Jill Ker Conway 
In Her Own Words [EPUB ebook] 

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 …

I hope you laugh a lot and maybe cry a little and even try to understand the workings of my bipolar mind in this, my one and only book. The pages of which I recall with love, laughter and tears, the …

‘A Tale of Four Hemispheres’ is a highly engaging, thoughtful and extremely readable memoir about a man orphaned in infancy, who survived a childhood bedevilled by ill-health and went on to achieve w …

Bhikkhuni Dhammananda defied convention to become the first woman fully ordained in the Thai Theravada Buddhist tradition. Dubbed "Rebel Monk" by the Thai press, she faced enormous oppositi …

"The Life and Adventures of Bruce, the African Traveller" is a splendid tour narrative written by way of Sir Francis Bond Head, a British creator. The book vividly chronicles the incredible …