Hermann Haken: From the Laser to Synergetics: A Scientific Biography of the Early Years
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Hermann Haken (born 1927) is one of the "fathers" of the quantum-mechanical laser theory, formulated...
Paul Hollywood - Bread, Buns and Baking: The Unauthorised Biography of Britain's Best-loved Baker
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Paul Hollywood is without doubt the man of the moment in British baking. His luxurious dough recipes...
Larousse Dictionary of Biographies
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Dictionary of Biographies Larousse includes colorful descriptions of the life and work of Mexico’s...
Memories of the high life, heart surgery and a Homer odyssey move The Guardian writer Kathryn Hughes:
The Vanity Fair Diaries: 1983 – 1992
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The Vanity Fair Diaries is the story of an Englishwoman barely out of her twenties who arrives in...
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay: The Quaker Dwarf Who Became the First Revolutionary Abolitionist
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The Fearless Benjamin Lay chronicles the transatlantic life and times of a singular and astonishing...
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An Odyssey: A Father, a Son and an Epic
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From the best-selling author of 'The Lost', a deeply moving tale of a father, a son and the lessons...
The Unwomanly Face of War
Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky
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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second...
Hunger
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'I ate and ate and ate in the hopes that if I made myself big, my body would be safe. I buried the...
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The Philosophical Life: Biography and the Crafting of Intellectual Identity in Late Antiquity
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Ancient biographies were more than accounts of the deeds of past heroes and guides for moral living....
Unrecognised by the World at Large: A Biography of Dr Henry Parsey, Physician to the Hatton Asylum, Warwick
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The building of asylums throughout the country in the middle of the 19th Century expressly for the...
Winifred Gerin: Biographer of the Brontes
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The biographer Winifred Gerin (1901-81), who wrote the lives of all four Bronte siblings, stumbled...
Margaret Thatcher: The Authorized Biography, Volume Two: Everything She Wants: Volume two
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The sensational second volume of Charles Moore's bestselling authorized biography of the Iron Lady...
Let Us Watch Richard Wilbur: A Biographical Study
Robert Bagg and Mary Bagg
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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Wilbur (b. 1921) is part of a notable literary cohort, American...
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Dictionary of Christian Biography: Key Figures in the Literature, Sects and Doctrines of the Early Church
Henry Wace, William Smith and Michael Ledger-Lomas
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Smith and Wace's magisterial A Dictionary of Christian Biography provides an account of the figures...