Michael J. Aminoff 
Victor Horsley [PDF ebook] 
The World’s First Neurosurgeon and His Conscience

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 …

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 …

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 …

Baptist Noel (1798-1873) has been described by the American Evangelical Anglican historian Grayson Carter as a towering figure in nineteenth-century Evangelicalism, but he has been written out of its …

The first four decades of my life were spent in a small country that was nested in a hostile and unstable old region, Israel. I strongly felt, enjoyed, and participated in, the revival of that countr …

"Never give up, raise your voice, so it’s heard and if you want something, go and get it. Define your own odds. And remember — "it’s not how long it takes you to get there — it’s about gett …

More than fifty expeditions across all seven continents — by land, sea and air — have led adventurer Neil Laughton to some of the most remote places in the world.Adventureholic tells the stories of N …