Biography & Autobiography - General

Subtle shades of landscape and light changing throughout the year; ravens tumbling overhead and returning swallows gathering mud to build their nests .... all woven into a humorous yet heart-rending account of life entwined with nature. This tale of running a bed and breakfast...

These two autobiographical essays by Douglas Harding were written thirty years apart. The first one Harding wrote in the 1960s when he was in his early fifties and had just written On Having No Head, the second when he was eighty. They are instructive,...

During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to...

During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to...

During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to...

During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to...

During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to...

During a career of thirty years, Tahir Shah has published dozens of books on travel, exploration, topography, and research, as well as a large body of fiction.Through this extraordinary series of Anthologies, selections from the corpus are arranged by theme, allowing the reader to...

This is a true story of a young man, full of zest for adventure, who became a Rescuer mainly in the Mountains and Hills of the Lake District and the Mountains of Scotland. He then continued to rescue and save lives as a Paramedic...

REVIEWS FROM THE WORLD'S PRESS 'Thank God myself and my daughters never sailed on one of Mr Tickners ships.' Passenger Ship Monthly 'There are no two storey brothels in Mombasa.' Kenyan Tourist Board 'The top speed of the Woolston floating chain ferry is five...

A. M. Mensah has written a semi-autobiographical novel, depicting the care homes in the 1950's and 1960's England. The novel is from the perspective of mixed raced children of African and Irish heritage. The book tells a child's story of loss and abandonment as...

Author: Salvatore MontalbanoISBN-10: 1909395552ISBN-13: 9781909395558Publisher: New Generation PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/07/2012Pages: 154Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.36d

A truly original story of life in and after care. The author's own account of being left behind by her mother as a one year old and her life in foster homes and institutions. When eventually traced, 'Call Me Auntie' was the best her...

Author: Gisela KonopkaISBN-10: 1890676055ISBN-13: 9781890676056Publisher: Bookhouse FulfillmentLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/1997Pages: 337Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.54w x 0.74d

This Summer 2009 (VII, 3) issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge, is devoted to the theme "Sociological Re-Imaginations in & of Universities." As part of the journal's continuing series critically engaging with C. Wright Mills' "sociological imagination," i.e., the proposition...

This Fall 2005/Spring 2006 (IV, 1&2) double-issue of Human Architecture: Journal of the Sociology of Self-Knowledge demonstrates the extent to which liberatory practices in scholarly journal peer reviewing can provide new channels for communicating and sharing subaltern on- and off-campus voices in formal academic...

CONTENTS 1) Healthy Mind, body and Soul2) Know what is crucial to your happiness? 3) Inspire yourself4) Inspire and have time for other people5) How can you make the world a better place?6) Connecting spiritually - the death of the ego7) Making the impossible...

Author: Andreas PolydorouISBN-10: 1847534368ISBN-13: 9781847534361Publisher: Lulu PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/2007Pages: 302Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.63d

6x9" (15,24X22,86cm) It's 1991 and the Cold War has just ended, the Berlin Wall is down, Ceausescu is down, and on August 18 there's is an obituary declaring Communism as dead. Our object here however, thinks nothing of this as the bad boys of...

Illustrated autobiography of Lord Henniker (1916-2004), including pre-war service with the Foreign Office, wartime in Yugoslavia with Fitzroy Maclean and Tito, postwar with Ernest Bevin, marriage to Osla Benning, Ambassador to Jordan and Denmark, Director-General of British Council, marriage to Julia Poland and their...

Wash Belly is a nostalgic look into the childhood of Gregory McEwan, author of Freedom City and HOMORIA. Back in Jamaica, the youngest child is usually known as the "Wash Belly" of the family, and being the last of several children, Gregory was indeed...

Mission Saddam is a soldiers' account of war and sacrifice for one's own self. Mission Saddams' author Herb Eash walks you down the U.S. Government time line layout with detailed information about the Gulf War and the suspected (GWI) Gulf War Illness.Author: Herb EashISBN-10:...

Compiled in celebration of the 150th anniversary of one of Ireland's most distinguished and long-lived cultural institutions - the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland - this collection of essays by distinguished scholars in a variety of academic fields examines the remarkable course of...

"PC MITCHELL! BUTTONS!"It's 1981. Margaret Thatcher is Prime Minister and police inspectors are picky over untethered pockets. Charity bands and police body armour haven't been invented yet.The police service has just come through a difficult decade of low numbers, low pay and low morale....

This book is a peep through the multiple doors that the author has passed in the course of his career. The account is a product of history. Guided by historical actuality, the author focuses on factuality, authenticity and the true value of knowledge in...

This is the biography of a South African army deserter named Louis Botha du Toit who stayed "lost" for 40 years before returning to his country of birth. This real-life story was told to Andre Jacobs, who wrote this biographical account.Author: Andre JacobsISBN-10: 1787190501ISBN-13:...

Safe In the Arms is an unflinching auto-biography written to highlight the fact that untreated family trauma reverberates through the generations. The author shows how health services fail to address the recovery needs of young people stranded in damaging situations and what happens in...

In Say Goodbye to Jimmy Brown, James Stanhope-Brown relates the fascinating story of how, on leaving a stark and often cruel children's home, he was adopted by a family to begin a new life, along with his beautiful sister Sylvia. In this intriguing and...

Scars of a Boy Soldier is the story of the physical and psychological turmoil suffered by a 12-year-old boy when he's abducted into the Lord's Resistance Army in northern Uganda. This 25-year-old Ugandan author faced violent memories that, for ten years, he had tried...

A man and a woman share a journey of life mainly through the eyes of the woman's own private thoughts about him and his life, and the events of her own life; the death of a young friend signals the beginning of a poetic...

When it comes to trauma, our experience of the past impinges on the present. We're haunted. Unable to enjoy life, our inner thoughts begin to resemble a museum of failure.Elisabeth was ten years old when she first wished her father dead. If he was...

Pride of the Dons: the untold story of the men and women who made the Gothenburg Greats. Delve into the histories of the Aberdeen team led by Alex Ferguson who won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the European Super Cup in 1983, the...

The United Kingdom. A story based on real events.Few people are deemed smart enough to be selected and trained as a spy for Her Majesty's Government, fewer qualify. The Author is one such man, who uniquely, was chosen at the age of 16, the...

Regina Williams' story starts in the small town of Kisii in rural Kenya in extreme poverty, and continues through the sand dunes of North Africa, all the way to London.Regina's life story, from grinding poverty to becoming a highly recognized project management professional and...

Biographies and listings of veterans from Columbia County, New York, who honorably served in the Revolutionary War, Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea, Vietnam, Gulf War, Afghanistan and Iraq.Author: Mark A. ClarkeISBN-10: 1737301784ISBN-13: 9781737301783Publisher: MaclarkeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/22/2024Pages: 252Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.00h...

At some point in WWII, the Armed Forces of the United States realized that many citizens drafted were mentally unfit for service. So, Dr. Charlton Gilmore Holland, Jr. ("Gilly"), a young assistant professor of psychiatry at the University of Virginia, was drafted into the...

The Norwegian journalist and author Jan Tystad tells in this book about his American pen friend who has been on Death Row in Florida for 33 years. The prisoner tells in his letters how it feels to be isolated for so many years, and...

Walden or, Life in the Woods, is a book by noted transcendentalist Henry David Thoreau. The text is a reflection upon simple living in natural surroundings. The work is part personal declaration of independence, social experiment, voyage of spiritual discovery, satire, and-to some degree-a...

The book is based on the true story of a Chinese/Soviet spy, Gao Qing, code-named Bashan (Palm Hill). Gao's story begins in 1939 when he and 19 other Chinese are sent to Spy School in Moscow under the supervision of Stalin via the section...

The inspirational true story of an Indian woman who contracted HIV from her husband in an arranged marriage, suffered miscarriage and divorce...and how she refused to let the virus defeat her in her quest to find true love.Author: Manu Bhat,Angela AquilaISBN-10: 1684714508ISBN-13: 9781684714506Publisher: Lulu...

Some of This World is Mine is the remarkable chronicle of one man's "lust for travel" as he lived and traveled abroad for virtually his entire business career. Spanning a time period requiring eleven passports, Ruel Martin's story is one of adventure, interesting observations,...

Discussing and surviving childhood obstacles.Author: Ira J. HarrisISBN-10: 1669856666ISBN-13: 9781669856665Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/18/2023Pages: 60Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.31d

Academic Staff; Political Science Dept, Melbourne University 1962- 1995, Creator/Director, Melbourne Centre for Ideas (MCI) 2006- 2017. Workshops on 'Wild Thinking Published books by the author: Pervasive Politics: a Study of the Indian District The Reason of Metaphor Time and Time Again The Will...

George Welcel, a native of Germany, wrote this autobiography more than thirty ears ago, but it was not until now that he felt compelled to have it translated into English, where he's lived for forty-six years. As someone who lived under communism for thirty...

AS FEATURED ON CBS NEWS An engaging and zany exposé about what life in China is really like for a couple of immigrant newbies. It's always something, from kitchens that smell of sewer gas, to surviving mystery meat stew, to underappreciated efforts at communication...

How could "In Color" be about such an important concept? Because, the focus is on teaching and learning using textbooks and a wide range of instructional materials. Motivation through the realism and attention-getting use of color is powerful in student motivation.Author: Jasper S. LeeISBN-10:...

In Solo 50 Henry Radoff tells the story of his unusual life from birth until retirement. He recalls the early days of living in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, his being an entrepreneur at an early age, school days and his college education. He...

Hole in my Head is based on the theme of a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) following aroad traffic accident that the author had at the age of six. It covers a period of 31 yearsuntil the age of 37. His recovery after the accident...

Hole in my Head is based on the theme of a TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) following aroad traffic accident that the author had at the age of six. It covers a period of 31 yearsuntil the age of 37. His recovery after the accident...

From touring in Variety To the excitement of opening nights in the West End From working with amateurs in a back street Church Hall To the thrill of working in Live Television From travelling all over the country in Farce To playing Shakespeare in...