Autobiography: General

In the summer of 2008 Kimberley Motley quit her job as a public defender in Milwaukee to join a program that helped train lawyers in war-torn Afgha...

When Judith Bourque applied to a course in Rishikesh, India to become a teacher of Transcendental Meditation, it was because she dreamt of being ab...

Jude Angelinis tales of depravity are uncompromising, brutally honest and shocking. From growing up poor in a factory town outside Detroit to his a...

Anne Willan demystified classic French culinary technique for regular people who love food. Her legendary La Varenne Cooking School - in its origin...

Clint Edwards, beloved author of Father-ish, Silence is a Scary Sound, and I'm Sorry... Love, Your Husband, returns with a new book unpacking the c...

It starts with a gift, when Ben Ryder Howe's wife, the daughter of Korean immigrants, decides to repay her parents' self-sacrifice by buying them a...

Nasario Garcia has spent a lifetime dedicated to educating others in a variety of settings, including universities and prisons. A native of rural N...

In 1791, Thomas Jefferson hired a Black man to help survey Washington, DC. That man was Benjamin Banneker, an African American mathematician, a wri...

In this inspiring travelogue, celebrated traveler and photographer Jessica Nabongothe first Black woman on record to visit all 195 countries in the...

On 29 September 1934, at the German Embassy office in London, Christabel Bielenberg officially became a German citizen. Having met her German husba...

The world has awakened to the urgent need to focus on womens advancement - companies with gender-balanced leadership are far more likely to outperf...

Arrested as a Freedom Rider in June of 1961, Carol Ruth Silver, a twenty-two-year-old recent college graduate originally from Massachusetts, spent ...

  This is the story of an Irish father and his 18-year-old daughter and their 900-kilometre walk together across northern Spain along the ancient...