Category: Biographies

By Daniel E. Harmon

By Michael S Mayer

Written for prime tuition and school scholars, this sequence highlights the administrations folks Presidents. prepared in an easy-to-use, A-Z structure, every one quantity specializes in a selected management, together with an creation, a piece of biographical entries, a chronology that spans the heritage of the management and extra.

By Carl G. Vaught

A brand new interpretation of the 1st six books of Augustine's Confessions, emphasizing the significance of Christianity instead of Neoplatonism.

By Jack Rummel

-- significantly acclaimed biographies of history's such a lot remarkable African-Americans-- simple and goal writing-- Lavishly illustrated with images and memorabilia-- crucial for multicultural experiences

By Lira Bajramaj

Kick it like Lira – vom Kriegsgeschehen zum Weltmeistertitel

Sie ist eines der schönsten Gesichter der deutschen Frauen-Fußballnationalmannschaft. Lira Bajramaj vereint sportliche Klasse mit weiblicher Attraktivität – und sie hat, als Migrantenkind, eine unglaubliche und spannende Geschichte zu erzählen:

Mit fünf Jahren flieht sie mit ihrer Familie aus dem Kosovo – die Repressalien der serbischen Regierung waren nicht länger zu ertragen. Ohne alles, ohne Essen und ohne Visum, begann eine Odyssee, die schließlich in Remscheid ihr Ende fand.

Die Anfänge in Deutschland waren schwierig: Rassismus und Armut waren ständige Begleiter. Doch Lira Bajramaj findet für sich einen Weg, in ihrer neuen Heimat anzukommen und neue Freunde zu finden. Sie spielt Fußball – erst heimlich, gegen den Willen ihres Vaters, später dann mit seiner ganzen Unterstützung. Und es lohnt sich: Ihr expertise bringt sie nicht nur in die Frauen-Bundesliga, sondern sogar bis in die Nationalmannschaft und zum Weltmeistertitel.

Doch ihre Vergangenheit, ihren Weg hat sie nicht vergessen: Mit diesem Buch möchte sie – vor allem für junge Frauen – ein Zeichen setzen: für mehr Integration und den Willen, immer an sich selbst zu glauben.

By Dennis Abrams

Because the book of her first ebook, "The lady Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood between Ghosts", Maxine Hong Kingston has been a presence at the literary scene. With a mixture of autobiography, fiction, and chinese language myths and legends, Kingston's paintings displays her cultural history and upbringing. yet her luck as a author wasn't assured. As a tender lady growing to be up the daughter of chinese language Immigrants in Stockton, California, Kingston before everything came across public college so tough that she withdrew into overall silence, confounding her academics, who at one time indexed her IQ as 0. Her award-winning paintings, together with "The girl Warrior", winner of the 1976 nationwide e-book Critics Circle Award, and "China Men", winner of the nationwide booklet Award, is broadly learn through the international.

By Matthew Levering

This e-book makes a big contribution to modern theological and philosophical debates, bridging scriptural and metaphysical methods to the triune God.

• Bridges the distance among scriptural and metaphysical techniques to biblical narratives.
• Retrieves Aquinas’s knowing of theology as contemplative wisdom.
• Structured round Aquinas’s treatise at the triune God in his ‘Summa Theologiae’.
• Argues that highbrow contemplation is a part of a broader religious trip in the direction of a greater realizing of God.
• Contributes to the present resurgence of Thomistic theology in either Protestant and Catholic circles.

By William R Sanford

Within the broiling warmth of Texas, Richard King equipped an empire. earlier than he arrived in Texas, livestock ranching slightly existed within the usa. even though it was once a adversarial land of sand and brush, King observed a chance within the Lone megastar country. With nice ability and tireless decision, Captain King constructed a thriving undefined, bringing pork to the northern states and inventing smooth ranching. Authors William R. Sanford and Carl R. eco-friendly discover the lifetime of "the Boss," from his humble beginnings to his production of a farm animals empire: the King Ranch.

By Chun Yu

During this attractive, lyrical memoir that features a curriculum consultant, writer Chun Yu recollects the chinese language Cultural Revolution from the point of view of a ten-year-old.

When Chun Yu was once born in a small urban in China, she used to be born right into a state in revolution. The streets have been packed with roaming purple Guards, the partitions have been lined with slogans, and reeducation conferences have been held in all places of work. each kinfolk confronted probability and humiliation, even the youngest children.

Shortly after Chun’s beginning, her cherished father used to be despatched to a peasant village within the nation-state to be reeducated within the methods of Chairman Mao. Chun and her brother stayed in the back of with their mom, who taught in a rustic heart institution the place Mao’s Little purple publication used to be part of each child’s schooling. Chun Yu’s younger lifestyles used to be witness to a rustic in turmoil, fight, and revolution—the purely existence she knew.

“True to a child’s bewildered perspective and augmented via occasional, small black-and-white relatives pictures” (Booklist), this memoir, whole with a curriculum advisor, is a gorgeous account of a rustic in predicament and an affidavit to the spirit of the person— regardless of how younger or how blameless.

By Kate Schatz