D - Biography & Memoir 5

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Monthly is an ebook-of the-month, 'bookazine' series, containing the best travel stories from Michael’s huge collection of nearly 10,000 travel tales that he has gathere……続きを見る

From respected historian John S. D. Eisenhower comes a surprising portrait of William Tecumseh Sherman, the Civil War general whose path of destruction cut the Confederacy in two, broke the will of ……続きを見る

The untold history of lesbian life from those who have lived it! Lives of Lesbian Elders: Looking Back, Looking Forward illuminates the hopes, fears, issues, and concerns of gay women as they grow o……続きを見る

The inclusion of the Ninth Cavalry and three other African American regiments in the post–Civil War army was one of the nation’s most problematic social experiments. The first fifteen years followin……続きを見る

New, blistering, darkly funny essays breaking bones. And fixing them. And the seamy underside of life in the emergency room, with its cornucopia of crazy cases, not just bone-centred ones. For examp……続きを見る

[Illustrated with 17 additional photos of the author and the machines he flew and fought against] As a young Billy Bishop looking up into the sky above his Canadian trench in July 1915, a passing Ro……続きを見る

The most pleasant memories of my boyhood are clustered around the old family fireplace, in our home in Brighton, England, when my father, gathering us all around him, with occasionally a few intimat……続きを見る

This book details the development and contours of Karl Barth's robust and lively vision of Christian and ecclesial life in the early years of his career. In this remarkable work Michael O'Neil inves……続きを見る

The Boss Always Sits In The Back isn't just another mob story. It's a suspenseful, exciting and entertaining account of one of the greatest scams to hit Las Vegas...a scam that s never been exposed ……続きを見る

Le Château intérieur est un ouvrage de Thérèse d'Avila. La carmélite Thérèse de Jésus, future sainte Thérèse d'Avila, rédige entre le 2 juillet et le 29 novembre 1577 cet ouvrage mystique initialeme……続きを見る

Written in the 1840’s, this book was long recognized as the finest biography of Martin Luther available. As well as containing remarkable insights into the man, Martin Luther, this volume also prese……続きを見る

Often typecast as a menacing figure, Peter Lorre achieved Hollywood fame first as a featured player and later as a character actor, trademarking his screen performances with a delicately strung bala……続きを見る

Buddy System is a humorous, in depth account of my transition from using a cane to learning how to operate a guide dog. It all began when my mobility instructor, (who taught me how to use a white st……続きを見る

To the west of the Great Forest the gray waves of the Atlantic hurl themselves onto the shimmering beaches of Gabon, West Africa. And under the 100,000-square mile canopy of the Great Forest live mi……続きを見る

Glenn Cunningham set the world record for the mile in the 1930s. But as a boy, he had been terribly burned in a schoolhouse fire, a fire that took the life of his older brother Floyd. And that is wh……続きを見る

Discover the untold World War II story of a young man's courage and the saga of a dictator's pistol that continues to unfold today. It's World War II. Young soldier Ira "Teen" Palm and his men burst……続きを見る

Gifted Hands reveals the remarkable journey of Dr. Ben Carson from an angry, struggling young boy with everything stacked against him to the director of pediatric neurosurgery at the Johns Hopkins C……続きを見る

Soft-spoken, cheerful, handsome, and well dressed, George West Musgrave “looked more like a senator than a cattle rustler.” Yet he was a cattle rustler as well as a bandit, robber, and killer, “guil……続きを見る

Two-time Academy Award winner Sir David Lean (1908–1991) was one of the most prominent directors of the twentieth century, responsible for the classics The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), Lawrence ……続きを見る

Michael Brein’s Travel Tales Collection, Spooky Tales 1, features a bunch of bizarre and strange tales of the paranormal that can happen to you in your travels. Strange things do happen, and mostly ……続きを見る

Christian mystic, astrologer, and spiritualist, Charles Carleton Massey (1838–1905) underwent an eclectic spiritual journey that resulted in a series of articles, letters, and booklets that have lar……続きを見る

One of the most controversial figures of the New Deal Era, Harry Hopkins elicited few neutral responses from his contemporaries. Millions admired him and believed the New Deal agencies he headed had……続きを見る

Discover the x-factorーthe driving force behind extraordinary success. What accounts for the difference between the mega-success of Madonna and a thousand other wannabees waiting in the wings? Why d……続きを見る

An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is o……続きを見る

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Son, we’re going to Hell." The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend……続きを見る

In the years following his and Francis Crick’s towering discovery of DNA, James Watson was obsessed with finding two things: RNA and a wife. Genes, Girls, and Gamow is the marvelous chronicle of tho……続きを見る

Few leadership titles have been written on the lives of women. Alan Axelrod, noted historian and business management expert, reveals how Elizabeth I overcame daunting obstacles to win intense loyalt……続きを見る

Originally published in the 1920s. The fascinating story of Bishop James Hannington and his work for the Church and eventual martyrdom in Uganda. The book is illustrated with photographs and illustr……続きを見る

Covers a fascinating period of Theodore Roosevelt’s life, his first six years in Washington Roosevelt the Reformer sheds light on an important chapter in the biography of the flamboyant 26th preside……続きを見る

Artist Ted De Grazia (1909–1982) lived life with passion and verve, embracing risk and romance, becoming a legend in Arizona, and gaining international acclaim. De Grazia: The Man and the Myths is a……続きを見る