An "excellent new biography" (Keith Thomas, New York Review of Books) of the wily and formidable prince who unexpectedly became monarch—the most infamous.
Though William Moulton Marston (May 9, – May 2, ) died fairly young, at only age 53, he collected an impressive, and incredibly varied, list of accomplishments: he was a lawyer, a psychologist, creator of the DISC system of personality classification, inventor of an early version of the lie detector machine, and creator of the comic character Wonder Woman.
Hilary Spurling's expansive biography of Pearl S. Buck, PEARL BUCK IN CHINA, is both perplexing and mesmerizing to me. In her attempt to document the time Buck spent in China with its confusing and complex culture, Spurling has assembled a multitude of details with unassailable accuracy but describes them in a jumble of unfathomable time frames.
This biography—or at least Volume 1—lives up to any expectations or hopes you might have had for the ultimate A.J. Foyt bio. This book is no weekend-at-the-beach read. Give this one the time a.
As issued. 95 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall - William Allen: Founder of Allentown, Colonial Jurist, Industrialist and Loyalist / James Allen and Trout Hall [Proceedings of the Lehigh County Historical Society Vol. 24].
File includes a biography from the Lettie Pate Evans Foundation site and some genealogy from the LDS site. Dates: - Found in: Washington and Lee University, University Library Special Collections and Archives / Washington and Lee University and Regional Virginia History Research Collection / Biography.
Dr. Vrain connects the pervasive use of glyphosate with our food supply with long term health problems now emerging in humans. Everything starts in our gut.
On the third voyage, from to , Columbus explored the Caribbean coast of South America. During this time, many people in the Hispaniola colony became angry with the rule of Columbus and his brothers. They complained to Spanish authorities. Columbus was eventually arrested and sent back to Spain in chains. Upon his return, however, he.
From the premiere Beatles biographer—author of the New York Times bestseller John Lennon: The Life and Shout!:The Beatles in Their Generation—a rare and “absorbing biography” (Wall Street Journal) of George Harrison, the most misunderstood and mysterious Beatle, based on decades-long research and unparalleled access to inside sources.
Towering Palestinian-Iraqi writer, artist, and translator Jabra Ibrahim Jabra () — who spent much of his life in Iraq — died twenty-four years ago tomorrow: Jabra was born in Bethlehem, was educated in Jerusalem, Exeter, and Cambridge, and then returned to Palestine in as a lecturer in English literature.