Biography & Autobiography
Explore the best biography and autobiography books, featuring top autobiographies and the best biographies of all time.
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Black Tech - Leaders in Technology: Yesterday, Today, and TomorrowBlack Tech is designed to be the first of several books in a series to help African Americans learn and appreciate more about Black participation in the development of the United States.Black Tech is written for first- to third-grade readers, but its content is...
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Bill Hobby: A Life in Journalism and Public ServiceA comprehensive biography of a legendary lieutenant governor. During his five terms as lieutenant governor of Texas, Bill Hobby became one of the most powerful political figures in the state's history. He was first elected lieutenant governor of Texas in 1972 and served until...
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Billy and Olive Dixon: The Plainsman and His LadyBilly Dixon triggered the most celebrated shot in the history of the West at the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874. A few months later, while serving as an army scout, Billy earned a Medal of Honor during an even more desperate engagement, as...
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Beyond Ethics and Pragmatism: Evocative Moments in Doing EthnographyBased on several long-term fieldwork projects in Israel and the U.S., this book brings together a repertoire of subjective and professional experiences of an anthropologist who attended various theoretical and methodological tutoring settings.Author: Moshe ShokeidPublisher: Berghahn BooksPublished: 11/01/2024Pages: 174Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 0.86lbsSize: 9.00h x...
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Beyonc? and Whitney Houston: Voices of a GenerationOne of Beyonc?'s biggest idols is Whitney Houston. The two met in a hotel lobby for the first time when she was just fifteen, but even before then, Beyonc? was influenced by Houston's singing. Discover how both artists made it big, how they stole...
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Between Ukraine and Russia: Working In AmericaThis wide-ranging and profoundly insightful memoir picks up where The Eyes Are The Same, Susan Gold's searing Holocaust chronicle, left off. She considers the years she spent in America, her education, her marriage and family, and her career in the precious-metals division of a...
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Better: A Memoir about Wanting to DieA gutsy, riveting memoir that intimately explores suicide, its legacy in families, and the cyclical, crooked path of recovery.Why do so many people want to die--and how do we begin to understand what makes a person choose suicide? After a decade of therapy and...
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Being Mother CourageBeing Mother Courage joins the prior three books in Jan Anthony's eight-book chronicle -- Not to Be Denied, Gullibles' Travels, and Secret Transgressions.In Being Mother Courage, Bea and Jan become the visibly out local lesbians with their feminist bookstore. With parents passing and ex-husbands...
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Becoming Spectacular: The Rhythm of Resilience from the First African American RocketteThe first African American Rockette charts her journey to one of the world's most celebrated dance troupes in this gripping memoir that, for the first time, goes behind the velvet curtains at Radio City's legendary holiday show. "Smashing through glass windows and paving the...
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Becoming CandelaFrom the oil fields of Kuwait and the mountains of Cyprus to the flamenco bars of Spain, Deirdre Guthrie takes us on a journey through the early years of her extraordinary life. Deirdre's story is a tapestry of passion, adventure, and resilience. Of loves...
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Battle of Gettysburg for KidsGet enchanted with Battle of Gettysburg history and its remarkable events.Are you struggling to make sense of what happened at that specific point in history? Do you want to learn all of the historical stories in an easier manner? Pick up this overview history...
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Bacard? y la larga lucha por Cuba = Bacardi and the Long Fight for CubaA history of Cuba as reflected by the famous Bacardi rum family traces five generations during which they served as an example of business and civic leadership while alternately fighting for national freedom and honoring their country as exiles.Author: Tom GjeltenPublisher: Penguin Publishing GroupPublished:...
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A Young Man's Dream/ An Old Man's RealityA Young Man's Dream: An Old Man's Reality" by Wyveda I. Philbert is a memoir about the author's husband, Joe, fulfilling his lifelong dream of completing the Great Circle Loop, a 5,000-mile boating adventure along the Intracoastal Waterway, the Great Lakes, and major U.S....
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A Working-Class Family Ages Badly: A Search for Happiness'Delicate and devastating. Up there with the best of them.' HANNAH LOWE, WINNER OF THE COSTA PRIZE 'Roche is a charming, unflinchingly honest guide on a journey that's as funny as it is heart-breaking.' JUNO DAWSON How does an untrained eye recognise the process...
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A Tree With My Name On It: Finding A Way Home"A riveting and intimate tale of a woman's journey in search of a home, in her body, in her spirit and in the land. I couldn't put it down..." Tsultrim Allione, Author, Wisdom Rising: Journey into the Mandala of the Sacred Feminine As the...
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A Time for Truth: A Daughter's Search for Justice and Healing'I was 12 weeks old when my mother, Mags, died. I was eight years old when my father was killed by Molly and Thomas Martens. The Martens made me an orphan. They took away my father, my only constant, the only loving parent I...
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Aspects of WagnerMany music lovers find Wagner's operas inexpressibly beautiful and richly satisfying, while others find them revolting, dangerous, self-indulgent, and immoral. The man who W.H. Auden once called "perhaps the greatest genius that ever lived" has inspired both greater adulation and greater loathing than any...
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Art and Woman: Life and Creative World of 100 Women Artists from Around the World"Art and Woman - The Life and Creative World of 100 Women Artists From Around The World" is a stunning hardcover coffee table book that showcases the lives and creative spaces of 100 inspiring women artists from across the globe. Each artist is featured...
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A Romantic Symphony: The Autobiography of Howard HansonHoward Hanson's previously unpublished autobiography is now compiled and edited from manuscript sources, providing valuable insight into the life and work of this important American musician and educator. Howard Hanson was an American composer, conductor, and educator. Following his retirement as director of the...
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Architects of Terror: Paranoia, Conspiracy and Anti-Semitism in Franco's SpainA TIMES HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR From the preeminent historian of 20th century Spain Paul Preston, Architects of Terror is a new history of how paranoia, conspiracy and anti-Semitism was used to justify the military coup of 1936 and enabled the construction of...
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