AFTER TEHRAN (NEW) by Marina Nemat
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Category: Biography
In the international bestseller Prisoner of Tehran, Marina Nemat chronicled her arrest, torture, and two-year imprisonment in Iran's notorious Evin prison at the age of sixteen. Yet her journey was far from over. After Tehran is a moving account of Nemat's struggle to overcome her past and break the si ...Show more
Juliette Gordon Low: The Remarkable Founder of the Girl Scouts by Stacy A Cordery
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Category: Biography
In celebration of the Girl Scouts' centennial, a lively salute to its maverick founder. Born at the start of the Civil War, Juliette Gordon Low grew up in Georgia, where she struggled to reconcile being a good Southern belle with her desire to run barefoot through the fields. Deafened by an accident, "D ...Show more
George F. Kennan: An American Life by John Lewis Gaddis (Yale University Ohio University Yale University)
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Category: Biography
Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in BiographyWidely and enthusiastically acclaimed, this is the authorized, definitive biography of one of the most fascinating but troubled figures of the twentieth century by the nation's leading Cold War historian. In the late 1940s, George F. Kennan--then a bright bu ...Show more
Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine by Jennifer Scanlon
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Category: Biography
"Scanlon's shrewed biography reveals a woman of contraditions...a strategically racy cultural pioneer. - "The Oprah Magazine" As the author of the revolutionary "Sex and the Single Girl" and the longtime editor-in-chief of "Cosmopolitan" magazine, Helen Gurley Brown changed how women thought about sex, ...Show more
CLEOPATRA by Ernle Bradford
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Category: Biography | Series: Classic Biography Ser.
Had Julius Ceasar not been murdered, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, might well have become the Empress of Rome and all the Mediterranean world, living to see it ruled by a Julian-Ptolemaic dynasty. The Queen of the Nile was only 17 when she ascended the throne of Egypt in 51BC. This ambitious young woman - ...Show more
MEMOIRS by Shermanwilliam, Tecumseh
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Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Simulation is the fastest developing branch of geostatistics and simulating facies inside reservoirs and orebodies is the most exciting part of this. Several methods have been developed to do this (sequential indicator simulations, Boolean simulations, Markov chains and plurigaussian simulations). This ...Show more
MONT ST MICHAEL AND CHATRES by Henry Adams; Raymond Carney (Introduction by)
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Category: Biography | Series: Classics Ser.
Mont Saint Michel and Chartres is a record not of a literal jouney but of a meditative journey across time and space into the medieval imagination. Using the architecture, sculpture, and stained glass of the two locales as a starting point, Adams breathes life into what others might see merely as monume ...Show more
LLOYD GEORGE THE YOUNG LLOYD GEORGE by Grigg John
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Category: Biography
The first volume of John Grigg's biography covers the future Prime Minister's life from 1863 to 1902. Grigg re-examines many stock assumptions about Lloyd George, never losing sight of the man behind the politician, nor forgetting that politics were, after all, the dominating passion in his life. What e ...Show more
DROWNING ROOM by Michael Pye
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Category: Biography
In the mid-17th century, when the Dutch first established a settlement in Manhattan, Gretje Reyniers was the town whore. She also lent money and dealt in pelts. She appears to this day in the court records: in tales of slander, suing, debt evasion, and charges of lewdness. This is her story.
Lost in TranslationA Life in a New Language by Eva Hoffman
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Category: Biography
The condition of exile is an exaggeration of the process of change and loss that many people experience as they grow and mature, leaving behind the innocence of childhood. Eva Hoffman spent her early years in Cracow, among family friends who, like her parents, had escaped the Holocaust and were skeptica ...Show more
A Dangerous Liaison : A biography of Jean-Paul Sartre & Simone de Beauvoir by Carole Seymour-Jones
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Category: Biography
A Dangerous Liaison tells the intense, passionate and sometimes painful story of how two brilliant free-thinkers - and rivals - came to share a relationship that was to last over fifty years. Moving from the corridors of the Sorbonne and the chestnut groves in the Limousin, to the cafes of Paris' Left B ...Show more