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Richard Moore Rive (1930_1989) was a writer, scholar, literary critic and college teacher in Cape Town, South Africa. He is best known for his short stories written in the late 1950s and for his second novel, ?Buckingham Palace?, District Six, in which he depicted the well-known cosmopolitan area...

The Social Life of Tibetan Biography explores the creation of Tibetan religious authority in Tibetan cultural areas throughout East, Inner, and South Asia through engaging with the relationship between textual biography and social community in the case of the Eastern Tibetan yogi Tokden Shakya Shri...

Vertrek is a lively, wide-ranging social biography about fifteen postwar Australian-Dutch families, taking central stage is the Paulusse family. Candidly narrated by Kees Paulusse, the son of Dutch immigrants to Melbourne in the early sixties, this chronicles the familys adventure and his own perceptions...

Grant Shorfield is the author of five volumes of his autobiography. This mammoth task has taken him nearly forty years to complete. Grant attacks writing much like George Lucas tackled Star Wars; lets do it in the wrong order, start somewhere in the middle and work backwards. Although it was written...

This is a very old book which is well known by the title of the biography of Biography of Hadrat Syed Shah Sarwar Biabani. This translation of the most ancient and celebrated Urdu book about Sufi’ism will, I hope, be found useful not only by the number of students familiar with the subject at first hand but also by many readers.

Seetsele Modiri Molema?s Sol T. Plaatje: Morata Wabo is the first biography of Solomon Plaatje written in his mother-tongue, Setswana, and the only book-length biography written by someone who actually knew him. The manuscript had long been housed in the Wits Historical Papers and was accessible only...

In this unofficial biography of the famous Pamela Anderson we learn of the person within. From her early childhood to where she stands now-in the limelight. We see her as the Canadian woman who pursued and was able to become one of the most influential people of our times. We see her rise...

A revealing biography of the influential and controversial cultural titan who embodied an era The Tastemaker explores the many lives of Carl Van Vechten, the most influential cultural impresario of the early twentieth century: a patron and dealmaker of the Harlem Renaissance, a photographer...

ABOUT THE BOOK It is quite possible I could do that is the most frequent statement uttered about Jackson Pollocks art work. His most famous pieces, those with large canvases splattered with paint have delighted and confounded art lovers and critics since the 1940s. Pollocks fame was...

The Wright Brothers : The First Airplane Invented (A Short Biography for Children) The Wright Brothers ; Orville and Wilbur Wright were two brothers who are credited with inventing the first airplane. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids by thinking about what a child...

Thomas Edison : The Great American Inventor (A Short Biography for Children) Thomas Edison is considered one of the most prolific inventors in history. He invented the phonograph and the first motion picture camera, and improved the light bulb. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography...

Bruno Mars continues to be a big Pop Star, but all hasn't been easy. In fact, he's had legal trouble both on the business side of music and with the law. You'll find that Bruno has kept his eyes on the prize which has garnered him successful even in the storm of adversity. He's had several...

  Kourtney is the oldest of the eldest three Kardashian Sisters. She's a devoted mother, celebrity and business woman, commited to her romantic relationship. This is the definitive biography about the rise to fame and fortune of Kourtney Kardashian.

Alexander Graham Bell : Inventor of the Telephone (A Short Biography for Children) Alexander Graham Bell was one of the primary inventors of the telephone, did important work in communication for the deaf and held over 18 patents. Best Children's Biographies : Write a biography for kids...