Biographies & Memoirs Books


Reflections on Biography Intended for all readers of biography--lifelong or occasional, critical or casual--this original...	Fred Hoyle's Universe Best Price: $11.46 Fred Hoyle was one of the most distinguished and at the same time the most controversial...	Let Newton Be! Best Price: $42.46 In April, 1727, the French writer Voltaire viewed with astonishment the preparations for the...	The Mathematics of Plato's Academy: A New Reconstruction (Oxford science publications) Best Price: $933.97 This book presents a reinterpretation of early Greek mathematics, one of the most tantalizing...	Oxford Reader's Companion to Hardy Best Price: $21.75 This is an invaluable guide to someone who is out of touch with the lives of small town and...



Dictionary of National Biography: 5th Supplement: 1931-1940 With an Index covering the years 1901-1940 in one alphabetical series.	A Short History of Western Legal Theory Best Price: $55.04 This unique publication outlines the development of legal theory from pre-Roman times through...	Muhammad: Prophet and Statesman (Galaxy Book, 409) Best Price: $10.49 If you're looking to gain an understanding of the life of Muhammad, grab this book. Watt...	The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Cardinal Newman: Vol. VI: The Via Media and Froude's Remains, January 1837 to December 1838 (Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman)	The Letters and Diaries of John Henry Newman: Volume VIII: Tract 90 and the Jerusalem Bishopric, January 1841-April 1842 Best Price: $177.42 Although this book is quite pricey, as have been other recent OUP releases, this volume of...



The Ring of Words: Tolkien and the Oxford English Dictionary Tolkien's first job, on returning home from World War I, was as an assistant on the staff of...	Christopher Wren (Very Interesting People) Best Price: $0.01 Like his most famous building, Christopher Wren towers over the history of British architecture,...	The Evangelical Conversion Narrative: Spirtual Autobiography in Early Modern England Best Price: $47.47 In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, thousands of ordinary women and men experienced...	Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman Best Price: $14.12 In Simone de Beauvoir: The Making of an Intellectual Woman , Toril Moi shows how Simone de...	Isaac Albï¿1/2niz: Portrait of a Romantic Best Price: $69.82 I discovered Albeniz through the 2006 movie Iberia which features the music of Albeniz. I...

England's Elizabeth: An Afterlife in Fame and Fantasy Best Price: $122.42 No monarch is more glamorous or more controversial than Elizabeth I. The stories by which...	Young Ludwig: Wittgenstein's Life, 1889-1921 Best Price: $20.62 A good book on the early Wittgenstein (covering the period through the writing of his Tractatus...	Life of Johnson (Oxford World's Classics) Best Price: $12.22 This biography is one of the "classics" of English literature. Unfortunately, I found...	Muhammad: A Very Short Introduction (Very Short Introductions) Best Price: $6.55 I would disagree with the prior posting depicting this read as scrubbed depiction of...	The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume II: America, France, and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 Volume II: America, France, and Bantry Bay, August 1795 to December 1796 Best Price: $11.18 This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent...

Famous Leaders of Industry; Second Series the Life Stories of Boys Who Have Succeeded Best Price: $12.64 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...	Claude Bernard Best Price: $19.99 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free...	Thomas Hobbes Best Price: $14.13 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...	Jawaharlal Nehru: 1889-1947 v.1: A Biography (Vol 1) Indira Gandhi described Jawaharlal Nehru as a "generous and gracious human being who summed...	Wind in the Tower: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Revolution, 1949-75 Best Price: $80.05

Selected Letters	Enthusiasms	April Ashley's Odyssey I read this fabulous biography after April Ashley signed and gave me a copy to read. I met her...	Bwana Stokesi and His African Conquests	The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places Best Price: $286.04 A collection of essays by Nadine Gordimer, which illustrate the relationship between outer and...

The Caroline Captivity of the Church: Charles I and the Remoulding of Anglicanism 1625-1641 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Best Price: $151.67 A scholarly and original study of the Church of England in the reign of Charles I, Davies's...	Ernie O'Malley: IRA Intellectual Best Price: $91.25 Professor English, of Queen's University, Belfast, divides up this critical biography into...	Argentine Dictator: Juan Manuel De Rosas, 1829-52 Juan Manuel de Rosas 1829-1852.	The Emperor of Frederick II If Hohenstaufen: Immutator Mundi This biography places Frederick II, stupor mundi, emporer ofthe romans, king of sicilie, king of...	Davitt and Irish Revolution, 1846-1882

The Gladstone Diaries: Volume VII: January 1869-June 1871 (Gladstone Diaries Vol. 7) Best Price: $275.00 Volume XIV contains comprehensive indexes to the entire thirteen volumes of W.E. Gladstone's...	Conceptual Notation and Related Articles (Oxford Scholarly Classics) Best Price: $95.99 This volume contains English translations of Frege's early writings in logic and philosophy...	Rewriting Caucasian History: The Medieval Armenian Adaptation of the Georgian Chronicles: The Original Georgian Texts and the Armenian Adaptation (Oxford Oriental Monographs) Best Price: $149.86 I am a Georgian living in the US and I am quite offended by the ignorance of Georgian history...	The Genius of John Henry Newman: Selections from his Writings This is the first major anthology of John Henry Newman's writings to appear in many years. ...	Famous Leaders of Industry; Second Series the Life Stories of Boys Who Have Succeeded Best Price: $12.64 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...

Claude Bernard Best Price: $19.99 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free...	Thomas Hobbes Best Price: $14.13 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...	Jawaharlal Nehru: 1889-1947 v.1: A Biography (Vol 1) Indira Gandhi described Jawaharlal Nehru as a "generous and gracious human being who summed...	Wind in the Tower: Mao Tse-Tung and the Chinese Revolution, 1949-75 Best Price: $80.05	Selected Letters

Enthusiasms	April Ashley's Odyssey I read this fabulous biography after April Ashley signed and gave me a copy to read. I met her...	Bwana Stokesi and His African Conquests	The Essential Gesture: Writing, Politics and Places Best Price: $286.04 A collection of essays by Nadine Gordimer, which illustrate the relationship between outer and...	An Autobiography (Volume 1) Best Price: $6.98 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...

Analectic magazine Volume 1; comprising original reviews, biography, analytical abstracts of new publications, translations from French journals, and selections from the most esteemed British review Best Price: $48.44 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	Foibles of the Bench Best Price: $19.99 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free...	Reminiscences of H. P. Blavatsky and "The Secret Doctrine" Best Price: $8.39 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...	Outre-Mer; A Pilgrimage Beyond the Sea [By H.w. Longfellow]. Best Price: $8.38 This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a...	Four famous American writers Best Price: $7.36 Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read...

The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Volume 5) Best Price: $48.07 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...	The Life and Times of Thomas Jefferson Best Price: $24.00 This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing...	The Mother's Victory, and Other Poems Best Price: $16.22 This historic book may have numerous typos or missing text. Not indexed. Purchasers can download...	Famous Americans of Recent Times Best Price: $24.43 This item is not a facsimile of "Famous Americans of Recent Times" by James Parton,...	The Secret Ring: Freud's Inner Circle and the Politics of Psychoanalysis Best Price: $1.96 This is a fascinating take on Freud's inner circle in the formation of Psychoanalysis. He...

Vespasian	Thomas Edison (Library of American Biography Series) (2nd Edition) Best Price: $22.10 Thomas A. Edison and the Modernization of America is a captivating narrative which chronicles...	Cure: Recollections of an Addict	Alfred Deakin: A Biography	Henry Lawson: A Life

Inside Outside: Life Between Two Worlds (Imprint Lives) Best Price: $59.79 Autobiographical account of the changes observed in Australian society in the years following...	Life as Sutch : The Official Autobiography of a Monster Raving Loony Best Price: $81.43 Very little of Lord Sutch, and almost certainly nothing in his own words. 95% of this books is a...	Anne Bronte: Her Life and Work Hardcover	William Beebe: An Annotated Bibliography Best Price: $114.90	A Ringing Glass: The Life of Rainer Maria Rilke (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $98.50 Of the three Rilke biographies that I have read (Ralph Freedman and Wolfgang Leppman being the...

Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema: From Banderas to Bardem (Oxford Studies in Modern European Culture) Best Price: $125.00 Stars and Masculinities in Spanish Cinema focuses on the careers of ten contemporary Spanish...	Francis Poulenc (Oxford Studies of Composers) Best Price: $51.02 Once considered as little more than the froth in the wake of the First World War, a witty...	Wolfgang Amadï¿1/2 Mozart: Essays on his Life and his Music (Adelphi Papers) Best Price: $200.75 This volume is a collection based on the Royal Musical Association's Mozart Conference of...	Rossini (Master Musicians (Paperback Oxford)) Best Price: $39.00 A classical musician by training and a conservative by inclination, Rossini, nevertheless, broke...	CHOPIN

Beethoven Best Price: $15.20 Kinderman's detailed examination of Beethoven's music traces the composer's...	Romanticism, Writing, and Sexual Difference: Essays on The Prelude (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $44.37 This rereading of Wordworth's The Prelude , in light of post-structuralist and feminist...	The Letters of Charlotte Brontï¿1/2: With a Selection of Letters by Family and Friends Volume II: 1848-1851 (Letters of Charlotte Bronte 1848-1851) Best Price: $184.00 This is the second volume in the critically acclaimed Letters of Charlotte...	The Northerners: A Study in the Reign of King John (Clarendon Paperbacks) Best Price: $45.58 Magna Carta, imposed on King John by his barons in 1215, is widely regarded as the foundation of...	Adapt, or Perish: Life of General Roger A. Pryor Best Price: $30.00

Both Sides of the Ocean: A Biography of Henry Adams, His First Life, 1838-1862 Best Price: $39.50 This book is not an ordinary biography. The author's extraordinary talent and insight bring...	The Cruikshank Chronicles: Anecdotes, Stories, and Memoirs of a New Deal Liberal Best Price: $267.99	Pioneering on the Yukon, 1892-1917 Best Price: $49.69 This is one of the greatest women's adventures of all time, and for sure, one of the...	Burt Lancaster	Franz Liszt: His Life in Pictures

All Men Are Brothers	Prophets and Prophecy Best Price: $12.16 Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free...	The Papers of James Madison Volume 1; Prefatory note Best Price: $37.86 This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free...	Consolations in Travel Best Price: $14.30 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no...	The Writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98: Volume III: France, the Rhine, Lough Swilly and Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) Volume III: ... Death of Tone (January 1797 to November 1798) Best Price: $11.18 This edition of the writings of Theobald Wolfe Tone (1763-98), barrister, United Irishman, agent...

Richard II: Manhood, Youth, and Politics 1377-99 (Oxford Historical Monographs) Best Price: $39.06 Richard II (1377-99) has long suffered from an unusually unmanly reputation. Over the centuries,...	G. K. Chesterton: A Biography Best Price: $53.85 GKC, a great man, knew how to discuss all topics elegantly and (the first) with no spin. An...	The Men Who Knew Too Much: Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock Best Price: $14.97 Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock knew too much. Self-imposed exiles fully in the know, they...	Jesus: where it all began, Best Price: $8.99 Details the life of Jesus using historical and literary allusions and photographs of the Holy Land.	Live from Death Row Best Price: $5.68 Live From Death Row is a collection or writings, stories, and first hand accounts that every...

The Alchemy of Survival: One Woman's Journey (Radcliffe Biography Series) Best Price: $44.95	The Boy Who Felt No Pain Best Price: $20.24 This book walks you through some of the experiences of a pediatric geneticist. Be prepared to...	The Amazing Story of the Tonelli Family in America: Twelve Thousand Miles in a Buick in Search of Identity, Ethnicity, Geography, Kinship and Home Best Price: $19.97 I discovered this only because my youngest cousin, who goes to Harvard, read it in a course and...

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