Biography & Autobiography - General

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This sequel to How To Stay Sober recounts the evolution of SOS and vividly details case histories of recoveries. Excerpts from letters to SOS speak to the need for a secular alternative to AA.Author: James ChristopherISBN-10: 0879755644ISBN-13: 9780879755645Publisher: Prometheus BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/1989Pages: 183Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Charles D. Smith is Professor of Islamic and Middle East History at San Diego State UniversityAuthor: Charles D. SmithISBN-10: 0873957113ISBN-13: 9780873957113Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/1984Pages: 249Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbs

In the summer of 1828 James Fenimore Cooper, his wife, and their five children set out from Paris for Switzerland, and Cooper wrote that he experienced a "glorious anticipation," for "a common-place converse with men was about to give place to a sublime communion...

Gleanings in Europe: The Rhine is an account of James Fenimore Cooper's travels in Europe at the time of the 1832 revolt in Paris, when he hoped General Lafayette would be declared President of France and when all of Europe was the stage for...

When "California Fever" raced through southeastern Ohio in the spring of 1849, a number of residents of Athens County organized a cooperative venture for traveling overland to the mines. Known as the "Buckeye Rovers," the company began its trip westward in early April. The...

My mother's career in English musical comedy as well as mine in German opera and American academia led to fascinating meetings or friendships with George Bernard Shaw, Dame Nellie Melba, Liza Lehmann, Kate Smith, Eileen Farrell, Maria von Trapp, Frederick Jagel, Francis Robinson, Wieland...

These are the memoirs of an officer and a scholar. Francis M. Rogers (1914-1989) was awarded the Silver Star Medal in 1942, and in 1950 he became a Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor. From 1945 until his retirement in 1981, he was...

Thomas Mann's correspondence with French Germanist Félix Bertaux between 1923 and 1948 deals with the writer's business of foreign translations, contracts, criticism, publicity and lecture tours. It also reflects the development of friendships and the disruptions caused by exile and war. It will be...

To Love So Well The World is a collection of essays on Robert Penn Warren. Included in the collection are essays by Cleanth Brooks, Victor Strandberg, Leslie Fiedler, and James Grimshaw, all of whom either knew Warren or are experts in the field. In...

William Bligh is best remembered for the 1789 mutiny on the Bounty. He lived to repeat the experience. In 1797 mutineers took over his ship, Director. A little more than ten years later, when he was the governor of the British colony in Australia,...

Here is the intimate story of the German émigré scholar who pioneered in the development of military and naval theory, contributed to the overthrow of Hitlerism in World War II, and furthered our intellectual adjustment to postwar realities. Rosinski's achievements as lecturer, governmental consultant...

Author: Lydia ChamberlinISBN-10: 0819192392ISBN-13: 9780819192394Publisher: Madison BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/1993Pages: 250Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize: 9.03h x 5.94w x 0.67d

" Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., John Hope Franklin, Daniel Boorstin, C. Vann Woodward, Edmund S. Morgan, Barbara Tuckman, Eric Hobsbawn, Hugh Trevor Roper, Lawrence Stone-aside from carrying the distinction as some of the most successful and well-respected historians of the twentieth century, these scholars...

"Gives greater depth to our understanding of people in the Communist Party, and in particular of those who left and gave testimony against their former comrades."--Robert Korstad, author of Civil Rights Unionism "A welcome addition to the historical literature on American anticommunism."--Jeff Woods, author...

The All-Around was a one-day, ten-event track and field contest of endurance, speed, and strength that was the forerunner to the modern decathlon. Its heyday stretched from the American Civil War to World War I during which its champions were generally well known and...

A fascinating, immensely readable biography of one of the most important radical intellectuals of the twentieth century.C. L. R. James: A Political Biography offers the first sustained account of the life and work of one of the twentieth-century's most important radical intellectuals.C. L. R....

Saint John of the Cross is one of the greatest figures in the history of Western mysticism and one of the greatest poets of the Spanish language. This book examines his thought and then applies it to contemporary issues and culture. No other book...

This fascinating historical journey begins in 1632; preceding the settlement in 1633 of the city originally known as Providence. This chronological account continues to the War of 1812, followed by a description of Annapolis and its more prominent public building, including the Naval Academy...

By 1861, the Federal Navy found it necessary to adopt an official policy on contrabands and runaway slaves who were seeking asylum aboard Union ships. Contrabands enlisted at a compensation rate no higher than ten dollars per month and one ration a day when...

In the world of sports, Iowa is probably best known for wrestling but the state has also produced more than 200 major league baseball players. Sixteen of them are profiled here, including six Hall of Famers, the game's brightest star of the 19th century,...

The son of a North Carolina governor, Theophilus Hunter Holmes graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1829 and served on the frontier during the Trail of Tears. He fought in the Second Seminole War and in the U.S.-Mexican War. In 1859, he...

An irony of enshrinement at the baseball Hall of Fame is that it's no guarantee of lasting name recognition. The sport's history stretches too far back, as today fans scratch their heads about athletes and owners who were among the most celebrated public figures...

Applegate: Freedom of the Press in a Small Town is a slice of Americana as told by Armada Times Editor James Mitchell, along with Lindsey Kingston, student editor of the paper's high school section. Mitchell took over as editor of the Times in the...

Reinhold Scholz led an extraordinary life in extraordinary times. He witnessed the devastation of World War II as a child in Northern Germany. He survived its dismal depths by escaping to the sea and the merchant cargo ships. As a sailor in the 1950's,...

This is an outstanding collection of more than 80 true stories of angels, visions, and other personal encounters with God. It tells of God reaching out to us with his love and comfort in a variety of creative ways. In particular, it shows angels...

An INDOMITABLE SPIRIT: LIFE IN THE SHADOW OF DEATH, is a story about youth of Lebanon who came to age during the war and refused to allow it to subdue them. They resisted the evils of war and defied the death machine destroying the...

Memories of a lifetime chronicled in stories, poems, and essays. Explore a childhood from a simpler time and place. A working class neighborhood in Detroit filled with front porch neighbors, vacant lots and baseball games. A teenager's first love along her road to becoming...

Paul Kalmbach Autobiography 10-24-1897 Knadau, Krasnodar, Russia to 8-12-1981 Seattle, WA, USA. Get past the extremes and innocence of a wild but simple life in a Russian village, rivers flush with every fish, young children thinking nothing of tying lizard tails together at play,...

California Split: Racing through the Sixties is a memoir of living through the turbulent sixties in the San Francisco Bay Area with detours to the Peace Corps, the Army, New York, and Europe. Mr. Brown was on the scene when it was all going...

Sir Philip Sidney's ""Astrophel and Stella"" is a collection of sonnets and poems that explore the themes of love, desire, and the power of poetry. The work is divided into two parts, with the first section containing 108 sonnets and the second section containing...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

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 was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

Struggle for Democracy: Sung Chiao-jen and the 1911 Chinese Revolution by K. S. Liew offers a penetrating study of one of the central yet often overlooked figures of modern Chinese history. Sung Chiao-jen, revolutionary organizer, party founder, and political visionary, emerged as a leader...

Lokamanya (revered leader) Bal Gangadhar Tilak (1856 - 1920), the extremist politician of Maharashtra, a region of western India, was one of the first Congress Party leaders to adopt the strategy of mass politics. Interpretations of his role and his achievement differen greatly. Some...

Christopher Tunnard is one of the most influential figures in Landscape Architecture and his journey is one that still resonates in the discipline today. His leading role in first embracing the tenets of Modernism and then moving away to embrace a more conservationist approach...

This book brings together fifteen comprehensive studies of significant North American scholars of comparative education from the 20th century. Providing relevant biographical detail, chapters analyse each scholar's approach to comparative education and their on-going influences on the field.Comparative studies in education have long benefited...

Achille Mbembe is a key thinker in contemporary African philosophy, who has been influential in literary and cultural theory, African literature, and postcolonial studies. Oliver Coates introduces key concepts within Mbembe's thought in relation to African history, literature, and philosophy.Author: Oliver CoatesISBN-10: 0367193000ISBN-13: 9780367193003Publisher:...

Author: Albert Leon Guerard,UnknownISBN-10: 0313210624ISBN-13: 9780313210624Publisher: PraegerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/1979Pages: 224Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: K. L. SadlerISBN-13: 9798993935218Publisher: Legalize the Divine LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2026Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.78lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

Author: K. L. SadlerISBN-13: 9798993935201Publisher: Legalize the Divine LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/15/2026Pages: 262Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Kimberley Ghiggia ThornISBN-13: 9798894541181Publisher: Boone Springs PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/15/2026Pages: 284Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Author: Wayne a. Mitchell,David F. LappinISBN-10: 1972134795ISBN-13: 9781972134795Publisher: Wayne A. MitchellLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/08/2026Pages: 144Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.39d

Author: Garret KeizerISBN-10: 1958094706ISBN-13: 9781958094709Publisher: Eastover PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/16/2026Pages: 222Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

Ethel Liebman Wiesinger tells of her traveling the world and experiencing the effects of two World Wars and the Great Depression. Author: Margot Smith,Ethel L. WiesingerISBN-10: 1587905531ISBN-13: 9781587905537Publisher: Regent PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2020Pages: 282Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

Author: A. H. AlmaasISBN-10: 0936713097ISBN-13: 9780936713090Publisher: ShambhalaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 632Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.90lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.01w x 1.64d

Not all acts of creation begin with an idea narrowly pursued to its logical end. Cause and consequence are difficult to keep in balance and we sometimes produce more than we intended. The minor act of this book proceeded along a planned route that...

In this unusual autobiography you will find the full story of a life spanning much of the twentieth century. Selective reading will disclose How a teacher/scientist may develop The importance of focus and integrity The fascination of doing chemical and biochemical research with students...

Author: Beverly Smith,J. Michael SmithISBN-10: 1469998394ISBN-13: 9781469998398Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/25/2012Pages: 60Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d