R.P.T. Davenport-Hines 
Speculators and Patriots [PDF ebook] 
Essays in Business Biography

The children were scared and confused, but most importantly, they felt lost when the one person who is supposed to love you and care for you, abandon you and cares more about the men in her life rath …

"Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. of Trinity College, Cambridge" by Arthur Christopher Benson is a poignant fiction chronicling the intellectual and personal growth of a young man amidst t …

Louis. A giant dog with a huge personality. This is his story, told by him. Follow his endearing account, from the moment he took his first tentative and clumsy steps into the lives of his human comp …

Frances Bowar lived in Ethan, South Dakota, a smallfarming community. She kept a diary from 1938 to1970, recording the activities of her family, her ownthoughts, feelings, and judgments, and the birt …

In this book – an ABC of the genre, with 26 entries – two renowned biographers and teachers take us on a tour, from A for Authorization to Z for Zigzagging to the End. In trenchant, witty entries the …

Best known for the progressive school he founded in Dessau during the 18th century, Johann Bernhard Basedow was a central thinker in the German Enlightenment. Since his death in 1790 a substantial bo …

The final set of volumes (Vol 18-21 sold separately) of The Papers of Dwight David Eisenhower contain 1, 783 documents drawn from Eisenhower”s second term as president from 20 January 1957 to 20 Jan …

For many, the arms trade and its dealers are the root cause of regional wars and global terrorism. In both public and academic debates, arms dealers are considered immoral as they profit from conflic …

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 …