David S. Kidder & Noah D. Oppenheim 
Intellectual Devotional: Biographies [EPUB ebook] 

In this remarkable study, Pamela Sambrook rescues from obscurity the contribution of a former member of Napoleon”s Imperial Guard to the development of specialist hotels and catering in the formativ …

Proof that truth is often stranger than fiction, this hilarious and poignant account of the unlikely journey of a mobile soft-drink salesman and sometime band member to school headship, is made still …

My journey has been of global proportions. The sometimes spectacular, sometimes sombre, often-times splendid, at times spiritual, most times satisfying, brings perspective to the distinctive scenes e …

Relations between Britain and China have, for over 150 years, been inextricably bound up with the taking of Hong Kong Island on 26 January 1841. The man responsible, Britain”s plenipotentiary Captai …

________________________ THE CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED MEMOIR OF BEN WATT”S BATTLE WITH A RARE ILLNESS ________________________ ”Intensely moving” – Mick Brown, Daily Telegraph ”Quiet elegance and r …

This study of Henry James”s biographies of Nathaniel Hawthorne and William Wetmore Story offers an argument that he deserves greater recognition for his contributions to the development of biography …

This is the rollicking, never-before-published memoir of a fascinating African American woman with an uncanny knack for being in the right place in the most interesting times. Actress, dancer, model, …