1,429円 Marcus Cato Sulla Aemilius Paullus Pompey The Gracchi Marius Julius Caesar Anthony 'I treat the narrative of the Lives as a kind of mirror...The experience is like nothing so much as spending time in their company and living with them: I receive and welcome each of them in turn as my guest.' In t...

1,681円 In 1850 a German immigrant with an adopted name and six dollars in his pocket arrived in San Francisco. Forty years later, Henry Miller was the largest private landowner in the United States and one of the most powerful men in California. His story is an important part of the history of land and ...

1,681円 This is the first part of the two part series on the greatest Indian thinkers 1.  B.R. Ambedkar 2.  Dr. M. VISVESVARAYA 3. Basaveshwara 4. Dayanand 5. Rammohun Roy

3,634円 Along with Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs (1914––97) is an iconic figure of the Beat generation. In William S. Burroughs, Phil Baker investigates this cult writer’s life and workーfrom small-town Kansas to New York in the ’40s, Mexico and the South American jungle, to Tangi...

350円 The workings of Mr. Sweet. He was an average black man who tried to survive In this world in an all white neighbor hood.

1,184円 The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the ‘Maguire Seven’ wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA. On the night of October 5 1974, an IRA unit left bombs in two Guildford pubs: five people were killed. On the night of December 3 1974, on the strength of fabr...

0円 Some samples: 1) Ohio State University football coach Woody Hayes spent a lot of time visiting ill children in Children's Hospital. One day, he got a telephone call from a woman he didn't know, but who had a daughterーan Ohio State football fanーwith cancer in Children's Hospital. Coach Hayes tol...

2,153円 An unrivalled insight into the early life of Henry Kissinger **'**A triumph of journalistic digging, and it makes for a little gem of a book.. a magnificent story about boyhood, identity and belonging' SUNDAY TIMES 'Tells a fascinating and tragic story.. Kurz does a fine job of tracing the early ...

2,358円 “The story of what Dakota did . . . will be told for generations.”ーPresident Barack Obama, from remarks given at Meyer’s Medal of Honor ceremony In the fall of 2009, Taliban insurgents ambushed a patrol of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors in a mountain village called Ganjigal. Firing from ent...

2,556円 The superb, bestselling diaries of Victor Klemperer, a Jew in Dresden who survived the war - hailed as one of the 20th century's most important chronicles. 'Compulsive reading' LITERARY REVIEW 'Deeply engrossing' SPECTATOR 'Klemperer's diary deserves to rank alongside that of Anne Frank' SUNDAY T...

1,344円 Adolph F. Bandelier, Charles Fletcher Lummis, and Father Anton Docher are names closely associated with the early colonial days in New Mexico. All of these characters appear in this narrative of Isleta Pueblo which tells the story of Father Docher’s life in the Indian pueblo from the day when he ...

1,681円 Guillermina Georgina Andrew-Connor was born and raised into a world where manners and moral codes dictated how the individual would act, and in some cases even think. She was expected to sacrifice her desires and opinions in order not to upset the established order of things. In this story, she ...