Biography & Autobiography - General

This book is the first to question both why and how the colonialist mythologies represented by the work of photographer Eliot Elisofon persist. It documents and discusses a heterogeneous practice of American coloniality of power as it explores Elisofon's career as war photographer-correspondent and...

In this brave and original work, Federica Clementi focuses on the mother-daughter bond as depicted in six works by women who experienced the Holocaust, sometimes with their mothers, sometimes not. The daughters' memoirs, which record the "all-too-human" qualities of those who were persecuted and...

A storyteller and avid fly fisherman, Jeff Metcalf is, for compelling personal reasons, an enhanced observer of the human condition, who finds himself often in the streams of the American West. Not only rivers run through his essays, his cancer does too. But so...

Axios's Essence of ... Series takes the greatest works of practical philosophy and pares them down to their essence. Selected passages flow together to create a seamless work that will capture your interest from page one. George Fox founded The Religious Society of Friends,...

Boots, Bikes, and Bombers presents an intimate oral history of Ginny Hill Wood, a pioneering Alaska conservationist and outdoorswoman. Born in Washington in 1917, Wood served as a Women's Airforce Service Pilot in World War II, and flew a military surplus airplane to Alaska...

A household icon of the environmental movement, Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) may be the most quoted conservationist in history. A Sand County Almanac has sold millions of copies and Leopold's writings are venerated for their perceptions about land and how people might live in concert...

Mordecai Chertoff came to Palestine in 1947 as a twenty-five-year-old, determined to make his contribution to the emerging Jewish state... In vivid and often moving letters to his family Mordecai describes the news of the UN vote for partition, the siege of Jerusalem, the...

As a young, up and coming electrical engineer living in England, Ray Brooks had everything he could want--a high paying job, late nights, and fast cars. All he was missing in his life was the meaning. A series of events brought him to Japan,...

One of the foremost scholars of the Talmud in the last century, Saul Lieberman (1898-1983) is also an intriguing and controversial figure. Highly influential in Orthodox society, he left Israel in 1940 to accept an appointment at the Jewish Theological Seminary, a Conservative institution....

Tells the interwoven stories of revered dance teacher Timothy Draper, the Rochester City Ballet that he founded, and its predecessor, the Eastman Theatre Ballet, established in 1923 as the first professional ballet company in theUnited States. In this engaging book, journalist Wendy Wicks tells...

Historical biography of Drs. John Romano and George Engel, pioneers of mind-body medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. John Romano and George Engel: Their Lives and Work is a historical biography of two distinguished physicians who were members of the University of...

Author: Peter Lamborn WilsonISBN-10: 1570273898ISBN-13: 9781570273896Publisher: Logosophia LLC/AutonomediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/01/2022Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.40d

A remarkable chronicle of one family's thirty-year plummet from prominence to povertyA World Turned Upside Down follows the trials of the nineteenth-century planter family that once dominated the southern banks of South Carolina's Santee River. Voluminous, literate, and rich in detail, the Palmer letters...

Filipino Americans are the second largest group of Asian Americans as well as the second largest immigrant group in the United States. This collection reflects on their lives, which represent the diversity of the immigrant experience and their narratives are a way to understand...

At the time of their twenty-fifth reunion in the year 2000, members of the Harvard Class of '75 were uniquely poised to reflect on their first quarter century out of college, which happened to coincide with the last quarter century of the millennium. Published...

One of the founders of sociology in the United States, Charles Horton Cooley (1864-1929) is perhaps best known for his concepts of the looking-glass self and the primary group. But according to Glenn Jacobs, he also deserves to be remembered as the first scholar...

It's all fun and games until somebody ends up in a cone. Physicians used to make house calls. Today, a few veterinarians still do. Duncan MacVean, DVM, is one such vet. His patients range from cats and dogs to pigs and lizard--each of them...

Chance the Rapper is one of the most famous figures in the world of hip-hop, and his desire to help people, especially young people, has helped him become a role model for many. His early life, career achievements, and the many ways he makes...

Brie Larson plays a superhero on the big screen, but she's also done many heroic things in her real life. Readers explore this exciting biography, from Brie's casting as Captain Marvel to her work on behalf of women's rights and equality. This inspiring information...

Young people in dance classes around the world look up to Misty Copeland. She's changed the way people define who can be a successful ballerina, and she's become a vocal ambassador for healthy body image and strengthening support for African Americans in the world...

LeBron James is known as one of the best basketball players of all time. He makes a difference every time he steps on the court, but he also makes a big difference off the court. From speaking out on social issues to starting a...

From the pages of Warren Publishing's Eerie magazine, The Rook returns in new archival editions, bringing you the best of the time-travelling swash-buckler. Written by William B. Dubay and drawn by Jim Stenstrum, with covers by Paul Gulacy, The Rook follows scientist and adventurer...

Many Americans are unfamiliar with Thomas Paine's pamphlet, Common Sense. However, at the time it was written, it was one of the most important documents in what is now the United States. Paine's challenge to the British government's authority, written in language all Americans...

This volume takes a fresh look at Common Sense, Thomas Paine's provocative pamphlet that roused the American colonists toward outright revolt against Britain. With ample use of primary sources, this book provides historical context and a feeling for the times. It explores why this...

American composer Louise Talma (1906-1996) was the first female winner of two back-to-back Guggenheim Awards (1946, 1947), the first American woman to have an opera premiered in Europe (1962), the first female winner of the Sibelius Award for Composition (1963), and the first woman...

Dimitry's autobiography is based on ten years of his life, and it's primarily focused on the years between 2015 and 2019. In those years, Dimitry talks about how he prevailed over countless obstacles. You will witness how his routine life turns into a nightmare....

When you hear that someone's been in the music business more than thirty years, you might think they'd be a household name.Most music memoirs and autobiographies are about the artist paying their dues and then reaching the big time. In Rock N Roll Will...

This eclectic collection of seasoned and debut authors' triumphant stories will motivate you to overcome obstacles as they have. On this journey of life, in our world of uncertainty, we will inevitably have disappointments, setbacks, and challenges. These stories will serve as a catalyst...

Cheryl Forrest was just four years old when she was photographed sitting on the Plymouth Belvedere, the soon-to-be-buried time capsule, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, in 1957. This memoir is a coming of age story, late in life, when she found the courage to travel abroad...

This memoir tells the story of Francie Mae, a young girl who grew up in abject poverty in the segregated South during the Civil Rights Era. Her personal experience paralleled many poor and black families who grew up during that time. Francie Mae's father...

The Long Journey unfolds three decades of the difficult life of a father and son in Laos and Thailand. The first wave (1950s-1960s) was village life in Laos still under the French shadow, where the father worked as a coolie on colonial French roads,...

Ordinary Life: NOT details the story of author Gary Mazeroski's life from the darkness of gangs, drugs and alcohol, mental health, and professional sports, to the glorious power of redemption through Jesus Christ. Follow along to witness how the power of God transforms Mazeroski's...

I Just Want to Go HomeBy: Sonia Collazo Strockyj"Welcome home," someone held a sunflower out to her, and amazed, she accepted the dear gift, holding the precious little loaf of kolach in its soft rushnik close, but with her other hand she couldn't help...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

This book has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted,...

The Santiago Campaign 1898 is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1898. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we...

IT WAS THE EARLY 1960s. The place, a far-off corner of the Himalayas long fabled in Tibetan tradition to be hiding a valley of immortality among its peaks and glaciers-a real-life Shangri-La. They waited generations for the prophesied lama to come, the one with...

Emmitee Wilson Grew up on a ranch in central Texas near the Village of Sparta. He attended school at Sparta High School. The enrollment was some 155 students with only 57 students in high school. This limited enrollment placed the high school in the...

ALICE COOPER CONFIDENTIAL is the profusely illustrated ultimate Alice Cooper book, written by Alice's authorized biographer. In 1992, veteran CREEM Magazine rock critic Jeffrey Morgan was chosen to write the authorized biography of Alice Cooper, which appeared in the Warner Bros. box set The...

The Blade of Grass is divided into four parts: each describes a period of Tamara's life, starting from the age of seven in 1962, and ending in 2011. The traveller Tamara started this journey as a little girl, born with cerebral palsy and taken...

The book profiles the African American wrestlers who have held the world heavyweight championship in one of the major wrestling companies. The title holders profiled range from Bearcat Wright and Ernie Ladd to The Rock, Booker T, and Jackie Moore.Author: Julian LD Shabazz, David...

In 1975, aged just fifteen, in a sudden rush of blood, sitting alone and bored in his bedroom during the school summer holidays at his parents' house in Crawley, West Sussex, Danny Fuller made his first ever tattoo, at the top of his right...

Those born in America in the late 1920s to early 1940s were dubbed the Silent Generation. A generation small in number, too young to fight in World War II, too old to fight in Vietnam, were allegedly born at a time that set them...

John de Courcy was a Knight of noble birth but bleak prospects. He fought his way to the notice of Henry II who laughingly granted him Ulster "provided he could conquer it by force". John won his chance at the Battle of Downpatrick in...

Angela Mao is an Icon amongst Hong Kong Movie fans and I felt that this edition we should do something special by making the first run a Hardback limited edition of only 100 copies.When Raymond when Chow left Shaw Brothers Pictures International Limited and...

With a sister's candid view, Anderson chronicles the barriers that made life difficult for her brother Charlie and for others like him. In an era that only gradually came to accept people with intellectual disabilities, Charlie's life and journey, including the eight years he...

The book is about an average American citizen who grew up with life challenges like anyone else but learned to move past his mistakes to live a life of peace and contentment. Overcoming an addiction and faced with the trauma of losing a son...

A Journey from Sunshine to ShadowBy: Paris L. Bump A Journey from Sunshine to Shadow illuminates the tragic and painful journey travelled by a victim of Alzheimer's and the loved ones who witness the slow decline and final days of her life. The general...

Author: Michael Vecchione, Jerry SchmettererISBN-10: 1680980416ISBN-13: 9781680980417Publisher: Camino Books, IncLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/17/2022Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 8.96h x 6.08w x 0.56d

No information available at this time. Author will provide once available.Author: Francis DicandioISBN-10: 1669839141ISBN-13: 9781669839149Publisher: Xlibris UsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2022Pages: 52Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.52lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.25d