Biography

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology: Earinus-Nyx

by William Smith

1846

A Short Life of Napoleon Bonaparte

by Ida Minerva Tarbell

1895

General Biography

by John Aikin

1801

A Classical Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography, Mythology and Geography

by William Smith

1919

Alpine Warriors

by Bernadette McDonald

2015

By the early 70's, they had advanced to the 8000ers. Although not exclusively Slovenian, the teams were - not surprisingly - dominated by Slovenian climbers, since Slovenia is blessed with the Julian Alps. A fiercely steep range of lime…

A New General Biographical Dictionary

by Hugh James Rose

1850

Lives of the Caesars

by Suetonius

2000

The Lives of the Caesars include the biographies of Julius Caesar and the eleven subsequent emperors: Augustus, Tiberius, Gaius Caligula, Claudius, Nero, Galba, Otho, Vitelius, Vespasian, Titus, Domitian. It was Robert Graves's primary …

My Days with Nehru

by M. O. Mathai

1979

Reminiscences of the author, special assistant, 1946 to 1959, to Jawaharlal Nehru, 1889-1964, former prime minister of India.…

The Dictionary of Biographical Reference

by Lawrence Barnett Phillips

1871

Lord Byron's Life in Italy

by Teresa Guiccioli (contessa di)

2005

Lord Byron's Life in Italy is an English translation of Vie de Lord Byron en Italie by Byron's Italian friend Teresa Guiccioli, the manuscript of which has lain in Ravenna since the early 1880s, and which has never-been published, o…

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Albert Einstein

by Albrecht Fölsing

1998

In a book that is both an engaging portrait of a genius and a distillation of scientific thought, Folsing sheds light on Einstein's development and the complexity of his being. of photos.…

Slaves in the Family

by Edward Ball

1998

Explores the slave-holding dynasty of Elias Ball, a South Carolina plantation owner, the history of slave uprisings, and the memories of the descendants of those slaves.…