D - Biography & Memoir 3

Elizabeth Cady Stanton was a brilliant activist-intellectual. That nearly all of her ideasーthat women are entitled to seek an education, to own property, to get a divorce, and to voteーare now comm……続きを見る

A true life series of unbelievable events starts when real life New Yorker, Matthew Douglas drops a college class which makes him eligible for the draft in 1967. Shortly after, the government launch……続きを見る

Woody Guthrie is the most famous and influential folk music composer and performer in the history of the United States. His most popular song, "This Land is Your Land" has become the country's unoff……続きを見る

The lives of three men who made the Russian Revolution possibleーLenin, Trotsky, and Stalinーare the focus of this biographical account of the rise of socialism in the late 19th and early 20th centu……続きを見る

This collective biography of four jazz musicians from Brooklyn, Ghana, and South Africa demonstrates how modern Africa reshaped jazz, how modern jazz helped form a new African identity, and how musi……続きを見る

Mission Possible has been been declared a winner in the prestigious Eric Hoffer Award for Books, an annual honor given for independently published works. Dr. Obrecht's book was accorded Honorable Me……続きを見る

When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and fo……続きを見る

From Nobel Prize-winning scientist James D. Watson, a living legend for his work unlocking the structure of DNA, comes this candid and entertaining memoir, filled with practical advice for those sta……続きを見る

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This book tells the story of Ira Sankey, famed gospel singer who worked closely with D. L. Moody for many years. The autobiography is mostly related to his work with Moody. In addition, there are st……続きを見る

Experts now predict that more than one-third of American children born in 2000 will develop diabetes in their lifetime. Written by one of the world’s leading authorities on the link between obesity ……続きを見る

A beautifully rendered portrait of family and loss, of childhood and manhood by a supremely gifted writer evaluating the sum of his experiences and emerging with a moving work of the highest level. ……続きを見る

This edition features • illustration • a linked Table of Contents CONTENTS I Some Old Friends II The Difficult Art of Getting III The Standard Oil Company IV Some Experiences in the Oil Business V O……続きを見る

I'm baaaaack. That's right. You can't keep the most unfeeling doctor in the world away. Was I always such a hard-hearted lass? Of course not. I offer you some counter-examples from medical school, a……続きを見る

Once a normal day is lost, will it ever return? A reckless driver runs a stop sign and plows into a motorcycle. On that beautiful October day, a young mother’s life shatters as doctors tell her that……続きを見る

“Who am I? I’m a man; an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.” In this rich, expansiv……続きを見る

Winner of the 2010 Donald Grant Creighton Award Artist Frances Gage, born in 1924 in Windsor, experienced both artistic recognition and acute despair in her life, yet she flourished in her work and ……続きを見る

One of the most important memoirs of the American Civil War, this is also one of the few to describe what life was really like for the common soldier. The author, a Union veteran of the Army of the……続きを見る

Gospel singer George David Priest and his wife, Bonnie, were married just seven weeks when George was diagnosed with terminal malignant melanoma. In this remarkably poignant and heartfelt narrative,……続きを見る

John J. Robinette, Canada’s greatest trial lawyer, was admired and respected by the bench and his fellow lawyers alike. A quiet, unassuming man outside the courtroom, he was a consummate performer w……続きを見る

What Did Yo Say? is a memoir of growing up with a cleft lip and palate on a prairie ranch. In a non-woe is me way the memoir covers his challenges and successes including discriminaiton, schooling, ……続きを見る

Chuck D, the creative force behind Public Enemy and one of the most outspoken rappers in the history of music, discusses his views on everything from rap and race to the problems with politics in so……続きを見る

When you can’t eat, pray, or love. Melissa married her high school sweetheart, launched her career as an emergency doctor, rescued a Golden Retriever, and best of all, expected a baby in July. Then ……続きを見る

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • One million copies sold! Dr. Mary Neal (featured in the Netflix original series Surviving Death) tells the incredible story of the kayak accident during a South Americ……続きを見る

On Call begins with a newly-minted doctor checking in for her first day of residency--wearing the long white coat of an MD and being called "Doctor" for the first time. Having studied at Yale and Da……続きを見る

Elizabeth D. Samet and her students learned to romanticize the army "from the stories of their fathers and from the movies." For Samet, it was the old World War II movies she used to watch on TV, wh……続きを見る

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Mrs. E.G. White, the prophetess, leader, and chief founder of the Seventh-day Adventists Church, claimed to be divinely inspired by God the same as were the prophets of the Bible. Defining her posit……続きを見る

The greatest orator in Roman history, Marcus Tullius Cicero remained one of the republic's chief supporters throughout his life, guided by profound political beliefs that illuminated his corresponde……続きを見る

Which generals were most influential in World War II? Did Winston Churchill really see himself as culturally "half American"? What really caused the break between Harry S. Truman and Dwight Eisenhow……続きを見る