Personal History

A photographer becomes a mother and photographs her children for 30 years with a 1950's Kodak Brownie Hawkeye Camera and color film. Carole Glauber...

The autobiography of the daughter of the multi-millionaire who bought and restored the }Washington Post{ and wife of the charismatic but manic depe...

Reducere. Winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Biography An extraordinarily frank, honest, and generous book by one of America's most famous and admired wom...

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Reducere. In this surprising new life of Victoria, Christopher Hibbert, master of the telling anecdote and peerless biographer of England's great leaders, pa...

Reducere. Timeless is the first book in the Timeless trilogy and documents 34 of the author's paranormal experiences. Starting at age 4, Solheim has led a pa...

Reducere. During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. America's hope for national security relied ...

Reducere. THRIFTWOOD is a mixture of personal memoir and cultural and literary criticism, which explores the ideas of the liminal, changing place and liminal...

DescriptionIn Rebel: A Personal History of the 1960s, Tom Hayden, a seminal figure in the civil rights and anti-war movements of the 1960s, documen...

For centuries much of Europe was in the hands of the very peculiar Habsburg family. An unstable mixture of wizards, obsessives, melancholics, bores...

Danubia is the brilliant and entertaining companion to the Sunday Times top ten bestseller Germania. It was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize...

An engaging, beautifully illustrated introduction to these remarkable insects. Drawing on her experiences as a natural history instructor, dragonfl...

Tibet has long fascinated the West, but what really lies beyond our romantic image of a Buddhist mountain kingdom of peace and spirituality? Travel...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Margaret DrabbleThe Pattern in the Carpet: A Personal History with Jigsaws is an original and brilliant work. Margaret Drab...

Published alongside Armando Iannucci's new film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, starring Dev Patel, Hugh Laurie, Peter Capaldi, Tilda S...

Reducere. The first book of its kind about what it's like to be a child with ADHD, Hyper is a "haunting narrative that explores the world's most scrutinized ...

Reducere. Timeless Trinity is the completion of Solheim's paranormal trilogy of true stories. Trinity goes beyond the first two Timeless books as it details ...

'This trot through German culture and history is an engrossing, informative and hilarious read' Sunday Times

Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as "an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a gener...

At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building the...

The defining experience of author's life was the Nigerian civil war, also known as the Biafran War. A marriage of history, remembrance, poetry and ...

Reducere. In this fresh approach to the history of the Black Death, John Hatcher, a world-renowned scholar of the Middle Ages, recreates everyday life in a m...

Reducere. The Pattons is an exceptional portrait of the famous military family, eloquently written by the grandson of its most illustrious member, George S. ...

In this compelling and chilling memoir, a top forensic investigator lifts the lid on the most notable and notorious cases of his forty-year career.

An odyssey through the art, theory and brutality of modern political murder by Robert Baer, bestselling author, former CIA operative, and, yes, ass...

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A vivid and authoritative account of the making of the modern Middle East, from the BBC's long-serving correspondent in the region.Publisher: Pan M...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. "Sruti Ram is a fearless adventurer--a believer in miracles, mysticism and magic. His wondrous life proves that for the sincere seeker, the one who...

Publisher: Lund Humphries Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Ruth DaltonIllustration(s): 88 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 240Publication dat...

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Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Robert JungkAuthor: Jungk RobertTranslator: James CleughAn account of the remarkable scientists who discovered that nuclear...

Reducere. Filipino farmworkers sat down in the grape fields of Delano, California, in 1965 and began the strike that brought about a dramatic turn in the lon...

For most people in England today, the church is simply the empty building at the end of the road, visited for the first time, if at all, when dead....

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Mohinder DhillonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 203 x 252 x...

Publisher: Austin Macauley PublishersAuthor(s): Mohinder DhillonIllustration(s): 0Number of pages: 248Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 207 x 258 x...

A new edition, including the story of the founding of the Harlem Children's Zone Long before the avalanche of praise for his work--from Oprah Winfr...

Reducere. DescriptionThe Log Cabin Mine was once the largest gold-producing mine in California. It was state-of-the-art and could both extract and process th...

DescriptionA revelatory memoir about sex, oppression, and the universal struggle for justice. From his time as a child in 1960s India, Siddharth Du...

Reducere. When Linda Spence asked her aging mother to write her life story, her mother stared at a blank sheet of paper and asked--"How? Where do I begin?" I...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work w...

Reducere. In this classic portrait of Jews in the South, Eli N. Evans takes readers inside the nexus of southern and Jewish histories, from the earliest immi...

If you're both overcome and angered by the atrocities of our time, this will inspire a "new generation of activists and ordinary people who search ...

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a le...

Reducere. History of Japan: From early history to the present dayIntroduction to Japan's historyAre you interested in the history of Japan?Would you like to ...

DescriptionA Personal History of the Ozarks of Arkansas, Connell J. Brown's latest book, examines the Ozarks from the perspective of a native Arkan...

Reducere. Examining the legacy of racial mixing in Indian Territory through the land and lives of two families, one of Cherokee Freedman descent and one of M...

A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and military factors involved.Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAutho...

Reducere. In 1854, after serving in the U.S. Army for 11 years, Ulysses Simpson Grant (1822-1885) resigned his commission and found himself out of a job and ...

Interweaves an autobiographical narrative with concrete research. John Mraz describes the resistance he encountered in US academia to this new way ...

The Middle East represents the greatest threat to world peace. A clear and concise explanation of the complex historical, religious, political and ...

The book reveals the inner workings of a large union taken from newspaper and union officials accounts.The story involves several union officers, h...

Reducere. Completed shortly before Ambrose's untimely death, To America is a very personal look at our nation's history through the eyes of one of the twenti...

Reducere. In 1945, the Allied nations agreed on a judicial process, rather than summary execution, to determine the fate of the Nazis following the end of Wo...

Reducere. "The reminiscences of a Yaqui Indian born in 1896 in northwestern Mexico whose story begins during the Yaqui revolutionary period, continues throug...

The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was perhaps the most dramatic single event of the Cold War and a major turning point in history. Though it ended u...

Reducere. DescriptionGod's Word, Your ThoughtsYour Bible study will never be the same. . . . .when you record your observations and insights on the actual pa...

This captivating collection of first-hand accounts brings to life the "War to End All Wars."Publisher: ABC-CLIOIllustration(s): 36 Illustrations, u...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the second half of my life, my thoughts and feelings have centered around one thing: the Holocaust. In my younger years I avoided tha...

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Reducere. A classic of macrobiotic literature written in 1956 to explain macrobiotic medicine and philosophy to Dr. Albert Schweitzer. Contains the most exte...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

In the 1970s, while their contemporaries were protesting the computer as a tool of dehumanization and oppression, a motley collection of college dr...

DescriptionWhen General Custer led his troops to annihilation in the Battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, he was possibly the most notorious Indi...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

It was 1970. Fighting between the Jordanian Armed Forces and the Palestine Liberation Organization had been escalating, but a Quaker serving at a s...

Reducere. In Quagmire you'll find a range of voices--men and women, military and civilian--and a range of perspectives from the homeland, the combat zone, an...

Reducere. As men with a background in combat sports began returning from night raids at greater number than those lacking, it soon became obvious to both the...

Reducere. DescriptionToday's society is one in which we, as individuals, are constantly barraged by the threat of domestic terrorism. The ever-present fear f...

Reducere. DescriptionThis is an autobiography of Edward C. Engle. It tells the story of his childhood and education and eventual migration to the Navy as a b...