This is perhaps the best single volume biography available on Benedict Arnold - America's greatest commander during the Revolutionary War and the Nation's greatest traitor! Willard Sterne Randall has written a tremendously well researched, compelling and balanced book that details Benedict Arnold's accomplishments and failures during America's.
Anubhav Mohanty was born on in Cuttack in the state of Odisha, India. He is an Indian Film Actor, Film Producer, Model & Politician who is best known for his work in Odia and Bengali movies.
Goodreads' list of the 20 most popular biographies and histories of women, according to their members, published over the last 10 years includes The Radium Girls, Hidden Figures, The Five and.
Meet Saina Nehwal—India’s star badminton player and World Number 4, Padma Shri and Khel Ratna awardee, the girl who brought laurels to India by winning an Olympic medal at the age of.
Here we compile some of the most rewarding biographies and memoirs out in 2024. There are stories of trauma and recovery, art as politics and politics as art, and sentences as single life lessons.
Acclaimed music writer Robert Hilburn’s “epic” and “definitive” (Rolling Stone) biography of music icon Paul Simon, written with Simon’s full participation—but without his editorial control—that “reminds us how titanic this musician is” (The Washington Post).
Posidonius was one of the most important philosophers and intellectuals writing in the Greco-Roman world of the first half of the first century B.C. This book is a commentary on the surviving testimonia and fragments of his work collected in volume 1.
The following 20 autobiographies reflect all the creativity, movement and human drama you’d expect from lives driven by music—the most visceral of art forms.
The first book from Darcey Bussell in over six years, retired darling of the British Ballet and beloved judge of Strictly Come Dancing, this publishing extravaganza coincides with the superstar ballerina's 50th birthday.
They finally have put pen to paper, and with the help of author Charles R. Cross, will be releasing their first autobiography entitled “Kicking & Dreaming – a Story of Heart, Soul and Rock & Roll,” on!t Books (an imprint of Harper Collins publishers).
The Last Comanche Chief: The Life and Times of Quanah Parker by Bill Neeley is a detailed and interesting insight into not only the Comanche and Native American cultures, but the transition of the native Americans into a white culture during the late s and early s.
A musician of rare artistry, the self-effacing yet charismatic Yo-Yo Ma connects with his audiences with startling effectiveness. He remains devoted to the classical repertoire yet has long roved far beyond the Western classical music canon.
Books shelved as non-fiction-biography: Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl By Anne Frank by Anne Frank, Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, I Am Malala: Th.
His latest book is the biography "Joe Cocker: With A LOT Of Help From His Friends" (Yorkshire Publishing / November 2023). It is the first published biography to tell the complete story about Cocker since the singer’s death in 2014.
An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Boy. John Lennon once described Yoko Ono as the world’s most famous unknown artist. “Everybody knows her name, but no one knows what she does.”.
A great American autobiography, newly revised Sammy Davis, Jr. (1925-90) rose from childhood stardom on the vaudeville stage to become one of the most famous African American entertainers of the 1950s and '60s (and the only black member of Frank Sinatra's Rat Pack).
Imagine Dragons originated in Las Vegas, Nevada. Formed in , the band gained substantial commercial success and a broad international fan base with their breakthrough single “It’s Time” and subsequent hits like “Radioactive” and “Demons” from their debut album “Night Visions” in
A Thousand Never Evers, a debut novel by Shana Burg, creates a convincing portrait of the South during the Civil Rights Movement. The book follows a year in the life of Addie Ann Pickett, a girl on the verge of her early teens in Kuckapoo, Mississippi in
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer Jon Meacham, “a big, grand, absorbing exploration of not just Jefferson and his role in history but also Jefferson the man, humanized as never before” (Entertainment Weekly) “Probably the best single-volume biography of Jefferson ever written.”—Gordon S. Wood A.
The collection contains personal, performance, and academic records as well as photographic, audio, and music manuscripts. A noted cellist, Kouguell's papers detail his career as a performer, an educator, and provide researchers cultural snapshots of the greater New York area's orchestral scene throughout the 20th century.
Joan Van Ark, a TV icon from the golden age of Hollywood, captivated audiences with her roles in hit shows like Knots Landing. But behind the scenes, the pressures of Hollywood’s beauty.
Rosenbaum Injury Law has represented seriously injured people for nearly 30 years. Since the inception of the firm in , Jeff Rosenbaum, David Rosenbaum and our team of attorneys have helped over 20, clients right here in the Philadelphia region.
Thomas W. Stewart ( – ) was born in Kalamazoo, MI. He is perhaps, best known for making design improvements to the mop. In , Stewart invented a new mop that had a clamp and springs which allowed the user to press a lever that would wring out the excess water in the mop.