D.O - Biography & Memoir 16

Goethe's Leben. Johann Wolfgang Goethe, später in den Adelstand erhoben, war zu Frankfurt am Main den 28. August 1749 geboren. Sein Großvater, Friedrich Georg, war Gastgeber zum Weidenhof. Eine glän……続きを見る

An unparalleled portrait of the Conservative Party and each of its nineteen leaders, Blue Thunder rollicks through 141 years of Canadian Conservative leadership. A sprawling, page-turning exposé, B……続きを見る

This book explores the real damage of losing a house in the event off foreclosure of a family run business sealed on a family home. This book describes the long term effects and loss off loved ones ……続きを見る

Danish poet and novelist Hans Christian Andersen (1805-1875) is best known for the dozens of fairy tales he wrote, including "The Little Mermaid," "The Ugly Duckling," and "The Snow Queen." Andersen……続きを見る

Donna Kakonge is an author, teacher and PhD Candidate, and a law student living in Toronto. She spends her free time reading, writing, playing the piano, grooming as any Leo should and spending time……続きを見る

An essential and definitive collection of the Nobel Prize for Literature winner’s finest essays, reviews, reminiscences and interviews from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. ‘The novelist talks as an indi……続きを見る

José Vasconcelosーlawyer, politician, writer, educator, philosopher, prophet, and mysticーwas one of the most influential and controversial figures in the intellectual life of twentieth-century Mexi……続きを見る

Sailing instructor Donald MacNeil was delighted when he was hired to skipper a yacht across the Mediterranean. The pay was good and the work was easy - or so he thought. Then the truth was revealed:……続きを見る

Atrocities, Corruption, Murder. The Falsification of History. May 1969, the Vietnam War. Don Tate now provides an in-depth analysis of one of the most sordid matters in Australian military history, ……続きを見る

Read along as Donna Mott shares stories of her family’s move in 1972 from Kansas City to Brother Adam’s Mountain in Arkansas. Join the family as they learn to live in a very different culture, far a……続きを見る

Honored in his own time as one of the most prominent Indian public intellectuals, Henry Roe Cloud (c. 1884–1950) fought to open higher education to Indians. Joel Pfister’s extensive archival researc……続きを見る

The revered American Poet Laureate reflects on the meaning of work, solitude, and love with “extraordinary nobility and wisdom” (The New York Times) When Donald Hall moved to his grandparents’ New H……続きを見る

Into the Teeth of the Tiger provides a vivid, pilot’s-eye view of one of the most extended projections of American air power in World War II Asia. Lopez chronicles every aspect of fighter combat in ……続きを見る

A Septuagenarian Odyssey Simon Gandolfi has never been one to grow old gracefully and following two heart attacks he decides not to rest up, as many might, but to ride the length of Hispanic America……続きを見る

Sonia Tudor was born during the First World War into a world that has long since vanished - of Norland Nannies, butlers and debutantes. This privileged and happy early life ended abruptly with the s……続きを見る

This is the fifty-third book of Donna Kakonge. Donna Kakonge is also the publisher of Donna Magazine. She is currently working on her dissertation, as well as attending law school. 続きを見る

Collins Classics brings you a selection of the best-loved stories by Arthur Conan Doyle, featuring one of literature’s favourite detectives, Sherlock Holmes. Who introduced Dr Watson to the world’s ……続きを見る

'Someone has said that when you have nothing left but God, you realize that God is enough. God had stood beside me when no one else wanted me. He was not going to abandon me now. God would have to h……続きを見る

Anna Letitia Barbauld: New Perspectives is the first collection of essays on poet and public intellectual Anna Letitia Barbauld (1743–1825). By international scholars of eighteenth-century and Roman……続きを見る

Living on an island as a single mother, raising her six-year old son, Jessica Dofflemyer longed to find moments of the profound within her mundane routine. Committing herself to a post a day, for 40……続きを見る

Few figures in the past quarter-century have played a more significant role in American foreign policy than Colin Powell. He wielded power at the highest levels of the most important foreign policy ……続きを見る

The importance of the South in the development of the United States has always been clear, but in recent decades the rise of the sunbelt-politically, economically, and culturally-has made the signif……続きを見る

The great American pianist Sidney Fosterーdistinguished professor of piano at Indiana University, and the first Leventritt Award winnerーis remembered here by a former student for his outstanding ab……続きを見る

This book investigates the autobiographical writings of Barbara Jordan, Patricia Schroeder, Geraldine Ferraro, Elizabeth Dole, Wilma Mankiller, Hillary Rodham Clinton, Madeleine Albright, and Christ……続きを見る

In the heart-warming Lost and Found, discover tales from Battersea Dogs & Cats Home that celebrate the power of animals to transform people's lives. We hear from the young boy whose Battersea dog he……続きを見る

The Life of an Activist is a non-fiction narrative that describes key steps on how to become and evolve into an effective activist and community leader. The book describes social movements and provi……続きを見る

Author Gene Logsdonーwhom Wendell Berry once called “the most experienced and best observer of agriculture we have”ーhas a notion: That it is a little easier for gardeners and farmers to accept deat……続きを見る

Harry Reasoner was one of the most trusted and well-liked journalists of the golden age of network television news. Whether anchoring the evening newscast on CBS in the 1960s or on ABC in the 1970s,……続きを見る

This deeply moving collection of poetry by Renato Rosaldo focuses on the shock of his wife Michelle (Shelly) Rosaldo's sudden death on October 11, 1981. Just the day before, Shelly and her family ha……続きを見る

Toute cette histoire remonte à un jour d’élections. Par un brûlant après-midi californien, j’étais descendu à cheval dans la Vallée de la Lune, de mon ranch au petit village, pour voter toute une sé……続きを見る