Search results for “[subject: biographical-general]”

• Author(s): Carl Rollyson • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Some critics rank biographers just above serial murderers. The author of this book, a self-described member of the Samue...

• Author(s): Claire Berlinski • Publisher: Basic Books • Publisher Imprint: Basic Books • BISAC: Historical - GeneralGreat Britain in the 1970s appeared to be in terminal decline -- ungovernable, an economic train wreck, and rapidly headed for gl...

• Author(s): Robert P. Broadwater • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military - General At the outbreak of the American Revolution in 1775, the colonies faced the daunting task of creating t...

• Author(s): George B. Clark • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - General This biographical dictionary profiles each of the 98 men who served as generals ...

• Author(s): John Van Balen • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Subjects & Themes - General Library catalog records often do not adequately describe the contents of books or of the illust...

• Author(s): Joseph Martin Hernon • Publisher: Routledge • Publisher Imprint: Routledge • BISAC: American Government - GeneralA take-off of Kennedy's "Profiles in Courage", which argues that the best-known US senators don't deserve their renown a...

• Author(s): William Tecumseh Sherman • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: MilitaryBefore his spectacular career as General of the Union forces, William Tecumseh Sherman experienced decades of failure and depress...

• Author(s): Gayle J. Hardy • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General Ranging from such pioneers as Elizabeth Blackwell, Mary L. Bonney, Kate Barnard, Mariana Bracetti, and Amelia Stone Qui...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General In 1922, an early association of film publicists known as the Western Associated Mot...

• Author(s): Wayne Fanebust • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877) The dramatic battlefield deaths of brother Union Army commanders Robert L. McCook ...

• Author(s): Gene Scott Freese • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This biographical dictionary shines the spotlight on several hundred unheralded stunt performers who created ...

• Author(s): Lewis Sorley • Publisher: Indiana University Press (Ips) • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press (Ips) • BISAC: MilitaryGeneral Creighton Abrams has been called the greatest American general since Ulysses S. Grant, yet at the t...

• Author(s): Roy Liebman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Bibliographies & Indexes Each entry includes brief biographical and career data for the performer, with birthplace and year of...

• Author(s): Peter Shelley • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General Previous biographies of American actress Frances Farmer (1913-1970) have downplayed her professional achievements...

• Author(s): Sanford Berman • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Library & Information Science - General First published in 1971 (by Scarecrow Press), Prejudices and Antipathies marked the...

• Author(s): Dan Lee • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Military Thomas J. Wood, Kentuckian, graduated fifth in his West Point class in 1846 and joined the staff of General Zachary Taylor. T...

• Author(s): Kyp Harness • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Film - General This thorough critical study of Chaplin's films traces his acting career chronologically, from his initial appearan...

• Author(s): Michelle Vogel • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts - General This book is essentially a filmography interlaced with a complex biographical acc...

• Author(s): Harold J. Abrahams | Marion B. Savin • Publisher: MIT Press • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press • BISAC: HistoryElihu Thomson (1853-1937) was one of the most inventive scientists of his time and one of the few truly scientific inventors. ...

• Author(s): Charles D. Yaffe • Publisher: McFarland & Company • Publisher Imprint: McFarland & Company • BISAC: General This is a fictionalized account of the life and career of world chess champion Alexander Alekhine. Born into Russian ...

• Author(s): Pierre Guyotat • Publisher: Semiotext(e) • Publisher Imprint: Semiotext(e) • BISAC: Biographical & AutofictionA poetic exploration of trauma and renewal from the last avant-garde visionary of the twentieth century.Long ago, in ch...

• Author(s): David K. Pugalee • Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield • Publisher Imprint: Row&Little • Subject: Education & Psychology • BISAC: Learning StylesThis work presents important background information on the reading and process a...

• Author(s): Irving Stone • Publisher: Plume Books • Publisher Imprint: Plume Books • BISAC: General"A story of excruciating power."--The New York Times The classic, bestselling biographical novel of Vincent Van Gogh Since its initial publicati...