It has been stated that Charles Dickens began life as a lawyer, got tired of the dull routine, and turned to literature. This is erroneous, for he ...

Within eight years of the death of George Washington in 1799, the first major biography of 'the father of his country' was written by John Marshall...

"The desire to leave behind me some recollections of my life, has been cherished by me, for many years past; but failing strength or increasing inf...

Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the...

Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the...

Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the...

Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the...

Sir Walter Scott first published his biography on Napoleon in 1827. The work represents an important contribution to the study of France during the...

In 1926, Lillian Alling, a European immigrant, set out on a journey home from New York. She had little money and no transportation, but plenty of d...

Although Plutarch did not intend his Lives as a historical record, they sometimes furnish the best account we have of events in classical Greece. I...

No one can forget the devastating aftermath of a suicide bomber detonating in a crowded bus. But what happens to the survivors of such indiscrimina...

This catalogue commemorates the life of Lloyd Kiva New, artist, fashion designer, and renowned arts educator. Always a trailblazer, from his early ...

Isi Leibler has been a central player in the global Jewish arena for over six decades. The preeminent Australian Jewish leader, he was pivotal in d...

This amazingly detailed blow-by-blow analysis of every recording Chuck Berry has ever made is now universally acknowledged as the standard referenc...

She opened for jazz great Billie Holiday, shared the set with Marilyn Monroe, and flirted on-screen with Jack Lemmon. In her dream role, Gene Rodde...

A proud son of Bella Coola's Norwegian settlers, Lorne Greenaway grew up in the Okanagan in a time when kids left home after breakfast to face the ...

The true story of the woman who has been "immortalised" in frontier novels and more recently in television and film (as "Miss Kitty" in "Gunsmoke" ...

The root of the word Badaliya in Arabic, means to replace or exchange one thing for another. The French scholar and spiritual seeker, Louis Massign...

We all live a double life: the external life which the world sees, and the internal life of hopes and fears, joys and griefs, temptations and sins,...

During his life, Tex Camfoo has been classified as Aboriginal, half-caste and European. As a half-caste he could not legally associate with or marr...

This book describes Holocaust reality as we have never encountered it before. From the unrelenting fear of death and gnawing pain of hunger, to the...

Lucretia Borgia is the most unfortunate woman in modern history. Is this because she was guilty of the most hideous crimes, or is it simply because...

This book presents the biographies of 115 Luftwaffe officers who reached the rank of general and who were awarded the Knight's Cross, and higher gr...

Marie-Dominique Chenu OP's (1895-1990) writing demonstrates that a theology of humanity was the basis of his historical, ecclesiological and socio-...

"A perfected modern battle plan is like nothing so much as a score for an orchestral composition, where the various arms and units are the instrume...

Jean Overton Fuller's humane biography of Aleister Crowley's disciple, lover, fellow magician, poet & seer; the literary god father of Dylan Th...

"In the magical universe there are no coincidences and there are no accidents. Nothing happens unless someone wills it to happen. The dogma of scie...

In the cold winter of 1875, two rebellious spirits travel from the pale sunlight of England to the raw heat of Australia. Harriet Rowell (age 23) a...

The son of Greek migrant parents, Jackomos was born in Collingwood and grew up in the Great Depression, mixing with people from a range of backgrou...