Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Not My Time to DieYolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes. Targeted because she's a...
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It Won't Be Long Now: The Diary of a Hong Kong Prisoner of WarJapan marched into the British colony of Hong Kong at the outbreak of the Pacific War on December 8, 1941. On the same day, Graham Heywood was captured by the invading Japanese near the border while carrying out duties for the Royal Observatory. He...
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Paul's Records: How a Refugee from the Vietnam War Found Success Selling Vinyl on the Streets of Hong KongAs a youth in Saigon's Chinatown of the 1960s and 70s, Paul Au was greatly affected by American 'hippie' culture and Rock & Roll. He was smuggled into Hong Kong in 1974 to escape the South Vietnamese military draft. At first living in rooftop...
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Hombres que cambiaron la historia: Jesús, Mahoma, Napoleón, Moisés, San Pablo, Julio César, Alejandro Magno, Lecciones de vida de los grandes hombresDescubra las historias de vida de los hombres que cambiaron la historia de la Humanidad Este libro nos permite conocer la vida e hitos de algunas de las personalidades m s relevantes de la historia, tanto de Occidente como de Oriente. Conozca quienes eran,...
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The Forster-Cavafy Letters: Friends at a Slight AngleThe English novelist E.M. Forster and the Greek-Alexandrian poet C.P. Cavafy met when Forster was working for the Red Cross in Alexandria during the First World War. Their subsequent correspondence bears witness to a complex relationship and serves as a fascinating testament to Forster's...
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Walter Rodney: 1968 Revisited"Originally published in Social and Economic Studies 43:3 (1994)"--Title page verso.Author: Rupert C. LewisPublisher: University of the West Indies PressPublished: 09/05/2000Pages: 56Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.12dISBN: 9789768125538
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Entebbe Declassified"This is a must-read for anyone interested in military history. It tells the story of one of the boldest and most successful special operations of all time, and it tells it in a unique and riveting way, in the words of the fighters who...
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Gata Kamsky - Chess Gamer Volume 1: Awakening 1989-1996Gata will share in his first volume how he became one of the world elite class players and contender for the title of World Chess Champion. Why and how he used different styles of play and will reveal how this learning process helped him...
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Losing Amma, Finding HomeAuthor: Uma GirishPublisher: Hay House IndiaPublished: 06/18/2014Pages: 270Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.61dISBN: 9789381398807This title is not returnable
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Dignified DyingMethods for a humane and self-chosen death. The aim of this book is to stimulate communication between very ill or very old persons and their relatives. The hope is to give them some peace of mind when they have a well-considered and unwavering wish...
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Hollywood y La Mafia: Los Mas Sangrientos Gansters de La Historia y Su Influencia En El Mundo del CineAuthor: Tim AdlerPublisher: Redbook EdicionesPublished: 05/01/2008Pages: 320Binding Type: PaperbackISBN: 9788496924345This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order
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Los Grandes Genios de la Historia / History's Greatest Geniuses in 25 StoriesUn libro que presenta, de forma amena pero muy rigurosa, a los pensadores, científicos, artistas e inventores que cambiaron la historia del mundo.Los genios nacen, se hacen y ahora también... se leen!Veinticinco cuentos, desde la Antigüedad hasta la actualidad, que presentan a los pensadores,...
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Las Chicas Van Donde QuierenQui n dijo que las mujeres no eran exploradoras? Todos conocemos el nombre de alg n pirata famoso, de un aventurero intr pido o de un gran astronauta que haya llegado al espacio, pero... y las mujeres? Las mujeres tambi n han conquistado mares,...
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DesorientalAt night, Kimiâ is an alt rock DJ. By day, she does artificial insemination treatments in order to have a child with her girlfriend Anna. Kimiâ is Iranian-born and fled to France with her family, and has kept a distance from her culture in...
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PeriyarBiography of aI. Ve. Raamacaami, 1878-1973, social reformer from Tamil Nadu.Author: R. MuthukumarPublisher: New Horizon MediaPublished: 01/01/2008Pages: 160Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.46lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.37dISBN: 9788184930337Language: TamilThis title is not returnable
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Los Malditos / The Damned: Cronica Negra Desde Puente GrandeEn estos textos, hilvanados poco a poco tras amargos amaneceres detrás de los barrotes, se describen hechos cotidianos simples de un hombre simple, llevado al extremo de su condición humana... He aquí una crónica desgarradora que conduce de la mano al lector a través...
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La Nilsson: My Life in OperaA charming and candid memoir by one of the great voices of the past centuryFirst published to wide acclaim in Sweden (1995) and Germany (1997), the autobiography of opera legend Birgit Nilsson (1918-2005) is finally available in an English translation (itself first published by...
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Die Geister, Die Sie Riefen: Lust- Und Angstphantasien Von Horst Janssen Und Johann Heinrich FüssliGerman text: Beyond reality - the German graphic artist and illustrator Horst Janssen (1929-1995) enters into a dialogue with his artistic ancestor Johann Heinrich F ssli (1741-1825), who is regarded as one of the most important and extravagant artists of the period around 1800....
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Records of the Transmission of the Lamp: Volume 3: The Nanyue Huairang Lineage (Books 10-13) - The Early MastersThis compilation of Buddhist biographies, teaching and transmission stories of Indian and Chinese Chan (Japanese 'Zen') masters from antiquity up to about the year 1008 CE is the first mature fruit of an already thousand year-long spiritual marriage between two great world cultures with...
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Upward Panic: The Autobiography of Eva Palmer-SikelianosFirst Published in 1993.A complete autobiography of Evalina Palmer-Sikelianos (1874-1952), a woman of immense spiritual strength who fought for the arts against the background of war. She contributed impressively throughout her life to the revival of interest in classical Greece, the theatre and choral...
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