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...

Far more than an encyclopedia, this treasury tells the rich stories of the people who made America's history--and adds context with lush photograph...

The Next Big Thing tells the stories of 15 footballers who were tipped for the top as youngsters yet were unable to fulfil their potential. With ea...

For you the war is over. Last of the Kriegies tells the extraordinary stories of five of the last remaining Second World War RAF Bomber Command Pri...

With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John S...

A friendship struck in 1942 would last for forty-one years through critical acclaim and rejection, commercial success and failure, manic highs, bou...

A vivid study in the politics and stress of high command, this book describes the decisive roles of young Winston Churchill as political head of th...

RAF and East German Fast-Jet Pilots in the Cold War is the result of ten years of research, involving many visits to the former German Democratic R...

In Letters of Note: Cats, Shaun Usher collects together the most engaging missives that celebrate, eulogise, rail against and analyse the idiosyncr...

Revered by some as the ultimate warrior, and condemned by others as ruthless assassins, the combat sniper is more than just a crack shot. These are...

Voices of the Second World War: A Child s Perspective is a collection of first-hand accounts from people who experienced the Second World War from ...

How many times have you seen a woman artist solely referred to as the wife, girlfriend, muse, or ''mistress'' of a man in the public eye?Throughout...

The mass protests that shook France in May 1968 were exciting, dangerous, creative and influential, changing European politics to this day. Student...

Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed ...

In Letters of Note: Music, Shaun Usher brings together a riveting collection of letters by and about some of the musicians and music that enrich ou...

In Letters of Note: Love, Shaun Usher gathers together some of the most powerful messages about love ever composed, whether inspired by love's firs...

Benjamin Disraeli joined William Gladstone in the House of Commons in 1837. A few years later a bitter feud developed between the two men and it la...

During the Second World War, thousands of young men volunteered for service with the Royal Air Force. Some of these became fighter pilots, but a gr...

The untold stories of some of the men and women of Co. Kerry who gave their all in Irelands fight for independence.In Fighting for the Cause well-k...

Nominated for the BGE Irish Sports Books of the Year and the Éir Sports Book of the Year For most of the 20th century, professional cycling was do...

From Roucan to Riches traces the story of the Glassell family from their obscure beginnings as humble Scots tenant farmers, through two brothers wh...