Collected Biographies

African Lives, a pioneering anthology of memoirs and autobiographical writings, lets the people of Africa speak for themselves-telling stories of s...

A supplement to Salem Press's Careers In series, a career-focused series exploring the fields and occupations of physics, chemistry, and other scie...

A supplement to Salem Press's Careers In series, a career-focused series exploring the fields and occupations of physics, chemistry, and other scie...

A collection of biographies of notable figures in environmental science and conservation, this resource provides insight into the career paths and ...

Writers and alcohol have long been associated--for some, the association becomes unmanageable. Drawing on rare sources, this collection of brief...

Lee Martin tells us in his memoir, I was never meant to come along. My parents married late. My father was thirty-eight, my mother forty-one. When ...

In 1974 the Queen's Gallantry Medal was instituted to replace awards for gallantry in the Order of the British Empire for actions not quite meritin...

Travel back in time and share the experience of everyday thoughts and great moments in history in this fascinating compilation of diaries through t...

Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovatorsis Walter Isaacson's story of the people who created the computer and the Internet...

When Natasha Fennell's mother was diagnosed with a progressive illness, she wasn't ready to do deal with the inevitability of what this would bring...

Whether titans of industry, influential business leaders, or creators of history's most recognizable brands, these entrepreneurs had the vision, in...