Biography & Autobiography - General

INGRESMasters of ArtA short introduction to the art and life of Jean August Dominique Ingres, the French 19th century master artist, best-known for his historical paintings, his portraits and his odalisques and nudes. This book, first published in 1906, explores Ingres' career and his...

This is a study of Church and Society between the two World Wars as seen through the eyes of an able, caustic, individualist churchman. Herbert Hensley Henson held strong opinions on all subjects. He was the critic, on moral grounds, of the behaviour of...

This is the special edition of John Byrne: Art and Life which incorporates a hand-coloured print, Tropicana, produced and signed by the artist in an edition of 50 exclusively for this publication. The print will be packaged with the book in a slipcase.John Byrne...

Unity was born in 1913 on a sugar farm in Zululand (South Africa) and later brought up in a large English country house. Unity will prove to be headstrong and well in advance of her time; a person who loves life and will pursue...

This book is a comprehensive study of the evolution and achievements of the county survey or system in Ireland. The introduction in 1834 of these officials - county engineers in modern terminology - to local government was a major innovation, bringing the infrastructural work...

This is the astonishing true story of how a bankrupt con man bounced back by beating Hollywood at its own game. Colin Hayday's first scam was ingenious: he bought a skyscraper - with no money. When the scam failed, he realised the story could...

One small family one sailboat - ten years- 56 countries. We set out to raise our son as a global citizen, anchoring off small villages in order to linger with the locals, Sailing around the world eastabout, we found ourselves surviving piracy attacks off...

This autobiography is a must-read to prepare you to find Mel and his great next project above the sky's limits in the cosmos. His artist business partner says, "If you read his autobiography, you will have a chance because you will like being first."Author:...

Finally Finding My Voice tells the true and often harrowing account of a woman who has refused to be defeated by life's unexpected challenges. Kate's raw and relentless journey shares the tongue cancer battle that left her with no voice, as well as the...

Charles Eastman was a physician and writer who helped found the Boy Scouts. His life with an Indian mother taught him the culture of the American Indian. In this book Eastman, a Santee Sioux Indian, talks about his childhood as an Indian and his...

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...

Levi grew up as the kid who would never believe in anything. His parents didn't take him to church, and it wasn't until he was seven years old that he began occasionally joining his friend Edwin to go to a house of God. But...

Learn the secrets of success from twenty current, successful Sierra Leoneans as they reveal how they made it to where they are today.Author: Modupe Taylor-Pearce,Brian JamesISBN-10: 1483419088ISBN-13: 9781483419084Publisher: Lulu Publishing ServicesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/07/2014Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.62lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.43d

Roy Saunders was the world's greatest legitimate safe cracker. Who said so? Well, Roy Saunders for one, but this claim was echoed by senior police officers, chief insurance surveyors, leading jewellers and hundreds of wealthy clients. As his exceptional skills became widely recognised, he...

Cornwall's rich waters have always provided a bountiful harvest for its fisherman. In many ways, the fishing industry of Cornwall is inseparable from its heritage, evoking images of fishing boats resting in picturesque harbours.The industry has not always provided so idyllic a picture. In...

The German-language theater is one of the most vibrant and generously endowed of any in the world. It boasts long and honored traditions that include world-renowned plays, playwrights, actors, directors, and designers, and several German theater artists have had an enormous impact on theater...

Captain Patrick J. Brown of the FDNY had an uncanny ability to be exactly where he was needed at exactly the right time, most especially on 9/11/2001, when he perished, surrounded by scores of burn victims he was trying to evacuate from the World...

This book is about the life of a New England railroad man in the twentieth century, and his engagement in the turmoil of 1960s America, in particular union struggles and his participation in anti-war activism in the small towns of Franklin and Medway, Massachusetts....

Nicholas Manfredo always said he lived his childhood as the archetypical barefoot boy- with no shoes, ragged clothing, and ever-present hunger.In this memoir, author Joseph N. Manfredo recounts his father's life story-from his birth in 1900 to his death at age ninety-three in 1993....

Life in the early 1900's was quite different from today. The pace was slower (or so we believe in retrospect). The music was sweeter. And, one learned life by the living. Then came the roaring Twenties. The pace quickened. The music became more upbeat,...

Author: George Davison WiniusISBN-10: 1425725953ISBN-13: 9781425725952Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/22/2010Pages: 234Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d

Author: United States War DeptISBN-10: 1425562949ISBN-13: 9781425562946Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/13/2006Pages: 580Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.77lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.17d

This book of essays samples current scholarship on New Netherland, touching on topics such as New Netherland in Historical Memory. New Netherland in the Atlantic World, the Political Economy of New Netherland, and New Netherland's Directors.Author: Sylvester BlissISBN-10: 1425548172ISBN-13: 9781425548179Publisher: University of Michigan LibraryLanguage:...

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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

This book is a humorous account, an autobiography, of my twenty three year career as an owner driver between the mid-seventies and the nineties. It is a sequence of events with characters who have wandered into my life to make it a memorable adventure....

Beneath The Elm Tree is a series of vignettes of farm life in rural Iowa during the 1940's and 1950's.Author: Betty LankersISBN-10: 1304820963ISBN-13: 9781304820969Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/16/2014Pages: 120Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.41lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.28d

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...

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...

Activities Incompatible, the third volume of Martin Nicholson's memoirs, covers the years 1963 to 1971, when the author started his career as an analyst of Soviet political affairs in the Research Department of the Foreign Office in London and continued in the Russian Secretariat...

Long-listed for the 2014 MsLexia International Memoir Competition, MsLexia described this memoir as "among the 80 most compelling and accomplished memoirs submitted." In the summer of 1992 with an opportunity to visit a region of the world I loved, to do work that I...

Title: Life of Captain Nathan Hale, the martyr-spy of the American Revolution.Author: I W StuartPublisher: Gale, Sabin Americana Description: Based on Joseph Sabin's famed bibliography, Bibliotheca Americana, Sabin Americana, 1500--1926 contains a collection of books, pamphlets, serials and other works about the Americas, from...

""Land of the Flatheads"" is a historical and descriptive account of the Flathead Indian Reservation in Montana, written by William Henry Smead in 1905. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the reservation's past, present, and future, including its geography, climate, flora, and fauna....

Delve into the formative years of the United States with Henry Adams's "History of the United States of America During the First Administration of James Madison, Volume 6." This meticulously researched volume offers a comprehensive account of James Madison's presidency and the challenges faced...

Richard Hakluyt's 12-volume Principal Navigations Voyages Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, originally published at the end of the sixteenth century, and reissued by the Cambridge Library Collection in the edition of 1903-5, was followed in 1625 by Hakluytus Posthumus or, Purchas his...

Appointed Major General by the Continental Congress in 1775, George Washington, the future President of the United States of America, was one of the most significant and influential witnesses to the American Revolutionary War (1775-1783). Published in England in 1795, twelve years after the...

This is a lively two-volume biography, first published in 1893, of the influential Victorian businessman and politician W. H. Smith (1825-1891), whose father and uncle established the well-known stationery and bookselling business. The author, Herbert Maxwell (1845-1932), was a Scottish essayist and Conservative Member...

Explore the art of thoughtful living with Robert Louis Stevenson's "An Apology for Idlers and Other Essays." This collection offers a captivating glimpse into the introspective mind of one of the Victorian era's most celebrated authors. Through eloquent prose and keen observation, Stevenson champions...

"A Pickle for the Knowing Ones" offers a singular, eccentric perspective on American history. Written by Lord Timothy Dexter, a self-styled aristocrat of Newburyport, Massachusetts, this autobiography is a bizarre and humorous account of his life and times. Dive into the world of a...

Engage in witty and insightful conversations "Over the Teacups" with Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., in this collection of essays, anecdotes, and social commentary. Holmes, a celebrated literary figure, offers a charming and thought-provoking glimpse into the intellectual landscape of his time. This volume blends...

This collection of poems by Ludwig Uhland showcases the German poet's lyrical talent and emotional depth. It includes works on love, nature, and political and social issues. This book is a must-read for lovers of poetry and German literature.This work has been selected by...