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This biography of Theodore Roosevelt's wife presents a more complex and interesting figure than the somewhat secularized saint Edith Roosevelt...

Historically, major women artists have been excluded from the mainstream art canon. Aligned with the resurgence of feminism in pop...

The stories of two dozen fascinating female explorers, from a wide range of eras, cultures, races, and economic backgrounds, are...

Born and raised in a New England garrison town, Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) was captured by Wabanaki Indians at age seven....

A Thousand Miles of Dreams is an evocative and intimate biography of two Chinese sisters who took very different paths...

Today, an entomologist in a laboratory can gaze at a butterfly pupa with a microscope so powerful that the swirling...

In the following pages, we will get to know about the 50 Famous People in Modern History. We will get...

When Josephine Knowles left for the Klondike gold fields with her husband in 1898, she didn't know she would be...

This is the fascinating story of Katherine Stewart MacPhail (1887-1974), the third daughter of Dr Donald MacPhail, a Glasgow physician....

Poet, anthropologist, feministâÄîRu th Fulton Benedict was all of these and much more. Born into the last years of the Victorian...

Nicholas Capaldi's biography of John Stuart Mill traces the ways in which Mill's many endeavours are related and explores the...

The comprehensive biography of the iconic twentieth-century American photographer Berenice Abbott, a trailblazing documentary modernist, author, and inventor......

This is a unique, groundbreaking collection of autobiographical essays by leading women in philosophy. It provides a glimpse at the...

The real Hugh Hefner-the extraordinary inside story of an American icon"Riveting... Watts packs in plenty of gasp-inducing passages."-Newark Star Ledger"Like...

AVAILABLE IN ALL FORMATS SEPT 8, 2016 What determines who a woman will become? Jane Hall was an orphan...

Out of the pages of European history comes a story as colorful and torrid as any modern fiction—the never-been-told-before-told account...

Luminous and revealing, a daughter’s memoir of the art world and a larger-than-life father. In 1958, soon after Gabrielle Selz...

Born after World War I into an educated and progressive Polish family, Peter F. Dembowski was a teenager during the...

FINALIST FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHY / MEMOIRS, 2009, THE INDIE BOOK AWARDSWINNER, 2009, MILITARY-WRITERS BOOK OF THE YEARMay 6, 1986: Nick Popaditch...

In 1920, at the age of thirty-five, Amedeo Modigliani died in poverty and neglect in Paris, much like a figure...