Collected Biographies

In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot traject...

El tema de los extraterrestres es muy debatido, algunas veces a favor y otras en contra. Esta vez, presentamos más de cincuenta comunicaciones bioe...

Aliens is a highly debated topic, sometimes in favour others against it. Once again, we introduce more than fifty bioenergemal communications (BELC...

There's more to being queer than coming out and getting married. This exciting and contemporary collection contains stories that are as diverse as ...

Have you ever wondered about who certain American and Canadian authors are, i.e. the individuals behind the books. Did you know that the Captain Un...

The author of the bestselling Hard Men of Rugby gives us the thrilling stories of 20 of the greatest rugby mavericks from the last 80 years. Featur...

Lasting sixteen weeks during the momentous year of 1940, the Battle of Britain ended with the Luftwaffe having failed to achieve the decisive victo...

During a discussion of how women are treated in traditionally male-dominated fields, paleobotanist Ellen Currano lamented to filmmaker Lexi Jamieso...

Speaking Ill of the Dead: Jerks in Idaho History features fourteen short profiles of notorious bad guys, perpetrators of mischief, visionary if mis...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT PRIZECulture is Life is a modern, photographic celebration of the diversity of Indigenous Austral...

Warrior Queens & Quiet Revolutionaries is a celebration of unheard and under-heard womens history.'Excellent . . . bursting with extraordinary ...

Master historian David McCullough''s classic book about some of history''s most daring and accomplished figures from Alexander von Humboldt to Char...

This is the ultimate anthology of theatrical anecdotes, edited by lifelong theatre-lover Gyles Brandreth in the Oxford tradition, and covering ever...

Lively history of British women aviators. Daily MailCompelling stories of female pioneers whose soaring ambition achieved firsts in the field of av...

The story of the Brontës is told through the things they wore, stitched, wrote on and inscribed at the parsonage in Haworth. From Charlottes writin...

If you find the subject of food to be both vexing and transfixing, youll love What She Ate Elle Did you know that...