Charles Bukowski 
Living On Luck [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

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 …

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 …

Dorothy and Leonard Elmhirst were the founders of Dartington — she the daughter of an American millionaire who was once Secretary to the US Navy; he the son of a Yorkshire parson and secretary to Rab …

Jahangir was the fourth of the six “Great Mughals, ” the oldest son of Akbar the Great, who extended the Mughal Empire across the Indian Subcontinent, and the father of Shah Jahan, builder of the Taj …

This book, first published in 1984, was the first full biography of Solzhenitsyn. Starting with his childhood, it covers every period of his life in considerable detail, showing how Solzhenitsyn’s de …

This book traces the life»s work of a man now widely regarded as one of the greatest economists, political philosophers and social theorists of the century. The result is the most alive and accessib …