Cultural History Biographies

The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid

By Bill Bryson

Elizabethan Society: High and Low Life, 1558-1603

By Mr Derek Wilson

Blue Rage, Black Redemption: A Memoir

By Stanley Tookie Williams, Tavis Smiley, Barbara Becnel

Understanding Ethiopia: Geology and Scenery

By Frances M. Williams

Michael Collins: The Lost Leader

By Margery Forester

Slouching Towards Bethlehem

By Joan Didion

Banjo: The story of the man who wrote Waltzing Matilda

By Paul Terry

I've Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation

By Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot

Sophia's Story

By Susan McKay

Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

By Itamar Rabinovich

Lady Gregory: An Irish Life

By Judith Hill

Martin Luther King

By Hodgson, Godfrey

The Night Before Christmas

By Alice Taylor, Terry Myler

The Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

Dersu the Trapper

By V. K. Arseniev, Jaimy Gordon, Malcolm Burr

Seal Morning

By Rowena Farre

Beyond the Black Mountain: Journey Around the Ulster of Yesterday

By Bert Slader

Geisha of Gion: The True Story of Japan's Foremost Geisha

By Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

You Got Anything Stronger?: Stories

By Gabrielle Union

Breaking the Silence

By Martin Ridge, Gerard Cunningham

The Words of Martin Luther King, Jr.

By Martin Luther King

All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir

By Nicole Chung

Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture

By Jonathan P. Bowen, Suzanne Keene, Kia Ng

Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan

By Jessica J. Lee

Tally's Corner,Washington,D.C: A study of Negro streetcorner men

By Liebow, Elliot

Barack Obama: Dreams from My Father (A Story of Race and Inheritance)

By Obama, Barack, Barack Obama

Slaves in the Family

By Edward Ball

The Scent of the Roses

By Mary O'Hara

The Autobiography of William Carlos Williams

By William Carlos Williams

Marilyn At Rainbow's End: Sex, Lies, Murder and the Great Cover-up

By Darwin Porter