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A brand-new Eddy Merckx biography. This book is your ultimate resource for Eddy Merckx. Here you will find the most up-to-date 106 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Eddy Merckx's...

Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for best biography 2016 Book of the Year 2015 Sunday Times Book of the Year 2015 Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year 2015 Evening Standard **Book of the Year 2015 New Zealand Listener Shortlisted for the Slightly Foxed Best First Biography Prize 2015 Literary...

Who is this woman?----She was born in Leeds, U.K., died in Kaitaia, New Zealand, and appears in both the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography and the Bibliography of Australian Literature…----She was raised a Quaker, converted to and campaigned for Islam, had a life-long interest in spiritualism and...

TIME-LIFE correspondent Jack Belden covered war and only war reporting from China, Burma, North Africa and Europe in the 1930s and 1940s. Now, in this first-ever biography of an American original -- described by Edgar Snow as “mad and gifted” -- we see him wounded in battle fighting his way back...

President Erdogan's Biography tells the story of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan who is one of the most powerful politicians in Turkish history. Erdogan rapidly climbed the political ladder, serving as mayor of Istanbul from March 1994 to November 1998 until he was jailed for 4 months for giving...

José Martí (1853–1895) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the "Great Liberator" Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. Beyond his accomplishments as a revolutionary and political thinker, Martí was a giant of Latin American...

From a prize-winning historian, the definitive biography of Adolph Hitler Hitler offers a deeply learned and radically revisionist biography, arguing that the dictator's main strategic enemy, from the start of his political career in the 1920s, was not communism or the Soviet Union, but capitalism...

A New Benchmark In Marcus Licinius Crassus Biography. This book is your ultimate resource for Marcus Licinius Crassus. Here you will find the most up-to-date 135 Success Facts, Information, and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there...

The example of a life like that delineated on the following pages is too precious to be allowed to fade into oblivion; and, in recalling attention to it in this new narrative, the curators of the Methodist press believe that they are fulfilling a duty to the church and to the world. It is...

A biography of David Sang Chul Kim, early follower of Reverend Sun Myung Moon and pioneer missionary to the United Kingdom and United States of America.

In this biography, discover the inspiring story of Katherine Johnson, famed NASA mathematician and one of the subjects of the award-winning 2016 film Hidden Figures. It was an incredible accomplishment when the United States first put a person on the Moon - but without the incredible behind-the-scenes...

* Top 10 Kindle Book! A high school Art teacher flips into an aspiring porn star, like her heroine, Jenna Jameson; as told by Josi's last boyfriend before she joined porn, JoDa Hodge. “I read four separate excerpts and pulled over, ripped it in half and threw it in a CVS parking lot...

Literary biography. According to Wikipedia: "Honore de Balzac (May 20, 1799 - August 18, 1850) was a nineteenth-century French novelist and playwright. His magnum opus was a sequence of almost 100 novels and plays collectively entitled La Comedie humaine, which presents a panorama of French life in...

Benjamin Disraeli was a British politician who twice served as the Prime Minister and also became the Earl of Beaconsfield.  Disraeli is noted for being influential as a politician and as a novelist.  This edition of Lord George Bentinck: A Political Biography includes a table of contents.