Collected Biographies

A documentary-style collection of stories, poems, essays, and interviews by Southeastern Native American women.Upon Her Shoulders is a collection o...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON FICTION AND THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE. A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR. An intimate, d...

I am Black, Jane Lazarre's son tells her. I have a Jewish mother, but I am not 'biracial.' That term is meaningless to me. In this moving memoir, J...

My Brilliant Friends is a group biography of three womens friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is...

This is a remarkable story, not just about the extraordinary achievements of a family, but about the power of the individual to spur innovation, ev...

This book collects 365 thought-provoking and inspiring quotations that are packed with insights on business, management, and leadership from the wo...

From Kasparov to Xin, Polgar to Fischer, Chess Alphabet Legends is an A to Z of the most tactical and cunning chess maestros ever to play the game....

From Alan Turing to Michelle Obama, Jeff Bezos to Sonia Sotomayor, Princeton Legends Alphabet presents the A to Z of esteemed, high-achieving Princ...

My Brilliant Friends is a group biography of three womens friendships forged in second-wave feminism. Poignant and politically charged, the book is...

This is a work of 11 self-contained chapters, one for each day of September before the attack on the World Trade Center in New York, each containin...

Denis Wirth-Miller and Dicky Chopping were a couple at the heart of the mid-twentieth century art world, with the visitors' book of the Essex townh...

An entertaining guide to history's most influential and inspiring poets from Homer and Sappho to Shakespeare and Frank O'Hara and how they can te...

When World War I began, Karnig Panian was only five years old, living among his fellow Armenians in the Anatolian village of Gurin. Four years late...

Selected as a Book of the Year 2019 by The Times and Telegraph'Astonishing. . . Like the great Russian novels, these testimonials ring with emotion...

Capturing the essence of historys most influential economists in enjoyable and illuminating biographical sketches, this book shows how the great ec...

Discover who we are and how we got here this holiday season in comedian David Mitchell's Unruly: A History of England's Kings and Queens - a though...

How good that the stories of these adventurous and wonderful women who made extraordinary journeys around the world have now come to light.' Dame ...

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and ensla...

In the early modern period, hundreds of thousands of Europeans, both male and female, were abducted by pirates, sold on the slave market, and ensla...

Khadija was the first believer, to whom the Prophet Muhammad often turned for advice. At a time when strongmen quickly seized power from any female...

How did a Conservative Prime Minister and the leader of the Labour Party come together to steer Britain to victory in the Second World War? Winsto...

From the playgrounds of Glasgow to the villages of Bangladesh; from religious rites to ancient superstitions; from the world's richest people to it...

A new edition of the bestselling Every Picture Tells a Story from one of the greatest photographers of the last 60 years, Terry ONeill.  This updat...

Everyone has something interesting to say if you take the time to listen. The Interview Chain is a series of conversations-each interviewee was ask...

'That word, vacation, makes me sweat.' Coco Chanel on taking a break'You must do it irregardless, or it will eat its way out of you.' Zora Neale Hu...