Biography & Autobiography - General

In life, there will be many different losses. This book expands on the importance of acknowledging grief to move toward recovery. Storytelling is highlighted as a means of sharing our sorrows as we learn from one another. It is also the story of one...

In 158 B.C., the line of Merari of the tribe of Levi, "the Hasmoneans," broke away from the Aaronic line of Levi of the house of "Zadok." After twenty years of protest, the Zadok line took up residence at Wadi Qumran in the eastern...

The information about the book is not available as of this time.Author: Shevonica M. Howell,Zakarri T. CannonISBN-10: 1664167463ISBN-13: 9781664167469Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/11/2021Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.14d

Of Time and Spirit is a tribute to my father, James Roswell Dorsey Sr. (1919-2000). His story is told from my perspective as a son and traces his journey to inner peace and the struggles of a father and his son to communicate. Further,...

The Rise of David Levinsky is a novel by Abraham Cahan. It was published in 1917, and remains Cahan's best known work. The book is told in the form of a fictional autobiography.Author: Abraham CahanISBN-10: 1617201332ISBN-13: 9781617201332Publisher: Bbbz BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2011Pages: 454Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.46lbsSize:...

As science advances, more and more emphasis is being placed on the human user of the computer-based system. Instead of humans learning how to interact with these systems, the systems must learn how to interact with humans. Cognitively Informed Systems: Utilizing Practical Approaches to...

Everyone has a story to tell. Every story is unique. Your story can be of HEALING IN MIND AND BODY while facing the many challenges and difficulties during that journey. But your real story is WALKING MILES BY FAITH. Dear readers, when trouble comes...

The desire to create is one of the deepest yearnings of the human soul. Following the simplicity of his master, Sri Sathya Sai Baba, the author has truthfully shared the learnings of his eventful life - be it failures or successes. By nature, a...

This autobiography is a simple account of a lady who experienced many happenings. All to be explained to two daughters, eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren. It encompasses World War II experiences as well as including a life full of changes. Was the first...

Manoel de Oliveira is the only filmmaker whose career spans from the silent era to the digital age, and yet there is little written in English about his extensive filmography. This volume, the first to discuss Oliveira's later works in English, fills this incredible...

In 1984, Ron Sider challenged that until Christians are ready to risk everything in pursuit of peace, "we dare never whisper another word about pacifism . . . Unless we are ready to die developing new nonviolent attempts to reduce conflict, we should confess...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

This is a biography and memoir of the founder of Briggs & Stratton & Outboard Marine. One of two individuals to have started two New York Stock Exchange companies prior to 1970. It is a real insight into the life of a remarkable inventor...

Author: Jean LeonardISBN-10: 1479795453ISBN-13: 9781479795451Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/18/2013Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.24lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.16d

In Body Problems, M. Wolff offers groundbreaking insight into Sally Gross, a South African intersex priest and activist whose body was continuously policed and politicized. Gross's role in founding Intersex South Africa and her involvement with the African National Congress are celebrated in the...

Women's filmmaking in France has been a source of both delight and despair. On the one hand, the numbers are impressive - over 250 feature-length films were made by over 100 women directors in France in the 1980s and 1990s. On the other hand,...

Academics' International Teaching Journeys provides personal narratives of nine international social science academics in foreign countries as they adapt and develop their teaching. The team of international contributors provide an invaluable resource for other academics who may be exposed to similar situations and may...

This is a previously untold story of a man widely regarded as one of the chief icons of the struggle against British colonial rule in Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe. Tarcisius George Silundika, known in his political circles as TG, was a man whose understanding of...

Author: Dorothy KovenISBN-10: 146286533XISBN-13: 9781462865338Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/24/2012Pages: 468Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.04d

Can laughter and joy be found in heartache and sadness? Can God really be so real in everyday life? Again, reality proves more exciting than fiction. This is a widow's true story of laughter and tears, mishaps and success, wrong choices and right ones....

Raised in the fifties and sixties in a Swedish/Irish Catholic middle class home, this memoir is a happy compilation of stories that tells of traditions, first stitches and blowing up spiders in coffee cans with cherry bombs. Enjoy these and many more tales from...

From Simon & Schuster, Under the Lone Star Flagstick is a collection of writing on Texas golf and golfers. This anthology of profiles, commentaries, tournament reports, and anecdotes by Melanie Hauser documents the contribution that Texas--and its natives, including Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, and...

This is my little hope book. It reminds me I've gone through the tunnel of depression and come out enlightened to who I am today. I'm no longer a depressed person. I am a person living with depression. There is a difference between them....

What is your first thought when you hear the word cancer? It's probably not a good one. Cancer changes us, some of us for good others for bad. Ovarian cancer changed me. I became stronger, determined and empowered. From being a listener I became...

Written as if the author is speaking to you in person as opposed to being corrected by a professional editor, this book will allow you a special insight to what a patient with a newly diagnosed case of multiple sclerosis has to do deal...

This Book is a true Autobiography of my life, but its dated back in 1857 when Wisconsin first became a state. I made my life story in a western hoping that Kevin cozener, Michael Landon, or Disney makes a movie out of this wonderful...

The King of Pop was without any doubt the world's biggest entertainer of all time. Michael Jackson's tragic death shocked the world for weeks. He was planning the biggest concert tour the world had ever seen. Michael tried to hide his addiction to painkillers...

The collection of short essays in Carry Me Home begins as a lament for what in September 2005 looked to be the lost city of New Orleans. Over the following two-and-one-half years, these brief essays become a lyrical celebration of the city and the...

Deatrix Willis' life has been shattered by one tragedy after another. She was born into a family of seven brothers and five sisters. Despite the fact that she was surrounded by family-her parents and her stepparents-no one protected her or saved her from tremendous...

I am presenting my autobiographical book, "All That I Am." I am a forty-four year-old African-American woman -- teacher, poet, painter, and sculptor -- a graduate of the Pratt Institute and the first member of my family to graduate. For two years, a curator...

This book titled In the Life of a Thorn bird is a very emotional and personal look into the life, mind, and heart of the author as he deals with the many adversities, heartbreak, and weight of the choices that must be made in...

In 1988 the author accompanied ten Vietnam veterans and the BBC, who were filming a documentary, on a return trip to Vietnam. This book is a memoir of that trip.Author: Nanette ChallengerISBN-10: 1425184758ISBN-13: 9781425184759Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2008Pages: 180Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.17lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w...

LIFE AFTER STROKE, by Norma Scheall, is a touching account of life after he husband Jack suffered a stroke and lived in a nursing home. Everything from seizures to prayer, from music to dogs, is covered in a greater canopy of life itself. The...

Few creations are more associated with joy or more symbolic of the sweet life than cake. After all, it is so much more than dessert. As a book about cake would demand, this one is a multilayered, amply frosted, delicious concoction with a slice...

Author: Nick J. MiletiISBN-10: 141346145XISBN-13: 9781413461459Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/14/2004Pages: 360Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 8.88h x 6.26w x 1.13d

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Channing PollockISBN-10: 1406766704ISBN-13: 9781406766707Publisher: Pollock...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: Christopher MarloweISBN-10: 1406733865ISBN-13: 9781406733860Publisher: Bartlet...

This book tells the story of the bitter feud between the Duchess of Kingston and the actor, Samuel Foote, which resulted in a pair of scandalous trials in London in the revolutionary year of 1776. Set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, the...

Here is the story of Ron misrach, his life and story in pictures, and musicAuthor: Dove NightISBN-10: 1365262901ISBN-13: 9781365262906Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/17/2016Pages: 52Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.20lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.12d

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...

Women are now the largest student body demographic in graphic design programs, yet in the twenty-first century the professional work of female designers is still underrepresented or ignored in the media and historical canons. Women Graphic Designers features illustrated essays of 42 undervalued and...

The Iron Chancellor, Otto von Bismarck, leader of the rising German Empire based on Prussian militarism and discipline, and Lord Odo Russell, Britain's Liberal Ambassador when her empire was at its most powerful, serene and confident, were politically and socially worlds apart. Their remarkable...

Sir Glyn Jones, as last governor of Nyasaland, oversaw the transition of the country to Malawi. Involving widespread unrest, the removal of a governor, a state of emergency and commision of enquiry from London, these were some of the most stormy episodes in the...

One of the British Empire's most troubling colonial exports in the 19th-century, James Busby is known as the father of the Australian wine industry, the author of New Zealand's Declaration of Independence and a central figure in the early history of independent New Zealand...

Newly revised and enlarged, the second edition of A Conrad Chronology draws upon a rich range of published and unpublished materials. It offers a detailed factual record of Joseph Conrad's unfolding life as seaman and writer as well as tracing the compositional and publication...

This chronology, like others in the series, presents the story of Dr Johnson's life in a readily accessible format to provide scholar and general reader alike with a quick guide to dates, people and places together with supplementary indexes.Author: Norman PageISBN-10: 1349100382ISBN-13: 9781349100385Publisher: Palgrave...

A Hardy Chronology provides the Hardy student with an abbreviated biography and reference guide, listing year by year the full details of a remarkably full life and prodigious literary output. Background information is provided, especially for those historical events in which Hardy took most...

Author: Michael CrazeISBN-10: 134904590XISBN-13: 9781349045907Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1979Pages: 333Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.77d

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...

As a young black woman it has been always hard to express one's thoughts and feelings freely. We have been raised to believe that showing emotion makes us look weak and for us pride is everything. In some aspects this mindset helps us in...