Rodney Castleden 
Discoveries that Changed the World [EPUB ebook] 

This is a simple tale of a family of eight children (six girls and eventually two boys) who lived in a village in South Devon.There are some aspects of this story that will make you laugh and plenty …

This volume explores the extraordinary life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, the 12th century abbess and prophet whose interests ranged from music to theology to zoology to medicine. These essays-wri …

The brilliant and influential statesman, Itō Hirobumi (1841-1909), and the first prime minister of Japan’s modern state, has been poorly understood. This biography attempts to set the record straight …

In this introspective exploration of former boxer Joey Torrey »s life, his past, his murder conviction, and his more than 30-year incarceration in a California state prison are each fine-tooth combed …

Though Robert Malthus has never disappeared, he has been perpetually misunderstood. Robert Mayhew offers at once a major reassessment of Malthus’s ideas and an intellectual history of the origins of …

John S. Peart-Binns brings us a fresh and distinctive view of Herbert Hensley Henson, the eighty-sixth Bishop of Durham, who is shown here to have formed his own character and forged his own way amid …

Little Mary Hagan ‘Nightingale of the North’ is a biography written by Patricia Kirby her daughter. Mary Hagan became one of the greatest child singing stars to stem from Newcastle on Tyne in 1932. T …

First published in 1993, this book presents a biography of a central figure in the development of both the labour movement and British politics in the first half of the twentieth century. This highly …

The master is also the greatest disciple. The followed is the biggest follower. And in his humility lie the greatest lessons of life. The first thing that strikes the author about Dada Vawasni is his …