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Carolyn Ellis is the leading writer in the move toward personal, autobiographical writing as a strategy for academic research. In addition to her landmark books Final Negotiations and The Ethnographi …

This is a rich and detailed account of the life and world of Lola Ridge, poet, artist, editor, and activist for the cause of women»s rights, workers» rights, racial equality and social reform. Auth …

At a time when female architects were still as rare as hen’s teeth, a seemingly unlikely entrant to the profession, a middle-aged vicar’s wife – Annabel Dott, was taking tentative steps on building p …

Sir James Dewar was a major figure in British chemistry for around 40 years. He held the posts of Jacksonian Professor of Natural Philosophy at Cambridge (1875-1923) and Fullerian Professor of Chemis …

»Rape, Ravage and Rant are the German watchwords in this war. Right, Revenge & Retrenchment shall be ours.» Alexander Scrimgeour, 17th September 1914. Most published war diaries have been written b …

An important addition to the Profiles in Power series, this critical biography looks at Franklin D. Roosevelt, the most dominant US politician of the 1930s and 1940s. Roosevelt led the United States …

Gilbert White»s name is known universally but, as Ted Dadswell insists in this book, important aspects of his work have frequently been overlooked even by scholarly editors. The Selborne naturalist …

The son of a Georgia prosecutor killed by a car bomb offers a “compelling” account of the crime and its effect on his life (Booklist).   When I was twenty I came face to face with the old man co …