Home > Biographies & Memoirs > Leaders & Notable People
Leaders & Notable People
W. E. B. du Bois and the Critique of the Competitive Society by Douglas Andrew J.;
epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:Douglas, Andrew J.;

Though these remarks were crafted and published some eighty years ago, they could pass as biting criticism of the neoliberal academy in the twenty-first century.50 William Watkins has noted that ...
( Category: African-American Studies August 15,2019 )
Karl Marx by Shlomo Avineri
epub |eng | 2019-08-14 | Author:Shlomo Avineri

This is scant consolation, especially as the essays describe in great detail the failure of the revolutionary movement in France. To Marx’s credit, one has to say that even at ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 15,2019 )
Fantastic : the life of Arnold Schwarzenegger by Leamer Laurence
epub |eng | 2005-08-14 | Author:Leamer, Laurence

Total Recall Qo^x. about $73 million, then one of the most expensive films of all time. Much of the money went into elaborate sets and special effects in a film ...
( Category: Rich & Famous August 15,2019 )
Stolen lives : twenty years in a desert jail by Oufkir Malika 1953-;Fitoussi Michèle & Fitoussi Michèle
epub |eng | 1999-08-14 | Author:Oufkir, Malika, 1953-;Fitoussi, Michèle & Fitoussi, Michèle

TWENTY YEARS IN PRISON surrounded by darkness. As if I were a ball falling down a bottomless well and bouncing off the walls, boiti^, being, being. We were becoming progressively ...
( Category: Women August 15,2019 )
Uncommon Character: Stories of Ordinary Men and Women Who Have Done the Extraordinary by Feavel Douglas
epub |eng | 2016-11-15 | Author:Feavel, Douglas [Feavel, Douglas]

Now with the promotional wind of both the film and the presidency at its back, the Klan was fully re-birthed by a disgraced Methodist minister, William Simmons. In 1915, he ...
( Category: Religious August 15,2019 )
Haben by Haben Girma
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2019-08-05 | Author:Haben Girma

When Justin or Gordon see me in the Bon, they walk right up to me and tell me where they’re sitting in the large room. Students never invited me to ...
( Category: Special Needs August 15,2019 )
Escape by Barbie Probert-Wright
epub |eng | 2019-04-08 | Author:Barbie Probert-Wright

12 Back on the Road We walked on, numb and bewildered, to Wiedersdorf. What else could we do? We couldn’t go back. We had been walking for two weeks and ...
( Category: Siblings August 14,2019 )
River of Fire by Helen Prejean
epub |eng | 2019-08-12 | Author:Helen Prejean

I can see that everyone else at Divine Word is going to the library and writing regular, footnoted papers, and when I hear my classmates talk about this or that ...
( Category: Inspirational August 13,2019 )
Method to the Madness : Donald Trump's Ascent As Told by Those Who Were Hired, Fired, Inspired - and Inaugurated (9781250202819) by Salkin Allen; Short Aaron
epub |eng | | Author:Salkin, Allen; Short, Aaron

19. ROASTED Trump kept plotting a 2012 presidential bid while fanning birther rumors. He regularly spoke with strategists Dick Morris and David Bossie and pollster John McLaughlin. He interviewed campaign ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 13,2019 )
World in Crisis by Walter Lord
epub |eng | 2017-10-06 | Author:Walter Lord

At Peskavotka Depot, forty miles northwest of Stalingrad, Karl Englehardt distributed equipment and food. He also supervised twenty Hiwis (Hilfsfreiwilliger), or “work volunteers,” the name given to Russian defectors. Understandably, ...
( Category: World War II August 13,2019 )
Lawrence of Arabia by David Murphy
epub |eng | 2011-07-08 | Author:David Murphy

Camel-mounted troops of the Indian Army crossing Sinai. During 1917 and 1918 Lawrence used Indian and Gurkha mortar and machine-gun teams to provide firepower for his tribal forces. (IWM Q103859) ...
( Category: World War I August 13,2019 )
Mr. Wilson's War: From the Assassination of McKinley to the Defeat of the League of Nations by John Dos Passos
mobi, epub |eng | 2013-11-05 | Author:John Dos Passos

Weekending with Sir Douglas Pershing and his staff were so busy working on plans for the future and getting acquainted with the French that it was late in July before ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents August 11,2019 )
A Leader Must Be a Leader by Jerry S Grafstein
epub |eng | 2019-07-12 | Author:Jerry S Grafstein

116Pierre Trudeau’s full name was Joseph Phillipe Pierre Yves Elliot Trudeau. He preferred to be Pierre Elliot Trudeau and used the acronym PET. Elliot was his mother’s name born of ...
( Category: Canadian August 10,2019 )
Fire and Fortitude by John C. McManus
epub |eng | 2019-07-29 | Author:John C. McManus

* * * As this climactic drama played out in Papua, the unforgiving probabilities of modern warfare turned, like a fickle lover, on the Japanese at Guadalcanal. The mid-November destruction ...
( Category: World War II August 7,2019 )
Working by Robert A Caro
epub |eng | | Author:Robert A Caro

To my way of thinking, I had only one question left, and there was only one man who could answer it. I might know the answer, but knowing it wasn’t ...
( Category: Journalists August 7,2019 )

First Prev [242] [243] [244] [245] 246 [247] [248] [249] [250] [251] [252] Next Last