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The first and definitive biography of one of America's bestselling, notorious, and influential writers of the twentieth century: Iceberg Slim, né Robert Beck, author of the multimillion-copy memoir Pimp and such equally popular novels as Trick Baby and Mama Black Widow. From a career as a, yes,...

Throughout history, there were women who dared to challenge the patriarch view of societies. These women left their marks as brilliant leaders who managed nations and their households. In this ebook, we’re going to learn about the stories of Cleopatra VII, Queen Victoria, Queen Elizabeth and Margaret Thatcher. Let’s get started.

This carefully crafted ebook: “The Life and Genius of Anton Chekhov: Diary, Letters, Reminiscences and Biography (Unabridged)” is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Excerpt: “DEAR BROTHER MISHA, I got your letter when I was fearfully bored...

Cymbeline is one of Shakespeare's late romances, which combines comedy and tragedy. The play was certainly produced as early as 1611 and was first published in 1623. Imogen, the daughter of King Cymbeline of Britain, angers her father when she marries Posthumus, a worthy but penniless gentleman. The...

Foreword by DR. S. RADHAKRISHNANFormer President of India“SWARAJ IS MY BIRTHRIGHT, AND I SHALL HAVE IT!”This biography of Lokmanya Tilak was written in collaboration by Prof. A.K. Bhagwat and Prof. G.P. Pradhan in 1956, the birth-centenary year of Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak. The book was awarded...

Bresciani, Umberto, Wang Yangming – An Essential Biography, Passerino Editore, 2016. This is a biography – the first in Western languages - of an extraordinary man, who has fascinated countless people in the last five centuries. Wang Yangming was a philosopher, a military and political leader,...

The son of devout Quakers, Richard Nixon grew up in the shadow of an older brother and thrived on struggle and opposition. Through high school and college, in the Navy and in politics, Nixon was constantly leading crusades and fighting off “enemies,” either real and imagined. He possessed the...

The author of this memoir — being so little of a politician that he scarcely feels entitled to call himself a member of any party — would not voluntarily have undertaken the work here offered to the public. Neither can he flatter himself that he has been remarkably successful in the performance...

Who was the first Roman Emperor? The creation of an empire begins with a leader. In this book, you will be learning about how emperors are made and what their young lives were lie. Learning about the past will lead you to answers about the present and maybe a peek into the future too. Get a copy of this book today!

Shmuel Katz’s detailed and comprehensive biography of Vladimir Jabotinsky (1880–1940) is an unabashedly partisan defense of one of the most complex Zionists of the early 20th century. Jabotinsky was a Russian poet, playwright, journalist, and novelist as well as the founder of Revisionist Zionism...

A biography of Narendra Modi that aims to give a fair picture of the man and his politics Narendra Modi, the BJP's prime ministerial candidate, is one of India's most powerful, popular and controversial leaders. With the general elections due in May 2014, Mr Modi's campaign rallies have drawn unprecedented...

Stephen Hawking, the next Einstein of the 21st century. He explores the mysteries of the universe with the help of modern physics and technology. The concepts of black holes, gravitational waves, baby universes, the big bang, time wraps, time travel, imaginary time, string theory, theory of everything,...

With a Foreword by Sydney Brenner (Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine, 2002) This biography details the life of Paul Berg (Emeritus Professor at Stanford University), tracing Berg's life from birth, in 1926, to the present, with special emphasis on his enormous scientific contributions,...

Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: A Biography is the first comprehensive volume about a man hailed as one of America's most influential scholars. Tracing Gates's life from his West Virginia birth, the book follows him through his undergraduate education at Yale and then to Cambridge, where he became the first...