Cultural History Biographies

Mandela

By Tom Lodge (Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Limerick)

The Islander: Complete and Unabridged

By Garry Bannister, David Sowby, Tomas O'Crohan

Cultural Heritages as Reflexive Traditions

By U. Kockel, M. Nic Craith, Kenneth A. Loparo

Stealing Buddha's Dinner

By Bich Minh Nguyen

Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery

By Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Vincent Carretta

Born in Blackness: Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

By Howard W. French (Columbia University)

The Wife's Tale: A Personal History

By Aida Edemariam

Memoir

By Conor Cruise O'Brien

Njinga of Angola: Africa's Warrior Queen

By Linda M. Heywood

The Girl in the Painted Caravan: Memories of a Romany Childhood

By Eva Petulengro

Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance

By Barack Obama

Another Planet: A Teenager in Suburbia

By Tracey Thorn

Daughters Of Arabia: Princess 2

By Jean Sasson

Muhammad

By Maxime Rodinson, Anne Carter

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival

By Melissa Fleming

Tears of the Desert: One woman's true story of surviving the horrors of Darfur

By Halima Bashir

The Autobiography Of Martin Luther King, Jr

By Martin Luther King Jr

The Book Of Life

By Sojourner Truth

Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown

By Henry Box Brown, Richard Newman (Fellows and Research Officer, W.E.B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Fellows and Research Officer, Harvard University.), Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Wisdom of the Ages: Extraordinary People Ages 19-90

By Patricia M Hinds, Susan L Taylor

Before and After: the heartbreaking true stories of a notorious adoption scandal

By Lisa Wingate, Judy Christie

Lives Between The Lines: A Journey in Search of the Lost Levant

By Michael Vatikiotis

The Fleet Street Girls: The women who broke down the doors of the gentlemen's club

By Julie Welch

Martin Luther King

By Hodgson, Godfrey

Seal Morning

By Rowena Farre

Dersu the Trapper

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

The Poetry of Seamus Heaney

By Elmer Kennedy-Andrews

The Night Before Christmas

By Alice Taylor, Terry Myler

Yitzhak Rabin: Soldier, Leader, Statesman

By Itamar Rabinovich

Sophia's Story

By Susan McKay