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Telling the story of their lives from children to modern day, this fascinating and revelatory new book will look at the fraught relationship (and fiery rivalry) between King Charles and Prince Andrew. Raised for vastly different futures, one burdened with the responsibility of becoming the...

The person of Volume I is Albert Einstein. A deeper look is taken into the life and work of this scientific genius. He has been esteemed for numerous scientific advances and theories, of which have even made their way into political realms with a strong urging by Einstein with President Roosevelt in the year 1939.

From the creator of the critically acclaimed Irish History Podcast comes a ground-breaking exploration of the past, casting its gaze beyond the chambers of power and carnage of battle, and into the lives of the everyday people that lived through those violent centuries. From the desperate retributions of the Land War of the nineteenth century, through the unprecedented tumult of the revolutionary years, to the causes that helped to shape contemporary Ireland, these previously overlooked cases of human tragedy offer a fresh perspective on a history we think we know.

From sickly child to pioneering Victorian explorer, Isabella Bird defied convention. After back surgery in 1850 and the recommendation of life in the open air, she finally looked her malaise and her pain in the eye and set off across the world completely alone. In Colorado she covered 800 miles on horseback, climbing mountains, wrangling cattle, sleeping in snow and finding herself drawn to a violent, one-eyed outlaw with a soft spot for poetry, known as ‘Mountain Jim’.

A new biography of Winston Churchill, revealing how his relationships with the other great figures of his age shaped his own triumphs and failures as a leader Winston Churchill remains one of the most revered figures of the twentieth century, his name a byword for courageous leadership. But the...

Twelve Years a Slave, sub-title: Narrative of Solomon Northup, citizen of New-York, kidnapped in Washington city in 1841, and rescued in 1853, from a cotton plantation near the Red River in Louisiana, is a memoir by Solomon Northup as told to and edited by David Wilson. It is a slave narrative of a black man who was born free in New York state but kidnapped in Washington, D.C., sold into slavery, and kept in bondage for 12 years in Louisiana.

Дарья Николаевна Салтыкова по прозвищу Салтычиха и "Людоедка" (1730 — 1801) — русская богатая помещица, вошедшая в историю как изощрённая садистка и серийная убийца, в отношении которой было доказано убийство 138 подвластных ей крепостных крестьян. Решением Сената и императрицы Екатерины Второй в 1768 году была лишена достоинства столбовой дворянки и приговорена к смертной казни, но позже мера наказания была изменена на пожизненное заключение в монастырской тюрьме, где осуждённая и умерла.

Growing up in Waterford, Tom McGrath never noticed the odd gaps in the stories of his parents' lives before he was born; it was only many years after they died that he uncovered the unspoken truths, which did so much to explain the people they had been. Here he tells the incredible true story of his father's conscription into the British Army, his escape from a prisoner-of-war camp in Poland, his daring journey across Europe and subsequent recapture – and the devastating news that awaited him in England.

“A heart-pounding, mind-bending adventure.” —Ilyon Woo A riveting biography of Alexander the Great’s final years, when the leader’s insatiable desire to conquer the world set him off on an exhilarating, harrowing journey that would define his legacy. By 330 B.C.E., Alexander the Great...

'So who really spearheaded India's Freedom Struggle? Millions of ordinary people-farmers, labourers, homemakers, forest produce gatherers, artisans and others-stood up to the British. People who never went on to be ministers, governors, presidents, or hold other high public office. They had...

Złe, niemoralne, wyrachowane, manipulujące otoczeniem. Intrygantki, oszustki, awanturnice w skali rodzinnej, krajowej i europejskiej. Zdrajczynie i agentki obcych mocarstw. Od Jagiellonów po czasy PRL-u.

Ни один другой великий человек в истории не был так труден для понимания, как Исаак Ньютон, тридцать лет проживший ученым-отшельником в Кембридже, а затем ставший знаменитым публичным деятелем. Однако Майклу Уайту, биографу Ньютона, удалось его "разговорить": Уайт разъясняет идеи ученого и воссоздает его портрет так убедительно, как если бы тот действительно рассказал ему о себе в доверительной беседе. С предисловием популярного американского писателя Билла Брайсона, автора Краткой истории почти всего на свете и других бестселлеров.

As the man behind the unprecedented 1987 leveraged buyout of Beatrice Foods, Reginald F. Lewis established himself as a respected titan of Wall Street. His standing as the CEO of a conglomerate while in his mid-forties surprised many, especially in light of his middle-class, African-American roots in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sound interesting? The author thinks so too! Listen to Our Lady of the Snows and learn about William Neilson.

De Profundis is a 50,000-word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to Lord Alfred Douglas, his lover. Wilde wrote the letter between January and March 1897; he was not allowed to send it, but took it with him upon release. In it he repudiates Lord Alfred for what Wilde finally sees as his arrogance and vanity; he had not forgotten Douglas's remark, when he was ill, "When you are not on your pedestal you are not interesting."

In 1866, young Peter O. Peterson Jr., with his parents and siblings sailed the high seas from Sweden to the United States and settled in the Oquawka, Illinois area. Peter, later known as Pete of the Hill, married Emma Polka in 1882, whose German family also lived in Oquawka.

Estas biografias do Marquês de Olinda e do Viconde de Cairú têm a peculiaridade de terem sido escritas por um quase contemporâneo deles, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Pedro de Araújo Lima, o Marquês de Olinda, tem destacada sua atuação política – deputado, senador, ministro – nos complexos tempos iniciais do Brasil Império. José da Silva Lisboa, o Visconde de Cairú, autor do livro "Princípios de Economia Política" (influenciado por Adam Smith), é reconhecido por seu conhecimento do Direito Comercial, aplicado ao Brasil.

Esta biografia de José Bonifácio tem a peculiaridade de ter sido escrita por um quase contemporâneo seu, Sébastien Auguste Sisson, francês radicado no Rio de Janeiro. Nela, Sisson destaca a infância influenciada pela mãe, que cobrava dedicação aos estudos, sua formação acadêmica em Portugal, seu fervor pela causa brasileira – que o levou a julgamento quando defendeu inconfidentes –, sua amizade com figuras ilustres como Kant e Humboldt, até sua morte, depois de ter cuidado dos filhos de D. Pedro I.

Unable to make the 1908 Pennsylvania German Society's annual gathering due to illness, their president—businessman, religious leader, and politician, John Wanamaker—sent in a message he recorded "through this wonderful invention of Mr. Edison on the Edison phonograph." This recording recalls an anecdote of Leo Tolstoy's, in which the Russian writer stopped at the roadside and asked a farmer who was ploughing, "Friend, what would you do today if you knew positively you would die tomorrow?"

I julen 1986 var det islandske fragtskib »Sudurland« på vej over Atlanterhavet med kurs mod Murmansk. Midtvejs mellem Island og den norske kyst forliser skibet i et forrygende uvejr. Otte af de elleve besætningsmedlemmer redder sig ombord i en gummibåd, der viser sig at være læk. Nu begynder en skæbnesvanger kamp med tiden for de udmattede og dårligt udrustede sømænd, men heldigvis er deres nødsignal »Mayday, Mayday« blevet opfanget af bl.a. den danske flådestation på Færøerne. Fregatten »Vædderen« stævner straks ud på det kulsorte og stormfulde hav, udrustet med en helikopter.