Biography & Autobiography - General

Autobiography of Edward F. Lubowicki. This illustrated work is a fascinating story about the life of an amazing man and the events and people who played pivotal roles during his life.Author: Edward F. LubowickiISBN-10: 1598242423ISBN-13: 9781598242423Publisher: E-Booktime, LLCLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2006Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 8.50h...

In May 1704 an eighty-ton brigantine, the Charles, quietly slipped into the cove at Marblehead, Massachusetts. Her sudden and unexpected appearance, some ten months after she had left Marblehead under mysterious circumstances, started tongues wagging down at the docks and in the town's dim,...

Author: Nikki R. KeddieISBN-10: 1597401307ISBN-13: 9781597401302Publisher: ACLS History E-Book ProjectLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/31/1899Pages: 504Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.92lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.25d

Published by Aperture and Gagosian GalleryAuthor: Gregory CrewdsonISBN-10: 1597113506ISBN-13: 9781597113502Publisher: ApertureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/22/2016Pages: 76Format: HardcoverWeight: 3.30lbsSize: 12.20h x 15.70w x 0.60d

Books would seem to be one thing, and rough business another -- except that the life of Tullio Pironti has brought both together. This mover and shaker in Italian arts and publishing began as a scuffling street kid in Naples, then enjoyed a boxing...

This book contains a collection of thirteen research essays by those identified as future leaders of the Korean-American community on topics, such as China (Minjae Kim), labor unrest of early 1900s (James DongHwi Kim), the hostile relationship between Korean-Americans and African-Americans (Julius Im), Alexander...

Julia Jeon is the First Place Winner of the 2009 Global Rev. Ham Suk-Hyun Essay Contest (www.KoreanEssayContest.com), a global essay contest held annually to honor Rev. Ham Suk-Hyun, who was a Quaker clergyman in South Korea and a peace activist, who was the first...

A history of the town of Berkley, Massachusetts, including biographical sketches of the town's first two ministers, Thomas Adnros and Samuel Tobey, and which documents primarily facts and issues of local interest.Author: Enoch SanfordISBN-10: 1596414235ISBN-13: 9781596414235Publisher: Janaway Publishing, Inc.Language: EnglishPublished: 11/28/2018Pages: 66Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize:...

The most witching element in the enchantment of this river is its stillness, its unfathomable, unbroken quietude. In the sixteenth century it was navigable as far as Toledo, but the mills upon its banks are now for ever silent; no traffic has deflowered its...

It was our fortune to come into Greece by night, with a splendid moon shining upon the summer sea. The varied outlines of Sunium, on the one side, and gina on the other, were very clear, but in the deep shadows there was mystery...

A]s the cemetery is small, and it is a precious privilege to sleep in holy ground, the brotherhood are immemorially accustomed, when one of their number dies, to take the longest-buried skeleton out of the oldest grave, and lay the new slumberer there instead....

I]t would be well if travellers] remembered they are not dealing here with innkeepers of the ordinary continental stamp; but with persons who are for the most part quite independent of the albergo as a source of profit, and ready to receive strangers with...

The man's heart was restless; otherwise he would never have achieved so much. He must wander, he must vagabondize, he must acquire; he was never quite easy at the hearth. His love for nature was passionate indeed, pursuing him in all regions, burning him...

Discover the remarkable film career of Robert Florey, in Robert Florey: The French Expressionist by Brian Taves. During almost a half-century in the movies, from 1916 to 1963, Robert Florey directed sixty five features and 220 television films at most of the major studios....

Pat Buttram is known by today's youth as the yodel-y voice in the Disney animated films The Rescuers, Robin Hood, The Fox and the Hound, The Aristocats and A Goofy Movie. To their parents, he's Mr. Haney, the hilarious con-man from Green Acres; and...

This long awaited biography of Harold Rugg is a dramatic and compelling story with profound implications for today's educators. Harold Rugg, one of the leading progressive educators of the 20th century, developed an innovative social studies program and textbook series that was censured by...

Author: Andrew J. MilsonISBN-10: 159311253XISBN-13: 9781593112530Publisher: Information Age PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 468Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.43lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.94d

Author: Bradford B. Jr. Blaine, Brad BlaineISBN-10: 1589832728ISBN-13: 9781589832725Publisher: Society of Biblical LiteratureLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2007Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.55d

This volume makes available for the first time both the Syriac text and an English translation of every available original composition by Rabbula, the controversial bishop of Edessa (ca. 411-435 CE). It includes a new edition of the Life of Rabbula and other biographical...

A delightfully warm and humorous look at the rural lifestyle of a Tennessee farm family in the 1930s and 1940s.Author: Ibbie LedfordISBN-10: 158980418XISBN-13: 9781589804180Publisher: Pelican Publishing CompanyLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/2006Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d

In the 19th century, countless individuals believed a new Revelation was imminent. In Persia, the BAb fulfilled the prediction by several clerics of the appearance of the Promised Qa'im. Tahirih of Qazvin, a gifted teacher, was at the vanguard of spreading the BAb's teachings....

In Recovering Jesus, Thomas R. Yoder Neufeld leads you through an honest and careful study of the testimony of Jesus's first-century followers, as well as more recent scholarly and popular witnesses. The result is a journey that will challenge you to move beyond the...

On January 16, 1992, while confined to a cold prison cell, Yolanda Atkins Cotton heard a voice. The voice was God's, and it said that he had chosen Yolanda before she was in her mother's womb for a specific purpose. Before she could fulfill...

The Entrepreneurial Journey in Jamaica: When Policies Derail describes the collapse of Jamaica's domestic financial sector in the 1990s through the eyes of one who experienced it head-on. Tracing this autobiographical journey into his professional and business life, Dr. Chen-Young has had an outstanding...

Author: Beulah AnnISBN-10: 1587218445ISBN-13: 9781587218446Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/20/2000Pages: 236Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.60lbsSize: 8.05h x 5.04w x 0.59d

Author: Fred KoteskeyISBN-10: 1585004863ISBN-13: 9781585004867Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/19/1999Pages: 152Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.80lbsSize: 11.07h x 8.31w x 0.39d

In 1936 Piero Calamandrei, an Italian lawyer and law professor, published Elogio dei Giudici Scritto da un Avvocato, a wry collection of maxims, anecdotes and observations on the nature of the legal process. Translated in 1946 as Eulogy of Judges, Written by a Lawyer,...

Ruth First and Joe Slovo, husband and wife, were leaders of thewar to end apartheid in South Africa. Communists, scholars, parents, and uncompromising militants, they were the perfect enemiesfor the white police state. Together they were swept up in thegrowing resistance to apartheid, and...

The road trip is a staple of modern American literature. But nowhere in American literature, until now, has a left-wing economist hit the road, observing and interpreting the extraordinary range and spectacle of U.S. life, bringing out its conflicts and contradictions with humor and...

This moving biography of Wilberforce tells the story of his religious conversion in 1784 and his rise to leadership of the Clapham Sect - a group of evangelicals active in political, philanthropic, and religious causes. Under his leadership, the Saints, as they were called,...

When twenty-eight-year-old Maliha Masood, a burned-out dot-commer from Seattle, bought a one-way ticket to adventure and rejuvenation, she found it in the most unlikely of places: the Middle East. With an infectious love of adventure, a zany sense of humor, and serious questions about...

2009 Reprint of the original 1963 edition. Paperback. 379pp. Cult classic on the purported sex life of Brigham young during the earliest days of the Mormon Movement. The original edition is very scarce. A basic Mormon Book.Author: Kishkuman CooperISBN-10: 157898792XISBN-13: 9781578987924Publisher: Martino Fine BooksLanguage:...

Hans and Gunila Baumann's three children loved the Lord, were set on walking in his ways, and wanted to impact the world for Christ. As a mom, Gunila knew there would be dangers in allowing each child to fly far away from home, but...

Hide-chan entered a world of turmoil when he was born in Japan in 1944. World War II was in full swing, but that would not be the event that would rock his little world. The death of his father soon after his birth impacted...

Bill Jamerson was not always focused on following God. He forged his own path for years, determined to play sports and fight for his country in World War II. But everything changed that day when he felt the pressure of a Jeep on his...

"I Just Called Her Momma" is a true story of a seven-year-old girl and her family during the Depression era on a farm in the small Central Texas community of Doss. With innocence and humor, the author remembers remarkable moments in her life as...

Armed with the knowledge and experience he accrued over time, Belasik debates whether classical dressage and competition dressage are at all compatible.In the 1970s, the sport of dressage was still in its infancy in the United States. Unlike the countries of Europe, there was...

The revealing correspondence of a South Carolina slave trader from years just before the Civil WarBroke by the War is a collection of more than 140 letters written between 1852 and 1857 by South Carolina slave trader A. J. McElveen to his employer Z....

An eyewitness account of Lee's Civil War serviceOf all those who served with Robert E. Lee in the headquarters of the Army of Northern Virginia, no one was as close to him as Walter Taylor. Twenty-two years old when hostilities broke out, Taylor served...

Author: Philip Von BorriesISBN-10: 1563113236ISBN-13: 9781563113239Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1997Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.64lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.50d

Author: Robert J. MartinISBN-10: 1563112485ISBN-13: 9781563112485Publisher: TurnerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1997Pages: 130Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.32lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.38d

(From the Foreword) The Japanese Combined Command, superior strategists who had conquered virtually all of Asia, made one fatal mistake in their designs on the United States; their sneak surprise attack on Pearl Harbor on Dec. 7, 1941. Until that below-the-belt lick, America was...

In Edwin and John: A Personal History of the American South, award-winning author James T. Sears interweaves diaries, letters and poems to craft an innovative first-person narrative history that details the hard realities of growing up gay in the South during the early decades...

Between 1920 and 1923, American relief workers managed to prevent the massacre of three hundred Armenian orphans at the hands of Turkish and Kurdish troops. One of them, a nurse, kept a diary that illuminated in dramatic detail the struggle against genocide in the...

This book relates to the explosion of the Boeing 747 that was Pan Am flight # 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland on December 21st, 1988. Author John Crawford was a detective on the scene and is writing this account based on what actually occured. This...

The change of a Vietnamese's life from the time he was born in a small town in Vietnam to the time he resettled in the United States.Author: Nhon TrangISBN-10: 1553695127ISBN-13: 9781553695127Publisher: Trafford PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/27/2002Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.64lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.51d

Volume 1 From Jamaica to Canada and Backelder daughter born to Hakka Chinese immigrants in Jamaica, West Indies during the mid-1900s, Carol draws on her memory to recall her happy and carefree life growing up in Jamaica, studying and getting married in Canada and...

Six-year-old Lisa "Lilly" Isaack's Jewish family was faced with a difficult decision. With the Nazis fully in control of the German government and attacks against Jews growing more violent by the day, the Isaack family had to make a choice. They could remain in...

A Description of Detroit and Elsewhere in the Universe: An Autobiography and Homage to Detroit. My life was different from yours. How is yours different from mine ? (I recommend that you write it all down; it's fun, perhaps even therapeutic.) Are you interested...

This is an autobiography with a difference, an unapologetic justification for asking questions, and never being satisfied with unsupported "expert opinion." The author, now aged seventy-seven, counts himself fortunate to have lived in this time of unprecedented scientific advance. But when wandering into areas...