Biography & Autobiography - General

Ron Berryman - an autobiography and childhood in the East End of LondonAuthor: Write With You,Ron BerrymanISBN-10: 1006758496ISBN-13: 9781006758492Publisher: BlurbLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/06/2021Pages: 200Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Oralis brought to life a culmination of creative and experimental ideas in a dinner event that happened over two nights to raise awareness for mental health and suicide prevention in support of Lifeline Korea. In this book, he shares the entire process and stories...

Archibald Forbes (17 April 1838 - 30 March 1900) was a Scottish war correspondent. On being invalided from the army in 1867, he started and ran with very little external aid a weekly journal called the London Scotsman (1867-1871). His chance as a journalist...

Though the name Mata Hari is one of the most famous in all of espionage, she has been called the worst spy of the century, the most misunderstood and tragic espionage figure in history, and the "Spy Who Never Was." Margaretha Geertruida Zelle was...

In 1865 James Clerk Maxwell (1831 - 1879) published this work, "A Dynamical Theory of the Electromagnetic Field" demonstrating that electric and magnetic fields travel through space as waves moving at the speed of light. He proposed that light is an undulation in the...

To those who study the progress of exact science, the common spinning-top is a symbol of the labours and the perplexities of men who had successfully threaded the mazes of the planetary motions. The mathematicians of the last age, searching through nature for problems...

The present book is intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into the theory of Relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific and philosophical point of view, are interested in the theory, but who are not conversant with the...

The theory which is sketched in the following pages forms the most wide-going generalization conceivable of what is at present known as "the theory of Relativity;" this latter theory I differentiate from the former "Special Relativity theory," and suppose it to be known. The...

"The rain was falling in great gray blobs upon the skylight of the little room in which I opened my eyes on that February morning whence dates the chronological beginning of this autobiography. The jangle of a bell had awakened me, and its harsh,...

What began as "putting together a few poems" in book form to send to family and friends for my Mom during Thanksgiving 2019, has turned into an over 70 page thematic book of art and poetry. I could not be more thrilled with how...

Relativity: The Special and the General Theory began as a short paper and was eventually published as a book written by Albert Einstein with the aim of giving: "an exact insight into the theory of relativity to those readers who, from a general scientific...

A revelation is that lightbulb moment when an individual gains a sense of clarity and understanding. It's a breakthrough in ideas, a disclosure of facts, and a pivotal turning point in people's lives. In his debut novel, Andy Chugh employs a unique writing style...

The Kent was an East Indiaman, a vessel sailing for the British East India Company, and launched in 1820. She completed two voyages to Bombay and China for the Company and was on her third voyage, to Bengal and China, when a fire in...

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born...

A Russian Nurse in Revolution and Civil War, 1917-1918, A Russian nurse joins the army's Women's Death Battalion in the closing months of the First World War and is caught up in the Bolshevik Revolution and subsequent civil war.Author: Maria BocharnikovaISBN-10: 1006629696ISBN-13: 9781006629693Publisher: BlurbLanguage:...

This is my biography and my personal life. I decided to put them in this book, although, I'm not an expert in the field of authorship, literature or writing. but I think and - Allah knows best - that my experience and what I...

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born...

A gentle adventure story about a woman who, more accustomed to leisurely swimming followed by cake, decides to swim the ten and a half mile length of Windermere. Why? Good question! A journey of self discovery through wild swimming, during the lockdowns and challenges...

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born...

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born...

Robert Louis Stevenson (born Robert Lewis Balfour Stevenson; 13 November 1850 - 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet and travel writer, most noted for Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and A Child's Garden of Verses. Born...

Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) was one of the most successful, prolific and respected English novelists of the Victorian era. He wrote penetrating novels on political, social, and gender issues and conflicts of his day. In 1867 Trollope left his position in the British Post Office...

Nush Mati Shkreli-Vata recounts his family's life, growing up in 1800s and early 1900s Albania, with the social customs and political turmoil that surrounded that region. Now illustrated with maps and colourized photos from the time, the memoirs describe the family's rise and fall...

The art of military tactical deception and the creation of false identities is as old as war itself. A summary of this kind of deception during the Great War is presented along with the courageous strikes against Axis Powers from Generals Jimmy Doolittle and...

Anita Kerr, a softly spoken, petite lady from Memphis, Tennessee is a window into history. What this gifted and disciplined artist achieved in the man's world that was Nashville in the 50's, and her West Coast ascent in the 60's, is the great untold...

David Crittendon's historic blues novella, THEN SEE IF I CARE: A Story About Bessie Smith, makes you feel her yearning down to your bones. This is no low-down, foot-dragging dirge. With prose that rings true to African American idiom yet resounds with Crittendon's singular...

Michael Faraday was an English scientist who contributed to the study of electromagnetism and electrochemistry. His main discoveries include the principles underlying electromagnetic induction, diamagnetism and electrolysis. On the Various Forces of Nature and Thier Relations to Each other is an overview of gravity,...

Easy to note the secret ingredients and tips to make a perfect menu for your food. It can be used in conjunction with other types of health diaries. Give the outstanding cooks in your family a blank recipe journal so they can share all...

Continued from Volume I with special focus on the interface of science and spirituality, this book addresses the several human factors that are worsening the worldwide threat of global warming. These factors have, so far, rendered us seemingly incapable of making the major changes...

Easy to note the secret ingredients and tips to make a perfect menu for your food. It can be used in conjunction with other types of health diaries. Give the outstanding cooks in your family a blank recipe journal so they can share all...

Comprised of essays, short stories and poems, It's Right Where You Left It encompasses the full breadth of understanding that Martins' has cultivated in this pursuit to what he sees as Truth. A soundtrack for this book's edition contains contributions from Lamar Odom, Liv.e,...

Easy to note the secret ingredients and tips to make a perfect menu for your food. It can be used in conjunction with other types of health diaries. Give the outstanding cooks in your family a blank recipe journal so they can share all...

Arthur Schopenhauer (22 February 1788 - 21 September 1860) was a German philosopher. He is best known for his 1818 work The World as Will and Representation (expanded in 1844), which characterizes the phenomenal world as the product of a blind and insatiable noumenal...

Charles Dudley Warner (1829 - 1900) was an American essayist, novelist, and friend of Mark Twain, with whom he co-authored the novel The Gilded Age: A Tale of Today. Warner traveled widely, lectured frequently, and was actively interested in prison reform, city park supervision,...

This book is a highly detailed account of how I grew up in a cult and how it affected me. It is also about what lead me to leaving the cult and the first steps I took to having relationships with the outside world.Author:...

Washington Irving (April 3, 1783 - November 28, 1859) was an American short-story writer, essayist, biographer, historian, and diplomat of the early 19th century. He is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" (1819) and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" (1820), both...

Xenophon (431-355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece. He...

Xenophon (431-355 BC), son of Gryllus, of the deme Erchia of Athens, was a soldier, mercenary and an admirer of Socrates. He is known for his writings on the history of his own times, the sayings of Socrates, and the life of Greece. He...

"Thrilling, humorous journey through making a decision and it's so contagious it sticks. The How Not to Join the Air Force is a triumph masterpiece. You won't read a better action story this year" Josue M Encarnacion After just 4 years of high-school and...

Claudius (Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus; 1 August 10 BC - 13 October AD 54) was the fourth Roman emperor, ruling from AD 41 to 54. A member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty, Claudius was born to Drusus and Antonia Minor at Lugdunum in Roman...

During the cultural revolution, Xi Jinping was sent to a juvenile detention center for a group fighting in the street. During this time, Xi Jinping was a marginalized member of society, with no one to turn to and no one to depend on. He...

The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of gross indecency with other men in 1895 and...

Paperback edition. Leaving Guanabara details the idyllic growing up years of a young French girl born in Brazil while Europe, Asia and Africa are being destroyed by the Second World War. Unknown to the narrator, her father's family is being murdered in France by...

Paperback edition. A biography of a Czech artist educated in the 1920s and 30s in the most artistically revolutionary capitals of the world: Vienna, Berlin, Prague, Paris, who gets caught in the Nazi dragnet through his marriage to a Czech Jew. The story follows...

Three schizoaffective manic episodes drove the author of "Icarus Redeemed", a true story, down the rabbit hole of madness, into a world rife with demons, saints, and delusions of grandeur; depression drove him to the edge of a cliff, where he stood precariously, one...

In 2013, the Nest Collective travelled across Kenya, recording over 250 personal accounts of persons identifying as gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender and intersex in Kenya. This book - in this second edition, updated with new narratives collected in 2018 - presents a selection from...

Published in 2016, nine years after Robert Fisher's death, this book proposes to put the great painter's work and life in perspective. the author, Sam Kerson, studied painting with Bob from 1980 until 2007. This account of their friendship gives an intimate view of...

For two years Jennifer Clarke transcribed her conversations with lifelong friend and mentor Mary as her dementia progressed. Meeting when Mary was Jennifer's teacher at high school, the friendship came full circle after they agreed to write a book about Mary's illness and Jennifer...

How does a person with Down syndrome assert her right to be herself in an Ableist society? It's not easy. However, artist Teresa Heartchild shows us how she has successfully advocated for herself. From writing to government officials for an apology for her wrongful...

Sometime a Clear Light: A Photographer's Journey Through Alaska, Nigeria, and Life Aylette Jenness, writer, photographer, adventurer, looks back at her life to find insight into the past as she is losing her physical sight due to macular degeneration. Aylette reflects on living with...