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Custer
The Making of a Young General
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
The name George Armstrong Custer looms large in American history, specifically for his leadership in the American Indian Wars and unfortunate fall at the Battle of Little Bighorn. But before his time in the West, Custer began his career fighting for the Union in the Civil War. In Custer: The Making...
Katie
The Real Story
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
For the past twenty-five years—first as the blithe spirit of the Today show, then as the only woman ever to anchor a network news program solo—Katie Couric has been a familiar visitor in the homes of millions. Yet, despite all her public exposure, no one—until now—has been able to penetrate...
by Banabhatta, Edward Byles Cowell, F. W Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
The Harsha-Charita of Banabhatta by Edward Byles Cowell & Frederick William Thomas The Harshacharita (Sanskrit: हर्षचरित, Harṣacarita) (The deeds of Harsha), is the biography of Indian emperor Harsha by Banabhatta, also known as Bana, who was a Sanskrit writer of seventh-century...
The Man from Essence
Creating a Magazine for Black Women
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Essence magazine is the most popular, well respected, and largest circulated black women’s magazine in history. Largely unknown is the remarkable story of what it took to earn that distinction.
The Man from Essence depicts with candor and insight how Edward Lewis, CEO and publisher of Essence,...
by Edward Mendelson
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
A deeply considered and provocative new look at major American writers—including Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and W.H. Auden—Edward Mendelson’s Moral Agents is also a work of critical biography in the great tradition of Plutarch, Samuel Johnson, and Emerson. Any important writer, in Mendelson’s...
Ernst Cassirer
The Last Philosopher of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
This is the first English-language intellectual biography of the German-Jewish philosopher Ernst Cassirer (1874-1945), a leading figure on the Weimar intellectual scene and one of the last and finest representatives of the liberal-idealist tradition. Edward Skidelsky traces the development of Cassirer's...
by Jean Edward Smith
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
NATIONAL BESTSELLER - "A model presidential biography... Now, at last, we have a biography that is right for the man" - Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post Book World
One of today’s premier biographers has written a modern, comprehensive, indeed ultimate book on the epic life...
General George Washington
A Military Life
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2005
Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and “father of his country.” Less often discussed is Washington’s military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing...
The Kennedy Curse
Why Tragedy Has Haunted America's First Family for 150 Years
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2004
Death was merciful to Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, for it spared her a parent's worst nightmare: the loss of a child. But if Jackie had lived to see her son, JFK Jr., perish in a plane crash on his way to his cousin's wedding, she would have been doubly horrified by the familiar pattern in the tragedy....
The Truth About Hillary
What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2005
Hillary Rodham Clinton is the most polarizing figure in American politics. Love her or hate her, everyone has a strong opinion about the former first lady turned senator who is almost certainly going to run for president in 2008.
Despite more than a dozen years in the national spotlight and...
by JOAN- ROS ARAGONES, Edward O. Wilson
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Los sabios y apasionados consejos de E.O. Wilson a las nuevas generaciones de científicos.
Querido amigo:
Después de medio siglo de enseñar a estudiantes y a jóvenes profesionales de la ciencia, he tenido el privilegio y la suerte de haber aconsejado a muchos cientos de jóvenes...
Radar Man
A Personal History of Stealth
Language: English
Release Date: October 7, 2010
During the 1950s, the United States and the Soviet Union teetered on the brink of nuclear devastation. Americas hope for national security relied solely upon aerial reconnaissance. Radar Man is the fascinating memoir of a physicist who, with his colleagues, developed the stealth technology that eventually...
Young Mr. Obama
Chicago and the Making of a Black President
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2010
Barack Obama's inspirational politics and personal mythology have overshadowed his fascinating history. Young Mr. Obama gives us the missing chapter: the portrait of the politician as a young leader, often too ambitious for his own good, but still equipped with a rare ability to inspire change. The...
by Edward Crankshaw
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
When Edward Crankshaw's Maria Theresa was published in 1969, it was the first full length study of Maria Theresa to be written in English for sixty years.
Called to the throne in 1740, at the age of twenty-three, Maria Theresa was wholly unprepared for the events that were to confront her,...