Dr. Jonny Acheson, an Emergency Medicine Consultant in one of the UKs busiest departments, loved his job. Diagnosed with Parkinsons in 2016, his once-thriving environment worsened his symptoms. When Your Neurons Dance explores his adaptation, suppor...Lasīt vairāk
Drawing together both recent research and original sources, this concise and accessible biography reassesses the debates surrounding the life of King Edward IV. Edward IV remains essential reading for all students of late medieval England, the Wars...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1956, The Life of Ludwig Mond is one of the earliest biographies to present the story of Dr. Mond. It throws light on the progressive changes that have taken place in chemical knowledge....Lasīt vairāk
Charting the life and writings of Wadysaw Biekowski, a leading politician and writer in communist Poland and sometime right hand man and ideologue of the Polish leader Wadysaw Gomuka, this book outlines the shifts in the nature of communism in Polan...Lasīt vairāk
The Nine Magazines of Kodansha (1934) is the autobiography of the Japanese publisher Seiji Noma, owner of the Kodan Company, publishing several million-selling magazines and a daily paper. He details his upbringing in post-feudal Japan, and the mode...Lasīt vairāk
Horace Walpole (1964) was widely acclaimed when it first appeared as the best life of Walpole yet written. It is scholarly and thorough, and since then there is no reason to believe that it has been displaced....Lasīt vairāk
The Women of Antioch is both a biography of four womenConstance, Alice, Constance II, and Maria, all connected through marriage or birth to the crusader principality of Antiochand an analysis of the political cultures within which they maneuvered, i...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1988, Rotten to the Core? asks who was the real Neville Heath? The author deals with Heath the psychopath, but it also depicts the curious post-war society which allowed him to take root and to flourish, showing that Heath th...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1987, in this new approach to the case of William Joyce (Lord Haw-Haw), Francis Selwyn looks both at the career of Joyce, the Irish-American-cum-Fascist bully-boy, and the changing nature of treason, altered by the events of...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1993, Discovering Your Self is a remarkable and original personal account of psychotherapy and psychosynthesis. Through it, Reinhard Kowalski, a consultant clinical psychologist and psychotherapist, charts his own development...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1988, Triumph over Darkness is a stirring story of determination and tenacity in the face of adversity. Lennard Bickel researched this story in Paris and in the small village where Louis Braille was born....Lasīt vairāk
This biography provides a well-rounded analysis of Queen Charlotte by considering her own perspectives on queenship and her role in Britain....Lasīt vairāk
This book shares the life narrative of Deysi Quiñones to shed light on the intricate relationship between her life and the wider cultural, political, social, and historical contexts of the Dominican Republic....Lasīt vairāk
This book, the first comprehensive biography of Goffman, shows how key turns in Goffmans career reflected dramatic events in his family and personal history.The approach adopted in this investigation sheds new light on Goffmans scholarship which has...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers an analysis of the many stories celebrating the life and deeds of Cyrus the Great over millennia and what they reveal about Cyrus and contemporary societies who wrote about him. Suitable for students and scholars working on the Acha...Lasīt vairāk
Barbara Bray was an English translator from French to English. She also collaborated with some of the most prestigious minds of the 20th century: Harold Pinter, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Losey, Franco Zeffirelli and Marguerite Duras. This literary biog...Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1948, this book is of a remarkable gentleman, Alexander Stewart, who was born in Kirkaldy, Fifeshire, in 1790, and died in 1874. In middle life he wrote for his children an account of his adventurous youth. It is a remarkable...Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1939, Marshal Pilsudski presents a comprehensive biographical history of Józef Klemens Pisudski (1867-1935). This book discusses various facets of his life and is an important historical reference work....Lasīt vairāk
This first full-length study of sister-queens Kleopatra II and Kleopatra Thea explores the roles and ideology of ancient queensship and the significance of family politics in the dysfunctional dynasties of the late Hellenistic world. Suitable for st...Lasīt vairāk
The first scholarly treatment of the life of William Maginn, David Latanés meticulously researched biography follows Maginns life from his early days in Ireland through his career in Paris and London as political journalist, editor and writer and fi...Lasīt vairāk
A favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, Sir Henry Lee was known as the most accomplished cavaliero in England. This handsome, entertaining and highly convivial gentleman was an important participant in life at court as Elizabeths tournament champion. He c...Lasīt vairāk
Offering a unique approach to the study of late eighteenth-century/early nineteenth-century education, this book explores the life and motivations of a strong-minded, self-educated and enlightened English gentlewoman, Mrs Margaret Chinnery, who put...Lasīt vairāk
This is a political biography of William III (1650-1702): prince of Orange; stadhouder in the Netherlands from 1672; and (in a novel joint monarchy with his wife, Mary), king of England, Scotland, and Ireland after the Revolution of 1688-9....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1972, Goethe presents a biography looking at one of the few great Europeans to be universally recognized as a hero of culture, and in the light of modern sociological thought puts the hero into his background, human, social and po...Lasīt vairāk
In Freuds Student Years, Florian Houssier presents the life experiences and inner conflicts of Sigmund Freud from ( year) to ( year), showing how these experiences informed his later theories....Lasīt vairāk
This biography of Barbara McClintock (1902-1992) places her life and work in its social, scientific and personal context. The history documents years of McClintocks notable and lauded scientific work long before she discovered Transposable Elements...Lasīt vairāk
This is a fascinating autobiography set before the partition of the subcontinent. Kali Prasad Ghosh belonged to a zamindar or landed family in Bengal. He joined the Congress movement and later, in the 1920s, became more radical. He was brought up as...Lasīt vairāk
This book is not just another biography of Gandhi. It is valuable because it offers us a French view and Jewish too perhaps, of a man who became a prophet in a blood-thirsty century. The book is further enriched by a discussion on Hindu mysticism an...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces the life and work of Darcy Ribeiro (19221997), one of the foremost exponents of Brazilian/Latin American social thought in the twentieth century....Lasīt vairāk
This book aims to understand the politics and industrial relations of the post-war period in Britain (in which trade unions were central) through the life of a key public intellectual....Lasīt vairāk
This is a story of an African American woman working at the highest levels in STEM. Dr. Sandra K. Johnson earned a Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering from Rice University in May 1988, the first black woman to do so....Lasīt vairāk
Family and Artistic Relations in Polish Womens Autobiographical Literature examines womens autobiographical works published in Poland after the year 2000 in a broader cultural context....Lasīt vairāk
This book is a biography of a Scottish missionary worker, Alexander Wylie, a classical nineteenth century artisan and autodidact. He made significant contributions to knowledge transfer, both to and from China: in missionary work; as a teacher, and...Lasīt vairāk
This book introduces the history of cultural exchanges between East Asia and the West through comparative biographical sketches of sixty personalities from China and Japan....Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 27-Mar-2024, Izdevniecība: Routledge India, ISBN-13: 9781003422921)
This book focuses on varied forms of self-referential storytelling or life writing and its emergence as a democratic and inclusive genre, both globally and in India, and its intersections with history, fiction, memory, truth and identity....Lasīt vairāk
This is the first full-length biography of New York surgeon and social activist Stephen Smith (18231922), who was appointed to fifty years of public service by three mayors, seven governors, and two U.S. presidents....Lasīt vairāk
Conrad, Autobiographical Remembering, and the Making of Narrative Identity is the first major work that extensively explores the dynamic interplay between Conrads autobiographical remembering and storytelling in relation to his identity construction...Lasīt vairāk
Grief Memoirs bridges the gap between literary studies and psychology to provide an in-depth examination of contemporary grief memoirs, evaluating their literary, cultural, therapeutic, and educational functions and benefits for bereaved and non-ber...Lasīt vairāk
Covering the life of Josephus Henry Barsden from his birth to 16 years of age, the Barsden memoirs cover events from a Sussex smugglers inn, a convict ship to the colony of New South Wales, sealing and whaling expeditions to Van Diemens Land, and Ba...Lasīt vairāk
Queen Sybil of Jerusalem, queen in her own right, was ruler of the kingdom of Jerusalem from 1186 to 1190. This study traces Sybils life, from her childhood as the daughter of the heir to the throne of Jerusalem to her death in the crusading force o...Lasīt vairāk
Yarin Eski provides in-depth, interdisciplinary approach to and understanding of the global arms trade, revealing a deep insider view in a wider socio-cultural context....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1924, Memoirs of a Positivist is both an autobiography of the author and a history of the English Positivist movement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1972, Sheridan is primarily a rounded, colourful portrait of Richard Brinsley Sheridan, his triumphs and failures, his ferocious duels and sudden romances, and his rise to oratorical fame in the arena of politics....Lasīt vairāk
First published in 1974, Masks and Facades paints an authentic picture of John Vanbrugh as a man of character, talent, wit and charm, moving in an age where patronage held the key to worldly advancement....Lasīt vairāk
Bonniers biography reads like an absorbing novel, with its twists and turns, reconstructed dialogue and authors acute observations. As well as being a tragic human story, It is an illuminating study of the convoluted political context of the affair,...Lasīt vairāk
