An Autobiography, Paperback

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin MaysForeword by: Orville BurtonBorn the son of a sharecropper in 1894 near Ninety Six, South Carolina, Benjamin E....

On August 21, 1978, a year before his seventieth birthday, Samuel Steward (1909-93) sat down at his typewriter in Berkeley, California, and began t...

Reducere. Ely Green was born in Sewanee, Tennessee, in 1893. His father was a member of the white gentry, the son of a former Confederate officer. His mother...

Traces Scarborough's path out of slavery in Macon, Georgia, to a prolific scholarly career that culminated with his presidency of Wilberforce Unive...

An autobiography of George Grosz, one of the twentieth century's greatest satirical artists. It presents a graphic portrait of Germany in chaos aft...

Reducere. Israel's newest prime minister as of February 6, 2001, Ariel Sharon is a dynamic and controversial leader. A hero in Israel's wars, perhaps the mos...

James Weldon Johnson exemplified the ideal of the American public intellectual as a writer, educator, songwriter, diplomat, and first African Ameri...

Publisher: New Village PressAuthor(s): Aviva RahmaniIllustration(s): 12 color illustrations, 6 b/w illustrationsNumber of pages: 336Publication dat...

Jim Spain dedicated his life to education, teaching over 40 years of college level courses, between Michigan Technological University, University o...

Reducere. (Berklee Press). Winner "Best Book of the Year" 2014 award from the Jazz Journalists Association. In Learning to Listen, Gary Burton shares his 50 ...

Reducere. Medicine man and Sun Dance chief Thomas Yellowtail is a pivotal figure in Crow tribal life. As a youth he lived in the presence of old warriors, hu...

DescriptionPublished to commemorate Albert Schweitzer's only visit to the United States 60 years ago, this anniversary edition of his autobiography...

Reducere. H. P. Lovecraft's letters are among the most remarkable literary documents of their time, and they are a major reason why he has become such an ico...

Reducere. An inspiring and intimate self-portrait of the champion of equality that encompasses her brilliant tennis career, unwavering activism, and an ongoi...

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DescriptionThis powerful book argues that the human species is at a tipping point when it is forced to choose between a New World Order fascist gov...

Autobiography of an Androgyne is the story of Jennie June, a 20th Century transwoman who brought her vivid story to life during a brief period of t...

Reducere. Theodore Roosevelt's writing has the same verve, panache, and energy as the life he lived. Perhaps no president in U.S. history--not even Jefferson...

Reducere. William Johnston, an Irish-born Jesuit and a famous pioneer of East-West dialogue, tells his fascinating story of spiritual adventure. After his up...

Reducere. New York, 1987: In a city torn apart by racial tension, Damien Cavalieri is an adolescent without a tribe. His mother-who pines for the 1950s Brook...

Reducere. To observe a ridge of sandhills was to wonder what lay beyond them... Perhaps it was the sense of freedom, both physically and spiritually, the kno...

Reducere. 'I did a double take when I saw fourteen-year-old Drew Barrymore at the bar, drinking with the Bukowski crowd. She was adorable, spoke with a potty...

Reducere. This is the journey of a young European immigrant who was living the American dream--life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness--until she found h...

The acclaimed autobiography of Theodore 'Teddy' Roosevelt is brought to the reader anew in this well-produced edition, inclusive of all notes and a...

Donna Williams was a child with more labels than a jam-jar: deaf, wild disturbed, stupid insane... She lived within herself, her own world her fore...

Reducere. The Center of the Cyclone is an autobiographical work authored by famed fringe scientist and psychedelic pioneer, Dr. John C. Lilly. This is his mo...

Reducere. "My father's life represented many layers of the human experience--freedman and Native American, farmer and rancher, rural educator and urban profe...

Reducere. Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in Letters: The Later Years, Paperback

Reducere. Originally published in 1833, the autobiography of the Sauk war chief Black Hawk was the first memoir written by a Native American who was actively...

Reducere. Moss Hart's Act One, which Lincoln Center Theater presented in 2014 as a play written and directed by James Lapine, is one of the great American me...

Born to Whisper is full of true-to-life horse stories and adventures, and also tackles some of the burning issues in the horse world today, from a ...

Reducere. For the first time in my life, I was shot at as I approached the Beirut shore. I know now that if they wanted to kill me, they could have that nigh...

Reducere. Motorcycling legend Hugh Anderson's Autobiography 'Being There', was not only written in his own words but designed, printed under his personal gui...

Reducere. Paul Bowles, the acclalmed author of The Shelterlng Sky, offers movlng, powerful, subtle, and fasclnatlng lnslghts lnto hls llfe, hls wrltlng, and ...

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Reducere. Book Summary To compile the life of this amazing man in a single manuscript is almost impossible. His war years have been recorded many times, but ...

Reducere. A teen idol of the 1950s who virtually invented the singer/songwriter/heartthrob combination that still tops pop music today, Paul Anka rocketed to...

Reducere. Dionne Warwick made her singing debut in church at the request of her grandfather, the Reverend Elzae Warrick, when she was six years old. No one k...

Reducere. This wise and affecting memoir is the inside story of the great efforts leading up to the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education i...

Reducere. In Girl Singer, Rosemary Clooney, with the warmth and humor that distinguishes her singing, describes her transformation from a schoolgirl in knees...

Reducere. Much more than a record of an extraordinary military career, the life story of Colonel Sir Hugh Boustead details how he spent the greater part of h...

Reducere. DescriptionRod Laver's memoir is the inspiring story of how a diminutive, left-handed, red-headed country boy from Rockhampton, Australia became on...

Reducere. Daughter of Destiny, the autobiography of Benazir Bhutto, is a historical document of uncommon passion and courage, the dramatic story of a brillia...

Reducere. Willie Nelson is more than just a singer whose albums have captures this country's imagination for more than thirty years: he is the nearest thing ...

Reducere. Leonard Woolf's recollections of his life with Virginia Woolf during the years when she wrote her major novels; also an account of the growth of th...

Reducere. From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every major conflict of his adult lifetime up to the Syrian Civil War, photographer Don McCullin h...

Reducere. Equal parts outlaw, renegade, and legend, Waylon Jennings enjoyed a stellar music career for four decades and this no-holds-barred autobiography re...

Reducere. Bill Peet tells his life story. "An excellent blend of verbal and visual social history and self-revelation." -- Kirkus Reviews

DescriptionAt the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his fath...

Reducere. Readers first met Angel Ariel in Claire Candy Hough's previous work, One True Home - Behind the Veil of Forgetfulness, and followed her remarkable ...

Reducere. Byron Nelson was one of golf's greatest legends. He was one of the finest golfers ever to pick up a putter, and the man who had the most magnificen...

Reducere. The Rise of a Street General provides a unique and fascinating look into a gang members journey to rise to the top. Starting with his initiation in...

Reducere. The author's account of World War II, his wife's death, and his political and literary activities. "A splendid ending to one of the most remarkable...

An unusually rich selection of "Backgrounds and Sources" focuses on Johnson's life; the autobiographical inspirations for The Autobiography of an E...

* Now out in paperback, the successful autobiography from the famous and well-loved columnist and author of COOKING IN A BEDSITTER comes her autobi...

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Reducere. When a film is not a document, it is a dream. . . . At the editing table, when I run the strip of film through, frame by frame, I still feel that d...

Reducere. A legend on both the clarinet and the soprano saxophone, one of the most brilliant exponents of New Orleans jazz, Sidney Bechet (1897-1959) played ...

Reducere. DescriptionA brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an o...

Reducere. In 1882 a notorious outlaw and a childhood friend of Billy the Kid was released from prison where he had been serving time for killing a Texas Rang...

Reducere. Introduction by Arnold Rampersad.Langston Hughes, born in 1902, came of age early in the 1920s. In The Big Sea he recounts those memorable years in...

Reducere. One of the foremost entertainers of the twentieth century--singer, actor, choreographer, and, of course, the most dazzling "hoofer" in the history ...

Reducere. "In this delightful autobiography, Smith tells us how he became the dean of world religion experts. Along the way we meet the people who shaped him...

Reducere. Leonard Szczesny was born in 1931 on the Polish-Russian border to a Polish family. Because in 1933 his father Josef was banished for five years of ...

"Plastic is powerful and moving, a deep, personal exploration of the modern world."--Richard Rhodes, Pulitzer Prize recipient for The Making of the...

Reducere. DescriptionAs a young boy struggling to find his way through the immense poverty, secrecy and war-time suffering that gripped his life in Northern ...

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Reducere. James Weldon Johnson's emotionally gripping novel is a landmark in black literary history and, more than eighty years after its original anonymous ...

General Sir Richard Dannatt's distinguished career in the army has spanned thirty-eight years and seen him serve in many different theatres of conf...