Biography & Autobiography

Shohei Ohtani of the Los Angeles Angels is playing baseball like no other since the legendary Babe Ruth. Ohtani's dominance as a two-way player, one that pitches and bats effectively, has taken the Major League by storm. Since entering the league, he...

In his first book, Time to Talk, Michael Healy-Rae established himself as part of the great tradition of Kerry storytellers with his chronicles of life in rural Ireland. Now, in his second book, his superior storytelling skills come to the fore once...

Celebrated NPR correspondent Nina Totenberg delivers an extraordinary memoir of her personal successes, struggles, and life-affirming relationships, including her beautiful friendship of nearly fifty years with Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg...

Lies, injustice, and prejudice: the story of one woman's battle for justice in the English family courts. In her memoir, Diana Hieb recounts every detail of her experiences as a domestic abuse survivor and portrays the adversarial divorce case that...

Samuel Beckett and trauma is the first book that specifically addresses the question of trauma in Beckett, taking into account the recent rise of trauma studies in literature. Beckett is an author whose works are strongly related to the psychological and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781597842815Author Dr Resit HaylamazFormat PaperbackPage Count 168Imprint The Light IncPublisher Tughra BooksWeight(grams) 146g

This volume recounts the political formation and positions of Russian trade unionist and 'old Bolshevik' Alexander Shlyapnikov. Famous for his role in the Workers' Opposition, and his calls for trade unions to realize workers' mastery over the economy,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781788306874Author Alan BrooksFormat PaperbackPage Count 279Imprint Olympia PublishersPublisher Olympia Publishers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398487581Author Mike HopeFormat HardbackPage Count 322Imprint Austin Macauley PublishersPublisher Austin Macauley Publishers

How can tending a flock of sheep empower leadership skills?How does it build character and awaken wisdom?And why was shepherding the starting point for so many of the great prophets, such as Mohammed, Moses and Abraham?These questions had long intrigued...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800993372Author Mari MorganFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Y LolfaPublisher Y Lolfa

An intimate memoir from a founding editor of Ms. magazine who grew up in a Jewish immigrant family mired in secrets, haunted by their dread of shame and stigma, determined to hide their every imperfection-and in denial or despair when they couldn't."The...

Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics is an annual forum for new work in normative ethical theory. Leading philosophers present original contributions to our understanding of a wide range of moral issues and positions, from analysis of competing approaches...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781614980513Author Author S T JoshiFormat PaperbackPage Count 578Imprint Hippocampus PressPublisher Hippocampus PressWeight(grams) 762gDimensions(mm) 229mm...

This is a remarkable story, not just about the extraordinary achievements of a family, but about the power of the individual to spur innovation, even when the consenAbout the AuthorTom Cheshire read Classics at Cambridge University, where he won the John...

Tayeb Salih is internationally known for his classic novel Season of Migration to the North. With humour, wit and erudite poetic insights, Salih shows another side in this affectionate memoir of his exuberant and irrepressible friend Mansi Yousif...

Bestselling author J. Randy Taraborrelli reveals the unsung heroines of the inimitable Bush family dynasty: not only First Ladies Barbara and Laura, but other colorful women whose stories have been left out of history for far too long, including...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781451695199Author Dr. Eben AlexanderFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster

On 24 August 1914, forty-four Americans joined the Foreign Legion and "with a cowboy swing" marched through Paris, wildly cheered by the crowd. They were Ivy League graduates, artists and dreamers and soldiers of fortune starting on equal terms as...

Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951,...

What do the world's most prominent oboists have to say about their musical ideas, performance techniques, and teaching strategies? Michele L. Fiala and Martin Schuring, themselves skilled oboists, undertook the project of asking twenty-six of them about...

This is a moving story of a family's beginnings, growth and, in the context both of time and Trinidadian society, its inevitable dispersal. Savi Naipaul Akal's memoir pays tribute to remarkable parents, so different but equal in importance to their large...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780892814374Author Maurice MessegueFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Inner Traditions Bear and CompanyPublisher Inner Traditions Bear and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781668022085Author Tom BowerFormat HardbackPage Count 464Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 630gDimensions(mm) 233mm * 161mm * 36mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501187544Author Nikki SixxFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vh1 BooksPublisher Vh1 BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 155mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780452011205Author Henri TroyatFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint PlumePublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 428gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 23mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781910553688Author Maxie HaylesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Hansib Publications LimitedPublisher Hansib Publications Limited

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781911628477Author John B. HattendorffFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Helion & CompanyPublisher Helion & Company

Beautiful and talented, versatile and charismatic, Elizabeth Robins was one of the foremost actresses of her day. Yet, this enduring character was also an active and lifelong feminist. This biography examines Elizabeth's historical identity and provides...

This is a first-person account of an overseas Chinese who was involved in the armed struggle for the independence of Malaya and Singapore and who evolved through several roles during those tumultuous times - from an anti-Japanese agent in World War II,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781443465120Author Tara MacLeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint HarperCollins (Canada) LtdPublisher HarperCollins (Canada) LtdWeight(grams)...

Adios Muchachos is a candid insider's account of the leftist Sandinista revolution in Nicaragua. During the 1970s, Sergio Ramirez led prominent intellectuals, priests, and business leaders to support the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN),...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553393248Author Daniel LubetzkyFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Ballantine Books Inc.Publisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781580801584Author Richard C. KirklandFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Burford Books,U.S.Publisher Burford Books,U.S.Weight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681370743Author Alice Herdan-ZuckmayerFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint The New York Review of Books, IncPublisher The New York Review of Books,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345514400Author Maya AngelouFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 159gDimensions(mm) 174mm *...

Ladies and gentlemen, the least important part of this book is the life story of an Italian shoemaker. We can all write our autobiography, and if I dwell on the details of my career it is only because it makes it easier to explain my calling: the work...

In his memoir, A Life in Medicine: From Asclepius to Beckett, Eoin O'Brien, a cardiologist with an international reputation as a clinical scientist, recounts his life in medicine and literature. He depicts his relatively privileged upbringing in a...

"We were invisible. We had to be. We took an oath of absolute secrecy. We never even told our immediate families who we were. We went about our lives in New York City. Just like you. We were your accountants, money managers, lawyers, executive...

A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple's attempt to adopt a child.But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This curious...