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Biography: A Brief History
Sep 5,2010
For thousands of years we have recorded real lives--the lives of others, and of ourselves. For what purpose and for whom has this universal and timeless pursuit endured? What obstacles have lain in the path of biographers in the past, and what continues to confound biographers today? Above all, how is it that biographies and autobiographies play such a contested, popular role in contemporary Western culture, from biopics to blogs, from memoir to docudrama?
Award-winning biographer and teacher Nigel Hamilton addresses these questions in an incisive and vivid narrative that will appeal to students of human nature and self-representation across the arts and sciences. Tracing the remarkable and often ignored historical evolution of biography from the ancient world to the present, this brief and fascinating tour of the genre conveys the passionate quest to capture the lives of individuals and the many difficulties it has entailed through the centuries. From the Epic of Gilgamesh to American Splendor, from cuneiform to the Internet, from commemoration to deconstruction, from fiction to fact--by way of famous biographical artists such as Plutarch, Saint Augustine, Sir Walter Raleigh, Samuel Johnson, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Lord Byron, Sigmund Freud, Lytton Strachey, Abel Gance, Virginia Woolf, Leni Riefenstahl, Orson Welles, Julian Barnes, Ted Hughes, Frank McCourt, and many others--Nigel Hamilton's Biography: A Brief History will change the way you think about biography and real lives.
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Author: Nigel Hamilton
Hardcover:
360 pages
Company: Harvard University Press
(2007-03-20)
ISBN: 0674024664
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American Portraits: Biographies in United States History Volume 1
Sep 5,2010
American Portraits is a two-volume collection of biographical profiles designed to supplement American History survey texts. Biography personalizes history in a unique and profound way for students, lending a sense of immediacy to the study of the past. All of the essays selected for this anthology profile the life of a given individual and explore how that person influenced and was influenced by broader historical forces. Introductions begin each part, placing the biographies in topical and chronological perspective. Supporting documents, headnotes, and discussion questions help students place the biographies in context.Author: Stephen Weisner, William Hartford
Paperback: 336 pages
Company: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages (2006-11-16)
ISBN: 0073534552
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From Biography to History: Best Books for Children's Entertainment and Education
Sep 5,2010
Helping you encourage children's interest in history and social studies, this valuable selection guide presents the best biographies of nearly 300 notable men and women, including such high-interest people as Oprah Winfrey, Pocahontas, Jesse Owens, Jane Goodall, Charles Darwin, Davy Crockett, and so many more. From Bibliography to History enables you to recommend up-to-date biographies and related books to students in grades 3 to 9. Carefully chosen titles were selected using multiple criteria, including quality, currency, and audience. The lists are organized by age group, and indicate whether the books are educational in tone, are more suitable for reading for sheer enjoyment, or succeed in both areas. From building biography collections to preparing reading lists, this essential guide helps you make the best slections possible in expanding children's opportunities for research and enjoyment.Hardcover: 523 pages
Company: Libraries Unlimited (1998-01-30)
ISBN: 0835240126
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World History Biographies: Julius Caesar: The Boy Who Conquered an Empire (National Geographic World History Biographies)
Sep 5,2010
Born in Rome around 100 B.C., Gaius Julius Caesar grew up to lead of one of the world's greatest empires. A boy of fierce drive and ambition, he was tutored from the age of six. The teenage Gaius became head of his household at 16 and master of his own destiny. Caesar joined the military and at 22 he returned to Rome to begin his unstoppable rise to power. This National Geographic World History Biography leads readers through the intriguing world of Ancient Rome, with a time line, graphic illustrations of historical events, and maps of Rome and its far reaching empire.Author: Ellen Galford
Hardcover: 64 pages
Company: National Geographic Children's Books (2007-05-08) (2007-05-08)
ISBN: 1426300654
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Nathanael Greene: A Biography of the American Revolution
Sep 5,2010
When the Revolutionary War began, Nathanael Greene was a private in the militia, the lowest rank possible, yet he emerged from the war with a reputation as George Washington's most gifted and dependable officer--celebrated as one of three most important generals. Upon taking command of America's Southern Army in 1780, Nathanael Greene was handed troops that consisted of 1,500 starving, nearly naked men. Gerald Carbone explains how within a year, the small worn-out army ran the British troops out of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina and into the final trap at Yorktown. Despite his huge military successes and tactical genius Greene's story has a dark side. Gerald Carbone drew on 25 years of reporting and researching experience to create his chronicle of Greene's unlikely rise to success and his fall into debt and anonymity.
Author: Gerald M. Carbone
Hardcover: 288 pages
Company: Palgrave Macmillan (2008-06-24) (2008-06-24)
ISBN: 0230602711
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World History Biographies: Joan of Arc: The Teenager Who Saved Her Nation (National Geographic World History Biographies)
Sep 5,2010
Around 1412, a baby girl was born in the village of Domrémy who would change France forever. A farmer?s daughter, she seemed destined for an unremarkable life. But as the dramatic narrative of this World History Biography reveals, Joan?s life was anything but ordinary. By the age of 13, she knew her destiny—to drive the English invaders from France. By 17, she had led an army to victory at Orléans. Captured in battle, and too poor to be ransomed, Joan was burned at the stake before her 20th birthday.Author: Philip Wilkinson
Paperback: 64 pages
Company: National Geographic Children's Books (2009-02-24) (2009-02-24)
ISBN: 1426304153
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Sep 5,2010
A concise and appealing look at the strangest number in the universe and its continuing role as one of the great paradoxes of human thoughtThe Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now, as Y2K fever rages, it threatens a technological apocalypse. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing and everything.
In Zero science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics. Here are the legendary thinkers--from Pythagoras to Newton to Heisenberg, from the Kabalists to today's astrophysicists--who have tried to understand it and whose clashes shook the foundations of philosophy, science, mathematics, and religion. Zero has pitted East against West and faith against reason, and its intransigence persists in the dark core of a black hole and the brilliant flash of the Big Bang. Today, zero lies at the heart of one of the biggest scientific controversies of all time, the quest for a theory of everything.
Readers of Fermat's Enigma, The Man Who Loved Only Numbers, Seeing and Believing, and Longitudewill find the revealingly illustrated Zero freshly informative, easy to understand, and--infinitely--fascinating.
Author: Charles Seife
Paperback: 256 pages
Company: Penguin (Non-Classics) (2000-09-01) (2000-09-05)
ISBN: 0140296476
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American Rifle: A Biography
Sep 5,2010
George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. Now, in this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and encompassing the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of this most essential firearm and its place in American culture.
In the eighteenth century American soldiers discovered that they no longer had to fight in Europe?s time-honored way. With the evolution of the famed ?Kentucky? Rifle?a weapon slow to load but devastatingly accurate in the hands of a master?a new era of warfare dawned, heralding the birth of the American individualist in battle.
In this spirited narrative, Alexander Rose reveals the hidden connections between the rifle?s development and our nation?s history. We witness the high-stakes international competition to produce the most potent gunpowder . . . how the mysterious arts of metallurgy, gunsmithing, and mass production played vital roles in the creation of American economic supremacy . . . and the ways in which bitter infighting between rival arms makers shaped diplomacy and influenced the most momentous decisions in American history. And we learn why advances in rifle technology and ammunition triggered revolutions in military tactics, how ballistics tests?frequently bizarre?were secretly conducted, and which firearms determined the course of entire wars.
From physics to geopolitics, from frontiersmen to the birth of the National Rifle Association, from the battles of the Revolution to the war in Iraq, American Rifle is a must read for history buffs, gun collectors, soldiers?and anyone who seeks to understand the dynamic relationship between the rifle and this nation?s history.
Author: Alexander Rose
Hardcover: 512 pages
Company: Delacorte Press (2008-10-21) (2008-10-21)
ISBN: 0553805177
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World History Biographies: Saladin: The Warrior Who Defended His People (National Geographic World History Biographies)
Sep 5,2010
Our children's understanding of the Muslim world has never been as important as it is today. As events in the Middle East affect world politics, and the Muslim community grows in the United States, knowledge of Islamic tradition and history are now crucial. Flora Geyer's informative, accessible book tells the story of the Crusades from a Muslim point of view. The narrative follows Saladin from his birth into a prominent Kurdish family in Tikrit, Mesopotamia, in 1138. His formative military career leads to Saladin's appointment as vizier of Egypt at 31. After revitalizing the Egyptian economy, Saladin initiates campaigns against smaller Muslim states, eventually uniting Islamic forces and dispelling rivalries that had long hampered the Muslim resistance to the Crusades. Inspired by intense devotion to jihad, or "holy war," Saladin's army recaptures the holy city of Jerusalem after 88 years of Christian occupation.
Author: Flora Geyer
Hardcover: 64 pages
Company: National Geographic Children's Books (2006-07-11) (2006-07-11)
ISBN: 0792255356
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World History Biographies: Marie Curie: The Woman Who Changed the Course of Science (National Geographic World History Biographies)
Sep 5,2010
"This short book is written in a clear, readable style, detailing the events of Marie?s life that will be of interest to teen readers... It will be an excellent and accessible resource for libraries. Readers will find the prose engaging and Marie?s story interesting and inspiring." —VOYAAuthor: Philip Steele
Paperback: 64 pages
Company: National Geographic Children's Books (2008-05-13) (2008-05-13)
ISBN: 1426302495
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