Biography

Add to wishlist

Women Discoverers: Top Women in Science

From Ada Lovelace (computing) to Marie Curie (Physics and Chemistry), these exceptional women enabled the world to advance in all fields of science including space exploration (Mae Jemison), telecommunications (the...

$47.99

Add to wishlist

Ralph Lemon: Modern Dance

Ralph Lemon (born 1952) is one of the most significant figures to emerge from New York's downtown dance and performance world in the past 40 years. A polymath and shape-shifter,...

$69.99

Add to wishlist

Quien Fue Benjamin Franklin?

Ben Franklin was the scientist who, with the help of a kite, discovered that lightning is electricity. He was also a statesman, an inventor, a printer, and an author--a man...

$16.99

Add to wishlist

Three Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story

A sardonic and artful reconstruction of the brief life of the party boy who became a media sensation for shooting Gianni Versace.It was suddenly chic to be "targeted" by Andrew.......

$24.99

Add to wishlist

Strength Of A Woman: The Phyllis Hyman Story

The story of singer Phyllis Hyman is brought to light in the powerful new biography Strength Of A Woman: The Phyllis Hyman Story by Jason A. Michael. Hyman's 20-year career,...

$30.99

Add to wishlist

Victim of History: Cardinal Mindszenty a biography

"Victim of history," "a martyr from behind the Iron Curtain," "the Hungarian Gandhi" - these are just some of the epithets which people used to describe Cardinal Mindszenty, archbishop of...

$83.99

Add to wishlist

Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet

A major new biography of Huldrych Zwingli--the warrior preacher who shaped the early Reformation Huldrych Zwingli (1484-1531) was the most significant early reformer after Martin Luther. As the architect of...

$49.99

Add to wishlist

From Disgrace to Dignity

From Disgrace to Dignity: Redemption in the Life of Willie Rico Johnson examines the life of Rico Johnson who became the head of the Conservative Vice Lords, one of the...

$36.99

Add to wishlist

The Butler: A Witness to History

This mesmerizing companion book to the award-winning film, The Butler traces the Civil Rights Movement and explores crucial moments of twentieth century American history through the eyes of Eugene Allen--a...

$27.99

Add to wishlist

Black Elk's Vision: A Lakota Story

A stunning picture book biography of Lakota-Oglala medicine man Black Elk, from award-winning author and illustrator S. D. Nelson Black Elk (1863-1950) was a Lakota-Oglala medicine man and a cousin...

$14.99

Add to wishlist

Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography: From Grantham to the Falklands

With unequaled authority and dramatic detail, the first volume of Charles Moore's authorized biography of Margaret Thatcher reveals as never before the early life, rise to power, and initial period...

$33.99

Add to wishlist

Behind the Scenes: Or Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House

Behind the Scenes: or Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House was first published in 1868 and is considered one of the most candid and poignant...

$15.99

Add to wishlist

Sacagawea

Taking a rare look beyond the myths and legends surrounding Sacagawea's life, this extraordinary illustrated history recounts the known facts about a remarkable woman and her contribution to one of...

$45.99

Add to wishlist

Kant: A Biography

This is the first full-length biography in more than fifty years of Immanuel Kant, one of the giants among the pantheon of Western philosophers, and one of the most powerful...

$53.99

Add to wishlist

Play on: Now, Then, and Fleetwood Mac: The Autobiography

"After forty-six years of being on the road, this is the right time to look back in a way I've never done before: now and then. This is the story...

$50.99

Add to wishlist

Companions and Competitors

No man is an island, not even Jesus, as John Meier writes in Companions and Competitors, the third installment of his four-part series, A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus....

$100.99

Add to wishlist

The Keeper: The Unguarded Story of Tim Howard Young Readers' Edition

The uplifting memoir of U.S. national soccer team goalkeeper Tim Howard, adapted for young readers and now in paperback.In this heartwarming and candid account, Tim Howard opens up about how...

$14.99

Add to wishlist

Smile

Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she...

$61.99

Add to wishlist

Action Presidents: John F. Kennedy!

"A delightful, educational spin on history--and plenty of jokes," said School Library Journal. "Sheer joy," praised Booklist in a starred review. Finalist for the 2019 Excellence in Graphic Literature Award...

$55.99

Add to wishlist

Bessie Stringfield: Tales of the Talented Tenth, No. 2 Volume 2

Winner: Kirkus Reviews, Best Historical Teen Book of 2016 Imagine a five-foot-two-inch-tall woman riding a Harley eight times across the continental United States. Now imagine she is black and is...

$56.99

Add to wishlist

Shedding Our Stars: The Story of Hans Calmeyer and How He Saved Thousands of Families Like Mine

During the German occupation of the Netherlands, 1940 to 1945, all Jews were ordered to register the religion of their grandparents. The Reichskommissar appointed the young lawyer Hans Calmeyer to...

$25.99

Add to wishlist

Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography

The hitmakers behind Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" and "Jailhouse Rock" recount their rise to songwriting stardom while authoring the classic American R&B sound of countless chart-topping singles. In 1950 a...

$27.99

Add to wishlist

Poder Politico: Volodymyr Zelensky

Ex actor y comediante, Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy es actualmente el sexto presidente de Ucrania. En el apogeo de su popularidad en la televisión nacional, cuando interpretó a un presidente en...

$18.99

Add to wishlist