National Academy of Engineering & National Academy of Engineering 
Memorial Tributes [PDF ebook] 
Volume 3

”A diary is an assassin”s cloak which we wear when we stab a comrade in the back with a pen”, wrote William Soutar in 1934. But a diary is also a place for recording everyday thoughts and special …

Hailed as the definitive portrait of the sixteenth president, Lincoln scholar Michael Burlingame”s impressive two-volume biography has been masterfully abridged and revised. Sixteenth president of t …

"Mary Slessor of Calabar: Pioneer Missionary" by W. P. Livingstone is a captivating biography chronicling the extraordinary life of Mary Slessor, a Scottish missionary who became a trailbla …

"Gibbon" written by means of James Cotter Morison is an in-depth biography of the eminent historian Edward Gibbon, first-class recognized for his epic work "The History of the Decline …

A true and heart warming account of a journey through breast cancer. A diagnosis of breast cancer made Michelle Williams-Huw, mother of two small boys, re-evaluate her life as she battled her demons …

William Crookes” long life was one of unbroken scientific and business activity, culminating in his appointment as President of the Royal Society in 1913. Throughout his career he was an important s …

Robert Stephenson, the leading engineer of the mid-nineteenth century whose substantial public works brought about considerable social change is now the subject of this excellent new biography: Rober …

Before Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, there was the one-fingered, cunning Giuseppe Morello and his murderous coterie of brothers. Had it not been for Morello, the world may never have heard of ”men of …

SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE, THE JHALAK PRIZE, THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION AND THE BREAD AND ROSES AWARD Saturday, 23rd November 2013. It was just another day in America. And as befits a …

Julian Vosper-Smith is a cad and a seducer, a wit and a raconteur. Every man wants to be him and every girl wants to shag him, and now you too can share in his success. Follow his amusing stories and …