Benjamin Franklin 
Franklin: The Autobiography and Other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue [PDF ebook] 

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 …

”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 …

A bold reimagining of the literary history of Decadence through a close examination of the transnational contexts of Oscar Wilde”s classic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Building upon a larg …

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 …

"Memoirs of the Private Life, Return, and Reign of Napoleon in 1815 Vol.-II" by means of Baron Pierre Alexandre Edouard Fleury de Chaboulon is a records work that offers a shiny and private …

"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 …

An autobiography of a scholar-teacher who devoted his career to the study of Chinese history and the promotion of Asian studies in America. …

An Anthropologist at Work is the product of a long collaboration between Ruth Benedict and Margaret Mead. Mead, who was Benedict”s student, colleague, and eventually her biographer, here has collect …