Biography

This sparkling collection explores the impact of Richard Dawkins as scientist, rationalist, and one of...

This book is the tenth volume in the Discoveries in the Judaean Desert series. It...

Our everyday lives are enmeshed in storytelling: the stories we tell about our memories, the...

J. Y. T. Greig's two-volume edition, first published in 1932, presents the correspondence of one...

J. Y. T. Greig's two-volume edition, first published in 1932, presents the correspondence of one...

This volume, first published in 1954, is one of three presenting the correspondence of David...

Lester Young was one of the great jazz masters, and his impact on the course...

Today Georges Bizet is most immediately recognized as the composer of the acclaimed opera Carmen....

Leonard Bernstein was arguably the most highly esteemed, influential, and charismatic American classical music personality...

Robert Schumann is one of the most intriguing-and enigmatic-composers of the nineteenth century. Extraordinarily gifted...

In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known...

The Dictionary of Caribbean and Afro-Latin American Biography is a major biographical reference work covering...

Although the filmmaker Satyajit Ray is well-known across the world, few outside Bengal know much...

John Birch was better known in death than life. Shot and killed by Communists in...

For generations, among those who revere the work of Carl von Clausewitz, the role of...

Women's vibrant presence in the Italian Renaissance has long been overlooked, with attention focused mainly...

Samuel Jeake (1652-1699) was a merchant and nonconformist of Rye in Sussex with a passionate...

This book was designed to explore as fully as possible the appropriateness of the phrase...

The dream of capturing and organizing knowledge is as old as history. From the archives...

The lives of the outstanding scholars celebrated in the volume often reveal unexpected personal and...

It was November 1806. The explorers had gone without food for one day, then two....

Today, consumer credit, employee stock options, and citizen investment in the stock market are taken...

For over 100 years, the British Academy has published Biographical Memoirs - extended obituaries -...

Congratulations to Michael S. Cross for his book, A Biography of Robert Baldwin, winner of...

Most great figures in American history reveal great contradictions, and Henry Ford is no exception....

Seventeen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy including Frank Barlow, John Barnes,...

From Canada's greatest political journalist comes the astonishing story of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie...

Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of...

9/11 almost instantaneously remade American politics and foreign policy. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan,...

Covering their lives from childhood to the end of the Georgia governorship, Jimmy and Rosalynn...

Marking the two-hundredth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, this marvelous short biography by a leading historian...

Nelson Mandela, the first African politician to acquire a world following, remains in the 21st...

Jim Corbett's fame rests on his tales of hunting in the Indian jungle, but he...

Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib (1797-1869), noble, poet, and wit of Mughal Delhi in the twilight...

The author analyses with authority and objectivity several relevant issues: the evolution of Gandhi's personality...

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan stands alongside Nehru and Gandhi as one of the most eminent Indians of...

Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan was the official biography of the founder of Pakistan, Quaid-i-Azam Mohammad...

This book is the translation of the Urdu memoir, Gard-e-Raah, which was first published as...