National Academy of Sciences 
Biographical Memoirs [PDF ebook] 
Volume 59

Stage fright is one of the human psyche”s deepest fears. Over half of British adults name public speaking as their greatest fear, even greater than heights and snakes. Laurence Olivier learned to ad …

Geographers is an annual collection of studies on individuals who have made major contributions to the development of geography and geographical thought. Subjects are drawn from all periods and from …

Saturnine and quick-tempered, the formidable North Sea is often overlooked – even by those living within a stone”s throw of its steel-grey waters. But as playground, theatre of war and cultural cros …

Originally published as Double Agent Snow, Hitler”s Spyis the paperback edition, which tells of how on the eve of the outbreak of the Second World War the double-agent Arthur Owens, codenamed SNOW, …

Around Christmas of 1882, while peering through a microscope at starfish larvae in which he had inserted tiny thorns, Russian zoologist Elie Metchnikoff had a brilliant insight: what if the mobile ce …

Society of Midland Authors Literary Award Finalist in Biography & Memoir Award-winning journalist Michele Weldon provides a potent antidote to the harried single mom stereotype in this beguiling memo …

”An ode to the ocean, and the generations of women drawn to the waves or left waiting on the shore” Guardian In Salt On Your Tongue, Charlotte Runcie explores what the sea means to us, and particul …

But God is the story of the journey God led Carla Ludwig on after she found out her daughter was going to be a single mom. Despite her objections, God pursued Carla with His heart for single moms and …

‘Excellent and absorbing…. Indispensable to any attempt to understand the Khmer Rouge.’ -William Shawcross New York Review of Books ‘A dramatic account of Pol Pot”s rise to power in 1975 and his d …

Winner of the 2003 Shingo Prize! Henry Ford is the man who doubled wages, cut the price of a car in half, and produced over 2 million units a year. Time has not diminished the progressiveness of his …