D - Biography & Memoir 1

"The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son" offers an intimate and profound glimpse into the extraordinary mind and life of one of history's most influential figures, John D. Rockefeller, as h……続きを見る

True story. Description of an event of June 14, 2015 at aprox 21:35, driving on interstate 75S in Detroit, MI. Non-Fiction 続きを見る

Three hundred prisoners are marched out of Auschwitz, only one returns. This is a factual story about a death march endured by a prisoner of Auschwitz during World War II. It was told to the author ……続きを見る

The emergence of modernity has typically focused on Western male actors and privileged politics and economy over culture. The contributors to this volume successfully unsettle such perspectives by e……続きを見る

Farming in the Canadian backwoods in the late 1800s was a prospect that enticed many young Englishmen to cross the Atlantic. One such fellow was Frederick de la Fosse, whose well-meaning uncle paid ……続きを見る

This is a companion book to “Italy, Egypt, Turkey, Oh My!” in the Alexander Co. Abroad series. A book filled with photos from Italy as we explored Venice and Rome, one of our first trips abroad afte……続きを見る

What counts as 'indigenous religion' in today´s world? Who claims this category? What are the processes through which local entities become recognisable as 'religious' and 'indigenous'? How is all o……続きを見る

Esta obra apresenta, apenas, fragmentos de memórias do grande mestre, professor e pensador Ubiratan D'Ambrósio. Eles não caminham por nenhum método. Caminham pelas vias de uma 'dispersão' que intent……続きを見る

When Iraq invaded Kuwait on the 2nd of August 1990 I was living in the tallest apartment block in the downtown area. I had a grandstand view of the tanks and troops as they came swarming in. It was ……続きを見る

He gained renown as the sidekick of Butch Cassidy, but the Sundance Kidーwhose real name was Harry Alonzo Longabaughーled a fuller life than history or Hollywood has allowed. A relative of Longabaug……続きを見る

A generational account told by each generation in the first person. George E Kennedy, came West in search of adventure in 1898. Starting as a street car operator in Albuquerque, he was recruited to ……続きを見る

The hours are inhumane. Thoracic surgeon: "Never stand when you can sit. Never sit when you can lie down. Never lie down when you can sleep." Orthopedic surgery resident: "We do 72 hours on call on ……続きを見る

From the Autobiography and Monologue of the Honorable William F. Cody, aka. Buffalo Bill and his amazing Wild West Show comes this great story of the true life adventures of buffalo bill, See how he……続きを見る

The World Trade Center stood tall and majestic, glistening in the sun, beckoning me to enter into its tall glass revolving doors one summer day in 1979. I worked there for 21 years, until it was tra……続きを見る

An unforgettable and inspiring memoir of an extraordinary doctor who is saving lives in a most unconventional way. Ask Me Why I Hurt is the touching and revealing first-person account of the remarka……続きを見る

The last shot of the Civil War was fired, not on an obscure battlefield, but in the ice-locked Sea of Okhotsk off Siberia seven months after Lee’s surrender. The last armed Confederate cruiser was t……続きを見る

This book, the first to focus on the integration of the Gulf Coast, is Dr. Gilbert R. Mason's eyewitness account of harrowing episodes that occurred there during the civil rights movement. Newly ope……続きを見る

When author Ethan D. Bryan sent an email to W. P. Kinsella (author of Shoeless Joe and the basis for the film Field of Dreams) describing the scope and vision of his latest project, Kinsella replied……続きを見る

This is a true story. While its narration is not always chronological, yet all the incidents herein told are facts which occurred in the experience of the writer, or within his knowledge. All the c……続きを見る

HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'There was one place in the world that stood solid and did not melt into unreality: the place where his mother was. Every……続きを見る

Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792-1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert’s Land and the Indian territories, an area ……続きを見る

Hurdles presents true episodes in the lives of my wife, a pediatrician; myselfーthe authorーa chemical engineer; and of our four young children. Having survived World War II, we arrive in this count……続きを見る

Sachiko Takata was 14 years-old when an atomic bomb dropped on her hometown of Hiroshima, Japan. In an instant her world was changed. Her mother died shortly after Japan’s surrender. The devastation……続きを見る

A stirring account of wartime experiences from the leader of the first regiment of emancipated slaves Thomas Wentworth Higginson, a Unitarian minister, was a fervent member of new England's abolitio……続きを見る

Set on a misty remote island in the Gulf of Alaska, a young couple struggles to establish roots on the rugged mountainous terrain of a small fishing community. From humorous fishing excursions and f……続きを見る

Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, whose nickname the "Black Patti" likened her to the well-known Spanish-born opera star Adelina Patti, was a distinguished African American soprano during the late n……続きを見る

Are women ruining medicine? Nah. Real life in the emergency lane, zeroing on body parts and chicks in scrubs. Just like Grey’s Anatomy, medicine with a little bit of sex. And, like Fifty Shades of G……続きを見る

This early work by Benjamin Rush is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains a collection of writings by one of the original signatories of the American Declaration of Indep……続きを見る

"Age is just a number." Is it really that simple? Divine's journey of self-discovery is an often unbelievable and at times achingly sad recounting of her shellshock upon reentering the world of dati……続きを見る

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