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The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene: Actress, Writer, and Rebel Victorian

The Improbable Adventures of Miss Emily Soldene: Actress, Writer, and Rebel Victorian

From humble beginnings with the threat of the workhouse looming, Emily Soldene rose to become a star of the London stage......more

Meditations While Healing: Further Thoughts on Renewal of Life

Meditations While Healing: Further Thoughts on Renewal of Life

In his memoir, Renewal of Life, Henri Parens tells his story of how he was able to escape the Holocaust, leaving France ......more

de la Paz Al Olvido / From Peace to Oblivion

de la Paz Al Olvido / From Peace to Oblivion

De la paz al olvido dibuja el vasto panorama que abarca el arco de tiempo entre el ltimo brindis triunfal de don Porfiri......more

Wellington

Wellington

Wellington is a giant because he was one of the greatest military commanders in British history, an important figure in ......more

Bilal Al-Habashi

Bilal Al-Habashi

He possessed an unceasingly belief, love for Allah and His Messenger, and zeal. Realizing that he was about to breathe h......more

Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar

Why is Caesar a giant? Because he effectively created the Roman Empire, and thus made possible the European civilization......more

Constantine

Constantine

Why is Constantine a giant? Because he gave Christians freedom of religion. Yet also because he radically and thoroughly......more

A Field Guide to Redheads: An Illustrated Celebration

A Field Guide to Redheads: An Illustrated Celebration

An utterly charming illustrated gift book celebrating all things redhead, with portraits, facts, and a lot of humor from......more

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela s place in history is secure: he was one of the best known prisoners in the world, the first president of......more

Hannibal and Scipio

Hannibal and Scipio

In 218, Hannibal Barca, desperate to avenge the defeat of Carthage in the First Punic War, launched an ambitious ground ......more

Napoleon Bonaparte

Napoleon Bonaparte

In the space of less than 20 years, Napoleon turned Europe upside down. Rising from obscure origins to supreme power by ......more

Horatio Nelson

Horatio Nelson

Why is Nelson a hero? Because he was a captain before he was 21, a man who shaped the course of history from the decks o......more

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner

Edward Jenner is a giant of modern medicine. Throughout history, smallpox plagued humanity as an incurable blight, the s......more

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin

When Darwin announced his theory of evolution by natural selection, he did more than transform biology he told us that h......more

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

Why is Henry Ford a giant? Because he put the world on wheels. Henry Ford did not invent the motor car, nor did he inven......more

Anne Frank

Anne Frank

The Diary of Anne Frank is one of the most famous and bestselling books of all time, yet the girl who wrote it remains a......more

Capability Brown

Capability Brown

Capability Brown was a man made for his time. English society in the 18th century was rich, sophisticated and eager for ......more

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Elizabeth II

At age 25, Elizabeth II became Britain’s 40th monarch and vowed to dedicate her life to service and duty on behalf of he......more

El diario de Rywka Lipszyc / The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc

El diario de Rywka Lipszyc / The Diary of Rywka Lipszyc

Rywka, una adolescente jud a de catorce a os, comienza a escribir un diario de su infierno en Auschwitz en un cuaderno e......more

King Arthur

King Arthur

Why is King Arthur a giant? Because his story has had such strong influences on our understanding of the history of Euro......more

Robert the Bruce

Robert the Bruce

From disastrous beginnings after he took the throne of Scotland, having murdered a powerful rival, Robert I became a mil......more

Pope John Paul II

Pope John Paul II

The world was stunned when little-known Karol Wojtyla became the first non-Italian pope for 450 years. As Pope John Paul......more

Brunel

Brunel

In a BBC poll in 2002, Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted the second-greatest Briton of all time, only eclipsed by Church......more

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi

Giuseppe Verdi (1813-1901) was the Shakespeare of opera, the composer of Rigoletto, Il Trovatore, La Traviata, Aida and ......more

Jane Austen

Jane Austen

There’s something about Jane...Jane Austen lived only just into her forties, never married, never had children, lived al......more

Quotations of Ronald Reagan

Quotations of Ronald Reagan

Notable Quotations from President Ronald Reagan Includes around 100 quotations about freedom, faith, war, government, po......more

History of William the Conqueror

History of William the Conqueror

Jacob Abbott was one of the most prolific American writers of history in the nineteenth century, writing many biographie......more

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill was one of Britain s greatest leaders and an iconic figure. Prime minister twice (1940-45 and 1951-55)......more

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Fyodor Dostoevsky

A new short biography of the author of Crime and Punishment and The Brothers Karamazov, by a preeminent Russian scholar ......more

The Private Letters of Countess Erzsebet Bathory

The Private Letters of Countess Erzsebet Bathory

In this book, readers are given a rare glimpse into the life of Hungary s most controversial noblewoman, Countess Erzs b......more

The Nemesis File: The True Story of an SAS Execution Squad

The Nemesis File: The True Story of an SAS Execution Squad

Paul Bruce was a tough, idealistic young trooper in the SAS when he was dispatched to Northern Ireland at the height of ......more

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