National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering 
Memorial Tributes [PDF ebook] 
Volume 12

Margaret Lashmar tells the true story of her mother leaving home with the lodger in the 1950”s, when she was aged just five, her life without her, and then the reunion, fifty years later.A heart-war …

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 …

A novel chronicle that speaks of cruelty and torture in Uzbekistan. …

The New York Times bestseller Gloria Steinem had an itinerant childhood. Every fall, her father would pack the family into the car and they would drive across the country, in search of their next adv …

“There is no way but gentlenesse to redeeme a Hawke” Edmund Bert, 1619 Born and raised in the South Yorkshire mining village of Hoyland Common, Richard Hines remembers sliding down heaps of coal dust …

”Emer O”Sullivan has made an indispensable contribution to Wildean literature … Compelling, informative and fascinating” – Stephen Fry The Fall of the House of Wilde identifies Oscar Wilde as a me …

A rare feminist perspective on a people and a culture in one of the most tumultuous regions in the world, Nadia, Captive of Hope is the autobiography of Fay Afaf Kanafani, an Arab Muslim woman born i …

”War, superb as it is, is not necessarily a filtering process, by which men and nations may be purified. Well, there are many people to write you of the noble side, the heroic side, the exalted side …

How a family-run business from humble Bikaner transformed Haldiram into a global, much-loved brand In the early twentieth century, a young man, Ganga Bhishan Agarwal, aka Haldiram, gained a reputatio …

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 …