Biographies & Memoirs

Military doctors serving in Afghanistan usually spend their entire tour in the relatively safe confines of the main base. FOB Doc is the story of one Canadi...

"As dramatic and chilling as a bedroom window shattering at midnight."—New York Times New York Times The most fascinating killer in modern American history...

Tough Crimes Is A Collection Of Court Cases That Had Surprising Turns Or Persented Personal And Ethical Challenges, Including The Walkerton Water Treatment ...

#1 on Amazon Charts, New York Times Bestseller, USA Today Bestseller--Over 100,000 Copies in Print! "Kent Heckenlively and Judy Mikovits are the new dynamic...

From the vital voice of Elijah Anderson, Black in White Space sheds fresh light on the dire persistence of racial discrimination in our country. A birder s...

Meticulously Researched By A Senior Private Banker Now Turned Historian, No More Champagne Reveals For The First Time The Full Extent Of The Iconic British ...

Product Description Tokyo Junkie is a memoir that plays out over the dramatic 60-year growth of the megacity Tokyo, once a dark, fetid backwater and no...

The Story of the Greatest Sports Moment of the Twentieth Century Once upon a time, they taught us to believe. They were the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, ...

This young readers' edition of the worldwide bestseller Three Cups of Tea has been specially adapted and updated by Greg Mortenson to bring his remarkable...

The dramatic story of how an American housewife discovered that the Guatemalan child she was about to adopt had been stolen from her birth mother Over the ...

In Her First Work Of Nonfiction, Winner Of The 2018 Unesco City Of Literature Paul Engle Prize Dina Nayeri--an Author Whose Exploration Of The Exile's Predi...

He read the classics but he adored pulp science fiction. He had no academic credentials but he was a co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Ae...

Gloria Vanderbilt is many things: an heiress, a painter, a muse, a designer, a model, a writer, an entrepreneur, an actor, a socialite, a survivor, an icon...

As Soon As Adam Kay Set Foot On A Hospital Ward For The First Time, He Realised There's Quite A Lot They Don't Teach You At Medical School ... His Diaries F...

The untold story of the academics who became OSS spies, invented modern spycraft, and helped turn the tide of the warAt the start of WWII, the US found itse...

A celebration of feminine beauty, athleticism, wisdom, and skill—Women Who Dare profiles twenty of America’s most inspiring women climbers ranging from ...

An account of the activities of the Walker family spy ring, this book reveals how the seemingly small espionage operation became the KGB's most important pr...

Fawn M. Brodie. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [555]-560.Categories: HistoryUnited States

Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined ...

Depicts the efforts of four people to improve the harsh conditions of life in the impoverished and over-populated area of Calcutta, IndiaCategories: Politic...

The Memoirs Of A Celebrity Costume Designer Describe Her Upbringing In The Fashionable Celebrity Circles Of Her Literary Parents, Her Family's Artistic But ...

Recent polls identify Jane Goodall to be the most recognizable living scientist in the Western world. Her work with chimpanzees at the Gombe Stream Reserve...

A Narrative Of [rock Guitarist And Actor Brownstein's] Escape From A Turbulent Family Life Into A World Where Music Was The Means Toward Self-invention, Com...

Writing about the events of his life through a historian's lens, Mosse gives us a personal history of our century, including his encounters with Carl Jung,...

Written By His Great And Irreverent Friend Dick Beddoes. Includes Index.Categories: Biographies & MemoirsGeneral

Russell Means is the most controversial Indian leader of our time. Where White Men Fear to Tread is the well-detailed, first-hand story of his life so far, ...

General Francisco Franco came to prominence during the days of David Lloyd George and Woodrow Wilson and was able to cling to absolute political power unti...

Product Description THE #1 BESTSELLERFINALIST FOR THE WRITERS' TRUST BALSILLIE PRIZE FOR PUBLIC POLICYA compelling political memoir of leadership and s...

The personal story of Bill T. Jones describes his childhood as the tenth of twelve migrant farm children, his discovery of dance, his partnership with Arnie...

Julian Rubinstein. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [305]-312).Categories: Sports & Outdoors BiographiesHockey

paul Cartledge, One Of The World’s Foremost Scholars Of Ancient Greece, Illuminates The Brief But Iconic Life Of Alexander (356-323 Bc), King Of Macedon, ...

As command module pilot for the Apollo 15 mission to the moon in 1971, Al Worden flew on what is widely regarded as the greatest exploration mission that h...

Further Than Yesterday documents the result of a split second, a single moment. The time it took to make a decision that changed a Naval Aviator's life and ...

A #1 Wall Street Journal, Amazon Charts, USA Today, and Washington Post bestseller. #1 New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen’s shocking and empow...

This is the story of a glorious defeat. Ordway, an atheist academic, was convinced that faith was superstitious nonsense. As a well-educated college Englis...

First published in "Rolling Stone" magazine in 1971, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is Hunter S. Thompson's savagely comic account of what happened to th...

The instant #1 bestselling book of personal stories about remarkable Canadians who embody the values of our great nation and inspire us to do the same, from...

Alfred Hitchcock: A Life in Darkness and Light is the definitive biography of the Master of Suspense and the most widely recognized film director of all ti...

In Tesla: Man Out of Time, Margaret Cheney explores the brilliant and prescient mind of one of the twentieth century's greatest scientists and inventors. C...

In This Book, Historian Judith Walzer Leavitt Tells The Remarkable Story Of Mary Mallon, The Woman Known As Typhoid Mary. Combining Social History With Biog...

This Is The First Post-mortem, Unauthorized Insight Into Merv Griffin, A Failed Singer And Unsuccessful Actor Who Unexpectedly Rewrote The Rules Of America'...

A chronicle of the lifelong relationship between John F. Kennedy and his oldest friend, Lem Billings, a gay man, maintained despite the inherent political...

2013 Governor General’s Literary Award — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction2013 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust — Shortlisted, Non-Fiction Projection is the st...

After An Impressive But Tormented Career, Rivers Of Negative Publicity, A Self-admitted History Of Bad Choices, And A Spectacular Fall From Hollywood Grace,...

Follows the legendary John Ford through a career that spanned more than five decades, drawing on dozens of personal interviews, material from Ford's estate,...

The complete memoirs of Neil Simon, the greatest—and most successful—American playwright of all time, the author of such iconic works as Lost in Yonkers...

A riveting new biography of America’s greatest all-around athlete by the bestselling author of the classic biography When Pride Still Mattered.\Jim Thorpe...

Voted the Best Space Book of 2018 by the Space HipstersThe dramatic inside story of the epic search and recovery operation after the Columbia space shuttle...