Biography & Autobiography - General

Sir Austin Robinson had a career unique among economists. A close associate of Keynes, he began as a seaplane pilot in the First World War and spent two years in the 1920s tutoring a Maharajah in India. He was at the centre of economic...

Keynes's personality was fixed by the clash between Moorean values - other-worldliness, idealism, pacifism - and Keynes's own nature which craved and attained worldly success, wealth and social influence and approbation. The result was an 'existential' outlook that caused him to become particularly sensitive...

President Habib Bourguiba of Tunisia was an Arab leader greatly admired in the West for his moderation and level headedness. He led his small country to independence after a prolonged struggle against the French coloniser. He suffered long periods of deprivation and imprisonment before...

Was Elizabeth I worshipped by her subjects? Many twentieth-century scholars have suggested that the Virgin Queen was a cult-figure who replaced the Virgin Mary. But how could this be in a Protestant state officially opposed to idolatry? Helen Hackett examines these issues through readings...

The first study of the Churchill government of 1951-55 based on the Prime Minister's political papers (including his correspondence with President Eisenhower) and diaries and letters of Eden, Butler and other ministers. A picture emerges, not of a Government dominated by Churchill as in...

'...this is a splendid, first-class book, the definitive book on Francis Galton and his legacy. The editing has been superb...The timing of its publication is excellent in relation to the increasing interest in human genetics in all areas of the biological and behavioural sciences'.R.Plomin,...

This biography emphasises the extraordinary versatility and resourcefulness of a lifetime spent serving the public interest with the pen. At the same time, it shows Swift's distinctive love of writing for personal entertainment and diversion, with little or no interest in publication. While remaining...

A detailed chronological account of the life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge built up from contemporary documents including the letters and journals of the writer and of his family and friends. Maps, a family tree and an extensive index augment the text and there are...

The presentation of Tennyson's personal and poetic development is supplemented by an introduction, brief biographical sketches of more than 30 of his friends, and maps of relevant areas in Lincolnshire and the Isle of Wight.Author: F. B. PinionISBN-10: 0333460200ISBN-13: 9780333460207Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/1990Pages:...

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: 0333459164ISBN-13: 9780333459164Publisher: Palgrave...

This chronology is designed to provide a digest of Conrad's life as it develops from year to year. It is written as a series of diary or chronicle entries and thus caters for the reader who may wish to check a single fact. The...

Combining encyclopedic information as well as a critical guide to the poetry of Robert Burns, this work attempts to show the complex nature of this supposedly uncomplicated poet. Born a farmer's son in 1759, Burns lived through many of the most important events of...

Includes radicals of the Chartist and earlier periods, trade unionists and other radicals after 1850. The book is especially concerned with 20th-century activists and intellectuals, notably those whose formative years or main political life was spent during the period between the two World Wars.Author:...

Kipling's letters, never before collected and edited and largely unpublished, are now presented in an annotated edition based on the more than 6,000 letters preserved in public and private collections all over the world. Planned in an edition of four volumes, the Letters reveal...

Author: Norman PageISBN-10: 0333345983ISBN-13: 9780333345986Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/12/1986Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.93lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.63d

The final volume of Robert Service's major trilogy on Lenin's political life takes the account from the Brest-Litovsk Treaty of 1918 to the Bolshevik leader's death in 1924. Attention is paid to the military, political and economic conditions as they changed; to the internal...

Covering both the great military leaders and the critical civilian leaders, this book provides an overview of their careers and a professional assessment of their accomplishments. Entries consider the leaders' character and prewar experiences, their contributions to the war effort, and the war's impact...

An in-depth look at Abraham Lincoln's leadership, both before and during his presidency. Lincoln led through times of confusion, war, and dissent. The set of chapters included in this volume are based on papers that constituted part of the 2008-2009 Jepson Leadership Forum at...

Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts the story of its author's life...

This fascinating study delves into the lives of six Tudor women celebrated for their reputed wickedness. Collected here are accounts of Anne Boleyn, Katherine Howard, Anne Seymour, Lettice Dudley, and Jane and Alice More. Warnicke rescues these women from historical misrepresentations and helps us...

The British economist Arthur Cecil Pigou (1877-59) reconceptualized economics as a theory of economic welfare and a logic of policy analysis. Misconceptions of his work abound. This book, an essay in demystification and the first reading of the entire Pigouvian oeuvre, stresses his pragmatic...

The transnationalism of ordinary lives threatens the stability of national identity and unsettles the framework of national histories and biography. This book takes mobility, not nation, as its frame, and captures a rich array of lives, from the elite to the subaltern, that have...

Rebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement's...

This book is the first full-length study of Alexander Forbes, Bishop of Brechin from 1847 to 1875--the first member of the Oxford Movement to become a bishop. His ministry in the slums of Dundee was unique among Anglican bishops. Despite an attempt to try...

Author: F. M. LeventhalISBN-10: 0198200552ISBN-13: 9780198200550Publisher: OUP OxfordLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 340Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.44lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

This is the first comprehensive treatment of Johnson and Boswell in relation to Scotland, as revealed in their accounts of their trip to the Hebrides in 1773. Locating the famous journey both within the context of travel writing in the decade of Cook's Pacific...

A deeply personal exploration of what it means to be a father when life doesn't go as planned. The moment he learns that his infant daughter is not expected to live, Campbell starts on a journey of love, struggle, and resilience. Through the lens...

Paul Harris's life reads like two completely different stories. The first began in poverty and pain on Chicago's east side, a childhood marked by neglect, the tragic drowning of his brother Eugene, and a father who walked away. By age fourteen, Paul had dropped...

The story follows the parallel adventures of two children, Wilbur and Jeanne, whose separate childhoods are filled with both a sense of wonder and the quiet struggles of their home lives. For a young Wilbur, his grandparents' farm in Slovak, Arkansas, is a place...

Strength That Rises From Within: Finding Light In The Flight is a deeply personal and faith-filled journey through the battles of breast cancer with honesty, inspiring refection and spiritual insight. Marilyn courageously shares her story of faith, hope and relentless healing. She invites readers...

Like many famous figures from antiquity, we must work through layers of fantasy in order to uncover the life of Poppaea Sabina (c. 30-65 CE). As the ancient sources tell it, Poppaea pushed the young emperor Nero to murder his mother, execute his wife...

Author: Amy RigbyISBN-13: 9798999820709Publisher: Southern DomesticLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/23/2025Pages: 280Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.83lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d

Author: Zosia GorbatyISBN-13: 9798999680907Publisher: Z and Z PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/09/2025Pages: 222Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Author: Gwendolyn JacksonISBN-13: 9798988482468Publisher: Write GeniusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2025Pages: 36Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.49lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d

Author: Joseph AquinoISBN-13: 9798986810713Publisher: Joseph AquinoLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2025Pages: 244Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.09lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

Author: Linda CollisonISBN-13: 9798985259254Publisher: Ground Rush ProductionsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/01/2025Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.42lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Author: Bill AmatneekISBN-10: 1928578349ISBN-13: 9781928578345Publisher: Vineyards PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/19/2024Pages: 260Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.88d

Author: Linda Lee Cermak KocanISBN-13: 9798892114516Publisher: Dorrance Publishing Co.Language: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2025Pages: 284Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.60d

Author: Jeremy Lee-ParkISBN-13: 9798330233151Publisher: Jeremy Lee-ParkLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/02/2025Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.14d

Author: Eritz CananISBN-13: 9798264822667Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/11/2025Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.29lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.22d

Author: Dennis M. SprickISBN-13: 9798218743185Publisher: Mom, Music, Social Media & MeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/01/2025Pages: 170Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.54lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w x 0.46d

Author: Beth DecarboISBN-10: 1966323255ISBN-13: 9781966323259Publisher: Flint Hills PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2025Pages: 212Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.48d

Author: Rio HersheyISBN-10: 1035894289ISBN-13: 9781035894284Publisher: Austin MacauleyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2025Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.42d

A Widow's Alphabet: A Lettered Journey Through Loss, Grief, and Healing is a heartfelt companion for anyone navigating the tender landscape of grief.In each chapter, author Dana Rice-Bishop begins with a deeply personal story from her own journey of loss, bringing honesty and vulnerability...

Hayawo Kiyama was born in 1936 and grew up in Japan during the second world war. His autobiography, transcribed and edited by Christine Willis, captures the life and culture of that place and time as well as his and his family's suffering during the...

The Stories of My Life is a captivating collection of unusual tales entertainingly and informatively told by its author, BR Allen. The author takes the reader on a winding pathway through once-in-a-lifetime anecdotal memories that are often heartwarming, sometimes hilarious, sadly heartbreaking, and even...

We had lit a forest on fire...We were stoned out of our senses...My sister was calling 9-1-1... As I watched the flames dance across the twilight sky, consuming everything in their path, I realized they represented my life. In my pursuit of pleasure and...

A Biography of a woman who has a history of being the first of Dallas, Texas. It is a great read: One family's take on Texas history and poetry, both old and new.In Granny's Poetry, Charles Allumbaugh invites readers into a unique blend of...

The Sidelined: A Mother's Fight for Her Daughter's DreamBy S. CousinsThe Sidelined is a powerful and emotionally raw memoir that captures the untold story of a mother and daughter's journey through the highs and heartbreaks of youth sports. S. Cousins shares an intimate and...

"Born to Serve" tells the inspiring true story of Dr. Eric Idehen, who transformed challenges into a movement of hope. From Benin City, Nigeria, to corporate America, Eric shares his journey of overcoming struggles, navigating immigration, and founding the Cornerstone of Hope Orphanage, which...