Collected Biographies

'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...

An engaging history of women's rights and the legal profession in the nineteenth century Long before Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsberg ea...

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As the bold fathers of the American Revolution left behind their private lives to become public nation-builders, what happened to their families? S...

'With originality and subtlety, Diarmuid Hester examines how the gay imagination deals with place and with displacement, allowing for mystery and a...

Law is a moving system of rules that changes according to a nation's political and socioeconomic development. To understand the law of the People's...

Three distinct stories about three distinct men, but with one thing in common - they all paid the price for standing up for what they believed. Fr...

As the fight for women's rights continues, and whilst men and women alike push for gender equality around the globe, this book aims to introduce re...

Trained as a pursuit pilot but assigned to an observation squadron, the indefatigable Bill Erwin flew twice as many hours over the front lines as a...

WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY RUTH SCURRJohn Aubrey was a modest man, a self-styled antiquarian and the man who invented modern biography. His lives of t...

This visual celebration of the world's most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.Writers Who Chang...

While cricket remains popular today, at the beginning of the 20th Century it was THE national game. Cricketers were the sporting icons of their age...

The story of four remarkable women who shaped the intellectual history of the 20th century: Elizabeth Anscombe, Philippa Foot, Mary Midgley, and Ir...

Californias iconic Napa Valley, one of the worlds premier viticultural regions, is known for its undulating vineyards, historic wineries nestled in...

An engaging blend of conservation stories and humorous, personal anecdotes from Philippa Forrester about women who, like her, choose to live and wo...

The Second World War is famed for being the conflict that changed the face of warfare, and it is the last that changed the face of the world. In ad...