Biographic: Marilyn
Most people know that Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962) was a Hollywood icon, and at one time the most famous movie star on the planet. What, perhaps, they don't know is that she lived in 42 different homes; that she loved Abraham Lincoln with a passion; that she was the first choice for the role of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's; and that her absences while filming Let's Make Love added 28 days to the shooting time and $1 million to the budget. Biographic: Marilyn presents an instant impression of her life, work and legacy, with an array of irresistible facts and figures converted into infographics to reveal the actor behind the movies.
Biographic: Beatles
Most people know that The Beatles (1960-1970) were the most famous pop group of all time, who were at the heart of 1960s counterculture and whose songs transformed the music world. What, perhaps, they don't know is that they have spent more than 1...
Biographic: Kahlo
The Biographics series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits, and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey ...
Biography
For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what con...
Biography
Biography is one of the most popular, best-selling, and widely-read of literary genres. But why do certain people and historical events arouse so much interest? How can biographies be compared with history and works of fiction? Does a biography ne...
Rasputin
Rasputin - The Mad Monk is a biography of Grigori Rasputin, the famous Russian mystic, psychic and faith healer. Rasputin was perceived as having influenced the later days of the Russian Tsar Nicholas II and was said to have intentionally discredi...
Jackie O
Jackie O - Biography of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is the biography of the wife of John F. Kennedy from 1953 to 1963. She served as First Lady of the United States from 1961 until her husband's assassination in 1963. She was married to Aristotle O...
Benny Goodman
Benny Goodman - The King of Swing is a biography of Benny Goodman, one of America's most influential jazz musicians of all time. He was most known for his contributions to the bebop and cool jazz crazes of the 1940s. Goodman's sold-out concert at ...
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill - Biography of a Nobel Statesmen is a biography of Winston Churchill, a British politician and wartime prime minister who led his country to victory in World War Two. Among his notable achievements, Churchill was a master statesm...
Gambino Crime Family
The Gambino Crime Family - A Mafia Family Revealed is an account of the Gambino family, one of the most powerful crime families in United States history. The Gambino family, known to be one of the "Five Families" who control orga...
David Berkowitz
David Berkowitz - Son of Sam is a biography of David Berkowitz aka Son of Sam, the infamous American serial killer. Berkovitz killed six and wounded seven before his arrest in August 1977. He later claimed that he received instructions to kill fro...
Ted Bundy
Ted Bundy - The Campus Serial Killer is a biography of Ted Bundy, the infamous American serial killer. He is best known for his rampages on college campuses across Washington, Utah, Colorado, and Florida. In his lifetime, Bundy murdered at least 1...
Zodiac Killer
Zodiac Killer - Deciphering a Serial Killer is an account of the serial killer known as the Zodiac Killer whose identity remains a mystery. The Zodiac Killer, known for his cryptic and taunting letters to the press, operated in Northern California...
Albert Fish
Albert Fish - The Werewolf of Wysteria is a biography of Albert Fish, an American serial killer and cannibal. He is best known for the kidnapping, murder, and cannibalizing of young children. Fish was convicted on one murder, but suspected of anot...
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland - Life and Times of a Non-Consecutive President is the biography of Grover Cleveland, the twenty-second and twenty-fourth President of the United States. Cleveland is the only President to serve two non-consecutive terms (1885-188...
Carlo Gambino
Carlo Gambino - Crime Boss Don Carlo is the biography of Carlo Gambino, a Mafioso who became boss of the Gambino crime family that still bears his name today. Gambino was known for being low-key and secretive and unlike many modern mafiosi, Gambin...
John Wayne
John Wayne - An American Icon is the biography of John Wayne, an iconic Academy Award-winning American film actor. John Wayne epitomized ruggedly individualistic masculinity, and has become an enduring American icon. He is famous for his distincti...
Richard Ramirez
Richard Ramirez - The Night Stalker is the biography of Richard Ramirez, a convicted American serial killer awaiting execution on California's death row at San Quentin State Prison. Prior to his capture, Ramrez was dubbed the "Night Stalk...
Ella Fitzgerald
Ella Fitzgerald - The First Lady of Song is a biography of Ella Fitzgerald, who was a popular American jazz vocalist. Fitzgerald was known for her wide range and the purity of her voice. Ella was as well particularly famous for her scat singing. S...
Lucky Luciano
Lucky Luciano - The Father of Modern Organized Crime is the biography of Lucky Luciano, who was a prominent Sicilian-American mobster. Luciano is considered the father of modern organized crime and the mastermind of the massive postwar expansion o...
Charles Manson
Charles Manson - Helter Skelter and Beyond is a biography of Charles Manson, the infamous convict charged with murder and conspiracy to murder in the late 1960's. Manson formed and led the "Manson Family" to heinously commit the ...
Bill Gates
Bill Gates - Software Billionaire is a biography of Bill Gates who is an American entrepreneur, software executive, philanthropist and Chairman of Microsoft, the software company he founded with Paul Allen. Gates is one of the best-known entrepren...
Oscar Peterson
Oscar Peterson - The Maharaja of the Keyboard is the biography of Oscar Peterson, a Canadian jazz pianist, vocalist and composer. He was called the "Maharaja of the keyboard" by Duke Ellington, "O.P." by his fri...
Magritte
The first major biography for our time, from the celebrated biographer of Cezanne
Landscape Biographies
Landscape Biographies explores the long and complex histories of landscapes from personal and social perspectives. As an essential part of human life-worlds, landscapes have the potential to absorb something of people's lives, works, and thoughts....
Biographies & Space
Bringing together a collection of high-profile authors, Biographies and Space presents essays exploring the relationship between biography and space and how specific subjects are used as a means of explaining sets of social, cultural and spatial r...
Schlüsselfragen zur Biographie
Gudrun Burkhard ist mit der vorliegenden Veröffentlichung dem Wunsch zahlreicher Leser nachgekommen, wesentliche Fragen für die Arbeit an der eigenen Biographie zusammenzustellen. Jedem Jahrsiebt ist ein Leitbild vorangestellt, in dem der Charakte...
Sacred Biography
Medieval "saints' lives" are among the oldest literary texts of Western vernacular culture, yet are routinely patronized as "pious fiction". Heffernan demonstrates that to characterize the genre as fiction is to misunderstand t...
New Biography
"The New Biography" looks at the life stories of eight famous women in nineteenth-century France who became public figures even though they lived in a society that did not encourage women to speak out publicly. All of these women - activ...
Writing Biography
The historian as biographer must resolve questions that reflect the dual challenge of telling history and telling lives: How does the biographer sort out the individual's role within the larger historical context? How do biographical studies relat...
Musical Biography
Musical biography has rarely been an object of theoretical and methodological reflection. Our present-day perception of the lives of prominent composers and performers of the past has been largely formed by cultural and political assumptions of ni...
Auto Biography
Discover the highly entertaining, clued-up and panoramic guide to cars by Mat Watson, the world’s most followed car journalist on social media. 'A car reviewing powerhouse' Will Dron, Digital Driving Editor, The Times ‘There's Clarkson, May and Hammond . . . and then there's Mat Watson.' Rob Gill, Motors Editor, Sun Mat Watson knows everything there is to know about cars. _____________________________________________________________________ In his 25-year career as a motor journalist, Watson has driven and tested every vehicle under the sun - from engineering marvels such as the Bugatti Chiron and Ferrari F40, to the grand-touring stalwarts of highways and motorways the world over – Audis, Volvos, Fords, Fiats, Citroens, Mercedes and Teslas – to absolute crapheaps which should never have made it out of the factory gates… Now in his long-awaited first book, Auto Biography, Mat presents his own 100% completely correct and highly opinionated guide to the world of cars. From Aston Martin