >>

It's often said that Black women are magic, but what if they really are mythological?  Read More >>

A family reunion gives way to an unforgettable genealogical quest as relatives reconnect across lines of colour,...  Read More >>

"""This book looks at the political career of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1952-1961), including his decision to run for...  Read More >>

Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. Are motherhood and...  Read More >>

In 1921, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints excommunicated Joseph White Musser for his refusal to give...  Read More >>

People in the Ozarks have long told humorous vignettes that make sense of triumph and tragedy, relay family and...  Read More >>

Confidence man and canny operative, charlatan and manipulator--William A. A. Carsey emerged from the shadow of Tammany...  Read More >>

Ten Years to Save the West is an urgent and impassioned call to conservatives about the radical changes that are...  Read More >>

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"""Wasted Youth is James Wright's vivid and emphatically unromantic memoir of his late teens and early twenties,...  Read More >>

"""A memoir-in-essays about how skateboarding re-defines space, curates culture, confronts mortality, and affords...  Read More >>

"A ""graphic memoir following Eddie Ahn, an environmental justice lawyer and activist striving to serve diverse...  Read More >>

To find an alien, look no further than your own reflection in the bathroom mirror. Building his case from scientific...  Read More >>

"With no father around, I grew up a bastard child with a single struggling mother. The castaway of my family, the...  Read More >>

"""Evolutionary botanist Zimmerman discusses her passion for plants and inveighs against sexism in the sciences...  Read More >>