For the first time, a detailed history of a little known aspect of the Great War in the air: the forty-two Italian aces. From legendary personaliti...

The skills of Ithell Colquhoun in her main practice, that of artist and pioneer in this country of surrealistic art, have been long recognised. Add...

J P E Hartmann (1805-1900) is one of the most renowned figures within Danish musical history. In the course of his lifetime he corresponded with ma...

This biography of one of New Mexico's most distinguished citizens, J Paul Taylor (born 1920) recounts the life of the legislator, educator, communi...

Many of Canada's superb national parks owe their existence to James Bernard Harkin (1875-1955), the first commissioner of Canada's new Dominion Par...

This is the story of the first three years of the Jackson presidency. The book covers other events in the United States during that period. Andrew ...

The Age of President Garfield was an exciting age as it featured the music of John Philip Sousa's marching bands, the new dime novels, captains of ...

This book follows the life of James Madison, our 4th president, who at the tender age of twenty-five was thrust into significant politics as an ele...

Jean Blackburn devoted much of her working life to the development of socially just education policy. From the early 1970s she worked with Peter Ka...

This is the story of Jean Galbraith, one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing care...

This is the story of Jean Galbraith, one of Australia's most influential botanists and writers on nature, plants and gardens. During a writing care...

After growing up on a remote South Australian property, and having seen her mother taken by a shark when she was two, Jean Primrose Whyte went on t...

In 1830, at the age of forty, Jean-Claude Colin accepted the call of his colleagues to take charge of the Society of Mary (Marists). He had joined ...

In 1830, at the age of forty, Jean-Claude Colin accepted the call of his colleagues to take charge of the Society of Mary (Marists). He had joined ...

As a founder member of the world's most successful instrumental group, the Shadows, and a chart-topper in his own right, bassist Jet Harris scaled ...

In this new historical investigation, German historian Jens Weste-meier portrays the rise and fall of an SS war criminal, and demolishes persistent...

Joan Martin was born in the country town of Morawa, Western Australia, in 1941. She was a proud Widi woman whose traditional territory extended fro...

Few individuals in the annals of world history have had so lasting an impact as Joan of Arc, who rallied a country behind her and continues to insp...

Johan Nicolai Madvigs dannelsestanker: en kritisk humanist i den danske romantik (Johan Nicolai Madvig's Thoughts on Cultural Education: A Critical...

Johann Adolph Scheibe (1708–1776) must be considered the most important composer and Kapellmeister in Denmark in the eighteenth century. Although h...

This is an excellent full length biography of America's second president who was the ‘Colossus of Independence' arguing for the passage of the Decl...