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...
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...
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...
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
Magritte
The first major biography for our time, from the celebrated biographer of Cezanne
Boris Johnson - The Rise And Fall Of A Troublemaker At Number 10
A brilliant new biography of Boris Johnson from his best biographer, Andrew Gimson
Paul Simon
This is an intimate, candid, and definitive biography written with Simon's participation and encouragement by acclaimed biographer and music writer Robert Hilburn.
Essays in Biography
2012 Reprint of 1933 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Most of the essays in this book were first collected and published in 1933, when Keynes had reached a turning point in what ha...
Biography Of X
When X - an iconoclastic artist, writer and polarizing shape-shifter - dies suddenly, her widow, wild with grief, hurls herself into writing a biography of the woman she deified. Though X was recognised as a crucial creative force of her era, she ...
Biography of Resistance
Award-winning Boston University educator and researcher Muhammad H. Zaman provides a chilling look at the rise of antibiotic-resistant superbugs, explaining how we got here and what we must do to address this growing global health crisis.In Septem...
Biography of Silence
A publishing phenomenon in Spain: a moving, lyrical, far-ranging meditation on the deep joys of confronting oneself through silence by a Spanish priest and Zen disciple. With silence increasingly becoming a stranger to us, one man set...
Living Political Biography
Historical political biography is a popular genre, capable of reaching a wide audience. It is also a genre closely associated with the modern nation-state. It often recounts the lives of great men in the service of the nation, but is there a way b...
Kant: A Biography
Kant: A Biography
Melania Trump Biography
Explore the life of one of the most intriguing First Ladies in modern history with Melania Trump Biography: The 2024 Memoir. This compelling political biography provides an in-depth look at Melania's journey-from her humble beginnings in Slovenia to her role on the world stage as the wife of the 45th U.S. President. Uncover the challenges, resilience, and quiet influence that shaped her time in the White House. Now a best-seller on Kindle, this memoir is a must-read for those fascinated by political figures and the complexities of life in the public eye.
Doing Collective Biography
"At last a book that not only describes what collective biography is but also explains how to use it ? The book describes how to set up collective biography workshops in which participants examine how discursive structures and pow...
Classical Arabic Biography
Pre-modern Arabic biography has served as a major source for the history of Islamic civilization. In this 2000 study exploring the origins and development of classical Arabic biography, Michael Cooperson demonstrates how Muslim scholars used the n...
Biography and Education
Over recent years biographical studies have gained an increasingly important place in academic study. The two are inextricably linked. Education uses biography in teaching, and in biography, education features strongly as a formative stage in pers...
Shakespeare's Unorthodox Biography
As the world's greatest author, Shakespeare has attracted attention from scholars and laypersons alike. But more and more people have questioned whether the historical Shakespeare wrote the plays popularly attributed to him. While other books on t...
Namath: A Biography
In between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the¿ few sports heroes to transcend the game he played. Novelist and former sports-columnist Mark Kriegel's bestselling biography of the iconic quarterback details his journey fr...
Paul: A Biography
"A biography of St Paul by his greatest living interpreter: it is a dream come true." Tom Holland This compelling reconstruction of the life and thought of St Paul paints a vivid picture of the Roman world in which he preached his revolu...
Jerusalem: The Biography
FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED FOR 2024 NATIONAL BESTSELLER - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - JEWISH BOOK COUNCIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'Spectacular. Montefiore] really tells you what the life of the city has been like and why it means so much. You fall in love with the city. It's a treasure. It's a wonderful book.' --Bill Clinton 'Impossible to put down. . . . Vastly enjoyable.' --The New York Times Book Review The history of Jerusalem is the story of the world: Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths. The Holy City and Holy Land are the battlefields for today's multifaceted conflicts and, for believers, the setting for Judgment Day and the Apocalypse. How did this small, remote town become the Holy City, the 'center of the world' and now the key to peace in the Middle East? Why is the Holy Land so important not just to the region and its many new players, but to the wider world too? Drawing on new archives and a lifetime's study, Montefiore
Transculturing Auto/Biography
Rosalia Baena's theoretically challenging, analytical volume of essays, explores the diversity of shapes that transcultural life writing takes, demonstrating how it has become one of the most dynamic and productive literary forms of self-inscripti...