
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our …
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our …
Indira Gandhi's life, from her birth in 1917 through partition and up to her assassination in 1984, was dominated by the politics of her cou…
A tribute to the life and enduring reign of Elizabeth II draws on numerous interviews and previously undisclosed documents to juxtapose the …
An analysis of Abraham Lincoln's political talents identifies the character strengths and abilities that enabled his successful election, in…
Jung Chang'S Wild Swans Was An Extraordinary Bestseller Throughout The World, Selling More Than 10 Million Copies And Reaching A Wider Reade…
The story of one of the truly great female rulers in history by an award winning historian. The daughter of an impoverished aristocrat, Cath…
The long-awaited final volume of William Manchester's legendary biography of Winston Churchill. Spanning the years of 1940-1965, THE LAST LI…
Still a controversial figure, as well as a celebrated one, Marie Antoinette's dramatic life-story continues to arouse mixed emotions. To man…
This concluding volume of Janet Browne's biography covers the transformation in Charles Darwin's life after the first unexpected announcemen…
For the first time ever—a comprehensive biography of one of the twentieth-century’s most innovative creative artists: the incomparable, irre…
Making use of unprecedented access to Guevara's personal archives, his guerrilla cohorts, and Cuban government archives, an exhaustive biogr…
In this groundbreaking book, renowned magic expert Kalush and bestselling writer Sloman team up to expose Harry Houdinis secret life as a sp…
In this fully authorized biography, readers meet the earthy and outrageous Julia Child, who, at age 85, remains a complex role model.
Poisoner, besotted mother, despot, necromancer, engineer of a massacre: the stain on the name of Catherine de Medici is centuries old. In th…
A New York Times bestseller! “Beautifully crafted and fun to read.” —Louis Galambos, The Wall Street Journal “Nasaw’s research is extraordin…
Peter Ackroyd's method is to position Shakespeare in the close context of his world. In this way, he not only conjures up the texture of Sha…
A “superb” portrait of the Tudor-age spymaster that “paints a John le Carré–like world of double-dealing and intrigue” (The Sunday Telegraph…
"This edition includes a new interview with the author"--P. [4] of cover.
This story was published serially under the title: Marie Curie, my mother.
If you want to learn about one of history’s most fascinating minds and uncover some of his secrets of imagination—secrets that enabled him t…
The Man Who Knew Infinity is the true story of a friendship between Srinivasa Ramanujan and G.H. Hardy that forever changed mathematics. In …
With warmth, wit, and good cheer, Standiford shows how the unlikely success of A Christmas Carol revitalized Charles Dickens's languishing c…